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this seems bad

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Still mad about Belinda Chandra. Like, if it wasn't for that aspect, I wouldn't really have any real problem with the finale - it wouldn't be good, but it would at least be fun. But, like... they put her in a box. They literally put the main companion of the season in a box for the climax of the final episode. And that isn't even the most misogynistic thing that happens to her in the episode. It's genuinely astonishing.

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they may have ended up married to men they just met and then settling down at completely random points in space and time, but at least they had some agency in the matter. and at least Dodo got to have a nice rest

there are Classic Who companions with more dignified exits than Belinda

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personally, I think 16 and Martha should lez out

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from now on, any time the Doctor has multiple companions the companion they like the least goes in The Room

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there are Classic Who companions with more dignified exits than Belinda

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personally, I think the episode should have ended with the Doctor handing Dugga Doo over to the ICC

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jokes on you, Buffy is literally incapable of hearing anything she says about Faith

"I don't have time for defensiveness, and weird mixed signals, I have faith for that"

okay so you agree. you agree that you and faith have a impossible-to-label romantic connection

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@dumbingofage tell Dorothy to add this to the playlist

forgot this lesbian song exists. now I remember, so you can too!

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forgot this lesbian song exists. now I remember, so you can too!

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So I've been making my way through the Yakuza series and my main takeaway is that this guy loves abandoning his family so much he keeps establishing found families specifically so he can abandon them

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the most important form of dramatic irony is when the audience know that the characters are gay and in love but they don't

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 7x19 - "Empty Places"

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All life is but an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within an intermission within a Youtube video about The Beverly Hillbillies; our lives and dreams and loves and struggles, mere extended tangents necessary for a fuller understanding of The Beverly Hillbillies

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7x07 - Conversations About Comphet

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The big problem is of course that Dark Willow is fundamentally grounded in the 'Magic = Drugs' allegory that shifts everything away from Willow's actual flaws and into afterschool special territory. The result is that Dark Willow doesn't feel like Willow at all, and AH's performance isn't strong enough to make generic evil work. Willow falling to darkness because of her need to fix everything, and still thinking of herself as the good guy no matter what she does, would be a fantastic and natural development for the character; what we get is a generic evil junkie. In fact, you can pinpoint the exact moment that Grave gets good to Willow shifting from actually saying 'I'm so juiced' after absorbing Giles' power, to feeling the world's pain and developing a theoretically benevolent justification for destroying the world.

But there's also Buffy. And I need to say that because I feel like the show has forgotten her, or at least has forgotten to care about her perspective. She barely gets to react to the attempted SA in Seeing Red - the show genuinely only seems to care about Spike's perspective on that - and then she finds out that Tara, who she's been growing closer to all season, is dead... and again, the show gives her no time or space to react, to mourn, to feel anything about it. The show genuinely doesn't seem to care about her, or how she feels, at all. Again, at the end of Grave, that care does return, but it feels like the show is cheating to make it wok - bypassing her reaction to any of the things that have happened since SR so her season arc can end in a satisfactory way. And it works, sure, but I still feel disconnected from her in a way I wasn't before.

And I do really love the ending! The crayon speech is great! But Xander is the only one of the core Scoobies who comes out of the finale with his characterisation intact.

Unfortunately, my reversal of opinion on Season 6 works against the last three episodes. Previously, I saw the Dark Willow trilogy as the point where things finally start moving again after a season of dull grimness; now I think it's the point where the wheels really off, and the show seriously loses sight of its own characters. It finds them again at the end, and I do still like the latter half of Grave, but until then, it's rough.

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Unfortunately, my reversal of opinion on Season 6 works against the last three episodes. Previously, I saw the Dark Willow trilogy as the point where things finally start moving again after a season of dull grimness; now I think it's the point where the wheels really off, and the show seriously loses sight of its own characters. It finds them again at the end, and I do still like the latter half of Grave, but until then, it's rough.