A Moment That Almost Made You Stop Watching

[oncemore]

If evil Cordy/Connor had gone on for too long it might have started to put me off but as it was I just had to keep watching in the hope that I'd see some improvement, and there was, so yay for dedication

And i always sort of want to end Angel at "You're Welcome" as they're about to go out for drinks, just to keep people alive!

Dawn's arrival in S5 annoyed me alot but I was compelled to find out what/who she was and she wasn't too annoying in the end.

I think I'd probably continue to watch Buffy/Angel forever way after they destroy any characters, nothing would stop me

[rmw]

I can't remember a specific moment, but I know when i go back and rewatch some of the seasons, I usually skip over season 4. I don't know why. It had it's good points, but it also had bad. Like the Initiative. I didn't like that whole story.

[Wyndam]

I never wanted to stop watching Buffy or Angel, but Buffy had two moments that were off:

1. Xander leaving Anya at the altar. Just not something that should have happened.

2. Dark Willow gets a little silly in parts (mostly due to the writing of some of the dialogue, and Alyson's poor delivery of lines).

I'm more or less happy with everything that happens in Angel, certainly didn't hate anything as much as the two things I just listed.

[commandercool]

There were points in season 4 of Angel where I literally turned off my TV. I came back every time, but...bad.

[Rowan Hawthorn]

I never hit that point. I did have a growing dread during Season 6 that Willow was going to be killed off, and that might have done it, but that didn't happen, so I'm good.

Never watched Angel much in the first place until the last season. For some reason, I just couldn't really get interested in either the stories or the characters. While the characters may have started on Buffy, they were, for the most part, the ones I was least interested in to begin with, and that just never really changed.

[artiswar]

I don't know if this almost made me stop watching Buffy, but it made me yell, swear, and throw fruit and various meats at the TV. In Life Serial, when Warren put the neural inhibitor on Buffy to mess with her by making her go very slow, my only reaction was...


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...


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IF YOU CAN JUST DO THAT WHY NOT LURE HER TO A SECLUDED PLACE, GIVE HER THE INHIBITOR, AND FREAKING K I L L H E R !!!

Geez.

Yeah, I'm fun to watch Buffy with.

(I think I had more problems with that one episode than I had in both series' COMBINED. The writers really dropped the ball on this one. Thank god for the kitty poker.)

[barryshaft]

Well not to reverse-nitpick...especially with an episode I very much dislike...but the Trio never really wanted to kill Buffy. That was sort of the point. They wanted to be "Supervillains" but didn't really want to hurt anyone. The only one with that darkness inside was Warren and that grew over the course of the season. Johnathan always sort of liked Buffy and The Gang and Andrew was just along for the ride. I don't think there was ever really a point (towards the beginning) in which they actually wanted to kill anyone.

Same with Xander's leaving Anya. It was something that was very much in character and something that with his fake future visions became very clear. He was always right in that decision, despite what people wanted. It's not that Xander didn't love Anya, it's more that he was, for lack of a better way of putting it, Buffy's man. He was always going to be fighting her fight and that loyalty was in a lot of ways more important than any relationship ever could be. Were he to stay with Anya, he most likely would have self-destructed the relationship anyways and ruined them both...if not getting her killed along the way. It's something that both he and Willow share (after the Willow/Kennedy scene in Anywhere But Here), a devotion to the cause.

[buffyfan21]

I never wanted to stop watching. I mean, yeah, there were certain moments (very few) that I didn't much care for, (Spike attempted rape scene springing to mind) but it was never enough to make me want to turn my back on my beloved show. Overall, the entire series run was wonderful and now we have it back in the comics.

[kimtaro]

I could never stop watching! lol

I'm one of those people that is GUNGHO! about things they start...so if I watch a series or read a series...I can't stop no matter how far down hill it goes (ex. the Anita Blake series by LKH) lol

[BenTaylor3907]

When Buffy started to sleep with Spike.
I was like "You whore, I Hope You Get Herpes You Clap Havin' Jezebel"
But I warmed up to them being together.
After what she's been through and all.

[jessesopher]

Actually, when I was originally watching the show, the one that made me want to stop watching was OMWF. I know, I know... now, it's one of my favorite episodes. But I just thought it was so cheesy... very over-the-top cheesy.

I think Season Six was a big turn off for me in general. The first few episodes were good (Buffy coming back, adjusting, etc.). But some of the things that happened in that season were just bad. Like even little unexplained things bugged me like when Willow and Tara never got a job to help pay for things, while they made Buffy flip burgers AND do the slayage AND raise Dawn AND get used to be being alive again. Granted, that was kind of the point of the season, for Buffy to "grow up" but it just wasn't realistic to me. And it was SO depressing... Buffy just went way too dark, in my opinion... and Tara died, and Will went all veiny. Bad season (although Willow was awesome). But the number one thing in Season six that bugged me was Buffy and Spike. That was just STUPID. Buffy would never do that... it was so out of character for her... whenever I see an episode in that season with them being all lovey, it just doesn't feel like the 'real' Buffy. And on top of that, while Buffy and Spike were getting it on, the only couple that SHOULD have been together forever broke up because of a stupid vision or something from the future. Xander and Anya should have been together. And so should Will and Tara.

So yeah, it was pretty much the whole of Season Six. haha.

