Word to all of that! Empire Strikes Back always tops my list of Best Movies Ever, because it had everything, did everything, and pulled it off in epic style. And I agree totally about Luke... in fact, my very first fanfic (written at age 10, right after seeing the movie for the first time) was an AU in which the hyperdrive failed and Luke was recaptured...
(Yes, Joss, people can actually grow together; you don't have to be a baked cookie before you can engage in relationships).
You've just totally nailed what bugged me so much about the whole cookie dough thing. I got a number of emails from people blasting me for complaining about it in my review of the finale (mostly because they took what I said as a personal affront, rather than looking at it for what it was -- a critique of a fictional situation for a fictional character in the finale of her story), and I could never think of a way of articulating why it was a copout to have Buffy say she couldn't be in a relationship because she wasn't "done baking." We're *never* done, or at least we shouldn't be, and putting off a relationship until you're dead is pretty stupid. :-p
I should also add that my copy is the real version, not that gigantic blasphemous load of crap they call the "Special Edition."
Woohoo! Do you have the laserdisc set too? My husband got me the Definitive Collector's Edition for Valentine's Day the year it came out (thus proving without a doubt that he totally understands who I am) and I still prefer it to the Special Edition. I don't know what we'll do if our laserdisc player ever dies, though.
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Date: 2003-08-06 09:21 pm (UTC)(Yes, Joss, people can actually grow together; you don't have to be a baked cookie before you can engage in relationships).
You've just totally nailed what bugged me so much about the whole cookie dough thing. I got a number of emails from people blasting me for complaining about it in my review of the finale (mostly because they took what I said as a personal affront, rather than looking at it for what it was -- a critique of a fictional situation for a fictional character in the finale of her story), and I could never think of a way of articulating why it was a copout to have Buffy say she couldn't be in a relationship because she wasn't "done baking." We're *never* done, or at least we shouldn't be, and putting off a relationship until you're dead is pretty stupid. :-p
I should also add that my copy is the real version, not that gigantic blasphemous load of crap they call the "Special Edition."
Woohoo! Do you have the laserdisc set too? My husband got me the Definitive Collector's Edition for Valentine's Day the year it came out (thus proving without a doubt that he totally understands who I am) and I still prefer it to the Special Edition. I don't know what we'll do if our laserdisc player ever dies, though.