Oh, Kay

[scarfman]

I'm beginning to lose interest in Kay Scarpetta. She's so unremittingly unhappy all the time, and so is her supporting cast. And it only gets worse as she gets older.

I think it was in the BVS episode of Biography that Joss Whedon says he'd noticed, "Buffy happy, ratings down. Buffy unhappy, ratings up." This may explain my dissatisfaction with BVS, which is a different dissatisfaction than most fans had contemporarily (which I disagree with). When BVS wrapped up I wrote, "I don't have the same quarrel with the last two seasons that most of fandom does. But when I look back on them I have very little recollection that Buffy was in them."

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[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

And in my view, a lot of what drove me away from Buffy was, to me, the over-focusing on her to the exclusion of the rest of my cast. I've commented many times before I'd rather have watched Willow and Xander and Their Friends Hang Out and Kill Monsters. The desire only grew with S5 onward.

[pedanther]

I remember seeing an interview with Sarah Michelle Gellar where she said that she wasn't particularly keen on the later seasons' tendency toward depressive!Buffy, but she went along with it after Whedon explained to her how he saw it as a necessary part of the thing about adult burdens being more important but less fantastic and less clear-cut and less resolvable. (Not because she agreed with him, as I recall it, so much as because she realised he wasn't going to change his mind.)

I don't really have an opinion on the Nemesis Trio, because I'd largely disengaged from the series by the time they showed up - mostly, it has to be said, because of depressive!Buffy.

[trinalin.livejournal.com]

I left Kay awhile ago. The last book I read (and I can't even remember which one that was) I was shouting at her to GROW UP & GET A LIFE. :-)

I just wish the Gears would write more Anasazi mysteries - those were my replacement mysteries when I left Kay & her Soap Opera Friends.

[scarfman]

It's been suggested that I just stop reading them so many in a row. We watch Bones, I could try Kathy Reichs for awhile...

[larksilver.livejournal.com]

I wandered away from Buffy because I got tired of angst-girl. I wanted to see her kick butt and kill monsters, preferably with fun snarky comments, not whine and cry and be all miserable all the time.

Also, I couldn't stand Tara. Or the meathead blonde Buffy went out with for a while... or the whole Faith (aaah! Evil! aaah! pitiful!) saga.


They lost me from Angel the same way. Too much angst, not enough snarkish fun. Too bad, too, cause I used to love those shows, and am still a huge Whedon fan.

[ladyrutile.livejournal.com]

I can deal with angst. What eventually drove me away from both BVS and Angel was the comment a someone made about the characters *whining* all the time. Once I noticed that, I couldn't seem to look past it. I still like the stories, though.