Yet more Buffy
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redfiona99Five in one day and finishing notes on one (out of five) of my modules. Wednesday, thy name is lunacy.
How fricking good was this episode. I mean really. I know some of those people that went to see Buffy.
And then Cassie, who was all, 'no I don't want to die, but nothing's going to stop it.' I loved her. And then her not-quite boyfriend. And I was sad, because I thought she was going to do something stupid when Buffy tried to rescue her. Because despite her telling Buffy not to, this is Buffy, she had to try.
But Buffy really needs to find some other way of dealing with parents.
"Some day she'll tell you." Well if that didn't hurt Spike nothing would. Stupid boy. But that was such a beautiful speech about Dru. (sighs)
And then after all that, and the arrow (which I did think was going to get her) she just drops dead. I'm half way between thinking how great the twist is because it's different and threatening the writer with sharp, pointy object because, damn it I liked Cassie.
I love Olaf. Although I am confused as to where Anya's bunny problem cmae from, she didn't seem to have it when she was Aud. The translations were a hoot to. Proper good old fashioned Monty Python type translations. I kept expecting llamas.
Loved Anya's song.
Did anyone else get flashbacks to X2 when D'Hoffryn pulled the whole, 'that might be your name but it's not you' bit.
Xander meanwhile, is a darling. He really does love Anya. To the point of trying to get in the way of the Slayer.
Dude, I so did not expect D'Hoffryn to do that. He's the sneaky evil.
Xander and Anya. And me wanting to pet them both.
So glad my school crush was never on the jocks. No, mine went on the arty type who wore black nail varnish. But I got over it. And now he's at the same uni as me. We'll have done our whole education together, which is freaking me a little.
Spike leaves wet towels on the floor. The mark of true evil. (Except I do that too.)
OMG!!!! Was that the Breeders?!!!
Quote of the episode
W: Check out the fan club.
X: Daddy like.
B: What is that shirt make of, paint?
W: Buff...
B: Glad Dawnie isn't here to see her precious boyfriend getting all thrusty with some slut-bag hussy... oh.
[See that slut is in fact Dawn]
X: Oh. Oh! No! "Daddy" -- no, I wasn't -- when I was looking, I wasn't-- Oh, god.
W: Right there with ya.
Hee hee. Not that this reminds me of anything that's happened to me and friends or anything. Also loved Buffy's bit about Anna-Nicole Smith thinking Dawn looked tacky.
And the rest of the ep is also funny, if you ignore the Buffy/boy smooching. Demented farcial funny. With bazookas. I liked. I liked a lot.
I also liked that R.J. wasn't evil, he just had a coat that had a strange effect on women.
So nice to have a comedy episode again
I take back everything I said about comedy. If this is the payback for comedy I demand no fun for them. Because ouch, this was painful (in the good way).
And most of all, Holden. That character was brilliant. Really, sad to see him dusted. Also quite interesting how they never showed him actually being staked, just the aftermath, possibly because he was such a lovely character that it would have made it harder to sympathise with Buffy afterwards.
Okay, how can you tell when a Buffy episode is out and out angst. When Buffy's is the least painful part.
Willow's was just owwwww. Especially with the whole 'she can't come and see you because of what you did.'
Of course the big evil screwed it up by suggesting suicide. Tara would never suggest that. It also suggests that the reason the First Evil didn't appear as her was because Tara was inherantly un-evil and it can't manage to transform into someone like that.
Andrew and Jonathan - nice to see Andrew being his melodramatic self.
I hate that I can normally guess what he's going to say next.
Warren - oh god, I don't care if he's not real, ghostly and otherwise already dead, can they kill him again. I hate Warren.
Jonathan gets a sweet speech like that and ends up dead. Only on Buffy.
So Spike's snacking on people again. Colour me unsurprised, I think his chips gone splewy.
Actually one word about the Holden in this ep. The guy who played him was the guy who played Tracey in the Firefly episode 'The Message'. Okay so that man has made me cry once and sniffle another time when he's playing one-shot characters. This means I must get Rox to show me the Angel episodes he's in as Knox.
