he tended to reuse the same tropes and story beats ad naseum
Yep. And you can expect to meet them all again over the course of S1!!
B7 is far more cheerful and camp than S&S! It's the most fun bleak thing out there. It's a tragedy, but definitely a Shakespeare tragedy where it's all fun and games and you go large until somebody loses an eye. Or whatever. XD
S&S is weird and inexplicable and I saw that you disliked the brilliantly weird Warrior's Gate, for instance (although that is, tbf, probably even weirder than S&S, which at least never looked like a 1980s pop video), but definitely more in that line, or, say Ghostlight, than Horns of Nimon (which is far too camp for me), so that might be a warning caveat to go in with. It's not necessarily that depressing, but definitely eerie & dark at times and it depends how you take stuff like Assignments 2, 4 and 6 in particular, really. It is unique and mysterious, though, and well worth giving a try. Certainly, you will see that it influenced DW from its arrival, rather than the other way round, which is cool. I love it.
ETA: Btw, if you are doing a seasonal watch, you could even throw S&S in, because there's not very much of it and it's basically all creepy hauntings of some kind, even if A3 and A6 come from a different direction.
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Yep. And you can expect to meet them all again over the course of S1!!
B7 is far more cheerful and camp than S&S! It's the most fun bleak thing out there. It's a tragedy, but definitely a Shakespeare tragedy where it's all fun and games and you go large until somebody loses an eye. Or whatever. XD
S&S is weird and inexplicable and I saw that you disliked the brilliantly weird Warrior's Gate, for instance (although that is, tbf, probably even weirder than S&S, which at least never looked like a 1980s pop video), but definitely more in that line, or, say Ghostlight, than Horns of Nimon (which is far too camp for me), so that might be a warning caveat to go in with. It's not necessarily that depressing, but definitely eerie & dark at times and it depends how you take stuff like Assignments 2, 4 and 6 in particular, really. It is unique and mysterious, though, and well worth giving a try. Certainly, you will see that it influenced DW from its arrival, rather than the other way round, which is cool. I love it.
ETA: Btw, if you are doing a seasonal watch, you could even throw S&S in, because there's not very much of it and it's basically all creepy hauntings of some kind, even if A3 and A6 come from a different direction.