Re: OT: My Season 6 review (and more)

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Angel,

Well, the arc was there but very inconsistent. From "Tough Love"
through "After Life", Willow used the dark magic without any problems
(heck, somebody even thought it was cool, given that there are two shots
of "Tough Love" and one of "The Gift" in the credits). The only thing
close to a personality twitch was in "After Life" where, being
questioned by Tara, she admits she was kind of hoping Buffy would say
"thank you" for the resurrection, which I can't really call rampant
egomania.

But in "Flooded", she's all of a sudden ego girl (I counted EIGHT "I'm
conceited" cues in her scene with Giles) and then she's doing the
supervillain threats. Then nothing in "Life Serial", then the forget
spell in "All the Way", then we're doing the "magic junkie" arc the next
three eps. Really this plot was uneven, in my mind unfounded (because
it would be very nihilistic if Willow was innately evil, and a
convenient cliche if they just did "power corrupts" out of nowhere) and
then took a left turn into an equally unfounded addiction arc. As a B/W
'shipper and general Willow-worshipper, I'm much happier they've gone
this route, but very little of it has made sense to me.

And when was Amy a junkie? And if she was, why would she go right back
to Rack after three years of cold turkey (or "cold rat", as it may be)?

Tom,

First of all, you don't need spoiler space if you're just discussing
your speculations based only on your impressions of past eps. If you're
going to mention spoilers and rumors you've heard and use them for your
speculations, then you would need the spoiler space.

As for "Wrecked", I thought Willow was upset when she saw the girl get
dragged away, the transcript says she frowns slightly, and the script
says that shot of her isn't supposed to be there, she's just supposed to
freak when she sees the demon. So I don't think I'd make the same
speculations you do--which doesn't mean that the sequence couldn't come
into play later.

Just a thought--I never noticed this before, but when Buffy meets
Willow on the quad in "Welcome to the Hellmouth", there's a soft guitar
melody playing underneath. So B/W have their own love theme, huh?
Cooool.  

(Angel, by contrast, gets typical horror movie music.)

And now, my thoughts on the promo for "Gone", which WILL require the
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like so?

Hmm, Invisible Buffy, huh? Guess Sarah needed the week of from
filming. Wonder if she was still catching up on her songs from "OMWF"?
(I wouldn't think so)

Alternate explanation: they're trying to hide the new hairdo (which
doesn't look good, IMO--and I was a big fan of the Season 2 short
hair).

And what good is an invisibility ray, anyway? If you turn things
invisibile, they're still there, you just can't see them--which would
seem to be a DISadvantage. Maybe if they'd only made Buffy's CLOTHES
invisible?which, with these guys, might be what they were trying to
do.  

And does anyone else thing UPN needs a new promo voice? (Guess I just
miss the WB guy going "Next week, on an all-new 'Buffy the Vampire
Slayer'.")