Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'Underneath'


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.


Jessica - Aug 08, 2005 3:31:29 am PDT #1710 of 10464
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Connor is just a WEE MISUNDERSTOOD WOOBIEMAN!

Plei is me.


Anne W. - Aug 08, 2005 3:45:20 am PDT #1711 of 10464
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

My blind spot has a definite Giles-ish shape to it.


Nora Deirdre - Aug 08, 2005 3:46:39 am PDT #1712 of 10464
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

what is there about Giles that needs to be blindspot, hmmm??

Er, that is to say, me too.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 08, 2005 3:56:28 am PDT #1713 of 10464
What is even happening?

Heh. I was going to mention Giles, except that I don't think there's anything that needs to be blindspotted where Giles is concerned.

Okay, my own words convict me. I would like to know though, what about Giles needs overlooking [in the way we have to overlook Willow's self-centeredness; Xander's self-righteousness; or Buffy's [whatever it is, I know she's my blindspot)]?


DebetEsse - Aug 08, 2005 4:00:41 am PDT #1714 of 10464
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I think (and this is before S6, where the meta just overwhelms the character) that most of Giles' faults are of either the over-protectiveness or the thinking-he-knows-what's-best-being-the-Watcher-and-all variety, so...hmm...failing to trust the kids, at times, maybe?


Topic!Cindy - Aug 08, 2005 4:02:00 am PDT #1715 of 10464
What is even happening?

cereal--Raq asked:

So, playing the role of Perkins, which Buffyverse chacter do fans have the biggest blindspot for? Or, which character do you, dear Reader, have a blindspot for?

I still want to hear more answers on this, but I'm also wondering, which character is everyone's anti-blindspot. That is, which one do you see (and you don't have to hate the character, you can even love the character) and think, "Oh sorry, but you don't fool me?" I guess my anti-blindspot characters are Willow and Jenny, and I've gone on about why enough, already.

Also, if you have an anti-blindspot character, do you maybe see something in that character that maps to someone you know in real life (or even yourself)?


DebetEsse - Aug 08, 2005 4:10:13 am PDT #1716 of 10464
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Giles is, on Buffy, my blindspot. The closest thing I have, on Angel, is probably Lorne.

Anti-blind spot--Andrew, for late season Buffy. Probably Buffy herself, a lot (She did make me say, "The Hell?" pretty regularly). On Angel, I'd have to go with Connor, I think.


-t - Aug 08, 2005 5:44:06 am PDT #1717 of 10464
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Classic fandom? Willow.

Post-modern fandom? Spike.

What do you mean by those distinctions, Cindy?

I guess my blind spot would have to be Angel shaped, because I still have trouble with the idea that locking Holling etc. in with Darla & Dru was more than a little bad.

I'm probably not insightful enough to have an anti-blindspot. They all take me in to some degree.


DebetEsse - Aug 08, 2005 5:50:48 am PDT #1718 of 10464
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I guess I'm with you, -t, beacuse, me, neither. I mean, they were actively eeeevil . I mean, I know, human, but still, not all that bad


brenda m - Aug 08, 2005 5:55:48 am PDT #1719 of 10464
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I can tell, as if I couldn't already, that my blind spot is Xander shaped, because my anti-blindspots mostly have to do with actions on the part of other characters directed against him.