I never concieved of a more pure journey from helplessness to power "My Medea" is forceful but it kind of cheats by bookending itself with the first part of River/Echo/Asylum Buffy’s journey from helplessness to power thus making it look circular.
Buffy being the character he’s written the most for, she goes around more and in more ways than River or Echo. More importantly what power means gets ever more complicated. This is what I wrote about "Bacherlorette" when it first came out.
The vid actually begins with Buffy swinging down and setting it in motion. I think it’s not simply documenting the forms of her/our oppression but also showing how she/we are complicit in it. Even as they abuse, ignore and abandon her, she wants the bird to drink her, she wants the academy/industrial-military complex to notice her, she wants the father/boyfriend figures to come back.
Buffy doesn’t begin physically or mentally helpless but she’s still always a girl in a box, whether it’s a box of a destiny she can’t fight (S1) or a box made for one and one alone (S7). Every season, even pretty well every individual fight she gets into, she gets beaten right down but never broken. The story is how she escapes but escape always puts her, Russian Doll style in a new kind of box. S8 is no different. Her apparent power, her fame is yet another box she has to find her way out of.
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"My Medea" is forceful but it kind of cheats by bookending itself with the first part of River/Echo/Asylum Buffy’s journey from helplessness to power thus making it look circular.
Buffy being the character he’s written the most for, she goes around more and in more ways than River or Echo. More importantly what power means gets ever more complicated. This is what I wrote about "Bacherlorette" when it first came out.
The vid actually begins with Buffy swinging down and setting it in motion. I think it’s not simply documenting the forms of her/our oppression but also showing how she/we are complicit in it. Even as they abuse, ignore and abandon her, she wants the bird to drink her, she wants the academy/industrial-military complex to notice her, she wants the father/boyfriend figures to come back.
Buffy doesn’t begin physically or mentally helpless but she’s still always a girl in a box, whether it’s a box of a destiny she can’t fight (S1) or a box made for one and one alone (S7). Every season, even pretty well every individual fight she gets into, she gets beaten right down but never broken. The story is how she escapes but escape always puts her, Russian Doll style in a new kind of box. S8 is no different. Her apparent power, her fame is yet another box she has to find her way out of.