Buffy: Season 4. Probably the highest number of great episodes in a season, but slightly less compelling season arc. Adam = ehh. I missed the mayor, who was just so daffy, evil, and doting upon Faith. Wacky, but all the more striking when he lost it in the hospital, looking down on the comatose Faith. But that's 3. 4 seems to be the most even season yet; I don't recall a clunker episode in the batch, though "Restless," the coda, seemed sophomoric somehow in its treatment of dream imagery. Spike is the greatest. Xander and Anya are hysterical and, finally, touching. Giles in full blown mid-life crisis. Singing "Free Bird." Very nearly did my mind melt. Great stuff.
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Ok, who wants to see Batman Begins with me tomorrow?
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Batman Begins? Saw it already. Danny dragged me to a 12:00am showing. Can you believe I went?
Hoping my expectations aren't too high for Batman Begins, so haven't intentionally been reading about it like I did Star Wars. Saw Star Wars a second time and liked it much more, though.
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