Buffy (no spoilers)

[mneme]

Wow. In this season (and even this week's ep) of Buffy, the characters actually -talk- to each other, make the same speculations the watcher makes, and otherwise act like intelligent beings rather than pawns in the grip of inexcricable bad writing!

I am, again, impressed at the way this season of Buffy continues to display the traits that made me actaully -want- to watch the show, rather than the pointless angst and meaningless arguments of seasons 5 and 6.


The cliffhanger I could have done without, but it was a very well done ep, and demonstratively "buffy what is buffy", rather than the "spam" of recent years.

Comments

Re: Joss is Back!

[mneme]

A bit, though it's not clear how much of that is just shorthand since the viewer -has- seen how it was different from Willow's. And to an extent, it's not out of character that the horror movie that Dawn ended up in -would- have been all an illusion by the Big Bad (though I'm with Lisa in not liking them actually -using- "big bad" within the episodes -- it was cute when they did it with "the scoobies", pulling fan terms into the show, but there's only so much the fourth wall can really take.

And yeah, the Hand of Joss has been clearly shown this season, as the show clearly got Back To Its Roots. Not doing the same thing over and over helped a lot too -- Having Buffy try to kill Anya, but realize quickly that it was necessary that she -not- kill Spike was a nice difference...