Oz and Kennedy
Jul. 12th, 2006 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSummer temperatures are annoying. Right now next to the internet computer, its just about okay. On the sofa it is only hot enough to be irritating and not enough to really justify putting the fan on. In bed? Bet it'll be nasty. But its hard to get that room cool even with the fan.
ANYways
I have a thought but I can't remember where I got the data that sparked it:
I think at some point a writer said that the speech Oz gives in the van to Willow about 'freeze frame, Willow kissage' was designed to make Willow & the audience fall in love with him. That is the writers set out very specifically to make him the sweetest guy on earth and make everyone watching him like him.
So my thought is, Kennedy also gets a speech. Was it intended to have the same purpose?
Its the speech at the Bronze, about when she knew she liked girls, and what K and Willow have in common.
The reason that speech doesn't work for me is the what they have in common part, where Willow's response is that she doesn't like any of that stuff. That right there says that K, despite living with her, doesn't really know her.
And yet she has this great speech about liking girls, and how to know other girls like girls.
The fun part is the process of - of getting to know a girl. It's like - it's like flirting in code.
It's using body language and laughing at the right jokes and - and looking into her eyes and knowing she's still whispering to you, even when she's not saying a word. And that sense that if you can just touch her just once everything will be OK for both of you. That's how you can tell.
(sits back, grins) Or if she's really hot, you just get her drunk - see if she comes on to you.
I love that speech. But it isn't about falling in love, and it isn't about Willow. It isn't specific. It indicates, between this and not knowing what Willow likes, that the important part to Kennedy is that she's a girl who seems available. Its like the meta where we know that she isn't getting a new relationship because the girl in the made up world wants to date someone, she's getting a new relationship because in our world the writers want to make it real clear that she is still a lesbian and that is yaay. The new relationship is about being a lesbian, not being a Willow.
Compare/contrast with Oz "When I'm kissing you, you're kissing me." and refusing to get involved until its really just about the two of them.
The Oz speech succeeds in making the audience fall in love with him (or at least this bit of the audience).
The Kennedy speech succeeds in making the audience quite clear on the fact she is a lesbian.
If the intent was to get us to fall for her, it rather missed.
ANYways
I have a thought but I can't remember where I got the data that sparked it:
I think at some point a writer said that the speech Oz gives in the van to Willow about 'freeze frame, Willow kissage' was designed to make Willow & the audience fall in love with him. That is the writers set out very specifically to make him the sweetest guy on earth and make everyone watching him like him.
So my thought is, Kennedy also gets a speech. Was it intended to have the same purpose?
Its the speech at the Bronze, about when she knew she liked girls, and what K and Willow have in common.
The reason that speech doesn't work for me is the what they have in common part, where Willow's response is that she doesn't like any of that stuff. That right there says that K, despite living with her, doesn't really know her.
And yet she has this great speech about liking girls, and how to know other girls like girls.
The fun part is the process of - of getting to know a girl. It's like - it's like flirting in code.
It's using body language and laughing at the right jokes and - and looking into her eyes and knowing she's still whispering to you, even when she's not saying a word. And that sense that if you can just touch her just once everything will be OK for both of you. That's how you can tell.
(sits back, grins) Or if she's really hot, you just get her drunk - see if she comes on to you.
I love that speech. But it isn't about falling in love, and it isn't about Willow. It isn't specific. It indicates, between this and not knowing what Willow likes, that the important part to Kennedy is that she's a girl who seems available. Its like the meta where we know that she isn't getting a new relationship because the girl in the made up world wants to date someone, she's getting a new relationship because in our world the writers want to make it real clear that she is still a lesbian and that is yaay. The new relationship is about being a lesbian, not being a Willow.
Compare/contrast with Oz "When I'm kissing you, you're kissing me." and refusing to get involved until its really just about the two of them.
The Oz speech succeeds in making the audience fall in love with him (or at least this bit of the audience).
The Kennedy speech succeeds in making the audience quite clear on the fact she is a lesbian.
If the intent was to get us to fall for her, it rather missed.