Also was impressed with the fact that, after making a point of the fact that FBI Lesbian was closeted for (presumably) important professional reasons, she then proceeded to make out with her girlfriend in the middle of a crowded restaurant.

Wow.
Pet roadkill is not a metaphor that I will be forgetting any time soon. You should have scrapped the furniture stuff and built the whole review around this charming image.

I actually almost stopped watching Lost around episode 6 or 7 because it took itself so seriously and never seemed to lighten up. I don't think the writers got a handle on the tone until midway through the first season.

I'm not going to get all worked up and argue with you about it, but I do think there's a difference plot-hole-wise between "the plan was a long-shot but luckily worked out the way we hoped" and "the plan never could have worked, but DEUS EX MACHINA!!!" Anyhow, as I think I've said before, my real problem with the…

SPOILERS

SPOILERS

SPOILERS

SPOILERS

TomWaits, after all the S7 discussion the past few weeks I've gone back and rewatched a lot of the episodes, and I have to say, when viewed through the prism of the political/international events of April and May 2003 the end of the season really is a bit disturbing. I would mark Empty Places and Touched as the low…

I think she just says "toe the line." It's not a pop culture reference, it's just an idiom.

Sort of not really SPOILERS

I'm right there with you on the Yoko Factor hate. Also, hearing that Oz might have been on season 6 of Angel just made me sad all over again that the show got canceled.

SPOILERS, sort of.

SPOILERS

I do really, really like Same Time, Same Place though.

I dunno. A lot of my gay friends dated girls before coming out, but I don't think any of them would have given Willow's speech from the end of New Moon Rising to any of their ex-girlfriends.

Actually, now that I think about it, a lot of the wonky dialogue I'm thinking of is actually Cordelia's dialogue in the first couple seasons of Angel. Maybe the Angel writers just took some time to figure it out, or maybe the goofier aspects of Buffyspeak just didn't work on the other show.

It's a beautiful speech, and it's also one of the reasons that Willow's development into such a hardcore (i.e. 'ew, boys') lesbian never sat quite right with me.

Rural is the wrong word, but the Scoobies' existence does seem to be archetypally suburban. Sunnydale is clearly modeled on Santa Barbara, but the fact that we only ever see one street and a bunch of cemeteries drains any potential urban feel out of the show.

I can identify with both schools - I loved high school, but junior high was indeed some kind of private torture chamber. Also, college was even better than high school. Whether the real world is even worse than junior high… I'm inclined to say probably not.