Angst!

[lady_windermere]

I was out for a meal with David yesterday, we went to a lovely place called The Village Rest in Luss. As usual, we both had the steak pie, a real plateful, with lots of stake pie, a selection of vegetables, boiled potatoes and chips. I couldn't quite finish it all, and made to put my knife and fork on the plate to signal that I was finished. The knife fell onto my lap, staining my clothes with gravy, then proceeded to fall on the floor. I bent down between the tables to pick it up, and hit my head on the table next to us. I now have a lump on my forehead, that is sore to touch. Not the best end to the meal.

I have been chatting to erin_starlight in comments, and it got me thinking over just what is getting me so much about the latest episodes of Dr Who, the Buffy Comic, and the Angel comic. I think that I know what it is. I don't like the sentimental twaddle of these (epic) tragic, doomed, ill fated, love stories. The stuff of shipper wars and character bashing in fandom. I do think I have my reasons.

The first boy I dated, when I was fifteen, I was all doe eyed and sure I had found my soulmate. I had the dreams of being a child bride, and us going and living together happily ever after. Our parents both went to the same meeting, and decided we were too young. They split us up. Yes I did the whole angst laden poetry, dreamed about getting back together, all the things that a romantic teenager does. When I was seventeen, I found out that he had died, suddently. He was eighteen. I of course went into shock. It pretty much knocked all those teenage romantic dreams out of my head. Maybe I did become a little bitter and cynical.

I meet Michael when I was 25, and we got married when I was 27. He died when I was 30, he was 35. So I watch these (epic) love stories with eyes that have seen it all before. I was the romantic, but I think that all my romantic notions have been knocked out of me. To me, the writers are just playing with emotions, and in some cases, it comes across as quite cheap, and false

Comments

[elsinorelane.livejournal.com]

supernatural really did handle the deaths of loved ones well. i'd love for sam to be happy (and not mourning for years, like you mentioned), but at the same time, the angst jess's death added to the show makes it that much better, and in a way, i'm glad that the writers didn't let that go. the constant little reminders are all too realistic. and even maddie, and how what happened between them affected sam, was really, really well done.

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Very true, the scenes with Sam mourning for Jess added something to the show and the character. It gave both depth. I honestly didn't expect the same for Madison, I have to be honest, but in the next episode, Dean does take Sam to LA to relax afterwards. That they ended up in the middle of another hunt was expected, after all it is a fantasy/Adventure programme. "Hollywood Babylon" is not a favourite of mine I have to admit, Dean just seems a little off, character wise in that one!