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Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
Elder ,'Power Play'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
juliana - Jun 28, 2005 5:45:43 am PDT #1204 of 10458
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Vortex - Jun 28, 2005 5:46:10 am PDT #1205 of 10458
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
wow, Juliana REALLY likes taquitos.
sumi - Jun 28, 2005 5:47:33 am PDT #1206 of 10458
Art Crawl!!!
No, no -- the dance scene is in the middle.
I left after Buffy lifted the amulet from Wesley's jacket and gave it to Angel.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 28, 2005 5:49:08 am PDT #1207 of 10458
What is even happening?
Well, it pooched his jacket.
bon bon - Jun 28, 2005 5:52:32 am PDT #1208 of 10458
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I never got the vibe Joss fell in love with Spike, so much as a) JM was hella fun to write for, which led to b) the audience getting a little attached. And then we were catered to.
Well, he should have killed him off, for starters. Gah. I swear Spike ruined seasons 6 and 7 for me.
Vortex - Jun 28, 2005 5:55:10 am PDT #1209 of 10458
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
No, no -- the dance scene is in the middle.
I left after Buffy lifted the amulet from Wesley's jacket and gave it to Angel.
I thought that the dance scene is right before Buffy gives the amulet to Angel. Buffy and Faith clean out the vamp nest, then go dancing (to Chinese Burn, incidentally), hold hands on the dance floor, surrounded by cute boys. Then Buffy sees Angel, leaves the dance floor, walks up to him, and jumps up, wrapping her legs around him. Then, they talk, Wesley shows up and she takes the amulet from him and gives it to Angel.
Am I forgetting another dance scene?
sumi - Jun 28, 2005 5:58:52 am PDT #1210 of 10458
Art Crawl!!!
No, that's right and it's in the middle. Just about the half past the hour mark.
Before that Buffy has fought three vamps, including one of the Eliminati, met Wesley, been sent to find the amulet, and ditched school in the middle of chemistry to kill a nest o'vamps with Faith.
Vortex - Jun 28, 2005 6:00:13 am PDT #1211 of 10458
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
No, that's right and it's in the middle. Just about the half past the hour mark.
oh, I see what you mean. I don't know why I think of it as the beginning of the episode. probably because that's when the wheels are set in motion for the denouement.
Jim - Jun 28, 2005 6:07:21 am PDT #1212 of 10458
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
which led to b) the audience getting a little attached. And then we were catered to.
This is the besetting problem with ME: pandering to the fans came close to ruining both Buffy (with the Fonzification of Spike) and Angel (with the bloody flashbacks)
Scrappy - Jun 28, 2005 6:17:00 am PDT #1213 of 10458
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I think they were less pandering to the fans than writing to those actors who remained enthusisastic and prepared. Some actors burn out after playing the same character for a long time or personal reasons interfere and you have to write around them. There is very little time in TV to pull a good performance out of an actor on set or to edit around a spotty one, and writers and producers are leery of writing for actors who may not be able to play a big arc or a big scene.