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Give me a fandom and I'll give you, either in the comments or in a separate post, five unpopular opinions for that particular fandom.
"The WB 20th anniversary: Ranking all 32 of the network's dramas from worst to best "
I thoroughly approve of Buffy, Dawson's Creek, and Gilmore Girls being the top three <3 And hmm Felicity is #4, I never actually watched that show, but I've been wondering lately if it might be worth checking out as a lot of people seem to like it? There have been soooo many high-school based shows, it might be a nice change of pace to watch one focused on the college years for a change :P (Oh and Angel is #5, Smallville is #6, Roswell is #10, and Supernatural is #11)
I thoroughly approve of Buffy, Dawson's Creek, and Gilmore Girls being the top three <3 And hmm Felicity is #4, I never actually watched that show, but I've been wondering lately if it might be worth checking out as a lot of people seem to like it? There have been soooo many high-school based shows, it might be a nice change of pace to watch one focused on the college years for a change :P (Oh and Angel is #5, Smallville is #6, Roswell is #10, and Supernatural is #11)
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List 10 tv shows/movies/books
-- Have your friends guess your favourite characters from each one.
-- Cross out the show/movie/book and put the character in when someone guesses.
1. Buffy The Vampire Slayer Buffy
2. The Vampire Diaries Caroline
3. Breaking Bad Walt
4. Dawson's Creek Joey
5. Farscape John
6. Supernatural Sam
7. Veronica Mars Veronica
8. Friends Monica
9. Pretty Little Liars Spencer
10. Dollhouse Adelle
-- Have your friends guess your favourite characters from each one.
-- Cross out the show/movie/book and put the character in when someone guesses.
Buffy stars Emma Caulfield and Nicholas Brendon at Oz Comic-Con: Still slaying them
It was social media buzz that got Emma Caulfield obsessed with Sharknado.
"It was just blowing up on Twitter, so I thought I'll turn it on," said the Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, in Australia for a series of Comic-Con events.
"Of course it was just beyond awful, but in that really awesome way...it makes me so happy that it exists."
Caulfield, who played reformed vengeance demon Anya, said Buffy would have been ripe for its own social media frenzy – if only it had existed between 1997 and 2003 when the show was on air.
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It was social media buzz that got Emma Caulfield obsessed with Sharknado.
"It was just blowing up on Twitter, so I thought I'll turn it on," said the Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, in Australia for a series of Comic-Con events.
"Of course it was just beyond awful, but in that really awesome way...it makes me so happy that it exists."
Caulfield, who played reformed vengeance demon Anya, said Buffy would have been ripe for its own social media frenzy – if only it had existed between 1997 and 2003 when the show was on air.
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WIRED Summer Binge-Watching Guide: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lots of interesting discussion at the source on which episodes they consider must-watches and what they recommend skipping :)
Lots of interesting discussion at the source on which episodes they consider must-watches and what they recommend skipping :)
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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Anthony Stewart Head took to Twitter to share their Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion photo and it's got us feeling all sorts of things.
The two posed with bracelets for Cool to be Kind, an organization dedicated to promoting kindness to animals started by Head. Look how happy they are. Look how happy you are after seeing the picture.
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The two posed with bracelets for Cool to be Kind, an organization dedicated to promoting kindness to animals started by Head. Look how happy they are. Look how happy you are after seeing the picture.
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James Marsters Will Be "Team Spike" For All Of Eternity
Every now and then there is a pop culture moment so huge, it forces a semi-dormant fan base to roar back to life. The Buffyverse recently experienced one of these massive in-community controversies when former Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar was asked during a Reddit AMA if she was Team Angel or Team Spike.
Had the internet been as omnipresent when Buffy the Vampire Slayer originally aired (from 1997–2003), this question would have been asked and answered a zillion times over, so fans of Joss Whedon’s seminal series were glued to their computer screens as Gellar typed, in all caps, “ANGEL.”
