If you are a film buff - you'll love it to pieces. An episode that is fun to re-watch from an intellectual film buff stand-point. After you lose your emotional investment or distance yourself...than it is an interesting episode.
My first thought watching it was that the writers were probably saying to themselves "How can we really blow the audience's mind?" Mission accomplished.
I still enjoy the emotional aspect of it - the connection to Joyce, the way it ties into the beginning of the series, (I never thought Buffy was as "carefree" to start with as a lot of fans seem to?) but Buffy is my BDH anyway; and the depression arc was the part of the series that speaks the most personally to me.
I'm also interested in what that ep implies about the show's overall approach to mental illness - that it's something one just needs to "get over". That may not have been their intention (not that I ever worried about that.)
But grueling from an emotional perspective
I live breath and eat this stuff up with a spoon. (which is probably not a good thing, granted.)
Shippers tended to hate it. Non-shippers tended to love it.
See, I'm not sure where I fall. I "ship" Buffy&Spike in S7, and I'm fascinated by their relationship up until then in the ways they mirror one another, but I'm a Buffy-first fan, always. (I had no idea a year ago that "Spuffy" means 99% of the time "Spike fan" and Buffy just happens to be there.) I almost feel like that's a minority but I could be wrong. everything thinks they're in the minority in fandom.
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Date: 2013-07-22 06:28 pm (UTC)My first thought watching it was that the writers were probably saying to themselves "How can we really blow the audience's mind?" Mission accomplished.
I still enjoy the emotional aspect of it - the connection to Joyce, the way it ties into the beginning of the series, (I never thought Buffy was as "carefree" to start with as a lot of fans seem to?) but Buffy is my BDH anyway; and the depression arc was the part of the series that speaks the most personally to me.
I'm also interested in what that ep implies about the show's overall approach to mental illness - that it's something one just needs to "get over". That may not have been their intention (not that I ever worried about that.)
But grueling from an emotional perspective
I live breath and eat this stuff up with a spoon. (which is probably not a good thing, granted.)
Shippers tended to hate it. Non-shippers tended to love it.
See, I'm not sure where I fall. I "ship" Buffy&Spike in S7, and I'm fascinated by their relationship up until then in the ways they mirror one another, but I'm a Buffy-first fan, always. (I had no idea a year ago that "Spuffy" means 99% of the time "Spike fan" and Buffy just happens to be there.) I almost feel like that's a minority but I could be wrong. everything thinks they're in the minority in fandom.