tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90483882740724685382024-03-05T21:19:32.596-08:00The Two WitsTwo Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-36783863887636266912012-11-21T10:49:00.000-08:002012-11-21T10:49:00.820-08:00The BodyI've been waiting to do this episode for a while because it's so beautifully done. Kali and I planned how we were going to work it a few weeks in advance even because we wanted to do it well and not just get it done. Never did I imagine that, a week or so prior to this episode's write up, I'd find my mother passed away in her bed. When it happened a piece of me wanted to watch The Body immediately and another piece never wanted to watch it again. I ended up telling my sister, Samantha, this and she felt the same but we both ultimately decided to watch the episode once we returned home around 4-5 hours after finding our mother.<br />
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Obviously, my write up is going to be <i>very </i>different than how I originally intended it to be. As much as I want to forget everything I saw, I also want to make sure I remember every single second of it. Because of this, my write up will be how my own reactions paralleled to the character's within the episode. Be warned: I'm not going to censor myself as I'm writing this to preserve my memory and using this outlet as my pensieve, if you will. If you don't wish to hear about the details involving first finding my mother, skip past my write up paralleling Buffy as I'll try to keep most of those details tied with her (for obvious reasons.) If by chance I do bring up these types of details elsewhere, I will envelope the section with asterisks.<br />
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And now, without further ado, here is my review of The Body written from the experience of recently losing my mother.<br />
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<u>Buffy</u><br />
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On Saturday morning, May 14th, I was preparing for my graduation ceremony. I did not want to walk but I knew my mom wanted to watch me and, to be honest, I really wanted her to watch and tell me how proud she was of me. I got ready by putting on my cap and gown and leaving the house to drive and pick up my mother, since she is unable to drive because of her disabilities, with my sister. Before leaving the house, we called once and my mom didn't answer; I left a message believing she was sleeping since it was 7am. On the way to her place, which is a 15 minute drive, I called probably around 12-15 more times. My sister and I even joked about what we'd do if we found her dead. (Back story: this joking sounds bad, but our mother has literally been sick our entire lives and there have been many, many times we have been told that a) she'd pass away or b) we'd have to make the decision to stop treatment. Growing up like this made us turn to humor in the moments when we had no idea what was going on and had no way of immediately making sure she was okay.)<br />
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At 7:35am we arrived at my mom's. We parked and started walking to the house. We didn't have keys on us and our mom was OCD about locking doors. Sam was ahead of me and, next thing I know, I see her open the front door. I get to the porch and hear my sister yell my name. I walk into the apartment, turn the corner to enter my mom's room, and see my sister shaking her and shouting her name. She throws her phone and I immediately pick it up to dial 911. I tell Sam to check for a pulse and when she said she forgot how she left the room and I reached for her arm only to discover how cold it was. 911 answered and I said "I think my mom's dead." They asked the normal informational questions and then asked if I could get my mom to lie flat. I said no because her arm had fallen behind the night stand and my mom was a very heavy woman (she'd kill me if I said how much she weighed; I actually thought that as I told the 911 person how much she approximately weighed to get my point across.) They asked if I could move her to the floor and I said it was a 2 foot fall from her bed.<br />
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They then told me how to do chest compressions. I did it once and then started pacing because I knew it was pointless and she felt so...inhuman. It felt wrong to touch her at all. They asked if I was still doing compressions which reminded me I had stopped looking at my mom. I went back to her and looked at her face. I noticed her eyes were half-open and her bottom lip was blue with her chin light shades of purple. I told the 911 operator about her lips and she asked if I thought there was nothing that could be done to save her. I remember getting a bit hysterical and telling her that I didn't know and to still send someone because I wasn't a doctor. Six minutes later, at 7:41, the paramedics entered the house. They walked to her room but didn't even touch her before walking out and closing the door behind them. I stood in front of them and said they needed to put her back because we were going to be late to my graduation. They told me that they're sorry but they couldn't and they guided me to our couch.<br />
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Comparing this to Buffy's perspective it is creepy how similar they were. I remember, while my sister was shaking my mom and I grabbed her phone, I looked at my mom's face and could have sworn I saw her wake. My mom actually passes out quite a bit and it was always the same deal. We'd find her, eyes half-open and rolled back, leaning to the left and falling over her nightstand. We'd shake her and yell mom until she opened her eyes and told us that she wasn't sleeping. She was a stubborn woman and she'd refuse to believe that she was sleeping or had passed out. Anyways, this situation reminded me of when the medics came and Buffy had the daydream about coming to the rescue and saving her mom's life. I wanted so badly for this to be the case, even though I knew the moment we walked into her place that she was gone.<br />
