It was nice to have an earthling dyke.
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'Sleeper'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Trudy Booth - Jun 16, 2003 8:13:25 pm PDT #5138 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2003 8:36:33 pm PDT #5139 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Buffy was always the slayer. Buffy also demonstrated a sympathetic side -- she had a vulnerability that I didn't immediately want to stick a bayonet through. And she did fight, and she did win, and she grumbled and tried half-heartedly to rebel, and she made bad choices, but she let us see inside she was, more often than not, trying hard.
Kennedy has had no inside. She's just seemed spoilt to the core.
Buffy has never been my favourite of the Scoobs. In fact, it wasn't until S6 that I'd have even said I liked her. But I did get her. I wouldn't have hung out with her, but I did get her, and could see appeal in what she was trying to do.
Kennedy? NSM. Rona's a brat too -- I don't like her as a person I'd have in my life, but I see her narrative purpose, and don't wish her kebabbed.
Emlah - Jun 16, 2003 9:31:27 pm PDT #5140 of 9843
To every idea a shelf...
Okay, I take back the nice things I said about 7. Just noticed those wankers are repeating "Tabula Rasa" tonight but screening a new ep of Angel tomorrow night.
Just broadcast the doggamn shows already, ya fucking mooks!
Hate to be the delurker of bad news, but apparently there are four weeks of Buffy repeats. I'm not sure why exactly, I got it as second-hand news because I'm a total spoiler-phobe. But I got the impression that it's a 'screen the episodes the way the makers intended' thing rather than a 'screw over the Buffy fans yet again' thing.
I had a total Grosse Point Blank moment when I found out. FOUR WEEKS?!? FOUR WEEKS????? FOUR WEEKS!!!! FOOOUUURRR WEEEKKSS??!?!??
Nilly - Jun 16, 2003 9:34:55 pm PDT #5141 of 9843
Swouncing
Welcome, Emlah.
Kassto - Jun 16, 2003 9:36:37 pm PDT #5142 of 9843
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
Well, in NZ we've been getting season 7 with no breaks at all, just running right through, and I imagine it will be so right to the end. I find it really weird how it gets shown in the US and Oz. It will mean we end up finishing somewhat ahead of our trans-Tasman brethren.
Nilly - Jun 16, 2003 9:43:02 pm PDT #5143 of 9843
Swouncing
I find it really weird how it gets shown in the US and Oz.
It took me forever to realize that in the USA the shows are being around for the whole year, with re-runs in the middle. I could get pretty easily the concept of reruns during the summer, once a season is over, but having reruns in the middle of the season, inter-woven with the new episodes? It's just so different from the way TV works here [Edit: Israel] - they start screening a show at least several months (if not years) after its airing date in the USA (for example, we just got the very first episode of the first season of "Alias"), show the whole season, and then it goes on vacation and something is aired instead until sufficient time has passed and the following season can start being screened. No reruns at all.
Leigh - Jun 16, 2003 9:53:15 pm PDT #5144 of 9843
Nobody
It's just so different from the way TV works here
Different and evil. It'd drive me nuts watching a television season all cropped up like that.
Edited for clarity.
Kassto - Jun 16, 2003 9:55:06 pm PDT #5145 of 9843
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
We NEVER get re-runs in the middle of seasons. People here would be outraged at the thought. A season always plays straight through. Though you do get reruns of previous seasons on one of our cable channels.
I had no idea this happened in the US until I started reading this board. Is it because they haven't had time to make each episode to fit a schedule or is just to drag it out over the year?
Angus G - Jun 16, 2003 10:33:53 pm PDT #5146 of 9843
Roguish Laird
It's very rare in Australia too.
Welcome Emlah! I gather you're another Aussie: whereabouts are you?
Typo Boy - Jun 16, 2003 10:34:02 pm PDT #5147 of 9843
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Cordelia and Anya spoke truths.
Anya maybe. Cordelia not so much. Yeah, I remember her quote along the lines of "Tact? That's just saying stuff that's not true. I'll pass."
But the fact is Cordelia was not (at that time) about truth telling, or even frankness (not the same thing). She was about hurting and humilating people verbally. And sure, she'd use truth when it would work. because hurtful words are much more hurtful if they have an element of truth and the pain lasts much longer. But she was certainly willing to lie or distort if the truth wasn't a good enough weapon. (Think about the first two episodes when she distorted her descriptions of Buffy's behavior - telling how Buffy attacked her and tried to kill her. She was a liar from the beginning.)