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beccaelizabethI watched 'I robot, you Jane', the Buffy episode with the demon in the internet.
omg computer tech so 90s. so very, very 90s.
I had forgotten. I had repressed. Can you imagine from here dropping back to 90s tech? *shudders* Screen quality like nope, pixels like woah, 256 colors, webcams like why even bother. Giant, giant type on giant boxes of monitors. The march of progress delivered us and I for one and grateful.
Also, basing an entire episode around the idea that people on the internet may *gasp* not be who they say they are! That's... that was a new concept???
And the computer geek talking like bad cyberpunk.
And there being 3 people using the computers at lunch time?
and the computer geek as a recogniseable stereotype when all they're doing is using emails.
Email. As geeky.
It's a total time machine and I don't think I could shift my internal perspective sufficiently to watch it on its own terms, it's in like the uncanny valley of history, everything was so familiar strange.
Plus there's clunky moments like characters having to find a phone on a stick before they could report in, and finding one really conveniently close to the next scene. There's a ton written about how mobile phones make plots trickier, but they simplify sometimes too.
We carry around small devices connected to the accumulated knowledge of mankind.
I like Giles' speech about how knowledge should be tangible, memorable, smelly.
But I'm pretty sure by now he'd really appreciate the ability to keyword search his entire library rather than spending six hours looking for a one line reference.
And if everyone on the planet could keyword search not just his library but the library of every watcher who ever lived? Demons beware.
... everyone beware, there'd be all sorts of unwise summonings going on. Can you imagine the trolling possibilities? Swatting but with demons. *shudders*
Still, knowledge, yaays.
I don't so much like the thing where Giles and Jenny were arguing so of course they'll end up dating. That's... she pokes him and tries to get a reaction out of him and they agree about nothing, that's not romantic.
... also, while I know the order things happen in in our universe, from Giles' point of view Ethan was first and if anyone's going to poke him for reaction and smoulder at him I feel he has dibs...
That whole bit at the end with 'we're doomed' is just 7 years in Sunnydale in a nutshell. Normal relationships? *hollow laugh*
More than the other episodes so far I watched this one aware this was a show I used to like. It felt of the past, not just from it. It was slow and clunky and explained far too many things and used language that's just dated really badly.
But the basic idea of being manipulated over the internet by our honest need to connect unfortunately remains solid.
omg computer tech so 90s. so very, very 90s.
I had forgotten. I had repressed. Can you imagine from here dropping back to 90s tech? *shudders* Screen quality like nope, pixels like woah, 256 colors, webcams like why even bother. Giant, giant type on giant boxes of monitors. The march of progress delivered us and I for one and grateful.
Also, basing an entire episode around the idea that people on the internet may *gasp* not be who they say they are! That's... that was a new concept???
And the computer geek talking like bad cyberpunk.
And there being 3 people using the computers at lunch time?
and the computer geek as a recogniseable stereotype when all they're doing is using emails.
Email. As geeky.
It's a total time machine and I don't think I could shift my internal perspective sufficiently to watch it on its own terms, it's in like the uncanny valley of history, everything was so familiar strange.
Plus there's clunky moments like characters having to find a phone on a stick before they could report in, and finding one really conveniently close to the next scene. There's a ton written about how mobile phones make plots trickier, but they simplify sometimes too.
We carry around small devices connected to the accumulated knowledge of mankind.
I like Giles' speech about how knowledge should be tangible, memorable, smelly.
But I'm pretty sure by now he'd really appreciate the ability to keyword search his entire library rather than spending six hours looking for a one line reference.
And if everyone on the planet could keyword search not just his library but the library of every watcher who ever lived? Demons beware.
... everyone beware, there'd be all sorts of unwise summonings going on. Can you imagine the trolling possibilities? Swatting but with demons. *shudders*
Still, knowledge, yaays.
I don't so much like the thing where Giles and Jenny were arguing so of course they'll end up dating. That's... she pokes him and tries to get a reaction out of him and they agree about nothing, that's not romantic.
... also, while I know the order things happen in in our universe, from Giles' point of view Ethan was first and if anyone's going to poke him for reaction and smoulder at him I feel he has dibs...
That whole bit at the end with 'we're doomed' is just 7 years in Sunnydale in a nutshell. Normal relationships? *hollow laugh*
More than the other episodes so far I watched this one aware this was a show I used to like. It felt of the past, not just from it. It was slow and clunky and explained far too many things and used language that's just dated really badly.
But the basic idea of being manipulated over the internet by our honest need to connect unfortunately remains solid.
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Date: 2015-06-26 10:57 am (UTC)...But yeah I remember it as being not the best of eps.
There was definitely not enough porn written at the time about Giles' tactile and sense of smell. Being someone who likes to touch things, feel the texture, the history of them, the weight of them. So many options there. Which aren't about books, cough.
But I'm pretty sure by now he'd really appreciate the ability to keyword search his entire library rather than spending six hours looking for a one line reference.
OOOOHHHH now THAT i want to read! Giles and new tech. But not in Joss' "ha ha" way, in a serious way. Because once Giles got over his grump, he's a clever boy and would very much be at ease with everything knowledge. I am... swarmed... by bunnies... send help
not romantic
Cat would go on long rants about how much this ship is based on - she views him as a fuddy duddy, which he isn't, she sees him as Buffy often does. They have a lot in common but they never bring it up - the magic, the demons, whatever. Instead their entire relationship was about all the things they *don't* have in common. I'm not bashing anyone's ship, just so we're clear, but I'm quite "uh, why?" on this, from a rl pov.
of the past
I guess that's why I'm apprehensive about a rewatch. Not because it's outdated (I like reading history books written a century ago, it's like double-layer of historical perspective), but because I used to like it quite a lot and now I'll be seeing all the things that I don't.