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Weekend Confirmed 146 - 2013 begins, Dishonored, next-gen predictions
by Jeff Mattas, Jan 04, 2013 11:00am PSTWeekend Confirmed is back for the firs episode of 2013! Garnett Lee, Jeff Cannata, and "Indie" Jeff Mattas are joined by Nikole Zivalich this week to talk about games like Dishonored and the brilliant new indie title, Hundreds. Much of this episode's discussion centers around predictions for the future of gaming, including possible next-steps for gaming hardware and peripherals, as well as what sort of changes might help reinvigorate the MMO genre in the coming years. Finishing Moves wraps up the show, followed by a WildCard edition of the post-show NFL TailGate.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 146: 1/4/2013
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And evil Willow doesn't work because black magic doesn't work as a stand in for like drug abuse. She literally goes into a back alley at one point and like finds a black magic/drug dealer with Dawn. "Oh I'm gonna go shoot up some magics and get into a car crash" Its just so dumb. Its like a thinly veiled after school special, incidentally in the Buffy universe.
Also the nerds as stand in big baddies are HORRIBLE. They're campy in exactly the wrong way. They're not threatening, and the idea of an actual shoot out in the Buffy universe to me just kills the whole point of it being a fantasy. Its basically cheating.
Joss Whedon's failure with the later seasons, and the trap he fell into, is the idea that every season had to have one central antagonist. Cable shows have evolved for the better since Buffy by creating multiseason arcs. The best shows start and end with a continuous conflict. Be it the paralysis of the star quarter back in Friday Night Lights, finding a new planet in Battlestar Galactica, or Walters mental breakdown in Breaking Bad.
Buffy started by an extremely charming episodic, relying on Buffy's freshness as an archetype and the need to unpack all the details of the world---how do the vampires work, what are the rules of the Slayer mythos, obviously culminating in the prophesy. If Whedon had been more careful in crafting and building the universe it could have been one of the biggest multimedia franchises in history.
But ultimately it turned to gimmicks to sustain itself---inventing "big baddies" rather than narrative drama. The Mayor was overly campy and self referential. The evil cyborg robot from season 4 was a complete hack job/disaster. Originally that episode didn't even air, and they just used Buffy's delusions/magic dreams of the original slayer as the finale. The ultimatum with Riley made no sense, and neither did the "need" to leave Angel. Glory was pretty much ridiculous, like some crazy bitch from Melrose Place or something---except whoops it wasn't the mid 90s anymore. And making her a "God" sort of neutered the tension in the whole season.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I watched every episode. But often only out of loyalty. Everything post season 5 was basically really hard to sit through.
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