For once, Mark is prepared:
I am left perplexed and intrigued by the way this particular episode ends. I am dreading absolutely every second of Joyce’s future story line, and a huge part of that is because I remember going to my room and breaking down into tears for over an hour after my mother told the family she had lung cancer, and I remember having a similar reaction to learning that my father had brain and lung cancer on top of Alzheimer’s. They’re leading to some big moment with Joyce, I can tell, and I don’t want to see it. I know it’s going to hurt watching it. Plus, how are they going to deal with Dawn being a part of it? She has no idea that Joyce isn’t actually her mother and I am already overwhelmed.
That is shockingly prepared for Mark. I'm almost tempted to Read Mark Watching and not just Buffista Read Mark Watching.
I'm not so sure he's prepared. After all, it looks like Joyce recovers, she starts to date, and then...WHAM!
But there's also the "Is Buffy going to try to die" part. I think he's getting prepared for season's end....
I can't wait to read his reaction to "Darla" given his comments on how strange Angelus was acting in "FfL".
But there's also the "Is Buffy going to try to die" part. I think he's getting prepared for season's end....
And didn't he make a comment that he never wants to see Spike cry again? Although, after Buffy jumps off the tower, Mark may be so torn up that he won't notice Spike bawling.
I don't think he CAN be prepared for The Body. It's just...GAH. So intense.
But he will love Tara even more after he sees it.
But he will love Tara even more after he sees it.
Setting him up for "Seeing Red."
Setting him up for "Seeing Red."
Well, he gets to see her brainsucked by Glory first, which I'm sure will get to him almost as bad.
That will be hardest, I predict, cause it goes on longer and they say "crazy" or "insane", like throughout that whole arc. I'm also rewatching season 5 right now, though, and even I don't really want to see "The Body" again, masterful bit of television that it was.My mom kind of looks like Joyce, and she's had cancer, and I totally wasted the fruit-punch speech on that TV Tropes asshole, which, now if he dies, the sad part is, I can't claim responsibility for it.(Ironically, I am more angry about that with distance. Also, more people I know telling me how great TV Tropes is...it just makes me all "That motherless fuck!" whereas, at the time, I did what good detectives never do and got hung up on the "Why?"
I guess we're never going to know.)
Anyway...
