Dawn ,'Beneath You'
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.
I'm like the only person who had a problem with a tonal shift from "dark and disturbing drama" to "show that cites to Fraggle Rock."
See, the shift from Epiphany to Pylea pissed me off. I thought the muppets were much darker than Pylea, so it didn't jar at all.
There is no level of creepiness that will get me attracted to muppets.
But it turns out there's a level of muppetness that can get me attracted to Oliver.
Go figure.
There is no level of creepiness that will get me attracted to muppets.
But it turns out there's a level of muppetness that can get me attracted to Oliver.
I know I can always count on you to bat what I'm pitching way out of the park.
Oliver, like OC Oliver?!?
I know I can always count on you to bat what I'm pitching way out of the park.
And proudly.
Oliver, like OC Oliver?!?
Can't you see it? I can see it. It's quite cuddly.
I'm so glad I never got sucked into the OC. My life is woobiefied enough as it is.
Oliver, like OC Oliver?!?
Can't you see it? I can see it. It's quite cuddly.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
My life is woobiefied enough as it is.
Trust me. The unplush version is quite psycho and repulsive. But all that nutness in a little puppet version? Whee!
And, yeah, topic -- RIGHT. The coyness about PodGiles (coyness, crap writing, whatever). That did make me quite angry too.
I yawned during Seeing Red. And PodGiles was teh lamest of the lame.
St. Cordy sucked.
I'm well aware that I'm like the only person who had a problem with a tonal shift from "dark and disturbing drama" to "show that cites to Fraggle Rock."
No, you're not. I sat here dumbfounded at everyone's love after it aired. Still don't quite get it. I don't HATE it, but I don't get the love.
My least fav?
Angel: St. Cordy, the use of the word "champion," the multitudes of previouslies that had "handsome man, saved me from the monsters," CoCo, Cordy/Angel lurve
Buffy: Willow's car wreck, pod Giles, too many new people to follow in S7, speechifying in S7, the mere existence of Spike after S5.
Ooo, I get to play catch-up...
It's tricky because I was spoiled quite a lot. I think that the nihlistic sex in "Reprise" needs a mention for good HSQ. Partly because it features the only time I found Boreanaz kinda hot. But locking up the lawyers made me applaud, so that has to be my favorite.
Lindsey's return in S5 should have an honorable mention though, just because when I read the spoilers about it I was giggling for days, and I didn't even miss Lindsey particularly.
With Buffy, sending Angel to hell has to win just because I knew about the Angel spin-off at that point, and so I knew that he'd be resouled and everything would end happily. Sometimes being casually spoiled makes things more surprising.
Bad HSQ... With Buffy, maybe the "Ooo, maybe we just killed Giles. Off-screen. We might have! Er, are you buying this at all? Hello?" in whatever episode that was. And with Angel, Spike's return in S5. Both of those made crickets chirp in my head.
Also, A Damned Hole in the Fucking World.
Oh, oh, but back to the good -- the face-off in "Origin" was awesome in every way. That had a high HSQ on so many levels; what was happening, and why, and what was about to happen, and what it meant, and what had happened before. It was a very pretty thing.