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I seem to read a great deal of Buffy commentary, and yet I have very little interest in producing any. I'm not sure why I'm such a passive viewer of the show, but I've always been happy to sit back and see what happens. I realized today that I had no strong desires about the end of the show: compare this to 24, where I have a list of things I'd like to see in the next couple hours and I know almost exactly where I want every character to be at the end of the day. It's not that I like one show better than the other, or think that one is a better show: both have been "off and on" for me this season.

I've always been this way about Buffy: watched it religiously since season 1 and never really had the urge to think about it fannishly or write fiction for it. I read very little Buffy fanfic, all in all. I can't imagine writing a paper abstract on any issue related to the show--whereas as soon as I typed those words I thought, "hmm... female political action in Greek literature and on 24. I could do something interesting with that." Go figure. Obviously enough, this is not because it's more difficult to write criticism about Buffy. It's something to do with the way I watch the shows.

I don't know. And see--I can't even write intelligently about why I can't write intelligently about Buffy.