Well, THAT was fun!

[annathepiper]

Joss is not holding his punches at all this season, and he is such a devious bastard and I LOVE him!

Whoo BOY HOWDY that was intense. From Anya unleashing the Gruesome to Willow unleashing a glimpse of the Black-Eyed She-Witch to Buffy unleashing some Get a Fucking Clue onto Xander, non-stop WOW.

Hysterically funny: the sequences of the days of Aud and Olaf and D'Hoffrin coming to offer Anya her job as a vengeance demon. And the BUNNIES!

Anya's smartass line about "Are there any friends of your left you haven't tried to kill?" (We counted. We're pretty sure that in fact Buffy has tried to kill just about all of her friends at one time or another. It's amazing how she manages to maintain her relationships. ;) )

The SONG! Bwahahahaha! Nice number, too! Especially with the snippets of song coming in from outside the house.

And in the Realm of Well We Didn't See THAT Coming Now Did We?, the toasting of Halfrek! EEK! I mean, well, EEK!

And oh yes, I did in fact go "awwwww sniffle" at the Spike scene at the beginning, yes I did. Poor hallucinating Spike! I was unsure whether the second appearance of Buffy in the scene was real, but Mimi pointed out she was wearing the same clothing then that she did in the rest of the episode so she asserted that was actually real Buffy.

Wow. WOW that was good.

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[tinlail.livejournal.com]

I don't think she has tried to kill Xander.

Yet.

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[annathepiper]

She HAS. Episode where she was temporarily insane, she tried to kill Xander AND Dawn AND I believe it was Willow (somebody correct me if I'm wrong here?) -- knocking them out and tying them up in the basement. Tara ran in on the tail end of that.

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

Hmm, has she ever tried to kill Cordelia? I mean, wanted to, sure, but ever actually tried? I can't recall that. Nor Wesley, though they're farther from friends.

I'm not 100% sure she tried to kill Oz, but she certainly has subdued him at times.

I don't think minor characters count, like Scott the almost-boyfriend from Season 3. But really, she doesn't live a life full of casual friends.

Did she try to kill Joyce? Faith in Buffy's Body certainly did, but that's hardly the same thing.

It certainly helps to have been off the show last season!

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[annathepiper]

Re: Buffy trying to kill Cordelia, Dar sez, "Only with glares!"

*snicker* I can't think of any occurrences of attempted Slayage on Cordy, off the top of my head, no. Nor can I think of any attempted Slayage on Wesley, but then again, Wesley was a pretty minor member of the cast during his tenure on Buffy, so. :)

Mimi sez she's never tried to kill Oz, no. Nor could we think of any times she's tried to kill Joyce. But then again, that's her _mom_ and not one of her friends, so Joyce is sort of off the hook in that respect.

[tinlail.livejournal.com]

I bow before your great Buffy knowledge.

I don't know how she keeps friends around, Hell I don't know why anyone still lives in Sunnydale.

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[annathepiper]

Heh! Well, Mimi has way better Buffy mojo than I do. She DOES, after all, own pretty much all of the series, though I'm probably going to start scarfing me some DVDs eventually. ;)

Though you do have a point about both Buffy's relationships with others AND Sunnydale in general!

One the one hand you have creepy spiders...

[lyricae.livejournal.com]

which almost made me stop watching the episode. But on the other you have a kickback to the musical, which just warms my heart. So, the good cancels out the bad, and I still love the show :-)

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[annathepiper]

Mimi and I both figured you'd love that song. ;)

Dar laughed out loud at the spinning couch shot. Hehehehehe.

And there was creeped-out-age at the spider going on over here as well.

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[princessheacock.livejournal.com]

That song was WONDERFUL. I wonder why they took it out of the musical?
It would have made some of the Anya stuff make more sense later last season.

I REALLY liked this ep. (Though I had to rewind and rewatch three times the subtitled portion for lack of being able to concentrate on watching)

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[annathepiper]

I don't know if they "took it out" of the musical, per se. They might not have actually written it yet when the musical was made, and just thought it'd be amusing to toss in another song and refer back to the musical now in the context of an episode about Anya's history. :)

I laughed out loud when I realized that I heard the word "kanin" in Anya's dialogue in the historical scenes -- that's the Norwegian word for rabbit! ;) One of the few Norwegian words I remember from Janne and Catriona's visit. :)

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[princessheacock.livejournal.com]

If anyone has any answers for me:

Why did d'Hoffryn go when Willow asked him to? what was in it for him? what bargain did Willow make with him?

If Anya wanted to die, why did she fight back against Buffy? She'd have died several times before that?

Pooor Hallie :(

I wonder what Xander would have done if he could have saved only Buffy OR Anya -- He could have gotten Buffy killed in this fight but he didn't seem to realize this. OTOH, maybe he was thinking what killing Anya would do to Buffy and so trying to save BOTH of them?

Is Anya human again? Poor girl.

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[annathepiper]

I suspect that D'Hoffryn humored Willow by going to intervene in the situation because he had previously tried to recruit Willow as a vengeance demon -- so he may be thinking if he humors the girl, he can reel her into his fold sooner or later anyway. Then again, he might just be partial to her. ;)

I also suspect that Anya's motives weren't exactly rational. She was already documentedly over the edge, unnerved by what she'd already been doing again as a vengeance demon, and being particularly wigged out by the bloody wrath she unleashed on the frat boys can't have helped matters. I expect she had a big dose of "wanting to die" there, but also a big dose of "wanting to be punished in the most painful way possible" -- and certainly actually fighting with Buffy and taking damage from her is more of a punishment than just letting Buffy kill her. Mix that in with a lingering bitter prideful awareness that why yes, she IS a demon and can hold her own in a fight against a Slayer, and I'm sure Anya's head was a roil of conflicting emotions.

And I'm sure that Xander didn't want either of them to die. Note, his line about "Has everybody had their Crazy Flakes today?!" He couldn't comprehend either why Buffy felt she had to take on Anya OR why Anya felt she had to take on Buffy. Xander can be a right bastard sometimes still -- as he demonstrated in that snide commentary he made to Buffy which led to her slapping him down with the reminder that she had in fact run a sword through Angel's heart -- but I'm sure he didn't want either of them to die.

Poor Hallie indeed, and yes, I expect Anya is probably human again, though granted we didn't have any direct evidence that said so.