Well yeah, IsThisBlood?Dawn and DoYouReallyThinkI'mAfraidOfYouBecauseYou'reTheSlayer?Dawn showed a fair amount of promise. Unfortunately, we got about 60 episodes of GetOutGetOut!GETOUT!Dawn to go along with those brief glimmers.
Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely.
'Serenity'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 06, 2004 9:47:32 am PDT #8294 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
Volans - Jun 06, 2004 9:56:01 am PDT #8295 of 10001
move out and draw fire
And unexplainedly klepto Dawn, and...nah, I don't even want to think about her. Hated Dawn. Realized how much I hated the Slayerettes in the final season when I would get relieved to see Dawn on screen. With Matt in thinking that a looney bin without Dawn beats working at Doublemeat Palace and going home to Dawn.
I don't remember them sucking this much the first time around.
Crap. I've always assumed that I'll like them better when I watch them again. I felt betrayed by the series at the time; then I thought I'd look back and see how mature and good they were.
Polter-Cow - Jun 06, 2004 9:58:02 am PDT #8296 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
IsThisBlood?Dawn
I love IsThisBlood?Dawn. That's one of the moments that stayed with me for a long time. I really like what Michelle Trachtenberg does with her voice when she gets emotional like that.
Unfortunately, we got about 60 episodes of GetOutGetOut!GETOUT!Dawn to go along with those brief glimmers.
Oh God. And the TWoP recaps kept mentioning how often she flounced, and I never really noticed, but now it's so incredibly blatant. I've lost count of all the flouncing. Gosh, kid, walk away normally for once.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 06, 2004 10:01:03 am PDT #8297 of 10001
What is even happening?
And unexplainedly klepto Dawn
It seemed pretty transparent to me. She was acting up and acting out, because her life sucked. Her father ignored her. She'd just found out she wasn't real. Her mother died. The only person who seemed to really love her died, and then was dragged out of heaven, and was a depressed crank who was ignoring her and babying her.
Also? Summers blood. The monks made her out of Buffy, who shoplifted before she was a slayer (see the 'calling of the slayer' flashback in Becoming).
Lee - Jun 06, 2004 10:02:16 am PDT #8298 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I've always assumed that I'll like them better when I watch them again.
So had I. Unfortunately, I think Katie M nailed it when she said:
Well, the first time around you don't know that you've got thirteen more episodes of this to go.
I am getting some fun out of it, since I still llove OMWF, and I knew enough to fast forward the Loan Shark part of Tabula Rasa.
I seem to have stalled at the prospect of watching Doublemeat Palace again. Maybe tonight, when I am too tired to care how much it sucks.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 06, 2004 10:04:21 am PDT #8299 of 10001
What is even happening?
I've always assumed that I'll like them better when I watch them again.
So had I. Unfortunately, I think Katie M nailed it when she said:
Well, the first time around you don't know that you've got thirteen more episodes of this to go.
This is like a jumbled version of me. I liked season 6 the first time around. I liked it when I rewatched select episodes between seasons 6 and 7. I couldn't wait to get the DVDs. Now I have had them for a week, and can't make myself start watching. It is a hard season, and a lot of the non-Buffista fandom really came close to ruining it for me.
Polter-Cow - Jun 06, 2004 10:05:13 am PDT #8300 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
knew enough to fast forward the Loan Shark part of Tabula Rasa.
I love the Loan Shark. Cause, get it?! He's a shark! Sorry, but I found it terribly amusing.
I seem to have stalled at the prospect of watching Doublemeat Palace again. Maybe tonight, when I am too tired to care how much it sucks.
That was a weird episode cause the TV Guide episode guide called it one of the best episodes of the season or something, and then I watched it and was all, "Buh?"
Willow's pseudo-science in that episode bugged me. SCIENCE IS NOT ALL ABOUT COLORED LIQUIDS. IN FACT, MOST LIQUIDS ARE FUCKING CLEAR.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 06, 2004 10:06:13 am PDT #8301 of 10001
What is even happening?
What d'ya want? She was a junkie.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 06, 2004 10:09:36 am PDT #8302 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 at the very start and the very end it was brilliant, and there were flashes of brilliance in the middle such as "Normal Again," "Dead Things," and most especially OMWF. But while I think the season as a whole was good from a critical standpoint, most of the rest wasn't enjoyable. And when it comes to rewatching, enjoyable keeps a hell of a lot better than critically good.
Honestly, it seems to me that once they got rolling a HUGE amount of the creative energy and resultant fun got sucked out of the middle of the season and concentrated in the musical.
Lee - Jun 06, 2004 10:27:00 am PDT #8303 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Honestly, it seems to me that once they got rolling a HUGE amount of the creative energy and resultant fun got sucked out of the middle of the season and concentrated in the musical.
I agree with this. Up until Tabula Rasa, I was actually doing okay with the season on rewatch, despite some dislike, but then I hit the Smashed/Wrecked/Gone section, and it all went to hell.