You could put the answers in this thread!

Yeah, we talk about it a little in the comments, but it's nice to have the step back.

The first season was :15, but they bumped it up to a half-hour for the second season. It manages to be both character-driven and increasingly bizarre.

She was fantastic; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is one of my favorite movies. I think the hullaballo over her breasts led to her getting typecast. But there's no way you can talk about her career without talking about that, because…yeah.

"like an Ayn Rand character spitting a Wu-Tang Clan verse"
You didn't need to justify your promotion, Sean, but I'm glad you did.

"Let me tell you about a woman named Selina Kyle."
I almost wonder if the best Batman/Catwoman moment was actually in Batman Beyond. So much of it, of course, is Kevin Conroy's ability to put so much in a single sentence.

Yeah, I'm all for a realistic depiction of depression, I'm just not sure BTVS was ever the right show to do it in. In the same way that some stories seemed to 'fit' Angel rather than Buffy, I'm not sure this storyline ever 'fit' Buffy. I get that they were trying to expand the world and the show, and that if anyone's…

I always figured the Connor spell kept some aspects of the memories but made the details fuzzy— like the spaceship in Hitchhiker's, the brain just slid around the Connor bits.

I think one of the big problems, though, is that BTVS doesn't generally deal with realism. It's Buffy the frickin' Vampire Slayer. Generally, the situations have been metaphorical— bringing real world depression in is like crossing the streams. (And doesn't explain all the other crap that happened in S6, like Giles'…

Though "my nose comes off" is pretty much always an awesome line.

That sounds right, Scrawler.

I think Angel S4 is about parenting, and the sacrifices you're willing to make to become/when you are a parent. There's more going on, but I think that's the big theme.

Win.

Sheen put a knife to one of his ex-wives' throats, too.

Man, the possibilities for character assassination by proxy are endless. I love it!

That's how I always read it too, KingCranium.

Yeah, I knew Wesley was getting played but wasn't ready for the level of violence.

Yeah, that part didn't bother me at all. (Though the subtext— that you're doomed if your family is fucked up— sure did.)

"It's not that I want Xander and Anya to live happily ever after; it's that I don't want Xander to do something so dickish that I couldn't stay invested in the character."

"Really? Looking for the groom while trying to keep his absence secret from the bride? Ugh. Anya and Xander deserve better than a plot that is also the plot of an episode of Friends."