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

["jin_hayte" <jinhayte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

o...kay.

to that, I say this:

I dumped the "obligatory" IMO several years ago, cuz I realized how
inane it is to keep telling the reader that "THIS IS JUST MY OPINION 
FOLKS! YOU CAN REST ASSURED THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO ALTER YOUR WORLD
VIEW BECAUSE OF WHAT I'M TELLING YOU!!!" 

if you take my statements as facts, you need a reality check. 

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "danspector@w..."
<danspector@w...> wrote:
> 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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