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[askye]

There are times when I feel so dense and stupid that I want to bang my head against a wall and try to figure out where the disconnect is between everyone talkign about something and me not understanding why the thing is being discussed at all.

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There are times when I feel so dense and stupid that I want to bang my head against a wall and try to figure out where the disconnect is between everyone talkign about something and me not understanding why the thing is being discussed at all.

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Take Faith smoking, evidentally some people thought it was anvilly for there to be remarks to Spike about him not dying and Spike saying he has to worry about yellow teeth.

Still other people thought that there is some signifcance such as maybe Faith is going to die because she's now bad or whatever.

Me, I didn't see any of that. I didn't feel that I was getting an anti smoking message, I didn't see anything besides Faith smoking. So what?

Am I just really, really dense not to think that it's more than just smoking.

See this is why I hated English Lit classes because I never could find the symbolism and didn't really want to, most of the time I just saw a story.

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[theodosia.livejournal.com]

There are all kinds of different layers to stories... some of which, shall we put this gently, are more in the eyes of the beholders than others.... :-)

[serasempre.livejournal.com]

If anything, I'm thinking it's shorthand for "convict". She was in prison, for crying out loud! What was the thing she said when Kennedy asked to share her chips? Something about a pack of cigarettes and _? I think the writers are trying to keep in the forefront of our minds that Faith was in prison, and what do most people in prison do? Well, stereotypically, they smoke. That's all it said to me, anyway.

[stephl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I only saw the smoking as an external change. One which is interesting compared to her character change -- I *loved* when she said (in the Kick Buffy Out scene) that she was there "to do right."

Compare that to S3/S4 Faith, who didn't smoke but was morally scary.

I like.

Well, okay. I just loves me some Faith.

[askye.livejournal.com]

I'm late in responding to all of this. But thanks for the validation. Yeah all I got out of it was at some point Faith started smoking. A lot of times I feel like I'm watching a different show than everyone else.