#not that watching buffy is a problem

[capriclonus]

Need a new TV show to watch before I just start rewatching buffy AGAIN

[lue-arlert]

Y’know what bothers me the most about Charmed? Specifically in S8, The Charmed Ones are supposed to be the most powerful witches in existence, yet Billie comes in and can just do multiple powers without potions and verbal commands, like… so who’s the most powerful here??

Like the series was fine at the start and then it just got so… blah. Like I know I watched this series all the way through once but I did NOT recall like half of S7 and any of S8 in my current rewatch.

[gothamstreetcat]

I really get so emotional every time Cordelia treats Wesley with an once of kindness or speaks up for him.

[elenagoeslightly]

ok this is not exactly a rant but i've been thinking, as someone who writes, about the way that we female authors present our female characters because in the vast majority of the books I've read, they are mostly the means to an end and the end is a man.

like literally so many female characters have their own growth thrown to the wind and for what? to put a ring on it?

maybe is just not appealing to me as a reader but why can't growth and love coexist? why can't a power angry woman be loved when men are idolized through every shitty and downright abusive and toxic behavior known on god's green earth?

i want my cruel and vindictive and unhinged women to be loved like they hang the moon in the sky for the vile and cruel creatures that they are why do women need to be bite sized or worst need to be punished even if their cruelty is basically a survival instinct while the man can be everything they want regardless of why and how the math isn't mathing

[90stvqueen]

how beautiful is it that from episode one, buffy expresses disdain for being The Chosen One, and by the end of the series, she has not only rid herself of those trappings, but she (and her friends, together) made it so that no one else ever has to carry that weight alone

[mirrorthoughts]

I started watching TW season one again (the only one I actually watched so far 😂) and once again I'm just amused by the plotholes and discrepancies and things they show or say once and never refer to or use again, as well as the technical side of camera shots and cgi - and I'm only in episode 5 so that's a record if you ask me. (Nevermind that me picking at threads already started with eposiode 1 😂)

Disclaimer: As I said I've never watched that much of the actual series even if I steal the characters to write! Also I'm definitely biased due to the fandom, wiki entries I read and so on. So take all this with a grain of salt! It's mostly stuff I was amused by so if I have it wrong - well. I have it wrong, I guess.

Anyway. On to my observations: (this got long, so I hid them under the readmore)

Sorry to all the people who like scott, but... he's so boring <.< WHY is that guy the main character? EVERYONE else would be more interesting just from a storytelling point of view! Give me Finnstock, Danny, the Sherrif, or any of the other main cast and just get rid of Scott as main POV <.< please.

It's so funny that they tried to make it some kind of horror tv show. I actually recognize classical horror movie scenes, camera shots that should invoke a certain fear or surprise but they somehow manage to put it in such a context that I laugh because I recognize what they want to do and it just doesn't work. Might be a me-problem because I like watching horror films, but... it's still very sad.

Stiles says he once had a boa. I asked the internet and it told me boas in zoos can get about 28 years old... Stiles is 16. Stiles... Stiles, what did you do with your boa?... STILES....

The scene where Stiles and Scott talk through video chat (and is that AOL? Those were AOL-icons... was AOL still alive in 2011? <.<) and Derek stands behind Scott... it's just... why did Scott stare at the screen instead of turning around? Nevermind that he read what Stiles was writing out loud and that Stiles's message was written in such large letters that probably anybody standing 5 miles away could have read it - nevermind the guy Stiles thought was standing behind Scott. Also: why did Derek just... stand there. Especially once he was sure he'd been seen...? I know that's also one of the Horror-esque scenes I mentioned but the timing of it all was so bad! (also also: Scott is just stupid <.<)

They use this weird alternative 'sight' for werewolves in the beginning (the scenes colored in red) and it feels like they use that in the first few episodes and never again after that <.<

Another weird scene: The game where Scott wolfs out and Jackson stays back and finds Scott's glove with holes where Scotts claws came out. I just... have so many questions... 1) Why did Jackson stay back after not only his own WINNING team but also the audience, the enemy team, coach finnstock and ANYONE ELSE who was probably assigned to clean up the field? He even was still in his own lacrosse gear so he stood back to take up a glove a person who'd cleaned up the field should have taken with them?... 2) Why the fuck was Derek staring at him? <.<... or rather, why was he staring at him for so long so Jackson even looked at him? Did Derek even see the whole game? Why did he let Jackson see him? It's not like he tried to scare him into staying silent, for that his staring wasn't nearly scary enough <.<... it's just... another weird composition. Especially since Jackson and Derek have nothing to do with each other <.<...

