Sarah's slacking off on the martial arts training plus Pruitt's departure really started to show up in the later seasons.
Grrrr.
But we all know how I feel about that.
And I don't think it's slacking off. I can go three years between punches and look better than her. And if I didn't? Someone would yell at me and make me do it right.
So I do kinda put blame on the Pruitt departure.
Chicks and fighting hits (predictably) close to home, so I admit I have made up my own rationale for this which has no basis in any fact to which I've been made privy -- she just didn't care any more, and no one dared call her on it..
My narrow little mind can fathom no other explanation.
slacking off on the martial arts training
Still not convinced there was any to slack off on.
Still not convinced there was any to slack off on.
And there is also that. She's certainly not the brown belt they claimed (this claim is what got me to watch the show, BTW).
I think that SMG probably was taking classes the first couple years, and between that and Pruit's very grounded-in-real-fighting choreography it looked better. She does have good, limber dancer extension in her kicks.
When Dark!Willow took on Buffy, AH really put SMG to shame. There are little things, but they're teachable things.
Signed,
Unable To Let Go
When Dark!Willow took on Buffy, AH really put SMG to shame.
WROD!! That is why it was the only time I ever found myself cheering against Buffy. It was beyond my control. AH was just so much better...she SHOULD have kicked her ass. That simple.
AH was just so much better...she SHOULD have kicked her ass. That simple.
And she would have, too, if it wasn't for that meddling Giles....
I liked the slo-mo in the "80s training montage" but as others have noted, it only works for me if I close my eyes during the punching bag bit. I can ignore the obvious double doing the backflips, but those punches are painful. To me, that is. Clearly not to the punching bag.
Or at least that's my understanding of how it works. I don't argue that it's squicky for someone over 20 to sleep with someone under 16.
Can't recall the numbers now, but a huge proportion of teenage births stem from these kind of relationships. Even squickier.
I can ignore the obvious double doing the backflips, but those punches are painful. To me, that is. Clearly not to the punching bag.
And, depending on how much force she put into them, they may have been pretty painful to SMG, too.
depending on how much force she put into them, they may have been pretty painful to SMG, too.
I feel pretty confident she emerged completely unscathed.
