Comments on: Review: No Future for You SPOILERS http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/01/10/review-no-future-for-you-spoilers/ Feminist, anti-racist, pro-fat, plus whatever else we feel like talking about. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:15:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: RonF http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/01/10/review-no-future-for-you-spoilers/#comment-315520 RonF Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:29:05 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/01/10/review-no-future-for-you-spoilers/#comment-315520 <i>No, I know the answer, it just pisses me off.</i> Me, too. Although I must say, I've been on all-male long-term outings where on occasion the guys have taken a perverse pleasure on who smells the worst. "Jesus, you stink! Did something crawl into your pants and die? What, you think it keeps the bugs off?" "Screw the bugs, I can keep the bears away!" When I've gone on week-long canoe trips, one of the rituals is that at the end of the trip, when you're back at the outfitter's base, you take your first hot shower in a week and then change into clean clothes that were left at the base before we left for just this purpose. It's a guy thing. Sometimes. No, I know the answer, it just pisses me off.

Me, too. Although I must say, I’ve been on all-male long-term outings where on occasion the guys have taken a perverse pleasure on who smells the worst. “Jesus, you stink! Did something crawl into your pants and die? What, you think it keeps the bugs off?” “Screw the bugs, I can keep the bears away!” When I’ve gone on week-long canoe trips, one of the rituals is that at the end of the trip, when you’re back at the outfitter’s base, you take your first hot shower in a week and then change into clean clothes that were left at the base before we left for just this purpose.

It’s a guy thing. Sometimes.

]]> By: other orange http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/01/10/review-no-future-for-you-spoilers/#comment-315509 other orange Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:16:15 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/01/10/review-no-future-for-you-spoilers/#comment-315509 I've been loyally buying the Season Eight comics (and loyally reading your reviews !) so I had to comment. I agree that this arc feels totally untethered from the series. Faith has always been challenging Buffy for her belief that Buffy is an uppity, self-righteous leader; so when in Season Seven Faith gets a chance to lead, and gets people killed, it had a deep emotional impact. She finally seems to understand that leadership is more than ordering people around- it's a responsibility to those people, and an incredible pressure. That scene from "Chosen" where Buffy hands her the scythe and says <i>hold the line</i>- it cemented something in their relationship, I thought. Not a perfect understanding, but an acknowledgement of their journey together, and that they'd never be the girls they were back in Season Three. And this arc felt, to me, like that moment never happened. I mean, the constant Faith flashbacks to her worst moments with Buffy ? Her violent loss of control; and her overidentification with Gigi. I mean, Faith was a killer, but to have the comic tell me that she'd become best friends with a girl <i>murdering other slayers for sport</i> is a little beyond the line, for me. YMMV. Anyone's mileage may vary. ;) But I was hoping they'd give Faith more credit. I’ve been loyally buying the Season Eight comics (and loyally reading your reviews !) so I had to comment. I agree that this arc feels totally untethered from the series. Faith has always been challenging Buffy for her belief that Buffy is an uppity, self-righteous leader; so when in Season Seven Faith gets a chance to lead, and gets people killed, it had a deep emotional impact. She finally seems to understand that leadership is more than ordering people around- it’s a responsibility to those people, and an incredible pressure. That scene from “Chosen” where Buffy hands her the scythe and says hold the line- it cemented something in their relationship, I thought. Not a perfect understanding, but an acknowledgement of their journey together, and that they’d never be the girls they were back in Season Three.

And this arc felt, to me, like that moment never happened.

I mean, the constant Faith flashbacks to her worst moments with Buffy ? Her violent loss of control; and her overidentification with Gigi. I mean, Faith was a killer, but to have the comic tell me that she’d become best friends with a girl murdering other slayers for sport is a little beyond the line, for me.

YMMV. Anyone’s mileage may vary. ;) But I was hoping they’d give Faith more credit.

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