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Oasx posted:Also, Restless is the best episode of Buffy.  Even before Sopranos, doing a perfect dream episode.
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NikkolasKing posted:Yeah I haven't mentioned her but mainly because I just don't know what the heck is the point of her character. Why did they turn her into a rat? I wonder if there's any actual explanation. At least Earshot gave Jonathan a real purpose and I remember his end. Do you need a character that is "teenage witch that is just better at magic than Willow" in the story? If you need someone who knows magical stuff to explain plot, Anya took whatever role Amy could.
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Open Source Idiom posted:It's neglible speed up to make episodes fit a different ad space run time without cutting any scenes. It doesn't really affect anything. I still have 15 year old rips of my own for S1-5, but I have long-downloaded  for S6-7 and it is noticeable to me, just because everyone just sounds a little...off. Willow sounds too high pitched. Theme song sounds wrong to me.Veryslightlymad posted:Dawn's pretty much the only thing I like about Season 7 at all, aside from the closing shot in the one episode with Spike smoking against the cross and the look of wonder that Anya gives Spike when she first sees him and understands what happened. Emma absolutely nailed that emotion, which can be a tricky one. I do think that is something the writers knew about the Buffy/Anya relationship, as I again point out Restless as the high point of the entire show. Once you get to Buffy's dream, and all of the Scoobs have been killed, it starts with Anya, far away, whispering to Buffy. It is something they knew about. Everyone posted:I suspect that Whedon came to understand this after the fact and that was why he tried to get Benson to come back. Wasn't the original Whedon thing was he wanted a main credits characters killed off in the first episode - he wanted Jessie in the main credits in the pilot so it would be shocking to kill him off. That's why Amber Benson is in the main cast for that episode - and I remember knowing when I watched the episode live that this was going to be the "Tara dies" episode.
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RIP Merl. And to wherever the Groosalug went I hope it was ok.
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This "Oz was supposed to die after 4 episodes" sounds suspiciously similar to the Spike "you're dead, you hear me?!?!" story.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I'm about halfway through seerfasunon 6 of Buffy/Season 3 of Angel, andd it really feels like the quality of "Buffy" fell off a cliff after season five. This is the first time I've watched the shows in at least a decade, always liked season six a lot when I was younger. Eh, tastes change. Holtz is the best Angel villain, you understand exactly where he is coming from and feels more threatening than the other big bass to me.
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FilthyImp posted:That is true. They could have tied in his Soldier Costume programming into being more disciplined or paid Brendan to, iono, get jacked or something? IIRC Whedon threw a fit when Brendan showed up in season 2 looking fit because he wanted a more schlubby character.
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I have no links or anything to hearing about that, just something I vaguely remember from years of reading buffy forums and news. This may have also been a dispute not just between Brendon and Whdeon but Whedon and the WB.
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NikkolasKing posted:
That's why you needed Jonathan there by season 2 to be even more pathetic.
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Sometimes Caleb and Jasmine both feel like "Firefly has been cancelled, how can we fit the stars into the other shows" and that would include Adam Baldwin a year later.
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NikkolasKing posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76cH2tMI2A&t=15s When I first watched that I thought that it was just building towards The Master and I was pumped to go back to vampires after everything else, because I thought the Master was cool. Then Buffy showed up at the end and I was like "she's evil now?" I was so confused
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sebmojo posted:I cannot help but read it as waif u, like a frail waif.. But yeah I think that's a reasonable critique. All of my beloved anime girls go to finishing school at waif u
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Angel is incredibly sauce with the ladies, case in point: https://youtu.be/A8fcH8I4bp0
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Rochallor posted:On my last watch Season 3 dragged a whole lot more than I remembered. There's a lot of middling episodes, and while there are some highs, they don't come close to Season 2, the back half of which is basically perfect. I remember Mr. Trick being in alot more episodes than he actually was. He's in like 5 when I thought he was there for most of them.