Ooh Spike, even if it turns out it's not actually Spike, well Spike's body but not Spike's brain, being evil again. I much prefer it this way.
Except then he's all good Spike again, and then I'm forced into liking good-Spike because, well, me like him lots too.
Who was that singing in the Bronze? Because she/they were good.
And Anya was once again cool beyond all cool.
That tune Evil!Spike was whistling, does anyone know what it is? Because I'm ready to swear I know it.
On that note, could we have a slightly more reliable narrator because I'm getting all confused as to reality. But it is te good confused, I think.
And of course it finishes with the cliffhanger of all evil. Please let Giles be okay.
Okay, Andrew needs serious help. Jonathan as a ghost, I knew that wasn't him, it was the scary evil, but it was well done.
Andrew is also the least threatening thing in the history of the world, ever.
Dear Joss, why would Spike know who Andrew's elder brother was given that he wasn't in Sunnydale at the time of the 'Prom' problem. Other than that, it was a pretty amusing nod to the way everyone sees Andrew as thingy's younger brother.
Anya and Xander playing at good cop/bad cop. So very good.
I do wish Spike wouldn't do that.
And then there are the monks.
The whole bit with the Watcher's Council. They did know what was going on and had their own plan. And we get to see the young watchers we met in the episode that gave the low-down on Glory. Possibly to get us to like the Watchers.
Heck, even Quentin Travers got his moment in the sun. And then boom. I would have felt a lot better if they hadn't given him a noble speech before the boom.
But they haven't got word that Giles is dead, therefore, theoretically, hopefully, Giles was not killed by the axe, and survived the boom.
Was anyone else reminded of Nosferatu by big grey and black vampire of doom?
Watched most of 'Never Leave Me' with Mum. Who is utterly ga-ga over Spike. It's quite sweet really. She wants him and Buffy to go off into the sunset together.
So I pointed out that the whole 'him vampire, her slayer' thing made this slightly impossible. Her response - 'oh he could just kill her, make her into a vampire and then they could go off together.'
My mother and her logic :)
How fricking good was this episode. I mean really. I know some of those people that went to see Buffy.
And then Cassie, who was all, 'no I don't want to die, but nothing's going to stop it.' I loved her. And then her not-quite boyfriend. And I was sad, because I thought she was going to do something stupid when Buffy tried to rescue her. Because despite her telling Buffy not to, this is Buffy, she had to try.
But Buffy really needs to find some other way of dealing with parents.
"Some day she'll tell you." Well if that didn't hurt Spike nothing would. Stupid boy. But that was such a beautiful speech about Dru. (sighs)
And then after all that, and the arrow (which I did think was going to get her) she just drops dead. I'm half way between thinking how great the twist is because it's different and threatening the writer with sharp, pointy object because, damn it I liked Cassie.
I love Olaf. Although I am confused as to where Anya's bunny problem cmae from, she didn't seem to have it when she was Aud. The translations were a hoot to. Proper good old fashioned Monty Python type translations. I kept expecting llamas.
Loved Anya's song.
Did anyone else get flashbacks to X2 when D'Hoffryn pulled the whole, 'that might be your name but it's not you' bit.
Xander meanwhile, is a darling. He really does love Anya. To the point of trying to get in the way of the Slayer.
Dude, I so did not expect D'Hoffryn to do that. He's the sneaky evil.
Xander and Anya. And me wanting to pet them both.
So glad my school crush was never on the jocks. No, mine went on the arty type who wore black nail varnish. But I got over it. And now he's at the same uni as me. We'll have done our whole education together, which is freaking me a little.
Spike leaves wet towels on the floor. The mark of true evil. (Except I do that too.)
OMG!!!! Was that the Breeders?!!!
Quote of the episode
W: Check out the fan club.
X: Daddy like.
B: What is that shirt make of, paint?
W: Buff...
B: Glad Dawnie isn't here to see her precious boyfriend getting all thrusty with some slut-bag hussy... oh.