Scotts dream where he killed Allison in the bus that mimicked how Peter/the Alpha killed the bus driver. Even though later it comes out that he was there and tried to keep the Alpha from killing the guy, this dream is just one instance where they try to 'show' Scott's 'connection' with the Alpha. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the connection he has with Peter is the one and only time we see such a connection between an Alpha and a Beta, I think. I mean the whole "I dream of things the Alpha did" and the whole not remembering/blacking out due to instincts and Alpha?

Also, Scott was apparently was hurt/slashed by the Alpha's claws. How come that wound was healed the next morning? I thought wounds caused by an Alpha heal slower? <.< or is that a fandom thing? <.<

I want to hug Derek. Hard. Poor boy drives to a town he got traumatized in to help his sister/Alpha where she ALSO gets killed and all those stupid teenies do is blame him for her death, for their problems and for anything else the new Alpha did - especially the other killings - so he gets locked up by the Sherrif and when he gets out that stupid pup has the gall to search him out just to - again - blame him for all of his problems and even for the death of his sister and the bus driver <.<...

On that note: I think Derek said he came to find his sister/meet his sister. To me it sounded in that moment as if he hadn't known she was dead when he arrived and that confuses me...

Also: shouldn't he also have a connection/pack bond with the Alpha if he wants to or not? Or does a pack just fall apart when the old Alpha dies until they've submitted to the new one? <.< And doesn't that mean that Derek's currently a packless Omega? <.<...

Aaand there's another horror film track shot classic that sends the camera from Derek and Scott to the outside of the Hale house where the Alpha is waiting/his eyes are glowing in the dark. ... So why didn't the Alpha go to them? Or did he just... sit there and stare at the house until Scott leaves? If the Alpha runs on instinct why didn't he try to get to Scott or Derek - especially after Scott left - when he is trying to get Scott and Derek to accept being part of his pack? <.<...

Kate drives into town without stopping and the Alpha attacks here somewhere in town. Close enough to Scotts home that he sees her shortly after she shoots her shotgun twice when the shots were what woke him up. 1) did the Alpha smell her through her car and the fumes? <.< 2) did he just stumble over her car while running through the town?? <.<... 3) if not, did he follow her from the outside into town? why didn't he attack her there instead of somewhere quieter? <.<...

I'm still confused by the whole Derek clawed Jackson in the neck and it did something to Jackson-stuff. Especially because Derek's not an Alpha yet <.<...

And finally just a quote from Derek that amused me for potential fanfic reasons when Scott asks why Derek can't just track the Alpha as a human: "Beause his human scent could be entirely different" <.<

[classicslesbianopinions]

i love how every time i see the antigone poll on my dash antigone is steadily getting more and more votes/percentage youre doing good work here

no the most gratifying moment of my entire life was checking the post every few minutes and seeing the number tick up i won't lie... and like i literally am so tired of tumblr brackets and i don't think they matter and i think they say way more about which subsets of people 1. are active on tumblr and 2. are following the specific bracket blog but also like... i literally cannot watch my βλωρβη (greek woman blorbo) lose a most tragic poll to a character who's not even dead.*

*captain jack is exempt from the "must be dead" clause because being alive forever is also tragic because it's all about how your time isn't working right/doesn't sync up with other people's <- thing i just made up but i stand by it <- also thing i can try and elaborate on later when the next door neighbors aren't vibrating my skull into oblivion with their sound system

[winepresswrath]

james and elizabeth are so funny. at the time i resented them for not being spike and dru, but i do really enjoy that angel and darla keep on having the same problems with the people they make being wildly obsessive in love and/or murder. it's you! it's how you make them.

