Re: A Second Look: BTVS S6D6

Arbitrar Of Quality wrote:
>  A reminder:  These threads would like to test that theory.
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> Season Six, Episode 21: "Grave"
> Writer: David Fury
> Director: James A. Contner
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> Willow's head-rush isn't as excruciating as I'd expected it to be on
> re-watching, if you care.

This was one of the few scenes in the entire series that, to me, anyway, 
Alyson seemed to have real problems with.  There weren't many - she 
nailed most everything the writers handed her (well, except for the 
foreign languages. :-)) - but this scene she just didn't seem to get a 
handle on.  Given the dialogue and the blocking, though, I suspect a 
whole lots'a actors would have had problems with it...

> Rating: Good
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> Additional comments on S6D6:  I managed to make it through the thread
> without mentioning (except elliptically here) a certain character who
> dominates all the discussions despite appearing for a grand total of
> maybe four minutes on this disc (a few seconds of which are really
> really im****tant, but still)...

Thank you...

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> On the decision to hold off on Dark Willow until the very end of the
> year, I'm very much in favor.  The Willow-centric parts of "Villains"
> through "Grave" are tightly, tightly plotted.  Each episode leaves one
> little time for unnatural breaks in the action, because the writers
> seem to have correctly deduced that three hours (with commercials) is
> exactly the right length to spend on this particular story.  In other
> Darth Rosenberg related controversies, I don't hesitate in the
> slightest to say that Dark Willow is leaps and bounds beyond the one-
> note vampire Willow of S3 (to whom she's often compared).

Dramatically, I'd have to agree with that.  I still like VW a smidgen 
better, though, for one reason: the simple gleeful fun that Vamp Willow 
takes in her evil compared to Dark Willow's bitter 
get-even-with-the-world rampage.

-- 
Rowan Hawthorn

"Occasionally, I'm callous and strange." - Willow Rosenberg, "Buffy the 
Vampire Slayer"