Ah, yes. I also liked most of 6, and only about 3 episodes of 7. I started with such high hopes...

Speaking of which, Lessons is on FX tomorrow morning.

I willingly confess that I loved season 6, but wanted to pet season 7 like the wounded puppy that is was, so I stuck around to see if it survived. Was very happy when the finally put the puppy down.

Awww. I just found Monique's Dawn FAQ, on web archive. I clearly remember that FAQ as being instrumental in my delurk at the linear side of the the Bronze.

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The Dawn FAQ was so useful. As the official Buffy board, the Bronze attracted so many casual fans--many of them clueless. The onslaught of posters who thought they'd caught Joss in an accidental continuity error was nearly unbearable. Then Monique posted her FAQ.

I'd lurked on the linear side of the Bronze for--I dunno--a year or two, maybe; my memories aren't clear. Eventually, I realized it was a much better fit for me than the threaded (the Bronze was the first website I ever visited, and I was so wet behind the ears, where the internet was concerned), I think in part, thanks to Monique's Dawn FAQ.

Marti quit Brothers & Sisters: [link]

Hi Cindy! You know, I had a feeling I was mentioned somewhere, and I came here and found my name.

I would have responded to this last night, while visiting some favorite sites after my vacation, but first I had to transcribe Nicholas Brendon's latest audioblog entry. In which he says the word shower three times; mentions something about him, Noah Wyle and handcuffs; and assures his listeners he thinks of them while getting massages.

It's not Xander. In a Speedo. Wet. But putting such a spin on his latest blog entry is the best I can do, now that we've moved on from the Bronze. This is my offering to you after such a nice post about the Dawn FAQ, which I had almost forgotten I did. Mainly because newbies were irritating me that season. A lot.

Hey, anyone up for a discussion of visual tropes in the Buffyverse?

Because the catwalk at the Bronze in WttH got me started (note: LA version S3 AtS w/Lilah, Wes), and now I want to keep yammering and throwing out ideas, and and and...

Well, I can't really do it alone. And it's Friday, and I'm bored.

can you define visual trope? Cause I'm thinking of Spike watching Angel save the girl "to the Angelmobile, away!" but, I'm not sure what a visual trope is.

Basically, what I'm looking at are places where you've got similar blocking and themes repeating throughout the shows.

Like, in WttH, you've got Buffy up on the catwalk, looking down at the "normal" world, while she and Giles are talking and he's basically telling her just what's setting her apart from that world, and that she has to accept that because it's who she is (obviously, that's not the direct text), and then in S6 with Dead Things, you see the same basic blocking repeated and the same theme twisted when she's with Spike on the balcony.

There's a dramatic catwalk moment in "Crush" when Drusilla kills that girl and feeds her to Spike.

There's the catwalk in S4 Angel, when Lilah's talking to Wes as they watch Connor.