I'm awful at remembering episode titles. What was the name of the episode where Spike sees Buffy crying on the steps and puts down the rifle to comfort her? Who wrote it? I think I know but then, I keep second guessing myself.
I mean, let's say you did kill us. Or didn't. There could be torture. Whatever. But somehow you found the goods. What would your cut be?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Allyson - Jul 26, 2003 7:24:52 am PDT #3625 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 26, 2003 7:29:03 am PDT #3626 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
"Fool for Love" by Doug Petrie.
brenda m - Jul 26, 2003 7:29:05 am PDT #3627 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Fool for Love, and I think Joss wrote it.
Allyson - Jul 26, 2003 7:29:51 am PDT #3628 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Ah! Thanks. I thought Petrie wrote Fool for Love.
Katie M - Jul 26, 2003 8:08:07 am PDT #3629 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Yeah, Fool for Love was Petrie.
DCJensen - Jul 26, 2003 4:35:28 pm PDT #3630 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
ted r - Jul 26, 2003 6:00:16 pm PDT #3631 of 10001
"You got twelve, and they got twelve. The old ladies are just as good as you are." -Dr. Einstein
Excuse me while I go get my gun and kidnap AH and take her away to my isolated mountain cabin to be my wilderness bride. (Hey, after awhile she'll like it; there will be racoon meat and badger burgers.)
Watched Doomed. Still can't decide if I'm amused or annoyed they got the quote from the episode wrong on the season 4 DVD box.
Kassto - Jul 27, 2003 2:15:26 am PDT #3632 of 10001
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
Howdy. Just leaping over for the first time from UnAmericans, because season 7 just finished a few days ago, here in New Zealand. I have spent those few days reading some 3000 posts you guys have written since Chosen screened in the US (puff, pant), just so I know what you all thought. Neglecting my children while doing so. (The Australians have two or three episodes to go, I think.)
A few thoughts:
My season rankings: 5 3 4 2 6 1 7. I agree totally with Wenda a few weeks back who said the best run of episodes was Blood Ties through to Tabula Rasa. Yes, yes, yes. (I'm right with you on the whole ``using'' argument too, Wenda, though perhaps the rules get a bit bent the night before an apocalypse.)
I was only converted to Buffy in November last year and watched S1-6 more than once between then and April. So Season 7 is the only one I have watched on a proper weekly basis. In NZ we never get gaps and reruns in the middle of a season -- it all just runs straight on. Anyway I was in love with the show and prepared to give series 7 my all. But was desperately disappointed for many of the same reasons expressed here. Only three episodes really redeemed it for me -- Conversations with Dead People, First Date and Chosen. The finale I cannot even rewatch yet (only showed here last Wednesday) because I'm afraid of getting all weepy and pathetic again.
On one level, Chosen brought everything together and made emotional sense to me in a way the rest of the season failed to do. On the other hand, I actually don't like the idea of a ``hero's journey''. I much prefer Buffy when she's trying to be normal and be the slayer at the same time. Setting her up as the big leader in a big apocalypse just leaves me cold and the First Evil didn't work for me as a metaphor or a Big Bad. And I hated Spike ending up as a big sacrificial hero -- hated it with a big hatey hate hate. Hated him having a soul. Thought he would have made the perfect consort for the slayer as an evil boy trying to be good. He was JUST what she needed on a deep and visceral level, and I find it hard to forgive Buffy and the writers for not seeing that. And I'm a sensible girl, not one of those mad fangirls who threaten writer's lives, but I find David Fury quite disingenuous -- it was his episodes that made me love Spike the most.
Aside from these gripes, finding BtVS has been a huge thing for me, and reading -- over the last few months -- years' worth of your fascinating, brilliant, absolutely spot-on, irritating, highly-educated, super-informed, totally wrongheaded and bizarre thoughts on this strange and wonderful TV show have been an enormous pleasure.
Trudy Booth - Jul 27, 2003 4:48:00 am PDT #3633 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
though perhaps the rules get a bit bent the night before an apocalypse
Oh GOSH yes!
The night before an apocalypse the guy who seems to live on my stoop had better hide if I get home and haven't scored yet.
P.M. Marc - Jul 27, 2003 7:18:29 am PDT #3634 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 right with you on the whole "using'' argument too, Wenda, though perhaps the rules get a bit bent the night before an apocalypse
(Stifles knee, which won't quite quit jerking.)