I never did see the musical episode of Buffy.

[conuly]

So I found it online and watched it, and then continued to watch the series from there. Along the way, I've realized something. Two somethings, anyway.

1. I actually don't like season 7. Each individual episode is fine, I just don't like it all together.

2. My sister attended high school with SMG. Which, of course, is to be expected when you attend LaGuardia, but it's still pretty nifty.

This is random, because I have little else to post today. I don't know, nothing interesting is happening lately that I want to talk about.

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Well, perhaps not 'believable', but at least 'plausible in context'. The book Robinson Crusoe isn't really believable, and The Swiss Family Robinson is even less so, but one can suspend disbelief with only a minor effort of will. With Gilligan's Island that's not possible even in childhood; it's all too ridiculous.

Gilligan's Island was funny, though - or at least I found it funny when I was in grade school. Buffy had its occasional funny moments, but mostly it seemed to be a lot of pseudo-teenage angst and drama, 'Emo Times at Hellmouth High'.

I did like Giles, Spike and Anya, who seemed to have genuine, original characters at times, rather than just stereotypical TV Tropes characteristics. And I did appreciate Willow and Tara's sweet witchy romance; even though it ended so tragically. I thought it was great to have a lesbian relationship in a show that wasn't about Lesbian Relationships, y'know; just naturally occurring in the context of ordinary life, or what passes for it in Sunnydale.

LOL, nah, TV Tropes is a pretty big site, but it's not that big. If it was a real book, instead of a link-overloaded web-site where it takes twice as long to turn a page as it does to read one, it would only make one moderate-sized paperback, and I can get through the average paperback in less time than it takes to watch an average movie.

Not that TV Tropes would be worth reading all the way through, even if it was a book - it's cute, but it's all too much of the same thing, like reading a guidebook of Antarctic crustaceans or something (supposing that Antarctic crustaceans were not one's own field of study.) Actually, I think my interest would probably last longer with the arthropods, especially if there were pictures.