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   David Johnston to Your Name   
   Re: 20 Things We Still Love About Buffy    
   27 Mar 17 14:26:26   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: davidjohnston29@block.com   
      
   On 3/27/2017 2:23 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , Mad Hamish   
   >  wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 14:38:52 +1300, Your Name    
   >> wrote:   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>> anim8rfsk  wrote:   
   >>>> In article ,   
   >>>>  Robin Miller  wrote:   
   >>>>> Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>>> In article , Ubiquitous   
   >>>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>> ...   
   >>>>>>> 1) Sarah Michelle Gellar   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Sarah Michelle Gellar doesn’t get nearly enough credit for how   
   >>>>>>> incredible an actress she is, and how integral she was to Buffy the   
   >>>>>>> Vampire Slayer. No one, I repeat, no one else could’ve brought   
   >>>>>>> Buffy to   
   >>>>>>> life as much as she did. Gellar handled the comedic and action-filled   
   >>>>>>> scenes like a pro, but her real strength was in the show’s more   
   >>>>>>> dramatic moments. Gellar’s performance was wrought with real, raw   
   >>>>>>> emotion. Nobody ever recovers after watching her in “The Body.â€?   
   >>>>>>> Nobody.   
   >>>>>> ...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> "incredible actress"?!? She's not even a "mildly good actress" ...   
   >>>>>> she's a one-"hit" wonder who put me off bothering to even try to watch   
   >>>>>> the Buffy show.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Charmed was the much better show with much better actresses ... well,   
   >>>>>> excluding the dismally bad Shannen Doherty of course, back thankfully   
   >>>>>> she did her usual walk-out-in-a-sulk-for-not-being-THE-star-of-the-show   
   >>>>>> routine.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I meant to comment also. She was good as Buffy, but has she been good in   
   >>>>> anything else?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Cruel Intentions   
   >>>> The Simpsons   
   >>>> Simply Irresistible   
   >>>> I Know What Your Breasts Did Two Summers Before Last   
   >>>> The Crazy Ones   
   >>>> Spenser: For Hire   
   >>>>   
   >>>> She's done a *lot* of stuff I just had no interest in tracking down, so   
   >>>> I have no idea if she was good in it or not.   
   >>>   
   >>> She completely ruined "Scooby Doo" by trying to make herself and her   
   >>> character *THE* star of the show.   
   >>   
   >> Yeah, I'm sure that she could completely overrule the director...   
   >   
   > It was her own production company supplying the money, so she could   
   > simply fire the director and get another one.   
   >   
      
   I don't think there was ever a chance that a live action Scooby Doo   
   would be a good movie.   
      
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