I dunno, it's certainly been years but I remember there's a lot of "Willow watches Buffy do the same thing over and over in catatonic-ville," which seems more like padding than crammed. At the start of the episode Dawn's been captured and they need to stop Glory. At the end of the episode, Dawn's been captured and they need to stop Glory.
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'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.
Strega - Jul 31, 2008 1:45:23 pm PDT #6389 of 10467
tommyrot - Jul 31, 2008 1:46:35 pm PDT #6390 of 10467
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I remember there's a lot of "Willow watches Buffy do the same thing over and over in catatonic-ville,"
I think that's all I remember from that episode....
Daisy Jane - Jul 31, 2008 1:55:39 pm PDT #6391 of 10467
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Wee!Buffy
Juliebird - Jul 31, 2008 2:06:20 pm PDT #6392 of 10467
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I remember there's a lot of "Willow watches Buffy do the same thing over and over in catatonic-ville,"
see, I found that to be hypnotic and wonderfully simplistic, coming from someone who is always deep in their own thoughts and if someone were to speculate as to why I started crying or freaked out or made a certain decision, they wouldn't know, because the catalyst was in my head. So I got that.
That really resonated for me.
Daisy Jane - Aug 01, 2008 8:19:18 am PDT #6393 of 10467
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
It also had the whole.
"So you're saying Ben and Glory have some kind of connection?" part that I never find not funny.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 01, 2008 8:27:38 am PDT #6394 of 10467
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Which was the episode that we rewrote? Because I think that was far worse than Weight of the World.
JZ - Aug 01, 2008 8:28:54 am PDT #6395 of 10467
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Spiral.
Gris - Aug 01, 2008 5:37:18 pm PDT #6396 of 10467
Hey. New board.
Spiral was bad, but you certainly can't say nothing happened. It had horsies!
libkitty - Aug 01, 2008 11:11:39 pm PDT #6397 of 10467
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Love this blog post. Thanks for sharing it, JZ.
Three things:
I kept crying, "Mom? Mom? Mommy?" not "Mum? Mum? Mummy", while simultaneously kicking myself and telling myself not to be such an insular pedant. I think this tiny thing bothered me so much because that episode connected in such a deep way, and this brought it to my brain instead of my gut.
and
I really like Dr. Who, but I find that I tend not to enjoy rewatching them. I haven't really been sure why, but I think that Rilstone may have it with,
What does Buffy have which Doctor Who lacks? The smart answer would be "good writing". But I think the truth is that Joss Whedon is always, at all times, trying to tell a story about a set of characters. Russell T Davies is only ever seeking to manufacture a product.
and
Oh, and Firefly rocks. Obviously.
The man is clearly a genius.
JZ - Aug 02, 2008 4:54:09 am PDT #6398 of 10467
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It just amused me that Whedon wrote, SMG said, and all the USians immediately understood "Mom? Mom? Mommy?" but Rilstone's ears instantly translated it from our cultural emotional gutpunch into his, and didn't even realize he'd misheard until commenters pointed it out.