Yeah. Season Six was the season of the rape, real and metaphorical. Dead Things was just stomach churning.

Warren was terrifying. He was just a horrible, bullying, rapey guy. He felt the world owed him whatever he wanted, and he could hurt anyone to take it. He tried to rape his ex-girlfriend, and felt no remorse when he killed her. Remember that we first met him after he abandoned his robotic love slave (I always cry at…

Favorite big bad, and I the best acted as well IMHO.

Buffy finds Jonathon up in the tower with a rifle, but it turns out he was just planning to commit suicide (which obviously he does not). It was the lunch lady who was planning to kill all of the students, by putting rat poison in the jello.

If every season is a metaphor for the travails of various stages of development, the sixth season is a metaphor for the soul-suck that is normal adult life—the tedium, the bills, the responsibility, etc. (Also, the rape, all the damn rape.) The Trio were the perfect villains to lay this bare. They (most specifically…

Well, that's the problem with drugs, um, magic, isn't it? It's not that they make you evil, they just make you really want to get a fix, so you do all sorts of crappy things, like leave your friend's sister with a dealer, lie to your girlfriend, etc. In the end, it wasn't magic that made Willow dark, it was grief. The…

Nope. That's pretty much exactly how the character was written (and I'm 50).

This guy is American. He was being interviewed by the BBC, but he is an American.

… with superb comedic timing.

That happens to me AT WORK. Oh, Dr. Lizard is about to begin her lecture on transposons? Let's trim the hedges right outside of the window or maybe we should strip the floors in the hallway. Great 'effing plan.

For me it's the cats, and there is no way to keep them out of any part of the house. I have a cat who can open doors. That said, when I am forced to lecture from home (e.g. when the university is shut down due to snow), my students are pretty tolerant of the occasional kitty walking into view.

Mom's can look frantic and terrified even when they are not afraid of getting beaten. I would probably look like that in that situation, and I have absolutely no fear of bodily harm. It's just the face of momentary mortification.

She has obviously marched into dad's office plenty of times before.

I'm going to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. This is probably not a scenario he planned for in any way shape or form. I've had much worse parenting fails. Much worse.

This could very well be true, or at least not suit pants. He may be wearing sweats or PJs. I would imagine it's breakfast time in Korea when this was filmed. A lot of newscasters and on-air reporters don't dress-up from the waist down, unless they are in the "legs chair" on Fox, that is, then they wear nothing from…

I love the thoroughly self-possessed way in which the little girl just marches on in. The fact that she walks into her dad's office that ways suggests that they do, in fact, have a good relationship. This is obviously not the first time she has walked into the office while he is working (just probably the first time…

Another job lost to robots.

Different people (children and adults) vary widely with their tolerance for scary stuff. The only reason as a parent to worry about your own child's tolerance is that if they get scared, you have to 'effing deal with it. It's not a "they will be scarred for life" worry. It's a totally selfish "I'm not going to get a…

I don't think her opinion has changed overall (she continues to like the movies), but she does develop different sympathies for characters as she gets older, which is what I would expect developmentally.

If your kid does not watch a lot of TV, they will pretty much watch anything you show them and be happy about it. At least that has been my experience with my very limited experiment (n = 1). That does not account for the fact that my kid seemed to be born discerning. Her comment after being taken to see "Chicken…