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I happened to pass by the Willow + Tara forever marathon on Logo over the weekend. Despite having all the Buffy DVDs I tuned for a couple episodes of season five including The Gift. It so happens, I watched The Gift within 24 hours of having watched Supernatural's season premiere episode. Most everyone who reads this journal knows I don't have any strong fannish leanings toward Supernatural. I watch it because Jensen Ackles is pretty. [and sometimes Jared takes off his shirt so I can see his gorgeous body instead of his weird shiny forehead and strange nose]

I do have a point, and it is this:

Sometimes, it's best to end the narrative. Buffy should have ended with The Gift. Yes, there were some really awesome episodes after that point, but the story was over. It came to its natural resolution, Buffy died fulfilling her duty and stopping A GOD. Joss was always going on about giving the viewer what they need instead of what they want, and they needed Buffy to end. Because that was the end.

Supernatural? Should not have continued. It's easy for me to say that because I'm not a big fan, I realize this. But the story was over, it ended with Sam making the sacrifice and Dean going on to live the life that Sam wanted. It wasn't a little Apocalypse, they invoked GOD and SATAN and everything in between. When you go that big? It's over with. Whatever it is they have planned for this season is not going to grow organically out of the ending they already had that *worked*.

I'm glad you have a fan base. I'm glad they spend money and draw in advertisers and all that other corporate stuff, BUT!

BUT! BUT!

CW/WB/UPN -- learn from Buffy. It's too late now of course and hindsight 20/20 blah blah blah.

/random string of words that don't serve any purpose

I hunted and hunted through my icon drop down box for Buffy icons. All I have left are icons of Faith [which are saved under Eliza] and one Angel the Vampire puppet. How sad. It really makes me wonder where the hell my Anya doing the Money Dance icon went...

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I am a HUGE Buffy fan, as you know. I would have continued to watch Buffy episodes if it had been Xander and Willow carving stakes and talking about hummus, as long as there were quips and big emotional moments and nekkidness. And I will always be grateful for the musical and for that group scream in Tabula Rasa and for getting to see Dawn grind on RJ and Spike to say "I'm drowning in footwear" and for Xander to give his Potential speech to Dawn.

HOWEVER. You're completely right -- the narrative ended with "The Gift" and had the show ended then, it would have been the most satisfying series end that I can think of. (And then they could have done OMWF as that movie genre creators/directors always say they're going to do post-series.)

And SPN should have ended last season. I wasn't sure of that until I saw the S5 finale, and then I was sure. I'm pretty much just watching at this point for any funny eps and Sam to be shirtless. I'm not really invested in the storyline arc (since there isn't much of one left to tell, unless Sam and Dean *are* actually in love. That could fill a season, but not much else has the emotional resonance left to do so.)

Edited 2010-09-27 18:28 (UTC)

I do know! I'm thinking about setting Buffy to record on Logo, even though I have the DVDs I think it would be fun to watch it play out again on TV, plus I could catch enough Logo commercials to find something else fun to watch on the network.

I think it's funny how no one seems to be watching SPN because they think there's some story left to hell. Why couldn't the people in charge do the right thing for the story for a change instead of their pocket books?