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Storyteller is just as funny as I remembered. I do think it's one of the funniest episodes they ever did. And then the ending with Andrew realising, "this is how Jonathon must have felt" *sniff* Buffy/Wood were a bit more flirtatious than I would prefer mind you *g*
Lies My Parents Told Me was awesome of course. I did feel Spike was really harsh on poor Wood when he said his mother never loved him though. But then I prefer this more ruthless Spike, after getting the subdued version earlier on in the season. I enjoyed crazy Spike in the basement, and wish they had done more with the whole split personality thing from BY. People complained about basement Spike, but I loved that. How we got just little teases of him each episode and it was all the boards were mostly talking about after :p Once the writers had him as more part of the gang, and drifting round the Summers house, I felt his role started to blend in too much. So glad GID gave us back bad ass Spike. I remember on FF I was gasping just at the spoiler that he was going to drink from Wood, so it's nice that the show still makes challenging decisions with the characters, and can surprise us to the end.
And I don't think Buffy would have killed Dawn. She tells Giles she would, when he's pushing her, but I'd say the show immediately disproves that when she can't see Spike be murdered. And the episode ends with Buffy checking on Dawn and stroking her face.
Dirty Girls was just awesome! That episode is so underrated! Season 6 is the season of character driven drama, where a lot of episodes seem to drift along without much happening. And season 7 is the more plot driven season with some people upset at their favourite characters being neglected. Overall I do prefer season 6, but DG is definitely an example of what season 7 does best! It kicked ass! Faith's reunion with Buffy was perfection. Andrew's flashbacks of her *squeals* The whole war theme. I was gripped from beginning to end, even when having seen it all before. Casual viewers must have loved it. Xander's speech about Buffy was just adorable. And I love Caleb as the villain, and how it tied up everything that happened all season.
The only downside was the decision to have Spike lounging around topless like a porn star. It takes you out of the episode because it feels so forced and overdone. Otherwise I enjoyed Spike's scene with Faith. (There was no sexual chemistry there though, let us be clear on that). Oh and Buffy's hair was just er bad. Other than that! I was only planning to watch some of it before pausing, but from beginning to end I just couldn't stop watching.
I miss Buffy...
Lies My Parents Told Me was awesome of course. I did feel Spike was really harsh on poor Wood when he said his mother never loved him though. But then I prefer this more ruthless Spike, after getting the subdued version earlier on in the season. I enjoyed crazy Spike in the basement, and wish they had done more with the whole split personality thing from BY. People complained about basement Spike, but I loved that. How we got just little teases of him each episode and it was all the boards were mostly talking about after :p Once the writers had him as more part of the gang, and drifting round the Summers house, I felt his role started to blend in too much. So glad GID gave us back bad ass Spike. I remember on FF I was gasping just at the spoiler that he was going to drink from Wood, so it's nice that the show still makes challenging decisions with the characters, and can surprise us to the end.
And I don't think Buffy would have killed Dawn. She tells Giles she would, when he's pushing her, but I'd say the show immediately disproves that when she can't see Spike be murdered. And the episode ends with Buffy checking on Dawn and stroking her face.
Dirty Girls was just awesome! That episode is so underrated! Season 6 is the season of character driven drama, where a lot of episodes seem to drift along without much happening. And season 7 is the more plot driven season with some people upset at their favourite characters being neglected. Overall I do prefer season 6, but DG is definitely an example of what season 7 does best! It kicked ass! Faith's reunion with Buffy was perfection. Andrew's flashbacks of her *squeals* The whole war theme. I was gripped from beginning to end, even when having seen it all before. Casual viewers must have loved it. Xander's speech about Buffy was just adorable. And I love Caleb as the villain, and how it tied up everything that happened all season.
The only downside was the decision to have Spike lounging around topless like a porn star. It takes you out of the episode because it feels so forced and overdone. Otherwise I enjoyed Spike's scene with Faith. (There was no sexual chemistry there though, let us be clear on that). Oh and Buffy's hair was just er bad. Other than that! I was only planning to watch some of it before pausing, but from beginning to end I just couldn't stop watching.
I miss Buffy...
