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Re: SPOILERS for season seven of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Camilla Send a noteboard - 10/05/2010 10:26:13 PM
Not even a little bit. Why did it remind you of Buffy?


In season seven of Buffy, Nathan Fillion BRILLIANTLY plays this evil priest who's been juiced up by The First Evil. He is stronger than all the Slayer-wannabes, and he beats the crap out of Buffy. He obviously has some gender/sexual hang-ups.

Not only does he beat the crap out of Buffy, in the same fight he puts him thumb through Xander's eye, and beats up all te Slayer-wannabes.

Basically, he kicks everyone's arse, doesn't break a sweat, and intimidates them all so much that when Buffy wants to go back in to deal with him, everyone else banishes her from her home. That's how scary he is.

After Buffy receives some emotional validation from Spike - a cuddle, it was sweetly vomit-inducing - she goes back to Awesomely Creepily Evil Nathan Fillion's lair. She challenges him, and takes him on.

This is her basic game plan - to get past him to the thing he is guarding. He's still stronger than her, but this time's she's paying attention, and if you analyse what the fight must have been like - she needed to know what he was going to do as he did it. She needed to understand her own body and how it moved, how it would affect his own moves towards her. It was a finely orchestrated chess game with white sweeping the board from the first move. Bits of it panned out in slow motion.

While the end result of each fight is different - Buffy just wants to get past him, she kills him later - the essential idea of an uber-strong opponent who cannot be fought on skill or strength alone, who is defeated by a sort of calm confidence where the hero sort of... gels with the other person's movements and so reaches hir goal - they seem to be very similar fights to me.

I gather you don't like Buffy? Shame. Some of it - not all, I will grant you, and I think the entire series is thematically unsystematic - is ultra awesome.


I like Buffy! I almost got you to go with me to an academic Buffy reading group, don't you remember?

Now you mention it, there is that element which might remind one of Buffy, but my brain was going "SOFT STYLE, WHOO!" at the time and did not notice.
*MySmiley*
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The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway - 10/05/2010 06:01:50 PM 5216 Views
I have no idea what you just wrote : ) *NM* - 10/05/2010 07:01:53 PM 859 Views
Re: Shall I rewrite it? *NM* - 10/05/2010 07:02:37 PM 841 Views
It works perfect for the book then. - 10/05/2010 08:29:57 PM 1470 Views
Which Gaiman and Pratchett? *SPOILERS* - 10/05/2010 09:51:01 PM 1446 Views
Re: *SPOILERS* MAJORLY. - 10/05/2010 09:57:01 PM 1381 Views
Re: *SPOILERS* MAJORLY. - 10/05/2010 09:59:57 PM 1497 Views
Nice review! I'll read it at some point, in time for the book club if not earlier... - 10/05/2010 09:55:22 PM 1365 Views
Re: I'm resigned to being the only person who didn't like it. - 10/05/2010 09:58:10 PM 1420 Views
It did not remind me of Buffy. - 10/05/2010 10:00:41 PM 1346 Views
Re: SPOILERS for season seven of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. - 10/05/2010 10:18:45 PM 1391 Views
Re: SPOILERS for season seven of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. - 10/05/2010 10:26:13 PM 1390 Views
Re: Ooooh yes. - 10/05/2010 10:32:13 PM 1471 Views
Re: Ooooh yes. - 11/05/2010 12:11:53 AM 1330 Views
I don't like it so far. About 150-200 pages in. Not impressed. - 10/05/2010 10:02:21 PM 1400 Views
I don't recall it getting any better later - 10/05/2010 10:15:55 PM 1372 Views
Why are you not impressed? *NM* - 10/05/2010 10:16:29 PM 717 Views
Re: SPOILERS - 10/05/2010 10:22:52 PM 1386 Views
Re: SPOILERS - 10/05/2010 10:28:06 PM 1327 Views
Re: That last mentioned is awesome. - 10/05/2010 10:33:29 PM 1481 Views
Re: That last mentioned is awesome. - 11/05/2010 12:12:21 AM 1368 Views
Seems like he's trying too hard. - 10/05/2010 10:39:34 PM 1446 Views
Re: It does end better than it begins and goes on. - 10/05/2010 10:23:30 PM 1393 Views
This is a weak novel. - 11/05/2010 03:50:01 PM 1336 Views
This is one of the books you really should not judge until you've finished it *NM* - 11/05/2010 04:15:23 PM 738 Views
That's why I didn't. - 11/05/2010 07:59:54 PM 1379 Views
But that raises another question - 11/05/2010 08:03:45 PM 1356 Views
Re: It's definitely not fabulous. - 11/05/2010 06:47:01 PM 1409 Views
I understand your complaints - 12/05/2010 11:45:10 PM 1394 Views

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