OT?: Multi Subject Diatrabe.(IE. Reflections/Predictions)

[Mad Hamlet <Mad-Hamlet@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

Okay so this will be, as labled, multi parted.

There's a lot of tensions in the multi-faceted fanbase around BtVS.
The W/T lovers are going bannanas, W/O followers or would be W/X follower or
anybody who just got tired of all the Lesbian Hubub are posting massive posts
'encouraging' the W/T lovers to 'Get Over It'. (Some have gone to be quite
rude.)

The B/W community is taking a pounding(And I feel for you, cause, hey...this
IS Mad-Hamlet after all, not his good twin...Yes, I'M the evil one.) because
it appears that things are growing farther and farther apart between the
favored twosome. 

There's also Joss's statement(Which I think was a masterful bit of Hollywood
manipulation, he might have even meant it.) about being offended at not being
allowed to kill Tara because she was gay.

What causes me distress is how maligned the story has become and THAT is what
a lot of people havn't noticed, or if they have I havn't seen it. (BUT, in all
fairness my time has been limited, recently becoming even more so. Jee, I
wonder why. OH YES! That's right, I've been newly promoted to 'Daddy'. Silly
me.) 

Picture one of those cartoons where the character rolls a snowball down a
hill. As it rolls it aquires mass, interia and momentum. These are diffilcult
forces to overcome and it is, genreally considered, to stand in front of a
large snowball rolling at you at three thousand miles per hour. This is the
same for stories.

When its begun a story is a small thing, easy to move, shift and alter at the
creators whim. When it is BIG and STRONG it is far more diffilcult and
dangerous to do so. Stories work best, after they've matured, when they are
'nudged' or coerced. Don't let a story roll over you, but DON'T force the damn
thing. That can cause just catastrophic damage to the actual story. 

Lets go back to the snowball analogy. If, for some insane reason, you want to
preserve the three thousand MPH, forty foot tall snowball BUT you don't want
it to crush the village of the Sponge People, the best thing to do would beto
hit it, with just the right amount of force, at just the right time, at just
the right angle. The snowball changes course, but maintains its speed,
momentum and the direction is JUUSSSST a bit differint. So, to save the
Snowball AND the village, you must be subtle and NOT wack the damn thing with
a large, black, heavy wrecking ball.

Guess what Joss did?

Here's what I THINK happened. Joss was pondering his story, where to go, what
to do next. He had his hands in the River of the Story and was feeling the
current. Then he got a flash! An image of something in his minds eye that
grabbed him by his metaphorcal scrotum and SQUEEZED!! 
This was probably 'Black Willow'. 

But the inertia of the story didn't go that way. Given time it could have been
nudged in that manner but he didn't have time, he wanted it NOW!('Now' being a
relative term because, or at leasts its claimed and I believe them, seasons
are written well in advance.) So he takes that there snowball called BtVS and
gives it an ALLMIGHTY WACK!!

And that is his right. 

But the damaage is plain to see.

This has _NOTHING_ to do with 'Dead Lesbian' cliche, this is The Story and the
story was violated. (Though the whole 'Dead/Crazy Lesbian' cliche IS real and
IS rather nasty and HAS been happening since the damn 60's(Possibly earlier,
I'm not sure.)) Its very visible, the wreckage of what the story was. The
instances of occurance where you were screaming at the screen 'THAT CHARACTER
WOULDN'T DO THAT!' or other such stuff.

I've even heard, that way back when they were filming 'Wrecked' Aly herself
wanted to have a 'chat' with Joss, upset at how her character was acting. She
was told to 'Trust Them, They Knew What They Were Doing'.

Uh-huh. 

Right.

So my major gripe is, not what happened to Tara(It sucked.) Not what happened
to Willow(That sucked even more.) Buffy having sex with Spike(That didn't
quite suck as much as Tara but it still sucked.) BUT how, ALL THESE SUCKWORTHY
THINGS HAPPENED BECAUSE (As I see it) JOSS HAD AN IDEA HE WOULDN'T LET GO!!

I cannot count the number of times I've had an idea for a scene, or a bit of
dialiouge that I just HAD to get into the story, IT HAD TO BE DONE!! (My
metaphorical scrotum was being squeezed.) but, working at it a bit, fiddling
with 'The Story' here and there, I realized that it simply could not be. The
interia, the flow, the direction and speed of the story would not allow it and
forcing the issue would do nothing benificial. 

In other words-The Snowball kicked my ass.

And thats how it should be.



Second- I havn't even _seen_ that episode but what I've heard pisses me off
like nobody elses buisness. Willow going all pyscho? 

No.

Tara's bloody corpse in the living room?

No.

Spike trying to rape Buffy?

No.(But close.)

Spike being given a soul by a demon?

BINGO!!

