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SONNETS
#121-124 for Tea Time in L.A. - XANDER'S SPECIAL
HELL
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Rhetorical verse for Tea Time in
L.A. - (Talking about Buffy as Shakespeare would
have. <smile>)
Posted by: forensicpopouri - May 11, 2002, 7:56
PM
TO READ TODAY'S
ENTIRE 4-SONNET SEQUENCE
SCROLL DOWN
You don't have to start at the bottom
and work up.
NOTE: TO KEEP THE
SONNETS FROM SCROLLING INTO OBLIVION . .
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PLEASE DON'T REPLY
HERE,THANKS
POST FEEDBACK /
COMMENTS / QUESTIONS AT
tid=80583
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FOR
MORE INFO . . . SEE "FOOTNOTES" AT THE VERY
BOTTOM OF THE RESPONSES
you
speak
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| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 11, 2002, 8:06
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I GOOFED UP ON
THE HAIKU BELOW . . . BUT NO ONE WILL
NOTICE
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HAIKU PROLOGUE
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 11, 2002, 8:04
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Spike and
Xander
are
the
heaven and the
hell
of
the
Buffy-verse.
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1 of 4 (sonnet sequence) XANDER'S SPECIAL
HELL
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 11, 2002, 8:01
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TEA TIME SONNETS
#121-124/154
Rhetorical verse in
Shakespearean sonnet
form
XANDER'S SPECIAL
HELL
(1) FROM
SPIKE'S ROLE'S BUFFY-HEAVEN . . . WE
DESCEND
TO XANDER'S SPECIAL HELL. Walk
through the fire
to see the place. Survey the
sins he's sinned.
Compendiums of bad jokes . . .
And a lyre . . .
. . . he'll never
play. IT'S THERE TO LET HIM KNOW
HE COULD
HAVE forced the writers to redeem
his role. A
BETTER PLACE where he could go
than Xander's
horror show and nightmare dream.
BUT HERE
HE'LL SIT IN HELL to
contemplate
"stupidity" in all its myr'ad
forms.
HE'LL PONDER how to fix it. But too
late.
Once you're in hell . . . who'd care about
reforms?
In Buffy-time, he'll once
proclaim: "NO MORE
BUTT-MONKEY XANDER." But still
Wheedon's
"whore."
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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2 of 4 (sonnet sequence) XANDER'S SPECIAL
HELL cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 11, 2002, 8:00
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(2) HE DID
WHATEVER Joss paid him to do.
(For
those who think "strange thoughts," I don't mean
sex.)
He let the writers pave an
avenue
for Xander straight to hell.
DESIGN DEFECTS . . .
. . . THAT
COULD HAVE BEEN CORRECTED if he'd said:
"Hey
Joss, this feels all wrong, I must
request
a reconsideration of my thread
of
character . . . which now just fails the test . .
.
. . . coherence in the
Buffy-verse demands.
I mean no disrespect
. . . I ask the same.
IF I KEEP ON THIS PATH, the
Buffy sands
of time will flow . . . BUT
TAINTED by my lame, . . .
. . . bad
character. Big-badder than the
worst
of evil doers. Lameness
well-rehearsed.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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3-4 of 4 (sonnet sequence) XANDER'S
SPECIAL HELL cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 11, 2002, 7:59
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(3) WHEN YOU MAKE
TV DRAMA . . . you transmit
ideas we
hold in common. Thoughts we share.
And shows
that somehow reach the rank of "hit"
have
something at their heart for which we
care.
THE BUFFY NUMBERS never have
been big.
A smaller set of people find their
joy
in Buffy's "odd" reality. They
"dig"
the tone . . or something magic . . . in
this toy . . .
. . . reality . . .
DESIGNED with all the heart
and soul . . . and
wit . . . its maker truly has.
AND ONLY
FOOLS would say Joss isn't smart.
YET
GREAT TV has something close to JAZZ . . .
. . . WHICH MEANS each artist follows his
best line
constrained by key
and rhythm . . . NOT DEVINE . .
.
(4) . . . COMMANDS from THE JAZZ GOD
who rules the set.
AS WOODY ALLEN SAYS:
"If you can't think
of better things to say, then
say this. Let
your own creative voice be
one strong link . . .
. . . within this
project's chain. My sins atone."
(NOTE:
KEVIN SMITH can't stand you not to
say
each word the way he wrote it . . . in the
tone
he hears it in his head. . . He gives no
play.
AND HEAVEN HELP YOU on Dave
Kelley shows
if you don't toe the lines he
sets in steel.
I've crossed his path, but we'd
have come to blows
if I to Woody's
arguments appeal.)
I CLOSE WITH
XANDER IN HIS SPECIAL HELL.
I wish each
Xander-line had made him
yell.
THE
END
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NOTES
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| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 11, 2002, 7:57
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NOTE: The
insane idea of putting Buffy
thoughts
in Shakespearean sonnet form . . . is
based on the even more insane idea
that
you might want to give it a try
yourself.
For a "sonnetized" explanation
of why this is not insane <g> . . .
you might read
my previous Bronze threads WHY I POST
IN SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS:
PART 1: tid=48156
PART 2: tid=48152
THEN if that challenge
seems like an interesting one to you, look for TEA
TIME in L.A.
at 7:00 PM BRONZE TIME daily
. . . which is truly strange. <g> But it
just
might save the world. <ewg> In any case,
you can brag about being able to write better
than
fill-in-the-blank.
<g>
FOR MORE INFO SEE THE MOST RECENT
TEA TIME CORKBOARD
at
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=123103
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