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May 04 2008 09:13 am   #1nmcil
Here are the next two episodes for discussions - Would LOVE to have your ideas, both from the general viewers and writer, on these episodes.  I have really enjoyed going back to see these earlier seasons - if you have not joined in our discussions yet - why not revisit the earlier Buffyverse and brings your ideas  to the episode discussions.

Would Love to have you - 

Transcript for  "Bad Girls"   http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/buffy_tran_48.shtml              
 "Consequences"    http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/buffy_tran_49.shtml


We have missed doing "Amends" - do people want to discuss this episode before, simultaneously, or after  BGs or Con?  Amends has always been one of my favs and is an important episode - should we include it in the season discussions or has it been discussed too many times for you?  let me know what I should do - nmcil

Is there a particular transcript site that  members prefer?
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May 04 2008 04:54 pm   #2Eowyn315
Amends was never on any proposed list of episodes to discuss. (And personally, I hate it, so I'd rather not spend time talking about it.) What was on the list was The Wish/Doppelgangland and Graduation Day, so I would suggest we do those next.

And that's the transcript site that I use.
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May 04 2008 08:15 pm   #3Guest
I never really got the point of Amends. It regresses after the story arc has moved on and realizations have been made about Angel and Buffy's relationship, its introduction of the First Evil is weak and I don't know if they even planned to bring the First back for the seventh season at the point, and the snow idea at Christmas seemed hokey to me. Were we just supposed to think Angel felt really guilty, even if he'd been too tired from getting back from Hell to show it before? The only thing I can think that was useful to the overall story arc in the episode was seeing Giles deal with Angel. Other than that, it didn't contribute anything. I thought it was the writers trying to hang onto the Buffy/Angel romance and trying to focus more on Angel isntead of glossing over by assuming he felt bad.

I use www.buffyworld.com to find transcripts, BTW
May 04 2008 11:07 pm   #4LindsayH
I like "Amends" as a way to set up Angel's series, but honestly for me much of the episode is spent saying, "Bangs!  Bad bangs!"  I'm not usually distracted by things like hair or clothes, with the exception of Buffy's hair in that ep and Willow's muppet sweater in "After Life."

But I am all for the discussion on "The Wish."  I just watched it this afternoon, so I have some thoughts. 
"Do you like my mask?  Isn't it pretty?  It raises the dead!"--Giles, "Dead Man's Party'
May 05 2008 01:28 am   #5Quark
Ditto Eowyn on "Amends."   Might just be one of my least favorite episodes.  I'm all for discussing "The Wish" and "Dopplegangland."
~ Q
May 05 2008 05:04 am   #6nmcil
Thanks for the comments - "Amends" is off the list to discuss -

Let's go with the two next episodes and then do both the Vamp Episodes after -
” Recent evolutionary models have demonstrated what politicians have long known: the best way to get people to collaborate and to think like a group is to identify an enemy and charge that “they” threaten “us.”

Michael Tomasello is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
May 09 2008 06:36 pm   #7nmcil

Seems like not much interest in discussion for "Bad Girls" and "Consequences" - I will leave the topic open until start of next week - if there are no posts we can start a "suggestion" for new episodes.  While the original plan was to keep to a chronological order maybe we want to change that to "any episodes with the season" 

I still would like to do a "Dreamscape" episodes discussion for the entire series.  Would a Buffy-Spike Most Important Episodes be more interesting to discuss than keeping with a Seasons Discussion? 

Please let me your ideas on how to proceed with the episode discussions -

How about other sites that are having active discussions - have some recommends for us? 

” Recent evolutionary models have demonstrated what politicians have long known: the best way to get people to collaborate and to think like a group is to identify an enemy and charge that “they” threaten “us.”

Michael Tomasello is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
May 09 2008 07:16 pm   #8Scarlet Ibis
Okay, for whatever reason, I can't get into the forums, but could someone just please post a thread for "The Wish"/"Dopplegangland," as well as "Bad Girls"/"And Consequences."  All of this back and forth business is getting us nowhere. 

If you post it, they shall comment...
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