Just Sway

It seems ridiculous how much one episode of a TV show I hadn’t seen in over 10 years could have affected my life. I just re-watched the season 2 finale of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and for all of its emotional turmoil which still tugs on my heartstrings, the moment at the very end with Buffy leaving on the bus struck me the most. This scene must have resonated in some way with my younger self because throughout my life, if I have ever been sat on a bus leaving home to go away on my own, I will feel this scene. Especially the music. Not the song in the scene itself but the way that the situation seems to bring so much emotion and sadness out of the song. If I am ever sat listening to my iPod and a semi-sad song comes on, such as the song that has just come on now (Sway by Lostprophets – Ian Watkins wrote it about his Dad dying), I suddenly connect with the song and the vocalist in a way I never normally would have thought possible. And all of this because of the last 30 seconds. This in itself doesn’t actually have that much to do with Three Cheers For Virgins but this episode does. Obviously Buffy is a huge influence on Three Cheers, and Joss Whedon’s storytelling is a big inspiration to me. I never realised until re-watching this episode how similar my planned climax to Three Cheers was to it. Right from the start of the climactic scene with Buffy beheading the first Vampire guard to the love interest being sacrificed to save the world. Hopefully Three Cheers is different enough and original enough that nobody will notice this. But that’s who Leya is. She’s a really pissed off Buffy, because that’s the character I fell for back then. Hell, I still fall for her now.

First Post

It seemed like a good idea, at this late hour after a long hard Monday, to set up this blog. Partly because the cool kids are doing it. But mainly as another outlet for some of the random thoughts that deserve a better place to live than buried in my head. Posts here will most likely consist of snippets and zero-th drafts of stories written solely for me. Plus I thought it would be kinda cool.