RE: This Week's Episode, "Welcome to the Hellmouth"

["danspector@xxxxxxxxx" <danspector@xxxxxxxxx>]

Briefer reply to Jin:

> could be a fun thing to do. though I don't know about EVERY episode,
> one at a time. why not make it two episodes? 

Two eps at a time, and we go through the whole series in a little over a 
year.  I'd rather take more time.  Plus, the more being discussed, the 
less in-depth discussion, I'd bet.

> and maybe not all the episodes, since, let's face it: S1 and the first 
> half of S2 is pretty much crap (relatively speaking, of course)

See, that's exactly the sort of broad, sweeping statement that was so 
grating my cheese.  "Let's face it", not everyone likes what you like.  (As 
I recall your telling me when I sent you a feedback hoping you wouldn't 
incorporate the events of the IMO loathesome and god-FUCKING-awful 
"Crap Joss Whedon Told Me" in one of your B/W fics.)  You think 
Spike's a great character;  I think he's as one-dimensional as you can 
get.  You like Spuffy; I think it's a perversion of everything the show 
stood for, a complete fucking over of the characters in a failed attempt 
to grab ratings that killed the show.  You like S7;  I think *every single 
episode* of the initial 24 is miles better than *any* of the final 22.  And 
those first 24, in MY opinion, contain five of the series' top 12-15 
greatest episodes.

And, nowadays, I would much rather watch "Reptile Boy" than :"Hush".  
(I grant you, some of my problems with "Hush" are less about the ep 
itself than the things it foreshadows as far as the show my show will be 
turned into from thereon, so I'm not entirely condemning it on technical 
meritbut "Reptile Boy" has important, exciting, funny scenes about 
characters I'm invested in, whereas "Hush" has some guys gliding, 
and a couple of crude visual jokes about sex.  And, over the long haul, 
I've come to prefer the former, no matter how "cool" the latter may be.)  
So the mileage differs for everyone, and let's try and avoid the "let's
face 
it" assumptions, okay?

> whatever, I'm in

Ditto, and again, I'm probably too cranky.  I ignored the posts for so long 
they're all coming at me at once, and the effect is greater than it would 
be if I'd dealt with them individually.

Dan

off to get his four hours' sleep


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