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roomtone posted:
I remember watching the commentary on one of the later S5 episodes and I remember them talking about the scene they were filming when they got the notice, some time in the alternate heart ripping dimension. They said it was like their own hearts being ripped out or something.
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NikkolasKing posted:Vaguely relevant but to your last point, that ep with Spike's origin and the story of killing the Slayers, he asks Buffy for some Buffalo wings or something. It just made me think how cushy Buffy vamps got it. In a lot of fiction, vampires can't consume anything but blood. They certainly can't enjoy human food or get high or anything like Buffy vamps get up to. I think they describe eating human food as being possible but bland and off putting. There is a one off line of Spike liking weetabix or something because it thickens up the blood. Or in Angel season 5 the blood they drink tastes great because they added otter.
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NikkolasKing posted:Although Holtz - who is just a completely normal human - does have a very infamous feat of killing a WR&H hit squad armed with guns with only a sword and it was similarly in a ridiculously short span of time. Not nearly as many people died as with Glory but back in my "who could beat who days" Holtz stood at the top of the Buffyverse humans in terms of skill because of this. Whenever I get to AtS, I'm looking forward to Holtz. He was awesome. Although I recall some fans trying to paint him as an antihero or antivillain. No, he's just an evil SOB, no matter what was done to him. He's far too methodical, especially with what he does to Connor, to be anything but evil. Holtz is the best villain in Angel, probably because he is human. Just like Holland Manners showed Angel in season 2 - Humans can be just as cruel and evil as any demon. Edit: lol https://youtu.be/qN36NgSuwQE GoutPatrol fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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banned from Starbucks posted:Didn't they give her a credit the episode they killed her off in? yes, the story was always Whedon wanted Eric Balfour in the pilot credits to make it shocking that he died but they didn't want to pay more to him, etc. So they saved it for Tara.
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Whenever I hear James Marsters or Alexis Denisof speaking in their real voices it sounds like that is the fake one.
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I would avoid reading alot of this thread if you're trying to go in blind because much of the discussion here is full of unmarked spoilers.
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Xiahou Dun posted:His other daughter’s an actress too, y’know. I think that is the accent fooling you
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LividLiquid posted:
drat he was so good in that show. It seemed like sometimes he was the only one who "got" what being a doll was supposed to be. Maybe Amy Acker as well, if I'm going to be spoiling a show I say no one should go back to, unless you just watch the finale of season 1, which wrapped up stuff much better than anything season 2 tried. And I guess Severance Spoilers here too: Dichen Lachman came in with good doll experience
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Dog_Meat posted:The whole Initiative thing was a bit of a slog and could have been handled a lot better, but it did give us Professor Walsh trying to kill Buffy in the tunnel and her "you have no idea what a slayer is... trust me when I say you're going to find out" moment. https://youtu.be/hgJw3IKwDTc?si=CFDAZRzNUFO_RgqR It's a good scene
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banned from Starbucks posted:No amount of budget is gonna make the initiative as a concept any better. The sets and monster costumes all looked fine. super
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His brother sang One Night in Bangkok. They are a talented family. The best 80s british rap this side of the pet shop boys
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Open Source Idiom posted:Storyteller is pretty good. Forgot how blatant the episode gets about Andrew's sexuality -- and the episode suggests that maaaaybe he and Jonathan were loving. The widescreen versions of buffy are terrible. Wesley really starts to change after he gets hit first taste of LAPD hospitality
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When I saw that Kartheiser was playing Pete Campbell it was so easy to hate Pete because I was so used to hating Connor. Connor coming back in season 5 was actually good though. He just wanted to go to Tony Romo's.
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Doctor Teeth posted:Hulu has seasons 4 onward in 16:9 for some reason and I found my first goof. In the second part of the Buffy/Faith body swap two parter when the scoobies show up at the church where Adam's vampires are holding people hostage, Willow is visible and talking but Alyson Hannigan's mouth isn't moving. Clearly dubbed in later and wouldn't be visible if cropped for 4:3. There is one of these in every widescreen episode. Like, every, single one.
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