Re: CS and Misery, go right ahead! I may be revising the last chapters eventually, so I can actually finished the damned thing; if so, they'll be uploaded to The Sandlot (http://www.the-sandlot.com) in the finished version without line breaks or any of that nonsense you get in email. Thanks for liking them!
I'm a bad person to try and convince on S/B, as I'm known among my circle of friends for only having liked her before she died... the first time. However, they could have convinced me that Spike could have helped her work through all the issues we saw developing in S2 to change into a person with the warm heart of S1 with the life experience of everything we saw following after. They didn't, and only managed to convince me that Buffy is a person best avoided by everyone, whether romantically or in friendship. It baffles me, because I know they didn't want me to have that view of their heroine. (But then, I'm not fond of how they write women as a general rule; the only ones I really like are Anya, Faith, and S3 Cordy.)
I went back and read some of your previous posts; this ties into what you said about authorial intent. I don't buy that, myself, at least not to the extent that it will change my opinion of a story. You did a great job of explaining that in reasonable terms and without pat statements. I say that because whenever I try to explain why I don't adhere to the notion of "the author is always right," I always wind up on some variant of, "Yeah, and ME thought they were telling a story where Riley is the perfect boyfriend and a true hero."
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Date: 2003-03-17 08:53 am (UTC)I'm a bad person to try and convince on S/B, as I'm known among my circle of friends for only having liked her before she died... the first time. However, they could have convinced me that Spike could have helped her work through all the issues we saw developing in S2 to change into a person with the warm heart of S1 with the life experience of everything we saw following after. They didn't, and only managed to convince me that Buffy is a person best avoided by everyone, whether romantically or in friendship. It baffles me, because I know they didn't want me to have that view of their heroine. (But then, I'm not fond of how they write women as a general rule; the only ones I really like are Anya, Faith, and S3 Cordy.)
I went back and read some of your previous posts; this ties into what you said about authorial intent. I don't buy that, myself, at least not to the extent that it will change my opinion of a story. You did a great job of explaining that in reasonable terms and without pat statements. I say that because whenever I try to explain why I don't adhere to the notion of "the author is always right," I always wind up on some variant of, "Yeah, and ME thought they were telling a story where Riley is the perfect boyfriend and a true hero."