Okay, sure, creating a story is creating a story is creating a story. Its up
to the creator but does anybody else really dislike the idea that a _DEMON_
can give a soul?

Oh sure, they can tempt, corrupt, twist, torture, steal, horde, and a whole
bunch of other really nasty adjectives, souls. But the only, the ONLY, thing
that can GIVE a soul and control a soul(That includes binding it to others.)
is The Light. (Aaannnndd possibly humans of the light, I'll give the Gypsies
that 'nod' for Angel.) 

By definition(If such a term is applicable) Demons are Lies. Lies given form,
shape, flesh and an agenda. Souls are Truth. I'm not thinking Joss was trying
to imply anything like 'The Lie is Stronger Than The Truth'. I'm just thinking
he was fucking lazy, and boneheaded. 

Demons _CANNOT_ give souls. I don't care if its the Dawnbringer himself, its
not done. 

OR

If it IS done(And it obviously was.) it should have been done a LOT better.
But it wasn't and this just winds up being another twisted bit of sheet metal
to add to the car accident known as BtVS.

But this brings me to my third and final subject.

I'm as human as the next guy.

Next Guy: Hi. I'm human.

See?

And like lots of humans I find car accidents morbidly facinating.

Next Guy: I find car accidents morbidly facinating.

So I'm going to finish BtVS. I'm not going to abandon it. 

Why not?

Two reasons- 

First. I finish what I start. Well, not everything(I did drop out of that
computer science class in college.) But when it comes to stories I do. So I
can't just 'Drop It'. I have to know how it ends, good, bad, travesty or
truimph I HAVE to know.

Second. I just can't believe Joss is this stupid. The man has demonstrated too
much talent to pull such a(And allow me to phrase this is a quain, polite and
genteel manner) FUCKING BONEHEADED SERIES OF FUCKED UP FUCKITY FUCKUPS AS THIS
FUCKED UP FUCKUP OF A TV SHOW HAS BECOME!!(Someone call Eminem, I think I just
outdid him.)

So I have a suspiscion, a hope, a prayer, that Joss has taken that supreme
risk of really blowing his very own world right to hell, in a proffesional,
sense. In terms of quality AND writing AND characterzation simple because he
has...(Drumroll please)

A Plan.

So in that light I'm sticking around. Even though I don't think my suspiscion
has a snowballs chance in Hell of surviving.(Even forty foot snowballs going
three thousand miles per hour.)

So in that light I make this request-

I have seasons one through five on tape. I'm looking for Season six. 

ON TAPE!

I know it would probably be cheaper, and easier, and more convient to get them
on CD but when it comes to watching TV or movies, just call me a Red Hot
Luddite. I prefer em' on cassete.

So if anyone has happened to collect the Entire Season six and is willing to
send them to me in far off Hungary(I'll cover S&H) I'd be grateful.

(Don't worry about the NTST/PAL incopatibily thing, I got it covered.)



And the conclusion.

Despite my hope of Joss's 'Plan' my predictions are based on 'the flow' that I
feel from what I know of S6, so I could be way off base. There are NO rumors
OR Spoilers cited here, this is all my own musings so no space has been
included.

Spike is a total waste. 
He's also not got that 'Curse Clause' like Angel. 

How convient.

Unfornetly he's in a perfect position to recognise his vile acts and attempt
to account for them. This will, eventaully, break down Buffy's resistance and
eventually sweep her off her feet. 

Expect the B/S shippers to rent the Astrodome for the celebration. 

And I'll be gagging in the bathroom at the time.


I'm also expecting to hear, in Season seven, SOMEWHERE, the following
conversation-

Willow: I'll never stop loving Tara, she'll be a part of me always. But you're
here now. I need you, you're everything to me. Will you...will you forgive
me?

Xander: Do you forgive me for the great Barbi theft of 1982?

Willow: I love you Xander!

Xander: I love you Willow!

Willow: Oh Xander!

Xander: Oh Willow!

Mad-Hamlet: Oh my stomach!(Sounds of feet running for the bathroom, gagging
ensues.)


Maybe its the just the pessimistic streak in me but...

That's what I get from the flow that I see now. The wreckage will continue. 



In other news. 
I'd like to thank everybody who was so kind to me about the birth of my
daughter. She's fine, healthy, BIG!(Weighed in at 6.9 kilos...er...that's
around eight pounds) If we're lucky, we'll get to bring her home Sunday.

When she's old enough I intend to introduce her to 'Willow'(Though that is NOT
why I named her such. Rather there was a willow tree in my backyard I used to
snooze under as a child.) 

Oh yes, she has a nickname. Had once since the forth month of pregnancy in
fact. We call her.

'Elf'.


I remain, as always,
Mad-Hamlet


W.B. Yeats: What rough beast, its hour come at last, slouches toward Bethlehem
to be born?

Mad-Hamlet: Me.