Thinking Cold Thoughts

[debetesse]

I'm about a year and a half younger than Buffy. There are 4 or so of us on the board who are about that age, as far as I know. I don't know what, if anything, the others think about it, but it's been a thing for me for the past few years. A couple years ago, on my 20th birthday, I was more-or-less alone in Providence, and watched "Family" (Buffy's 20th birthday ep was all-about-Dawn. Bah), which was somewhere between hopeful-making and terribly disheartening ("these are the things I don't have"). Of all the Scoobies, I probably identify the most with Tara, both personality-wise and socially (group-member-by-proxy is something of a pattern for me), which is also at once worrry-some and comforting.

Anyway, my point is something like this: I'm reading Joseph Campbell, about how things become myths when people use them as life-models, or something like that (I don't think I wrote WWBD in the margin, but I thought it). The Buffy-verse isn't my myth, in that sense (it worries me when I start thinking about what actually is, as I should probably be nuts already), but they are sign-posts for me, in ways that continue to play themselves out, and, therefore, I'm not going into just now. At least there aren't any teenaged girls staying at my apartment. It's really not large enough. Ok, maybe that wasn't my point.

Dude, the Ghost of Bob Frasier just showed up for the first time. dS isn't quite the show I was expecting, but very good. I'm looking forward to watching seasons 3 & 4, when I find them, for comparison's sake.

"I appreciate the offer, but it's imaginary"

This entry is sponsored by the god growing in my fridge, and Arthur Dent's daughter.

Comments

[pix-kristin.livejournal.com]

I understand what you mean, Abi, though I am not in the same age group. Buffy would be about six years younger than me, so I often missed really relating to any of the characters' dilemmas. I think maybe that's why I always connected to Angel more--though Cordy was in theory the same age as Buffy, the rest of the characters were mostly older and the show felt older to me.

I'm in a funny age bracket, actually, somewhere between the cast of Friends and Buffy.

Still, the whole television shows creating personal mythologies resonates with me.