[See that slut is in fact Dawn]
X: Oh. Oh! No! "Daddy" -- no, I wasn't -- when I was looking, I wasn't-- Oh, god.
W: Right there with ya.
Hee hee. Not that this reminds me of anything that's happened to me and friends or anything. Also loved Buffy's bit about Anna-Nicole Smith thinking Dawn looked tacky.
And the rest of the ep is also funny, if you ignore the Buffy/boy smooching. Demented farcial funny. With bazookas. I liked. I liked a lot.
I also liked that R.J. wasn't evil, he just had a coat that had a strange effect on women.
So nice to have a comedy episode again
I take back everything I said about comedy. If this is the payback for comedy I demand no fun for them. Because ouch, this was painful (in the good way).
And most of all, Holden. That character was brilliant. Really, sad to see him dusted. Also quite interesting how they never showed him actually being staked, just the aftermath, possibly because he was such a lovely character that it would have made it harder to sympathise with Buffy afterwards.
Okay, how can you tell when a Buffy episode is out and out angst. When Buffy's is the least painful part.
Willow's was just owwwww. Especially with the whole 'she can't come and see you because of what you did.'
Of course the big evil screwed it up by suggesting suicide. Tara would never suggest that. It also suggests that the reason the First Evil didn't appear as her was because Tara was inherantly un-evil and it can't manage to transform into someone like that.
Andrew and Jonathan - nice to see Andrew being his melodramatic self.
I hate that I can normally guess what he's going to say next.
Warren - oh god, I don't care if he's not real, ghostly and otherwise already dead, can they kill him again. I hate Warren.
Jonathan gets a sweet speech like that and ends up dead. Only on Buffy.
So Spike's snacking on people again. Colour me unsurprised, I think his chips gone splewy.
Actually one word about the Holden in this ep. The guy who played him was the guy who played Tracey in the Firefly episode 'The Message'. Okay so that man has made me cry once and sniffle another time when he's playing one-shot characters. This means I must get Rox to show me the Angel episodes he's in as Knox.
Ooh Spike, even if it turns out it's not actually Spike, well Spike's body but not Spike's brain, being evil again. I much prefer it this way.
Except then he's all good Spike again, and then I'm forced into liking good-Spike because, well, me like him lots too.
Who was that singing in the Bronze? Because she/they were good.
And Anya was once again cool beyond all cool.
That tune Evil!Spike was whistling, does anyone know what it is? Because I'm ready to swear I know it.
On that note, could we have a slightly more reliable narrator because I'm getting all confused as to reality. But it is te good confused, I think.
And of course it finishes with the cliffhanger of all evil. Please let Giles be okay.
Okay, Andrew needs serious help. Jonathan as a ghost, I knew that wasn't him, it was the scary evil, but it was well done.
Andrew is also the least threatening thing in the history of the world, ever.
Dear Joss, why would Spike know who Andrew's elder brother was given that he wasn't in Sunnydale at the time of the 'Prom' problem. Other than that, it was a pretty amusing nod to the way everyone sees Andrew as thingy's younger brother.
Anya and Xander playing at good cop/bad cop. So very good.
I do wish Spike wouldn't do that.
And then there are the monks.
The whole bit with the Watcher's Council. They did know what was going on and had their own plan. And we get to see the young watchers we met in the episode that gave the low-down on Glory. Possibly to get us to like the Watchers.
Heck, even Quentin Travers got his moment in the sun. And then boom. I would have felt a lot better if they hadn't given him a noble speech before the boom.
But they haven't got word that Giles is dead, therefore, theoretically, hopefully, Giles was not killed by the axe, and survived the boom.
Was anyone else reminded of Nosferatu by big grey and black vampire of doom?
Watched most of 'Never Leave Me' with Mum. Who is utterly ga-ga over Spike. It's quite sweet really. She wants him and Buffy to go off into the sunset together.
So I pointed out that the whole 'him vampire, her slayer' thing made this slightly impossible. Her response - 'oh he could just kill her, make her into a vampire and then they could go off together.'
My mother and her logic :)
