Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Laughing in the good way, because you did what I do all the time in my mind - called the Buffyverse/Sunnydale - "our dimension".
Laughing? What do you mean? Why is that funny?? What are you saying?????
t runs screaming into the ... well, morning ... pretty delusion shattered
No. JenP. Come back. I've had my injection of Glarghk Guhl Kashma'nik demon serum, and it's all better now. No more laughing about our dimension.
Whew. Heh, heh t nervous laughter -- thanks, Cindy. Had me going there for a sec.
I have to go back and catch up on 5 zillion messages since Friday, but I must quickly say how mortified I was when I got home and realized I had mistaken The Wish for Dopplegangland in one of my last Willow posts. It bothered me all weekend. Being a Buffista can be hard.
Back to catching up.
Our very own Emilyn has an article in the NY Times about TV DVD extras that includes a nice mention of the "Wild at Heart" commentary from Season 4. My favorite bit from the article (I think "buffistas/foamy" works as ID and password):
For more serious collectors, the ability to snap up several TV seasons on a whim may be as much a curse as it is a blessing. After all, if you collect 50 movies, you can expect to watch every one of them. Collect 50 television shows — full seasons, 20 hours or more! Commercial-free! — and you've got yourself a very high-maintenance entertainment commitment. Soon every evening will be spent watching episodes of "Alias" not once, not twice but five times in a row. And then watching them again, to catch all of the nuances. And then again, to imbibe the commentary track. And maybe catch a couple of the deleted scenes. And the commentary tracks on the deleted scenes.
At this point, it's 5 in the morning and time to call in sick for work.
Not that any of us would ever do that - no.
More than once, I've gone on record saying S2 is the best season of Buffy. And I stand by that, still.
But, damn, S3 is fucking great.
What television.
Signed,
Up To Lover's Walk In Her Rewatch.
Ditto on saying S2 is best and re-watching and loving S3.
signed,
Rewatched Dopplegangland to Graduation Day II on Friday night.
On record as saying S3 is best, and feeling the validation.
Is not validation. Stop it.
S2 knocks my socks off. S3 -- makes me wonder how one could keep making such good TV. And completely reminds of why I got so irritated with pod!Giles, but still kept loving the show. At its worst -- probably rewatchable. At its best, a gut punch.
I think I agree with Hec, now. I didn't want to commit till I'd seen everything, but...a definite narrative and casting high point.