Yay! It's very nice to see you're happy. And it's so exciting to compare how 36 transformed your take. It seems as if your intial negative reaction seems what allowed the tap to happen, which is pretty cool. And, hello, is what happens to Buffy in Retreat--to gain access to her power she has to be defeated. For the story to make sense you have to lose faith in it.
I love your analogy about the tap. But I don't think the tap has happened for me. I'm not positive it will. It's related to what I suggested above: maybe you have to be convinced that the story can't work, before you see that it does--in order to have the emotional impact of everything clicking into place. I feel generally positive on the story, though I've felt wary in the past. I haven't gone through the figurative underworld that you (and Emmie!) have to travel to the place where everything fits. But Buffy's arc and the storytelling tropes fit together now in a way they didn't before, with the influx of meta that 36 generated. There's a big influx of comments and the whole thing is coming together. It's very exciting! It's hard to believe we're going to have to wait another four months though....
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Date: 2010-09-09 11:00 pm (UTC)I love your analogy about the tap. But I don't think the tap has happened for me. I'm not positive it will. It's related to what I suggested above: maybe you have to be convinced that the story can't work, before you see that it does--in order to have the emotional impact of everything clicking into place. I feel generally positive on the story, though I've felt wary in the past. I haven't gone through the figurative underworld that you (and Emmie!) have to travel to the place where everything fits. But Buffy's arc and the storytelling tropes fit together now in a way they didn't before, with the influx of meta that 36 generated. There's a big influx of comments and the whole thing is coming together. It's very exciting! It's hard to believe we're going to have to wait another four months though....