'Heart Of Gold'
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.
From Mark's BODY post:
For now, though, it’s time for me to admit that this is the last time I’ll see Joyce Summers. And I fucking hate it.
I want Joyce Summers back right now...I want anything with her, just one more second and I would be fine with that.
Again, he needs to be careful what he wishes for because BEING NORMAL (I think that's the name of the episode where Buffy imagines herself in the asylum) is probably going to make him regret that wish.
Normal Again is the one you're thinking of, I think.
Again, he needs to be careful what he wishes for
Well, the very next one is the creepy Monkey's Paw resurrected!Joyce one (I mean, an argument can be made that it *isn't* Joyce, but really, it is.) I hope that doesn't fuck Mark up too much.
That fucked me up.
I was praying to Joss that we wouldn't SEE Joyce. I'm dead serious. The last third I watched through my fingers.
Normal Again is the one you're thinking of, I think.
Yes! Thank you. It was on the tip of my brain but I couldn't quite get it.
Ironically, "Normal Again" was the first ep I watched out of syndication...man was I confused!
I never think about Kate.
Heh. I rewatched season 1 a few weeks ago via Netflix. At some point I realized that almost every regular/recurring character we see in S1 is doomed. I think Kate and Faith are the only ones who get out alive. So, hey, good on them.
I took that as further evidence that Angel probably had the right idea back in Amends.
And "Epiphany" is Kate's last episode! I wonder how long it will take for Mark to stop waiting for her to come back.
There was some controversy in the comments about who wrote the "If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do" conversation, but someone linked to a podcast where Tim confirmed it was all him. Which was good because I think we talked about the line in Minearverse once, and he didn't say it was a Joss line then!
When is the Angel episode where Angel saves Kate and she tells him she didn't invite him in?
edit: OK, so we've had it already. I thought that bit would make more of an impression on Mark.
Anyone else remember cousinjean and her circle on MBTV?
I am slowly becoming convinced that Mark Watches allows just enough time between episode posts that we'll wind up watching a complete reprise of the Spike Wars, at 78RPM, in the comments.