YAY
I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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.
Lee - Jun 21, 2006 8:33:55 pm PDT #3080 of 10464
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
billytea - Jun 21, 2006 8:37:14 pm PDT #3081 of 10464
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What's good for Clovis is good FOR THE WORLD.
Well now. Bunnies have been disastrous for Australia. I wish to learn more about how devil bunnies will affect the Australian environment.
Volans - Jun 22, 2006 12:00:52 am PDT #3082 of 10464
move out and draw fire
I still don't feel strong enough to rewatch, and this is me being within an hour's drive of visiting both my still-living parents. I can't even imagine how hard the episode hits someone who's lost one or both.
My mom died when I was in high school, and my dad died a few years ago, and I have to say that Buffy's experience in The Body didn't resonate with me, beyond what Beverly said about the stress reaction of one sense coming to the forefront. I think this is because in both cases my folks had been ill and it was very expected.
What did resonate was the responses of the friends. I never know what to do at funerals or for the bereaved, and I've seen that that is the case for most people, no matter what age. What Hec said about the cultural lack of a death protocol resonates also; my father died at home, and even though it was expected, no one knew quite what to do when it happened.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 22, 2006 3:47:41 am PDT #3083 of 10464
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I feel bad because if you read the scripts they did spend some time developing Dawn into a more interesting, mordant character, but her lines kept getting cut.
Were they mostly irrelevant to the stories, so ended up being a casualty of episode length, or, and I'd be surprised at this, do you think it was a delivery problem on MT's part a la Mark Blucas? Because lord knows season 7 I would have taken any and all mordant Dawn over Buffy's inpet motivational speechifying.
Calli - Jun 22, 2006 4:24:18 am PDT #3084 of 10464
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I wish to learn more about how devil bunnies will affect the Australian environment.
I hear they have a strong anti-poison-toad platform.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 22, 2006 5:53:27 am PDT #3085 of 10464
"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
I remember reading in pre- Season 5 spoilers that Dawn was going to be some kind of channel for dark spirits. Rather than what we got with the Key/Glory storyline, I'd envisioned something like what went on in "Afterlife," which could have been very interesting and creepy if spread over a season, with some ambiguity about whether Dawn was intentionally doing it or not. Ah well.
DavidS - Jun 22, 2006 9:24:59 am PDT #3086 of 10464
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
ended up being a casualty of episode length,
Cut for length as I recall. Just little snippets, but building on those scenes where she'd been fascinated by Spike's stories. Sort of like Riley's one little line about wanting to do experiments on the twin Xanders, revealing an odder core to the character than was played out plotwise.
Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2006 9:30:32 pm PDT #3087 of 10464
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Joss's Equality Now speech. It's good stuff.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 28, 2006 8:39:46 am PDT #3088 of 10464
What is even happening?
I've transcribed it, for people who can't watch the YouTube video: [link]
Cass - Jun 28, 2006 12:04:34 pm PDT #3089 of 10464
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Bless you, Cindy! You are a goddess among Buffistas.