'Get It Done'
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.
Oh, I have movies like that. Emotional associations suck when they ... suck.
I could stand to rewatch Angel, too, but not until I get through the first three seasons of Buffy. Not that I have any idea when I'm going to do this, since I don't think S. will be interested.
From Mark Watches Doomed this made me laugh and laugh: "Oh, right, Buffy and Riley save the world and they kiss. Meh, who cares when SPIKE IS ONE OF THE SCOOBIES THIS IS THE DAY WHEN THE ANGELS SANG VICTORIOUS IN HEAVEN."
Mark's up to "Goodbye Iowa". This made me laugh:
I still can’t figure out what Adam’s “purpose” might be. Why did Professor Walsh create him?
Yeah, if you DO figure that out, please let me know. Joss too, by the way.
Dude, she's a researcher...does she really need a bigger purpose than "to see what happens?" Although I would agree that the narrative would have been enhanced by having one...but iirc, they found out sooner than expected that the actress that played Dr. Walsh couldn't be there and compressed the arc. Unless I'm crazy(SORRY MARK!) But that could be, too.(Also, that was about eleven million fandoms...or at least eleven, ago...I could have become unmoored from BTVS arcana.)
iirc, they found out sooner than expected that the actress that played Dr. Walsh couldn't be there and compressed the arc.
Yep.
That's right - I'd forgotten about that. They had that a bit of that season 4, what with Seth Green asking to go.
I think what they intended was probably more interesting. Not that I hated those eps or anything(rewatching for fanfic *right now* AIFG, although still without all of Mark's feels.) But there are places where things feel rushed sometimes(Riley, who's generally not the kind of character a latter-day hippie like me is primed to dig anyway, but they really didn't get much time to decide who he was before he had to go be something else.)
I think Adam could have been a lot more interesting of a big bad then they made him, and based on the actor's appearence in Restless it doesn't look like a lack of acting ability (unlike, say, if Adam had been played by Bailey Chase or Charlie Weber).
Not that the Mayor's or Angelus/Drusillas' motives/plans made all that much more sense, but they did their villiany with panache. But a decent plan for Adam would have made up for the (I assume) deliberate lack of style.
The Mayor's plan made a lot of sense: attaining apotheosis into an ageless colossal demon that could push around anyone he wanted. He'd just been at it so long he failed to take into account the ready availability of modern explosives.
An error in judgment that was also the Judge's undoing, as I recall.
I've been trawling the archives on cracked.com, and the lack of follow up on the sex mantis from Teacher's Pet as one of the five most maddening unresolved plotlines on TV.
I had never really given it much thought, but luckily Sunnydale is gone, so that's all good.