prysmicdork

Finished the Buffy rewatch, have thoughts but being weepy through the last episodes, and then even more so for Chosen, and then again during the commentary for Chosen and even continuing on through the end of disk extras has left me wiped out. Still conflicted about Season 6, its a difficult season, but thats part of the storyline and so I'm not sure its a bad thing. Season 7 has definitely become one of my favorites (and I think is very similar in feeling to 3 and 5) except that it makes me cry *a lot*. I had this idea in my head that it was kind of an awkward season with a few good episodes, but this rewatch has made me feel more like it is a really good season with a few awkward...seconds.

Things I had not expected to have my feelings changed about:
Andrew. Really not that annoying.
Xander/Anya breakup. Their relationship this season was so much more complex and shaded and changing than I had understood (it might have something to do with where I seem to have stopped watching, which apparently was after Storytellers, so I missed everything inbetween that and Chosen and I think that might explain some of the reasons that Chosen didn't quite get me there the first time).
And um. Kennedy. Kinda didn't hate her. I miss Tara, and had she come back...(sidebar: one of the real pleasures of Season 6 was to see Tara becoming her own person, both before and especially after the breakup), but I felt like I started to get what they were trying to do there and the performance worked much more for me and um. Yeah.

Also, re ongoing conversation with Cleo. Still don't know about the Buffy/Angel thing because I need his side of it to say (although I think even more now that Buffy/Angel on Buffy is different from Buffy/Angel on Angel).
Um. Also. I may be a fairly serious Buffy/Spike shipper. Eep. Season 7 version though, hot as the Season 6 stuff was.

Randomly. Buffy? So pretty in last two episodes. Not that she's not always so pretty. But there was this one hairdo that was even more with the pretty.

Not having to do with Buffy:
Saw Batman Begins. Yay! *thumbs up*
Saw Howl's Moving Castle (or as I feel compelled to call it, Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle because well...bottom-non-spoilery-I-hope-line? Its not DWJ's book. Exactly. Or something). So a confused and shaky thumbs up?

ETA:
Now I'm in that weird space that I get after watching something that really affected (effected? this is one of those that I never remember correctly) me and I feel all sqooshy, but I'm used to being really involved in watching or reading something and now I feel a bit bereft.

Okay, saner now, its all fixable, yes. (I really should have posted that yesterday, but I was too busy sulking and then watching more Buffy)

So. Season 6. Yup. Up to OMWF (hee yay) and so far the only negative comment I have is Anya. I feel like they're being too charactureish with her, that somehow she's acting less human, not more like in season 5 and it kind of feels like a step back.
( Do I need to spoiler tag this? What is the etiquette there? I mean, its been years. )