Buffy tonight!!!

[miriam_e]

yippeee!!! At last! The new, and final, season of Buffy hits Oz screens! Yay!! This show has the best writing on TV. Name another show that has made its writers into stars: Joss Whedon, Marti Noxon, Jane Espenson, David Fury, Doug Petrie, David Greenwalt, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Stephen DeKnight... Comedy, action, gothic horror, and dialogue to die for!

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[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

http://tvguide.ninemsn.com.au/guide/11022003_73.asp?channel=free&day=11/2/2003 lists it as being Angel, not Buffy. Specifically:

As Fred and Gunn search for Angel, Wesley continues his affair with Lilah and conducts his own, more fruitful, search.


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[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Channel 9 is mistaken. Whether they're sabotaging or just not up on their news, I don't know. :)

Angel is on tomorrow night.

This Buffy was a neat episode. They wrapped a bunch of loose ends, weaving them into new story arcs and causing me to damage some more fingernails in the process... with Joss operating the loom you never know what is going to happen next, except that there will be a measure of humor sprinkling it.

I think next week's ep will get back into the full swing of buff-ness, without the need to resolve last year's cliffhangers. It is all I can do to hold off reading the scripts before they go to air. I also have the eps already, but because TV is a little higher quality I avoid watching them unless it is to review or if I miss out on the night.

Oooooops! Outer Limits is on. Nitey nite... :)

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[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, wasnt a bad ep, that. I missed most of last season, as it seemed to go downhill so rapidly, so horribly.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

By downhill you mean...?

Oh... like Buffy's Mum dying being followed by Buffy's death and her being brought back from the dead wrong so that she and Spike become S&M lovers, while Dawn, feeling traumatized and left out, takes up shoplifting. Willow gets addicted to black magic and Anya and Zander break up when he stands her up at the wedding while he vacillates. For much of the season the only ones having a good time seemed to be Willow and Tara who even had scenes smooching in bed (amazing in the new 50s-style America!)... until Tara too was killed in a way that kinda kicked viewers in the stomach.

I think it was Joss trying to keep his viewers on their toes by breaking all the comfort rules. (Well we can relax, he'll never do this... oops... he killed that major character off... and just ruined that one's life.) You know the old problems with TV series -- that they get locked in an insulated existence free from character-development, and nothing really bad can happen to them because they are the core of the show. Everything tends to get resolved each episode so that writers can start from the same place. I think Joss wanted to throw out the ground rules.

Maybe he was worried that the comedy was lightening it up too much, and that bad things happened to all those around them but inexplicably hardly touched the scoobies. On a hellmouth that seemed a little far-fetched. But there was some great comedy last season. "Gone", the episode where Buffy is accidentally made invisible is hilarious.

(If you ever want to view some of the old eps let me know.)