Side of Bitter with your Hate?
Feb. 5th, 2002 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyAfter silvia's stunning rant about the recapping of shows at TWoP, I thought that I would put my $0.02 in.
I've been feeling for a while like I'm watching a different show than many posters(and our two recappers). Silvia just firmed my feelings on the matter.
Buffy? Is seriously, clinically depressed(and I know from clinically depressed, because I am). The show right now? An amazing, though not-perfect, examination about depression. One person in the TWoP forums mentioned that DMP illustrated the 'McDonaldization' of society, which I agree with, but it showed so much more, too.
The show manages to thrill me every single week with its spot-on portrayal of depression. Taking the show as a slice of life that is almost completely from a depressed young woman's perspective(Buffy), it's astonishing. I, too, have felt so disconnected from the world that it's like only the people that I know most closely even exist. I know the fear that drives concentrating of one thing in exclusion to all others. I know the haunting pain where you wish that you could talk to your dad(Giles) but he feels like he's across an ocean, even if he's not. Because you know that no one fully understands your pain. You know it in your soul, even though it's wrong. And you hide and don't want to tell anyone the full extent of your pain(ripped out of Heaven? Torn out of childhood?).
Buffy's fucking amazing. DMP was fucking amazing. I thought that the shots of meat did wonders in illustrating the disgust that so many of us have for what we're told is necessary to do as adults.
It's brilliant. Not perfect, I could pick out a dozen things wrong with it, but I could do that with any episode.
Buffy? Depressed young woman who wants to know who to start living again.
Diana Michelle? So fucking ditto.
I've been feeling for a while like I'm watching a different show than many posters(and our two recappers). Silvia just firmed my feelings on the matter.
Buffy? Is seriously, clinically depressed(and I know from clinically depressed, because I am). The show right now? An amazing, though not-perfect, examination about depression. One person in the TWoP forums mentioned that DMP illustrated the 'McDonaldization' of society, which I agree with, but it showed so much more, too.
The show manages to thrill me every single week with its spot-on portrayal of depression. Taking the show as a slice of life that is almost completely from a depressed young woman's perspective(Buffy), it's astonishing. I, too, have felt so disconnected from the world that it's like only the people that I know most closely even exist. I know the fear that drives concentrating of one thing in exclusion to all others. I know the haunting pain where you wish that you could talk to your dad(Giles) but he feels like he's across an ocean, even if he's not. Because you know that no one fully understands your pain. You know it in your soul, even though it's wrong. And you hide and don't want to tell anyone the full extent of your pain(ripped out of Heaven? Torn out of childhood?).
Buffy's fucking amazing. DMP was fucking amazing. I thought that the shots of meat did wonders in illustrating the disgust that so many of us have for what we're told is necessary to do as adults.
It's brilliant. Not perfect, I could pick out a dozen things wrong with it, but I could do that with any episode.
Buffy? Depressed young woman who wants to know who to start living again.
Diana Michelle? So fucking ditto.