[suncaptor]

I already feel like I have so many btvs opinions that no one would want.

[whimsycore]

Y’all ever notice how these weirdo conservatives will go after any and all childrens media to heavily sanitize but they RARELY say anything about adult media? You’re out here watching 365 days, Riverdale and Game of Thrones but your kids can’t watch hocus pocus, turning red, or gravity falls?

[balladofsallyrose]

Xander is Joss’s insert or mouthpiece - 'If I have to look at Xander for one more minute I will explode. Yes I know he’s a main character. Yes I know that he’s probably in every episode of every season. I am in Hell.'

#WHYYYYY DOES HE GET SO MUCH SCREENTIME???#if there is one thing I'd bet my life on it's that xander is a self-insert for the person who made this show. idk who that was but I can -#tell they're infusing themselves in the narrative through him#anyways he's definitely a self-insert and also I just don't like him so whenever he's on screen I'm painfully aware of it

These are the same feelings I have about Danny Partridge - his character is the main focus of the show, basically a self-insert of the creator. i'm only halfway through season 1 and every episode is about DANNY, with the exception of one or two episodes. it's so obvious that it is painful (he does have some good moments but still !! so overwhelming) and when the storyline is about another character, suddenly danny becomes the centre of the episode.

"But oddly enough, everybody on that show was oddly enough connected to my family. My daughter's name is Laurie, her boyfriend was Keith. Our dog was called Simon, but they got a female dog so her name was Simone." - Bernard Slade, creator and writer.

[sugarlywhispers]

Lol i have a lil drabble finished and ready to be published with Endeavor, but people is sooo angry with him rn that im kinda scared to publish this 🤣🤣🤣 i guess ill wait a bit 🙈

[ssaalexblake]

watching angel stalk buffy in s1 is so funny bc by the end of ats he's Still doing it, he's just paying professionals to track her for him instead and like... Dude.

[itsamarlfox]

I could really go without this whole Xander and willow thing happening

[sammygender]

thing is. like. i’ve consumed a lot of media and a lot of it has been very fundamental to me. but btvs is like… my show. idk. i watched it at the end of my last breakup and it just like implanted in my core. whenever i watch it it works into my head and i can’t sleep cause i just think about it. my mom associates me with btvs so strongly that she thought i’d been watching it for years and years and years like since i was a little kid. chances are if you’re close to me, you’ve watched at least one episode, because i just tend to put it on. it’s a mess and it’s the best show i’ve ever watched. i criticise ninety percent of its plotlines & its perfect (well). i don’t even talk about it very much i just rotate the people and the show and the themes inside my head. it’s just. man

[olderthannetfic]

When I was 13 I tagged "Homosexual rules OK" on the grocery store one town over. This was -94 and I barely knew what it was, but oh did I defend peoples right to be gay.

Around that time I watched my favorite character Buffy the Vampire Slayer answer "Yes I am" when told she wasn't like other girls. It taught me that even if we are different we are all the same.

About one year later a neo nazi took me in a choke hold and threw me onto the stage for getting between him and my best friend who he beat to a pulp because he kissed another boy.

I have always been an ally, even long before I realized I was queer myself.

In my fandom some are throwing around the word misogyny because people prefer m/m over f/f and that is just insane to me.

Misogyny and internalized misogyny are real problems but it has almost lost its meaning the way people use it.

We all have our reasons for what we like and don't like and they don't have to be deep. It can just be "I like this, but not that" it is for me.

But, I also have a deeper meaning. As a girl growing up I could walk hand in hand with other girls without anyone batting much of an eye. I could kiss them on the cheek or lightly on the lips and it wasn't a problem. Mostly because no one looked at us and automatically saw it as romantic, or sexual. We were just galpals. And sometimes we were. And sometimes we weren't. We got away with so much.

My male presenting friends weren't as lucky. So when I write m/m I want to give them a happy ending, because many of my friends never got theirs.

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