Dobian
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I liked season 5 a lot. It had a strong main story arc and I liked how it ultimately brought the gang and Giles close together again, something that was really missing in season 4.
I've always enjoyed the lighter and sillier episodes of the show, like Something Blue, Fear Itself, The Zeppo, and Doppelgangland, as well as Once More with Feeling. Fool for Love was a great episode, The Gift was the best of the season finales with that powerful closing moment, and Restless was very entertaining, though I always thought it was out of place as a season finale and should have been in the middle somewhere.
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I like to call this show The O'pranos. You have the underworld character with his milf wife and teenage son and daughter, and having to deal with his unpredictable father. Very much like Tony and Carmela and their two kids, and his mom Livia and Uncle Junior. Like Carmela, Abby is following her Catholic upbringing of sticking it out no matter what (and also like Carmela, she seems to forget about the bad stuff when hubby buys her a new toy, like that house), while privately toying with infidelity on the side because she knows that Ray is unfaithful.
I liked last night's epsisode, even though Ray's brothers weren't in it. Mickey is always fun to watch, I laughed at him jumping around like an ape in the interrogation room. I love the interaction between Ray and Ezra, and how they got that judge to comply last night. I'm not sure that the Boston reporter chick bought any of it when they called her in to tell her the "real story" about Sully.
I enjoy seeing how Ray goes about solving his various problems each week.
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I've just been watching season 6 and about to wrap it up. Here's some of my thoughts on that I don't like about Buffy (compared to the mountain of things I love about Buffy, don't get me wrong):
1. Xander wussing out on his wedding day to Anya. Then he was given a second chance to make things right and he blew it again. It basically undid all of the character's growth into manhood that had been happening the previous three seasons and regressed him back to the Xander of seasons 1-3.
2. Willow really is too cute for her own good. Several have said this above, but I too have cringed at some of her cutesy lines that sound like they came out of the mouth of a ten year old.
3. I loved season 6, until the train wreck at the altar and then the miserable and dreary Seeing Red. First, regarding Spike's attempted rape of Buffy, the show did not need to go there. It had alredy done a fine job of portraying the dynamic between these two, what drew them together, and why a romantic relationship could never work between them. The rape scene IMO added nothing and only served to give me a creepy feeling whenever I look at Spike now. Then of course, Warren randomly shooting and killing Tara was to me just a plot device so we could see Willow jump to the dark side. All season long the Trio was just a group of bumbling nerds whose attempts at super villainy were comical, then all of a sudden Warren turns into this murdering sociopath and kills off a beloved character. WTF?
3. I too hated Glory. Like someone above said, it's what happens when you give a ditzy valley girl ultimate power. The thing is, this is supposed to be a god who is older than the earth, shouldn't she be a little less like a spoiled teenage brat?
4. Buffy's mom annoyed me. Sure, there were episodes when she was fun, like Band Candy, but most of the time I was sick of her June Cleaver act, especially in the first two seasons.
5. They wrecked Spike. I loved Spike from his first moments on the show. It all went downhill when they stuck that damn chip in his head. I never wanted Spike with a soul, we had Angel for that.
6. I loved Drusilla, and I wish she had been on the show more. At least she got some time on Angel.
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You must be watching Under the Dome right now... :-)
Ugh, don't get me started on that one. I already ranted about it on the other thread.
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To cut the show some slack on this point, I would say that the tunnel was probably dug back in the 80s, and the diggers simply put the back panel of the locker back in place to cover the entrance. When they opened the locker the first time, they didn't know there was a tunnel behind the metal panel.
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Zoey's great, same with Akalitus. Jackie I hated all season, she's just a rotten person. I really hope this is her final fall. I don't want another season of rehab with her falling off the wagon again after she's clean for a few months. My patience and sympathy for the character are gone.
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I started watching it simply because I kept hearing people say how great it was. So I binge watched the first three seasons last year right before season 4 started, then started watching the new shows along with everyone else. I haven't been disappointed, it's my favorite currently running show.
A lot of shows I watch are based on what I've read and heard. I kept hearing about how great Breaking Bad was too, so at the beginning of this year I watched the whole series over about two months, and I think it's the best series I've ever seen. Six Feet Under, started watching that one in April and finished a week or so ago. Dexter I started watching before season 7 because I heard it was great. Got all caught up and then watched 7 and 8 when they aired. The next show on my list is probably The Wire.
