Interesting thoughts in your meta. Clicked in the wrong place last time.
For me personally I would say Buffy vs Dracula is in a neck and neck race for the worst season opener along with the opening of S6.
It's precisely because it violates so many rules and breaks the third wall with nods to the mysteriously appearing castle that I dislike it.
Further it reinforces the trend for using Xander only as comic relief and whilst at the same time as mocking Anne rice it turns the show precisely in that direction of a lots of over angsty moping.
Even though I've stopped reading the comics the Dracula ally angle continues imho the trekification of the franchise that started post S3.
I agree with it cheapening Angel's arc, I felt that about Spike and Harmony. Another example of failing to think through implications.
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Date: 2008-03-11 11:37 am (UTC)For me personally I would say Buffy vs Dracula is in a neck and neck race for the worst season opener along with the opening of S6.
It's precisely because it violates so many rules and breaks the third wall with nods to the mysteriously appearing castle that I dislike it.
Further it reinforces the trend for using Xander only as comic relief and whilst at the same time as mocking Anne rice it turns the show precisely in that direction of a lots of over angsty moping.
Even though I've stopped reading the comics the Dracula ally angle continues imho the trekification of the franchise that started post S3.
I agree with it cheapening Angel's arc, I felt that about Spike and Harmony. Another example of failing to think through implications.