Buffy Season Six thoughts
Jan. 10th, 2005 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jetpack_monkeyI've been randomly watching S6 eps over the weekend, mostly Trio eps, and... really wondering how in the hell I became so enamored of this show that year. I mean, there's so few episodes here that are really worth noting.
Some stuff that I used to like that I really don't now:
- The interminable tower scene from Bargaining Part 2. Used to make me weep like a little girl. Now? Would like it to end now please.
- Flooded. Slight episode, nothing really accomplished that couldn't have been done (and, really, was done) in Life Serial.
- All the Way. Still amusing in places, but certainly one of Dawn's more annoying hours.
- I never liked Wrecked and I freaking hate it now.
- For some reason, I used to really like Dead Things.
- I never understood why nobody ever seemed to like Sam. Now I don't understand why I never saw why.
- Older and Far Away. Dawn's most annoying hour. And Xander actually asking Willow to perform magick? What the hey?
- Hell's Bells. The last stop on the Xander Character Assassination Express. Also, no Giles, which is pretty inexcusable.
- Seeing Red. Completely misses the point of the whole show.
- Villains through Grave. A - Spike was so getting that chip out. If he wasn't, he was acting grossly out of character. B - They completely failed to earn Evil Willow. Dark Willow, maybe, but not Evil Willow. C - Xander's awfully whiny. I don't care if he saves the world, it's annoying.
Life Serial, OMWF, Tabula Rasa, and Normal Again remain the only four episodes that I really truly like in that season. And I maybe have a soft spot for Gone (which I didn't like so much the first time I saw it).
Some stuff that I used to like that I really don't now:
- The interminable tower scene from Bargaining Part 2. Used to make me weep like a little girl. Now? Would like it to end now please.
- Flooded. Slight episode, nothing really accomplished that couldn't have been done (and, really, was done) in Life Serial.
- All the Way. Still amusing in places, but certainly one of Dawn's more annoying hours.
- I never liked Wrecked and I freaking hate it now.
- For some reason, I used to really like Dead Things.
- I never understood why nobody ever seemed to like Sam. Now I don't understand why I never saw why.
- Older and Far Away. Dawn's most annoying hour. And Xander actually asking Willow to perform magick? What the hey?
- Hell's Bells. The last stop on the Xander Character Assassination Express. Also, no Giles, which is pretty inexcusable.
- Seeing Red. Completely misses the point of the whole show.
- Villains through Grave. A - Spike was so getting that chip out. If he wasn't, he was acting grossly out of character. B - They completely failed to earn Evil Willow. Dark Willow, maybe, but not Evil Willow. C - Xander's awfully whiny. I don't care if he saves the world, it's annoying.
Life Serial, OMWF, Tabula Rasa, and Normal Again remain the only four episodes that I really truly like in that season. And I maybe have a soft spot for Gone (which I didn't like so much the first time I saw it).
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Date: 2005-01-10 09:52 pm (UTC)I have a weakness for tragically hopeless characters. I like AtS's ending for the same reason I liked Connor.
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Date: 2005-01-10 10:02 pm (UTC)The ending of Not Fade Away was brilliant and totally in keeping with Angel, the character and the series. Very Wild Bunch-y, which makes sense, since Angel pretty much lifted his rousing "are you with me?" speech from Peckinpah's movie.
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Date: 2005-01-11 12:36 am (UTC)I know, I know. Bad nerd.
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Date: 2005-01-11 01:03 am (UTC)The Wild Bunch and The Searchers are two of Joss's favorite films, incidentally. I really need to watch more Westerns. When done correctly, it can be a more transcendent genre than horror (which, I suspect, is the reason Joss picked it for Firefly).