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Once Upon a Time - S1 E 9 - "True North" (Quintessential Hansel & Gretle Episode...sigh) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Once Upon A Time
27 May 2023
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Angel and That Pesky Curse - How one group of writer's dealt with a writing trap by shadowkat
Fandoms: Angel the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
27 May 2023
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This essay comes from a blog post on https://shadowkat.dreamwidth.org/486729.html. It is about how Joss Whedon and his writing team handled the characterization of vampires in their series, post Angel. Angel was a vampire cursed with a soul, who was ambivalently good ensouled, and completely evil without a soul. The soul acted as a sort of conscience. But, this posed a problem when other vampires were introduced. In addition, it posed a problem in regards to Angel's relationship with Buffy - since pure happiness rendered him evil. The essay explores how this was handled in the series -- and how similar writing traps can be be worked around.
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Review and Meta on Angel the Series - Season Finale Episode - Not Fade Away
Compare to classic westerns - The Wild Bunch & Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
"Ah Angel…it’s over. My last episode review ever. A moment of silence. Okay on to my review. The ending did not surprise me nor did it disappoint. It was much as I expected, the Wild Bunch ending with a touch, possibly more than a touch, of the charm of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid."
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I Will Always Remember You with a Touch of Something Blue by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel - Fandom
27 May 2023
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Do you remember your first love? A few, very few, people marry their first loves. My brother married his, and my mother married hers. But most of us -- don't or if we do, it ends in divorce, because once the wild passion ends there is little else. In the case of my parents and my brother - it was not "wild passion" so much as friendship that built into something more over time. They did not hop into bed or do wild makeout sessions at the start, they had discussions well into the night. It was in short not the stuff of novels - which seldom end well and often focus on those wild romances. Why do the wild and intense romances not last? The writers of Buffy and Angel examine those reasons in detail.
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In Defense of Favorite Genre Characters or What Draws me to a fictional character.. by shadowkat
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom
27 May 2023
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Revising Superman by shadowkat
Fandoms: Superman, Superman - All Media Types, Superman Returns
27 May 2023
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Amongst my favorite superhero films or films based on comic books, is, and this may surprise some people, Superman the Movie. Which in some respects is better than anything that has come before or after it in that it focused on the core of the story and less on the visuals or special effects. I mentioned in my review of Superman Returns, which is several posts back, that I'm not sure you can fully appreciate the film Returns without first seeing Superman the Movie and its sequel Superman II - since Returns is both a homage and a direct result of the prior two films. Returns would not exist without them and is meant as the sequel to Superman II. It is also demonstrative of a certain filmmaking technigue known as the "homage". Like it or not, Bryan Singer's Superman Returns is an important film because of how it frames itself around what had come before. And note, not films done by the Singer or containing Singer's cast, or even created in the same decade as Singer's film. The homage Singer creates - also comments on a style of filmmaking and special effects that has changed.
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When it comes to Romantic Relationships? Banter is best - or a marriage of equals. (Musings on Romantic Relationships) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Farscape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
27 May 2023
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Why do I like the fictional romantic relationships that I do? I'm not sure I know or that it is necessarily important that I do. Some things are unknowable after all or should be. I know that my tastes change like the wind. But I do know... that there is a pattern in the "fictional" relationships that appeal to me...and the is the gender power-play. Two people struggling to come to a common place. Equals. In power. In view. The push-pull. The banter. But mostly? It's the feeling of two people who are equally matched. They've met their match, their equal. No not soul mate. Not that. More someone who gets you, who understands your values, not your interests, but what means the most to you, what you would die for, what is the most important thing to you. Who knows your weaknesses, your triggers, and what makes you tick...yet is your shadow self, the other side. The complement. The yang to your ying. I look for those relationships in fiction. The other bits whatever they might be are just gravy, sometimes lumpy and unappetizing, and sometimes perfect and rich.
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Victimized Girl Trope in Three Part Harmony... by shadowkat
Fandoms: Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly / Serenity Universe, Dollhouse, Angel the Series
27 May 2023
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This is a review/meta of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson.
References Whedon's series.
Please note this was published after I finished reading Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in May 2011.
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Review/Meta of Love the Way You Lie, Song by Emmene, Rhiannon, and Dr. Dre by shadowkat
Fandoms: Rhiannon; Emminen;
27 May 2023
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Buffy as a critique on the 1970s-1990s Slasher Horror Flick by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Scream Movieverse
27 May 2023
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Why is it so difficult to discuss certain things in Fandom without falling into a kerfuffle? by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Multi-Fandom
27 May 2023
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I'm not really triggered by tv shows or fictional stories so much as people's reactions to those stories. It's a weird dilemma. I want to discuss these stories with others...but I also, want to enjoy the story and sometimes the two are counter-productive.
