Joyce was really pretty. Also, feature-wise, she totally looks like Buffy.
t /shallow
Oh, Darla. Like anyone would be studying the Revolutionary War and the Civil War at the same time.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
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.
Amy - Oct 17, 2006 5:28:47 pm PDT #4052 of 10469
Because books.
sumi - Oct 17, 2006 5:28:55 pm PDT #4053 of 10469
Art Crawl!!!
I meant more the Darla that was playing at being a school girl. I guess, that was only because the Hellmouth is under the high school. . . but I thought it might have something to do with her being different when she is working directly for the Master than she is when she is on her own.
chrismg - Oct 17, 2006 5:30:45 pm PDT #4054 of 10469
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Urk. With the "Mom! Mom!" and the phone call, this is creepy fore(post?)shadowing.
sumi - Oct 17, 2006 5:31:22 pm PDT #4055 of 10469
Art Crawl!!!
I know!!!
Amy - Oct 17, 2006 5:32:32 pm PDT #4056 of 10469
Because books.
I thought the same thing (with the "Mom!").
Joyce really was willfully blind, wasn't she?
Amy - Oct 17, 2006 5:34:37 pm PDT #4057 of 10469
Because books.
Okay, the ponytail I get. The sparkly disco jacket? Not so much.
"History, of course, is very much about the ... the then."
chrismg - Oct 17, 2006 5:36:24 pm PDT #4058 of 10469
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
I think they must have drawn a lot on this episode for the Darla interaction later. Of course, considering David Greenwalt wrote this...
ETA: Also, for "Amends."
chrismg - Oct 17, 2006 5:42:43 pm PDT #4059 of 10469
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Julie Benz isn't a very good action actress, but this is still quite a scene. She still hasn't worked out how to work around the teeth.
Also, I miss this kind of interaction with the bad guys. We never got the feeling of being part of a larger evil back, I think.
sumi - Oct 17, 2006 5:48:41 pm PDT #4060 of 10469
Art Crawl!!!
I'm not sure what you mean - you mean the Angel-Darla interactions?
Amy - Oct 17, 2006 5:55:00 pm PDT #4061 of 10469
Because books.
Giles's comment about Buffy living in the now is also really key -- she doesn't (much) consider the future, at least not for a long time. It's a weird way to live when at that age most kids can think of nothing but the future.
I love the parallels between Buffy and Darla here -- the clothes Darla wears really works it, I think, making it the first indication (before Buffy and Faith) of the different roads any girl could take.
I also adore the ending of this episode. SMG is so good in that scene, there's just so much in her eyes, and the cross burn gets me every time.
It's also interesting note how pat she is about her fate, their fate -- "This can't be anything." True. Even when it *was* it couldn't be, not for good. And how true that the more she loved him, the more she was willing to fool herself about their possible future.
Also, I miss this kind of interaction with the bad guys.
I'm not quite sure what you mean either, although I could see something like that for S6 (the evil is us) but they really missed the mark on that, I think.