Yeah!
Also seeing different timelines is a way to show what traits an characteristics are core to a character and what is there because of the circumstances.
Mal: How come you didn't turn on me, Jayne? Jayne: Money wasn't good enough. Mal: What happens when it is? Jayne: Well... that'll be an interesting day.
'Serenity'
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.
askye - Feb 13, 2012 12:40:35 pm PST #8636 of 10459
Thrive to spite them
DavidS - Feb 13, 2012 5:57:24 pm PST #8637 of 10459
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"The Wish" is an interesting variation on the It's a Wonderful Life.
And it has the same point as that movie, which is that one person can change, even save a community.
He's totally wrong that "The Wish" is or should be a Cordy-centric episode. That's just his Cordy-love-goggles on.
And this?
No one learns anything. No one remembers anything. Nothing happened. No one grew, no one became a better person,
Dude. I know you've got better aesthetic criteria than that. Don't make me get out the Animaniacs Wheel of Morality.
The master's factory o' blood though, always struck me as lame. But it's still painful watching our characters getting killed - especially Oz dusting Willow. Well, actually Wishverse!Buffy dying is the worst.
Fred Pete - Feb 14, 2012 4:28:13 am PST #8638 of 10459
Ann, that's a ferret.
Don't make me get out the Animaniacs Wheel of Morality.
"Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it."
I may be in a minority here, but the mechanized blood machine creeped me out big time. All the test subject can do is lay there, knowing she's going to die, and she can't do anything -- anything -- to fight it. All she can do is watch her death get closer and closer.... Terrifying stuff.
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2012 4:48:37 am PST #8639 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The blood machine is in line with using humans for batteries in terms of "great initial shock idea--how is this practical or efficient again?"
sj - Feb 14, 2012 5:06:02 am PST #8640 of 10459
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The blood machine is in line with using humans for batteries in terms of "great initial shock idea--how is this practical or efficient again?"
Plus, I could see a vampire like Spike saying, "What is the fun in that?"
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 14, 2012 5:33:09 am PST #8641 of 10459
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I wonder if the Master was thinking along the lines of animal husbandry rather than game hunting down the road.
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2012 6:46:59 am PST #8642 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Would you get taken off the line to fuck, or would they keep drawing? The blood might be more tasty then, if fanfic is to be believed.
Polgara - Feb 14, 2012 8:10:54 am PST #8643 of 10459
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Given how many vamps were hanging out at the Bronze, they were probably planning ahead for a potential food shortage. Didn't the Master emphasize that not a drop would be wasted with the new machine?
Also, ew. (to ita !'s post)
Frankenbuddha - Feb 17, 2012 3:41:18 am PST #8644 of 10459
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Mark watched Helpless. I love this:
PS: Just a heads up. Whomever is Buffy’s next Watcher now that Giles has been fired will be irrationally hated by yours truly. I don’t care. They’re not Giles. They deserve all of my hatred.
He has no idea, does he? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
le nubian - Feb 17, 2012 4:01:16 am PST #8645 of 10459
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Frank,
I saw that yesterday and I cackled and cackled too.
Somehow, I think he'll come around, don't you?