OT: 10,000 Pt XLIV - Guitar Things

[Star Platinum]

Huh

I would hate the Chiefs without this, but the constant shots to Taylor in the box triples my hatred of them

 

[Juxtaposer]

Yeah, the Cordy stuff in season 4 was awful, and made worse once you find out that most of it was down to Whedon being just a completely detestable asshole to Charisma Carpenter for having the apparent gall to get pregnant between seasons (the horror! How dare she live her life like some sort of... person!). And then made worse by basically everything to do with...

Spoiler

Connor (I'm just spoiler tagging this because there have been posters who have said they haven't seen the show yet and even giving his name will kinda wreck things as early as mid season 3

because he was just the worst. Also as cool of an idea as Jasmine was, I thought the execution was kinda lame and a waste of Gina Torres. I know that she can play a great super-creepy villain (from, of all things, a Transformers show) so giving her a character that was mostly kinda one-note boring sucked. I get that was sort of the point, but it just didn't click for me.

When I said that Cordelia was great by the end of her run I almost don't count season 4 at all. Just through the end of Season 3 and then her one-episode guest spot in season 5.

Totally agree. I don't consider season 4 Cordelia to be Cordelia at all, so I just kinda... pretend it didn't happen.

I think the problem with Connor was

Also agreed on Gina Torres. Jasmine was such an interesting thought but the execution wasn't good enough to be worth what it took to get there...

Specifically regarding depressing seasons of television, I kinda think season 6 of Buffy was really well-done, and the testimony to how well-done the depiction of depression is in that season is that I would never choose to watch any part of it except the last four episodes because it puts me in a really dark and emotional frame of mind. My biggest beef with the last two seasons of Buffy is

Yeah, I really love those series though. I really like when my media confronts philosophical and ethical questions and makes a moral statement on good and evil in the way they do. The core of Buffy is that in order to live authentically, you must make always the right choices, even when they're incredibly hard to make. I try and live my life on that idea.