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[shadowkat]

Alright..taking a bit of time out to admit the latest Mark Watches post amused me.

Highlights:

*BUFFY’S DREAM. WHAT THE FUCK. Oh my god, Faith, I miss you. How is this show going to deal with you? I thought you were dead for sure, and now you’re here, and you’re in a coma, and I just feel bad for you. Why do I have a feeling this dream sequence has some other importance I’m not seeing?

Me: You have no idea. Fan literally rewound that dream five or six times to figure out the clues for the next two seasons - which are all interwoven in that dream. The coming of Dawn, Joyce's death, and finally Buffy's death to save the world.

And if you think the dream sequence in S3 is trippy, just wait until Restless in S4.

Also Dude, seriously, is Fuck your favorite word? It makes your posts difficult to read at work.

Angel: SHUT THE FUCK UP. I am so irritated by you and your constant need for melodrama. First, you don’t want Buffy around. Then you want to help her. Then you don’t want to live. And now you won’t stick around to say goodbye because it’ll be “too painful.” Maybe it’s so painful because you won’t make up your goddamn mind. Can you even imagine the pain you are causing Buffy with this whole back-and-forth routine? No? SO STOP IT.

If Angel's lurking indecisiveness where Buffy is concerned bugs him in Graduation Day, just wait for Pangs and I Will Always Remember You - which are what killed that ship dead for me. For more or less the same reason's Mark is echoing above.

Oh, of course Angel is going to Brood in the fog and smoke before disappearing. Angel was never truly worried about saying goodbye. He just needed to brood one last time.

LOL! Actually, not for the last time. And... Well he never actually does need to say goodbye, because he just keeps popping up, once a season. I think the only season he didn't pop up was S6 - no wait, he did, just off stage. B/A relationship otherwise known as "do I stay or do I go, I can't make up my mind!!!"

Almost makes me want to re-watch the series again.


I think my Buffy poll is finally done. I'll close it Friday night. With 75 participants, S3 is still not much of a favorite, only 11 people list it as a favorite and only 6 as their favorite of all the seasons. S5 is still ahead by a wide margin, with S6 a few lags behind, and S7/S3 tied for third place, S4 is in fourth,
S2 is in fifth and S1 dead last. Apparently the majority of my flist or whomever took the poll prefers the latter seasons to the earlier ones. I'm guessing they are mostly Spike fans like myself...because let's face it he's not in the earlier seasons. If you are a Spike fan, you probably won't rank 1-3 as your overall favorite or 1st. The people who tend to put S3 first - I've noticed - aren't Spike fans, but Faith or Xander fans. Poor souls. You really got gypped. Faith hardly has much of an arc.
Angel/David Boreanze fans, I don't feel sorry for, they got an entire series featuring their hero. Plus Bones. Frigging lucky people. While us Spike/James Marsters fans, got barely anything in comparison. I really need to stop becoming enamored of quirky character actors.

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[shapinglight]

I really need to stop becoming enamored of quirky character actors.

But square jawed leading man types are so dull!

[lizziebuffy2008.livejournal.com]

Angel: SHUT THE FUCK UP. I am so irritated by you and your constant need for melodrama. First, you don’t want Buffy around. Then you want to help her. Then you don’t want to live. And now you won’t stick around to say goodbye because it’ll be “too painful.” Maybe it’s so painful because you won’t make up your goddamn mind. Can you even imagine the pain you are causing Buffy with this whole back-and-forth routine? No? SO STOP IT.

I see a Spuffy fan in the making...

If Angel's lurking indecisiveness where Buffy is concerned bugs him in Graduation Day, just wait for Pangs and I Will Always Remember You

He won't see the latter unless he watches AtS, right?

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I know taste and personality is very subjective, but I preferred the earlier seasons of BTVS, which had more modular episodes & plots. S5, particularly the back half, was very Arc heavy. Which, clearly, didn't work for me as well as it did others.

Not that I rewatch a lot of BtVS anymore (when I watch older shows, I'm now more into watching shows I didn't watch the first time around) but it makes it harder for me to rewatch many of the latter season episodes.

Which, suggests I'm more of a fan of procedural than arc heavy style. Kind of odd, I guess. I don't assess the shows I currently watch based on re-watchability (which is something procedurals do better with) and yet that's how I find myself judging seasons as a whole.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I don't think when Graduation first ran anyone had Mark's attitude toward Angel. After all we all knew Angel was leaving, it was just a matter of "how." The excuse "why" he left in the story didn't really matter at the time. And if he didn't like the way Angel left, wait till Mark gets a load of Riley's departure. ;o)

[lusciousxander.livejournal.com]

I think Mark will dislike Spike because of his abusive relationship with Harmony, stalky behavior in S5 and abusive relationship with Buffy, but he doesn't scare me like the comments below. Those make me shudder.

As a big Xander fan, it's really hard reading the comments in his blog, but Mark's comments are usually decent when it comes to Xander. He's not as angry as the people who comment on his reviews.

My favorite season is a tie between S6 and S2. I love the later seasons, but I enjoy watching the early seasons more. But when it comes to reading fanfic, I prefer reading fics set in the later seasons.