Dude, reading this post and your post about being an unashamed Buffy fan the other day...it just makes me want to cry, in that happy "Yes! I understand exactly!" type of way. ^o^
People are not shitting when they say Buffy taught them how to be strong. We can do all of this - AND - we can do it in space. Or in the Ice Age. Or in another galaxy or with superpowers. None of this is new. Humans are kind of built to respond to stories and fiction. It just pings more in some people than in others.
This was beautiful to read, and I just wanted to say I relate, because I'm also one of those kids who was there mentally quoting the ending "Can stand up, will stand up" monologue from Chosen on days when I thought I couldn't make it in high school...and hell, it still has that same effect quoting it now. ^^
It saddens me when people automatically write off television as something cheap and illigitimate...Television...and comics, and book series...they do something unmatched in both theater and movies, because they introduce us to a group of characters and truly allow us to become emotionally invested in their lives, since we can enter into their world every week. We follow their journeys, we see how they change, we grow up with them...I don't think that's something to be scoffed at.
So thank you so much for posting this (and your Buffy post as well)...And maybe someday we will have another show that can move us and inspire us ans fill us with the happy show luff, like Buffy and Angel did! *fangirls youuuuu*
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People are not shitting when they say Buffy taught them how to be strong.
We can do all of this - AND - we can do it in space. Or in the Ice Age. Or in another galaxy or with superpowers.
None of this is new. Humans are kind of built to respond to stories and fiction. It just pings more in some people than in others.
This was beautiful to read, and I just wanted to say I relate, because I'm also one of those kids who was there mentally quoting the ending "Can stand up, will stand up" monologue from Chosen on days when I thought I couldn't make it in high school...and hell, it still has that same effect quoting it now. ^^
It saddens me when people automatically write off television as something cheap and illigitimate...Television...and comics, and book series...they do something unmatched in both theater and movies, because they introduce us to a group of characters and truly allow us to become emotionally invested in their lives, since we can enter into their world every week. We follow their journeys, we see how they change, we grow up with them...I don't think that's something to be scoffed at.
So thank you so much for posting this (and your Buffy post as well)...And maybe someday we will have another show that can move us and inspire us ans fill us with the happy show luff, like Buffy and Angel did! *fangirls youuuuu*