Is it fair to pick on Joss Whedon? Probably not, but yesterday, I was reminded of the wonderful metaphorness of the magic = drugs arc from Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s season 6.
Don’t do it, Will! Drugs are bad.
Reblogging because Willow’s addiction to magic = drugs is another interesting example of a fucked metaphor. See, during Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s prudish WB days (ie: Seasons 4-5), Willow was also really into magic — but that’s because it was a metaphor for her dawning feelings for Tara.
Of course, it’s not like you can post a memo at the beginning of the show when you change the metaphor from lesbianism to drug addiction. Though come to think of it, that probably would have helped.
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So last night I watched The Edge, starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, for the first time. And I feel like there were a bunch of lessons I learned from David Mamet’s super-Mamet-y script, but here was the important one:
Fighting a bear = being a man.
Get to work, fellas.
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Is it fair to pick on Joss Whedon? Probably not, but yesterday, I was reminded of the wonderful metaphorness of the magic = drugs arc from Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s season 6.
Don’t do it, Will! Drugs are bad.
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qwantz.com - dinosaur comics - March 09 2009
This blog could easily devolve into weekly Dollhouse recaps and an in-depth study of Watchmen. It’s all a metaphor for something, baby.