fight club
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ironymaideni've never understood the fistfights with your friends thing. i remember watching A River Runs Through It and being thoroughly perplexed by the brothers breaking shit with each other's faces and then being the best of friends afterwards. i had no interest in Fight Club because of it. (i quite like the movie now that i've seen it. but i like it in spite of the fighting ritual.)
i do periodically play fighting games with C, and we both love it. we've also sparred a bit. (it's strangely sexy.) but it's never about working out our problems, it's just play. it could as easily be a racing game (except that i don't like them) or dancing.
where does that alchemy happen where shedding blood makes us bond? or is that a fabrication of entertainment? i think that it probably is not, since there tends to be some shade of truth whenever stories deal with human relationships.
i didn't catch the beginning of tonight's show, but i got the rest of it on the second showing. it's interesting stuff. i thought about people i would like to physically harm in a meat hitting meat kind of way. would it be satisfying? i just don't know. i can think of two specifically; in both cases i'm happiest not seeing them. it would be silly to recontact them so that i could hurt them. it's like cutting on scars. (it's quite impressive that in Seattle, perhaps the biggest small town there is, i've managed to completely avoid one of them even though they live close enough to shop in the same Fred Meyer.) the other thing is that i only really feel this way about people who were once friends. if someone doesn't mean anything to me, they have very little power to hurt me.
i guess i'm saying that revenge is unhealthy. it just prolongs your healing process.
and then we have Kara and Lee able to talk at the end of the fight. how is inflicting physical pain to match emotional pain effective? what has reallly changed in their relationship? are we to understand that the exchange of blows replaced an exchange of unspeakable words? are they friends now? (how lousy it is that we have essentially wasted an entire half season trying to restore the status quo that was so cavalierly destroyed in just a couple episodes. i'm enjoying the writing but it's such a waste. and i'm really tired of Starbuck being a stupid psycho girl. that can stop yesterday.)
someone actually tried to ask me the question from Fight Club once. "if you could fight anyone, alive or dead, who would you fight?" the answer on the tip of my tongue was "you." i never did answer. but i wonder sometimes what it would have been like to take a swing. i expect i would have been the first person to run into a neighboring business to ice their broken nose and then get them to the hospital. it's who i am. i don't know how i feel about that.
i do periodically play fighting games with C, and we both love it. we've also sparred a bit. (it's strangely sexy.) but it's never about working out our problems, it's just play. it could as easily be a racing game (except that i don't like them) or dancing.
where does that alchemy happen where shedding blood makes us bond? or is that a fabrication of entertainment? i think that it probably is not, since there tends to be some shade of truth whenever stories deal with human relationships.
i didn't catch the beginning of tonight's show, but i got the rest of it on the second showing. it's interesting stuff. i thought about people i would like to physically harm in a meat hitting meat kind of way. would it be satisfying? i just don't know. i can think of two specifically; in both cases i'm happiest not seeing them. it would be silly to recontact them so that i could hurt them. it's like cutting on scars. (it's quite impressive that in Seattle, perhaps the biggest small town there is, i've managed to completely avoid one of them even though they live close enough to shop in the same Fred Meyer.) the other thing is that i only really feel this way about people who were once friends. if someone doesn't mean anything to me, they have very little power to hurt me.
i guess i'm saying that revenge is unhealthy. it just prolongs your healing process.
and then we have Kara and Lee able to talk at the end of the fight. how is inflicting physical pain to match emotional pain effective? what has reallly changed in their relationship? are we to understand that the exchange of blows replaced an exchange of unspeakable words? are they friends now? (how lousy it is that we have essentially wasted an entire half season trying to restore the status quo that was so cavalierly destroyed in just a couple episodes. i'm enjoying the writing but it's such a waste. and i'm really tired of Starbuck being a stupid psycho girl. that can stop yesterday.)
someone actually tried to ask me the question from Fight Club once. "if you could fight anyone, alive or dead, who would you fight?" the answer on the tip of my tongue was "you." i never did answer. but i wonder sometimes what it would have been like to take a swing. i expect i would have been the first person to run into a neighboring business to ice their broken nose and then get them to the hospital. it's who i am. i don't know how i feel about that.
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Date: 2006-12-02 05:17 pm (UTC)Oh hell yes. I'm with you there. I don't like how they've written her at all this whole season.
I'm still sort of digesting last night's episode. I suppose there's something cathartic about being that physical without any real rules (other than no killing or what have you)
However, and maybe it was just me, but everything in last night's episode had a very erotic spin. The way everyone's hands were wrapped, the closeness of people's faces as they spoke, the sweat and clutching - not to mention the beginning of the episode and the flashbacks of everyone down on New Caprica getting it on.