Angel, played with a brooding intensity by David Boreanaz, was Buffy’s first love, but subsequent seasons paired The Slayer — somewhat controversially — with James Marsters’ Spike, an unapologetically bloodthirsty vampire whose redemption became a driving force in the show’s final years. The fandom had long been split over who was truly worthy of Buffy’s heart, but with five letters, Gellar let us all know where she stood.
“Well, I have to say, I really messed with her a lot, so perhaps there’s more to her choice than just what happened on the show,” Marsters told BuzzFeed during a recent interview. “I grew up as a subversive artist, and you have to be so polite to the lead on a film all the time — whether they’re nice or not — so something about that stuck in my craw and I would, sometimes, lovingly mess with her. It’s mean, but I couldn’t help myself. So, maybe I understand why she said that.”
Is it just me, or is that kind of a strange quote? I've never heard James talking of messing with Sarah and upsetting her before, if anything in the past he used to talk about Sarah being the one to tug on his "sock" during their season 6 scenes and how much that would embarrass him, so it sounds like they were both messing with one another at the very least.
Plus I'm not sure why he would assume that some apparent on-set tension between him and Sarah would be the reason for her preferring the Buffy/Angel pairing, she's always been a fan of the Buffy/Angel storyline from the beginning and made no secret of it (I remember interviews in season 4 where Sarah mentioned having a hard time with Buffy sleeping with Parker or moving on to Riley because she kept thinking about how they're not Angel).
I don't know if I'm reading into it, but I get the feeling with "maybe I understand why she said that" that James wasn't too happy with Sarah being so vocal over preferring Angel?
ETA And wasn't sure what to think of the new LJ layout at first, but I was prepared to give it a try. Then I saw how my profile page looks now and I didn't really like it, so I've changed back. Change is hard lol
Every now and then there is a pop culture moment so huge, it forces a semi-dormant fan base to roar back to life. The Buffyverse recently experienced one of these massive in-community controversies when former Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar was asked during a Reddit AMA if she was Team Angel or Team Spike.
Had the internet been as omnipresent when Buffy the Vampire Slayer originally aired (from 1997–2003), this question would have been asked and answered a zillion times over, so fans of Joss Whedon’s seminal series were glued to their computer screens as Gellar typed, in all caps, “ANGEL.”
Angel, played with a brooding intensity by David Boreanaz, was Buffy’s first love, but subsequent seasons paired The Slayer — somewhat controversially — with James Marsters’ Spike, an unapologetically bloodthirsty vampire whose redemption became a driving force in the show’s final years. The fandom had long been split over who was truly worthy of Buffy’s heart, but with five letters, Gellar let us all know where she stood.
“Well, I have to say, I really messed with her a lot, so perhaps there’s more to her choice than just what happened on the show,” Marsters told BuzzFeed during a recent interview. “I grew up as a subversive artist, and you have to be so polite to the lead on a film all the time — whether they’re nice or not — so something about that stuck in my craw and I would, sometimes, lovingly mess with her. It’s mean, but I couldn’t help myself. So, maybe I understand why she said that.”
Is it just me, or is that kind of a strange quote? I've never heard James talking of messing with Sarah and upsetting her before, if anything in the past he used to talk about Sarah being the one to tug on his "sock" during their season 6 scenes and how much that would embarrass him, so it sounds like they were both messing with one another at the very least.
Plus I'm not sure why he would assume that some apparent on-set tension between him and Sarah would be the reason for her preferring the Buffy/Angel pairing, she's always been a fan of the Buffy/Angel storyline from the beginning and made no secret of it (I remember interviews in season 4 where Sarah mentioned having a hard time with Buffy sleeping with Parker or moving on to Riley because she kept thinking about how they're not Angel).
I don't know if I'm reading into it, but I get the feeling with "maybe I understand why she said that" that James wasn't too happy with Sarah being so vocal over preferring Angel?
ETA And wasn't sure what to think of the new LJ layout at first, but I was prepared to give it a try. Then I saw how my profile page looks now and I didn't really like it, so I've changed back. Change is hard lol
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Freddie Prinze Jr. Previews His Return to Bones, Admits He's Never Watched Buffy (but Weighs in on Angel vs. Spike)
Though he's married to Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Prinze, who makes his return to Fox's Bones in tonight's episode, admitted to E! News that he's only seen one episode of the beloved cult hit. "Oh, you can judge. That's fine, I don't care," he said after we shamed him for missing out on Joss Whedon's masterpiece. "It wasn't written for my demographic, so I never saw it."
