Buffy - Once More With Feeling Interlude
Jan. 21st, 2006 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thalia_seawoodOfficially, I'm still on hiatus after watching Afterlife.
Last week was way too busy to view more episodes; when I came home from work I was just tired. However, Once More With Feeling was one of the episodes with whichselenak showed me how splendid Buffy was, so I decided to rewatch it this morning with my boyfriend. I simply wanted to see his reaction as he's so not into musicals. What can I say: He *loved* it. Even watched the "Making Of" feature and rewatched the "They've Got The Mustard Out" scene. :-)
To sum it up: Joss is a genius! Taking a genre and changing it in such a way that it becomes accessible to people even if they never liked this genre before is a real gift. (Along similar lines, I've now seen people take to Firefly who dislike Science Fiction and/or Western.)
Last week was way too busy to view more episodes; when I came home from work I was just tired. However, Once More With Feeling was one of the episodes with which
selenak showed me how splendid Buffy was, so I decided to rewatch it this morning with my boyfriend. I simply wanted to see his reaction as he's so not into musicals. What can I say: He *loved* it. Even watched the "Making Of" feature and rewatched the "They've Got The Mustard Out" scene. :-)To sum it up: Joss is a genius! Taking a genre and changing it in such a way that it becomes accessible to people even if they never liked this genre before is a real gift. (Along similar lines, I've now seen people take to Firefly who dislike Science Fiction and/or Western.)
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Date: 2006-01-21 03:57 pm (UTC)Sheer genius.
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Date: 2006-01-21 03:57 pm (UTC)Sheer genius.
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Date: 2006-01-21 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 04:16 pm (UTC)When I rewatched it today, I was close to tears at times. And I still have to watch 2 or 3 episode until it really comes up. But seeing Buffy just functioning (going through the motions) and trying so hard to come across as normal, has become very painful to watch.
And there are Anya and Xander having the wedding chitters - and can see a gloomy ending ahead already.
Also looks like Tara will break up with Willow.
On the surface it's a fun episode, but at the same time you could just as easily cry while watching it.
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Date: 2006-01-21 04:27 pm (UTC)You have to go on living..so one of us is living. (waaaaah)
You have a few episodes to go to lead in, but certainly as far as you got, you get the idea of how incedible that episode really is.
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Date: 2006-01-21 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-22 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-22 12:36 pm (UTC)I know that the mortality rate on Angel is high.
Oh, and I remember seeing parts of one Buffy episode on German TV - here Buffy was living in the Summers' house together with a bunch of girls and there was a fight near a fastfood chain. I found it all very odd. :-)
Since I still haven't seen this episode so far, it has to be season 6 or season 7. Buffy was less gloomy than in season 6 so I guess it won't come up too soon.
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Date: 2006-01-22 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 06:25 pm (UTC)part of the cleverness of the ep is that it works for people who love musicals, and for people who hate them (by mocking so many of hte conventions)
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Date: 2006-01-21 11:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-23 06:28 pm (UTC)How are you doing by the way? Haven't read from you in some time.
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Date: 2006-01-27 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-30 09:43 pm (UTC)It's good to see that you are still around. *smile*