Why do you feel that way? Speaking as someone who never quite got the hatred directed at Kennedy (I do think the potential storyline got too much screentime in general, but that's not the characters fault) I don't think it's twoo wuv always or anything, but it was probably good for Willow to have a relationship that wasn't all super-involved and bound to end in tears. Plus, Willow needed someone to hit on her, or she would have never gotten laid again.
For me, that (too much Potentials static-to-noise ration) is the source of the feelings about Kennedy. I don't hate the character. I don't even hate her with Willow. But I found her whiny, uncompelling, and she got way too much screen time for little reason other than that she was Willow's squeeze. There were scenes where the Scoobies were together, and Dawn wasn't there, but Kennedy was, and for no reason.
She didn't bring anything to the story (for me). Everything I appreciated about it (mostly what you mentioned about Willow's need for a relationship that was lighter, and need for someone to hit on her), I appreciated because it was happening to Willow, not because it happened with Kennedy. I also thought her performance was a little wooden. Truthfully? I found R*ley more compelling.
I liked that someone chased Willow. I think IL is very attractive. But the character left me cold.
I wave my baseball bat (the one I keep under my bed, in case anyone breaks in and decides they don't want an intact ribcage) threateningly in your direction....
Baseball!Slayer pinged me just because I've played it my whole life.
Tangentially, I'll note that I just bought Emmett his first baseball bat today.
Excellent.
I didn't like Kennedy, I thought she was arrogant, whiny and a liar. I never bought for an instance that she was wealthy and always assumed she was telling tales to try and impress the others, especially Willow.
The baseball Slayer didn't ping with me, except a sense of dread. All my PE teachers seemed to love making us play softball/baseball and I dreaded it. I can't track objects being thrown at me very well and occasionally I'd end up getting hit by the ball or even worse the teacher would decide I should stay at bat until I hit the ball at least once.
I didn't like Kennedy, I thought she was arrogant, whiny and a liar. I never bought for an instance that she was wealthy and always assumed she was telling tales to try and impress the others, especially Willow.
See? That's where her performance didn't impress me (or the writing). Sadly, I think she really was supposed to be rich, but it just came off poorly. There's nothing canonical to indicate she was lying.
My mist-up moment was the end of "The Gift." When Spike lost it. Gets me every time.
While I can appreciate Baseball!Slayer at the end of "Chosen" -- the smallest kid in the class always has sports-nightmare stories -- the one that hit me hardest was the girl who stood up with the "you will not hit me again" look on her face.
I never cry at TV (except when Mary went blind on Little House On the Prairie).
Heh, heh, heh. OK, so that’s a reminder that I was a fangirl long before Buffy. Loved LHotP. Loved it.
Innocence: That bedroom scene.
Oops. Yeah, Innocence. I think I mis-episoded the scene above.
IWRY and "The Prom" just strike me as schmaltzy (OK, well-written schmaltz, I guess) and I was so ready for the B/A ship to sink that they couldn't have wrung a tear out of me if one or the other died of consumption in the episode.
Yep. Totally schmaltzy. And I totally cry each time I see it (IWRY and the Class Protector thing), even though I’m not big with the Buffy/Angel love … uh, love.
I've been thinking about episode enders that close with maximum impact
Well, for me, the end of whichever the Buffy/Spike bringin’ down the house ep was (Smashed? Wrecked? I think Smashed) certainly had maximum impact. Again, I did not know of these things called spoilers at the time, so it was a big-ass surprise. And, also? I remember being stunned because it was so, ummmmm, not subtle. Which fit, but I was still kind of, “Whoah, who’s paying off the censors?” and, “Go bribery!”
The Slayers girls get their power montage was a leeeetle over the top for even me, so I was kind of misty and rolling my eyes at the same time. Which is a weird thing I do often, too.
Little House on the Prairie is now on dvd! It was also featured on Vh1's I love the 70's. Where several of the women admitted to crushes on Micheal Landon and I got to see Sebastian Bach talk about Little House. It was weird. Someone mentioned having a crush on Nellie Olsen, I don't remember who.
the one that hit me hardest was the girl who stood up with the "you will not hit me again" look on her face.
absolutely! and I also loved that she was not a size 0. (nothing against naturally thin women :) )
I guess the potentials storyline didn't bother me all that much, I kind of liked it. Once I got past a few plot points concerning them I was alright with them. Wasn't it mentioned that several of them, possibly all of them had watchers at some time or another that were killed by an agent of the first? Or was that just me remembering wrong? Buffy never had a watcher until she was approached on the step of her school, and the show would lead you to believe that she was officially crowned the new slayer then. Also if it was so easy for the first to find all these potential slayers and kill them why weren't the forces of good (COW) rounding them up and shipping them all to Sunnydale for a huge on hand army at all time. Training with the active slayer when you could possibly become one seems logical enough to me.
The biggest one was the spell in Chosen. If this spell was possible(yes I know we never had Axe-calibur before this) why didn't they do it already to save many unneccessary solo slayer deaths. But then I guess we really wouldn't have had a need for a show focusing on the life of a chosen 'one'.
