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Current Talk '04 I / Re:New DS Format
« on: February 25, 2004, 06:25:31 PM »Right now on Buffy, I hate/hate/HATE the way most everyone is i s o l a t e d.
I thought FX was at the end of the series, in which case you should've seen the characters come together. What you may be interpreting as isolation is actually that they've each been to hell and back and found their personal strengths as a result.
Exactly. And also, Patti, it's very hard to come into Buffy during its last seasons and fully understand it. Unlike many other series, the characters on Buffy grew and changed from season to season (if you were to watch an episode from the first few seasons, you might seriously begin to wonder if you were watching the same show), and the series is very self-referential, meaning that it frequently refers back to events from past seasons, so, unless you've actually been watching for quite a few years, quite a few things are likely to go right over your head. (For example: In the final episode of the series, Buffy, Willow and Xander jokingly discuss going to the mall after they defeat that season's Big Bad and Giles remarks offhandedly that the earth is doomed. His remark directly relates back to the final moments of Buffy's first season premiere in which Buffy, Willow and Xander were joking about how getting kicked out of school might save them from having to deal with any other demons and Giles made the exact same remark. )