Another unpopular opinion: LOVED Voyager.
Gloomcookie is now making me weep.
Cindy, OTOH, is making me all misty in a good way.
Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
ChiKat - Jun 28, 2005 8:24:02 am PDT #1261 of 10458
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Glamcookie - Jun 28, 2005 8:36:11 am PDT #1262 of 10458
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Janeway rocks!
Vonnie K - Jun 28, 2005 8:37:03 am PDT #1263 of 10458
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I hated Deep Space Nine with a passion.
t joins ChiKat in weeping
Serious though. Different strokes, etc. And season 1 of DS9 *was* lightweight, and I really disliked Kira until I saw "Duet". Avery Brooks initially had some vocal mannerisms that occasionally rubbed me the wrong way, but the wonderful work he did later more than made up for it. But once the Dominion War started and the arc started kicking into the high gear? Yowza.
I miss Buffy for more than just as a show. Even though I dabbled in the whole fandom thing with The X-Files, Buffy is where I first made real online friendships and started participating in fandom as a communal activity.
ChiKat - Jun 28, 2005 8:43:40 am PDT #1264 of 10458
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Janeway rocks!
You know, I really liked some of the Voyager characters (Janeway, Chocotay (sp??), B'lanna, Tom), but the stories were never compelling to me. It's like they started with some decent ideas for characters and didn't do anything with them.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 28, 2005 8:54:32 am PDT #1265 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Another unpopular opinion: LOVED Voyager.
This also appears to be English, but is unintelligible to me.
You know, I really liked some of the Voyager characters (Janeway, Chocotay (sp??), B'lanna, Tom), but the stories were never compelling to me. It's like they started with some decent ideas for characters and didn't do anything with them.
This is how I felt about it, plus there only so many times the ship can get hit with a mutter mutter anomaly before my eyes roll out of my head. Mainly, though, it was that they took several possibilities with inherent, on-going conflict (Macqui vs. Federation on the same ship; re-humanized, de-hiveminded Borg) and did the least interesting things with them which resulted in draining all internal conflict (and, hence, the best potential for drama) from the show.
P.M. Marc - Jun 28, 2005 8:55:58 am PDT #1266 of 10458
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Frank, you and I are as one on Voyager.
And Ent never managed a high point higher than the Vulcan Nipple Episode. Though it scores bonus points for canon MPreg.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 28, 2005 8:57:26 am PDT #1267 of 10458
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I thought most of AtS S5 was quite enjoyable (cue the mutters of "Well, she likes Spike, go figure"), because it gave us a chance to look at the twisted relationship of Spike and Angel.
I agree for the most part, and I'd grown to loathe Spike like few fictional characters by that point. The dysfunctional parent-child relationship was the one facet of interest left to Spike's character, though I think it would have been better if they'd dialed the "am not!"/"are too!" arguing back to about 5% of what made it on the screen and included more of the "you made me a monster!" type stuff.
P.M. Marc - Jun 28, 2005 9:02:23 am PDT #1268 of 10458
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I agree for the most part, and I'd grown to loathe Spike like few fictional characters by that point. The dysfunctional parent-child relationship was the one facet of interest left to Spike's character, though I think it would have been better if they'd dialed the "am not!"/"are too!" arguing back to about 5% of what made it on the screen and included more of the "you made me a monster!" type stuff.
The Angel/Spike stuff worked really well in the context of the Connor storyline, and the contrast from Angels POV of "blood" family to found/friend family.
Connie Neil - Jun 28, 2005 9:10:23 am PDT #1269 of 10458
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t regretting the lost AtS S6, wherein we might have gotten to see Connor and Spike having to deal with the family thing
I quite liked Integrated!Connor.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 28, 2005 9:10:42 am PDT #1270 of 10458
What is even happening?
I was thinking of suggesting (but then I started moving and got distracted) watching the episodes in order again together (maybe one per week) and talking about them. I didn't join until Season 5, so I missed 4 seasons of Buffista-talk.
I've been thinking of the same thing, for a long time. I can't do watch and post while it's going on. And a lot of the fun of watch and post (at least when I read through it) seems to be the surprises. For most of us, we're not going to have that with Buffy and Angel. We could start a rewatch thingie though, and do it right in this thread, and whoever wanted to could make it a watch-n-post experience, too.
- Should we go in season/episode order?
- Should we mix A:ts in, right from the beginning, or when we get to BtVS season 4?
- How many episodes, how often?