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[thistlerose]

Started re-watching the early seasons of BtVS, looking for inspiration for my forever-in-progress Xander-centric story. Last night I watched "Welcome To the Hellmouth" for the first time in ... six years? Something like that.

They're all so little. And cute.I'd forgotten that Xan was the first person to welcome Buffy to Sunnydale (okay, he had

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[lizzybees]

Wee baby Willow was the reason I stuck with the show through the first episode (I came to it late and wasn't all that enthused about watching it...I learned my lesson quick!)

Oh Matt Bomer. White Collar is one of my guilty pleasure shows, since it can be painfully formulaic and heavy handed at times, but I keep coming back because Diana is a badass and one of the few lesbian characters on TV that isn't cornered into a stereotype; she's a gorgeous FBI agent who is smart as fuck, in a totally stable and happy relationship, and no one EVER comments on her sexuality or makes jokes about it.

[thistlerose]

I watched the first episode of "White Collar," but couldn't really get into it. I just don't like con men, but perhaps I'll give it another chance ... if it's handling a lesbian character well.

Baby Willow is the cutest thing ever. It's amazing how young they all look, even compared with their appearances in S2 and S3, which I rewatch fairly frequently. I actually started watching the show with S4, though I think "Amends" was the first episode I ever saw in full. It took me a while to get hooked. My parents didn't approve of my tv watching in high school, so it wasn't until I moved to college, and then until I got my own television, that I could watch what I wanted without criticism!

[soberloki]

I love White Collar largely for Diana, too. She's a human being who does her job and has a female partner offscreen and that's just how it is, no big deal. Plus, she's extremely competent and not at all fetishised. I love that she can mention her romantic partner just like anyone else in the office, and there's never a scripted pause for the audience to consider the implications.

About bloody time we had that.

[the_dala]

Awww, I love old-school Buffy! They were so adorable.

Yeah, that Glee ep was very...unbalanced. I actually enjoyed the scenes with Artie and Quinn, even though I had really hoped they would have the balls to kill her off (I like Dianna Agron but Quinn has got to be the most inconsistently written character on the show, and that's saying something). The stuff with Sue was was also good; it seemed to be headed somewhere a lot less subtle at first.

But damn, Blaine was in fully half the musical numbers tonight. Darren Criss has a decent voice (despite all the autotuning), but Blaine is just not that interesting and I don't get why he got yet another big storyline. I do love Matt Bomer for his stint on "Chuck," though. It was only a few episodes, but the guy has so much charisma.

[thistlerose]

I assumed they were going to kill her off - and I was annoyed because she'd come pretty far as a character, though I agree the writing for her was inconsistent. But it looked as if her car got hit pretty card. :(

Blaine doesn't interest me either. He's too perfect, and giving him a somewhat obnoxious (but cute and talented) brother doesn't really fix that.

[lls_mutant]

I think I've managed to re-lower my expectations, because I did enjoy Glee, although I agree with every one of your points. I am still utterly mocking Blaine's angst because while his brother was definitely a narcissist and not the brightest, he wasn't malicious at all, and all the stuff between them seemed to be typical sibling rivalry. They either needed to up Cooper's nastiness or tone down Blaine's petulance, because the two parts didn't connect. I don't watch White Collar, but Matt Bomer is totally my type, so I really enjoyed actually seeing him in motion. Still think he looks like Sean Maher though.

I wish Glee just wouldn't bother with some of the more serious issues. They do well up to a certain level of seriousness, and then after they get too big, they just can't deal with the consequences. Their attention span just isn't long enough or something.

[thistlerose]

*nod* I think "Glee" worked better in the first season because it wasn't trying to be anything other than a series of brightly colored music videos with a smattering of narrative in between. (Except for Kurt's storyline, which has been fairly well handled, at least when the focus was on him.)

But lately I think the show's been biting off more than it can chew.