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Date: 2006-01-04 11:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-04 11:28 pm (UTC)But didn't you love Buffy's look at them....priceless. Yeah, she can go on a date, but he can't sit and talk....
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Date: 2006-01-04 11:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-04 11:42 pm (UTC)Ah yes, that was sweet.
BTW, I'm assuming from your name that you're either a former Bangel/current Spuffy, or you dig them both. Don't find many of them! I'm a former Bangel myself. They both had their time and were lovely.
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Date: 2006-01-04 11:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-04 11:44 pm (UTC)I can see how you might feel the scene was forced, but really Spike and Faith are the most alike, and they had to give us a little interaction. Especially with the bodyswap mention!!
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Date: 2006-01-04 11:31 pm (UTC)S7 I enjoyed quite a bit too. I know a lot of people rate it low but it's still one of the seasons I watch the most of. I'm glad you're enjoying it again too. :)
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Date: 2006-01-04 11:50 pm (UTC)yeah the shirtlessness/almost nudity got annoying. Hell, I'm a big advocate for topless men, but even I thought it was overdone and weird at times.
^_^
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Date: 2006-01-04 11:58 pm (UTC)They pretty much decided it was all just the basement, and made him sane again after a quieter period in Him. Pfft. I used to love reading Dori's Spikefeed at the beginning of season 7. Spike would just have a couple of scenes, but they were always so good.
When he was moping around Buffy's house in First Date, it wasn't quite the same somehow.
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Date: 2006-01-09 02:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-05 01:27 am (UTC)And Spike naked is never a problem for me. It seemed a lot more natural to have him shirtless since that's how he always sleeps. But yeah, Spike/Faith had no real chemistry, and the writers were trying way too hard to make it sexy.
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Date: 2006-01-05 10:25 am (UTC)You hear of it as a good episode, but never spoken of as one of the greats. But I think it's one of the best arc episodes they ever did. DG stomps all over something like Tough Love if you compare episodes near the build-up to the end.
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Date: 2006-01-09 02:28 pm (UTC)And Sleeper... ick, awful dead-souled ep, that's where the season started to really go to hell. Next step down was Bring on the Night (Bring on the Shite I call it), next after that was after they shoved Dawn aside in Potential, then next down was Dirty Girls and the finale plunge into 1 thousand percent decline was Chosen. The show declined in steps as the season progressed, getting worse step by step and horrifying the bejayzuz out of me.
(I don't like season 7. ;) )
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:44 am (UTC)Which is pretty rare for two BTVS fans :D
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Date: 2006-01-09 02:12 pm (UTC)Hate Caleb, hate Andrew, hate Faith. Get them off my bleedin show!
And jeez, the whole Spike trigger thing was such a load of crap, like so much else they did with him that season -basement, chaining, tying him to a chair, torture by the first, control by the first, killing innocents, insanity, etc -all just ways for the show to avoid doing real stuff with him. Awful. Drove me up the wall. Total waste of time.
God I hate season 7. The only stuff in it I care about anymore is the Dawn stuff earlier on. Even the spuffy wasn't up to standard -it was so much less than there should have been and too little too late, an insult to spuffy fans.
Ok, I think that's enough ranting for now. :D
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Date: 2006-01-09 02:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-09 03:22 pm (UTC)And while I did like his role alongside Buffy in Potential, I do think souled Spike began to feel a bit too subdued. Then Get It Done gives him a place again, and there's the building up of his past storyline with Wood. LMPTM is a fantastic look at not only Spike's past, but also sees him being all bad-ass with Wood and establishing souled Spike as very different from Angel.
I agree that Dawn got neglected a bit. Early season 7 had quite a bit of her, but then as The First Evil plot becomes stronger, plot seems to take priority over characterisation work. I thought she was cute with Andrew though, I could have shipped them *ducks from the wrath of
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Date: 2006-01-10 02:19 am (UTC)As for the Spike thing, no way do I see any good in the insane Spike. Cliched stupid copout stuff and incredibly annoying. As for LMPTM, it was better than average for an ep of that period, but ultimately it still felt like a poorly thought-out substandard cobbled-together mess like everything else at that point in the season, just less so. So much of season 7 struck me as being done on autopilot, a depressed totally plastered autopilot.