April 03 2012
'Lost Girl' isn't 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'-and that's okay.
Progressive pop culture blogger Alyssa Rosenberg explores the purported similarities and differences between the Buffyverse and the Canadian series "Lost Girl."
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Dana5140 | April 03, 14:06 CET
IrrationaliTV | April 03, 14:19 CET
electricspacegirl | April 03, 15:24 CET
DreamRose311 | April 03, 15:43 CET
side note, i'm a little irked that the author called Willow bisexual when Willow herself explicitly states that she is a lesbian. It's one thing to criticize the creative team behind Buffy for not including more bisexual/queer characters, it's another to claim a self-identified lesbian as textually bisexual. It takes away some of the power of self-identification, IMO.
prophecygrrl | April 03, 16:03 CET
electricspacegirl | April 03, 16:18 CET
And I have an insane crush on Dyson.
Edit: I take back "insane". It's a perfectly sane crush.
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NYPinTA | April 03, 17:28 CET
brinderwalt | April 03, 18:45 CET
erendis | April 03, 19:51 CET
[ edited by NYPinTA on 2012-04-04 05:40 ]
NYPinTA | April 03, 20:37 CET
drakmaniso | April 03, 21:19 CET
Dana5140 | April 04, 03:33 CET
My best friend and I watch it over a bottle of wine or two. I might be biased, but I think this is the best way to watch the show.
Ildeth | April 04, 04:17 CET
As for the topic, I enjoyed the first seasons of Lost Girl but I don't think it's comparable to Buffy in term of progressiveness. The "sex is not bad" idea was nice at first, but got lost in the later seasons imho. And apart that, there isn't really any serious themes I could detect.
drakmaniso | April 04, 04:41 CET
Iknow this is an old argument. It is not one with a real solution. At one time in her life, Willow loved a man. She later came to love a women, and then another woman. She self-identified as gay. Technically, she was bisexual, but I am not sure we can so easily contextualize people in that way. Many gay teens first try to love someone of the other sex, because that is the expectation and they may believe they have to. They may have sex with someone of the other sex. But in realisty, they love someone and are attracted to people of their own sex.
Dana5140 | April 04, 07:28 CET
But I do want to put my 2 cents in on the argument over New Moon Rises, because saying that she chose Tara doesn't work as an argument for whether she is bi or gay. Mostly because it would imply that if she chose Oz in that moment that would mean she was only straight and not bi.
I felt like Willow implied in NMR that if she hadn't met Tara yet, or if it was years later and she wasn't with anyone that she could see the Oz thing happening again, but it's been a while since I've seen it.
DreamRose311 | April 04, 08:37 CET
It's basically as simple as that just like real life!
Also, I would say that by the end of season 7, imagining Willow with a guy just seemed intrinsically off for her character. I think this is because she was written as a gay woman for the 3 years before that.
cazador | April 04, 09:53 CET
drakmaniso | April 04, 11:42 CET
rehabber | April 05, 03:22 CET