I had every intention of finishing Dollhouse today, but that didn't quite happen...

Next up on my Buffyverse re-watch schedule was the surprisingly amusing "Him," and yet, for some reason that must have made sense in some dimension that is very different than our own, I instead watched "Forever."  Obvious reactions aside, I just want to say that ( Read more... )

( Spoilers, confusion, and a little bit of excited fangirling behind the cut )

So, I sprinted through the intervening episodes, stalled for hours, pounded down about 9 million Motrin, smeared vaseline on my eyelids in an attempt to protect them from the onslaught of tears*, grabbed the Dogtor, paused roughly eighteen times for no particularly good reasons, and finally made it through The Episode.

( Thank goodness I've crossed THAT off my list (spoilers, obviously) )

How is it that the only thing I ever remember about "Doomed" - if I bother to remember it exists at all - is that Riley winds up in the library at SHS, when in actuality all good things come from it?  That episode is 100% pure, undiluted awesome in convenient 1-hour dramedy form.  Aside from that weird overdubbing thing with Giles at the beginning ( Read more... )

AAAAAAAAHGAAAAAAAAHD, "As You Were"...!  Why did I do this to myself?  [cries forever]
(And yet, I found it less distressing on second viewing than Retreat, which says something about which characters I most identify with and how much distress I know I need to store up for the next few episodes.)
(Just out of curiosity, does anyone happen to remember ( Read more... )

I just watched "Older and Far Away" in my molasses-at-Christmas second time all the way through the Buffyverse*( and then I rambled for a while about it (wik spoilers). )

( So that's BS8, then (wik mondo spoilers through Last Gleaming, and for PotC: OST) )

( ...but Spike #8 made me think of AWE on so many levels (none of which I go into at all in this Doomsday Proclaimation) (no hard-core spoilers, but allusions are made and judgments are cast) )

I’m re-reading Spike in anticipation of (ugh, so sad!) the final issue, and I am SO CONFUSED.

( I'm pretty sure I get my honorary Nerd Trio membership card, now. (wik spoilers through BS8 #35 and Spike #7) )

So, second time through "Once More with Feeling" was much better than the first.  Knowing how everything works (or doesn't work, in most cases) out, I was able to look at it less as part of a continuing story and more as Whedony genre commentary.  Of course, for the same reasons, I was also able to look at it objectively as part of said continuing ( Read more... )