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xparrotThe 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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"*
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"*
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Date: 2010-02-18 08:58 pm (UTC)Now I am very curious about s4. Which is much better than dreading it! Even if I likely will hate some things about it...
--And following up comments below, I felt myself that SGA actually did attempt to reinvent itself from season to season. Whether it did so successfully is another story...