Hmm that just seems super-dismissive of his wife's work to me, like he assumes that it was only aimed at an audience of young girls and couldn't possible have mass appeal! Sarah should have tied him down and forced him to watch some of her best episodes like The Body and Hush. Even if he wasn't interested in the the show itself, you'd think that he would have wanted to catch a few episodes to see Sarah at least, although I suppose I don't know if it's a thing that actors like to watch their partners work or not *g*
So how did the guest appearance come to fruitition? On vacation, when he happened to bump into Boreanaz, an on-going occurrence for Prinze, who joked, "We're vacation stalkers."
"I was eating with my kids, I had just put them down for bed. I was coming back to find Sarah by the pool, and she said ‘Hey, look who I found again,' because no matter where we go on vacation, David's always there. Literally," Prinze explained. "It doesn't matter where – we could go to Siberia, and he'd be like, ‘Yeah, I like hockey, and I heard they had good hockey in Siberia.'
I'm not even sure what to make of that comment, I assume he's mostly joking? It would be a funny little coincidence if they all bumped into one another one time, but David unexpectedly being there everytime they go on vacation should maybe be a point of concern to Freddie :P Somehow picturing David always popping up and waving at them wherever they go in the world is making me laugh so hard though
Though he's married to Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Prinze, who makes his return to Fox's Bones in tonight's episode, admitted to E! News that he's only seen one episode of the beloved cult hit. "Oh, you can judge. That's fine, I don't care," he said after we shamed him for missing out on Joss Whedon's masterpiece. "It wasn't written for my demographic, so I never saw it."
Hmm that just seems super-dismissive of his wife's work to me, like he assumes that it was only aimed at an audience of young girls and couldn't possible have mass appeal! Sarah should have tied him down and forced him to watch some of her best episodes like The Body and Hush. Even if he wasn't interested in the the show itself, you'd think that he would have wanted to catch a few episodes to see Sarah at least, although I suppose I don't know if it's a thing that actors like to watch their partners work or not *g*
So how did the guest appearance come to fruitition? On vacation, when he happened to bump into Boreanaz, an on-going occurrence for Prinze, who joked, "We're vacation stalkers."
"I was eating with my kids, I had just put them down for bed. I was coming back to find Sarah by the pool, and she said ‘Hey, look who I found again,' because no matter where we go on vacation, David's always there. Literally," Prinze explained. "It doesn't matter where – we could go to Siberia, and he'd be like, ‘Yeah, I like hockey, and I heard they had good hockey in Siberia.'
I'm not even sure what to make of that comment, I assume he's mostly joking? It would be a funny little coincidence if they all bumped into one another one time, but David unexpectedly being there everytime they go on vacation should maybe be a point of concern to Freddie :P Somehow picturing David always popping up and waving at them wherever they go in the world is making me laugh so hard though
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Buffy Rewatch: Relationships
Lots of discussion about Spike and Xander led to my own rant about Xander Harris and the Bewitched Bewildered, and Bothered episode! (I would disagree though with the emphasis placed on The Pack and possessed Xander's assault of Buffy, because the structure of season 1 was very different and so I don't place all that much importance on Xander deciding to pretend that it never happened and he has no memories of it.)
