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This morning I was riding my bike, unaware that the road was still covered by a treacherous icy glaze. So I slipped and landed on my side - which wasn't so bad. Then my bike landed on top of me - which wasn't so good. I just scraped my knee, though; it's a ridiculously tiny scrape, but it hurts like a bitch, so I skipped the gym today. But I want to go running again tomorrow. Shoulder hurts too, but I don't need that for running. And at least it's the left one, always preferable.
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There's some mildly entertaining wank or other going on, about the Spuffy shippers being responsible for the season six storyline and the evils of television in general. Check

rahirah's journal for the shocking details.

(Why is no one ever blaming the C/A shippers for season three of Angel? Are we not important? Do we not matter?)

By the way, am I the only one who loved the Spike/Buffy storyline in season six? It seems to be equally disliked by all factions, from reading the comment threads. I mean, I'm not a shipper in that I very rarely read S/B fic, but I thought that storyline was great; dark, and convincing, and sexy. It's what pulled me into BtVS while I'd previously only been interested in AtS.
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In fanfic:

hannasus wrote a sequel to her story 'Curses'. AtS gen. Post-NFA With Angel in a main role. *purrs*
Goodbye, Cruel World

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Huh. Who are these people that allegedly hate it? Season 6 always seemed to be widely loved in my experience.

Mystifyingly so for me, because while I didn't *hate* it by any means, I wasn't drawn into it, either. Too depressing for my own personal mood at the time, and the Willow stuff was poorly executed by the writers, IMO. Not to mention that the Trio left me cold.

At the same time, I was getting very drawn into Season 3 of AtS, so I just started drifting away from BtVS. I watched it enough to do my website analyses, but I was an AtS gal by that point.

Huh. Who are these people that allegedly hate it? Season 6 always seemed to be widely loved in my experience.

Really? That's the first time I heard that. Probably alos depends on which corners of the fanfom one hangs out in.

Anyway, I suspect that the people who dislike something are always more vocal about it, so I guess it's not as hated as one sometimes comes to believe. What surprised me in this current kerfuffle, was that not just the anti-Spuffy faction hates the storyline, but also the shippers. The comments in Barb's post are almost unanimous in that regard. Very weird.

And yeah, season six was all about the depression. For some reason, that really appealed to me. Which is strange, come to think of it, since I like to read lighter fanfic or comedy. I'm not that much of an Angst fan at all.

At the same time, I was getting very drawn into Season 3 of AtS, so I just started drifting away from BtVS. I watched it enough to do my website analyses, but I was an AtS gal by that point.

I like Buffy well enough, but I've always been an Angel fan myself, no question.

I hadn't heard many negative opinions about Season 6 on LJ until this post (and obviously second-hand, since most of your comments are coming in in favor of it). By "negative opinions", I mean, "I disliked the season, I liked other seasons better". Of course there are always "this or that episode/story line was poorly written", I've read those before. But the sheer number of people I've read in fandom who think season 6 is the Best!Season!Ever is mind-boggling to me, because personally, it's on my list at the bottom, just above season 7.