'Never Leave Me'
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.
Hey, anyone up for a discussion of visual tropes in the Buffyverse?
Because the catwalk at the Bronze in WttH got me started (note: LA version S3 AtS w/Lilah, Wes), and now I want to keep yammering and throwing out ideas, and and and...
Well, I can't really do it alone. And it's Friday, and I'm bored.
can you define visual trope? Cause I'm thinking of Spike watching Angel save the girl "to the Angelmobile, away!" but, I'm not sure what a visual trope is.
Basically, what I'm looking at are places where you've got similar blocking and themes repeating throughout the shows.
Like, in WttH, you've got Buffy up on the catwalk, looking down at the "normal" world, while she and Giles are talking and he's basically telling her just what's setting her apart from that world, and that she has to accept that because it's who she is (obviously, that's not the direct text), and then in S6 with Dead Things, you see the same basic blocking repeated and the same theme twisted when she's with Spike on the balcony.
There's a dramatic catwalk moment in "Crush" when Drusilla kills that girl and feeds her to Spike.
There's the catwalk in S4 Angel, when Lilah's talking to Wes as they watch Connor.
There's a dramatic catwalk moment in "Crush" when Drusilla kills that girl and feeds her to Spike.
Which totally falls into the category my brain is slotting.
Oh, and with Willow and Tara while they are looking for Dawn,and Willow wants to shift everyone who isn't a 15 year old girl into an alternate universe "just for a second"
Yep, the Benediction discussion in S3 is on my list. [link]
The catwalk always seems to be used in club situations. The Hyperion had those nifty mezzanines, which would be perfect for someone broody to stand on and observe from, but they didn't use them that way.
Maybe they were too far away?