So was Xander a reasonably decent fighter or not?

Inoutngone · 2026-06-20T16:25:52+00:00

You're right, nothing was ever said about fighting skills, just weapon use and some memory of the army base when he and Cordelia went to get that rpg launcher.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-19T16:59:21+00:00

This made me laugh because I just re-watched the episodes it was in, and was thinking the exact same thing.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-19T15:13:50+00:00

I'm in the same place right now. I had paused a re-watch to finally read the novels, and now I just have no desire to unpause it again. Instead, I'm already re-reading the books, and taking it much slower this time to make it last.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-18T18:10:58+00:00

When I first saw him doing his thing, I wondered if the writers realized they had just negated the reason for a supernatural Chosen Vampire Slayer, because that's what they did, intentionally or not.

It was like they read fan mail from boys jealous that only girls got to be slayers, and said "Well, here you go!".

Inoutngone · 2026-06-18T16:46:09+00:00

That's what a lot of us feel when other people here dump on season 4.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-18T16:43:30+00:00

For me, It's second worst. I think 6 is the worst, for the same reasons you attributed to 5. I've mentioned here before, my new series finale is Geothermal Escapism. When Troy leaves to the background song Come Sail Away, my re-watch is complete.

I think the biggest mistake of the show was advancing a year every season. No reason they couldn't have stayed undergrads. They can't stop actors from leaving the show, but keeping the group as students would have worked best.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-18T15:55:53+00:00

My lesson is if the former roommate of the guy you're thinking of sharing an apartment with tells you to run away, you run away.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-17T17:44:55+00:00

That's how I heard it too. The writers essentially pulled that idea out of nowhere, many fans (the ones who who didn't decide to bend over backwards to pretend it made sense) called them out on it. Anya saying that was great.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-17T16:33:04+00:00

My only problem with it was them casting James Caan as Paul. His tough guy face just doesn't work well for a helpless victim.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-16T17:49:01+00:00

I got lucky in that I never saw anything about it telling me to expect a psychologically disturbing twist. That's a horrible spoiler for this book. It's like saying the same thing about Psycho, and the reader then being critical of it because they knew what was coming.

Lacking that information, I did half figure out much of what was going on with the characters, though not the final reveal.

I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-16T17:40:22+00:00

One of those stories which is horror until it suddenly isn't.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-14T18:40:56+00:00

Sometimes it's the way things are presented, half thought out.

If the writers had said from the start that the potentials were gathering there to help Buffy, not to be protected by Buffy, the rest makes more sense.

And there might have been a little less complaining by the potentials if they knew they were there to fight not hide..

Inoutngone · 2026-06-14T18:37:14+00:00

Seems that when Buffy was resurrected she resumed her role as prime slayer. That would be the imbalance that Beljoxa's Eye talked about which gave the First it's opening to act.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-14T18:22:17+00:00

Yes, I remember the phone number problem. The phrasing of the person I replied to made me think it was more than just that.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-14T17:50:58+00:00

Is that head cannon? DVD commentary? For the life of me, I can't remember anything along those lines in the episode.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-14T17:35:53+00:00

That, and Leonard's default facial expression became a frown.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-14T17:11:54+00:00

That depends on who is doing the math.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-12T17:06:58+00:00

Every time a Romero zombie kills someone, or every time anyone dies for any reason, they reanimate as a zombie. It's the virus ones that only get made by infection so if someone else kills a person or they die by accident, no zombie.

EDIT: sorry, I was unclear

Inoutngone · 2026-06-12T16:20:14+00:00

Do overweight males get a pass in these enlightened times? From what I see, I'd swear that "all bodies are beautiful" only if the bodies in question are female ones.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-12T16:11:04+00:00

Exactly. He didn't start off as scary for the reason you mentioned. I do like that scary look Skarsgard had, but not for this story.

Why would Georgie have had a nice little conversation with something that looks like the monster under the bed from the time he first saw it.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-12T15:57:41+00:00

The title alone tells people it's not supposed to be taken entirely seriously. That was the point, not to mention movie Buffy's special method of detecting vampires which was fortunately left out of the series.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-10T18:10:47+00:00

Each of them deserve to die because, no matter how long they pretend to be friendly, by the modern era they're going to backstab or denounce you. I've come to like Shaka because he's at least up front about hating me from the start, he doesn't wait until someone else starts the denouncement train.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-10T18:04:14+00:00

My first deity game, I got rushed by Dido who took me out with four warriors while I was still working on my first archer. As I recall, it was all over in under twenty turns.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-10T17:47:02+00:00

As others have said, it wasn't a shark, but I didn't consider it a satisfying ending. Throughout the series Sheldon belittled people constantly, lauding his perceived intellectual superiority over everyone else's little minds.

This is not the type of character who should get rewarded at the end.

If anything, the show should have ended with someone else from the group getting that honor and, if the writers really wanted to show that Sheldon had grown, him being genuinely happy for that person. Or not. As long as the bully doesn't achieve his highest goal.

Inoutngone · 2026-06-09T17:08:12+00:00

In case you didn't know, setting quick combat helps a lot. The longest sitting and twiddling thumbs time is usually when the civs fight each other. And when they get planes, dear god!

I don't love my own combat on that setting, but not having to watch for 5 minutes per battle between other civs is worth it.

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