She had prophetic dreams all the time, and they were fairly major plot points in "Nightmares"/"Prophecy Girl," "When She was Bad," "Surprise," "Graduation Day," and "Restless."
Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.
'Bushwhacked'
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 30, 2005 6:14:53 am PDT #1520 of 10458
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Lee - Jul 30, 2005 6:15:28 am PDT #1521 of 10458
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
They had dropped off considerably by Hush, and I can't think of many after that..
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 30, 2005 6:19:47 am PDT #1522 of 10458
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hmm. Did she have one about Dracula specifically? I don't think she ever dreamed about Glory. And I'm pretty sure there were none in Season 6, though I thought at the time that must be a consequence of her resurrection.
Lee - Jul 30, 2005 6:20:45 am PDT #1523 of 10458
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
There were Dracula dreams, but I am not sure if they came from him or from her Spidey sense.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 30, 2005 6:26:05 am PDT #1524 of 10458
What is even happening?
Restless was the last major dream. In season 5, the dream or two she had seemed to be connected to Faith, or wait, was it Faith who had the dreams. Ugh, now I'm all jumbled.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 30, 2005 6:28:28 am PDT #1525 of 10458
What is even happening?
Perkins, what was her Drac dream? I remember Drac echoed Tara's "You think you know..." lines, but I don't remember the Drac dream. He actually did come into her room when she was sleeping.
For season six, she had dreams in Dead Things, but I'm not sure if they were caused by whatever mojo the nerds were messing with, or if they were supposedly prophetic or also supposedly prophetic. She had a dream or two in season 7, also, right?
P.M. Marc - Jul 30, 2005 9:04:30 am PDT #1526 of 10458
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
She dreamed about various Potentials dying in S7. IIRC, the first couple teasers were all about that. That was when the season still looked like it would rock.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 30, 2005 9:10:15 am PDT #1527 of 10458
What is even happening?
Oh, that's right. She had that Run Lola Run dream, and then another. But after the Potentials were in the house, didn't she have a dream about the First Slayer? And there was the dream where Joyce/or the First-as-Joyce were talking to her.
Typo Boy - Jul 31, 2005 7:05:36 pm PDT #1528 of 10458
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Narratively, Joss always withholds commitment to a canonical reading until it yields maximum narrative payoff. In short, he will dick you around trying to figure out the worldbuilding rules, but will Joss you when it's convenient for him. The soul is one example.
Yeah but in this case I think he withheld committment when he needed to make it - the whole question of the relation of the possesion of a soul to the ability to make ethical choices. One obvious example (though a secondary one) was the whole inconsistent characterization of Spike. Admittedly the main problem here was keeping Spike going out of love for the character/actor when the narrative might have been better served by killing him. But even leaving Spike alive could have been done better; and I think the whole "nature of the soul" thing played a role in how badly and inconsitently Spike was characterized in later seasons. I agree that Buffy was more about character than world building. But the particular kind of ambiguity we had about the soul was a character NOT just a world building issue.
DavidS - Jul 31, 2005 8:29:32 pm PDT #1529 of 10458
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
No, I agree he should've filled out that bit of his universe because it makes it a lot harder to judge his characters actions without knowing that.