EvanCooper93
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"You have Fruit Punch mouth!"[Mo0:5]
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Post by EvanCooper93 on Jul 13, 2009 11:08:09 GMT -5
The Gift. Never really liked Not fade away, since I don't like the suicidal plan. Okay, in the gift Buffy killed herself, so it's a suicidal episode too, but it's not like she had a choice. I think the Not fade away-plan was, well, stupid. Ruined the rest of the episode for me too. She did have a choice! She just didn't do the smart thing by pushing Dawn in it.  |
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Post by Emmie on Jul 13, 2009 12:26:37 GMT -5
The Gift for me. It was such a powerful episode that left me literally sobbing.
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XanderHarris
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I've been unreasonable, because I've lost all reason.[Mo0:16]
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Post by XanderHarris on Jul 13, 2009 13:15:43 GMT -5
Not Fade Away > The Gift. The Gift > Chosen. Yep, that's the way it is. Not Fade Away it just such a severe impact on the way I deal with characters, what a TV series can really mean to you. I think NFA is the most tear-jerking and heart-breaking piece of story-telling I have ever witnessed. Yeah, I liked The Gift, but Not Far Away went much more deeper. |
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Randi Giles
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Post by Randi Giles on Jul 13, 2009 17:26:29 GMT -5
Not Fade Away > The Gift. The Gift > Chosen. agree |
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Post by Wyndam on Jul 13, 2009 17:35:41 GMT -5
I think NFA is the most tear-jerking and heart-breaking piece of story-telling I have ever witnessed. I agree, it's my favorite episode of TV. I could watch it five times in a row and still tear up at Wesley's death and the final moments. They just get to me every single time I watch the episode. |
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Post by buffyfan21 on Jul 13, 2009 22:10:01 GMT -5
I love The Gift but am glad we got chosen. I understand the premise of the Gift and think it has a beautiful message, but I think it would have been too depressing to end on that note. I dare say that Chosen has an even powerful message. Besides, if The Gift had been the end, we would never have gotten Buffy S8 because Buffy would be dead. I love The Gift as an episode and season finale, but I don't want Buffy to ever die ever! She has already outlived most slayers! The demise of our heroine will never be a happy ending! I'm glad she's still kicking ass and going strong!  |
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Hellbound Hyperion
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Jul 13, 2009 23:20:21 GMT -5
Well as Joss likes to say about scripts, the problem with your third act is the first and second act. Angel Season Five's story arc was rather loose compared to 3 and 4, which had season-long stories to develop and deal (1 had a similar problem; 2 is written more like comics, with some story arcs and some one-shots/two-parters.) I blame the underwhelming feeling of NFA versus The Gift to the fact that most of Angel Season Five's major story arc was crammed into the last six episodes, whereas The Gift was a beautiful pay-off to a lot of the problems Buffy deals with over the course of the season (and the series as a whole). NFA is still pretty damn cool though. |
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Post by Greer on Jul 14, 2009 16:46:17 GMT -5
I'll have to shout my loyalty out loud to "The Gift". I do like NFA, don't get me wrong. But I adore Buffy over Angel in many ways, and I feel as though The Gift was more appropriate, more dramatic, more fitting. Both were suicide missions but Buffy's was more of the tearjerker. I can't even listen to "Sacrifice" at times, because I get teary-eyed. I feel like it had more of an emotional pull as opposed to an action blow-out.
Side-note...The dragon that Angel slays in NFA...does anyone else think it's the same one that got let out in The Gift? I've always thought it'd be a neat connection.
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