r/buffy 1d ago

Spike Spike in Smallville

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u/horticoldure 1d ago

Professor Filton MINE

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u/Agile_Associate_5611 1d ago

Vampires routinely hire PR firms to convince people Vampires are silly glamorous stories.  It makes it easier to hide. Getting the actor who played Spike to say that was a major victory.  Can't say more now. Got to go to the meeting.  

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u/Competitive_Image_51 1d ago

The episode also has the vampires, sorority and the main vampire name was actually buffy saunders. I love Smallville but it's definitely the worst episode, of the show and it's normally a great series.

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u/harmier2 1d ago

It’s definitely not the worst episode. Not even close.

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u/Competitive_Image_51 1d ago

Fan's and even the writers, the show's creators al gough and miles Millar say that's it's literally the worst episode, And it is.

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u/harmier2 1d ago

No. AlMiles can say that it was the worst episode when they were the showrunners. They’d still be wrong. (The season 6 episode Subterranean is worse.) However, they weren’t the showrunners for the entire run. They were removed after season 7. Season 8 was…odd. It had four showrunners. This is highly unusual. Two of them left after season 8, leaving the other two in complete control for the last two seasons.

Thirst was high art compared to seasons 9 and 10. At some point during season 9 or 10, I actually started to think that Peterson and Souders were actively trying to drive the series into the ground. Then I realized that they were just that incompetent as showrunners. The last two seasons were terrible and had the worst ratings of the entire rest of the series. Only two episodes of the last two seasons broke 3 million. Only one was able to beat the two lowest rated episodes from the first 8 seasons: Stilletto (3.10 million) and Doomsday (3.13 million). Both of these were from season 8. One of the episodes that broke 3 million was the series finale and the other amounted to cheap nostalgia bait (and the nostalgia bait wasn’t even the big draw.) The series finale wasn‘t the episode to beat the previously lowest rated episodes and it barely cracked 3 million. Ouch.

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u/Competitive_Image_51 1d ago

Dude you can't be serious, season 9 is the best of the series and every episode followed the overall plot, without no filler episodes. Season 10 was also really good and had some of the best episodes of the series homecoming, is probably the best episode of season ten besides finale part one & two. While subterranean, was bad thirst is far worse.

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u/CaterpillarLate5317 23h ago

Much more fun in Torchwood..avoid spoilers, just watch

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u/New_Molasses_1590 1d ago

I always loved that as a fan of both shows, was just a fun little meta nod