River ,'War Stories'
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Oh my God, "Life Serial" is the longest episode ever. It lasts like fourteen hours. Was all of Season Six really this boring? Wow. Maybe I was in a better mood.
Yes. Yes. Oh my god, it got worse. I wasn't, I was like, what have they done to my show, someone must die.
But I couldn't count on getting any Buffy!channels in maximum security.
Also with the Life Serial love. For all the reasons mentioned plus the drunk!Buffy vs. wimpdemon!Jonathon fight.
The mummy hand with the tongs?! Comedy gold!
Buffy gagging every time she has a drink whether it's on screen or off? Hee-larious.
"Be free kittens!"
Ahh - I'm laughing just thinking about it.
"Be free kittens!"
"Scamper, kittens!"
Is Life Serial the one with the Death Star van? That cracks me up.
The Death Star Van - w/the soundtrack-playing horn, Andrew bursting out with "Scully wants me so bad", the Better Bond fight.
DEMON!Jonathon: I am well struck! I call on the misty portal to my demon dimension, where I will lay my head and gently die. (throws smoke bomb)
I should not be reading the Life Serial script - I should be packing....
Hate "Life Serial" - except the Mummy Hand. Probably my least favorite S6 episode. Which is interesting because S6 has by far the highest number of completely polarizing episodes: Wrecked, Seeing Red, Gone, As You Were.
Put in the the loved "Life Serial" camp. Funny, funny stuff. Plus, kittens!
I think they took a lot more risks in Season 6 than in any other since Season 2, and the latter was of such uniformly good quality that almost all the fans fell to the loved side of the loved it/hated it spectrum.
All in all, I tend to prefer that they shoot for the moon and have a spectacular failure than see them playing it safe and becoming dull and boring*. Even the magic crack and Actual Car Crash were preferable to 12 hours of Buffy giving pompous speeches to a houseful of nameless interchangeable girls while Andrew walked around with a neon "Übernerd" sign flashing over his head.
* This is almost always true except in the case of the abomination perpetrated upon Cordelia in Angel Season 3, which so enraged me that if "Provider" had aired before "Waiting in the Wings" Joss would have lost me as a viewer at least until everyone told me that Angelus was coming back in "Awakening."
Buffy gagging every time she has a drink whether it's on screen or off? Hee-larious.
Yeah, that was funny. But see, I remember really liking "Life Serial" when I first saw it. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood today, but it felt so interminably long. It does have its amusing bits.
Watched "Once More, With Feeling" for the first time since it aired. Amber Benson has a fantastic voice, wow.
I really liked season six.