Buffy TVS jumped the shark at the end of Season 5?

[thewayne]

I don't think so.

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=entertainment_home&articleID=2314389&lid=e3

I didn't start as a Buffy/Joss fan, I quickly became one. We have a mostly complete run of Buffy on DVD, I think a complete run of Angel (we might be missing one season), and both Firefly and Serenity, and I now pick up an RSS feed of Whedon's blog on my LJ flist. I think Joss is an excellent creative source, I definitely do not think Buffy ever jumped the shark. Perhaps an argument could have been made that Angel jumped if it had gone beyond its final season, but we'll never know as that is a totally hypothetical situation.

True story -- Joss went to the same university that Russet went to, but they were not in the same class, much less the same degree program. I think Jonathan Frakes was the other celeb who went to her uni at about the same time.

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I'm wanting to run an RPG where the players are monster hunters working for Wolfram & Hart under the administration of Angel & Co. I don't know if I'll ever get to run it, but I think it could've been a lot of fun.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

The keys to becoming a good RPG player is (a) increasing willing suspension of disbelief and getting in to the moment and (b) acting. Chew up the scenery, making the part your own. It doesn't have to be rabid-LARPer scene chewing, it just has to be fun.

Something that I find amusing and true is that I notice that people who've done a lot of RPG play frequently have better social/public skills when they want to use them. I've BS'd my way through so many games and RPG-situations that I'm a pretty good extemporaneous speaker and actually enjoyed my public speaking class, even though I don't really enjoy public speaking.

Playing RPGs, particularly contemporary-setting games, is a great way to explore and learn about things that you'd normally never learn about. For example, wearing white in many Asian countries is the color of mourning. I wouldn't have learned that (at least at the time, 15+ years ago) except I wanted to run a Vietnamese woman who was a child during the War, so I did a lot of encyclopedia research developing her background.

The problem with RPGs is that they can take over your life, not unlike some fandoms and fannish pursuits.