You can't go home again
Aug. 17th, 2004 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lesbiassparrowI've recently (via borrowed DVDs) been re-watching Buffy season four. And I am really, really not enjoying it. I remember watching it when it was first shown (not much of an achievement as it was only a few years ago, but, still, my mind is not what it was). More than that, I find myself thinking a lot that it is a rather boring, un-entertaining TV. I'll admit that by the end of Buffy I had fallen completely out of love with the show and the characters, but, still, I retained the memory of the earlier seasons as being enjoyable.
I've only watched the first two DVDs but already I am tired of Buffy's search for a man (any man), tired of having her thwacked on the head for the sin of daring to have sex, fed up with the Xander as working class guy who deeply envies his peers in college storyline, actually fed up with it all. Only thing I like this time around is Riley. Which is a complete turnaround.
It's like rereading children's books you loved only to find that they are dull, tedious echoes of what you thought they were. The only problem is that it was only a few years ago that I liked Buffy and I was (sadly) very much into my adult years. I have no excuse whatsoever.
In other news, still not finished Barnaby Rudge, but more than halfway through. I still don't like the uneven balance between gothic novel and social commentary; feel it is probably just as well that this was Dickens' one foray into historical fiction. Yes, that is a deeply unconsidered opinion which probably deserves to be torn to shreds. The great thing about LJ, though, it that I can't imagine anyone is reading this so I feel entirely safe in writing that.
I've only watched the first two DVDs but already I am tired of Buffy's search for a man (any man), tired of having her thwacked on the head for the sin of daring to have sex, fed up with the Xander as working class guy who deeply envies his peers in college storyline, actually fed up with it all. Only thing I like this time around is Riley. Which is a complete turnaround.
It's like rereading children's books you loved only to find that they are dull, tedious echoes of what you thought they were. The only problem is that it was only a few years ago that I liked Buffy and I was (sadly) very much into my adult years. I have no excuse whatsoever.
In other news, still not finished Barnaby Rudge, but more than halfway through. I still don't like the uneven balance between gothic novel and social commentary; feel it is probably just as well that this was Dickens' one foray into historical fiction. Yes, that is a deeply unconsidered opinion which probably deserves to be torn to shreds. The great thing about LJ, though, it that I can't imagine anyone is reading this so I feel entirely safe in writing that.
