Friday, February 15, 2002

Happy Vampires Day

Without spoiling any big plot developments for Rusty, Buffy does start to develop more of that depressing-relationshippy stuff as it goes on, but at least the second and third seasons still keep it all in its place, IMO. Season 3 is well worth watching for the Mayor and Faith at the very least. Since then, the show hasn't been as consistently good, and IMHO Angel actually manages to be the better show a lot of the time now. Buffy Season 5 did still manage to pull off a few of the best moments of the series, though.

I think the current season (the 6th) really has ventured too far into the realm of becoming what the show had once parodied. The writers say they're trying something different this year, having the "big badness" of the season come from the characters' personal struggles rather than the usual big supernatural villain-of-the-year. Alas, I feel like they've been rather unsuccessful at pulling it off and still keeping things as entertaining as before in many of this season's episodes.

Those Oscars are mostly a big studio popularity contest. I watched the DVD of the previously-mentioned Japanese-animated film Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (which they had at Best Buy for $5 off, yay!) last night, and while it sure isn't the best film ever, it's not bad, and it's got more visual style, artistic direction, and quality animation in its little demon-possessed finger than Jimmy Neutron has in its entire freakishly-enormous head.

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