Oh Hec - if you could swing that, count me in!!!
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
This is where we talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No spoilers though?if you post one by accident, an admin will delete it. This thread is NO LONGER NAFDA. Please don't discuss current Angel events here.
SuziQ - Apr 13, 2004 5:08:07 pm PDT #7503 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Vortex - Apr 13, 2004 5:51:59 pm PDT #7504 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
We should start a movement to get it into second run theatres. I would see it as many times as I could.
Side note: tonight, to avoid the press conference, I went to one of my favorite gay bars/restaurants for dinner. I knew that I could count on them to have videos or porn, not the conference. Anyway, had a Buffy Burger -- burger is marinated in red wine, then on a bun with garlic, ceasar dressing, cheese, lettuce, tomato. YUM
Maysa - Apr 13, 2004 5:59:18 pm PDT #7505 of 10001
I liked Tara alot, but was kinda happy when she died. Because, from a storytelling standpoint it a) had to happen and b) still took guts to actually do.
I disagree. There's only so many times you can play the "they just got happy again, so now we're going to break them up/kill one of them" card. I could see it coming a mile away because by S6 that was ME's pattern. In seasons 1-5 the tragedy always felt real to me. In S6 there was so much and it was so constant that I knew nobody was going to be happy for more than two episodes and it no longer felt organic.
Also, it was very apparent that the ONLY reason they did it was to bring on Dark Willow and it felt forced and clumsy. I don't think it had to happen and the gutsier thing to do would be to have Tara and Willow deal with their relationship and not to have EVERY relationship on the show end in death or leaving town.
However, Dark Willow running around for half a season would have been pretty cool.
Connie Neil - Apr 13, 2004 6:11:36 pm PDT #7506 of 10001
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Tara trying to save Dark Willow--though that might have been too much of a reflection of Buffy/Angelus. Still, the theme of the season was "Back to the beginning," wasn't it? And this time it would have been a battle for the soul of a core Scoobie. We could have gotten lovely debate on souls not equaling good.
But I'm not an ME writer.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 13, 2004 6:40:55 pm PDT #7507 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think having Willow be crazy/evil for substantially longer than she was would've irrevocably removed the character from people's sympathies. They needed to have it take place over a short enough period of time and with enough understandable triggers that Willow could come back from the brink.
Maysa - Apr 13, 2004 6:45:00 pm PDT #7508 of 10001
I think having Willow be crazy/evil for substantially longer than she was would've irrevocably removed the character from people's sympathies.
If they had done it right, I think it would have increased sympathy, like with Faith in S3 and S4.
Gris - Apr 13, 2004 8:51:29 pm PDT #7509 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Somebody explain to me why I was stupid enough to go read the TWOP recap of "The Body." I mean, all it did was make me real sad. What was the point?
I guess I'm just dumb.
Rayne - Apr 14, 2004 3:41:37 am PDT #7510 of 10001
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Because you like pain? That ep makes me want to curl up in a ball for days.
Fred Pete - Apr 14, 2004 4:10:22 am PDT #7511 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
They needed to have it take place over a short enough period of time and with enough understandable triggers that Willow could come back from the brink.
But if the arc had ended with Willow dead.... That's the one place ME never really went in BtVS -- killing one of the core group. The closest they came was when Oz and Giles left, and even those happened because the actors wanted it.
On the other hand, if you thought there was an outcry about Dead Lesbians when Tara died....
Jeff Mejia - Apr 14, 2004 5:13:53 am PDT #7512 of 10001
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
Still, the theme of the season was "Back to the beginning," wasn't it?
That was the theme for season 7. I don't remember what the stated theme was in season 6. I do remember the writers saying something about the mistakes you make in your 20's as an example of what they were going for.