There was someone on TWOP who kept putting forward the theory that if high school = hell, they could have gone with a college = heaven parallel (which you seemed to see with Willow at first, rejoicing in the library).
I can't really imagine them going with something so angst-less. But I'd have to say I found their efforts to dredge up sources of pain and suffering in post-high school life to be, ahem, less than convincing. I often wonder where a staff of geeky writers, who presumably would have thrived in college and are now making a living doing the kind of thing any geek would give major bodily organs for - and I'm not talking about stuff like kidneys, where you'd still have a spare - get off telling us how much it sucks to be a grownup.
Yeah, they go to sleep, he wakes up and then AAAGH stumble out in to the rain BUFFY blah blah. That also happened with Darla, although it was a major-league fakeout -- and even with Cordelia in the fake life that was set up to bring back Angelus, I think.
I did love all the credulity-straining character-conflict resolution that built up to the perfect-Cordy-moment, though. Kinda reminded me of "Chosen," come to think of it. Now I'm imagining a Season Seven coda where we cut back to Buffy, chained to a table, with a glowy-eyed shaman announcing that he's successfully extracted her soul. :-)
Aww. That seems kinda sweet, for Clive Barker. What is it, filled with blood or something?
Hee!
And sorry about making you stab yourself in the eye. Won't happen again.
I swear continuity isn't a major kink, but I wish to God ME would be able to keep one storyline straight for a while....late Whedonverse reminds me of late Xfiles, where there were too many complications to remember, let alone try to keep straight.
The one that set my head on fire last week was trying to figure out the ground rules for Wolfram & Hart's magic bookshelf. When Sirk first shows Wesley the books at the end of the last season on Angel, the fact that they can only display stuff in the company archives is a frickin' plot point - that's how Wesley figurs out that Sirk stole a bunch of rare tomes from the pre-'splodey Watcher's Council. Then Whedon blunders in and blithely declares "No, it can display any book in the world." I say he's full of it, and the company just happened to have copies of The Little Princess and Fun Facts About The Deeper Well somewhere in the stacks...
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There was someone on TWOP who kept putting forward the theory that if high school = hell, they could have gone with a college = heaven parallel (which you seemed to see with Willow at first, rejoicing in the library).
I can't really imagine them going with something so angst-less. But I'd have to say I found their efforts to dredge up sources of pain and suffering in post-high school life to be, ahem, less than convincing. I often wonder where a staff of geeky writers, who presumably would have thrived in college and are now making a living doing the kind of thing any geek would give major bodily organs for - and I'm not talking about stuff like kidneys, where you'd still have a spare - get off telling us how much it sucks to be a grownup.
Yeah, they go to sleep, he wakes up and then AAAGH stumble out in to the rain BUFFY blah blah. That also happened with Darla, although it was a major-league fakeout -- and even with Cordelia in the fake life that was set up to bring back Angelus, I think.
I did love all the credulity-straining character-conflict resolution that built up to the perfect-Cordy-moment, though. Kinda reminded me of "Chosen," come to think of it. Now I'm imagining a Season Seven coda where we cut back to Buffy, chained to a table, with a glowy-eyed shaman announcing that he's successfully extracted her soul. :-)
Aww. That seems kinda sweet, for Clive Barker. What is it, filled with blood or something?
Hee!
And sorry about making you stab yourself in the eye. Won't happen again.
I swear continuity isn't a major kink, but I wish to God ME would be able to keep one storyline straight for a while....late Whedonverse reminds me of late Xfiles, where there were too many complications to remember, let alone try to keep straight.
The one that set my head on fire last week was trying to figure out the ground rules for Wolfram & Hart's magic bookshelf. When Sirk first shows Wesley the books at the end of the last season on Angel, the fact that they can only display stuff in the company archives is a frickin' plot point - that's how Wesley figurs out that Sirk stole a bunch of rare tomes from the pre-'splodey Watcher's Council. Then Whedon blunders in and blithely declares "No, it can display any book in the world." I say he's full of it, and the company just happened to have copies of The Little Princess and Fun Facts About The Deeper Well somewhere in the stacks...