tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post5782972442727547985..comments2024-03-07T18:38:58.284-08:00Comments on kidchamp dot net: laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03429404210444847213noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-12620235930246406602010-01-12T13:08:17.000-08:002010-01-12T13:08:17.000-08:00um, have we talked about this? I <3 u.
i tried...um, have we talked about <a href="http://adesertfete.blogspot.com/search/label/btvs" rel="nofollow">this</a>? I <3 u.<br /><br />i tried to do a link. if it doesnt work and looks lame, feel free to delete this shit.jamienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-34460242479637747272010-01-12T13:22:10.000-08:002010-01-12T13:22:10.000-08:00this mighty-morphin' comments platform is all ...this mighty-morphin' comments platform is all kinds of fun, innit? <br /><br /><i>(ed's note: jamie asked if she should read the book even though it lost. a few quasi-duplicate comments popped up briefly and are now unnecessary. we're all still figuring out how to appease the dark god NewHaloscan.)</i><br /><br />i would say yes, especially given that you're a fan. it lost because i think chandler's criticism is more incisive; wilcox's book calls <i>itself</i> "a celebration of the series," which sounds about right. the fact that it's a collection of individual arguments that weren't written to be presented together works against it a bit, too. an enjoyable read, though.kidchampnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-70529285700312150092010-01-12T15:14:49.000-08:002010-01-12T15:14:49.000-08:00My kids watched every single one of the Buffy epis...My kids watched every single one of the Buffy episodes. Once at least, sometimes two or three times. I however did the same with the Sopranos. Completely distorted an entire 3 months of my life. I would hope that Buffy was kinder gentler.LPCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-4147097886602951782010-01-12T15:27:13.000-08:002010-01-12T15:27:13.000-08:001. of course.
2. certainly not riley -- but i thin...1. of course.<br />2. certainly not riley -- but i think that's partly because i hate professor walsh and the commandos in general. i'm going to go with angel, but i do want to note that the complexities of spuffy are far more satisfying than the love-hatefest that was a + b. <br />3. psh.<br />4. television, no. but i did get to write a paper about vampires. and another about 'wet hot american summer'.<br />5. so far 'dexter' has given me worse willies than any other show on television. mostly because of the gore, but also because of the creepy-ass music. i actually like the dexter character. <br /><br /><br />i'm at least glad to hear you did like the book. i wish i had more time to finish the series while reading it, but alas -- i am still only halfway through season 4. i had remembered it being my favorite of the seven, but now i find myself waiting to be completely stoked on it. perhaps that was only because 'hush' is in this season?baby jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-78271634144498394072010-01-12T19:14:32.000-08:002010-01-12T19:14:32.000-08:0001 yes (though season 6 was spotty and 7 was terri...01 yes (though season 6 was spotty and 7 was terrible).<br />02 oh, i don't know. xander and anya probably had the best screwball chemistry/writing, and rarely got bogged down in the oh-so-serious-must-save-the-world buffy relationships. and i sort of buy wilcox's thesis, though i think the angel=achilles argument requires ignoring the series "angel," which (to its credit) loosened the angel character up a bit.<br />04 no, though i recall co-writing a paper in my 10th grade history class that involved the 1992 film "juice" starring omar epps and tupac. don't ask. i don't remember.<br />05 so i won't totally ruin it for anyone, there's a violent scene almost exactly midway through "twin peaks" that i almost can't believe aired on network television.jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-79176360446589670782010-01-12T20:43:48.000-08:002010-01-12T20:43:48.000-08:00I don't know if I qualify as a Buffy fan - wat...I don't know if I qualify as a Buffy fan - watched Seasons 1 and 2 (out of order) and half of 3 before I stopped for reasons I can't remember (that had nothing to do with the show, at least). I even have a copy of The Slayer's Guide sitting somewhere. Hmm, did I just say that out loud?