This apparently counts as a cute moment in Buffy...

[almostwitty]

This moment was apparently so incredibly cute and wonderful that my darling wife decided to save it for me so she could play it back for me.

andrew: you're english right?
spike: yeah...
andrew: i've seen every episode of Doctor Who. Not red dwarf though, cuz...
jonathan: cuz it's not out yet on DVD.
spike: WARREN!

I'm kinda failing to see the cuteness factor here... then again, I have a huge block on Buffy. And Charmed for that matter. I may have the same block with True Blood.

Comments

[gipsy-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Tribble and I have just worked out which scene this is.

Certainly there's a good deal of funniness, but the only cuteness I can see is Spike himself!

Mmmmm, Spike... :)

[babyraven.livejournal.com]

Buffy is brilliant, but Charmed and True Blood are awful. Feel free to keep blocking on those.

[almostwitty]

Everyone keeps telling me that. But the acting and scenario seem so terrible I just can't buy into it.

[babyraven.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for that particular scene, as I don't remember it. But one scene isn't really enough to judge ANY show, as I'm sure you realize. Buffy could be very uneven, but as a whole, it really was pretty amazing.

[almostwitty]

Thanks to the wonders of repeats, and our rule that whoever holds the baby holds the remote control, I've been subjected to a fair few of Buffy Season Six episodes recently. And found them squirm-worthy, but somehow still holding my attention ever so reluctantly.

[babyraven.livejournal.com]

Season 6 is not my favorite season. If you can, try to get some season 3.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

S2-S5 are the winners. I like S1, but it's got a somewhat different, and somewhat goofier feel than the rest of the series.

S6 & S7 are total and utter angst fests. With a couple of notable exceptions, they weren't worth slogging through.

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Ditto to this.

As an illustration, the phenomenon of "Badass Decay" on TVTropes started out as being called "Spikeification", after what happened to my wovely Ramones-quwoting bad-accented vampypire in the later series. I miss the gorgeous, batshit Drusilla...

[aiela.livejournal.com]

I never could watch more then ten minutes of Buffy, I'd end up screaming at the TV that people don't talk like that and turn it off. The dialogue just constantly irritated me.

It's why I didn't watch Firefly until 2006 or 2007. "I've never liked ANYTHING Joss Whedon did, why would I start now?"

[theta-g.livejournal.com]

It you knew and loved those Buffy characters I expect it might be cute that they namecheck The Police Box Programme. (sort of like The Scottish Play; I feel weird self conscious namechecking it myself :-)

There was nothing superficial about Buffy that drew me in at the start, so I labeled it Somebody Else's Show and moved on.

When I would stumble upon it, it was invariably lots of big close ups of people staring intensely at each other and not actually doing a hell of a lot. I'd get bored looking at all the portrait photography because the dialogue never had any handles worth grabbing onto.

Since then I have been shown the 'beer bad' and 'bored now' moments. They didn't do much for me either because I had no prior investment in the characters involved.

I bought Firefly when the DVD box went on sale because I kept hearing things about it that interested me. I adore that show, although I think the film traded a bit of fun and warmth for dark and noise.

I've been too busy to catch Dollhouse but it sounds very interesting. I've seen places in Second Life that actually operate that way.

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

I luvs dorky anglophiles. Dunno why.

Spike and the Troika was just too weird.