I liked someone's suggestion that Ethan Rayne was responsible, and Xander was covering for him...because of some reason involving blackmail or hypnotism or something I don't know but come on, Ethan Rayne! That would have been perfect.
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
Oz ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
Polter-Cow - Apr 29, 2005 1:11:31 pm PDT #482 of 10457
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
libkitty - Apr 29, 2005 2:14:43 pm PDT #483 of 10457
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Ethan Rayne would have been better. Then we might have missed the whole Xander is a complete jerk and idiot plotline altogether. I know that they can't be happy, but really.
brenda m - Apr 29, 2005 4:16:10 pm PDT #484 of 10457
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
Quentin Travers is on Third Watch right now.
SailAweigh - Apr 29, 2005 5:16:29 pm PDT #485 of 10457
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I agree that BtVS is best when it subverts the genre, not plays into it, but then the asspull didn't bother me as much as it seems to have bothered others.
I never saw it as an asspull. It went along with Xander at the end of season 2 telling Buffy to kick Angel's ass and nothing about the soul. Xander has made preemptive decisions before hand that may have worked well in the long run, but were done for purely selfish reasons. In my interpretation of him, Xander has always been just a little single-minded; it's why Anya was such a good fit for him.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2005 5:19:20 pm PDT #486 of 10457
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think it's out of character for him to have done it, so much as that's not how I'd imagine him acting if he had.
SailAweigh - Apr 29, 2005 5:30:38 pm PDT #487 of 10457
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I don't think it's out of character for him to have done it, so much as that's not how I'd imagine him acting if he had.
I can go with that. I have to agree, I don't think it was well set-up, but I didn't feel it was out of character.
sumi - May 01, 2005 4:26:49 pm PDT #488 of 10457
Art Crawl!!!
BTW, anyone here see the first episode of the new Doctor Who? Anyone who did think that the store that blew up looked a lot like the Watcher's HQ that also blew up ?
DCJensen - May 01, 2005 4:44:43 pm PDT #489 of 10457
All is well that ends in pizza.
Sumi, yes.
Plus? I just posted about the show in (well, ep 5) in Boxed Set not two minutes before seeing your post.
sumi - May 01, 2005 5:07:09 pm PDT #490 of 10457
Art Crawl!!!
I've only seen the first three episodes.
I loved them.
They seem to delight in blowing something up every week. Was this typical of old Doctor Whos? I don't seem to remember it.
Connie Neil - May 01, 2005 6:48:57 pm PDT #491 of 10457
brillig
Question for the hivemind:
Back when Giles was hanging out in London and living a reprehensible lifestyle there in the early 70s, what band would he have likely committed cheerful murder or the like in order to get into one of their shows? I need it for a fic, please, and I can't figure out if he'd have gone for the punk or the rock angle. Was he doing the bad boy thing before punk? My knowledge of such things is sadly lacking.