Okay, so in watching “Storyteller,” I am once again struck by how the show uses humor to heighten its intensity. While the story of the episode is very dark and to be honest a bit more of a downer than the other episodes we've seen. I don't know about you, but I like my Buffy all wrapped up with a quippy one liner, and a parting shot of how though evil still lingers in the world, it is at bay for the time being. That being said, the stark contrast between those sort of endings, and the final scene with Andrew shutting off his camera stuck me as something I as a viewer was supposed to become aware of, because it was just so completely different than anything I had seen before.
I think this Gothic convention parallels nicely to Northanger Abbey. When Catherine Moreland is convinced that General Tilney is a cold hearted murder, the reader is laughing as she concocts the crazy story in her head. The moment that sticks out as such an extreme is when Andrew is in Mexico and dreams about living “as gods.” All of a sudden the scene switches to the three men skipping through a field in togas, singing and dancing surrounded by flowers. Oh, and there is a unicorn, obviously. Honestly, it’s like a skittles commercial, or at least it should be. Mars, Inc. are your reading this? Anyhow, I liked what Grace said in her post about Andrew being “an incredibly unreliable narrator,” because it is entirely true. He sees things only as he wants to. It’s easier for him that way, and its a fatally human flaw that proves he could never live as a god. By having such extremes, “Storyteller,” shows, as Madeline put so well, that “ gothic stories will never actually be real life.”
Though this commercials do come pretty close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyvhMHDi6Mo
(This was all I could think of when Andrew has his dream moment, don't ask me why)
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