I agree with Cindy about the dailiness not ever stopping, that you can't "stop all the clocks" because the cat still needs fed, the baby changed, people need to eat--and thank heaven for the convention of bringing food to the house of the bereaved, because all the visitors who come by have to eat something, even if the family can't force food down just yet.
But the one thing Joss got right was the extraordinary clarity of a single sense--something in your brain short-circuits and doesn't process normally. You hear children playing three houses over, or footsteps on the front sidewalk, and never notice the kettle boiling, or the water gushing from the faucet.
Or your vision sharpens, almost like pre-migraine, and every nick and cut in the tabletop suddenly is in sharp focus and has meaning, only you can't quite figure it out...
That odd isolation and enhancement of the senses was ably done, and very true, I thought.
Best of Buffy DVD Collection is coming out this fall. It is two disks and includes these episodes:
1. The Pack
2. Halloween
3. Passion
4. The Wish
5. Helpless
6. Fear Itself
7. Hush
8. Same Time Same Place
Not a bad collection -- although I don't know that I'd have had "Helpless", "Fear Itself" or "Same Time Same Place". I know I'd have OMWF, Pangs, FFL, possibly more Faith episodes. . .
Apparently, it's the same collection that was sold as a Best Buy Exclusive last year.
The first disc sounds good (assuming they break in that order) but of the second, Hush is the only one I'd want particularly to own.
At least half of that collection is so arc dependent for various seasons, I can't see it being a good intro. Aside from that, who's best are we talking about (who selected or was there a theme or ?)?
I also wonder what the criteria were for selection. I mean, STSP the only ep out of the last 3 seasons?
I have no idea who made that selection - I agree that the first disk is good and what I'd choose, but the second is weak.
"Best Episodes of Buffy That Haven't Already Been Included On One Of Our Other Themed DVD Collections" is a lot to fit on a DVD cover.
Aww...poor Dawnie. 13 Memorably Unpopular Characters from Popular TV.
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Wow! She beat out everyone but Cousin Oliver and Scrappy Doo on a list that includes Barney, Wesley Crusher, and Urkel—that's some power hating going on.
Elmo deserves to be on that list. On the other hand, knowing that Scrappy is the villian of the live-action movie makes me kind of want to see that.
