love spike in the bargaining. babe are u ok? you’ve barely plastered all your hair onto your head today
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goes to Evil Fifth Grade and goes to Evil Science Class and my Evil Teacher wheels out the Evil VCR and we watch Kill Die the Murder Guy
This is just The Darkest Timeline from Community
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An Episode Within an Episode: An Analysis of ‘The Zeppo’
The Zeppo is one of those episodes that so consistently shows up on fan lists of “underrated” episodes, that I don’t know if it can really be considered “underrated” anymore, but I think it deserves a little extra appreciation. It’s definitely an episode that takes a second viewing to appreciate, thanks to how oddly it is constructed, in a way that isn’t immediately advertised to the viewer. Other episodes with unusual styles such as Once More With Feeling or Hush very much wear their concepts on their sleeve; you can’t watch them and not immediately realise what they are doing. That’s not a knock against those episodes - part of what makes them so great and iconic is that they get right to the point and so can do interesting things with the concept. The Zeppo is just a quieter kind of unique. It uses the limited perspective of both the characters and the audience themselves to show a cracked-mirror version of the world. It’s an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer told from the perspective of somebody looking in on another episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s fun and weird and I want to dig into it a little bit.
cosmictuesdays asked:
"Commitment to thematic consistency" is a lot of why Buffy and Angel both work as shows. Even when the plots were scattered and weak, the emotional through-lines of the characters and the strengths of the actors helped ground everything and make it worthwhile. Very well put - I'll remember it for the future.
herinsectreflection Answer:
Yeah, this is pretty much it. There is a lot of janky stuff plot-wise in both Buffy and Angel. They are always designed to work on a metaphorical and thematic level, and in that respect they work remarkably well. They very rarely contradict themselves on a thematic level - they have a core philosophy centred around choice and absurdism and they commit to it.
hello to all 41 of my probably inactive followers i have decided to return today at 12:04 AM instead of doing my four hours worth of ap gov i have due tomorrow. i think this was a very good idea.
40 now someone just unfollowed :’(
hello to all 41 of my probably inactive followers i have decided to return today at 12:04 AM instead of doing my four hours worth of ap gov i have due tomorrow. i think this was a very good idea.
