Life goes on

Possibly the most disturbing aspect of deletegate was seeing the crazy rightwingers be smart, getting a response where bona fide child protection groups had failed. Although as shutting down potential evidence of paedophile activity wouldn’t be the response those groups would actually want I suppose the lesson is more that evil is easier.

Still back to normal fannish service. A few days ago whedonesque linked to a really neat close reading of Flooded. My only quibble with it would be that Flooded is not uniquely blueprinty for the rest of season 6, I think the same sort of analysis could be done for any of the first 7 episodes. I’m not dedicated enough to do that but as a lazier alternative here’s some brief thoughts on Life Serial reheated from a recent TATF re-watch.

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