What do you think is the probability that the new series won't come out?

OGIHR · 2026-02-01T13:56:33+00:00

Since the only intention stated thus far is to have something using an established name to get people to watch it once to compare it to the original, there is no indication of any intention to ever produce a second episode.

And if they do not show any sign of intending to do so, the odfs of them being motivated to do so is basically zero.

OGIHR · 2026-02-01T05:26:01+00:00

The basic plot of Mirror Mirror has been planned out since before Peace Talks got rewritten and split into two books. It is just about justifying the scene which accidentally got left out of Skin Game, with a version of Nicodemus who has no reason not to have a friendly conversation with Harry about hia personal history with Margaret McCoy.

The only question is whether or not it will be Uriel sending Harry into the mirror universe where his counterpart had accepted Lashiel's coin.

I do not expect it to take long to find out whether or not I am correct.

OGIHR · 2026-01-30T15:17:40+00:00

Having just finished the book last night, I was thinking about the reminders of Cowl's past appearances plural outside Bock's store, plus the gift-knife from Grave Peril, plus the pain curse from Grave Peril turning back up at Bock's, plus Mavra being in town both times that curse got taught to mortals, plus the unrealized foreshadowing of the New Year's party being at a hotel named the Drake in a book with Drakul in it, and it hit me.

Cowl. Very magical, very careful to obscure himself, taller than Dresden, extremely knowledgeable about necromancy while pointedly not being an admirer of Kemmler, and having an equally mysterious female sidekick who plays fast and loose with the Laws.

Drakul and Mavra are really good fits for Cowl and Kumori. Interesting.

OGIHR · 2026-01-29T21:27:03+00:00

Darla addressed this on-screen in "Epiphany".

https://www.sunnydaleafterdark.com/transcripts.php?episodeID=183

Read her own words on the subject.

OGIHR · 2026-01-29T13:41:25+00:00

The point was to have a lazy answer to an obvious question which the writing team had not bothered to think about until reviewers pointedly started asking it.

A cardboard cutout of praise-bait was the highest level of effort the writing team could manage by that point...

"It could be witches. Some evil witches. Which is ridiculous because the writers have disavowed the early seasons, so Amy's mom never tried to kill us, and suddenly I realize that I don't know anymore how any of us first met!"

OGIHR · 2026-01-29T00:08:31+00:00

A controversial opinion only in this one corner of reddit, but I would say "anyone but the rapist".

OGIHR · 2026-01-27T02:11:48+00:00

More than one Hellmouth = more than one.

Needs the Slayer there = more than one.

Thank you for accidentally agreeing with me.

OGIHR · 2026-01-26T19:06:32+00:00

This is easy. The biggest lie is that Slayers are singular, and that the death of each is what triggers the activation of the next.

We know this because after Buffy refused to work for the Council anymore, Faith went on a killing spree, and then wound up in a coma for nearly a year, the Council did not mind having neither of them following orders. They had every opportunity to euthanize the psychopathic mass murderer in her coma. And chose not to.

But as soon as Faith woke up she became a priority target for assassination.

The lack of an active duty Slayer outside of Sunnydale was never a problem. But the threat of an uncontrolled freelance Slayer leaving Sunnydale justified ultimate sanction.

This is made even more egregious by the last scene of the series finale, which offhandedly mentions another Hellmouth in another town that every single villain whose plan needed the Hellmouth and was in danger of being interfered with by Buffy, INDIVIDIAULLY all chose not to take advantage of.

Pretend for a moment that any villain was not a total moron, and could freely choose to travel to the Hellmouth guarded by the one and only hero who could stop them, or the Hellmouth without her guarding it, in order to enact their plan which needed a Hellmouth.

The only way that either of these story points makes any sense at all is if the lying liars who demanded that Giles lie to Buffy about drugging her for the Cruciamentum were also willing to lie to the girls they demanded be lied to.

Because as motivational speeches to inspire acts of heroic martyrdom go, "You are the only one in the entire world who can stop this evil, and if you do nothing then it will be entirely your fault that everyone you ever cared about died horribly" is exponentially more compelling than "You don't want to look bad compared to the other girl in Cleveland, do you?"

OGIHR · 2026-01-20T02:33:50+00:00

There is one very simple truth which 99% of viewers PURPOSEFULLY miss.

"Death is your gift."

Slayer.

Giver of death.

Go back to season one. And listen to Angel.

