is the only thing interesting about this buffy show (and spinoffs) that it deals with 'queer identity' issues/politics? thats the only thing i have gathered whatsoever from your descriptions.

it's definitely one of them, but it's not the only subject matter (and even if it were, i think that would be enough to make it worth watching). i would probably put feminist issues and patriarchy ahead of queer issues, and then add to it the significance of appropriating the history of vampire literature. ghosts, demons, and cyborgs also make frequent appearances in interesting ways and the show gives a kind of shellingian space for the question of evil, where it isn't merely the privation or derivation of goodness, but has a real, actual force that insinuates itself everywhere. i think it's also a great meditation on loneliness and friendship, class, discipline and power, madness and fantasy narratives, historical destiny and tradition...yatta. i think the only weak spot of the show comes down to issues of race--not that the show is racist (or even half as bad as twin peaks), but there are a handful of scenes where the writers were obviously just not self-critical enough...

is there a blog with buffy's in them?
season two peters out on youtube...guess i'll go rent
unless there is a never free cache somewhere you know of?

yeah, this is the same blog that has all the buffys, but it's a tortuous process cuz of rapidshare. really, it is absolutely worth it to rent them all. seriously.

what i don't understand is why bloggers still use stupid rapidshire so much when there is mediafire

why not torrent them? im sure theres at least a few seasons still torrented somewhere. id check demonoid, but im lazy. but i have the right to be cuz i just fucking carried/dragged/cursed at my 60 kilos of luggage for about ten blocks and five flights of stairs.. but now im at lizs drinking a beer, smoking a joint and checking my email and that is just the best thing i can think of right now. holy shit im back in the usa!

WELCOME TO AMERICA!

i just realized that its actually more like 80 kilos, cuz i forgot about my carry-on bag that was ALL BOOKS. shit. thats over 150lbs.

welcome back to the u.s. of a.

also, they are available through torrent. i use bitmetv.org, but it's private. i think you can torrent them by season on isohunt.com.

but yeah, rapidshare is such a pain.

oh, and if you use azureus, you can deselect which episodes you don't want to download and individually download them one at a time, so that you download the episodes you want first...

you can do that using utorrent too. although they sold the program to some possibly shady types. its probably ok but i havent updated from the pre-sellout version. more details at utorrent.com (utorrent has been the best torrenting client for years now). anyway, cool. how did you get your tv torrents invite?

i got the invite through what i think was an attempted bribe from an undergrad here at depaul. in any case, he told me that if i donate five dollars, i can get three invites easy. and the 'donation' also fixes your ratio, which i need after downloading 45 GB of buffy over the course of two weeks. once i get the invites you'll know.

So, I watched the first two episodes of Angel. It's not as good as Buffy (but of course, nothing is). However, I wasn't disappointed. It takes place in Los Angeles (how fitting) and it seems to have established a parallel with Buffy, as it is a different kind of meditation on loneliness, but as said earlier, its focus is on masculinity and a critique of heroism. Good stuff for when you're going through Buffy-withdrawal.