Willow ,'Beneath You'
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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.
Me with Maysa on the meta.
OK, I'm sorry about that. But it's still true.
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."
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.
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.
This is also true. Huh. You'd think I was a Libra, arguing both sides this way.
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."
Oh, god, I had actually blocked that part out. That was so awful.
Yeah, that was dumb. Agreed.
Still, LOVE the episode. Third favorite ep of season 6 (after OMWF and Tabula Rasa). And I LIKE Season 6. A lot.
Katie: The Buffy Animated Series will apparently explore parts of Buffy's high school career in the dawn-memories. Which I think is kinda interesting.
(Do I actually really sit this alone in the "I really like Dawn" corner?)
Katie: The Buffy Animated Series will apparently explore parts of Buffy's high school career in the dawn-memories. Which I think is kinda interesting.
(Do I actually really sit this alone in the "I really like Dawn" corner?)
Well...
Actually, I came to like Dawn just fine. I mean, I would've been happy with more Dawn in S7. I'm just really gut-level bugged by the idea that the first four years of this show never really happened. I know that sounds silly--I feel kind of silly saying it, because of course they never happened, it's a TV show--but... well.
So while I may well watch the Animated Buffy, seeing Dawn injected into Sunnydale High is going to be, er, a little difficult.
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."
Still say I can hand wave it as being another aspect of the demon's venom.