Great essay. I've just recently fallen in love with this pairing, and am so happy to see a couple of fics recced that I haven't yet read.
I, too, fell in love after reading Tea and Biscuits! What an awesome fic, and what wonderful relationship development wesleysgirl and bryne (and wasn't there a 3rd?) have done in that fic. ::crosses fingers for an updates sometime soon::
Also, I'd like to say the beginning of your essay...
Throughout both BTVS and ATS there are moments when, if events had taken a slightly different path, thousands of new possibilities would have emerged; there are moments when, if we had been able to see behind the scenes, seemingly insignificant gestures could have been indicative of bigger things. Both shows contain more depth, subtext, and innuendos than can be mapped by anything less than watching it all unfold.
I think the concept of 'the road not taken', as well as the idea that there is so much that we do not see, has helped to establish the Buffyverse as one of the larger fandoms. Both BTVS and ATS leave us with the sense that there was more going on than meets the eye and this sense is what creates in us the need to tell more of the story, to expound upon some small piece of the potential that went unrealized.
Was excellently put. It's really a great description of the shows and Joss' ability to make us all think beyond the screen. Thanks for that.
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Date: 2004-08-27 11:29 pm (UTC)I, too, fell in love after reading Tea and Biscuits! What an awesome fic, and what wonderful relationship development wesleysgirl and bryne (and wasn't there a 3rd?) have done in that fic. ::crosses fingers for an updates sometime soon::
Also, I'd like to say the beginning of your essay...
Throughout both BTVS and ATS there are moments when, if events had taken a slightly different path, thousands of new possibilities would have emerged; there are moments when, if we had been able to see behind the scenes, seemingly insignificant gestures could have been indicative of bigger things. Both shows contain more depth, subtext, and innuendos than can be mapped by anything less than watching it all unfold.
I think the concept of 'the road not taken', as well as the idea that there is so much that we do not see, has helped to establish the Buffyverse as one of the larger fandoms. Both BTVS and ATS leave us with the sense that there was more going on than meets the eye and this sense is what creates in us the need to tell more of the story, to expound upon some small piece of the potential that went unrealized.
Was excellently put. It's really a great description of the shows and Joss' ability to make us all think beyond the screen. Thanks for that.
~ Margie