I'm OK with Buffy being selfish. I'm ok with all of them having their faults. I am fairly certain that in real life, I would adore Buffy beyond reason.
'Out Of Gas'
Atlantic Canadian Monday Madness
[NAFDA] We used to get Buffy the day before everyone else, now we get Angel a week after everyone else. And Firefly every Monday!
I wouldn't. I would have to kill her because the way she says 'okay' bugs the shit out of me. She did it again tonight.
I think IRL, I would find Buffy too bossy. Bossy people make me want to do the opposite just to be contrary to their bossiness.
Which probably means I would have died in Season 1.
And when they were in the lab she didn't use the gas flame on the highly flammable vampire - granted, she did use it on a Harbringer, but vamps are much more up-in-flamey.
It looked to me like she intended to flame the vamp - there was a quick shot of her flipping on a bunson burner - but she got distracted when the Bringers showed up.
I thought all the Buffy/Spike awkward-ex crap was strained as hell
But I loved that the SiW's picked up on it right away, as opposed to...say.... her slow-on-the-uptake best friends last season.
And how "watcher's council" was it for her to lock the 4 slayers in training into a crypt with the vampire?
Totally! That surprised me.
See, I tend to adore bossy women who know what they are doing. I become their very nice sidekick. Hmmm. I haven't however, yet taken up magic.
It looked to me like she intended to flame the vamp - there was a quick shot of her flipping on a bunson burner - but she got distracted when the Bringers showed up.
You're probably quite right; too bad she was busy being pinned to the ground to do it.
Does anyone else think that having the FE retreat to re-group is kind of a lame excuse to do something else for an episode? I mean, it's the First Evil!!! Shouldn't it be chock-full of evil goodness all the time? Shouldn't it know every evil trick in the book?
Yeah, I caught her turning on the gas tap too.
And my last (utterly obscure) shout-out moment was that Giles was in Shanghai collecting another potential -- which proved to me that I'm still not over my FFL obsession, since I heard "Shanghai" and immediately thought, "probably another Hellmouth -- after all, it's where the Chinese Slayer was from."
Yeah, why should it have to regroup? It's a single entity! And there were clearly Harbingers left, so how did Buffy just waltz in to rescue Spike? Hmm?
Okay, bed now. Chat later.
I would have to kill her because the way she says 'okay' bugs the shit out of me. She did it again tonight.
I thought I was the only one bothered by that! That kind of swallow-y "aow-kay" she does. Hate it hate it hate it.
I thought the ep was good at both ends, weak in the middle. The problem is I can't decide if I'm supposed to think Buffy's doing a good job or not. If I'm supposed to think that Buffy's a piss-poor Watcher, well then I like the last three eps much better, because so far she's been damn lucky her "training" hasn't gotten all of the Potentials killed.