I went straight for the commentaries (on the S4 DVDs). I've now listened to all of them, with the exception of Superstar's, since I actually haven't seen that episode yet, period. (I have read the script, though, so I do know what I'm sort of missing.) The Joss-Marti-Seth commentary for Wild at Heart is easily the best one: "You're leavin'; she's gayin'." Primeval's (David Fury and James Atwater Contner) looked like it was going to be horribly dull at first, but hang with it, because they pick up energy pretty quickly.

I can't believe I've never run across Boils and Blinding Torment before. I like it, but then, I believe them when they say that they truly do love the show.

I checked out the first 30 seconds of each commentary episode. Just to hear Joss say that his commentary is "dull and uninteresting most everytime around" makes me laugh because we all know he is far from it.

I still wish they would release and ULTIMATE EDITION of all the Buffy DVD sets for each season about 5 years down the line with new commentaries on EVERY episode. Fuck, they could charge $140 for it and I would buy each season over again. I die for commentaries.

Question is, do you even soil episodes like "The Body" and "OMWF" with commentary or does it take away from the episode as a whole. "The Body" is by far the purest and most reveared episode of the show and just as Marsters stated his opinion on why Spike wasn't in the Body because he thought he didn't need to be there. I totally respect him for that decision, because I am sure they could have worked him into the episode, but alas I think it wouldn't have added to that masterpiece.

And for "OMWF", is it really right to talk over the great singing that the cast did? Kind of like talking during an instrumental or vocal concert in school. Rude perhaps. I have a feeling both "The Body" and "OMWF" will have special featurettes about them on the discs.

I haven't watched any of the commentaries for S3 or S4 yet, but I wonder how my fave writer Jane E.'s commentary on "Earshot" does for the episode.

The Joss-Marti-Seth commentary for Wild at Heart is easily the best one

Joss' Restless commentary was a thing of beauty, though. But I don't think I've listened to this one, so what do I know? Is there a difference between the commentaries provided on dvd sets for different regions? Because I thought I'd listened to all the commentaries available for season four.

Edit: Duh, my brain's disconnected. My video store didn't have first half of S4 on dvd, so I've never listened to any of those commentaries. I always think Wild At Heart comes later in the season because I mistake it for New Moon Rising.

I thought for sure that the commentaries on the US disc set was recorded after the one was already done for the UK version. I think it was actually pretty recent that it was done if I remember correctly.

Chiming in late to say I'll always cherish "Living Conditions" for giving us one of the few Oz/Buffy scenes. They should have done more.

"No one deserves mime, Buffy"

Didn't it have a sink in it too?

(Re: Buffy and Willow's dorm room) - no, it did not. As seen in "Hush", Buffy had to walk down to the communal bathroom to brush her teeth in the morning.

We had a sink in our dorm room, which was about 20 by 20 and had massively high ceilings.

So, the dorm room seemed large for freshmen, but it didn't jar me too much.

I'm just appalled at the idea of sharing a dorm room. Ours were matchbox sized, but they were ours, dammit. Very few shared rooms in our building.

I thought that Buffy's dorm room was huge but isn't that in the tradition of say, NY apartments in shows like Friends?

I'm so glad that they've started showing repeats on UPN.

Heh. I think the room I'm in now, for me and my roommate, is about as big as the space from the closet to one of the beds in Buffy's dorm.