BtVS -- Once More, With Feeling
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butterflyIt is very, very mean of Once More, With Feeling to put Buffy and Xander in all those bloody two-shots. They're promoting a sense of intimacy there.
I'm not objecting, except on the lack of follow-through.
In the earlier group scenes, Xander is blocked much closer to Buffy than he is Anya. Willow and Tara are sitting together on one side of the table, Buffy and Xander are on the other, and then Giles and Anya are at the other sides. And then, glory of glories, Buffy and Xander act as a parental unit towards Dawn, smacking down the idea of romance in singing and dancing in perfect unison. It's very Jack and Daniel of them.
I adore the look of Season Six -- it dances on the edge of darkness and light.
I love Xander's apartment, all windows and light. In some ways, Cordelia was right in Rm W/A VU when she sorta coupled living place with attitude. On these shows, where you live does say a lot about where your mental state is.
Walk Through the Fire kicks such total ass.
Dawn wears blue this entire episode. Every single outfit she wears has blue as the primary color (and no other 'color' is paired with it, just black and white).
Color as a connector -- Buffy wears black leather through-out, the red shirt and blue lining of the jacket completely hidden, a fire banked down. Spike is black with the red peeking out, Sweet is in blue. Xander has on a white shirt covered in red-brown leaves and green pants (I know... that sounds horrid. Even the fact that the red are leaves that make me think of Canada doesn't improve it much), and then he puts on a brown jacket. Dawn and Anya are both in pale blues. Willow's outfit is in shades of purple (one could argue that she does approach pale blue in some places, giving her an interesting connection with Dawn and Anya). Tara is in yellow and brown. Giles is in green and black.
What does that all mean? Willow is the only person who doesn't share a color. Buffy is connected to Giles via black, then to Xander via the green, and Tara via the brown (check out how close the shades are on Xander's coat and Tara's skirt). She's connected more directly to Dawn and Anya and Sweet by blue, but her blue is 'underground' at the moment and it never gets to be worn on the outside, shed with her coat. She also more directly connected to Spike and Sweet via the red (also, brief note for Anya, who fits here, too), which is seen when she lets go of the black.
Note -- in Life's a Show, we see the three primary colors stand together, with Anya in blue (and Anya's blue is very pale -- perhaps because she's only about three years old as a born-again mortal), Buffy in red, and Tara in yellow (both of them in very strong shades). Three very different women.
I adore the color matching. The shades that match are pretty much identical (check out the lining of Buffy's coat and compare it to Sweet's suit), fostering character comparisons.
Willow and Tara are constantly blocked as a couple in a way that Xander and Anya aren't. Willow and Tara tend towards each other, as though something greater pulled them together. Sadly, for Xander and Anya, their 'something greater' was always 'sex'. Foundation of their relationship.
I'm not objecting, except on the lack of follow-through.
In the earlier group scenes, Xander is blocked much closer to Buffy than he is Anya. Willow and Tara are sitting together on one side of the table, Buffy and Xander are on the other, and then Giles and Anya are at the other sides. And then, glory of glories, Buffy and Xander act as a parental unit towards Dawn, smacking down the idea of romance in singing and dancing in perfect unison. It's very Jack and Daniel of them.
I adore the look of Season Six -- it dances on the edge of darkness and light.
I love Xander's apartment, all windows and light. In some ways, Cordelia was right in Rm W/A VU when she sorta coupled living place with attitude. On these shows, where you live does say a lot about where your mental state is.
Walk Through the Fire kicks such total ass.
Dawn wears blue this entire episode. Every single outfit she wears has blue as the primary color (and no other 'color' is paired with it, just black and white).
Color as a connector -- Buffy wears black leather through-out, the red shirt and blue lining of the jacket completely hidden, a fire banked down. Spike is black with the red peeking out, Sweet is in blue. Xander has on a white shirt covered in red-brown leaves and green pants (I know... that sounds horrid. Even the fact that the red are leaves that make me think of Canada doesn't improve it much), and then he puts on a brown jacket. Dawn and Anya are both in pale blues. Willow's outfit is in shades of purple (one could argue that she does approach pale blue in some places, giving her an interesting connection with Dawn and Anya). Tara is in yellow and brown. Giles is in green and black.
What does that all mean? Willow is the only person who doesn't share a color. Buffy is connected to Giles via black, then to Xander via the green, and Tara via the brown (check out how close the shades are on Xander's coat and Tara's skirt). She's connected more directly to Dawn and Anya and Sweet by blue, but her blue is 'underground' at the moment and it never gets to be worn on the outside, shed with her coat. She also more directly connected to Spike and Sweet via the red (also, brief note for Anya, who fits here, too), which is seen when she lets go of the black.
Note -- in Life's a Show, we see the three primary colors stand together, with Anya in blue (and Anya's blue is very pale -- perhaps because she's only about three years old as a born-again mortal), Buffy in red, and Tara in yellow (both of them in very strong shades). Three very different women.
I adore the color matching. The shades that match are pretty much identical (check out the lining of Buffy's coat and compare it to Sweet's suit), fostering character comparisons.
Willow and Tara are constantly blocked as a couple in a way that Xander and Anya aren't. Willow and Tara tend towards each other, as though something greater pulled them together. Sadly, for Xander and Anya, their 'something greater' was always 'sex'. Foundation of their relationship.
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Date: 2004-11-08 09:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-11-08 05:47 pm (UTC)~Becca~
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Date: 2004-11-09 02:16 am (UTC)And I don't really get the feeling that it's 'destined or doomed' (actually, it's usually 'destined and doomed', really) in regards to love. Most of the relationships in BtVS/AtS end up unhappily, not just the ones that aren't based in destiny.
Can you give me examples?
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Date: 2004-11-09 02:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-11-09 02:18 am (UTC)And yeah, OMWF had some nice, subtle B/X-ness. Is sweet.
Icon....
Date: 2004-11-17 04:37 am (UTC)If you have any suggestions.......I really love the David Lynch version of the story, but it seems noone out there has taken advantage of the beautiful imagery from these films to make icons or mood themes for them. Would you have any suggestions? Thanks again...
Re: Icon....
Date: 2004-11-19 08:47 am (UTC)It really would be nice if there were more icons and images from it out there.