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.)

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?

I have a suspicion it may be simply because there is so much tv in the States that they have to have fixed slots for shows all year, because if they were going on and off the air all the time nobody would ever find them. So it's very simple: almost all shows (except midseason replacements) start new seasons at roughly the same time of year, they all finish at roughly the same time of year, they're on at the same time of day, and it's pot luck whether you're getting a new episode or not.

I find the US system bizarre too, but then I grew up in a world where there were just three (and then four - oh my goodness was that an event!) tv channels.

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

Wallowing though I am in my OldSchool!Cordy nostalgia, I have to admit that as much as I don't like the end result, Cordy needed to head down the de-bitchifying road at some point. If they could have resisted the later urges to lobotomize her and slap the champion label on her forehead, everything would've been peachy.

Cordy had attained utter perfection as a character in the "don't bone my boss" episode. There was nowhere to go from there but down I'm afraid.

but then I grew up in a world where there were just three (and then four - oh my goodness was that an event!) tv channels.

Heh. I grew up in a world where there was only a single tv channel. The opening of a second one was a huge event (and the first time we got commercials in anything other than the movies. Before that, people used to arrive slightly early to a movie in order to not miss the commercials), the appearance of a cable-for-pay company was a huge event. I can't afford cables, so my tv has exactly 2 channels right now.

I can't afford cables, so my tv has exactly 2 channels right now.

Oh no, Nilly! Channel surfing must be pretty dull in Isreal. It's bad enough for me when I'm at my parents, and have four standard British channels instead of the 20-odd we get here in Germany. Up-up-up... down-down-down... up-up-up.... etc. It's usually the TV gods telling me to go and do something more constructive with my time.

Channel surfing must be pretty dull in Isreal.

Whenever I'm in front of a tv that has cables (around a couple of dozens of channels, sometimes more, with an extra pay), I find myself fascinated by the amount, and can't stop changing the channel (sometimes to the annoyance of the people around me), just for the 'what's on that one?' factor.

It's usually the TV gods telling me to go and do something more constructive with my time.

Well, we have lots of religious confrontations and tensions here as it is, I think that the addition of TV gods will be too much for us...

Cordy had attained utter perfection as a character in the "don't bone my boss" episode.

Oh, she was so great in Untouched wasn't she? Though I re-watched recently and had fun snerking at Cordy's line to Wesley about 'women and sex' and how us wymnn see more levels 'cause I kept flashing forward to scruffy!Wesley and all the levels of sex he got to see in season four.

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.

and ...

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.

Emlah, you're right.

Read no further if you're a Buffy fan, because a plot-spoiler is coming.

This obsessive, intellectual nature of the Buffy fan base explains why the Seven network in Australia is being highly sensitive in the build-up to the final episode, which will be shown here on August 11.

Asked why this week's episode of Angel had been a repeat, a Seven publicist said: "So the fans won't be screwed over - we're trying to do right by them." She explained that in the episode of Buffy due for June 9, Willow (a lesbian witch) will receive a phone call asking her to come and see Angel (a vampire and former boyfriend of Buffy).

She will then turn up in the episode of Angel that plays on June 10. If Seven hadn't run a repeat this week, Willow's appearance in Angel would have happened prematurely.

After that, Seven will need to run a couple of repeat episodes of Buffy to ensure that the current series of Angel will finish two weeks ahead of the Buffy finale, allowing Buffy's beloved vampire to reunite with his beloved slayer for her last two weeks.

Seven, entrusted with the most original, witty and provocative TV show of the past two decades, knows all too well that both God and the devil are in the details.

Taken from SMH article on 30/5/2003, article

Hey! Did a couple of posts just disappear completely or has my browser gone wonky all of a sudden?