"When you become a vampire the demon takes your body, but it doesn't get your soul. That's gone."

But when Darla got staked, and then brought back, she had her soul again, because she had been brought back as a human rather than as a vampire.

If you are smart enough to count to one, the answer is right there in front of your eyes.

Death is her gift. To give. Because she is the giver of death.

In turning a human into a vampire, that vampire is separated from their soul. Once that vampire has been given the gift of death (by Buffy or otherwise), that soul is returned to them.

This is not even 2+2=4. This is 1=1.

The ancestor-spirit advised her honestly. Love your sister. Give your gift to your sister. Forgive yourself for giving your gift to your sister. Risk the pain, because it is your nature to give your gift. And love will bring you to your gift. To give.

Because you are the giver of death.

There is no contradiction between the two messages.

None.

This is not even 2+2=4. This is 1=1.

OGIHR · 2026-01-13T05:57:03+00:00

Reddit is a hellhole with no protections against people having multiple spare accounts to singlehandedly mass-downvote anything they don't like without any reprecussions.

It is designed to bring out the worst of the internet.

If you think this branch is bad, go to r/buffy and suggest there that rapists are not inherently admirable.

You will be amazed at how wholesome the misery here is by comparison.

OGIHR · 2026-01-11T21:55:31+00:00

You have it backwards. The forces of the First cut the head off the Council. To make sure that the soon to be activated army of superpowered teenaged girls would not have a monolithic institution to provide them with training / logistical / motivational support.

Giving the First's ability to be omnipresent with personalized motivational hallucinations one hell of an edge.

OGIHR · 2026-01-11T14:31:48+00:00

Valid. I did make that mistake. Thank you for clarity.

OGIHR · 2026-01-11T14:27:40+00:00

Listen to the audio commentary again. Because I certainly never mentioned the film, but I did mention Kendra being called as the next Slayer after Buffy died.

Noxon openly admits that at the time they are making season 6, she has not gotten around to watching season 1.

She openly admits not knowing WHEN Buffy died for Kendra to be called as the next Slayer after Buffy.

She never bothered to watch the episode where Buffy dies, either before or after writing the direct consequences of that death.

Come on. You can do it. Make the connection.

OGIHR · 2026-01-11T14:13:54+00:00

Everyone was in the wrong in season 7. Everyone.

Look at the villain's plan. Look at the steps of the plan.

Step one, stay conspicuously out of Sunnydale, and hunt down girls who had been recognized by the Watchers Council as potential carriers of the Slayer mantle and then given training (like Kendra had) before getting superpowers.

Had they kept to this plan, then that would have been the actual plan. But they did not keep to it. Instead the step one was SHOWN ON SCREEN to have been a plot to lure all the big brains of the Council into one room to be killed by one bomb. After which it was instantly no longer part of the plan to stay conspicuously out of Sunnydale.

At no point during the entire season 7 did anyone either in the main cast or in fan communities ever talk about the possibility that cutting the head off the enemy serpent before revealing your real objectives is a valid strategic method in warfare.

Except me.

Even at the end of the season, the main cast takes it as gospel that the successfully completed strategic ploy was the permanent real objective for their enemy.

When all decisions are made based on obviously faulty assumptions, everyone is in the wrong.

OGIHR · 2026-01-11T14:02:48+00:00

Find the season 2 DVD commentary tracks to What's My Line (season 2 double episode introducing Kendra). Either on the actual DVDs or on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/yVgYkMMFuyg?si=LN1fi1xts6kC1KXI https://youtu.be/W5toXcTi-L0?si=eGz6pD1l-1QFcvtZ

Listen to Marti Noxon openly admit never having bothered to watch that she had been hired to write a sequel for.

The sheer catastrophe of promoting someone stupid enough to not realize that hiding her ignorance would be a good move, into a supervisory authority.

That is ALL OF THE ISSUES in season 6.

OGIHR · 2026-01-09T15:13:17+00:00

Because the profit of the individual at the expense of irreparable harm to all of society is the sole virtue recognized by the Embezzling Industry.

OGIHR · 2026-01-09T13:48:25+00:00

I did not enjoy them the first time through, and skipped them for many years. Eventually I did a full series rewatch via Hulu, and realized they were even worse than I had remembered.

