BTVS 7.5 Selfless
What a great episode! I'm glad they finally stopped ignoring the Anya issue. Buffy was hard hard hard. She was so eager to help Willow when she went bad, but not Anya she wasn't worth it. Harrumph. Hey but Willow helped. I liked when she turn momentarily evil and told the girl to stop whimpering. Hee hee. That said, she took a risk in approaching D’Hoffryn. I felt awful for her when Halfrek was destroyed. It was a tough moment and forced us to remember that D’Hoffryn is not a kindly old man he is a demon, in charge! of other demons and is pretty tough. Anya needed to be set on the path of redemption too before she can move on. To Giles! :) Poor Spike. Still crazy in the basement and seeing the nice Buffy that no longer exists. Was the second Buffy real? I’ll admit this was a heart-wrenching episode. I cried for Anya. You know I never cry for the Scoobies just the outsiders. Jenny’s death, Xander leaving Anya at the altar, Tara’s death, Spike, and now Anya. Funny how Willow, Buffy, Xander and dawn never made me cry.

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Angel in Vegas
Great great episode. I love Spike but Angel is great on his own show without Buffy. BTW wasn’t the "my girlfriend sent me hell" line on the premiere at hoot. It was a total throw away. Besides, nothing beats a Lorne-centric episode. Evil sexy Wesley too. Take your panties off?!?!?!
Yikes! I also loved the song and dance sequence. Not heavy on character development except for Lilah and Wesley's f!@#$d up relationship and Amnesia!Cordy! However, a great MOTW. Too many criticize both BTVS and ATS for those eps but it worked for X-files and frankly helps newbies (like me for ATS) a lot.

I turned in my column and purposely dissed my editor (who is a musician). I told him I was joking about his poor musicianship but he offered to keep it in. Our resultant email conversation:

Libby:
Maybe I'll get hate mail from rabid Michael Lipton fans

Michael Lipton wrote:
haven't come across any (rabid fans) yet...

Libby:
But seriously, you don't suck too bad

Michael:
uhh... thanks.

now... about those [free] mtn stage tickets.... (heh-heh).

Libby:
ooooohhh you play dirty
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I wonder if anyone reads this, I don't really care but I do wonder. A little bit about me. I'm 34, a woman, I work part-time at a domestic violence shelter (I was reduced involuntarily from part time the bastards!). I am also a part time grad student in journalism. My second master's! Hopefully this one will actually get me a job. I also write a montlhy music review column for a monthly independent rag Grafitti called the Capitol City Noize. So I am pretty busy. The column is one of the reasons my BF and I fight. He thinks its a waste of my time, and I should be home hanging out with him. Blah blah blah. He could easily go out too but he thinks going out is just for single people and that I act like a single girl. Frankly I think he acts like an old man. His idea of fun is cuddling on the couch and watching the Tonight Show. Or he likes to go out with "the guys". I hate to keep bitching because I really do love him but I think we're not long together, but who knows, we have been getting along lately. What else? I am obviously a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan. I'm new to the game. Having only been watching since FX started rerunning but now I am a devoted geek. I read fanfic, post to lists, and have sexual fantasies about James Marsters as Spike. Oh I am pooped so I'll go see y'all tomorrow. Feel free to say hello.

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Neat!

Bad poetry though.

There’s something up with Principal Hottie I know it (heh heh he’s ‘up’)

Buffy: Good empathy for kids, bad counselor etiquette (definitely confidentiality issues)
Poor Dawn upstaged by Willow as info girl, I’m glad she’s humorous instead of whiny this year though.
Xander: poor thing, love poems indeed, Willow is so over you now “honey”
Willow: despite what she said in Once more with feeling, I do think she is kinda butch J
Where’s Anya? I hope they don’t give up on her character, I think she has redemption potential.
I want Giles!

I want Spike! (Oops, that was just a personal aside)

I hope they don’t keep him as the crazy helper guy in the basement.
I think Buffy has been even worse this season so far with him as far as emotional distance. Not only is she (again) using him but also she’s ignoring his obvious emotional pain, after his tremendous sacrifice. It broke my heart to see him hurting himself, I’m glad she stopped him.

I was cheering when he rescued Cassie, even though every punch gave him pain, he persevered.

“She’ll tell you”

sigh