... the opinion that matters. It's the implied agreement that they're working together again. But, gee, couldn't they at least have let Giles give his opinion after being asked for it?) Anyway, it feels like Willow gets the hard work while Giles gets to gush like a fanboy. I may be reacting to something a little different, however. I'll get to that in the BtVS S7D6 post. OBS

... keep trying to make any kind of sense at all out of what BTVS does to Giles in S6-7, and I reserve the ...view stuff. But it also can get indulgent and overbearing. Well, it is an ensemble show, and BtVS sits obviously available as comparison. But you're quite ... is different. AtS is more exclusively centered on Angel than BtVS is centered on Buffy. Not everyone seems ...

...personally. I'm not as bothered as you, and think the comparison to Dawn in BTVS Season Five is even more apt than you suggest....doesn't feel substantially more artificial than the rest of BTVS and ATS. Remember, I'm not reacting to concept alone....use out of that metaphor for young adulthood? How does it compare to BtVS's metaphor for high school as hell? There are things...

.... I'm not as bothered as you, and think the comparison to Dawn in BTVS Season Five is even more apt than you suggest.... is different. AtS is more exclusively centered on Angel than BtVS is centered on Buffy. With the sometimes exception of Wesley,... of Angel-centric themes. There's a lot of repetition in BtVS too, but it feels like there are more themes with the repetition more ...

... This story very much becomes about Connor, however, while the BtVS story was never really about Dawn. Ultimately that ..., personally. I'm not as bothered as you, and think the comparison to Dawn in BTVS Season Five is even more apt than you suggest. ... people see the series as an ensemble show in a way that rivals BTVS. With the sometimes exception of Wesley, ATS is never really about ...

...focus to one person - Connor. (Angel's version of Buffy's obsession with Dawn at the end of BtVS S5 I guess.) That's all fine and well - and I could draw all sorts of implications from it - but the ...became the object of everything. This story very much becomes about Connor, however, while the BtVS story was never really about Dawn. Ultimately that allows for a much stronger concluding...

... is thinking purely episode by episode. However, the other factor is that I rank 73%% of S4 episodes as Good or higher. That's a far greater proportion than any other year of ATS, and tied with the mighty BTVS S3. (Still not _Firefly_ territory, though. I don't know if any show will ever match that one for "quality percentage.") S4 doesn't achieve Excellence as often as my very favorite...

... something, I feel obligated to take a shot at trying to read through the entire threads to remember salient points and to make sure we don’t rehash the same territory. I inevitably give up, at least on the BTVS side of things, since my posts were averaging 100 or more responses, about a third of which were short novels. Even during the first round, I wasn’t always able to read every last ...

... something, I feel obligated to take a shot at trying to read through the entire threads to remember salient points and to make sure we don’t rehash the same territory. I inevitably give up, at least on the BTVS side of things, since my posts were averaging 100 or more responses, about a third of which were short novels. Even during the first round, I wasn’t always able to read every last ...

... so important to Pod!Cordelia, and my bit of fanwanking lets me accomplish that. Once that one ingredient is fitted into place, the rest of the story really doesn't have enough gaps to irritate me too badly. BtVS S7 hasn't fared very well for me on rewatch either.  I'm probably most critical of that season, which I consider to be the weakest of its seven year run.  It does have the...