I say this, with just a twinge of embarrassment, as I look at this photo. It’s a Season 6 production still of one of the stars of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. In leather pants.
Link isn’t working. 
Well, your link is broken, but I see that the character in question is Dawn. Ho hum. A girl’s got to make sure her sister’s wardrobe doesn’t go to waste. Now get Spike in some leather pants for me and we’ll talk… 
#1 on to-do list: make friend who has cable since the devil-spawned campus package doesn’t have UPN.
Don’t know how that happened. Let me try again:
Damn, that doesn’t make any sense! I can look at the picture just fine; when I copy and paste the URL into a different window it works; why doesn’t it work as a link?
Try this one, and then click on the next-to-last picture (hell, click on all of them):
Hey, who’s that in the first photo? Isn’t she dead?
And is Tara’s “mean” shirt the first step towards outfitting her with a personality?
There is no Tara! There is only Zool!!!
I don’t know … I thought she had plenty of personality at the end of last season when she saw all the pretty colors and just ast around rocking back and forth. Well, that was more personality than she had before, right?
Ah, well. The clock is ticking; we have only another month until the sew episodes start up again, and my life will once more have meaning.
That sounds bad, doesn’t it?
I really hop they get away from the “one arc all season” formula this season. The last two have really suffered from it. The Initiative thing was so muddled and silly, I thought season 5 would HAVE to be an improvement, but it wasn’t much. The Glory thing could have and should have been done in three episodes, tops. There was no reason to drag it out that long. Look at the “Judge” episodes from season two - very exciting and all wrapped up in two episodes. Nowadays that would be the whole season.
I’d also like to go back to the days when Willow did more than just be a lesbian. We got some of that towards the end of last season, but not enough.
Some good news for those of you who, like me, have realized belatedly that Buffy’s cool and you need to do some catching up-- the F/X Network will start airing it every night at 7pm beginning September 24. I guess that’d be the same everywhere, since they’re cable…
Supposedly, my cable co. will start carrying F/X just in time, so I’m psyched. I have NO idea what’s going on, but reading the Buffy threads here, especially Doper commentary on “The Body,” really intrigues me.
I envy you, Rosebud. This is one of those series I’d love to be able to watch for the first time again.
But returning to my faulty OP, I wish to register a complaint against the producers of the show for making fifteen-year-old Dawn look like such a hottie (leather pants!), and consequently making me feel like such a perv.
Good one, Fiver. Is this Life imitating art? Why are all these young girls dressing like this nowadays while the onlder (read: LEGAL) ones are too embarassed or some such?
I’ve got an eye for fashion. I don’t mind what people say. I dress in black leather when the weather lets me. I still turn heads.
And I’m married! And a guy!!!
A sad day it is when the only people willing to live a little are half your age.
And leather is just so cool.
I can’t find a link to it, but there’s a really hot picture of the Slayer herself on the current TV preview issue of Entertainment Weekly.
For Canadians, Space: The Imagination Station starts airing reruns Monday, September 10th, 8 ET.
I disagree with Legomancer (hmmm… seems like I’ve said that before…). I loved season four and five. And I thought that Willow was being more than a lesbian. She’s become quite a powerful witch. At the end of season three, she was still working on floating pencils. Now, she’s considerably more powerful. And how much time did the show dedicate to her relationship with Oz? I’m betting pretty much the same amount of time, if not more.
I’m not really sure why the Glory thing should have been wrapped up in three episodes. There was the whole “sister/Dawn” thing tied up in it, and of course, it was the storyline that led to Buffy doing the big dive. I think that three episodes would have been awfully quick to go over her sister appearing, dealing with the fact that it wasn’t her sister after all, Joyce’s death (which, IMHO, led to the mind frame that she needed to have in the finale), making Willow stronger (she needed vengeance on Glory for messing with Tara), and all the other things it led up to.
The Judge certainly didn’t influence the Buffy-verse to such a degree.
I’ve got nothing against the lesbian thing, other than I’d like to know more about this decision. After all, Willow spent quite some time pining after Xander and then being with Oz, to suddenly discover her true sexual identity. But that doesn’t bug me much. I was glad when they finally had the guts to actually show them together and let them kiss. I don’t think you get points for having a gay character if all it consists of is saying the character is gay and having them look wistfully at another person of the same sex.
I agree that Willow went from floating pencils to being very powerful. I would have liked to have seen that development. There was always talk about Willow getting powerful, but we hardly ever saw anything. I like Willow (and Xander) and felt that Seasons 4 and 5 pushed them to the side without giving much in return.
Well I’m one of the few people who thought the Dawn idea was dumb.
SPOILERS
Only a moron would make The Key into a mobile, emotional teenage girl. Blood is the key? But we were told that it could take any form, so how would it have been bled if it was, say, a chair? Would the chair bleed? How about a piece of steel? And once we had Glory on a time limit (we’re told that if she can’t open the portal in time, she’ll die) why on earth didn’t they turn the key into a pebble, drop it in the ocean, and boom, problem solved?
There was a lot of false delay in the Glory thing. Glory found out who Buffy was and where she lived LONG before anything happened. Why not attack her? She threatens Buffy’s family and then disappears for no reason. She SHOULD be watching Buffy, why doesn’t she attack at Joyce’s funeral, when Buffy is vulnerable? When Willow tries to go after Glory, Buffy stops her, saying she’s not ready. Why on earth didn’t Willow say, “Well what the hell are you doing to GET ready? Last episode you were preparing to quit. Is that part of getting ready?”
I just felt that season five was so poorly thought out. I don’t look to Buffy to have ironclad continuity and be airtight for plotholes, but these were so obvious.
Glory spent most of season five not really doing anything, but it wasn’t as bad as season four, when they kept saying “We’ve got to stop Adam!” when Adam was sitting in a cave doing nothing. We kept being told what a horrible threat he was, and every now and then he’d pop on the screen and say something dark but he never DID anything. And it would have been nice to wrap that up in a way other than have Buffy enter The Matrix.
I hope the relaunch will get the show back in its groove. I don’t want it to become another X-Files, and get worshipped without having to try.
Geocities doesn’t allow for file-linking directly to an image. One way around it is to name your images as .txt files (instead of .jpg or .gif), and link to that. For example, name your picture “s6_dawn1.txt”, and then link to that file here.
another way around it is to append a “?” to the end of the filename.
or not. weird, that works when the 404 comes up. I just add a ? and reload.
You can’t do hypertext links to geocities pictures, you need to copy the text of the link into your browser’s address window. I can’t help but think how unbelievably skinny she is, she doesn’t even look real.
Just link to the page with the thumbnails, to get around Geocities’ prohibition of crosslinking/directlinking:
http://www.geocities.com/jtzerogravity/season6.html
Now is there any problem?
I noticed something else: the lighting looks all wrong on Anthony Stewart Head, especially in the group photo. It’s like he was photographed somewhere else and they pasted his image on the composite. Is this to indicate that he won’t stay with the Scooby gang much longer