I am ambivalent to report I can still sing every song, due to the soundtrack being on rotation pretty much constantly since I got it, but in context the barbed lyrics really hit me, and not just version one of "I'm Under Your Spell"; this is the first time I listened to Giles' solo and had the uneasy feeling that the bigger problem wasn't his worry that Buffy wasn't standing on her own and it was because he was playing her father; it was because he really, really didn't feel fatherly and boy was this situation going This Could End in Semi-Incestuous (Except Not!) Tragedy.
[Digression: and honestly, in the shape Buffy was in, it's not like it wasn't a likely possibility and not even, in retrospect, a bad one, considering the events of season six. I ship Buffy/Spike like a religion, and I am all about Buffy standing on her own two feet, but it pissed me off so much that no one seemed to get she literally couldn't and no amount of will in the world would fix that; she needed time and it was the one thing no one gave her. I could go on about that all day. Er, but not now.]
Which--I am not opposed to. I never shipped them, like, ever, but then there was Uther of Camelot and everything changed.
*hands* I don't even know what to do with that. I blame Merlin.
I also didn't realize how much the lyrics spell out all the events of season six either, and sometimes not even metaphorically. That was--uncomfortable.
This has been a message from My One True Fandom. Child was born the week of the first episode and I remember seeing the first ep and going "Holy shit, you mean that weird movie with Dylan from 90210? You got to be kidding me." And then five seconds later, I fell in love.
I also think I'm one of the few people who loved all the seasons, but my favorites in some ways is still seasons five and six. I like more episodes in the other seasons, but season six's themes picked up everything that I hadn't expected them to cover from earlier seasons and ran with them. It was not what I'd call enjoyable so much as "difficult to look away" and "really painful" and "Why isn't Riley on fire yet from my burning hatred" and "Fuck everyone ever, except Buffy" and "Oh my God no (many times)" and I have yet to be able to do season six in a single sitting (I break it up with bits from season five and seven; when you need to watch "The Gift" to get an emotional break and cry your eyes out, then wow, yeah)--and I didn't expect to write this much about it.
Must revisit
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I've noticed that too about Here Are The Themes We'll Be Dealing With Now, and also, it will never, ever get old to me either. I still get all happy awesome proud teary when the firetruck goes by at the exact right moment EVERY TIME.
I miss Buffy. I love Buffy. *verklempt*
You and my hubby would get along great. He hates Riley with this rabid, about to start foaming at the mouth passion that is amazing. We both call him that potato head boy and I cherish cherish the 'when Riley met Angel' fight because it was awesome.
I know!! I watched OMWF just the other week and did wonder about Giles/Buffy, which for someone who's always been a crazed Buffy/Spike shipper was a little bit odd. It may be the fact that ASH just gets hotter as the years go by!
The clothing choices for Tara were just weird!
Even though "Merlin" is my one true fannish love these days revisiting Buffy is always a pleasure. She'll always be my girl.
(you know the sad thing is I actually quite liked the name Riley till Riley Finn ruined it for me, now I can never name anything that *pouts*)
Also, pretty much everyone in that show was dressed horribly. I mean, they put Sarah Michelle Gellar in some nice outfits from time to time, but mostly? AWFUL.
Tara was dressed horribly for the most part, and I don't know why. I could understand Willow's geek-girl choices (most of the time) but the thing in OMWF that always, always drives me crazy is that horrible outfit poor Tara wears after the lovely corset-dress. I mean, the finale with Buffy in the lead while Anya and Tara sing back-up is so great, except for Tara's dress! AGH!
I have all the major songs memorized, too, and often play them because I love OMWF like burning. I also love Xena's first musical, the Xena/Ares seduction scenes especially. Mmmm.
My sister, OTOH, was a huge Angel fan. She's still bitter over the fact that I once served David Boreanaz and didn't get his autograph (it seemed tacky! and I think he was trying to be incognito.) (Also, the guy is huge! Shoulders like a construction worker.)
P.S.: My favorite seasons of Buffy were 5/6, also because I enjoyed so many individual episodes and themes. <3
And yes, I hated the Buffy/Riley so much. Mind you, I didn't care for the Buffy/Angel at all either. They neither of them wanted her to be herself--Angel put her on a pedestal and Riley seriously underestimated her capabilities. I hated Riley more because he came between her and the Scoobies.
Also, I had to close my eyes for a lot of season six because of all the shitty behavior. I blocked out most of the rest besides OMWF.
Me too, so much.
And I am still bitter that Riley wasn't killed off in a suitably painful way. (The one episode I will never rewatch is As You Were because I hate Riley so much it is unbearable. And I hate the writer for all the pointless humiliation of Buffy too.)
WolverineX-Men movieverse and shifting my primary fandom allegiance, though I kept watching the show through the finale), but I was in the Buffy/Giles camp. Not from the beginning -- "Helpless" was the episode for which I fell, hard. Before that, I'd just been vaguely watching most of the episodes because it was on at a semi-convenient time and some of my DS9 fan-friends were saying it was really good.