Oh, Kay

[scarfman]

I'm beginning to lose interest in Kay Scarpetta. She's so unremittingly unhappy all the time, and so is her supporting cast. And it only gets worse as she gets older.

I think it was in the BVS episode of Biography that Joss Whedon says he'd noticed, "Buffy happy, ratings down. Buffy unhappy, ratings up." This may explain my dissatisfaction with BVS, which is a different dissatisfaction than most fans had contemporarily (which I disagree with). When BVS wrapped up I wrote, "I don't have the same quarrel with the last two seasons that most of fandom does. But when I look back on them I have very little recollection that Buffy was in them."

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[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

And in my view, a lot of what drove me away from Buffy was, to me, the over-focusing on her to the exclusion of the rest of my cast. I've commented many times before I'd rather have watched Willow and Xander and Their Friends Hang Out and Kill Monsters. The desire only grew with S5 onward.