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The Kennedy-Willow thing...
It wasn´t natural at all .. arg.
 
I'll take out the Giles = The First sub-plot because it didn't make sense and it was pointless. However, I want a sub-plot with either Giles or Xander in its place, those poor men were so neglected in this season.
 
I wouldn't have missed the whole Wood trying to kill Spike deal, with the help of Giles. That just compeltely destroyed the Buffy/Giles relationship.
 
Kennedy/Willow must be destroyed, deleted, elimated, suppressed, forgotten, buried, dead, and spit upon. Who? Me? Overreacting? Noooo. The fact is it looked forced. It was like "oooh-kay, Xander can't really be dating someone for real and long after all this Anya drama since she's still there and all that; Buffy's going all platonic on Spike; Giles, well... Giles' love life isn't that exciting; we really have to find someone for Willow! How about a little brat who's as mature as an overspoiled 4-year-old and who's both vulgar, selfish and stupid ? Oh let's totally do that!" (Okay I might be making up that last part.) I mean six months. Six months after the love of her life's death, she goes all smootch with the first lesbian throwing herself at her. a: not Willowy at all. b: not anyone-y at all (you don't do that when you're still grieving, it's exactly the same with Izzie and George on Grey's Anatomy! Grieve Izzie, grieve, don't go all "i'm in love with my boy friend" crap.). c: Why Kennedy? I mean, why?! Seriously (I already referred to Grey's A., why not continue...), it did look as if they felt obligated to have some romance and didn't know where to put it. Well, duuuh ! Bring back Xander and Anya together. Tsss.

I think (and I also think I'm gonna be the only one saying that, but, fair enough...) Andrew took much room. As in "too much room". He didn't really bring anything to the story, the character always kinda bored me, though I liked his interaction with Anya.

All this would have freed some room and make the season less dense. It really felt like a movie sometimes.
 
Airam
Airam
Agree about everything except Andrew, Andrew ROCKS!
Kennedy/Willow must be destroyed, deleted, elimated, suppressed, forgotten, buried, dead, and spit upon. Who? Me? Overreacting? Noooo. The fact is it looked forced. It was like "oooh-kay, Xander can't really be dating someone for real and long after all this Anya drama since she's still there and all that; Buffy's going all platonic on Spike; Giles, well... Giles' love life isn't that exciting; we really have to find someone for Willow! How about a little brat who's as mature as an overspoiled 4-year-old and who's both vulgar, selfish and stupid ? Oh let's totally do that!" (Okay I might be making up that last part.) I mean six months. Six months after the love of her life's death, she goes all smootch with the first lesbian throwing herself at her. a: not Willowy at all. b: not anyone-y at all (you don't do that when you're still grieving, it's exactly the same with Izzie and George on Grey's Anatomy! Grieve Izzie, grieve, don't go all "i'm in love with my boy friend" crap.). c: Why Kennedy? I mean, why?! Seriously (I already referred to Grey's A., why not continue...), it did look as if they felt obligated to have some romance and didn't know where to put it. Well, duuuh ! Bring back Xander and Anya together. Tsss.
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I completely agree.
Someone (Joss?) in some interview/commentary said that they chose a character like Kennedy because she was so different from Tara. So that Tara's memory wouldn't be tarnished. But my God, I hated that whole arc, and I wish it could be completely erased too.

The season seemed way too cluttered, too overly complicated, but I'm not quite sure what I'd get rid of to fix that, beyond the Willow/Kennedy thing.
 
The Potentials, as anoying as most of them were, were completely neccesary to the arc of S7, no way could they have been left out without S7 being COMPLETELY different, they are what drove it, the very first scene of the season is of a Potential for petes sake. I agree that the only thing that really could have and SHOULD HAVE been left out that wouldn't have altered a bit of anything (besides a big wtf?! factor @ the ridiculousness that was that relationship) was the Kennedy/ Willow relationship. HATED IT, wasn't needed AT ALL. A MUCH better choice would have been to bring Oz back... he could have helped and his dynamic with Willow would have been so much more interesting to watch and made a whole of a hell lot more sense.
 
Airam said:
the Kennedy/ Willow relationship. HATED IT, wasn't needed AT ALL. A MUCH better choice would have been to bring Oz back... he could have helped and his dynamic with Willow would have been so much more interesting to watch and made a whole of a hell lot more sense.
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I totally agree, I almost said it on my last post. But it wasn't possible : I really believe the creators were afraid of having Willow getting back with a boy or even having a love-like relationship with a boy. They really seemed obligated to make her totally gay after her falling for Tara. Which is totally stupid. It felt like they were afraid all the gay fans would take it the wrong way, so they kept having Willow saying she's totally gay every episode... It's stupid. I don't agree. You can fall in love, in real love, with a woman and not become totally gay and closed to the possibility of a man in your love life.
 
Karol
Karol
LOVE YOUR BANNES *_*
I don't think its a matter of what they should have left out, i think its more what they should have put in, or at least elaborated on.

beljoxas eye for instance. they introduced it, and just threw it away. also, the whole giles/first thing was kind of a wash. ultimately it was just plot bull. i get why they did it, and i kind of like it, but they could have a reason for giles being so withdrawn. like he had a reason. some character moment that explained why he was so distant and added to the plot. the way they resolved it was funny, but nothing more. the best things in buffy were funny and meant something at the same time.
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and also, with all the willow stuff, i have no problem with her hooking up so quickly after tara, but i wish she had a moment where it totally screwed with her head. Any normal person would want that touch again, but willow jumped in almost like tara was 6 years ago. almost nothing fazed her cept losing her mojo control. wah wah wah. it was too soon, thats all.

And this comes from someone who thought Benson was the worst actor the show ever had.
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oooooh. just had an Oz thought after reading some posts.

Obviously Willow's relationship with Oz wasn't just confused feelings. she loved the guy, genitals and all. She's BI. its frickin clear. Even though i loved Oz much more than Tara, it was clear that Tara meant more to Willow than Oz. So in addition to the above thoughts, it would have been genius for Oz to come back, him and Willow to start up again, but for it ultimately to be not the same as Tara. Willow would love it, but she's still not past tara, and DUH since she was shot 6 months prior.

And then we have Oz having to live with that unrequitedness, fighting in the hellmouth on the last day of town. would have been great.
 
I don´t think, like most of you, that there were too many arcs...
It was a "simple" Season, with the usual random episodes, like Him.
 
Overall, I liked that season, sure, the potential where kind of taking a bit to much place on the show but it was kind of essential and the idea overall was good

I liked Kennedy but I do think that she was brought a bit early. they should have waited and introduced her for season 8.

-Blaze-
 
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I totally agree, I almost said it on my last post. But it wasn't possible : I really believe the creators were afraid of having Willow getting back with a boy or even having a love-like relationship with a boy...
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I agree there. I'd like to do this to Kennedy...
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Their whole relaionship was awful. And I remember so many times wishing Oz would come back..

Oh and I also agree with whoever it was who said that the Mama slayer would have better suited an earlier season.
 
The Killow relationship never should have happened...Robin Wood never should have happened...
 
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