Examples? Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I desperately wanted to discuss this series in Seasons 6 and 7, and in some respects loved those seasons, but I had to deal with a volatile online fandom. And often they'd make me hate something, I'd have loved if I wasn't interacting with them. Farscape - was easier to watch, because I watched it long after it aired, and so the fandom wasn't really that active. No problems. BSG however...had similar issues.
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Review/Meta of the Wire - Season 5, Episode 9..."Deserving, ain't got nothing to do with it" by shadowkat
Fandoms: The Wire
26 May 2023
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A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison - Book Review by shadowkat
Fandoms: Kim Harrison, The Hollows
25 May 2023
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Review of The Fault in Our Stars by shadowkat
Fandoms: The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
25 May 2023
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It's All Cheers Fault - or How Sam and Diane Getting Together on Cheers Ruined Romantic Relationships on other tv shows... by shadowkat
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom, Cheers (TV), Farscape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Remington Steele, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Moonlighting
25 May 2023
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From Cabin in the Woods to Rosemary's Baby - What Works and What Doesn't in Horror Films by shadowkat
Fandoms: Horror Films, Cabin in the Woods, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Multi-Fandom
25 May 2023
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This is a very long meta on the horror genre, starting with ten great horror films that I find memorable and the tropes they are a part of. Also commentary on the horror genre in general and on why I see horror films and why they are made or even told.
Note this was written in April 2012, so a lot of films such as Get Out, Us, Shape of Water, It Follows, X, etc and the Netflix horror series have not come out yet let alone been thought of or written.
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Review/Meta of The Cabin in the Woods (directed by Drew Goddard, co-written by Whedon and Goddard) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon - Fandom, Drew Goddard, The Hunger Games Trilogy
24 May 2023
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The following will compare Cabin with Hunger Games and various other films. Before going into the review, it feels odd to do a meta on it, since the film itself is more a meta than a film or a meta on the horror genre in general. So basically this is a review/meta on a meta-narrative horror film.
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Buffy vs. the Buffy S9 Comics Writers.. (specifically Whedon and Scott Allie) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy (Dark Horse Comics 2007), Buffy the Vampire Slayer
24 May 2023
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Buffy disagrees with the direction the Dark Horse Buffy Comics Writers want to take her character, and confronts them on the issue.
So the writers of the Buffy comics think "Buffy" wants a normal life. Apparently they skipped S6 and S7 and the first part of S9, when she tried that? OR...quick, someone mail them Jeannette Wintersen's memoir: "Why Be Happy when you can be Normal?" [As an aside, that has got to be the best title ever. Indeed, why be happy when you fit another person's definition of normality.] I'm sure Willow has a copy handy.
ETA: Dark Horse Comics Buffy only. [Boom's Buffy comics didn't exist when I wrote this. I honestly think Buffy would have been fine with S10-11 of Dark Horse, and the Boom Comics, different and ahem better writers/editors. Scott Allie and Whedon had left the building.]
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Game of Thrones Meta: The Power of Telling Stories (Review/Meta of Game of Thrones S2, E3 - "The Power of Stories") by shadowkat
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), The Night Circus (Book), A Song of Ice and Fire
24 May 2023
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We live in a world without magic but stories...stories that we often forget the power of. How they can hold us, take hold of us, captivate, and control us. Bewilder, befuddle, and alter perception. Stories are who we are. Where we've been and where we are going.
We are in the end nothing but the written and unwritten stories on the fabric of time and the woven tapestry of existence. Stories are the most powerful magic there is.
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Review/Meta of 50 Shades of Grey [Book One] by shadowkat
Fandoms: Fifty Shades of Grey, The Twilight Saga
24 May 2023
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Fanfiction, Twitter & Writing Villains (Writer interviews with Espenson, Whedon & Stan Lee) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Marvel Heroes, Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
24 May 2023
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Review/Meta of Game of Thrones S2 Episode "A Man Without Honor" by shadowkat
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire
24 May 2023
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Where I explain why I prefer Jaime Lannister to Ned Stark.
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Just what we all need - another Avenger's Film Review (Meta/Review on the Film Avengers directed by Joss Whedon) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Marvel's The Avengers (2012), Joss Whedon - Fandom
24 May 2023
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[Written at the time the film came out in May 2012]
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