Why i read the comics i read.

[wolven7]

http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/4240/nippur.html
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Topics/Lilith/bowls.html

Got those little beauties from the good folks over at Clan Bob.

Good times.

{9.12pm: So i have a problem. And it's a very weird problem. (Holy shit, they just played "Blood, Milk, and Sky," on "Angel.") Anyway, my problem is that there are... very rarely, on televisual programmings, dealing with supernatural Things, the essences of consequences and actions. For instance, end of Buffy, was an Apocalypse. The very thing they had always been trying to prevent, they caused. They "Rend A Veil," and all the potential Slayers, in the world, are now Slayers. There is no planning, here, to tell people what the slayer Is, to display a knowledge of Demons, and the supernatural, as they exist, in that world. This Causes Problems. Certain people get locked up, tested upon, disected, etc, becuase no one has any fucking clue what's going on.

My point is that, if you plan to cause world-sweeping change, that re-establishes paradigms of How Things Are, then you need to have fail-safes in place, to alert the populace. Cushion the Blow.

Please keep that in mind, all you Apocalypse-Bringers, you.

Ta.

{{9.58pm: Glad to see they had things in place, afterward, at least. But really, that's one of those things they should have worked out, first.}}}

Comments

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

Still, it's fun, every once in a while, to just throw a cinderblock in the pond, as it were.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes it is.

[brigidreborn.livejournal.com]

Of course. You can't tell everyone everything because you can't predict their reactions, the consequences and what they will do with the knowledge. That's why you fix it and keep it quiet as they did through most of Buffy and Angel.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Well, you can, at the very least, have things in place such that, when it is Unavoidable for them to see it (hence the Apocalypse), they can be prepared, without Too much flipping out, or denial of the reality of the situation. Ya know.

And they did do an ok job with it, there.

[brigidreborn.livejournal.com]

Some people will never accept things... They'll try to go out with a bang or something.

And in reference to the end of Buffy- I didn't like it much. I thought it was kind of a cheesy way out of a series, to make all the potentials slayers... I also don't like how they're supposed to be the new watcher's council on Angel. However, that's just me.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Eventually those people will be the marginalized minority, unbtil it gets balanced, with a total understanding.

And, yeah, it was a kind of cop out. But i DO like that they took matters into their own hands. If they're smart, they'll never bring them onto "Angel," again. Talk about them, maybe, but not show them. I think that one showing is a clear point made.

[brigidreborn.livejournal.com]

The big problem I had with Andrew & co. showing up is that Angel is a more serious show and Andrew is generally ridiculous... It also sounds like they're trying to set it up for a bad story line which I wouldn't want to watch.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Like i said, it doesn't feel like they're going to take it any further than this point. And i'm generally pretty reliable, with that kind of thing. So i wouldn't worry, too much.

They Know how bad of an idea it would be to bring Buffy and crew in there, as anything more than a mention; they have too much power, right now, as something for which people may pine. The better tack would be to overcome that need, and grow stronger, for the unrequite. That's simply good story-telling.

[jinxvamp.livejournal.com]

fuck the populance. sideways.

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[wolven.livejournal.com]

Had a feeling you'd say somehting like that.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to agree with Comorbid and Jinx...I mean, warnings are good and all, but who actually heeds them? When you just drop it on someone, then they Have to deal.

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[wolven.livejournal.com]

No, actually, they don't. They "Have" to do what ever it is they'll do. Which may include flipping out and Slaughtering anything of difference, they see. With some kind of failsafe, in place, we can avoid nasty things like what happened in the first hundred years after slavery was abolished, what, to some degree, still happens now.

Because that was simply Dropped on people, they flipped out, and there were far-reaching consequences, and other contexts, yes.

But i still say there needs be contingencies.