Meme taken from shivver13

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Name an episode (or episodes, as many as you like) from one of the following shows and I will tell you the following about it.

Buffy, Doctor Who, Farscape, X-FilesWhat I like about it

Comments

[itsnotmymind]

Doctor Who
The Sounds of Drums

Buffy
Weight of the World

Weight Of The World

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What I like about it: The Ben and Glory gag! The flashback to Buffy as as a little girl. The friednship scenes between Buffy and Willow

What I don't like about it: It should have been a really interesting opportunity to look inside Buffy's mind, but instead it felt a bit padded-out to me, you could unfortunately tell that it was mostly written to cover for Sarah's absense with Scooby Doo

Favorite line: 'Are we saying that Ben and Glory have some kind of connection?'

Best performance: Glory was pretty fun in this one

A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me: The Ben and Glory arguments

Something I would have changed to make the episode better: I think it would have been better if it was an episode where they set out to do something inside Buffy's mind because it was something that interested Joss, similar to Restless from season 4 I guess. Instead it felt to me more like they first needed a good excuse to put Buffy in a coma for an episode, and then they wrote the episode around that need

Re: Weight Of The World

[itsnotmymind]

The sequence in Buffy's mind resonated with me deeply, but I have always found the execution of the episode kind of iffy. And yes, the Ben and Glory gag is hilarious! Poor Spike.

Re: Weight Of The World

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Yeah I feel like it's a really interesting premiere for Buffy to be completely shut down, and to then spend an episode inside her head, but the execution is kind of lacking when it's so clearly only been written to give Sarah some time off. Some of the scenes were pretty good, it was especially cute seeing little Buffy meet Dawn for the first time, but there was a lot more they could have done with it. It feels like an episode that was really calling out for Joss's touch

Re: Weight Of The World

[itsnotmymind]

I actually found the first Dawn meeting to be cliché. I really hate fictional stories where the kid doesn't want a younger sibling until they meet said younger sibling and they are suddenly cool with it. It doesn't work like that in real life.

But yes, Joss' touch would have been fabulous.

The Sound Of Drums

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What I like about it: The master of course! I loved the look back into his history with the doctor, the flashbacks to Gallifrey, his relationship with Lucy, just pretty much all of it

What I don't like about it: There isn't much that I dislike about this episode, it was the follow-up that was a letdown to me. TSOD had really build up the anticipation for the Doctor and Master finally being on screen together, and yet so much of it was spend with DT in old age make-up, or as that shrivelled bird thing..

Favorite line: "I like it when you say my name"

Best performance: John Simm

A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me: I always wanted to know more about Lucy, and what had originally drawn her to the Master

Something I would have changed to make the episode better: I would have spend more time on the follow-up, the return of the Master was too big a development to be all wrapped up in the finale