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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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See, and this is EXACTLY why I don't want to start watching S6 of Supernatural. The story arc is done. And, frankly, if it weren't for Misha, I wouldn't even be a little bit tempted to watch S6 at all. I signed on for the 5 year journey & it wasn't perfect, but it was complete. Dragging it out just feels gratuitous.

I forgot Misha was going to be recurring again this season. That and Jensen will have to be enough to keep me tuning in, because the jumping off point didn't work on about a hundred different levels.

Yeah, I've heard nothing but horrible things about the premiere, which makes me curious in that rubber-necking kind of way. I mean, I am DVRing the show, so I suppose I'll start watching at some point, just to see how bad the trainwreck is.

There may be some clever plot twist that makes it all ok.

I doubt it.