TeaTimeSunday / SONNETS
BUFFY-VERSE SERIES (117-120)  SONNETS #121-124 of 154  (125,126)
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SONNETS #121-124 for Tea Time in L.A. - XANDER'S SPECIAL HELL ORIGINALLY POSTED AT (UPN) WWW.BUFFY.COM ... BEFORE ALL FORUMS WERE DELETED 9/19/02 ... CLICK THE BRONZE SKULL TO SEE ARCHIVE COPY OF (NONCOLOR) VERSION (FOR COMPARISON) |
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Rhetorical verse for Tea Time in L.A. - (Talking about Buffy as Shakespeare would have. [g]) Posted by: forensicpoetry - May 11, 2002, 7:56 PM
rhetorical verse in Shakespearean sonnet form }
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TO XANDER'S SPECIAL HELL. Walk through the fire
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to see the place. Survey the sins he's sinned.
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Compendiums of bad jokes . . . And a lyre . . .
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HE COULD HAVE forced the writers to redeem
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his role. A BETTER PLACE where he could go
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than Xander's horror show and nightmare dream.
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"stupidity" in all its myr'ad forms.
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HE'LL PONDER how to fix it. But too late.
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Once you're in hell . . . who'd care about reforms?
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BUTT-MONKEY XANDER." But still Whedon's "whore."
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HE DID WHATEVER Joss paid him to do.
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(For those who think "strange thoughts," I don't mean sex.)
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He let the writers pave an avenue
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for Xander straight to hell. DESIGN DEFECTS . . .
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"Hey Joss, this feels all wrong, I must request
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a reconsideration of my thread
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of character . . . which now just fails the test . . .
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I mean no disrespect . . . I ask the same.
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IF I KEEP ON THIS PATH, the Buffy sands
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of time will flow . . . BUT TAINTED by my lame, . . .
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of evil doers. Lameness well-rehearsed.
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WHEN YOU MAKE TV DRAMA . . . you transmit
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And shows that somehow reach the rank of "hit"
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have something at their heart for which we care.
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A smaller set of people find their joy
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in Buffy's "odd" reality. They "dig"
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the tone . . or something magic . . . in this toy . . .
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and soul . . . and wit . . . its maker truly has.
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AND ONLY FOOLS would say Joss isn't smart.
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YET GREAT TV has something close to JAZZ . . .
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constrained by key and rhythm . . . NOT DEVINE . . .
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. . . COMMANDS from THE JAZZ GOD who rules the set.
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AS WOODY ALLEN SAYS: "If you can't think
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of better things to say, then say this. Let
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your own creative voice be one strong link . . .
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(NOTE: KEVIN SMITH can't stand you not to say
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each word the way he wrote it . . . in the tone
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he hears it in his head. . . He gives no play.
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if you don't toe the lines he sets in steel.
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I've crossed his path, but we'd have come to blows
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if I to Woody's arguments appeal.)
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I wish each Xander-line had made him yell.
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[THE END]
HAIKU CODA
Spike and Xander are
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