<br /><br />The final moments of Season 2 definitely ranks up there in the list of most moving things on television for me.tanthalasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-55411163021248531922010-01-12T20:45:39.000-08:002010-01-12T20:45:39.000-08:00And also, the scene in the first episode of Season...And also, the scene in the first episode of Season 2 where Buffy smashes the remains of the main-Season 1 antagonist was another one that really got me.tanthalasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-54042266620686776652010-01-13T05:58:46.000-08:002010-01-13T05:58:46.000-08:00@tanthalas: i wept like a baby at the end of seaso...@tanthalas: i wept like a baby at the end of season 2. of course, i wept like a baby all over <i>buffy</i> (anya in the finale still makes me tear up). and buffy's "mom? mom? mommy?" at the end of the episode before "the body" - gah. wilcox mentions how many have argued that "the body" would've taken home an emmy, had it not been for the vampires at the end of the episode. i think, my love of vampires aside, that it should've gotten one <i>because</i> (in part) of them. both buffy and <i>battlestar galactica</i> strike me as shows that separate good viewers from great viewers (ha) by putting genre stumbling blocks between them and their payoffs. both have moved me in ways that, say, <i>the wire</i> never did (though i love <i>the wire</i>).<br /><br />@jacob: oh, anya! also, gah, i'd forgotten about the <i>twin peaks</i> thing. how does that gentle man (lynch, that is) pull such things out of his head?<br /><br />@jo: i wrote a vampire paper as well, for that same civ class. it fared much better, silly title font and all. on season 4, "restless" is in there, and i remember liking that quite a bit. is the guy who wiggles the cheese slices in that ep, or in season 7? i never remember. with you on the initiative stuff, though.<br /><br />@LPC: we binged similarly on <i>the sopranos</i>, our feasting mitigated a bit by the fact that we jumped in a few seasons before it was finished. i watched <i>buffy</i> as it aired, or i'd have done the same thing.kidchampnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-24831318114490897962010-01-13T06:21:02.000-08:002010-01-13T06:21:02.000-08:0001 I am ashamed to report that I cannot watch it. ...01 I am ashamed to report that I cannot watch it. That scary music at the beginning makes me nervous, and then I twist my fingers all up and close my eyes and it *hasn't even started.* <br /><br />03 (It started early, this paralyzing fear of spooky tunes. Zoom in on Amanda, circa 1993, wrapping her limbs around a dining room chair to protest her family's desire to spend a Sunday afternoon at the cinema, watching Jurassic Park. She may have underestimated her father's strength/ability to carry girl-wrapped chairs/need to watch dinos eat things.)<br /><br />05 Wonder Pets. That duck kills me.Amandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-15441489236495286752010-01-13T07:48:13.000-08:002010-01-13T07:48:13.000-08:00it scared me the first time too, amanda, and i was...it scared me the first time too, amanda, and i was fully grown up (or thought i was, anyway) at the time. i was on pins and needles for most of the first episode i saw; then it started making me laugh, and i was comfortable. i think <i>buffy</i> might've been the beginning of my immersion in scary stuff, actually (i avoided horror like the plague until i decided that i needed to run toward it and cure myself). <br /><br />another point i forgot to make, re: gulping down shows in the course of a few months: wilcox also makes much (and rightfully so) of how serial television enables us to develop truly long-term relationships with characters in a way that novels, film, and even serialized novels (even dickens only took a year or two most of the time) don't. part of the reason i wept through the buffy finale is that, well, i'd loved those characters for seven years. i went through high school and college and into the world as they did. i'd never really had that before with a show that was written well.<br /><br />that's one of the little tragedies of the DVD age, i think; while it's marvelous that we're able to see things we were too young or busy or stubborn to see when they aired, that singular long-term relationship is collapsed into a handful of feverish weekends (if you're an instant gratification viewer, as i am). perhaps i'll pick up a series one of these days and make a conscious effort to watch. it. slowly.kidchampnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-2877648513777344652010-01-15T15:54:50.000-08:002010-01-15T15:54:50.000-08:00BTW, totally Team Spike.BTW, totally Team Spike.LPCnoreply@blogger.com