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mamishka and ssha brought me Mike's Hard Lemonade and the latter brought me mango sorbet. Which I have not yet eaten, but which is going to get some due attention this weekend along with some proper attention paid to some Elvis movies on account of I didn't get to give the King his due last night in honor of his birthday. But at any rate...
On to last night's Buffy. It's been a little weird starting the whole story arc of having the Potential Slayers gathering in Sunnydale under Buffy's protection, because it's taking a bit of a step back and giving us a larger picture of what's going on than I normally most enjoy with this show. Since we're too busy getting the greater, grander events, there isn't too terribly much time for the in-depth character development that I traditionally like. Which is not exactly a complaint, but definitely an observation upon the current nature of the storyline.
The Giles issue is drivingspazzkat batshit, as we're still unsure as to whether the hell Giles is actually dead. We are sure that the writers are quite cheerfully playing up to the viewing audience, managing to keep Giles from actually touching anything.
The theory that he is an agent of the First if not the First himself seems to have been shot down, at least. Mimi pointed out and quite rightly that the First generally isn't that subtle -- though now we know that the First sure as hell isn't reluctant to try to infiltrate Buffy's side's midst and try to sow dissention among the ranks by impersonating one of the dead Potentials. So at least one would think that the First is not above trying to do it by impersonating Giles, but then again, Giles so far hasn't done anything really that suggests attempts to undercut the morale of the Good Guys.
This might be because the First can't really get away with pulling the same behavior as Giles... hrmm. I'll have to watch the episode again and see whether there are any camera shots that involve Giles and the First-as-Eve visible at the same time. ;)
I'm glad they finally let Andrew loose... because really, on the grand scale of things, he's pretty pathetic when compared to the larger issues at hand. It'll be interesting to see whether he actually manages to contribute anything useful.
Two thumbs up on Kennedy, the Potential who obviously has her act best together and who also JUST as obviously thinks Willow is a babe. ;D
We're still wondering if Faith is going to show up at all though. Nice to see her existence given another nod in the conversation between the Potentials... but you would think that somebody would want to do something to check on Faith's status and maybe just make sure she's okay. But then again, I suppose that wouldn't exactly be easy. Last we checked Faith was in jail, and if I recall correctly high security jail at that. Can't exactly call up high security jail and go "Um, by the way, do you still have that dangerous young woman locked up there? Oh good, just checking."
It would, I expect, also be a bit of a pain in the ass for the Bringers to get to her in jail. The First would have to use guile and stealth to get its minions into prison to take her out... unless perhaps it managed to get into the prison shapeshifted into an appropriate prisoner and managed to incite somebody into a riot to kill her, or something.
Two thumbs up also on Willow pulling off some magic in a competent fashion, while the plot gives a nod to her deep fear about using her power. Though I do have a bit of a 'wait a minute, when the hell is Willow telepathic?' question going on. I mean, yeah, sure, she's Power Babe and all, and we even saw her clearly getting in tune with the minds and souls of practically everybody on the planet when she went Big Bad... but this was a lot more offhanded than that, and would seem to imply that she can hear people's thoughts without apparently concentrating too hard.
Or is it a matter of Buffy very specifically and very loudly focusing a thought at her? In which case I am still puzzled, because I can't think of any reason that Buffy would know that Willow has telepathic potential.
All that said, the Thunderdome sequence was pretty fine. And two definite thumbs up on decapitating the Ubervamp.
And, lastly, Spike. Big "awwwww" for him mumbling over and over "She will come for me, she will come for me, she will come for me." Last desperate stand of faith; sniffle. It was also effective to see the First trying to ruin that by appearing before him as Buffy.
And a big sniffle for when Buffy actually did come for him, and the realization dawned in his face. And not a word exchanged between them, once he clued in and she got him loose and helped him stagger out of there. Very, very nice.
mamishka and ssha brought me Mike's Hard Lemonade and the latter brought me mango sorbet. Which I have not yet eaten, but which is going to get some due attention this weekend along with some proper attention paid to some Elvis movies on account of I didn't get to give the King his due last night in honor of his birthday. But at any rate... On to last night's Buffy. It's been a little weird starting the whole story arc of having the Potential Slayers gathering in Sunnydale under Buffy's protection, because it's taking a bit of a step back and giving us a larger picture of what's going on than I normally most enjoy with this show. Since we're too busy getting the greater, grander events, there isn't too terribly much time for the in-depth character development that I traditionally like. Which is not exactly a complaint, but definitely an observation upon the current nature of the storyline.
The Giles issue is driving
spazzkat batshit, as we're still unsure as to whether the hell Giles is actually dead. We are sure that the writers are quite cheerfully playing up to the viewing audience, managing to keep Giles from actually touching anything.The theory that he is an agent of the First if not the First himself seems to have been shot down, at least. Mimi pointed out and quite rightly that the First generally isn't that subtle -- though now we know that the First sure as hell isn't reluctant to try to infiltrate Buffy's side's midst and try to sow dissention among the ranks by impersonating one of the dead Potentials. So at least one would think that the First is not above trying to do it by impersonating Giles, but then again, Giles so far hasn't done anything really that suggests attempts to undercut the morale of the Good Guys.
This might be because the First can't really get away with pulling the same behavior as Giles... hrmm. I'll have to watch the episode again and see whether there are any camera shots that involve Giles and the First-as-Eve visible at the same time. ;)
I'm glad they finally let Andrew loose... because really, on the grand scale of things, he's pretty pathetic when compared to the larger issues at hand. It'll be interesting to see whether he actually manages to contribute anything useful.
Two thumbs up on Kennedy, the Potential who obviously has her act best together and who also JUST as obviously thinks Willow is a babe. ;D
We're still wondering if Faith is going to show up at all though. Nice to see her existence given another nod in the conversation between the Potentials... but you would think that somebody would want to do something to check on Faith's status and maybe just make sure she's okay. But then again, I suppose that wouldn't exactly be easy. Last we checked Faith was in jail, and if I recall correctly high security jail at that. Can't exactly call up high security jail and go "Um, by the way, do you still have that dangerous young woman locked up there? Oh good, just checking."
It would, I expect, also be a bit of a pain in the ass for the Bringers to get to her in jail. The First would have to use guile and stealth to get its minions into prison to take her out... unless perhaps it managed to get into the prison shapeshifted into an appropriate prisoner and managed to incite somebody into a riot to kill her, or something.
Two thumbs up also on Willow pulling off some magic in a competent fashion, while the plot gives a nod to her deep fear about using her power. Though I do have a bit of a 'wait a minute, when the hell is Willow telepathic?' question going on. I mean, yeah, sure, she's Power Babe and all, and we even saw her clearly getting in tune with the minds and souls of practically everybody on the planet when she went Big Bad... but this was a lot more offhanded than that, and would seem to imply that she can hear people's thoughts without apparently concentrating too hard.
Or is it a matter of Buffy very specifically and very loudly focusing a thought at her? In which case I am still puzzled, because I can't think of any reason that Buffy would know that Willow has telepathic potential.
All that said, the Thunderdome sequence was pretty fine. And two definite thumbs up on decapitating the Ubervamp.
And, lastly, Spike. Big "awwwww" for him mumbling over and over "She will come for me, she will come for me, she will come for me." Last desperate stand of faith; sniffle. It was also effective to see the First trying to ruin that by appearing before him as Buffy.
And a big sniffle for when Buffy actually did come for him, and the realization dawned in his face. And not a word exchanged between them, once he clued in and she got him loose and helped him stagger out of there. Very, very nice.