I think they were good in the fourth season, but their fifth season relationship was a mess. He was clearly struggling with losing the connection to the Initiative and she didn’t care and she didn’t want to open up and rely on him the way she’d been able to with Angel. And Riley got so passive aggressive about her…

Buffy’s best boyfriend was Riley, but ironically she was too mature for him.

Maybe I’m naive but I always wished they decided together that they were done and walked through the portal together.  I understand narratively why they don’t but Chidi leaving first hurt 

Angel was toxic as fuck. Putting aside all the vampire stuff, he was an old man and she was FIFTEEN.

How else would you describe it? It’s implied that they’ve experienced everything that they wanted to experience (over a timespan of probably thousands of years). Sounds like boredom to me. Mind you, I’m not saying I really buy into the argument (the idea that immortality would get boring is an awful lot like the…

At first, I also felt like it was a little forced, but much like the characters themselves, after a while, I realized how truly invested in their relationship I was. When he left in the finale, I cried harder than I have ever cried in response to a TV show in my life. I cried in a way I have only ever cried when I…

Is this a joke? Of course people can do that. You think the CEO of Nike is out there really invested in racial justice? Of course he isn’t, but he knows how to read a room.

Carnegie donated huge amounts of money too. Didn’t mean he was actually a friend to the common man. If you’re a feminist when it earns you public praise and a misogynist in private when no one is watching, you’re an opportunist. 

It’s a self reinforcing process: you need to be a bastard to get to the top and once you get to the top, you get the leeway to be an even bigger bastard.

Yeah, that episode was bittersweet (“Gunn, you have hair now?”)

Charisma Carpenter was brilliant in that one episode of Season 5 and by not being around to see the gradual insidious change of the other characters, she was able to pick up immediately and point out to them how much they’d been corrupted without even realising it had been happening all this time.

When I binged it several years ago on Netflix, I couldn’t believe that Whedon would torpedo the show like that and it seemed like he was particularly spiting Cordelia? And then I read about the behind-the-scenes rumors, and it clicked. It was a retaliatory character assassination because Carpenter had gotten pregnant.…

They don’t democratize social environments. They recreate the high school hierarchy, but with themselves on top. 

I remember noticing how the ladies on the show seemed to be getting skinnier and skinnier peaking with bone-thin Amy Acker.

I’m a huge Buffy fan, I love Cabin In The Woods, etc. etc., but the sooner Whedon is shunned from the industry, the better.

I’d also been waiting for someone to be specific. Carpenter had been more forthcoming than Fisher, but up until today I was still confused how it was that she’d been fired for getting pregnant when she stayed with the show through the birth of her child. Now, it sounds as if it was a retaliatory firing after the fact,…

Dude sounds like every fucking nerd I ever met who was a stage manager one time. Give them power and they start acting the way that they think “jocks” act.

The only thing I will mourn is the Much Ado About Nothing he shot in his house. But that’s also a play where two dudes act like total assholes and still get get what they want in the end, so I guess it was right up his alley.

What a coincidence! I’m currently watching Angel (season 5) for the first time since I saw it back when it originally aired ... 20 years ago?

I remember in the intro to Fray, Joss Whedon gave himself a pat on the back for liking and writing female comic characters who were not basically “all boobs” and were slim. But it became comically obvious, that this was just really about him imposing his own idea of the ideal female body onto his work and even mocking…