You're totally right about the character development. When I was on my Buffy jag, at Season 6 it nearly brought me to sympathetic tears, just to think of how naive and simple the characters' lives were in Season <=3. It says even more, that I didn't even consciously notice it until then. It's all so convincing, and in such natural and small incremental adaptations (with a few exceptions). I don't think anything else in the moving-pictures-medium comes even close in this department.
It's not suffering per se (which I am saying one way or the other, may or may not be there ;-) but that the scale of everything just keeps accumulating in layers as the protagonists change with the times but not in an unbelievable or schmaltzy way. Just like real life. It produces a whole lot of identification with the characters.
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You're totally right about the character development. When I was on my Buffy jag, at Season 6 it nearly brought me to sympathetic tears, just to think of how naive and simple the characters' lives were in Season <=3. It says even more, that I didn't even consciously notice it until then. It's all so convincing, and in such natural and small incremental adaptations (with a few exceptions). I don't think anything else in the moving-pictures-medium comes even close in this department.
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Aw, see, I don't know if I'll like that. I like lighthearted episodes, I don't like seeing Buffy suffer too much.
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