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Post by Gray Lensman on Aug 8, 2005 6:29:53 GMT
True. Elsa fills that role pretty well for you. Though, thinking about it, I guess Night Spider isn't that far off either. And Amy gives me my own version of Dawn in any event.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 8, 2005 6:36:44 GMT
I don't really have the Dawn role filled. Unless you'd count Sinthea, though I wouldn't ;D Yana gets the Willow role, but I can't say I have a Xander either (Thankfully , nor an Anya. Elsa draws on Buffy, yes, but also Tomb raider, so she turns out substantially different despite the roots.
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Post by Gray Lensman on Aug 8, 2005 6:46:29 GMT
Nah. I figure Sin is more like your Faith. Actually, I think the closest you have to a Dawn is Corinna. Not quite, but there are similarities. I can't think of anyone you have who approaches an Anya. For me... hmm. NS seems kind of a bizarre mix of Angel and Xander. Spectra fits the Buffy role. Amy is obviously Dawn. Meta... probably Riley, I guess. Maureen could be arguable for Faith or Spike, if you wanted to see her that way. Funny thing is, I never consciously intended it that way.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 8, 2005 6:53:06 GMT
Heh. Sin as Faith... Yeah, I could go with that. Wouldn't be terrible casting to use Eliza, either, though I don't think she's perfect. Sin really needs a kind of fragility beneath the strong outer surface...
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Post by sps1000 on Aug 15, 2007 17:37:51 GMT
Digging up an old thread and all but I rewatched Buffy Season 7 and what a difference even a year makes (I last watched the series from beggining to end last Halloween). I'm finding that just like "Once More With Feeling" Season 7 is growing on me.
The season starts out REALLY strong more lighthearted and it's a genuinely fun season to watch but starting around the time the potentials show up it starts to jump the shark. Now don't get me wrong there are some great episodes in the last half of the season "Lies My Parents Told Me", "Potential", "The Killer in Me" and "Storyteller" are great episodes but the genuine blahness of the Potentials drag it down a little. Then the last two episodes are probably the second weakest finales in the series (Season 4's last two episodes have "Chosen" beat). Seriously probably about 2/3rds of the cannon fodder die then Anya and Spike (Spike is a non-death in my eyes since he came back less than two weeks later continuity time, and his spirit was trapped in that amulet so...). I would've seriously killed off one of the original Scoobies most likely Giles, then Dawn also as Buffy loosing her "family" would've made the ending a bit bittersweet. Nobody close to Buffy dying completely ruins all the talk and inevitability of people close to you dying in a war. It's like "Ah look nameless potentials 10-30 died." "They actually had numbers?" "Yeah I shouldn't have even bothered with that as I knew they were going to die anyhow."
Screw Season 8! I want death in my TV shows!
Also the whole Caleb/First thing is another rant for another post.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 15, 2007 18:39:21 GMT
I would have killed the entire cast except for Faith, honestly. Left her to continue the legacy...
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Post by sps1000 on Aug 15, 2007 20:44:41 GMT
Yeah. That would've worked. I read something somewhere that had there been a Faith spin-off Spike would've come back anyhow and they would've been in a relationship or somesuch. So as you can see Spike's heroic sacrifice would've been more like a heroic vacation anyhow.
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Post by Gray Lensman on Aug 15, 2007 22:09:12 GMT
Season 7 had several good episodes, especially towards the beginning of the season. That said, I rather liked a couple of the later ones, especially "Lies My Parents Told Me". I think there was a general feeling of exhaustion through Season 7 that got worse as it approached the series finale. Yeah, Spike's big heroic sacrifice was undercut by his later resurrection over in Angel. That said, I don't feel too badly about that, because Spike was a far better foil for Angel than he ever was for Buffy. I also sort of understand why the decision was made to "kill" him... give Spike the big heroic moment to end the redemption arc, and lay groundwork for the "two Champions" subplot on Angel. It was just rather clunky, and didn't serve the Buffy finale so well in the long run. There was so much untapped potential in Season 7, though. Spike/Faith being the main one, though I'd have liked to have seen more Faith and Dawn too. Hopefully Season 8 will address those aspects... I wouldn't mind seeing Brian Vaughan address those dynamics in his Faith arc. Oh, yeah, and the Potentials are still lame. Although I liked the Buffy impersonator in the last issue of Season 8... if Joss had used that approach in Season 7, the Potentials' deaths would have meant something. Live and learn, I guess.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 15, 2007 22:12:55 GMT
It's the old rule: if you want a character's death to have meaning, you have to show they ARE a character, first.
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