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[xparrot]

The Buffy musical episode? Totally worth watching the entire rest of the show for. ZOMG LOVE. Funny and cute and touching and awesomely singable. Seriously, Joss Whedon should just be writing musicals. (Okay, so I'm biased, as I love Sondheim and Rent and clearly Joss does, too. But he's very good at them! And horrible soul-crushing angst is so much more entertaining when it's being sung about...)

6th season of Buffy's been all over the place - halfway through it, I think I like it better than s5, but then Willow is suddenly starring in a ridiculous anti-drug PSA (Kids! Don't do magic!) and Giles has left (Noooo~!). OTOH, loving the Spike/Buffy.

And oh man do I love the musical. Especially Spike's song, Giles's song, Buffy's songs (I do wish SMG was a stronger singer, but the songs themselves were great) and of course the preparing-for-battle marching-on-evil ensemble piece, because those are nearly invariably my favorites of any musical and this one doesn't disappoint. Also the plot was hee and it followed through on the character arcs beautifully and really, I'm willing to forgive Joss a lot for it.

Meanwhile Angel season 3 has been...equally all over the place, because the team/family stuff has gotten even more adorable what with Lorne moving in and having a baby around (even if it is a really fake plastic baby sometimes), but the splintering into love triangles is as frustrating as gnine said. It's not even that the triangles themselves are that annoying - well, I'm sorely disappointed to lose Angel & Cordy's platonic friendship (siiiigh) but the Fred/Wesley/Gunn thing so far has been handled with a minimum of angst, which I like. And I do like Fred, she's sweet and fun. But the focus of the show has shifted to accommodate the romance, with the character interactions getting split along pairing lines to the detriment of other relationships. So far the team itself is still strong, but the show is showing more of the pairings and less of the team. Phooey.

But I'm still liking it enough to want to see more. Also River Tam turned up as a Russian ballerina, and before that John Winchester was hunting vampires. Hee!


*wanders off humming "Walk Through the Fire"*

Comments

[nerowill.livejournal.com]

I loved the musical--I bought the CD and still get a kick out of it. One of the things that was so well done, I thought, was the way the music (and the entire episode) really worked to advance the overall plot arc of the show.

*remembers how much I loved these shows back in the day* (oh wait, I still DO love them! Only now I'm a total Spike/Xander shipper which I never was when the shows were still on... :)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yes, the way the musical fitted in with the plot arc was inspired. Really it's just wonderful all around!

Spike/Xander...heh, yeah, I can see it, even if it's not for me ^^

[nerowill.livejournal.com]

Well, Spike/Buffy was my first hardcore ship and the very first fanfiction I ever read. Then that slipped sideways into Spike/Angel... Then I went off and discovered 2 or 3 other wonderful, slashy fandoms. It was only years later when I made my way back to Buffy that I fell in love with Spike/Xan. So give it some time... ;)