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]

I love the musical episode - when my housemate Morchal' and I worked at the robotics shop, we'd play the sound-track to that a lot, and sing along; Nothing To Tell was #1 on our hit parade.

Not so much into the rest of Buffy though - meh, what can I say; it's a TV show; even on DVD with all the damn commercials removed, it still moves at the deadly-dull, slog-it-out pace of TV shows: 10 minutes of plot stretched into a full episode by means of artificial 'suspense'. The Buffy cast are absolutely unconvincing as 'teenagers'; the show's whole premise is about as believable as Gilligan's Island.

I was particularly annoyed with the way that they portrayed not just 'witchcraft', but specifically Wicca, as the same-old hackneyed nose-wiggling wand-waving (with, of course, the obligatory trope about this Leading To Evil And Damnation If You're Not Careful.) Admittedly, Christianity doesn't fare much better in the series, but people don't assume on that basis that real Christianity is all about demons and vampires. But meh, it's a TV show; what can one expect.

"If ya read TV Tropes, ya don't have to watch TV."

[leora.livejournal.com]

Uh, so you started with Once More with Feeling and only watched from there on? Why would you do that?

Most people I know try to mostly pretend that season 6 and 7 of Buffy don't exist, except that season 6 had a few good episodes, such as Once More with Feeling, which is a whole lot better if you understand all of the backstory.

Seasons 3 and 5 I think are the best seasons, personally. But season 4 has a reasonable density of good episodes. It's just dragged down by an overall story arch that's dull, whereas seasons 3 and 5 have reasonable overall story archs with decent levels of individual quality per episode.

[darkpoole.livejournal.com]

I pretty much hated season seven. And I didn't like most of the individual episodes in it either. Not a big fan of season six, either.

But I loved the musical. Still one of my more favorite hours of TV ever.