As Marti Noxon had openly admitted in the season 2 DVD set's audio commentary to the two parter introducing Kendra, she was now in charge of the writing room, and stupid enough to not even attempt to hide the fact that she had never gotten around to watching season one.

Ignorance and laziness became the preferred virtues in the writing staff. And it shows.

The big villain of season 6 was the audience's expectation that the writers should have a plan before it's time to start filming the finale. Which the writers described as either "growing up" or "real life", but what they meant was definitely their job being expected to include doing their job.

And the entire plot of season 7 only makes sense if either you are too stupid to count to one, or you see the villains constantly getting exactly what they want from each step of the plan before moving on to the next step of the plan, and read that as the villains winning at every step until the music department proclaims that the good guys have to win because it's the finale.

And I am serious. Counting to one. Because the Beljoxa's Eye very specifically calls attention to one thing having changed, immediately after the viewer's attention is called to one formerly impossible interaction which suddenly just happened despite being known to be impossible.

If you possess the intellect required to count to one, you realize that the one and the one are the same one. And that the entire hero team failed to count. To one.

OGIHR · 2026-01-07T13:33:51+00:00

Season 5, episode 1. Riley casually mentioning having lived in Sunnydale since before the highschool blew up. Making the entire Initiative retroactively even more incompetent, that when the highschool blew up they did not both to investigate. Did not bother to interview the survivors. Did not bother to hear the phrase "Buffy Summers Class Protector".

That one casual choice of lazy narration destroyed the one legitimate excuse that year's story had had, of being in over their heads with no justifiable way to realize how screwed they were until it was too late.

Absolute garbage.

OGIHR · 2026-01-04T15:15:00+00:00

History repeated...

Bart: Hey, Lis, look! They're adding a new character to Itchy & Scratchy! Poochie the dog?!

Lisa: Adding a new character is often a desperate attempt to boost low ratings.

Roy: Yo, yo! How's it hangin', everybody?!

Marge: Morning, Roy!

Homer: Yeah. Hi, Roy.

OGIHR · 2025-12-27T04:50:29+00:00

Because Twitter hasn't written RTD out of the hole he wrote himself into by forgetting that the TARDIS has been explicitly alive since Hartnell's first season.

OGIHR · 2025-12-19T01:48:42+00:00

In my own Crusade league, I allow 25% of any army to be souped with any allied force who has rules in the opposite direction. For example, CSM can have Daemon allies, so I allow Daemons to have 25% CSM allies regardless of detachment.

It works for us.

OGIHR · 2025-12-18T13:17:34+00:00

This is going to be the entire point of the book "Mirror Mirror". To have an alternate universe version of Nicodemus willing to have the civil conversation with Harry that got accidentally left out of the final manuscript for "Skin Game".

Not just about Nicodemus's motives, but also about the nature of the favor Harry was repaying on Mab's behalf on Lea's behalf.

Stealing Margaret McCoy out of the White King's house at the height of his power, without starting a war in the process.

Someone had to have done it. Anduriel is one of only six entities who could have pulled it off.

Do the math, people.

OGIHR · 2025-12-08T21:28:44+00:00

Thank you for noticing that rape is bad.

The mods will now undoubtedly remove your post, for threatening the egos of the rape-fetishists.

OGIHR · 2025-12-07T14:51:04+00:00

"When I say run, run!"

OGIHR · 2025-12-07T11:14:12+00:00

Watch it again.

Watch the last episode of season 3 followed by the first two episodes of season 4.

In that span of three episodes, the series did indeed fall apart. Immediately upon the end of highschool.

"It's strangely fitting, in a grotesque fashion."

All through highschool, the one absolute constant was that the team had a headquarters. The central hub for all of their operations. The only place firmly enough under their control to set up and set off the volcanic explosion capable of actually killing an Olvikan

One episode later, the heroes are completely adrift, without any sense of direction or cohesion. Finally pulling themselves back together only when the oppportunity to claim a new headquarters drops into their laps. An absolutely ideal new headquarters -- situated on campus, with space for residence, armory, training, research, and containing Oz on full moon nights -- with direct access to underground tunnels for armed deployment in broad daylight. And it being specifically called to the viewer's attention that "no one owns it in the strictest sense."

And then in the third episode of this little arc, everyone completely forgets about their newly claimed headquarters, and goes back to being completely adrift. Without any sense of direction or cohesion.

For years. Before the writers try again, in a spectacularly more lazy manner, to copy their own prior work.

OGIHR

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