I do however have a much bigger problem with Xander planning to use magic to forcibly make Cordelia love him so that he could then dump and humiliate her. Looking back now the Bewitched, Bewildered, and Bothered episode is insanely creepy, especially when Amy warns Xander how insane and desperate a love spell could make Cordelia, and he just gloats that he wants her to unable to eat or sleep or thinking of anything but him! If anything the episode presented Xander and Cordelia in a very unbalanced way as Xander mostly seems annoyed at being dismissed by Cordelia and being made fun of by her friends, she is the one who seems to feel genuinally heartbroken when we are shown the necklace of Xander's that she is secretly wearing. Xander talks to Amy more about wanting payback and to be the one to dump Cordelia, and he's even willing to shrug off the spell's failure as no biggie the second he belives that Buffy might be expressing an interest in him. IMO His primary reason for wanting Cordelia under a love spell was because of his ego
And really there was never that much justification for Xander to react in the way that he did. Okay Cordelia blurted out her wishes to break up at a Valentine's Dance in her usual tactless way, but she also says she's sorry and she didn't mean to do it this way. For high school Cordelia the break-up speech is postively nice even as she never says anything unpleasant about Xander or that her friends feel like he's not good enough, just that they are kidding themselves and that they don't fit together. And however shallow her reasons for breaking up with Xander might have been, it was still her right to break up with him for any reason she pleased!
And then the day after Amy does the spell Xander approaches Cordelia when she is surrounded by her friends, and he is clearly hoping to see her grovel and humilate herself in front of them when he asks if she has anything to say to him, so how the spell became something romantic to bring the two of them back together is just bizarre to me! And the episode doesn't just end with Cordelia having ~having learned her lesson~ by telling off all her friends and choosing Xander in front of them, it also has Buffy thanking Xander for really coming through and him joking about how it was touch and go for a minute there, even though what they're actually talking about is Xander resisting the urge to take advantage of his friend when she was under a spell. I honestly don't know what Marti was thinking with this episode. (And soo disappointing that Gabrielle didn't get to finish her feminist write-up of Buffy episodes :/
And the thing is that if that episode featured anyone but Xander and his automatic nice guy shield, surely that role would have been clearly presented as the villain and Buffy would be dismissing them as a creepy and controlling little dweeb, the way she did other characters such as the boy who got turned down for a date in The Prom and planned retribution, or( Spoilers post season 3 )
ETA And okay LOL, the spyware on this entry is now giving me pop-ups on "find a love spell now"
Lots of discussion about Spike and Xander led to my own rant about Xander Harris and the Bewitched Bewildered, and Bothered episode! (I would disagree though with the emphasis placed on The Pack and possessed Xander's assault of Buffy, because the structure of season 1 was very different and so I don't place all that much importance on Xander deciding to pretend that it never happened and he has no memories of it.)
I do however have a much bigger problem with Xander planning to use magic to forcibly make Cordelia love him so that he could then dump and humiliate her. Looking back now the Bewitched, Bewildered, and Bothered episode is insanely creepy, especially when Amy warns Xander how insane and desperate a love spell could make Cordelia, and he just gloats that he wants her to unable to eat or sleep or thinking of anything but him! If anything the episode presented Xander and Cordelia in a very unbalanced way as Xander mostly seems annoyed at being dismissed by Cordelia and being made fun of by her friends, she is the one who seems to feel genuinally heartbroken when we are shown the necklace of Xander's that she is secretly wearing. Xander talks to Amy more about wanting payback and to be the one to dump Cordelia, and he's even willing to shrug off the spell's failure as no biggie the second he belives that Buffy might be expressing an interest in him. IMO His primary reason for wanting Cordelia under a love spell was because of his ego
And really there was never that much justification for Xander to react in the way that he did. Okay Cordelia blurted out her wishes to break up at a Valentine's Dance in her usual tactless way, but she also says she's sorry and she didn't mean to do it this way. For high school Cordelia the break-up speech is postively nice even as she never says anything unpleasant about Xander or that her friends feel like he's not good enough, just that they are kidding themselves and that they don't fit together. And however shallow her reasons for breaking up with Xander might have been, it was still her right to break up with him for any reason she pleased!
