Re: A Little off Topic: Going back to the beginning

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

IIRC, Joss didn't make any explicit references to previous seasons, but
the context of "Back to the Beginning" was that the Season 7 teases came
up in response to questions about S6, which Joss would say something
like "we tried to do something different, and maybe we hit some of the
notes too many times and it didn't work for some people, but I'm very
proud of us for what we tried to do. And next year is going to be
great, I think. Our theme is 'Back to the Beginning' and you'll see a
lighter, happier Buffy. It's going to be about the joys of female power
again, having it and sharing it."

Now that's not an exact quote, just an amalgam of stuff I remember him
saying. So while he didn't promise "Season 1 all over again", he did
state that they would revisit previous themes and that the show would be
more reminiscient of previous seasons than Season Sux was.

And if "Back to the Beginning" merely meant, "once again our Big Bad is
going to be talked up as being important because it's rilly, rilly old,
but this time it's going to do even LESS than Glory did, just stand
around boring people to death because the First Windbag has been boring
people to death since before history was written", well IMO that's
extremely lame. A villain that's *literally* all talk all the time,
that CAN'T do anything, even if it wanted to, doesn't scare me very
much.

As for explorations of basic primal concepts of the Buffyverse and the
Slayer line, well we're 14 eps in and we've got nada, so far. And when
I hear "the joy of sharing female power" General Buffy making endless
depressing speeches to the ShiTs is SO not what I had in mind.

I think "Back to the Beginning" has been much like most of ME's recent
plots--misdirection for misdirection's sake, striving for the "gotcha!"
without providing any actual entertainment along the way.

Dan