{"id":1172,"date":"2001-10-04T20:26:48","date_gmt":"2001-10-05T01:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2001-10-04T20:26:48","modified_gmt":"2001-10-05T01:26:48","slug":"buffy_thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/04\/buffy_thoughts.html","title":{"rendered":"<i>Buffy<\/i> thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margie had some further observations that I&#8217;ll transcribe for her here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The whole &#8220;Buffy and Dawn on the gangplank&#8221; thing went on about twice as long as it should have.  Belabored.  Indeed, Margie thinks (and she may have a point) that the whole ep could have been an hour long.\n<li>&#8220;I tend to find Angel more surprising than Buffy.&#8221;  Because there are more outside characters, more &#8220;What&#8217;s the case this week?&#8221; sort of thing.<\/p>\n<li>Buffy has suffered, over the last few seasons (esp. the last one) by the removal of outside pressures.  That sounds funny.  Let me &#8216;splain.  Or at least sum up.  Look at Buffy when the series started.  School was a major pressure.  Getting from point A to point B was a major logistical pain.  Her Mom was a constant thorn in her side.  Now look at last season.  Joyce is supportive of Buffy&#8217;s activities, then she dies off.  School gets blown off, literally.  Folks have cars.  All Buffy has to worry about is being horribly depressed and what Glory is going to do this week.  Which is certainly a lot, but it removes her further and further from any sort of relatable context.  And now we&#8217;ve lost Giles.  And Buffy&#8217;s not going to school any time soon.  Or getting a job.  The less Buffy has to live like &#8220;just plain folks,&#8221; the less interesting she becomes.<\/p>\n<li>Juli wishes they&#8217;d had a few episodes without Buffy.  Margie notes that Angel did this, when the sidekicks went off and started their own agency.  (And, frankly, it&#8217;s kind of scary that Cordie and Wesley and Gunn were a hell of a lot more effective than the Scooby gang.)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Jules, Margie likes her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlekali.com\/\">review<\/a> of Buffy vs. Angel.<\/p>\n<p>Do I agree with Margie?  Hmmmm.  Not sure.  But I tend to be easily persuaded by such things, esp. by my Honey-Bunny.  I&#8217;ll let you know.<\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margie had some further observations that I&#8217;ll transcribe for her here. The whole &#8220;Buffy and Dawn on the gangplank&#8221; thing went on about twice as long as it should have&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1192,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/02\/buffy_and_angel.html","url_meta":{"origin":1172,"position":0},"title":"Buffy and Angel, meet Nick of Time","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Oct-01 6:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"Through a prolonged, Herculean effort that only a hella-fanboy could manage, Doyce got (pushed\/dragged\/cheered\/enabled) us through both of the last seasons of Angel and Buffy before their respective premieres. 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