17 Feb
2001
17 Feb
'01
4:48 p.m.
Dana Shilling wrote:
(2) episodic structure, a succession of closed stories (though not necessarily without a broader story arc to hold the series together).
But Buffy and Angel are very fannish (or at least very fanned, if that's a word) and they are outright soap operas--it's very much assumed that viewers will be aware of detailed past events.
About which there is some complaint in Buffydom. There are a lot of fans who preferred it when Buffy stories stood alone, and the development of the season arcs was all done 'beneath the radar', so to speak.
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