Uh, no. I think I'd draw the line there, too. Heck, I'd watch a movie about Dead!Gay!Larry before I'd watch a movie about the "unchosen howevermany."
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.
Xander'n'Andrew, Xander'n'Andrew. Fun.
How about Drusilla, Honeybunch: the youthful flings of Mayor Wilkins.
Okay, I might watch a movie about the slayerettes if we can have Drusilla hunting them down and killing them.
Stumbled on a show on the WE (Women's Entertainment?) channel titled, Night Bites: Women And Their Vampires which featured clips from many vampy things including Buffy and Angel and interviews with Stephanie Romanov, Marti Noxon and Anne Rice.
It'll be repeated if you have TiVo. Also reportage from various gothy/vampy scenes.
I saw the last twenty minutes, too! I tuned in right as they were interviewing Marti Noxon about BtVS.
I finally cracked open my Buffy season 6 DVDs yesterday after having them for who knows how long. I made it up to "Gone" last night, though I watched OMWF with the commentary on because I've already seen it about a hundred times at Cons and friends houses.
I had no recollection of how bad "Wrecked" actually was. I'd only seen it once, when it first aired and when I was brand new to the show so I didn't have a lot of reference. I recalled it as being not the greatest episode, but hardly terrible. Watching it yesterday was a rude awakening. Ugh.
Oh yeah. I actually just watched that last night with my housemate, who's making her way through all my Buffy DVDs at lightning speed. It's just so, so bad. My hatred for the magic = crack storyline has only increased over time. ugh.
I think we should rewrite all of Season 6. In my opinion, the changes wouldn't have to be THAT huge - just fixing Smashed and Wrecked would completely change the character of the entire Willow/Tara thing, bringing it back to good or even great, even if we didn't touch anything else.
Of course, this is speaking from the perspective of somebody who actually quite likes much of Season 6. I just think the magic!crack storyline in particular was terribly thought out, written, and executed, and completely stifled the potential inherent in the "Willow has serious boundary and control issues that need exploring" setup that built through all of season 5 and climaxed in OMWF and Tabula Rasa.
I don't mind the magic being an addictive thing. I can totally see that. Having it map directly to drug abuse, to the point where we suddenly have magic junkies, however, is just dumb.
So far, "Wrecked" is the only episode I've had a problem with, though the fallout in "Gone" where Buffy and Dawn have to remove anything that could be used for magic from the house grates as well.
Having it map directly to drug abuse, to the point where we suddenly have magic junkies, however, is just dumb.
Even worse -- no set up. No warnings when Willow was just starting out. Or even when Giles went ballistic over the resurrection of Buffy. Just all of a sudden, oops, magic can be addictive.