Everyone's posting on the "Buffy" and "Smallville" season finales, and it makes me tired. I just mean, because there's so much to read and respond to, and I probably won't actually respond cuz it's just too damn much.
And I'm too lazy to cut away so I'll sum up my responses in a non-spoilery way:
* I wasn't as blown away by "Buffy" because I had been spoiled on a couple of key plot points. I'm actually pretty pissed off about this, especially since one of the spoilers came in an email from a TOTAL STRANGER! WTF is a total stranger doing emailing me spoilers?!?! I sent her a nasty-gram, you can be sure of that.
* I still enjoyed "Buffy" though. Loved Clem, loved Dawn, loved Anya. Loved [returning character which might count as a spoiler if I gave the name]. The ending was really nice (although the final Spike plot point was the main one I'd been spoiled on). I did feel like the episode could have fit into one hour, though. Like this year's season premiere, "Bargaining," it felt like someone had decided it would be a ratings grab to do a two-hour thing, so they padded it out with some unnecessary stuff, made the fight scenes longer than they needed to be, etc.
* At the end of the "Smallville" episode the first thought I had was, someone should force the "Angel" writers to watch this and then at the end say to them, "see, now THAT is how you write a cliffhanger!" Cuz, uh, wow.
Okay, okay. Of course I lied. I am gonna cut away after all, just for one spoilery "Buffy" comment.
( spoil me baby )
And I'm too lazy to cut away so I'll sum up my responses in a non-spoilery way:
* I wasn't as blown away by "Buffy" because I had been spoiled on a couple of key plot points. I'm actually pretty pissed off about this, especially since one of the spoilers came in an email from a TOTAL STRANGER! WTF is a total stranger doing emailing me spoilers?!?! I sent her a nasty-gram, you can be sure of that.
* I still enjoyed "Buffy" though. Loved Clem, loved Dawn, loved Anya. Loved [returning character which might count as a spoiler if I gave the name]. The ending was really nice (although the final Spike plot point was the main one I'd been spoiled on). I did feel like the episode could have fit into one hour, though. Like this year's season premiere, "Bargaining," it felt like someone had decided it would be a ratings grab to do a two-hour thing, so they padded it out with some unnecessary stuff, made the fight scenes longer than they needed to be, etc.
* At the end of the "Smallville" episode the first thought I had was, someone should force the "Angel" writers to watch this and then at the end say to them, "see, now THAT is how you write a cliffhanger!" Cuz, uh, wow.
Okay, okay. Of course I lied. I am gonna cut away after all, just for one spoilery "Buffy" comment.
( spoil me baby )