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[katallison]

Well, we did not end up getting the six to ten inches of snow that had been forecast. I am just fine with that, needless to say, and will gladly deal with the inch of slush.

I finally got to see this week's Buffy episode last night (p'tooooeeeing once again in WFTC's general direction), and enjoyed it a great deal, not being particularly invested one way or the other in questions of canonical consistency as regards the nature of vampires, souls, etc. My only comment--not that I've read everyone else's reactions, but I'm surprised I haven't seen more people remarking on the

...that scene with Buffy and Giles in the graveyard, where she flat-out admits that her season-5 decision to try to save Dawn at the expense of the rest of the world was wrong--that she wouldn't do it that way again. OK, I have waited TWO YEARS to hear that from her. It has griped my ass that that issue has never really been dealt with in the show, and I still think this is too little/too late, but hey. I'll take it.

Spent some time this morning skimming through new war/politics threads on MetaFilter, a sure way to depress the crap out of myself. This link and thread were perhaps the most disquieting. To cheer myself up, I checked out the LJ of Kim Jong Il, which, OK, call me a goof but it made me laugh maniacally.

And then Mimi Smartypants is always good for the uplift, and for the wacky links--my favorite today was the

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Well, we did not end up getting the six to ten inches of snow that had been forecast. I am just fine with that, needless to say, and will gladly deal with the inch of slush.

I finally got to see this week's Buffy episode last night (p'tooooeeeing once again in WFTC's general direction), and enjoyed it a great deal, not being particularly invested one way or the other in questions of canonical consistency as regards the nature of vampires, souls, etc. My only comment--not that I've read everyone else's reactions, but I'm surprised I haven't seen more people remarking on the <lj-cut text="one moment that really had me leaping up with huzzahs...">

...that scene with Buffy and Giles in the graveyard, where she flat-out admits that her season-5 decision to try to save Dawn at the expense of the rest of the world was wrong--that she wouldn't do it that way again. OK, I have waited TWO YEARS to hear that from her. It has <i>griped my ass</i> that that issue has never really been dealt with in the show, and I still think this is too little/too late, but hey. I'll take it. </lj-cut>

Spent some time this morning skimming through new war/politics threads on MetaFilter, a sure way to depress the crap out of myself. <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/24637">This link and thread</a> were perhaps the most disquieting. To cheer myself up, I checked out the <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/kim_jong_il__/">LJ of Kim Jong Il</a>, which, OK, call me a goof but it made me laugh maniacally.

And then <a href="http://smartypants.diaryland.com/">Mimi Smartypants</a> is always good for the uplift, and for the wacky links--my favorite today was the <a href="http://www.spril.com/images/KineticSculpture2002/"</a>Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race</a> photographs. Do *not* miss the mobile beaver lodge, complete with kinetic beaver.

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[halimede.livejournal.com]

About the Buffy-Dawn thing: I, too, think that Buffy was being weird in season 5. They could have talked about it, kept it as a last-resort option (heck, in Dawn's shoes, yes also at that age, I would have wanted to be sure I wouldn't be turned into a portal that would kill all my friends), agreed to do everything they could not to let it happen, etc. And it's cool that we see it referred to now. But...

I'm really sad to see it happening this way. Buffy's struggle always was 'how do I reconcile being a warrior under siege with having a life', where I think of having a life as defined as having love, respect, and pancakes in your life --you know, all the really big little things. At the moment, they're abandoning all that. It's all about 'the mission is more important than your life, your hopes and your self-esteem'. A sort of 'you're in the army now' attitude, where no one even cares that soldiers --or civilians for that matter-- are human beings too.

So while I also think it's nice to see them referring back to that, it had the same defeatist flavor to it that the season five thing itself had. And what I used to like about Buffy was that it used to be all about not giving into that sort of thinking.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. That Kim Jong Il thing. Should not be anywhere near as funny as it is, and yet, here I am laughing.

The man running our country is such a moron. Even in satire he makes me wince.

[tracy-rowan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Kim link. It was a nice antidote to the previous one from MetaFilter. You have to know it's bad when I find myself worked into a tizzy, and then calculating how long I can afford to live before I a) run out of money or b) run afoul of the KGB FBI or something.