I have to defend season five a bit. Yes the season was uneven and had the worst episodes of the show, the Psiwhiners being the worst of the lot. But the episodes that concentrated on the rise and fall of Londo Mollari and the Centauri war were some of the best in the show. Those episodes alone redeem the fifth season.
The Torah just – ends. Moses doesn’t even get a last word with his Boss. He delivers a poem/song and blesses the people, then wanders back to the wilderness. He should have had a close-up, reality-TV-confessional type soliloquy.
:j
In Season 6 of Buffy, Willow went off the rails in Season Six due to her arrogance and abuse of magic for personal gain, not for some stupid magic equals drugs crap. You may recall a scene where Giles warned her about the amount of dark magic she used in the resurrection spell, and she said, basically, “maybe you should be scared of me”. THAT’S what led to her crisis and subsequent redemption. And then she totally flipped out when
Tara was killed.Much better than Marti Noxon working out her personal issues on screen.
Season 5 was dreadful. Especially when considering season 4 was a near perfect season. Was it not possible to wait until Lucy Lawless had given birth to resume production?
Speaking of, I thought it was interesting to read that Peter Jackson asked her to audition for the part of Galadriel for The Lord of the Rings (several Xena cast and crew were in and/or apart of the film) but she turned it down because she didn’t want to stall production because of her pregnancy. Its too bad, she could be a big star if she wanted to; she’s been offered a lot of A-list roles and turns them all down. Not bad for a girl in New Zealand who worked in a gold miner.
Oh and also in Buffy, Dawn should have died. Something gruesome, like, say, decapitation.
If I can expand things a bit to books that will eventually be movies, there was something I posted in the “What do you want to see in Harry Potter 7?” thread we had before the book came out.
In the HP world, certain teenagers learned amazing magic at Hogwart’s, or developed whole new spells. Harry’s dad and his friends created the Marauder’s Map, Snape invented new dueling spells and perfected the potions textbook (makes me wonder why he never wrote his own textbook, actually), and of course Tom Riddle was doing all sorts of stuff that didn’t show up in the regular classes.
Hermione Granger was the cleverest witch of her generation, and yet we never saw her do anything but stuff everyone was being taught. In the last book, I wanted her to pull out some stuff that would cause a few deatheaters to stain their robes. Something you’d only expect to see from someone in Dumbledore’s power class. Calling lightning from the sky would have been good.
I know - wouldn’t it have been so much creepier and more affecting if he had never known he was evil? If he had thought he was doing God’s will the whole time? Instead of being dumb and boring?
I wish we would have gotten to see the aliens in “Contact.”
Casino Royale should not have played poker. No Bond would ever play poker. It should have been baccarat or some other gentleman’s game instead of trying to appeal to dumb American audiences.
Contact isn’t about aliens, BKReporter; in actuality, it’s about humans. And the way they deal with the news. I wish we had gotten to the aliens, too, but they were almost a McGuffin, to be honest. (I only read the book).
In Return of the King, Frodo should not have sent Sam away when Gollum accused him of eating all their food and wanting the ring for himself. Come on, Frodo, you’ve known Sam for how many years? And you’re letting this stupid schizophrenic half-man creature that you’ve known for maybe two weeks tell you that Sam is the bad apple?? You’re an idiot.
I know that eventually Frodo realizes he’s screwed up, but goddamn. That scene makes me so angry I literally have to leave the room every time it comes on.
Hermoine, however, was not imaginative. She could learn anything and do it well…but I don’t see her coming up with something completely new and effective. Maybe when she is older…
Actually, Kirk could have had everything by just taking Edith back to the future with him. Yeah, I know, how would he get her to the future given that the Guardian would only bring Kirk, Spock and McCoy back when the timeline was fixed. So have Spock build a stasis box out of stone knives and bearskins, hide it in a cave, and then Kirk could retrieve her later.
Dammit Jim, I’m Spock, not MacGuyver! Now if I only had a paperclip, two rubber bands and some chewing gum!
I won’t watch that scene either. It’s the main change that pisses me right off about Jackson’s LOTR.
Because Whedon, for all his strengths doesn’t have a clue as to how to:
A) deal with characters changing and growing in any substantial way and
B) can’t write long-term relationships (or healthy ones)
I think that not marrying Xander is what finally gave Anya the opportunity to change and grow and discover who she was rather than just becoming “his missus.”
As for Xander, I think he called off the wedding because the visions of the future that he had, although fake, made him realize that he wasn’t ready to get married.
And I think that Joss could probably write any type of relationship. Didn’t the married couple on Firefly have a good relationship?
Well, yeah… movie spoiler ahead.
Until he killed Wash off for no real good reason other than ‘people die’ - he got a harpoon or something through his chest right after he pulls off a successful crash landing, fleeing the Reavers.
LMAO! Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
That movie was awesome! I’ma watch that again.
Having the Dermot Mulroney character end up with Jules would utterly ruin the movie, the point of which was that Jules was being a jackass. MBFW was, in a way, a deconstruction of romantic comedies, in that it concedes–it HIGHLIGHTS–that the kinds of things characters do in such movies to win their lovers’ hearts are, in fact, horrible and wrong.
I was going to say this too. Joss can be a real asshole.