More BtVS season 1
Jan. 28th, 2015 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightBeen trying to do some writing this morning. Have picked the easy option of editing the bits I've already written of a partially finished fic that I began way back in...2007, probably. Or maybe 2008. Anyway, if I do ever manage to finish it you'll all be the first to know.
I've also been surging ahead with my re-watch of BtVS from the beginning. Sorry,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quinara. I couldn't wait, and Netflix just makes it too easy. If you're still going to do a re-watch, though, I will definitely join in.
Speaking of Netflix, does anyone know if it cuts things for violence/sexual content? I watched The Pack yesterday and have the distinct impression of Hyena!Xander's sexual assault on Buffy being a lot shorter than I remembered.
Anyway, I'm up to I Robot, You Jane now, and if anyone wants to know what I thought about the episodes, I haven't changed my mind much from when I last watched them. Reviews here.
What has changed is that -as mentioned in a previous post - my critical faculties seem to have deserted me recently, and when re-watching the episodes this time, my thoughts were pretty shallow.
For instance, I didn't find Teacher's Pet nearly as clunky this time around (except for the special effects, which are so awful as to be...well, kind of endearing). I also didn't catch DB out in any particularly awful acting (though I know I did last time). Instead, I found myself thinking, boy, he looks amazing! and searching LJ for BtVS season 1 (when DB was at his best) Angel icons.
I also really noticed the chemistry between SMG and DB - (not surprising, I suppose, if they were really having an affair (though not to their credit either, since DB was still married to his first wife at the time)), which makes it only too obvious why Greenwalt/the exec producers/ everyone involved/possibly even Joss by this stage wanted Angel to stick around.
One thing I don't seem to have mentioned last time, though, really struck me this time. In the episode Angel, how the hell does Angel justify to himself staying in Buffy's bedroom not only all night but all the next day too? Okay, I get he couldn't leave during the day, but come on. He had no business going in there in the first place.
Yeah, needs of the plot, I suppose.
Also, re: that episode, was struck again by how the Master's grief for Darla is absolutely genuine, and thought it quite sweet that theAnnoying Anointed One tries to cheer him up (by telling him Darla isn't worth bothering about), then leads him off screen, as if he were the adult and the Master the child.
Aww, bless.
Or not.
I've also been surging ahead with my re-watch of BtVS from the beginning. Sorry,
quinara. I couldn't wait, and Netflix just makes it too easy. If you're still going to do a re-watch, though, I will definitely join in.Speaking of Netflix, does anyone know if it cuts things for violence/sexual content? I watched The Pack yesterday and have the distinct impression of Hyena!Xander's sexual assault on Buffy being a lot shorter than I remembered.
Anyway, I'm up to I Robot, You Jane now, and if anyone wants to know what I thought about the episodes, I haven't changed my mind much from when I last watched them. Reviews here.
What has changed is that -as mentioned in a previous post - my critical faculties seem to have deserted me recently, and when re-watching the episodes this time, my thoughts were pretty shallow.
For instance, I didn't find Teacher's Pet nearly as clunky this time around (except for the special effects, which are so awful as to be...well, kind of endearing). I also didn't catch DB out in any particularly awful acting (though I know I did last time). Instead, I found myself thinking, boy, he looks amazing! and searching LJ for BtVS season 1 (when DB was at his best) Angel icons.
I also really noticed the chemistry between SMG and DB - (not surprising, I suppose, if they were really having an affair (though not to their credit either, since DB was still married to his first wife at the time)), which makes it only too obvious why Greenwalt/the exec producers/ everyone involved/possibly even Joss by this stage wanted Angel to stick around.
One thing I don't seem to have mentioned last time, though, really struck me this time. In the episode Angel, how the hell does Angel justify to himself staying in Buffy's bedroom not only all night but all the next day too? Okay, I get he couldn't leave during the day, but come on. He had no business going in there in the first place.
Yeah, needs of the plot, I suppose.
Also, re: that episode, was struck again by how the Master's grief for Darla is absolutely genuine, and thought it quite sweet that the
Aww, bless.
Or not.
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Date: 2015-01-28 06:12 pm (UTC)Anyway, you are storming away!!! Clearly I will have to get my skates on with this rewatch (though no one should hold their breath).
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Date: 2015-01-28 07:17 pm (UTC)Well, if you have the same versions as me, the Region 2 discs of the later seasons are certainly not as they're meant to be. For one thing, they were shot for 4:3, yet the Region 2 discs show from season 4 onwards in letterbox.
Anyway, you are storming away!!!
I am, but that was because of the Netflix effect. Now, I don't feel so much like watching that way.
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Date: 2015-01-28 08:03 pm (UTC)They look better, though. For some of the gaffes (like the animal trainer visible in Intervention), it's worth it for the added atmosphere, IMO.
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Date: 2015-01-28 10:35 pm (UTC)If I manage to get as far as Intervention without RL interfering (which it usually seems to), I'll keep an eye out.
Er...what animals are there in that episode?
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Date: 2015-01-28 10:56 pm (UTC)In the desert, the guide is a puma. You can see it in a wide shot.
I don't care what Joss says, it looks better 16:9.
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Date: 2015-01-29 03:43 pm (UTC)Will keep an eye out when I watch this time.
And I thought it looked better too.