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

beg to differ

[paulmc.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching after Season 5 myself.

I haven't read the article, so I don't know what didn't work for the writer, but when Spike started falling in love with Buffy, I felt that the whole thing had devolved into soap opera with everyone wanting to sleep with everyone, rather than the solid drama it had built during its first five seasons.

I have many friends who urged me to keep watching, but I just lost interest.

[maegwin-of-hern.livejournal.com]

Joss Whedon has an LJ blog? Link, please!

[nausicaa1.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed all seven seasons of Buffy. It got a little underwhelming in early season 6 but season 7 was excellent. I just finished Angel season 3 and it feels like it could be better but I'm willing to stick it out. I'd still rather watch mediocre Whedon than just about anything else on television right now.