Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Once More With Feeling on Netflix
I don't know how many of you have Netflix, or use it to watch Buffy, but I noticed today (while rewatching some episodes) that they've cut OMWF way down? They removed the second half “I’ve Got A Theory”, and, according to the internet, a verse of “Walk Through The Fire”. I guess this happened while they were migrating Buffy to the HD version (something that itself is pretty controversial), and I'm super dissapointed about it. Has anyone else noticed this??




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I read somewhere that the exact same thing happened back in 2014-ish, and sending a report to Netflix helped, actually, so a tweet isn't a bad idea!
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Oh, yeah, HD Buffy isn't very popular from what I've seen. And understandably so, I feel like it removes some of that charming Buffy-feel. Plus, the people who edit it into HD just don't seem to care that much? It looks like the jobs are usually pretty sloppy.
Is Joss still on twitter? For some reason I thought he was one of the ones who quit twitter.
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Ah it looks like he deleted last year and then came back.
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I suspect twitter gave it back to him, or he retained the name somehow, not totally sure how twitter works but I think some other sites make special allowances for celebrities.
From what I remember, Once more with feeling was a few mins long so I assume Netflix ended up with the TV cut rather than the DVD version?
Once More with Feeling is about five minutes longer than the usual episode, yeah. It's weird, though, because they used to have the full version? I don't really think the HD is worth the five minutes that was cut out in the process...maybe that's just me, I never really ached for HD as far as watching goes. GIF-making? Absolutely. But watching, not so much.
Yeah I agree - I'd rather have the full content than an HD version!
Oh wow - this is good to know! I'm doing my first watch through so all this kind of stuff I would never know about!!
It's a pretty recent development, but I'm so glad you're watching it through! Where are you right now? But, yeah, it wasn't this way initially because I've watched this episode several times on Netflix and I just noticed it this time around. I like to sing along to OMWF and it really knocked me off, lol. I'd say if you have Hulu, that version should be untouched. :) If not, I'm sure there are other ways to view it in its entirety.
I just finished Surprise (2.13)!
i am really mad at netflix right now what i am going to do when they do cancel buffy buy all the series that's a lot of money but it is wroth it.