Can Somebody, (Maybe Scooter) Explain This To Me?

[Timster]

Fuck Me! I would do her~ LOL! @

[Gob]

That's not narrowing the field down much Timster,....

[The Hen]

You go for grumpy old birds, don't you?

[Crackpot]

That's not narrowing the field down much Timster,....

Which field? the ones that would do her or fuck Timster?

...or both. Is Logo Bi friendly as well?)

[Gob]

You would I take it C-P?

[Lord Jim]

Thanks for that excerpt and article BSG...

Now I think I understand the nature of the appeal better; apparently there were a lot of sub-themes in the series that were going on that someone (like me) who only knew the basic outlines of the main premise would be unaware of...

For gay men — always drawn to empowered women with a sense of style (see Xena)

Hey, a lot of straight men liked Xena too...(that's where I got "the Warrior Princess" nickname for my daughter)

I saw Xena as a campy updated version of the leggy lasses in those old Republic Films "Amazon Queen" B-flicks from the 40's and 50's...

(Of course the intended lesbian under current of the relationship she had with her little Valley Girl sidekick was pretty obvious...)

[Gob]

Undercurrent?

[Lord Jim]

You're pop culture knowledge is sadly lacking...

And this would be a bad thing........................because?


Hey, I'm the guy who's proud of the fact that when People Magazine comes out with it's annual list of the "The 25 Most Intriguing" people for that year, I'm lucky if I can recognize six or seven of them....

On the other hand, if you were to layout pictures of the 100 members of the US Senate, I could probably pair up better than two thirds of them with their names....

Yeah, I know...

that talent makes me pure magic at cocktail parties....

[Crackpot]

Yeah it's closew to an undertow.

[Gob]

On the other hand, if you were to layout pictures of the 100 members of the US Senate, I could probably pair up better than two thirds of them with their names....

Yeah, I know...

that talent makes me pure magic at cocktail parties....

But a real wow at trivia quiz nights...

[Scooter]

Now I think I understand the nature of the appeal better; apparently there were a lot of sub-themes in the series that were going on that someone (like me) who only knew the basic outlines of the main premise would be unaware of...

What other folks have said is true, but just to add to it...

The show was in essence a story about what it's like to grow up as a teenager/early 20-something. All of the plot lines were metaphors for some aspect of teenage life, and the demons and slaying thereof were just a literary device for bringing the metaphor to life. I think a lot of the appeal for lesbian and gay people was due to the fact that so many of those metaphors were about what it was like to go through high school as an outsider (all of the Scooby gang, i.e. Bufffy and her friends, were misfits in some way), something that LGBT folks obviously identify with. Having Willow come to the realization that she is a lesbian certainly attracted LGBT fans, but was itself also just another metaphor for that underlying theme.

In spite of the offbeat premise, it does examine some very serious issues (addiction, abusive relationships, etc.) in a non-preachy but in some ways a fairly conservative outlook. For example, there is an episode called "Band Candy" in which all the adults who eat the chocolate bars being sold as a fundraiser for the school band revert to a teenage mentality, and how the entire town almost goes to hell (literally as well as figuratively) as a result. The (unstated) moral of the story is that kids need their parents to be parents and not their best buddy. Likewise the episodes that deal with addictions avoid the hamfisted, Nancy Reaganesque "just say no" technique but are nevertheless clear in their message that kids of that age should not be experimenting with mind altering substances. Pretty much every episode involving the characters having sex carries the subtext that teenagers are not mature enough to deal with the consequences.

[The Hen]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That, AND Anthony Head has a nice arse.

[Scooter]

I tended to focussed on Nicholas Brendon's biceps myself

[Gob]

Ooh, great "guns"!!

[Scooter]

Ok, he's no Hulk Hogan, but if you saw them flexed while he was sword fighting with some demon, they looked damn good for a fairly average-built guy (as did the chest when he was in a swimsuit )

Never mind, I guess that wouldn't be something that grabbed your eye...

Perhaps you should be more concerned about your wife admiring an old fart's ass

[Scooter]

List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes (with hyperlinks to more detailed descriptions)

Slayage - the online journal of Buffy studies, lots of articles about the narrative techniques used in the series

[Sean]

Ok, he's no Hulk Hogan...

Things I never thought I'd hear a woman or a homosexual man say #573.

[Scooter]

I was just trying to think of an example of steroid-enhanced over-development.

[Sean]

LMAO - I believe you...

[Gob]

Ok, he's no Hulk Hogan, but if you saw them flexed while he was sword fighting with some demon, they looked damn good for a fairly average-built guy (as did the chest when he was in a swimsuit )

I was actually agreeing with you. My wife worries about my penchant for viewing well built men (for aesthetic reasons only I assure you.)