I thought that the hints for season 5's arc dating right back to Graduation Day were cleverly done, but yeah I agree that it's overstated just how much foreshadowing Restless actually contains otherwise for the characters. It felt to me like it was more about Joss having fun exploring the characters inner thoughts, but fan lore did seem to turn it into absolutely everything in it having a secret hidden meaning of what was to come, but really that takes a whole lot of fan-wanking (oh Spike was on the swings learning to be a watcher as foreshadowing of his training with the potentials in season 7, of course) rather than it all clearly coming together when you go back and watch that episode at the end of the series. I do love Restless as an episode, but yeah it was definitely mostly about having fun with dream logic IMO
Jenny's death is what I find a little bit over-hyped actually. Like of course the death scene itself was extremely-done, but come on at all the talk of the show being daring enough to kill off a major character and a fan favourite. I'm sure that most fans liked Jenny well enough, but IMO people really exaggerate when they act like it was such a brave choice to kill off one of the main characters. Seriously, Jenny Calendar?
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Date: 2015-12-23 09:44 pm (UTC)Jenny's death is what I find a little bit over-hyped actually. Like of course the death scene itself was extremely-done, but come on at all the talk of the show being daring enough to kill off a major character and a fan favourite. I'm sure that most fans liked Jenny well enough, but IMO people really exaggerate when they act like it was such a brave choice to kill off one of the main characters. Seriously, Jenny Calendar?