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[beccaelizabeth]

Storyteller is hard to watch. The whole 'it's good to get lost in a story' thing shown all dark side. It's squirmy and difficult because about all I got is stories.

It also persistently irritates me that at best they did the emperor clothes joke with Andrew thinking he's in the close. They kept hinting really loud that he's crushing on Xander or Spike, they played the Warren 'never really loved... hanging out with us' thing for a joke but the way Andrew reacts to 'Warren' coming back is... it's actually really sad, especially if for him it's the exact same thing that Tara talking to Willow would be... um, this was a sentence, it got away from me. But, I mean, they do stuff like that to laugh at, and like he's a joke, and they never fix it. Xander making jokes about going gay doesn't help. I like that Willow's love life gets to be a love life with important personal development and moving on, but I'm not happy with the guy side of things.

I do like the thing about repentance they have going on, and forgiveness. Like the whole ex demon team doesn't get to go for happily ever after without repentance, but when anyone tries to get stuck at the blaming themselves stage, they get moved on, with fairytale kisses even. And then forgiveness. But they don't get to skip a step. Andrew had to actually face what he'd done, he couldn't skip past it going lalala redemption arc now. Is good.

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[baronjanus]

Joss always failed terribly on the gay guy side of things.


Also I have my own grr about Andrew getting redemption. And a council job.

(I'm way behind on your Buffy posts but I actually have a *.txt file with a bunch of links to them that I plan to read when I can read. It's a thing. I'll get to it. It's important for me to say that.)

[kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com]

Writing this not having watched the ep since it was broadcast; except partially.

I remember being most irritated that, yet again, that male same-sex attraction, or any kind of alternative male sexual identity was being treated as a joke. Not that I wasn't irritated by a season that had wiped Tara from existence, seemed to be treading water and going nowhere (as it turned out because most of the budget was being spent on the finale), and that Spike had been given (or earned, dependant on your perspective on his magical motorbike journey) instead of a far more interesting option of the implant allowing his humanity and/or soul to re-emerge.

Not to mention virtually no discussion of his attack on Buffy; and why he stopped, and why Buffy, of all people, did nothing to stop him.

In my head canon for all post-series appearances in my fics Andrew is Asexual; though in a relationship (or will be), and merely acting out whatever he needs to appear in step with the sexual culture he sees around him.

Retrospectively and though I applauded Amber Benson's decision not to come back for what would have been appearances as The First, it also disallowed any possibilties for Tara to be part of a healing process in S7. Willow, apart from the last couple of episodes served very little purpose in S7; Kennedy coming across as merely an annoyance, and none of the other potentials really being more than cyphers for whatever point the writer's wanted to make; Kennedy included actually.

Andrew was made into an annoyance instead of being a metaphor for what the series could have been about, that Buffy isn't just about killing; she's also about saving people.

Sorry if this is a bit of a flow of words, but sometimes you need to get the thoughts out of your head.

kerk