Actually I'm in the cell next to Buffy in Normal Again.
This works on so many levels.
I think Normal Again is a brilliant episode. It's like an episode from a season that doesn't horribly suck, so yeah, it stands out like a broken thumb.
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JohnSweden - Jun 04, 2004 12:56:51 pm PDT #8267 of 10001
I can't even.
Polter-Cow - Jun 04, 2004 1:17:46 pm PDT #8268 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think Normal Again is a brilliant episode. It's like an episode from a season that doesn't horribly suck, so yeah, it stands out like a broken thumb.
I love "Normal Again." It's such a great idea, and I love the meta of it all. Although I want to slap Dawn silly when she complains about not existing in Buffy's "ideal world." Ideal world? SHE'S IN A FUCKING INSANE ASYLUM.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 04, 2004 2:30:37 pm PDT #8269 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
Yeah, but it's a fucking insane asylum WITH NO DAWN IN IT.
There are things to recommend the experience. IJS.
erikaj - Jun 04, 2004 2:59:54 pm PDT #8270 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
Maysa - Jun 04, 2004 3:44:03 pm PDT #8271 of 10001
I love "Normal Again." It's such a great idea, and I love the meta of it all.
One of the many, many reasons I hate Normal Again is the meta of it all. I can make my own meta. I don't need the show to start telling me in big easy words about how Buffy USED TO FIGHT DEMONS and now FIGHTS DORKY PEOPLE.
Connie Neil - Jun 04, 2004 3:46:54 pm PDT #8272 of 10001
brillig
Me with Maysa on the meta.
OK, I'm sorry about that. But it's still true.
Steph L. - Jun 04, 2004 3:48:23 pm PDT #8273 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The only thing that bothered me about "Normal Again" was the asspull of "Oh, back in LA, my parents put me in the looney bin briefly."
Polter-Cow - Jun 04, 2004 3:50:31 pm PDT #8274 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't need the show to start telling me in big easy words about how Buffy USED TO FIGHT DEMONS and now FIGHTS DORKY PEOPLE.
Well, I liked how the meta was converted into psychobabble.
Katie M - Jun 04, 2004 3:57:18 pm PDT #8275 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
The only thing that bothered me about "Normal Again" was the asspull of "Oh, back in LA, my parents put me in the looney bin briefly."
Yeah, I really couldn't cope with that, because it makes a whole bunch of interactions between Buffy and Joyce make no sense at all. So I told myself "never happened pre-Dawn!" which just put me back in my "wah! The first four seasons didn't happen like I remember them!" place. Which was off-putting.
The meta I didn't mind so much.
erikaj - Jun 04, 2004 5:19:04 pm PDT #8276 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
This is also true. Huh. You'd think I was a Libra, arguing both sides this way.