[Smashed]

When Tara was killed of.
It gets stupid when there's no such thing as a happy couple.
It loses novelty when it's like "Oh, you're happy? DEAD."


Although, HEY. I just realized the uncanny similarities between Tara and Renee.

1) Both lethally struck in the chest.
2) Just had became happy with a partner.
3) Had their blood splattered on said partner.
4) Then, of course, females.

[alycat7]

I almost stopped watching when Tara was shot. I almost boycotted season 7 because of the fact that she wasn't in it.

[brandonr]

Jun 17, 2008 11:34:13 GMT -5 @jessesopher said:

Buffy and Spike. That was just STUPID. Buffy would never do that... it was so out of character for her... whenever I see an episode in that season with them being all lovey, it just doesn't feel like the 'real' Buffy.

It shouldn't feel like the "Real" Buffy because it wasn't. Buffy was just using him in S6. She wasn't in love with him. She came back from the dead, had no emotions, couldn't feel anything, couldn't feel alivem so she turned to Spike to feel something because he was there, and he was totally and unabashedly in love with her, and she knew that if she wanted to have sex with him, no questions asked, he would do it. Plus, he'd died and come back as a vampire, so on some level he could kind of know what she was going through, or at least come close to speculating about it, whereas everyone else around Buffy wouldn't even be able to come close whatsoever.

And it wasn't out of character for Buffy at all. Her seemingly true love with Angel ended, and after that, she was just trying to replace him. Riley was just a replacement, even he said himself that she didn't really love him. To me, she was just using him to fill the void. And with Spike, she was using him for sex, and for something to have control over since she couldn't control the rest of her life at that point.

[Skytteflickan88]

Jun 17, 2008 11:34:13 GMT -5 @jessesopher said:

But the number one thing in Season six that bugged me was Buffy and Spike. That was just STUPID. Buffy would never do that... it was so out of character for her... whenever I see an episode in that season with them being all lovey, it just doesn't feel like the 'real' Buffy.
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Lovey? Which show did you watch?

But seriously, season 6 was about the characters going to dark places and some of them brought out the worst in themselves. buffy was depressed and emotionally numb, so yeah, very out of character, but realistic.

Not that "realistic" makes me want to watch season 6. I wanted to cry for and curse the characters so many times.

[snizapman6294]

Xander and Anya breaking up. Xander and Anya were very symbolic of what Willow and Tara, Buffy and Spike/Angel could be and wanted to be. The symbolism was SHATTERED first when Xander left anya and then a light of hope and then oh no it was taken away when Anya screwed Spike. and Anya's death. I feel like her death was unnecessary and sort of disrespectful to her character. Like almost every other death in the Buffyverse had meaning: Joyce: I think her death is what made Buffy such a good teacher/mother figure for the potentials and Dawn in season 7. Tara: Bringing out Dark Willow, almost ending the world. Spike: Saving the world. her death was very fitting to her character. But it was a bit disrespectful to the character who was wildly popular for four years and her death scene lasted for less that one second. Also, she didn't have a greiving period. When Andrew told Xander, there were no tears and he just kind of accepted it. That always bothered me.

[Slayer489]

Jul 13, 2008 16:41:03 GMT -5 snizapman6294 said:

Xander and Anya breaking up. Xander and Anya were very symbolic of what Willow and Tara, Buffy and Spike/Angel could be and wanted to be. The symbolism was SHATTERED first when Xander left Anya and then a light of hope and then oh no it was taken away when Anya screwed Spike. and Anya's death. I feel like her death was unnecessary and sort of disrespectful to her character. Like almost every other death in the Buffyverse had meaning: Joyce: I think her death is what made Buffy such a good teacher/mother figure for the potentials and Dawn in season 7. Tara: Bringing out Dark Willow, almost ending the world. Spike: Saving the world. her death was very fitting to her character. But it was a bit disrespectful to the character who was wildly popular for four years and her death scene lasted for less that one second. Also, she didn't have a greiving period. When Andrew told Xander, there were no tears and he just kind of accepted it. That always bothered me.

I do understand what you're saying, but that's what happens in big battles. Yes, it's unfair and has no point to it, but it happens, and did happen with Anya. And trust me, I'm more than sure that Xander did grieve for her after. But there was something more epic and bigger happening at the time that he couldn't express his emotions. A bit like when Tara died and Willow went evil. There wasn't any time, at that point, for grief from Buffy, Xander and eventually Dawn. But again, after the bigger event is stopped, there is time for grief, which I'm sure they all had.

And I've never been a shipper either barryshaft.

[darkdahlia]

I never stopped tuning in, but after the UPN move I didnt really pay attention. Thats why some of the episodes I taped (I taped every episode) are still new to me cause i never paid attention to what was going on lol

It really was the "dawn" crap that got to me. We could've done without a sister. That screamed "jumped the shark" for me...all they needed was Henry Winkler playing buffy's uncle

[xmadxscientistx]

Never thought about forgetting the show, but there were some things that frustraited me:

Faith and Buffy switching places
The invisibility ray gun thing (lame!)
When Johnathan died (because he was nostalgic to the earlier seasons)
Season 4. Can I say "Riley?"
"The Girl in Question"
Angel/Cordy and Connor/Cordy

[darkdahlia]

aww i like ange and cordy.

what i did not like was:
cordy's Rosie's Just Come Out hair cut
cordy's dying
cordy's over all love for gru for the longest fricken time.