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ladydreamer

Buffying

Jul 14, 2009 04:24

Rewatching Buffy from season two. My first disk of season one is missing. :(

Thoughts:
Everyone is so cute and young. Willow's hats are adorable.

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Comments 11

myownghost July 14 2009, 11:37:14 UTC

i think cordy's justification for blunt bitchiness lies simply in her name. she's Cordelia, so she says exactly what she thinks, even if it gets her ejected from her father's kingdom.

i'm glad to see you aren't overly fond of buffy herself. she was admirable in many ways, but since i watched all the discs and became an instant fan, i read fiction about other characters but never look for stories about her. she's incidental to me, which is kind of a shame. (The Body shows how good an actress SMG is, though.)

broody mcvampirepants is rather dear to me. i'm of the personality type to love a byronic hero. (maybe i'm misusing 'byronic,' but i'm too lazy to look it up. it's early!) it hardly mattered to me that DB couldn't really act. omg, he's gorgeous. :D

it made me so sad that seth green left the show too soon. oz is a brilliant character. but yeah, the costumes for the werewolve are crap.

how nice to have a chance to talk about this! sorry about all the words...

myownghost July 14 2009, 11:41:11 UTC

good night, but i need to comment only after fully waking up. read that: werewolves. i don't want to keep editing the same comment and trying your patience! sorry, jenny. ;)

ladydreamer July 15 2009, 03:58:41 UTC

No problem :)

And don't worry about all the words. Not having been in Buffy fandom proper, it's nice to be able to talk about it.

ladydreamer July 15 2009, 03:57:54 UTC

Cordy says, "Tact is just not saying true stuff! I'll pass!"

Hee.

Well, I don't see much of Buffy in fanfic (of course, I don't go looking), but I've seen from either angle her written as OTT precious or bratty. And anyway, she has the spotlight for most of the series, so I don't feel too badly about reading fic about the characters and relationships we didn't get much of. I'm not too surprised when I fail to have a vested interest in the "lead" of a series, but the benefit of an interesting array of characters helps quite a bit.

Hee. Well, he did his job of looking pretty well!

frelling_tralk July 14 2009, 13:36:00 UTC

No offense of my DB loving friends, but Boreanaz must have learned to act once he was off this show.

I think Joss pretty much admitted that he cast DB after he noticed the response that David got from the female writers. But then he was never intended to be a main character, his originall plan was for a Xander/Buffy ship as endgame, so that might be why he gave David's acting a pass as it was a fairly minor role? He wasn't even a regular into season 2. I was never all that impressed with what he did with the role of Angel tbh, although he did show marked improvement when he got to try something different (Angelus, playing a women in IOHEFY, the comedy of Sense And Sensibility etc)

And I adored Spike and Dru. I was really unsure of Buffy after watching Inca Mummy Girl as my first full episode, but then I watched Halloween and fall in love with those two. They were so my OTP for a while there *g*

ladydreamer July 15 2009, 04:03:29 UTC

Haha. At least Joss owns up to it. I'm glad DB has had the opportunity based on this :)

My first episodes were Once More With Feeling and Tabula Rasa, and then I went back and tried to fill in.

cinderella81 July 14 2009, 13:51:36 UTC

I agree that this show could show SV a thing or two continuity wise ...

Season 2 wasn't my fave either ... although Xander in a speedo in 'Go Fish' was quite amusing ...

As a DB lover, I take no offense *wink* ... he definitely got better as he went on ... Ats was better and in Bones he's WAY better ...

ladydreamer July 15 2009, 04:05:12 UTC

I love how they lay out the threads for the next season already in little throw away scenes with the principal and the official working for the mayor. It's like... god... they know where they're going!?

herohunter July 14 2009, 16:44:50 UTC

Did you get my email?

*pout*

ladydreamer July 14 2009, 18:35:49 UTC

I got it babe. I was hope, but I got to working on lesson plans and fell asleep. I'll be home tonight.

apeygirl July 15 2009, 06:36:28 UTC

Even when Buffy was bad, it was still pretty good. I like that the show took time to laugh at itself and acknowledge its characters' flaws or quirks. Like people calling Angel on the brooding or Andrew, in Storyteller, making light of Buffy's big speeches. Or the entire episode The Zeppo, where all of their big world saving is just background noise to Xander and the corpse gang. Even the most serious eps gave me something genuinely funny (and not corny, ironic anvil "funny" like Smallville). I miss that show.