Thanks!

I'm so behind in reading LJ ('tis the season for much chaotic running around), but I wanted to say thanks to flurblewig for the Christmas card, the chocolates, and the smooch! :-)

More Misc.

Still catching up on my LJ reading and just starting to watch my Buffy Season 7 DVDs.

I rewatched S6 to 'prepare' (because I wanted to drag this out as long as possible) and I was struck again by how pretty S6 is. I don't know squat about filming or lighting or production values or anything like that, but the colours of S6 seem so rich. S5 always seemed grainy to me, but S6 just looks nice. In spite of the dark storylines.

When I watched S6 on TV, I was all with the Spike-love and not really noticing much of anything else. When I bought the DVDs, I was surprised upon viewing them at how much darkness there was in Spike that season and I wondered how I'd missed it the first time. On my third trip through, I was quite pleased at how the duality of his nature came across. The soul-getting part was still as vague as all hell - every time, I'm convinced he's going to Africa to get the chip removed. But for the other episodes, I liked the way they showed him struggling to overcome his demon, sometimes succeeding and occasionally slipping.

So now I'm into S7 - just barely, having watched all of two episodes. I remember liking S7 at the start and the end, but finding the middle rather flat. Which is too bad, because they had a great premise to work with. The Potentials (not that we knew they were Potentials) being chased and killed by the Bringers was creepy and mysterious. Though it did get me wondering how the Bringers knew who was a Potential and who wasn't. I also wondered again where Kit and Carlos went? And why? They could have been fun.

Finally, I must gush. I'm still blown away by the last scene in Beneath You - it was masterful (Marsterful?). Very Shakespearean and wonderfully done by JM. I think it's one of the best scenes in the entire series - and then they just left him smoking on the cross and never referred to it again.

Le sigh.

Oh Yeah...

I watched a bit of Lessons with the commentary by Joss Whedon and David Solomon on. Considering the diva rumours that were going around during S7, I thought this part was funny:

On the laziness of filming scenes in the indoor graveyard they built for the show:

DS: It, unfortunately, spoiled everyone.

JW: Yes, well, uh, a little late for that... I mean, go team!

Heh.