Oh, and Buffy admitting offhandedly that she would let Dawn die now also bugged the hell out of me. Hello??? "The gift"? Not even two years ago?

I didn't have a problem with that. She's supposed to have grown since then, and she's become big picture slayer.

...Despite it being canon, I've always had trouble swallowing it; the vampires in the Buffyverse tend to carry with them the psychological traits of the human.

IMO the demons simply work to relax any restrictions or inhibitions that the human might have had. This way the traits stay, but the demon acts to prevent the voice of reason/sanity to work its way into the picture.

I don't believe that the demons are present in a controlling fashion, broadcasting "do evil" vibes to the host. Otherwise vampires would be consistantly evil, would they not?

Copy that over to the main Buffy thread, if you please. It's an interesting point that should be argued over.

Hmm. Nora and I disagreed over whether Vamp!Mummy was being honest or not. Nora thought that she had only experienced little flashes of those feelings as a human, while I assumed that she was telling the truth.

Hee! Can I join your country? [link]

Thanks for posting that amych. A shorter text version of that has been floating around for a few weeks now, attributed to Colin Mochire's colleague Rick Mercer. It's nice to see the actual video of it.

I'm so, so sorry he was making fun of your country. t /passive agressive

Lots of nosema vibes heading northward, Megan. Best of luck!

Thanks Jon!

Darn it all to heck! Where's the new Angel? Was there never ever a wildfeed?

You didn't get it either? When do you usually? My Vancouver friend says she got a Buffy repeat Tuesday, but the bittorrent went up yesterday afternoon.