S8

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2maggie2 has posted her thoughts on the latest S8 issue. In reading them, it occurs to me that I'd be a lot more hurt by Joss's characterizations of my beloved characters if they made a little more sense. It isn't as though our characters haven't got it in them to go very, very dark, as we saw Buffy go in S6. In fact, I'd say there remains a whole lot of untapped potential for dark!BtVS. It's just that Joss's way of getting Buffy and Angel there in S8 are so cracky that I can't take them seriously.

Whatever, Joss. I'm going to go rewatch this cool TV show I have. I think you worked on it at some point, but you must've forgotten. It has these neat characters that are flawed and frequently broken and yet still largely sympathetic, and until an unfortunate last season their actions always grew out of what came before. You should check it out sometime - the first couple of seasons are on Hulu.