Gunn ,'Power Play'
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4 hours later and i'm still in a daze. Xander's eye. Xander's fucking eye!!
on the plus side, it'll make sighting on the bow easier, plus he can now say "arrgh, me hearties" and not look naff.
I'm glad this is the last season of Buffy. My heart couldn't take much more of this. Damn. Xander's fucking eye!!
Reverand Tightpants is a great villian.
Aww. You people who haven't seen the rest of S4 AtS are SOOOOO CUTE!!!
Aren't they just precious?
Notice how Faith ALWAYS moves in on Buffy's men.
Yeah, and there's Angel and Spike's women... what of it?
Sorry, I'm not with you....?
Oh, just that many evil characters are man-stealers (woman-stealers); it's how you tell they're evil.
Maybe, or maybe that slayers could have similar taste in men (except Kendra who wasn't allowed to speak to them), or that there's an extremely competitive dynamic between Angel and Spike, and between Faith and Buffy.
Loved how surprised Faith was at Buffy getting it on with Spike. But how come Spike never brought up Fuffy's prick-teasing lines with Buffy?
Um...he did, surely? That's how he knew the "warm champagne" speech wasn't actually Buffy. (Although weirdly, she seems to have told him she'd swapped bodies, without specifying with whom!)
It's funny, Buffy in this season really has become the fun-hating do-gooder that Faith used to think she was! (Not without cause, and I actually think this transformation is a good and brave move on the show's part, but still...)
What the heck was the Golden Wonder Peanut Club? Somebody is selling badges on E-bay.
The un-Americans are holding their breaths...
Some random thoughts: 1) Just rewatching early season 3 of Buffy, and am appreciating Dingoes lead singer Devon for the first time -- sort of cool, pretty dumb, good shirts, a bit of front-man presence, and the band overall just teetering at that place on the edge of badness where, with a few drinks in you, you can have a really good time.
2) Five more days to the big finale here in NZ. Sadly, feeling pretty underwhelmed. Apart from a few bright spots, season 7 didn't do it for me, and I desperately wanted it to. Hated what they did to Giles (emotionally distant, inexplicable behaviour), hated what they did to Spike (emasculated, boring; the `spark' that was his soul seemed to remove all the spark of his personality; he was so much more interesting as a soulless vampire who was trying to be good; the writers' and Buffy's obsession that the soul made all the difference negates all the interesting moral grey areas they set up in earlier seasons).
And hated what they did with Buffy (cold, brittle, inhuman, unconvincing, and horribly emaciated -- I hope that husband of hers takes her away and FEEDS her something). Plus the potentials and all those endless static scenes in the Summers house, and the clunky dialogue...
3) Although I recognise the brilliance of season 3, my all-time favourite is season 5. I loved Dawn's story; Buffy was scintillatingly alive even when her world kept imploding; Spike's interactions with everyone (Harmony, Dawn, Buffy, Riley, in particular) were magic; and even though Glory was flawed, her minions were funny and her brain-sucking was scary.
4) Has anyone else read Barb Cummings' critique of season 6 (in the essays section of bloodyawfulpoet.com -- sorry, I don't know how to do the linky thing)? A brilliant piece of writing (ie I agreed with every word with table-thumping intensity), and I'm thrilled to read on her website that she is in the process of preparing a rant on season 7.
Enough. Goodnight all.