And I think TIA/DotM in particular seemed to promise that we would be getting something a lot more developed than what we got (the tone of those episodes is so different--subtler, more mysterious, more obviously adult, with lots of substantial character moments and dangling mysteries). *nods* It would probably have worked better as the old format - the 4 episodes of 25 minutes each, where the story had more room to breathe. (Too tired to say something more indepth. And considering what I put up with on Buffy, I can forgive this season its flaws because of where it goes.)
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And I think TIA/DotM in particular seemed to promise that we would be getting something a lot more developed than what we got (the tone of those episodes is so different--subtler, more mysterious, more obviously adult, with lots of substantial character moments and dangling mysteries).
*nods* It would probably have worked better as the old format - the 4 episodes of 25 minutes each, where the story had more room to breathe. (Too tired to say something more indepth. And considering what I put up with on Buffy, I can forgive this season its flaws because of where it goes.)