And then the day after Amy does the spell Xander approaches Cordelia when she is surrounded by her friends, and he is clearly hoping to see her grovel and humilate herself in front of them when he asks if she has anything to say to him, so how the spell became something romantic to bring the two of them back together is just bizarre to me! And the episode doesn't just end with Cordelia having ~having learned her lesson~ by telling off all her friends and choosing Xander in front of them, it also has Buffy thanking Xander for really coming through and him joking about how it was touch and go for a minute there, even though what they're actually talking about is Xander resisting the urge to take advantage of his friend when she was under a spell. I honestly don't know what Marti was thinking with this episode. (And soo disappointing that Gabrielle didn't get to finish her feminist write-up of Buffy episodes :/
And the thing is that if that episode featured anyone but Xander and his automatic nice guy shield, surely that role would have been clearly presented as the villain and Buffy would be dismissing them as a creepy and controlling little dweeb, the way she did other characters such as the boy who got turned down for a date in The Prom and planned retribution, or( Spoilers post season 3 )
ETA And okay LOL, the spyware on this entry is now giving me pop-ups on "find a love spell now"
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I've just wasted way too much time on http://actualteenadultteen.tumblr.com/ lol, they put together a picture of an actor playing 16 or 17 alongside a picture of what they actually looked like when they were were that age. It's so weird to see Hollywood's example of what passes for teenage in tv and film
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ACTRESS Alyson Hannigan says Buffy co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar was "annoyed" at having to play the vampire fighting hero.
In a TV interview, the How I Met Your Mother star was asked who was most annoyed to be on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by the seventh and final season.
"Sarah," the 39-year-old replied. "Well, she had a big career going on ... It was a lot of work."
Hannigan was then asked after what season did Gellar start hating Buffy.
"Uh, three," Hannigan answered.
Gellar, 36, spoke years ago about the problems she had with committing to a series.
"I was 18 when I started the show; I'm 26. I'm married. I never see my husband [Freddie Prinze Jr.]," she said. "This has been the longest span of my life in one place. There've been times where that's been difficult - you want to pick up and go, try other things, live in different places. It feels right, and you have to listen to that."
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Because it would have been too professional for Alyson to just respond with, "I can't comment on that"?
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Gateway episodes: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
So if you’re a late-comer to Buffy, and want to know whether you’ll actually enjoy the show, which of these standalones should you give a shot? Start with “Earshot,” the 18th episode of Season 3. Seasons 1 and 2 of Buffy relied a bit much on excessively campy bad guys—fish monsters, a ventriloquist’s dummy, a giant man-eating insect, a robot—who served as narrative crutches clumsily telegraphing real-world evil. The bad guys of Season 3, on the other hand, embody villains we all know: adolescent alienation, romantic jealousy, teenage insecurity, high school frenemies, parents who just don’t understand.
Do people consider Earshot a good choice, or do you prefer to go earlier than season 3? (That would be me! I hate introducing newbies to a really late episode in a show as it spoils a lot of what comes earlier, so I try to choose the earliest classic episode that I can). Which episode do you generally consider the perfect episode to introduce newbies to Buffy? Do you have more than one?
Heh someone recommended Ted in the comments, and someone else responded with "You do want people to watch the show, right"? :P
ETA What was your first episode of Buffy, and did it win you over right away and make you want to see more?
So if you’re a late-comer to Buffy, and want to know whether you’ll actually enjoy the show, which of these standalones should you give a shot? Start with “Earshot,” the 18th episode of Season 3. Seasons 1 and 2 of Buffy relied a bit much on excessively campy bad guys—fish monsters, a ventriloquist’s dummy, a giant man-eating insect, a robot—who served as narrative crutches clumsily telegraphing real-world evil. The bad guys of Season 3, on the other hand, embody villains we all know: adolescent alienation, romantic jealousy, teenage insecurity, high school frenemies, parents who just don’t understand.
Do people consider Earshot a good choice, or do you prefer to go earlier than season 3? (That would be me! I hate introducing newbies to a really late episode in a show as it spoils a lot of what comes earlier, so I try to choose the earliest classic episode that I can). Which episode do you generally consider the perfect episode to introduce newbies to Buffy? Do you have more than one?
Heh someone recommended Ted in the comments, and someone else responded with "You do want people to watch the show, right"? :P
ETA What was your first episode of Buffy, and did it win you over right away and make you want to see more?
