Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
Oh yeah, that was really stupid. If they had least shown Xander playing with the thing in the beginning, that would have helped.
Well I will give them one thing - when Dawn steals it, if you look carefully, it looks like it has fallen out of Xander's tool belt and onto the counter. However this
Once Xander knew people were dying of this, he'd have done something to stop it. Maybe not admitted it off hand, but he'd have been more worried.
was my big problem with it.
I'm willing to forgive the poor set-up and inconsistancies because, hey! Buffy Musical! (it kicks ass)
If they'd even devoted 2 minutes to some musical comedy genre-inspired wacky misunderstanding or cover-up where Xander realized his guilt I could have bought it. As it was, it seemed more as if Xander was lying about it on impulse to cover up for Dawn.
Too true. The original airing went 8 minutes long. Why not make it an even 10?
I just seems like such a last minute fix when the rest of the musical seemed so well planned and executed.
The absolute easiest fix - if they had given Xander Tara's "everything is turning out so dark" line in the Walk Through the Fire bit - right there, I could have bought it. But as it is, it still rankles.
(I still love the thing to death, don't get me wrong.)
some musical comedy genre-inspired wacky misunderstanding or cover-up where Xander realized his guilt
Some patter song where he *tries* to tell somebody what's going on but everyone misunderstands or just talks over him.
Some patter song where he *tries* to tell somebody what's going on but everyone misunderstands or just talks over him.
Yeah, that would have been excellent, and in character.
Some patter song where he *tries* to tell somebody what's going on but everyone misunderstands or just talks over him.I think his nervous patter, when he's walking down the street with Giles and Anya is supposed to be this, but it was insufficient without an earlier set up. Even if we'd just seen him push the amulet an inch on the counter, at the beginning, it would have worked better.
The absolute easiest fix - if they had given Xander Tara's "everything is turning out so dark" line in the Walk Through the Fire bit - right there, I could have bought it. But as it is, it still rankles.
This is great!
It is such a great episode though, and other than the set-up, so much happens in it, that I'm still large with the OMWF love.
cereal...
That is, his patter to Giles and Anya isn't supposed to be him trying to tell, but him trying to rationalize.