That's kind of why I liked the rest of the lines that were cut. I think Joss was doing a callback to her first season punning, and I think the cut lines sort of made that more palatable.
Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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DavidS - May 24, 2003 4:49:16 pm PDT #2235 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
victor infante - May 24, 2003 4:52:06 pm PDT #2236 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
On the whole, I'm sorry a lot of what was cut was cut. There was some good stuff in there. Not earth shattering, but good. And Wheee!
DavidS - May 24, 2003 4:53:45 pm PDT #2237 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
On the whole, I'm sorry a lot of what was cut was cut. There was some good stuff in there.
Gotta trust Joss on the pacing, and we do have the script.
Heh. We could do a deathmatch of things cut from script before they aired.
DCJensen - May 24, 2003 5:04:32 pm PDT #2238 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Okay:
t inserts most of "corrupt" script from Angel.
I win!
Oh wait. Not Buffy. Damn.
Elena - May 24, 2003 6:21:05 pm PDT #2239 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
ANYA: Oh, sure y'are. You're as stable as the molecules in Mister Fantastic's uniform, am I right?XANDER: Oh, you just couldn't have picked a worse example.
Oh, damn! I love that. I wish it had stayed. I wanted more Xander and Anya interaction.
askye - May 24, 2003 9:21:06 pm PDT #2240 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I wish that had stayed as well, even if it is a really geeky reference it's a great insight into their relationship.
P.M. Marc - May 24, 2003 9:24:13 pm PDT #2241 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm more in love with the cut stuff from Home, but yeah, that was a great line.
Wow. It's over.
Frankenbuddha - May 24, 2003 9:29:58 pm PDT #2242 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Would my suspicion that only Joss was giving Dawn lines like that, and that later get cut? Cause if not, she not only didn't get any decent storylines, but cheated out of being a cool side-line commentator. Damn - I know MT could deliver those kind of lines no problem.
Narrator - May 24, 2003 9:50:08 pm PDT #2243 of 10001
The evil is this way?
I was discussing the finale with a friend after it aired, and we both thought that there was stuff cut from the episode, and it needed 90 minutes. Seeing these cut lines really drives it home.
DavidS - May 24, 2003 10:02:42 pm PDT #2244 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I went back and read the end of the last thread. Don't really feel the need to go back and comment on the AR again, though I'll note I'm in the camp of people that felt like Spike's actions were totally in character and they did a very good job of shooting it so it couldn't be seen as romantic (ala Luke and Laura and "Rise"), but brutal and a violation.
I'm starting to think of S7 as similar to S4. Because there were serious problems with the arc, but really a number of excellent eps separate from that arc. Conversations with Dead People, Selfless, and Storyteller were all great great episodes. Up to the highest standards of anything in the series. Witty and dark and smart. Throw in the arc episodes that worked (for me) and you get Lessons, Same Time, Dirty Girls, End of Days and Chosen. It's hard for me to see the huge decline people were talking about because...look at the quality there. It's no more uneven or incomprehensible than S4 was. I think S6 actually had a great arc, with the only end-of-season run comparable to S2 where it built and built and built right to the end. I always felt like S3 crapped out in Graduation Day. Big snake. Whoop de doo.