Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
I skip the Connor heavy ones, but haven't rewatched any Angel for a while. Now I want to watch the puppet one, I love that one
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
If i dip in it's usually for the one with the dance of joyI skip the Connor heavy ones, but haven't rewatched any Angel for a while. Now I want to watch the puppet one with, I love that one
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Same. It's funnier, darker, more clever...and yet Buffy is still hands down my one true love.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
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Shes seen the spell.
I swear though I just want to get through it. I've been binging for a couple of weeks. I probably miss about 20% through napping or ineffectual pausing.
kittyP
Pluviophile
Oh it still breaks my heart what happens to Fred and how Wesley is so heart broken.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
Never watched Angel, maybe I'll give it a try.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Fred's fate is possibly the worst of any TV character ever.
When other people in the Buffyverse die, they seem to go to an afterlife - Buffy went to another dimension that was basically heaven. It's not clear if they live forever, or just for their natural lifespan, or just for a while, or if it applies to everyone or just people killed by magical means, but there's somewhere some people go after death and it's heavenly. Fred's soul has been destroyed, something that had never happened to anyone else ever. So one of the nicest, gentlest people in the world, who had a hard fucking life, won't even get to go to heaven.
And Connor's just annoying.
Buffy managed a soap opera trope relatively successfully with Dawn - bringing in a teenage relative nobody had ever known before. She was still sometimes annoying and it wasn't just due to her being a teenager, but overall she was a good addition to the cast. Then they tried it again with Connor. Let's have a miraculous birth and then rapidly age them - straight out of Days of Our Lives. But he was dull. The actor looked like he was bored.
And his clothes were weird - that's the kind of top you wear under a t-shirt, not on its own. Cordelia should have taken him to the Gap. Don't know why that annoyed but every time he was on screen I kept wanting him to finish getting dressed. Maybe it annoyed because his character was so dull that my brain had to latch onto something to think about.
And his clothes were weird - that's the kind of top you wear under a t-shirt, not on its own. Cordelia should have taken him to the Gap. Don't know why that annoyed but every time he was on screen I kept wanting him to finish getting dressed. Maybe it annoyed because his character was so dull that my brain had to latch onto something to think about.
But there are some stand-out episodes, Lyla is fantastic, and I liked the series ending.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I’m trying to decide whether it’s quantum or dialectical. I’ll get back to you.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
We only watched a bit of season on one, which was a bit rubbish. I am getting tempted to try harder though.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I think spoilers actually help a bit with Angel. Apart from Angel, Wesley (and, to an extent, Darla), and Lorne, they are totally fucked over - not in a good way (Wesley is fucked over but in a good way). But the storylines are still interesting, the acting is good, the dialogue is good, and it's a really pretty show, more than Buffy was.
kittyP
Pluviophile
I've watched it a few times.
Percevere through the first 2 series and it'll be worth it
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
I've watched all but S1 a few times over but never repeated the first one. It broke my heart the first time and I never forgave itI've watched it a few times.
Percevere through the first 2 series and it'll be worth it
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
there's a lot of that in Buffy.The great thing about rewatching is that there are always great things that you had previously forgotten. Like the S3 episode where Buffy gains the ability to read minds. And in amongst the expected anxiety and sex and sexual anxiety with everybody trying to shield their thoughts, we find two gems. Firstly, we have taciturn Oz going into some deep shit about “I am my thoughts, so if Buffy can read them, does she become me? Does she become us all?” And even better, we find that everything Cordelia thinks, she immediately says one second later.
Do you have Dvds or is it online somewhere?
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
DVDs. Happy to lend
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I've been rewatching with the boy, and honestly, just appreciating Cordelia more than ever these days
Her delivery - as with that scene- is just so perfect, and she takes no shit. Increasingly find myself channelling her at work tbh.Thanks. I nearly bought them in the Cex shop just before lockdown. I'll stick to watching the odd Buffy on E4 for now.DVDs. Happy to lend
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Never bothered watching Angel, beyond the odd episode here and there. I find him too annoying.
That’s something they played with in Angel, at least from series 2 onwards. He is annoying and even he kind of knows it. The puppets episode of Angel, referred to earlier, is the particularly stand out example of how well they play it.
Reno
The In Kraut
I liked Angel almost as much as Buffy and as it goes on it becomes much more of an ensemble show (like Buffy) so the focus isn’t all on him if you don’t like him. You’ve also got some of the best Buffy characters becoming part of the cast of Angel. On a few occasions a storyline started in one show continues in the other, so when I rewatched Buffy I also rewatched all of Angel in the order the episodes of both shows were transmitted originally.
With both Buffy and Angel the title characters weren’t my favorites, I thought the supporting characters were far stronger.
With both Buffy and Angel the title characters weren’t my favorites, I thought the supporting characters were far stronger.
They get the mustard out.
