Buffy 4x18-4x21, small spoilers for S5

[oyceter]

Watched Where the Wild Things Are, New Moon Rising, Yoko Factor and Primeval for the first time yesterday. Well, I think I've seen New Moon Rising before, but maybe not in its entirety.

Buffy 4x18-4x21, small spoilers for S5

Amazingly, I am actually quite fond of Riley. Well, except when he is having the stupid testosterone fight with Angel and when he comments he is going to try to beat Buffy earlier in the season. But other than that, I think he's rather cute and almost painfully earnest. I think it also helps that I really didn't have much invested in the B/A relationship ever... I think it's also interesting to see Riley's "evil Spike" speech in As You Were in light of all this -- Riley's strongest memories of Spike probably include watching Spike and Adam pal around (well, in a minion-like way), which really would not endear Spike to him at all. I always sort of wonder if some characters always remember others at their worst -- maybe Giles will forever remember Jenny Calender when he sees Angel (ditto with Xander?) and Riley will always remember Spike in cahoots with Adam.

Anyhow, while everyone always quotes Riley's "Demons bad, humans good" attitude at the beginning of New Moon Rising, it seems as though not so many people go on to say that his views really drastically change by the end of the episode.

Also, does Yoko Factor take place right after Five by Five and Sanctuary on Angel? I can't remember, and it seems strange because there are a few eps between the Faith arc on Buffy and Yoko Factor.

Comments

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

The upside to the cancellation of all the Buffy Universe shows is we will be able to revisit them all and make grand sweeping generalization essays about them. Fun, fun!

I've already made plans with myself to watch the entire Buffyverse saga, Buffy and Angel in their original airing order (with the exception of Lies My Parents Told Me, which will be watched in its proper place before Orpheus)). Oh man, it's gonna be a blast!*

Addendum...

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

I am being so anal about this that I printed out a list of airing dates for third season AtS/sixth season BtVS and fourth season AtS/seventh season BtVS, so everything lines up properly. Especially important in the early part of the third, where if I lined it up wrong, Angel returning from the meeting with Buffy wouldn't happen the episode after Buffy left to meet him. Okay, maybe I do need some sort of help. ;-)

Re: Addendum...

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Do me a favor. Email that schedule to me?

Otherwise, I would have watched them according to the numbers (e.g., ep 10 with ep 10, etc)

Re: Addendum...

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

Check your inbox! :)

Re: Addendum...

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

That was a bit of busy-work, putting that together!

Yuh huh

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

Luckilly I didn't have to do it myself! I copy and pasted it from some site, but I didn't write down the url, so I don't remember where.

Re: Yuh huh

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

BuffyGuide.com is what i usually use, though BuffyWorld.com incldues airdates for all of Buffy and Angel (BG.comm only has Buffy).

P.S. oyceter, i got your e-mail. I haven't even begun unpacking, so it may be a while, but it will get sent to you.

Re: Yuh huh

[oyceter]

Thanks!

For me, it will be an "Angel" marathon

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I have several projects that require my attention to AtS first.

(1) I want to do more LJ reviews on earlier seasons like I did Season 5.

(2) I have a Connor essay to write for ros_fod's new website.

(3) And let's face it, a detailed review of AtS won't hurt the Season 6 project!

But your idea of watching all the episodes in their original intended order sounds fantastic! Except for the part where you have to keep getting up for three seasons and switching out Angel and Buffy DVDs once every 43 minutes. ; )