Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel

believeagain

believeagain

So I’ve finished season 4. I was going to watch Angel concurrently but I just find that show so boring so I could only manage the crossovers (although I love Cordy and the other characters but the plots are so dry - will try season 2.)

season 4 houses some absolutely brilliant episodes but my god is it a terrible season overall in terms of longer arcs and the Big Bad. I kind of enjoyed the initiative and Riley as a kid but as an adult watching it I can see how awful it all is. I know some of their plotting was thrown in the bin because of Maggie and Oz leaving but they really couldn’t salvage that mess.

Excited to start my favourite season 5 again now but it’ll be very bittersweet with Dawn’s arrival.
 
BananaJean

BananaJean

believeagain said:
So I’ve finished season 4. I was going to watch Angel concurrently but I just find that show so boring so I could only manage the crossovers (although I love Cordy and the other characters but the plots are so dry - will try season 2.)

season 4 houses some absolutely brilliant episodes but my god is it a terrible season overall in terms of longer arcs and the Big Bad. I kind of enjoyed the initiative and Riley as a kid but as an adult watching it I can see how awful it all is. I know some of their plotting was thrown in the bin because of Maggie and Oz leaving but they really couldn’t salvage that mess.

Excited to start my favourite season 5 again now but it’ll be very bittersweet with Dawn’s arrival.
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I hate the whole initiative arc. All those soldiers and guns just took me out of the fantasy of the show.

Thankfully season 5 was a massive course correct and I think it’s probably my favourite season too.

Yeh it will be tough to see Michelle. Her and Sarah have such amazing chemistry together. They both do such a good job of selling that sisterly bond.
 
rav4boy

rav4boy

Femme Aesthetic said:
Gingerbread has the funniest gag punchline of the whole show.

Did I get it?!

Whenever I want to put a random episode on it’s always one of the first I think about.
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Gingerbread has some of my favourite comedy moments of the series. I never don’t laugh out loud at “And you- you’ll be FISH!” - “Maybe we should leave…”

“Wake up in a coma?!”

“Cordelia, put out the fire!”

“Believe me, I tried telling that to the nice man with the gun!”

God I still love this show. It will always have my favourite funny and dramatic moments. There’s “You’re really campaigning for bitch of the year” - “As defending champion, are you nervous?”
Then you’ve got the final acts of The Prom and Becoming.
Ugh!!
 
Nwonder

Nwonder

I was thinking about how the reboot could possibly address Dawn’s absence whilst also honouring Michelle… and it could be interesting if Dawn were to suddenly vanish from the timeline in the same way she originally appeared in season 5.

Like, everything that happened in seasons 5 and 6 would still hold true, but Buffy and the Scoobies would have no memory of Dawn’s existence.

And then later in season Buffy could start experiencing flashes of Dawn which would prompt her to investigate and eventually unlocking her memories of Dawn.

The writers could chalk it up to the magic the Monks used to transform the Key into Dawn had expired, causing the Key to revert to its original, non-human state.

Buffy would be the only one to remember Dawn, leaving her to mourn her sister alone.

Idk might be an interesting angle. Also, I hope this doesn’t come across as disrespectful to Michelle or Dawn’s legacy.
 
BananaJean

BananaJean

Nwonder said:
I was thinking about how the reboot could possibly address Dawn’s absence whilst also honouring Michelle… and it could be interesting if Dawn were to suddenly vanish from the timeline in the same way she originally appeared in season 5.

Like, everything that happened in seasons 5 and 6 would still hold true, but Buffy and the Scoobies would have no memory of Dawn’s existence.

And then later in season Buffy could start experiencing flashes of Dawn which would prompt her to investigate and eventually unlocking her memories of Dawn.

The writers could chalk it up to the magic the Monks used to transform the Key into Dawn had expired, causing the Key to revert to its original, non-human state.

Buffy would be the only one to remember Dawn, leaving her to mourn her sister alone.

Idk might be an interesting angle. Also, I hope this doesn’t come across as disrespectful to Michelle or Dawn’s legacy.
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Personally I think they will either take a similar route the Sex & The City reboot “And Just Like“ took with the character of Stanford and find a way to honour the actress and character without killing Dawn off.

Or I think they could do something along the lines of... Have a scene where Buffy opens a locket she is wearing and it has a picture of Dawn in it. Buffy takes a moment to hold the locket close to her chest and takes a deep breath to remember her sister. Maybe they can use Michelle’s reading of the line “the hardest thing in this world is to live in it” from Once More This Feeling as a voiceover to score this moment. The audience can infer this means the character has passed on and I think this is almost enough, I don’t think a big explanation as to how the character died is necessarily needed.

Buffy could then wear the locket in all her scenes for the remainder of the show as a way to further honour Dawn and Michelle and make her feel a part of the reboot.
 
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BananaJean

BananaJean

Nova The Vampire Slayer. Hmm… it’s gonna take some getting used to.

Edit: apparently this info came from a casting announcement and more info on other characters will come out later today.
 
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carlos_b_fly

Gasur said:
I wonder which slayer dies to cause Nova to become one.
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Oh, I'd more than bet all the Slayers will be dead or gone by some means by the time this series starts. They won't want a world full of slayers around, it'll rob the new series of its impact and they'll want Nova to be the lone hero just like Buffy was.

Would be quite cool if all the Slayers were turned "off" somehow in the pilot (maybe by the Big Bad of the season) and all their power pours into one new vessel. Nova, of course.
 
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