Re: Spoiler 7:10.

[Jason Rune <winter_herald@xxxxxxxxx>]

Finally, a new ep. Spoilers for, whats-its-name... er, episode 10. 
Are we to 10 already? Didn't seem like we'd gotten that far.

If

you

can't

see

the

SPOILER,

it

can't

eat

you.

Spoiler.

Spoiler.

Fnord.


Buffy has become a British sitcom. If I wanted to watch a bunch of
plucky teens with accents jaunting around town, I'd turn on S club. 
They sing, too.

Do we know why the long-haired one (didn't pick up their names) ran
off? Seems like it was another case of "the plot says we have to do
this, so who cares if any sane person really would." And how did Buffy
find her, or the other scoobs find Buffy?

Willow flirting with a Slayer could be interesting, if it weren't for
two things: the candidates are all kind of dull, and the writers are
bringing in new characters before fixing the ones they have. Do they
think that if we have more plucky chicks to look at, we'll somehow
gloss over the fact that they completely screwed over the existing
characters and relationships? Interesting strategy.

Buffy's speech was a hint at the Old Buffy, if a little over-long. It
also came at a very bad time -- there was no buildup. She had just
come from getting her ass kicked and starting to seriously doubt
herself, life, and the world at large, and all this after a very long
(1.5 seasons, approximately) period of mostly moping around and acting
pathetic. I never saw the turnaround point -- one momemt, mopey, the
next, inspiring speech.

Essentially, I kept expecting something along the lines of, "that would
have sounded much more impressive if I weren't in my fluffy sushi
pajamas," or, "that would have sounded much more impressive if I
weren't beaten bloody and hadn't been acting pathetic for the last few
months."

I, too, cringed at Spike being suffocated underwater. Character
assassination is one thing, but blatant factual mixups like that are
just unforgivable.

Anyway, I almost feel like I have to say something positive after all
that, so... at least it's not Season 6. I think it has some potential
to be at least as good as Season 4: some boring character development,
questionable overall arc, but maybe a few redeeming episodes. Then
again, S4 had Hush, Something Blue, and a few other good ones.

Oh... one thing I do like is that they're finally shifting the focus on
magic a bit. In season 4 and before, it was ritual, invocations, and
*preparation*. In seasons 5 and 6 it became, basically, Sabrina with a
dark side. Now we're getting back to the candles-in-a-circle method,
so maybe that means they're getting their wits together on the issue.

(I still squirm a bit, even though I'm not a Wiccan or anything of the
sort, when I remember the "Hell hath no fury like a Wiccan scorned"
line for the previews for last season's finale...)

What I'm worried about most is that we seem to have had a lot of "Anne"
(figuratively speaking) but not much in the way of "Dead Man's Party"
for the current situation. And Buffy is still lying to her friends
("nothing," she replies, when she should have told them that the First
is appearing in her dreams.) And they're still making characters do
stupid things for the sake of furthering the plot. And... and...

I'll go now.

Jason Rune

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