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Date Posted: 09:33:14 09/19/12 Wed
Author: chuckit25
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Subject: Re: Season 8 is a lot like Season 5 writ large... (Major S8 Spoilers)
In reply to: Michael 's message, "Season 8 is a lot like Season 5 writ large... (Major S8 Spoilers)" on 20:10:25 09/05/12 Wed

A very brief and diplomatic overview. I am actually going to keep this post. Great job and absolutely wonderful that you are here, still in the fandom to feed that beastie.

We are all growing up to be a lot kinder than the evil overlord Joss, sticking the Voy demon in the gizzard to chew on ours. And yes, he did read the Overlord Manifesto to kill anyone cared for as some great positive statement too often escaping narrative necessity. I notice his feminism by its pointed absence and raising "issues" his heroine never has to face, as she did in the first three seasons. Oh, well.

I will study this arrangement of arcs a little more closely for what I think is an insight into some real wisdom and that oddity of meaning that actually unites people in a more positive way.

BTW, season 8 was the most important idea I saw in mythic fulfillment and, it wasn't Angel who ruined it, despite the common belief in fandom. Don't forget death is indeed the over arching metaphor and paradox is the key. I think that dual time lines offers a view of greatest resolution for the avatars e.g. Buffy and Angel; and the "real people" they are e.g Dawn and Xander and Connor, as the difference between the psychological plane and that of people who must struggle with the experience that exists within and within the world--why myth is actually all the same (spiritual) story or journey in all religions of the world. And the great "tragedies" actually are the completion, recognition/accomplishment: you will always find "the female principle" is recognized to accomplish it, whatever the gender of the "hero." Trouble is, most people never read the real "endings" to the myths that the symbol language is not the "thing" itself. Which can't even be talked about. The closest language may be music.

Thanks!
Be well!
chuckit25

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