Jen has been rendered speechless...

Oh, how happy that would make so many.

Nah -- I just liked that *Hey, I don't even have to write, I can just post other people's posts in a different order to say what I want. Cool.*

I dont' have much trouble entertaining me.

ETA: and then I was going to explain that in post, you know, but that would've been a whole circular negating the beauty and making it not true anymore thing.

Old Bronze board with SO lists, Joss, Jane, Ty, and the night of the earthquake: Here

For those scrolling the Bronze board, it scrolls UP -- meaning start at the bottom.

Ah, go to class, return to see the high school traumas poured forth at my instigation...

A girl could get used to this.

Now that I think on it, one friend in my high school circle of outcasts was in fact a cleavag-y slutbomb who worked very hard to keep everyone's attention. So Faith in the high school years = friend who slept with every guy I had a crush on; Faith as jail-escapee who eats everyone else's food = me! So of course I mysteriously found her fun and cool by the end.

I think faith had me at the first "wicked cool," though I did somewhat resent her within the story context for driving a wedge between Buffy and Willow. Extremely promising character from the get-go, however.

I was practically the anti-Faith in highschool, so my Faith-love isn't an idenitifcation thing (unless by identification, we mean 'I have eyes, and can therefore identify that she is, in fact, nummy like a nummy thing'). I liked her as a counter-point to Buffy, because when I first started watching in s3, Buffy seemed kinda whiny and uptight and much less fun to watch.

I am evil, I've never really much liked Faith. I did like her in "Orpheus"(?) on AtS, in the flashback scenes when she's watching Angel and talking to Angelus. I think it was because she was empathizing more with Angel's struggles than with whatever was going on with herself. I never really got a vibe off of her that she gave much of a damn about anyone other than herself, and the "I must be cooler than all the rest so they don't know how scared I am" doesn't appeal. It just makes me want to go "Get back to me when you've got your psyche straightened out."

I think faith had me at the first "wicked cool," though I did somewhat resent her within the story context for driving a wedge between Buffy and Willow.

Ditto. Any dislike I had for her was within story context, like when she tried to strangle Xander.

I liked her as a counter-point to Buffy

Ditto. I dug the path-not-chosen vibe. After seeing Kendra, the ultra-dutiful slayer, it was cool to see the other end of the spectrum.

Rewatching those earlier episodes now, I have a lot more sympathy for Faith than I did at the time. Maybe cold!Buffy in Season 7 is colouring my perceptions. In the various scenes where she tries to get Buffy to talk about herself and Buffy just shuts her down -- especially in regards to Angel stuff -- I think I used to be on Buffy's side, like "Mind your own business!" But now I think Buffy is too rude and cold. Each time it happens Faith looks momentarily stung before she recovers her attitude. I think it's brilliaint in Revelations when the fake watcher chick plays on this insecurity.

I think it's brilliaint in Revelations when the fake watcher chick plays on this insecurity.

Aww, poor Faith. This was my first Faith episode, and it's where she's at her most sympathetic, so that probably contributed to my instant affection for her.

I think faith had me at the first "wicked cool," though I did somewhat resent her within the story context for driving a wedge between Buffy and Willow. Extremely promising character from the get-go, however.

Yes, and when she told the Mayor he was "wicked gross" she owned me forever (I think in part, this is because it was obvious that not only Faith was a home girl (for me), but that Eliza is, too). I resented the wedge between Buffy & Willow too, except--damn--that's fine writing, acting, and direction that makes a person resent a fictional character in that way.