There with the OMWF kiss, then next week when Buffy's pretending it didn't happen.

YDarknessAppreciationMV. I tune in for the Heroism Against Near Impossible Odds and the Grace Under Fire elements.

I think the hottest Buffy/Spike moment was their kiss at the end of Tabula Rasa. That made my knees weak.

My tape of Tabula Rasa has a "hiccup" at that part, because I re-wound and re-watched it so many times. Really the hottest B/S moment. Yes.

Though the house-destroying sex in Smashed is pretty damned hot, too. As was the Bronze catwalk sex.

Dark plots do nothing for me.

Dark plots are one of the key reasons I tune in to Buffy and Angel.

You betcha! Joss Whedon has ruined me for regular TV.

The kiss at the end of OMWF hit me hard, because I never ever thought that could happen.

Me too! I was unspoiled for all of S6, so I really didn't see the kiss coming.

Oh, for heaven's sake, Plei, you're going to take me to task for not having appreciation of the brain chemistry involved in depression in regards to my choices in entertainment?

Fine. It's all about the dark.

Joss Whedon has ruined me for regular TV.

Yeah, between him and that Minear guy, I spend a lot of time looking at other TV thinking "yeah, but where's the risk of loss?"

Bless them when they deliver, I love it so.

t basks in the Season 6 hate.

All y'all that liked it, well, carry on, but I'm just enjoying someone else coming to the light of the total suckitude.

t bitter tag for what was done to my show just don't close evah

Oh, for heaven's sake, Plei, you're going to take me to task for not having appreciation of the brain chemistry involved in depression in regards to my choices in entertainment?

No, she's taking you to task for a comment that came across as a bit dismissive to people who went through self-destructive, dark, and unhealthy times.

Self-destructive tendencies in fiction just make me go, "Call me when he/she grows up."

That made my hackles raise a bit, too, just so you know. Different perspectives, sure, no problem. But it still felt like you were dismissing something that a fair number of people have struggled with.

t /soapbox

Oh, for heaven's sake, Plei, you're going to take me to task for not having appreciation of the brain chemistry involved in depression in regards to my choices in entertainment?

I'm going to take you to task for how you worded that particular sentence. "I don't enjoy dark plots in my entertainment, they do nothing for me" is perfectly valid without being insulting. It's the "oh, grow up" reaction that gets my depressive goat, because that's like telling someone with two broken legs to just get up and walk.

Well, apologies to those who care.

edit: No, this one I will edit.

I do apologize to those folks whose good opinion I value. If any of those folk believed it was a slam on people who have had legitimate troubles with a serious problem, then I'm doubly sorry they think I would do such a thing.

As someone who does care, I thank you.