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Smallville season one was very much like Buffy's first season. The main character was a secret superhero and fought a freak of the week at the high school in each episode. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the makers of Smallville had watched a lot of Buffy. I liked Smallville a lot, until it just started getting very dark and over-the-top. The tone of the show changed a lot with the departure of Clark's parents, and also when Lex Luthor left. I always liked Buffy better, because even in the show's darker moments, it had a sense of humor about it, or at least a feeling of a light at the end of the tunnel. The story always had a glass is half full feel to it, while Smallville too often felt like the glass was half empty. SMG was also better in her lead role than Tom Welling. She always conveyed a heart and soul, and a worldly wisdom as the seasons progressed, while Clark so often came off as a douchebag.
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I wasn't as blown away by the first season as some people here. It felt it to be very much style over substance for the first several episodes because the writers were very slow to clarify what is motivating these characters. Only in the Frankenstein subplot did I feel a clear direction in the story and character development. Other things kind of annoyed me. The Vanessa seance possession scene was for me completely over-the-top and dangerously close to being comical. And the gay triste between Ethan and Dorian Gray just seemed to me to be totally gratuitous and for shock value. It just came out of nowhere. The final episode at last started to tie things together to where I feel like I understand the point of these characters and what drives them (well, except for Ethan, who I still can't figure out and don't understand his place on this show). I just wish they could have gotten to this point a little sooner. But things are set up now for season 2, which has the potential to be a big improvement.
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It's too bad Barbie and Julia don't have the sense to address the townspeople and tell them to grow a pair and get their noses out of Big Jim's big ass. That would be funny.
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I've always liked Xander, I think the character is hilarious. I think my favorite Xander quote is from Halloween in season 4. They're trying to track Giles down to help them and he's playing his guitar at some bar/club, and singing Freebird or something, and Xander says, "Can we go back to the haunted house now, because this is really creeping me out." Classic Xander.
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Giles is my favorite. He was the anchor for those kids and he had the greatest quips. "Well, no. I wasn't actually one of the original members of Pink Floyd, but... About the monster stuff, yes". And I'll never get the image of him wearing a sombrero out of my head. He was great.
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I liked Cordy a lot more on Angel too, but I liked her early "Queen C" self as well. I always liked how brutally honest she could be.
My favorite Cordy moment has to be when she breaks up with Xander in the hospital. "Stay. Away. From. Me." I never knew a voice could be so empty and yet so filled with pain and venom at the same time. Poor poor Cordy. But Xander totally deserved it.
Yeah that was the first scene where she ever revealed her vulnerability. She would continue to grow on Angel, where I really enjoy the character the most.
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I would have the dome slowly sink into the ground until the final dramatic episodes where the remaining survivors are crawling around like crabs and fighting Big Jim over the center spot with the four-foot head clearance. Now that's a finish!
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I agree, it's a bad soap opera with moron characters. Watch Walking Dead if you want to see a show about survival, Under the Dome is just an exercise in stupidity. And yeah, I'd rather be on stupid Lost island hanging out with Hurley, who's at least funny, than with these boring stiffs under the dome.
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I hate that I keep making myself watch this show, the writing, directing, and acting are so bad. I can forgive plot inconsistencies and illogical behavior, people coming to the cafe every morning for their big pancake breakfasts when food is running low, but what does this show in is that I don't like any of the characters. Give me someone I can root for, whether it's a good guy or a villain. The closest they came was with Big Jim, but his act has already gotten old. All of these characters are TV Trope 101. None of them has a personality or is interesting in any way. Even the teenagers are drips, it's like watching a bad soap opera. But this is a trend on major network shows. You look at a show like Breaking Bad, you have a villain in Walt you can root for. (And you can also see how good Dean Norris can be when he's given a good script) In the old Buffy the Vampire Slayer shows you have characters both good and bad with personality off the charts. In Walking Dead the characters are so deeply drawn you really understand what they're all thinking and feeling. The same with Lost. The plot of that show may have been a train wreck, but at least the characters were well-written and heavily explored. But this show is full of people I couldn't care less about, they're just cardboard cutouts, devices for the plot.
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Abby Donovan: Shrew, fishwife, or just a really, really bad Southie accent?
in Ray Donovan
It's true that there are a ton of similarities between Carmela and Abby. They both knew what they were getting into, and they stayed in it as long as they got what they wanted, and have no right to complain. You reap what you sow.