I'm building my fort of pillows

[gwyn]

anniesj has a lovely commentary on a salon.com article on how Spike ruined Buffy because he was the antithesis of the show's message, that geeks triumph over cool (boy, have I been watching a different show than this person apparently was). She also gets in some nice comments about whether the show was ruined at all.

ETA: That elz also has muy fabuloso comments about the article, which I should just say I haven't and won't be reading, because, you know, pillow fort -- see below.

I'm building my little pillow fort starting tonight. The past few weeks I've read so much negative, narrow-minded, fatalistic, depressing crap from so many people, people I even often admire, about this show and its ending, and it's leaving me with big-ass emotional bruises, and I just don't want to know anymore. I think I have to stop reading my friends list first, and then stop reading any mailing lists, which is easy because I mostly don't. But I've also got to stop reading the articles in magazines, and ignoring the simplistic and priggish comments people leave in LJs and blogs and wherever, and just go to my little happy place, which sadly, doesn't feel happy anymore.

I care too much about this show and its meaning in my own heart and head to let everyone make it worse for me. I suppose this makes me a bit of an ostrich, sticking my head in the sand, but... geez louise, I suffered through the last three years of X-Files and still have the ugly scars to prove it, I endured the trials and tortures of the original ending of La Femme Nikita, so I think I've earned a holiday at L'hotel du Pillow (it's a four-star in the Zagat's, you know).

I shall sit quietly with my cup of tea in the corner, and pretend I am alone. Unless someone wants to come in and join me. Make knocking noises, because pillows don't conduct sound.