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21 Most Annoying TV Characters Ever
I never got what people found annoying about Dawn in season 5 really, I thought that Real Me was an awesome intro for her character, but I've seen so many people talking about not being able to stand her from the beginning. Honestly I think that some people just hated the whole concept of a 'cute younger character' being added, they were coming at the idea from what they'd seen in other tv shows, and so were already predisposed to find Dawn annoying?
Hmm how would people have corrected the writing of Dawn if you were working on the show, or did you think it was fine just the way it was? I might have changed her age and made her more obviously younger, instead of 14/15/16 over the course of the show. I always thought that was waaay to close to the age that Buffy had been at the start of the series to then make such a big deal about how young Dawn was and how she needed babysitting. If they wanted to write her as such a little sister then I think it would have been a better idea to at least introduce her as 12 or 13 years old, it's not like the other actors were playing their ages either.
Also I think season 5 was Dawn's best season because she was such an important of the main plot, so maybe they could have done more with her powers as the Key after season 5, instead of immediately making her a normal teenage girl?
Oh and I really think her screaming is overstated, she yelled 'get out' just twice. I'm not saying that it wasn't high-pitched and annoying, but from the way people talk you would think she had been screeching like that at least every 4-5 episodes!
I never got what people found annoying about Dawn in season 5 really, I thought that Real Me was an awesome intro for her character, but I've seen so many people talking about not being able to stand her from the beginning. Honestly I think that some people just hated the whole concept of a 'cute younger character' being added, they were coming at the idea from what they'd seen in other tv shows, and so were already predisposed to find Dawn annoying?
Hmm how would people have corrected the writing of Dawn if you were working on the show, or did you think it was fine just the way it was? I might have changed her age and made her more obviously younger, instead of 14/15/16 over the course of the show. I always thought that was waaay to close to the age that Buffy had been at the start of the series to then make such a big deal about how young Dawn was and how she needed babysitting. If they wanted to write her as such a little sister then I think it would have been a better idea to at least introduce her as 12 or 13 years old, it's not like the other actors were playing their ages either.
Also I think season 5 was Dawn's best season because she was such an important of the main plot, so maybe they could have done more with her powers as the Key after season 5, instead of immediately making her a normal teenage girl?
Oh and I really think her screaming is overstated, she yelled 'get out' just twice. I'm not saying that it wasn't high-pitched and annoying, but from the way people talk you would think she had been screeching like that at least every 4-5 episodes!
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Was it ever explained why Alyson didn't do any dancing for the Buffy musical? I know she's said that she's not confident in her singing voice, but I'm surprised she didn't have to do a single bit of dancing either. It seemed a bit unfair as the behind the scenes feature was talking about the rest of the cast taking on a whole lot of extra singing and dancing lessons on their weekends.
If her singing voice is something that Alyson is that insecure over then I can kind of understand it I guess, but I don't think there's ever been any explanation of why she had no dancing either when the rest of the cast all did, even though many of them were hardly trained dancers either. But people like Nicky Brendon and Amber Bensen still tried anway and threw themselves into it and learned the dances, while Alyson apparently got away with barely putting in any extra work for the musical at all. I mean Alyson could have at least been one of Buffy's back-up dancers in the Life's A Show song surely, instead of Amber having to do it when she had already sung two songs as it was
Frankly I would have been so resentful if I were a part of the cast who put so much extra work in for that episode, especially when Joss was gushing in the commentary that Alyson had the hardest job of all in some ways to have to react to the other characters singing
If her singing voice is something that Alyson is that insecure over then I can kind of understand it I guess, but I don't think there's ever been any explanation of why she had no dancing either when the rest of the cast all did, even though many of them were hardly trained dancers either. But people like Nicky Brendon and Amber Bensen still tried anway and threw themselves into it and learned the dances, while Alyson apparently got away with barely putting in any extra work for the musical at all. I mean Alyson could have at least been one of Buffy's back-up dancers in the Life's A Show song surely, instead of Amber having to do it when she had already sung two songs as it was
Frankly I would have been so resentful if I were a part of the cast who put so much extra work in for that episode, especially when Joss was gushing in the commentary that Alyson had the hardest job of all in some ways to have to react to the other characters singing
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And Idk I'm still kind of mixed on the message of "oh grow up" that the writers kept pushing with Buffy. I'm more on the side of the Giles in The Body who tells Buffy that he will handle the forms and very much steps in as father figure, ditto in Forever when he's helping Buffy in the funeral home with paying for the coffin. I hate how, starting from Tough Love, it was constantly drilled into the audiences head that Buffy had to become self-reliant and take care of Dawn by herself now. I never thought that she was being unreasonable when she was pratically begging Giles to step in and help her with Dawn and be Dawn's authority figure, her biological father would have stepped in anyway if he wasn't written as so uncaring, raising a sister who was just a few years younger than Buffy was never a responsibility that someone barely out of their teens could reasonably be expected to cope with.
