No! Stay and talk to me! ...Or, um, go to bed and sleep like a halfway-normal person. Your choice.
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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Kate P. - Feb 18, 2003 8:52:37 am PST #2006 of 9843
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Kate P. - Feb 18, 2003 8:55:27 am PST #2007 of 9843
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
But that final, ultra-dramatic shot? Had me. Totally.
I WAS SPOILED FOR THAT SHOT! Argh! I was so mad. (OTOH, I now think I've seen everything I've been spoiled for, which is good.) My mother, well-meaning as always, sent me a package here at my friend's house in which she included an article about Spike that she'd cut out of the newspaper, must've been the Boston Globe. I tried to resist, I really did... but of course, my Buffy-starved self couldn't hold out, and I read the article. In which the final scene of this ep was described, especially the final shot. And then I kicked myself. Grr, argh.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 18, 2003 8:57:14 am PST #2008 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Oh! That's a shame- it does take some of the power out of it. But even so- pretty powerful, huh?
Nutty - Feb 18, 2003 8:58:16 am PST #2009 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Not talking about Spike.
Gammon with honey and pineapple.
Am-Chau, by this you mean bacon, right? Cured pork? I've never heard the word "gammon" except as part of a children's song, and as the name of one of the crazy lady's sparrows in Bleak House. I got into a wicked argument with my prof over whether the bird was named after the children's song. Anyway, do modern unAmericans use "gammon" all the time?
Angus G - Feb 18, 2003 9:00:25 am PST #2010 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Actually, I think I started crying about a third of the way through the scene. By the end I was absolutely sobbing, almost uncontrollably, more than I can remember doing ever for Buffy except at the end of Becoming, the first dozen or so times t grin.
But I tend to do that these days whenever something makes me cry. Not to overshare, but I think I have some banked-up tears from my Mum's death two years ago, my illness last year, etc etc etc.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 18, 2003 9:01:37 am PST #2011 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
By gammon I mean cured pork, yes. I've always used it. Children's song? Never heard of it. Enlighten me?
Dana - Feb 18, 2003 9:02:50 am PST #2012 of 9843
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I rewatched the teaser and the last five minutes of The Gift last night, and then the end of "There's No Place Like..." Still makes me cry.
Kate P. - Feb 18, 2003 9:02:51 am PST #2013 of 9843
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
it does take some of the power out of it. But even so- pretty powerful, huh?
Absolutely. But there was no HSQ, and the dramatic buildup was lost on me to some extent, because I was distracted by thinking, "Oh! This must be that scene! So he's going to... okay, yeah, wait, what did he say?" etc. etc.
I dislike being spoiled. Hmph.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 18, 2003 9:03:21 am PST #2014 of 9843
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I hated "Beneath You"
Kate P. - Feb 18, 2003 9:06:33 am PST #2015 of 9843
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I think I used up my tears for today earlier in the evening; I was reading a book in which a dog dies, and since that is pretty much the one thing guaranteed to make me ALWAYS bawl like a baby, I guess I was all cried out by the time Buffy came around.
Damn, I want to rewatch right now!