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[roselightfairy]

Man, I'm skipping around through Buffy s7 and the overarching thing I'm feeling this season is... tired. Like, I honestly love parts of the season so much and there are parts that I think they absolutely needed to deal with after the way s6 went that feel healing. I think there are places where it is so earnest in a way that a lot of the other seasons aren't, like it kind of abandons some of its genre-savviness and quippiness to just be real, and the realness of it is that - the characters themselves are tired, the viewers are tired, it's been a long long seven-year run, and the characters have been to hell and back and now hell is coming for them. But also the show itself feels tired, like everyone is just dragging out the last vestiges of their energy to take on so many desperately-needed storylines. People smarter than I am have done real analysis of the season and the show and how this season takes on too much for what it's able to be, and I agree with that, but I just - I can't disagree with the underlying earnestness of it. It takes itself seriously in a way that a lot of the other seasons don't, and it's not executed as well as I wish it were, but I just love it so much in some ways forthat, for the way that it tries to heal, but also tries to break the system at the same time. And it's so exhausting, and I'm exhausted watching it, but that just makes it feel even more real and necessary. And I don't think I'm making any sense, but I'm just having thoughts and when I have thoughts I put them indiscriminately on the internet, so . . . yeah.

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[thenewbuzwuzz]

Interesting thoughts! :) Thank you for putting them on the internet.

[roselightfairy]

Thank you for reading them! People who write Buffy meta are some of the smartest people on the internet and it makes my thoughts feel silly, but every now and then I get the urge to Ponder!