And okay I could understand it more if Giles just wanted to take a step back and say "whoa not ready to be a father here", but instead the show constantly presented it as all being for Buffy's own good and something that she HAD to learn how to do. But in what world is is the better option to expect 20 year old Buffy to drop out of college and raise her 14/15 year old sister on her own? That's like the last resort when the parents in your life have let you down, that's not normal adult responsibilities. Yet that message continues into season 6 with Buffy coming back from the dead to find out that all of her money had been spend and she was basically being seen as on her own in being expected to take on the expenses of the house and supporting Dawn, even by the people who were living in the same house with her. When Giles does finally give her a cheque (which I will always believe he owed her as the Watcher was supposed to look out for the Slayer and her welfere, not to mention Buffy getting him his salary and job back in the first place), it's presented as an act of charity with Giles looking concerned at how relieved Buffy is at having money now to take care of all the bills, as if that's y'know an unreasonable emotion to feel when you're broke and someone gives you money to help out And being forced to support herself did nothing to help Buffy anyway because, instead of being able to continue at college and work towards a better life later on, she was forced to drop out and work minimum wage to get by. Was that REALLY the better option, instead of someone stepping in to help her with Dawn and the finances and encouraging Buffy to stay in school? As someone who dropped out of college (and was only 20 years old) it's not like she could have reasonably be expected to bring in the same amount of money as Joyce or Giles could when it came to household expenses and raising Dawn
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And Idk I'm still kind of mixed on the message of "oh grow up" that the writers kept pushing with Buffy. I'm more on the side of the Giles in The Body who tells Buffy that he will handle the forms and very much steps in as father figure, ditto in Forever when he's helping Buffy in the funeral home with paying for the coffin. I hate how, starting from Tough Love, it was constantly drilled into the audiences head that Buffy had to become self-reliant and take care of Dawn by herself now. I never thought that she was being unreasonable when she was pratically begging Giles to step in and help her with Dawn and be Dawn's authority figure, her biological father would have stepped in anyway if he wasn't written as so uncaring, raising a sister who was just a few years younger than Buffy was never a responsibility that someone barely out of their teens could reasonably be expected to cope with.
