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.
I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
Giles ,'Beneath You'
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!
Sophia Brooks - Jan 20, 2003 8:05:54 pm PST #1140 of 6793
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Elena - Jan 20, 2003 8:09:05 pm PST #1141 of 6793
Thanks for all the fish.
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.
Sue - Jan 20, 2003 8:10:49 pm PST #1142 of 6793
hip deep in pie
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.
Jon B. - Jan 20, 2003 8:11:14 pm PST #1143 of 6793
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 20, 2003 8:11:54 pm PST #1144 of 6793
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
Elena - Jan 20, 2003 8:13:26 pm PST #1145 of 6793
Thanks for all the fish.
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.
Sue - Jan 20, 2003 8:14:35 pm PST #1146 of 6793
hip deep in pie
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?
amych - Jan 20, 2003 8:20:37 pm PST #1147 of 6793
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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."
Elena - Jan 20, 2003 8:21:31 pm PST #1148 of 6793
Thanks for all the fish.
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.
Jessica - Jan 20, 2003 8:21:45 pm PST #1149 of 6793
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.