I think the Homicide one may be the best so far, just in presentation. It's clear, concise, not too snarky, not too full of in-jokes.
Angel's lame. His hair goes straight up, and he's bloody stupid!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Consuela - Oct 07, 2003 1:29:08 pm PDT #1012 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Steph L. - Oct 07, 2003 1:29:58 pm PDT #1013 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I still contend that the Buffy one was downright cranky. And I should know from cranky.
It's like the TWOP recaps -- if you don't *like* something, then don't recap it! Save yourself the apparent hell of watching it, and save us, the humble readers, the fist-shaking.
tina f. - Oct 07, 2003 1:33:48 pm PDT #1014 of 10000
I still contend that the Buffy one was downright cranky. And I should know from cranky.
It made me cranky. (I kept reading...)
This is where I would normally go on a "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I know this. But. Why does everybody have to hate Dawn? What's with all the Dawn-hate? By Season 6 she wasn't as whiny. And she was tough!" Rant. But I have to go home. So I won't.
eta: to get rid of my asscaps. there was really no need.
Madrigal Costello - Oct 07, 2003 1:40:34 pm PDT #1015 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
The change in Dawn was like going from necrotizing fasciitis to plain old leprosy. Oops, sorry, Hansen's disease. Not enough of an improvement to dispel the hatred.
If the reviewer just doesn't like the show, it can make for anguished reading. But it tends to be that when they love the show the problems bother them much more, so they tend to be more passionate and long-winded about the faults.
juli - Oct 07, 2003 1:41:36 pm PDT #1016 of 10000
you can call me bob.
Back a bit...
I'd heard that the episode was written specifically as a way to get the kiss.
I thought I saw something that indicated that the episode where Daniel goes through the mirror was the one written specifically to circumvent the Air Force's insistence that they can't have a romantic relationship.
I too have spent the summer trying to fill the void in my heart where Buffy once lived. Stargate helps, but for a girl who loves her layers it's less vidalia and more chives.
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2003 1:43:01 pm PDT #1017 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nothing is filling that space.
Though the gaping hole (because I didn't have time to prepare) is my OC shaped hole. Dammit! Hook me and dump me? What's that all about?
Vonnie K - Oct 07, 2003 1:45:11 pm PDT #1018 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
As a crank-antidote, here's the X-Men Comicverse Overview. I don't know if the folks who take the fandom more seriously would be a bit miffed at the generally irreverent tone of the overview, but it sent me, who has never read a single XM comic book, into helpless paroxysms of giggles several times. And there I was, thinking how difficult it would be to summarize BtVS to the newbies....
juli - Oct 07, 2003 1:46:15 pm PDT #1019 of 10000
you can call me bob.
Hook me and dump me? What's that all about?
Firefly, baby. Firefly. B*st*rds.
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2003 1:54:48 pm PDT #1020 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
groupiebob, no. I'm trying not to process that my disproportionate rage at being temporarily deprived of The OC is not much other than re-channelled Firefly anguish.
Thanks, though.
I didn't have a chance to read the whole X-Men thing, but it's very well and fairly done, especially for the morass that is a) comics and b) a huge seller and therefore frelled with at every turn by its owners.
juli - Oct 07, 2003 2:15:29 pm PDT #1021 of 10000
you can call me bob.
I maintain that the playoffs were the original catalyst behind the demise of Firefly and the reason that nothing of any value will ever survive Fox.