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Date Posted: 06:26:32 01/26/06 Thu
Author: manwitch
Subject: episodes, episodes
In reply to: Kevin 's message, "Re: Sounds great. Wish I could've been there" on 19:02:25 01/25/06 Wed

Conversations with Dead People is the one where Dawn has pizza for dinner against Buffy's explicit orders. Oh, and also a spirit comes and haunts the summers house and willow talks to Tara via Cassie and Buffy gets social worked by a guy she doesn't even remember who turns out to have been sired by Spike. That episode in terms of action, horror, drama, wit and charm is equal with the best of the best. Well, might not break the top 6, but its top ten material for most Buffy fans I would think. Your opinion is your own, and is free to vary.

I hear what you're saying about comparing any ep to ones from the earlier seasons. I think seasons six and seven have passages, maybe five or ten minutes at a time, certain scenes and situations, that have no dropoff from the earlier seasons. But it does sometimes seem like they couldn't quite string a whole episode together, at least after TR. I am still amazed when I watch season two or three, how effortlessly the story plays out over however many minutes that is. Even Sophist's favorite episodes like Reptile Boy or Bad Eggs have a pacing to them and a flow to the story that better content from seasons 6 or 7 occasionally seems to lack.

But in terms of say comedy. I'm not sure that Tabula Rasa or Him is so inferior to say BB&B or Something Blue. In terms of blending humor and drama, I think the writers are at the top of their game in Entropy and Same Time Same Place. Except that in Entropy they waste time with the goofballs when there is character development just bursting out of every other corner. Cut the goofballs, or better yet, spend the early part of season 6 writing them as real people, and that would be a truly special hour of television.

Anyways, I think Xander got dropped. Willow became less interesting as she matured and overcame her neurosis. Giles left and returned a little bit flat. Anya and Dawn remained immensely intriguing and were underutilized, particularly in Season 7, when the best scenes and best episodes, few though they were, consistently revolve around them.

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