It was not moving! He just walked away! How is that moving?
eta: Okay, literally, he was moving, as in changing position, but how is it moving as in emotionally affecting, when it's so...affected?
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
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§ ita § - Mar 04, 2013 11:18:05 am PST #13606 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Mar 04, 2013 11:21:33 am PST #13607 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but how is it moving as in emotionally affecting, when it's so...affected?
They're ex-lovers that haven't seen each other in forty years!
Jesse - Mar 04, 2013 11:24:11 am PST #13608 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And they both cried?
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2013 11:31:24 am PST #13609 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And then he got up and walked away. Come back to me with ex-lovers moved enough that they spend more than a minute re-uniting, and then I'll be affected by it.
Speaking of moving, gotta (not) love this dress: [link] The article is saying she's too old for it, but everyone is too something for that. The bows down the front are appalling. What she is too old for is that fake coquettish pose in the last picture.
-t - Mar 04, 2013 11:31:39 am PST #13610 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Gah! That was very moving.
Was it? Huh.
Kate P. - Mar 04, 2013 11:32:07 am PST #13611 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
He just walked away because that was the point of that piece of performance art, right? I thought it was very affecting as well -- that he would show up to see her again, and that he would make it a part of the show she was creating. I mean, it's not the way I'd want things to go in my own life, but he clearly understood what she was going for with her performance, and wanted to play into that.
Steph L. - Mar 04, 2013 11:36:54 am PST #13612 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
He just walked away because that was the point of that piece of performance art, right? I thought it was very affecting as well -- that he would show up to see her again, and that he would make it a part of the show she was creating. I mean, it's not the way I'd want things to go in my own life, but he clearly understood what she was going for with her performance, and wanted to play into that.
I guess I'm with ita (unless I misunderstood her post): I don't get people whose lives are a performance. I don't mean people who are performers for a living; even Alan Rickman gets a private life, you know? But people who choose to make their private life a public performance is just beyond my comprehension. And it also doesn't feel like it's real. Not if it's all a performance.
Burrell - Mar 04, 2013 11:37:03 am PST #13613 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm sorry Amy.
Amy - Mar 04, 2013 11:39:33 am PST #13614 of 30001
Because books.
That dress is just awful all around.
-t - Mar 04, 2013 11:52:41 am PST #13615 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I kind of get the performance and life intertwining thing - if your performance is authentic and genuine, and you make your actual life part of the performance, I don't know, that makes sense. Just that particular piece didn't resonate with me at all. Which could be a matter of my spleen lacing magic, I'm always willing to consider that option. I have a pretty darn non-miraculous spleen.