tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post3865080273453869640..comments2024-01-15T02:19:13.716-08:00Comments on Fragments Of My Imagination: Goodbye IowaMark Fieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16661801011668244109noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post-58044877344573805322021-02-11T05:37:41.852-08:002021-02-11T05:37:41.852-08:00"Created" in a very general sense. The p..."Created" in a very general sense. The professor was the moving force behind the dig, which then led to her death. Maybe that's a bit of a stretch.Mark Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16661801011668244109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post-44948076970813680762021-02-10T22:42:20.526-08:002021-02-10T22:42:20.526-08:00For Trivia note #1 I think you are misremembering ...For Trivia note #1 I think you are misremembering "Pangs". The Chumash that killed the prof was created/released when Xander fell through into the buried mission. I don't think she created the knife that was used either. I think that was just artifact that had been discovered at any earlier point.drn211https://www.blogger.com/profile/16380550300318530015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post-90602529342295907772018-01-04T09:52:26.045-08:002018-01-04T09:52:26.045-08:00You're very nice. Thank you.
As for your spoi...You're very nice. Thank you.<br /><br />As for your spoiler question about Willow, I do discuss it a bit in the essay on Wrecked.Mark Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16661801011668244109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post-62484726773779263732018-01-04T09:29:58.225-08:002018-01-04T09:29:58.225-08:00This. Is. GENIUS.
It has already thoroughly impro...This. Is. GENIUS. <br />It has already thoroughly improved my enjoyment of this season :)<br /><br />SPOILERS<br />It hit me when watching this episode, when Willow went to see Tara and said that she wasn’t just there for the magic...that maybe she is?! Though it’s clear that Willow loved Oz and Tara deeply, she also needed them for her own gains. She relied on Oz to make her less of a geek (“dating a guitarist” re Percy’s comments), back when that was one of her biggest concerns. And her concern now is being a more powerful witch. Perhaps you discuss this later, but I was wondering on your take on that, and in relation to your thoughts on identity?TanyaMayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262649597023773279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post-24100942558710531692013-09-22T13:38:33.935-07:002013-09-22T13:38:33.935-07:00S1 of Dollhouse very definitely uses the panoptico...S1 of Dollhouse very definitely uses the panopticon theme and a lot of the issues raised in S4. I've never really been sure, though, what S2 of Dollhouse was going for.<br /><br />No particular thoughts on the Frankenstein issues you note. Darryl was entirely human, so in that sense he was different than Adam. There's bound to be a theme in both cases of arrogance by the creators, which we see clearly in Walsh and somewhat less obviously in Chris. But ultimately I think the two episodes are using the same basic idea to explore different issues (which the show does a lot).Mark Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16661801011668244109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post-15750474937578515622013-09-22T13:23:12.138-07:002013-09-22T13:23:12.138-07:00Having studied the panopticon in school pretty dee...Having studied the panopticon in school pretty deeply, its cool to see it tied here into the seasonal arc of identity. I also like the way both you and the show tie in other works of fiction. It goes a long way in communicating ideas. After I finish my Buffy/Angel viewing, I might have to check out Dollhouse (I saw the first season, trailed off during the second) and see these themes explored again.<br /><br />Do you have any thoughts on the way that Walsh's creation of Adam ties back to the creation in "Some Assembly Required" back in season two? Patricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post-1071094050431155342012-06-17T10:36:48.528-07:002012-06-17T10:36:48.528-07:00Heh. What you say about Riley is what I was (very ...Heh. What you say about Riley is what I was (very literally) just thinking as I was drafting my post for New Moon Rising. MILD SPOILER Here are the 2 sentences I wrote just as your email came in: "And Riley declares a new identity for himself as an anarchist by punching out his commanding officer. Is he more like Willow, committed to his new identity, or is he more like Oz, perhaps less firmly in control than he thinks?"<br /><br />Thanks.Mark Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16661801011668244109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post-10914254801559156062012-06-17T10:31:33.047-07:002012-06-17T10:31:33.047-07:00Great, great stuff -- I've been remiss in comm...Great, great stuff -- I've been remiss in commenting of late. Season four is one of my favourite seasons (I think it's third after six and five), but it could very easily have been better, maybe the best, if Lindsay Crouse had been there for the rest of the season (and if Buffy's own emotional ties to the Initiative were stronger). The point about Maggie Walsh as mother, university professor, scientist, government operative and military chief is spot-on, and ties in with some of what I think about the metaphor of Riley. (MILD SPOILERS) As you say, Riley's Joe Normalcy is a construct -- and in particular, Riley is the type of guy who has everything together, who is basically decent and good, but very much in support of, and supported by, the current normative way of the world. Which means he's benevolent patriarchy, benevolent military, etc. -- but still benevolent. And given that he's introduced as a T.A. before everything else, he represents an enforcer of the professor's whims and her view of the way people work (and in particular, her somewhat reductive psychological beliefs, that people have no real free will and can't come together without control mechanisms as Buffy and her friends can). So Buffy's relationship with him is then a flirtation with, and finally a triumph over, that philosophy -- she finds the "good" in benevolent normalcy, turn the head of her T.A. by showing him other paths to knowledge, and thus encourages him to use his powers for good / leave the Initiative and become an "anarchist". Of course -- on some level this is still unstable, because Buffy has a reckoning with the primal forces inside her, and Riley is still only able to take baby steps out of his old life. (And season five's arc with Sandy shows that Riley is not really prepared for being able to be cozy with demons.)William Bhttp://local-max.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post-19718470307184153552012-06-14T09:54:15.008-07:002012-06-14T09:54:15.008-07:00That's funnier than you know given what I wrot...That's funnier than you know given what I wrote last night for the next post.Mark Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16661801011668244109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913356479406165601.post-29927852447254150442012-06-14T09:09:30.372-07:002012-06-14T09:09:30.372-07:00The Avengers: tall enhanced military guy meets fel...The Avengers: tall enhanced military guy meets fellow with glowy nuclear thing in his chest.executrixhttp://executrix.dreamwidth.orgnoreply@blogger.com