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frelling_tralk

Meme taken from shivver13

Feb 04, 2017 14:53

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 ( Read more... )

buffy, doctor who, x-files, farscape

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itsnotmymind February 4 2017, 17:47:39 UTC

Doctor Who
The Sounds of Drums

Buffy
Weight of the World

Weight Of The World frelling_tralk February 4 2017, 20:43:47 UTC

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 February 5 2017, 18:55:07 UTC

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 frelling_tralk February 5 2017, 20:19:53 UTC

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

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welshgirl15 February 4 2017, 21:48:57 UTC

Doctor Who - Asylum of the Daleks

frelling_tralk February 6 2017, 16:02:54 UTC

What I like about it: Plenty! It was nicely creepy to be back on the Daleks home planet, the production values looked fantastic, and it was a really interesting idea to have to guard against becoming humanoid Dalek puppets

What I don't like about it: Rory's comments on how he loves Amy more than she loves him grated a bit

Favorite line: 'Run, you clever boy, and remember'

Best performance: Jenna made the biggest impression on me in this one, what a great introduction to her

A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me: Just that whole idea of Oswin being converted into a Dalek, yet still retaining enough of her human memories to retreat into a fantasy world and refuse to accept that truth

Something I would have changed to make the episode better: They could have developed Rory and Amy's marital problems more, it felt a bit thrown in there to wrap it all in the same episode as its first introduced

sunclouds33 February 4 2017, 23:00:22 UTC

BtVS's Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered?

frelling_tralk February 5 2017, 20:12:10 UTC

What I like about it: It's just a really fun episode, especially with how unashamedly OT they get with it towards the end when Xander is being chased by a desperate mob, and being hit on by Joyce, Jenny, and Drusilla. Plus Buffy the rat was a really fun way of handling Sarah needing time off for Saturday Night Love lol, I loved her scene with Oz when she turns human again ( ... )

sunclouds33 February 7 2017, 17:40:11 UTC

I also like the Buffy/Oz scene when she's de-ratted. Buffy and Oz are both so cool that it feels right that they're both so chill about handling a teenage-awkward fest of being naked in front of your best friend's boyfriend ( ... )

frelling_tralk February 7 2017, 18:29:40 UTC

I think Giles's angry yelling is the clearest authorial moral judgment because it's coming from the intelligent wise grown-up who doesn't have a personal dog in the fightThe episode is critical of Xander in terms of calling him out on the risks of using magic, that you should know that these kind of spells can be dangerous and frequently backfire, what was missing for me though was the questioning of Xander's cruelty and entitlement in wanting to use magic to alter someone else's mind after he got dumped. There's no one taking Cordelia's corner in that respect, and Cordelia herself ends the episode simply being flattered at believing that, 'the spell was for me'. I agree that it was rather depressingly in character for her to find that sort of obsession towards her flattering, but it doesn't work for me as a happy ending with Xander getting the girl, even though Cordelia had no idea what his true motives had been, and that the spell had never been about him being desperate to win her back. (Of course that would have made it much ( ... )

rachg82 February 5 2017, 03:23:42 UTC

Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- Restless
X-Files -- Paper Hearts

Paper Hearts frelling_tralk February 6 2017, 16:13:00 UTC

What I like about it: I really liked that whole idea of how much it would throw Mulder if the possibility was ever raised that Samantha wasn't kidnapped by aliens, that maybe she was kidnapped by a much more mundane human evil, and just maybe she's been dead this whole time.

What I don't like about it: Umm nothing? It's one of my top ten episodes from the entire series, and one of the best for Mulder's character

Favorite line: 'Scully, do you believe that my sister Samantha was abducted by aliens? Have you ever believed that? No. So what do you think happened to her? '

Best performance: David of course

A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me: I liked how it examined just how much Mulder's quest to find Samantha had shaped his entire worldview, so it's interesting to consider how much it would have changed him if it was ultimately revealed that she did die at the hands of a serial killer

Something I would have changed to make the episode better: You don't mess with perfection!

Re: Paper Hearts rachg82 February 6 2017, 21:11:04 UTC

It's one of my top fave episodes too! I never get tired of it.

Re: Paper Hearts frelling_tralk February 6 2017, 22:47:18 UTC

Definitely, gotta love Vince Gilligan :)

Thread 10

infinitewhale February 5 2017, 03:26:22 UTC

BTVS - Him

Him frelling_tralk February 6 2017, 17:47:34 UTC

What I like about it: Spike tacking Buffy and the rocket launcher, Spike and Xander's plan being to just grab the jacket and run, and basically any scene with the girls in love with R.J were pretty fun. It was a nice change of pace to have a more light-hearted episode to break things up a bit ( ... )