No contest on the love scenes - although I DO NOT hate Kennedy. Again, I think she's rather awesome in her own ways - and yes, she's spoiled, but she's young, too, and I love her date with Willow.
I'd be fascinated to hear more about your take re: fascism on the show, because I can't pretend to have made a study of it by any means; so what I know is the 101 version. I assume you're referring to the Initiative?
And yes, I agree that Maggie would have made a better big bad for S4, but Lindsay Crouch had to/wanted to leave the show for other projects. I had actually hoped that she would be a role model for Buffy and/or Willow, because mature women on the show are in very short supply. Jenny is killed, Gwendolyn Post is evil, Joyce exists almost entirely as "Mom" and that's really it.
Barring that, Adam could have been a great big bad if they'd handled it right.
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I'd be fascinated to hear more about your take re: fascism on the show, because I can't pretend to have made a study of it by any means; so what I know is the 101 version. I assume you're referring to the Initiative?
And yes, I agree that Maggie would have made a better big bad for S4, but Lindsay Crouch had to/wanted to leave the show for other projects. I had actually hoped that she would be a role model for Buffy and/or Willow, because mature women on the show are in very short supply. Jenny is killed, Gwendolyn Post is evil, Joyce exists almost entirely as "Mom" and that's really it.
Barring that, Adam could have been a great big bad if they'd handled it right.