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Buffy Staked Again By Emmys
jonerik writes "Despite six witty, intelligent seasons, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' has never been able to catch a break from the folks at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences who vote on the annual Emmy Awards, with the show's nine nominations to date (with no wins) being mostly in technical categories. And, according to this piece from E! Online, when the ballots for this year's Emmy nominations were sent out in early June, this season's musical tour de force, 'Once More With Feeling,' was inexplicably left out of list of shows eligible for the Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series catefory. The academy has attempted to correct its error by sending out postcards to Emmy voters informing them that they can, in fact, vote for the episode, but the fix is probably too little, too late. According to awards-show expert Tom O'Neil, 'It entailed such extraordinary effort that it was unlikely the voters would do it even if they loved the episode. So it definitely curses its chances.' If you missed it the first time around, 'Once More With Feeling' will be re-run tomorrow evening at 8pm eastern time on UPN."
don't you guys love it when the ./ crew posts an obvious joke of a submission? as if buffy should get an emmy, that's hilarious. you guys are funny.
Dare I say, who cares about shows on the WB and why is this a headline?
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Anyway, I'm sure this is going to be modded as a troll or flamebait. Whatever. I just fail to see why one person's pet show (which has abysmal ratings, btw) not getting a nomination for an award makes front-page news.
-B
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Just because watching Buffy's err, fists movie really fast and willow doing some hot girl on girl action. get's you all hot and bothered doesn't make it a good show.
The acting is week, the story is lame and it's pretty much on par with Charmed.
What next Xeana and Shiva?
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
I'm sorry, but I don't think Buffy is deserving of any awards. It's not really a very good show - the plots are pretty unoriginal, the dialogue is pretty uninspired, etc, etc..
It's just another trashy sitcom with a twist.
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Buffy doesn't even deserve to lick the sweat off the small nut of Law & Order's Ballzac! Of course Law & Order is a better show than Buffy! The fact that it's consistently ranked in the top ten every week in Nielsen ratings and Buffy isn't even in the top 20 should be testament to that!
I'm 30ish, my friends are generally Masters grades in the arts... they're not a kind audience.
So your friends (whom are not a kind audience) find it enteraining that vampires can be killed by tooth picks from annoying bitch?
Hmm, I wonder what they would actually say about a good show.
Even the shittiest episodes of NYPD Blue are better than any Buffy episode. The show sucks; face it.
Go back to buying your Britney Spears and Weird Al albums.
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I know I'm going to get blasted for this, but maybe the reason that it doesn't win emmy's is because it's not that great a show. let me see if I get the plot down right. A hot girl runs around in tight shirts and does kung foo on the undead. Is that pretty much it? Oh wait, this year they stole a line from Drew Carey and did a dance number. Wow, the originality is just killer. Seriously people. The main characters name is Buffy!
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