Re: A Second Look: ATS S3D4

"Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsmtsm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jan 20, 4:45 pm, "One Bit Shy" <O...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> That Groo is a lousy character is unfortunate.  But that's not this
>> episode's fault.  He's obviously the only character that can serve the
>> function called for.
>
> Xander?  I jest, obviously, but this is one of those times when the
> "screw consistency or sense, we have a function that's called for"
> attitude grates for me.

There's only so far that I'll go to defend that character.  Even though
they 
try to improve it in the run that follows, he still annoys me most every 
time he's on the screen.  And the notion that they're working with him is 
only worth one episode.  But I'm not inclined to place the full burden of 
that character's failings onto WITW.  That episode is stuck with the arc 
handed it.


>> The start of S4, though I'm not sure I grasped it that quickly.  Wrong
is
>> relative.  I don't like much of S4 Cordelia - and Cordy/Connor is
really
>> creepy.  But one thing the Jasmine arc does is provide an excuse for
her
>> behavior.  I still retained a longing for true Cordelia to rise from
the
>> ashes.  The biggest failure of S4 for her character is that never 
>> occurred.
>
> Did it make you feel any better to find out that that was the original
> plan, until the off-screen world intervened?

No.  I mean it's nice to know they had a better idea, but I wasn't really 
mad at the writers anyway.  I never doubted that they tried to do the best

that they could.  The problem is what's left on the screen irrespective of

the reasons behind it.

OBS