It's not canon to me, but at the same time, it does tie into my opinion of Joss, and thus affects my opinion of the show, if that makes sense.
That's right about where I am too. It doesn't take away from the show, but then again... it kinda does. The story is not being treated as king here; the world and characters are made to bend and change to accomodate whatever the writers want to do, and the readers are meant to roll with it. That's a very postmodern approach, and it's always been part of the universe (the jokiness of the dialogue, the idea that our world is full of cartoonish demons just walking around doing their business, etc.), but there's a point where postmodernism stops being clever and just eats into your fictional world's objective reality - you end up with a parody, a stand-up comic routine, not a world you can immerse yourself in.
While I can appreciate the commitment to entertainment, there comes a time where you have to measure the worth of your joke - and yes, to me this all comes off like everyone involved thinks it's a big joke - against the air it's gonna let out of your fictional balloon. I don't think they're really bothering to do that anymore, and I'm sure it's fun for them, but for any of us who liked experiencing that world when it still had some solidity... well, it really does feel like the rug's been pulled out from under.
Once upon a time, he made us cry with this stuff, and now we're meant to laugh and not care? A little whiplashy, that.
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That's right about where I am too. It doesn't take away from the show, but then again... it kinda does. The story is not being treated as king here; the world and characters are made to bend and change to accomodate whatever the writers want to do, and the readers are meant to roll with it. That's a very postmodern approach, and it's always been part of the universe (the jokiness of the dialogue, the idea that our world is full of cartoonish demons just walking around doing their business, etc.), but there's a point where postmodernism stops being clever and just eats into your fictional world's objective reality - you end up with a parody, a stand-up comic routine, not a world you can immerse yourself in.
While I can appreciate the commitment to entertainment, there comes a time where you have to measure the worth of your joke - and yes, to me this all comes off like everyone involved thinks it's a big joke - against the air it's gonna let out of your fictional balloon. I don't think they're really bothering to do that anymore, and I'm sure it's fun for them, but for any of us who liked experiencing that world when it still had some solidity... well, it really does feel like the rug's been pulled out from under.
Once upon a time, he made us cry with this stuff, and now we're meant to laugh and not care? A little whiplashy, that.