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quinara1) Wow, it has been a long time since I've watched American TV. All the rolled Rs and round, high-in-the-palate vowels are really discombobulating. Still, my ear acclimatises very quickly.
2) I have seen Sleeper far more times than any person should see a single episode of TV. I'm so un-swept-up in it that my eyes pick up the join between every single shot and every single continuity blip - and yet it is still my most favourite episode of the series.
3) Every time I watch this run of episodes I think I'm going to have to watch hard for the Spuffy, because everybody knows it only comes in minor flashes... And then I remember that the pair of them flirt or chat like buddies or reference their relationship in every single scene they have together, and it's all good again.
4) Anya is very, very excellent, especially in Potential.
5) Xander is great (especially when you skip back to the menu before the closing scene of Potential, because I don't care how much better it was than I remember, that speech is on my cringe list), especially when shaking his head with a fond exasperation at Anya.
6) I actually like the potentials when there are only five or six of them. They should have kept it like that. Rona amuses me at this stage in the game - and, yeah, I thought this last time and I'm thinking it again: I like Kennedy; the world has ended.
7) Andrew... Why do we always have to fight?? Seriously, he cracks me up, no repentance.
2) I have seen Sleeper far more times than any person should see a single episode of TV. I'm so un-swept-up in it that my eyes pick up the join between every single shot and every single continuity blip - and yet it is still my most favourite episode of the series.
3) Every time I watch this run of episodes I think I'm going to have to watch hard for the Spuffy, because everybody knows it only comes in minor flashes... And then I remember that the pair of them flirt or chat like buddies or reference their relationship in every single scene they have together, and it's all good again.
4) Anya is very, very excellent, especially in Potential.
5) Xander is great (especially when you skip back to the menu before the closing scene of Potential, because I don't care how much better it was than I remember, that speech is on my cringe list), especially when shaking his head with a fond exasperation at Anya.
6) I actually like the potentials when there are only five or six of them. They should have kept it like that. Rona amuses me at this stage in the game - and, yeah, I thought this last time and I'm thinking it again: I like Kennedy; the world has ended.
7) Andrew... Why do we always have to fight?? Seriously, he cracks me up, no repentance.
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Date: 16/12/2011 03:11 (UTC)Woo! Come to the dark side; we have cookies! :)
I need to see season 7 again.
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Date: 16/12/2011 10:19 (UTC)S7 gets too much bad press, IMO. I hate the ending and don't think the beginning follows S6 as well as it could, but the core of it is absolute gold.
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Date: 16/12/2011 03:48 (UTC)This is a phenomenon that happens to my ears only when I'm watching (1) Spanish TV, (2) sitcoms with Mexicans or (3) Italian Mass on Sundays (which has been a long, long time since that happened). It's probably an acclimatization thing.
Re: Kennedy --- I know what you mean. Last time I rewatched any episodes with her in them, I asked myself "Why was it that you hated her to death? She doesn't seem all that bad now." Which probably means that, in the intervening years since first broadcast, I've been having to deal with way to many entitled, privileged assholes than I really should have to deal with.
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Date: 16/12/2011 10:35 (UTC)On Kennedy, I found it more like she seems very young and idealistic to me now - and definitely new. I don't see any problem with her questioning authority, even if it is Buffy, since she's still paying attention to learning and no one's actually giving her much guidance on what to do. (Love Buffy to bits, but OTT speeches followed by 'do as I say' aren't the most motivating techniques in the world. And really someone should have pulled her up on acting like a drill sergeant, because there's no call for that considering the way they're trying to learn to fight.) A lot of her and the other potentials' unpleasantness seems more like a symptom of a problem than the problem itself to me now, I think.