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[lapsedmodernist]

i am in my room and i am really mad because claire and charlie won't stop playing with the eight-ball, and i just had a retarded evening in general, old-skool style. um, also i can't stop thinking about this whole buffy/dubya parallel. okay, so the first evil blows up the CoW headquarters at the end of "Never Leave Me." i talked about the significance of that in one of responses below--but basically it's unusual for buffyverse to have shit blown up, and before it had only been done by buffy herself in "innocence" and by the scoobies at the end of season 3. now we have an evil that is blowing up buildings, shot from OUTSIDE, a discourse of an evil that can be anywhere/anytime, even PEOPLE WE THINK WE KNOW, buffy keeps talking how "the only thing more powerful than evil is us." us. get it? US. then there is talk of hunting/cutting hearts out, reminiscent of the "dead of alive" rhetoric in ethos, comments about war room, becoming an army, and buffy talking about the fight to come with vaguely dramatic/patriotic music playing in the background.
huh.

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a poet weighs in

[(Anonymous)]

"Causa Belli"

They read good books, and quote, but
never learn
a language other than the scream of
rocket-burn.
Our straighter talk is drowned but
ironclad:
elections, money, empire, oil and
Dad.

Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate of England

Motion: "This is not a poem about whether we should go to war. We can't yet decide that because we don't know. It's a poem about wishing to be more candid."

But back to Buffy: so, buffy's "demonstration" for the trainees was a metaphor for the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan? and the trainees are the rest of the world?

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[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

if i were to make a one-to-one parallel, i wouldn't compare buffy's "demonstration" to defeat of the taliban; i think the ubervamp is saddam (i.e. hard to get rid of but not impossible) and by doing away with him in the public eye (or trying to) dubya is signifying to the rest of the world that there is no rest for the "wicked"...i.e. "the axis of evil."
but i don't know that i would go that far with the parallel, at least right now. i don't want to get to the point where my analytical category prescribes my interpretation, i.e. everything is a parallel to the current state of the US gov't, that's ideological and boring, in the end. i just pointed out things that seemed to glaringly jump up at me...we'll see where the writers will go to this one...