I brought this up in another thread, but Buffy seemed pretty sure that it was the right thing to kill Faith at the end of season 3 after she had gone after Angel and pretty much proved irredeemable. Of course, then Faith does end up turning away from the dark side, so I'm not saying Buffy was necessarily right - but…

Eh, I wouldn't even call "Storyteller" and "Conversations with Dead People" great - they're better than the rest, and they feel like attempts to recapture some of what they were doing in season 4, but compared to "Hush" or "Superstar" and other similar episodes, they're just missing something. "Storyteller"…

Yeah, I don't think anyone watching the show was thinking that Warren should die because of the way he treated women. He fucking killed Tara (I know some people never liked her, but I did, and that shit is not cool). It's not about some grand reversal of his sexism and male chauvinism - this motherfucker killed…

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I suppose it makes sense in the context of Buffy being in crisis mode, but it brings up a really weird subtext, especially given the show's emphasis on female empowerment and chauvinism with the Warren storyline - essentially, one could easily make the case that the show seems to be dismissing Spike's attempted rape,…

I'm just really confused about what the problem is. The writers, much like Willow herself, did not know she was gay during high school. Then (according to you) they found that she chemistry with Tara, and decided that maybe it would work to have her in a relationship with another woman. People in the gay community…

People who have an issue with Willow's sexuality are probably the same people who think that you can either be gay or straight, and you always know for sure, and if you waver in your sexual preference you're just "confused" or "experimenting." Which is to say, those people have absolutely no understanding of sexuality…

I think it's ironic that people view Dr. Horrible as a "light" piece of entertainment. I mean, I understand that it's funny and has music, but the core story is pretty dark and cynical from the get-go. I don't know what people were expecting to happen with Penny, but somebody named Dr. Horrible is probably not going…

Oh, for sure, I definitely wouldn't say that Kennedy was good (either in terms of character or the acting); I just don't get why people seem to hate her. Her relationship with Willow just seemed to me like it arose more out of convenience and circumstance than any real passion, but that was fine. Willow wanted someone…

Really? Serenity was OK with you, but not Dr. Horrible? To each his own, I guess.

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Honestly, I'm just really glad that somebody managed to figure out that a gun might be an effective weapon (possibly even more effective than sharpened wood sticks!) on this show.

Eh, I think Willow had been self-identifying as "gay" since a little after she starting dating Tara. Regardless, I don't see how Kennedy makes her a "full-on lesbian" or changes the idea that sexuality is complicated. There's not any fundamental difference that I could see between Willow's relationships with Tara and…

It's hard to say that Spike immediately feels "regret" though, since he seems to be more confused and angry than particularly remorseful. Also, the show seems to espouse the idea that you can't truly feel remorse for your actions without a soul, so I don't really read that the same way you did. He might know that he…

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Tara was also the one character in season 6 who wasn't acting like a complete ass, so of course she had to be the one who died. And anyone who thinks it had something to do with her being a lesbian or being "punished" for something is reaching quite a bit.

"It's about the characters"

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I'm sure this (or something very similar) has already been done for a Q&A, but I think the opposite question would be interesting: What art have you stuck with despite increasingly diminishing returns?

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Ditto. Well, I've heard "Heart in Your Heartbreak," and I probably won't actually buy it tomorrow, but you know, the gist is the same.