In my world, "in a moment" can mean "a week later", apparently. :D
Actually I came back to this discussion because of this Jane Espenson article at the LA Times. While she doesn't specifically refer to "Doublemeat Palace", this definitely ties into the "womens' work" theme.
DP is one of those episodes that's difficult to discuss without addressing the widespread viewer dislike of it... and the ick factor aside, I think much of the unhappiness comes from its exploration of the unglamorous, warts-and-all aspect of the kinds of work that most women (hell, most people) do. I was especially struck by this part:
But merely thrusting more women into more prestigious on-screen jobs doesn't necessarily make the working world a better place for women... It's not television's fault, exactly. But television can help fix the problem. Not by writing women into better professions, but by more accurately showing them as complex people contending with the sort of snide, generous, ambitious, incompetent, sad and hilarious co-workers who populate real workplaces.
Yes. That is exactly the nature of many of the complaints about DP; that Buffy doesn't find a more prestigious job. This complaint, IMO, misses the point not only of this episode, but that of much of Season 6.
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Actually I came back to this discussion because of this Jane Espenson article at the LA Times. While she doesn't specifically refer to "Doublemeat Palace", this definitely ties into the "womens' work" theme.
DP is one of those episodes that's difficult to discuss without addressing the widespread viewer dislike of it... and the ick factor aside, I think much of the unhappiness comes from its exploration of the unglamorous, warts-and-all aspect of the kinds of work that most women (hell, most people) do. I was especially struck by this part:
But merely thrusting more women into more prestigious on-screen jobs doesn't necessarily make the working world a better place for women...
It's not television's fault, exactly. But television can help fix the problem. Not by writing women into better professions, but by more accurately showing them as complex people contending with the sort of snide, generous, ambitious, incompetent, sad and hilarious co-workers who populate real workplaces.
Yes. That is exactly the nature of many of the complaints about DP; that Buffy doesn't find a more prestigious job. This complaint, IMO, misses the point not only of this episode, but that of much of Season 6.
(I'll get back to the ick factor, too.)