And okay I could understand it more if Giles just wanted to take a step back and say "whoa not ready to be a father here", but instead the show constantly presented it as all being for Buffy's own good and something that she HAD to learn how to do. But in what world is is the better option to expect 20 year old Buffy to drop out of college and raise her 14/15 year old sister on her own? That's like the last resort when the parents in your life have let you down, that's not normal adult responsibilities. Yet that message continues into season 6 with Buffy coming back from the dead to find out that all of her money had been spend and she was basically being seen as on her own in being expected to take on the expenses of the house and supporting Dawn, even by the people who were living in the same house with her. When Giles does finally give her a cheque (which I will always believe he owed her as the Watcher was supposed to look out for the Slayer and her welfere, not to mention Buffy getting him his salary and job back in the first place), it's presented as an act of charity with Giles looking concerned at how relieved Buffy is at having money now to take care of all the bills, as if that's y'know an unreasonable emotion to feel when you're broke and someone gives you money to help out And being forced to support herself did nothing to help Buffy anyway because, instead of being able to continue at college and work towards a better life later on, she was forced to drop out and work minimum wage to get by. Was that REALLY the better option, instead of someone stepping in to help her with Dawn and the finances and encouraging Buffy to stay in school? As someone who dropped out of college (and was only 20 years old) it's not like she could have reasonably be expected to bring in the same amount of money as Joyce or Giles could when it came to household expenses and raising Dawn
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Rewatching Buffy for probably the 50th time *g* I've just finished the high school years. And I still like season 3 way more than season 2 and find it very underated, it's easily my favourite high school season and everything just feels more polished that year. Earshot may even be my favourite episode for representing the high school era. I loved it even more than I remembered on rewatch. Homecoming was also kind of perfect. And The Prom! And Lover's Walk! And The Wish! There so many excellent episodes that year, I can't think of a single real clunker on the level of season 2's Reptile Boy or Bad Eggs (I always remember Choices as being kind of a filler episode, but that too was actually pretty good). And Graduation Day was much better than I remembered too, the first half is still kind of slow, but the graduation scenes when the students all band together against the vampires really are pretty kickass. Even silly things like the lighting and how much more colourful the show felt made me happy, yes I know it's partly a horror show, but still I hated how seasons 1 and 2 had such dark graveyard scenes and bronze scenes that you could barely make out what was going on.
It's funny how differently some things are coming across to me compared to when I first watched though. ( Read more... )
It's funny how differently some things are coming across to me compared to when I first watched though. ( Read more... )
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http://www.avclub.com/articles/10-best-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-episodes,89781/
I agree with Prophecy Girl, Surprise, Innocence, Earshot (although I might have gone for The Wish instead from season 3), Restless, Fool For Love, Once More With Feeling
Buuuuut....The Zeppo isn't one I would pick. It's such a love or hate it type of episode, and I personally never felt they did all that great a job with Xander's POV at times. The concept of the episode is an interesting one sure, but actually watching that episode is just really boring to me quite honestly, and it also felt a little too over the top in the teaser when Buffy, Willow, and Giles are suddenly so concerned about bumbling Xander putting himself in danger, even though he'd always fought with them in the past. But then I am not much of a fan of Xander or Xander-centric episodes admittedly, and a lot of people in the comments seem to be raving about that episode, so maybe it's just me :shrugs:
And I love Something Blue obviously, but I'm not sure that belongs in the top ten either. It's nothing outstanding at showing what Buffy can do, I'd argue that there are plenty of equally good comedy episodes over the course of the series. I was really surprised that Hush wasn't included from season 4 instead actually. I was also surprised The Body wasn't included. And LOL at Older And Far Away being included as a runner-up, seriously?!?
Oh and I disagree with The Gift being included. It is a great season finale, but one that depends on watching it in context with the rest of season 5, it's not a fantastic stand-alone episode in the way that episodes like Restless and so on are IMO
I agree with Prophecy Girl, Surprise, Innocence, Earshot (although I might have gone for The Wish instead from season 3), Restless, Fool For Love, Once More With Feeling
Buuuuut....The Zeppo isn't one I would pick. It's such a love or hate it type of episode, and I personally never felt they did all that great a job with Xander's POV at times. The concept of the episode is an interesting one sure, but actually watching that episode is just really boring to me quite honestly, and it also felt a little too over the top in the teaser when Buffy, Willow, and Giles are suddenly so concerned about bumbling Xander putting himself in danger, even though he'd always fought with them in the past. But then I am not much of a fan of Xander or Xander-centric episodes admittedly, and a lot of people in the comments seem to be raving about that episode, so maybe it's just me :shrugs:
And I love Something Blue obviously, but I'm not sure that belongs in the top ten either. It's nothing outstanding at showing what Buffy can do, I'd argue that there are plenty of equally good comedy episodes over the course of the series. I was really surprised that Hush wasn't included from season 4 instead actually. I was also surprised The Body wasn't included. And LOL at Older And Far Away being included as a runner-up, seriously?!?
Oh and I disagree with The Gift being included. It is a great season finale, but one that depends on watching it in context with the rest of season 5, it's not a fantastic stand-alone episode in the way that episodes like Restless and so on are IMO
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