Realization I had after watching BtVS 3.1 tonight:
Stylistically, thematically and cinemagraphically, "Anne" was the prototype for "AtS."
Discuss.
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?
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victor infante - Jan 05, 2005 8:59:28 pm PST #2919 of 3531
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Lee - Jan 05, 2005 9:00:56 pm PST #2920 of 3531
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Can we make Wesley wear the waitress outfit?
WildDemon Cornelius - Jan 05, 2005 11:47:10 pm PST #2921 of 3531
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Stylistically, thematically and cinemagraphically, "Anne" was the prototype for "AtS."
Oh yes. I'm too tired to do much more than a brief post about it now, but I'll rewatch "Anne" and compare w/ AtS eps and then write up a big long essay or something sometime. At least one of the shots from Angel's opening credits is from "Anne", and they both take the Buffyverse away from high school and the Hellmouth and out into a bigger world filled w/ suffering caused by both supernatural and natural forces.
Of course, "Anne" also really begins the journey of the character of Anne from powerless to powerful; it is fitting that it is she who sums up one of the central ideas of AtS in NFA, that of going on and doing what is right even though everything may be out of your control and the fight may be hopeless and things may never change.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 06, 2005 1:58:34 am PST #2922 of 3531
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, if you look at "Anne" as the proto-Angel episode, it's even more fitting that Anne made her brief re-appearence in "Not Fade Away".
Steph L. - Jan 06, 2005 6:07:55 am PST #2923 of 3531
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
It definitely has the highest batting average of any ME show.
Eh.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 06, 2005 6:24:48 am PST #2924 of 3531
What is even happening?
Teppy's eh is mine. I also just don't think it is possible or fair to compare a 13/16 episode run to either a 144 episode run, or a 110 (?) episode run. I can group 13/16 episodes of both BtVS and Angel (separately, and maybe multiple times) that (I think, anyhow) left the run of Firefly in the dust. It was mostly canceled due to poor luck in scheduling, and te fact that FOX may be defined as: "FOX comma crazy like a." But I think it was also canceled because it failed to draw in almost anyone who wasn't already a Joss Whedon/Tim Minear devotee.
Steph L. - Jan 06, 2005 6:26:56 am PST #2925 of 3531
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Teppy's eh is mine.
To be fair, my "eh" was because I just don't think FF is all that, which is why I don't think it has a high batting average (but in cricket).
Topic!Cindy - Jan 06, 2005 6:31:49 am PST #2926 of 3531
What is even happening?
That's sort of my eh too Teppy, but in a more roundabout way. I was terribly excited for Firefly. I was terribly disappointed when it was canned (and I think that was premature, given the pap they put on in its place). But I fell out of love. I mourn the lost opportunity of Wonderfalls way more than I mourn Firefly, and I only saw 4 episodes of that.
Jessica - Jan 06, 2005 6:42:28 am PST #2927 of 3531
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Eh.
I'll see that eh and raise it an f.
Steph L. - Jan 06, 2005 6:44:59 am PST #2928 of 3531
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm so undercaffeinated that my first thought was "Ehf??? What's that?"