mmm happy

[verbicide]

I love the blinds that hang in front of my deck, because there is exciting light, without piercing rays.

I could have done so much more today, but after meeting Jeff for lunch-and-excursion to the public market for sausages and lemons, I came home and slothed on the couch with a purring Hobbsie and a book (finally getting around to a re-read of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince). I did eventually get up and clean the dining room, living room, and kitchen, and I want to make another loaf of bread. I made this herb French bread that I loved, so must do it again.

I really need to straighten out my desk and pay bills, but I can't be arsed to do it today. So I think I will make dinner and watch season two of Buffy. It's just that sort of a night.

Tomorrow... tomorrow I will be good and do productive things.

Comments

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Hey, you got a lot done earlier; that's one heck of a lot of cleaning.

Besides, it totally IS a Buffy kind of night. (I'm hoping to get a season six ep in - enjoy season two, is what I'm saying. boy, does it get depressing.)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

True! The front part of the place looks great now!

And just started the first episode... I'd forgotten how much I love these characters! And yes, I'm prepared for the seriously awful stuff ahead. (I think.)

Do you have a favorite season? I think three is mine.

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I fell in love all over again when we started rewatching. Especially since I'd never seen it all straight through in order before - I came in sometime during season 3, as I recall.

You know, 3 is my favorite, too. They'd been around long enough to have that great chemistry and snappy dialogue, nothing beats the Mayor ("Big snake!"), the Angel thing was tolerable.... and after that we devolved into various arcs that I didn't like nearly as much. (I forget if you've seen it, so I don't want to give too much away, but 4 had both the Worst Boyfriend Ever and a really annoying villain, and then 5 topped that one with an even more irritating villain, and the less said about SIX's bad guys the better.) Although there were some just breathtaking episodes in all of the latter seasons, I thought three was the most enjoyable overall.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Wow, excellent. We feel entirely the same way about the show! I have seen it all (but thanks for being discreet in case) and three was really where I felt they hit their stride, but god... GOD did I hate the major arc in season four (though some stellar stand-alone episodes, like Hush) and hated five, stopped watching mid-way during six (also known as Buffy and Spike Have a Lot of Gratuitous Sex), and caught up to watch the rest of seven if somewhat grudgingly.

But it's funny how the absolute love I developed for the characters in the first three seasons kept me invested through a majority of bad in the rest.

And I really hated it when all the grownups went away for their various reasons. I thought it knocked the show out of balance and since Giles was my favorite character... it just killed me to watch episode after episode without him.

(I can talk for hours about this stuff :)

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd say we're in complete agreement. :) I mean, I get that the silly cutout characters of The Nerds were intended to highlight the way the gang falls apart when there's no true Big Bad to fight, and the way stress fractures building since Day 1 come out. I understand that cinemetically, thematically, and metaphorically it all makes sense.

But goddammit, do I hate the whole arc. It's gut-wrenchingly depressing, joyless, and with a marvelous side of "Buffy and Spike Have a Lot of Gratuitous Sex." (And I was a FAN of Buffy/Spike; the chemistry between SMG and Marsters was just electric from the very beginning, and as a result, they have always had a *believable* passion in a way that her and Broody Soul Guy never pulled off. But, yuck, did we really have to do it in the whole "he's a crazed stalker and she's so messed up beyond belief that they have this bizarre abusive fuckbuddy thing"?!! Way to take all the fun out of it.)

And S7, while it did wrap it all up beautifully - First Evil? Also known as "defeated by a friggin' snowstorm o' romance in one episode, last time"? Right.

I'm with you about the adults, too; I sympathize with ASH's need to see his kids occasionally, but losing Giles about broke my heart, and that after Joyce too.... Throw in the spectacular Xander/Anya breakup and what happens to Tara, and I damn near walked away from the show myself.

As you can see, I can also go on for quite a while. It helps that we've watched five-plus seasons in six months, as it meant seeing it all unfold at top speed and watching all these underlying plotlines develop and pay off while I was still able to remember the beginnings of them. ;)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

That's what's great about the show--one can wax on about it forever!

I will admit that I sorta liked Angel and I think I'm among the few who wasn't crazy about Buffy/Spike (for a variety of reasons, I'll agree they had great chemistry, though!).

Back in college I had an unfortunate fondness for the strong silent type and I was probably projecting.

It is going to be exciting watching the episodes close together. I remember the beginning of season 5 --utter confusion and chaos amongst my group of friends who would watch it, and each week took FOREVER to come around! And of course, I hated the season then (mostly) so that was frustrating on top of everything else.

I'm so glad I didn't hate the way it ended, ya know?

[lietya.livejournal.com]

I kinda liked Angel too, the first time, but this go-through it somehow creeped me out a lot more that a 240-year-old was involved with a sixteen-year-old girl... and that he wasn't a whole lot more mature than she was, on a bad day! I wonder if that has to do with me being a lot older than Buffy this time around; she seems much more like a child at 16 to me than she did when I was only 19 myself.

And I never believed Buffy/Spike could work as a *good* relationship, but the way the sparks flew between the actors, I wanted to see them try it. Besides, Angel, Parker, Riley - she always had weird taste in lovers. :)

Yeah, it's been a ton of fun seeing it unfold that quickly. (Heh. I didn't do this with Buffy, but for Stargate I'm actively refusing to watch it on TV because I got so hooked on the DVDs of earlier seasons that I'd rather wait for the DVD run than have to suffer through the episodes being trickled out to me maddeningly slowly!) Five might not be so bad for you this time if it goes by quickly, who knows.

It's definitely good that the ending was fitting, and satisfying. I suspect my opinion of the overall series is even somewhat favorably colored by that; for all that I disliked big chunks of 4/7ths of the seasons, the payoff was so worth it that I love the show anyway.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

You know, that's a really good point. My perspective has changed so much on other things I've watched--we'll have to see if I find Angel less endearing!

And I know what you mean about Spike/Buffy--great chemistry!

I can't imagine season 5 would be any worse, and now that I know the big secret, it won't be as confusing and infuriating!

Just watching season 2 now, I can't get over how much I love Willow! :)