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One thing I'm very envious of Buffy for is the fact that she threw up. I cannot even begin to explain to those of you who haven't gone through this situation of finding someone's body how sick it makes you feel. My grandfather passed away in 2005 and I wasn't there while he passed and I don't remember feeling this way so I don't know whether it happens upon finding a body or losing someone you truly love. For right now, I'm just going to refer to it as the sickness you feel upon finding the body.<br />
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I actually kept thinking in my head "this was so easy for Buffy, why can't I just be sick!" My hand that touched her would not stop feeling ice cold as her body had and everything hurt all at once. I felt so much like I had to throw up but couldn't and it irritated the hell out of me. Buffy was lucky in that regard.<br />
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Another parallel I made was with the focusing on insignificant things as she did with the numbers on the phone. When the coroner came a 8:35 (my mom's legal time of death) she had to do paperwork. At one point Samantha, who is the oldest, had left to answer a call (we were calling everybody all at once.) When she had left, the coroner asked if I was over 18 so I could sign off identifying that the body was my mother's. Or at least I think that's what I signed, here's where the parallel comes into play. She handed me the paper and a pen. I looked at the sheet and three words seemed to lift off the page: Sheri (my mom's name), daughter, and deceased. I read those words and picked up the pen to sign my name.<br />
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<u>Giles</u><br />
I didn't really have any connections with Giles actions towards the news since it's sort of difficult to be Buffy (aka the one who lost someone important) and Giles (aka the one who comes to the rescue) at the same time. I've had many different people fall in and out of Giles' role for me though. The main person though has been my sister. Unfortunately for her, as the older one, she's felt the need to sort of shelter the blow for me, I guess. Death comes with many stupid responsibilities such as calling social security to report the death, calling doctors, etc. Luckily for me, I was really only performing these tasks if I wanted to help to make me feel better but I wasn't expected to do them as much as I believe she was. <br />
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<u>Willow</u><br />
Her reaction would be really difficult for me to follow since she played the part of the best friend having no idea how the hell to help Buffy. But clothes were a big deal as they were with Willow. I kept making a really big deal out of what I wore whether it was a shirt my mom loved or even remembering to wear clean socks. It's really amazing how little you care about cleaning and everything during times like these and, in fact, how much they make things worse. At least for me, when I set out to pick up my clothes, papers, etc. I felt worse because it made it seem as if real life were continuing. Living within a messy house is temporary and made this whole experience feel the same way. It was comforting but I kept needing to remind myself to wear clean clothes like my mom would have made me do. <br />
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<u>Xander</u><br />
As Kali can tell you, I went through a little Xander period where I wanted to hit and yell at things/people. I didn't do anything because I realized that I'm annoyingly good natured and Hermione-esque when it comes to doing things you shouldn't. It made me angry but I'm glad I didn't actually punch my fist through a wall because I would have hurt myself very badly. <br />
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<u>Anya</u><br />
This phase for me has come more and more as the days go by. As I sit here writing this, it is the month anniversary of my mom's passing. I'd say this week especially it's really been confusing for me how this happened and why my mom will never get to drink fruit punch again (even though she never would have had any fruit punch herself.) I've been upset and wondering why my mom passed away instead of other random people that annoy me or that I don't even really know. Why is it okay that other people have their parents to help them while I don't. <br />
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It's hurt a lot and I'm not sure when this phase of Anya-esque behavior will go away. My guess is it will stay around for quite a while...<br />
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<u>Tara</u><br />
Tara's reaction has really hit close to home. I remember watching this episode a lot before and I always thought I understood her reaction and what she told Buffy about wanting to do/think things that may be strange but I don't think I ever really understood it until now. A few hours after getting home from my mom's that day, I called her phone thinking there was a chance she'd actually answer and left a message for her. I've done/thought many strange things that are comforting to me even though they aren't logical at all. Like a song coming on the radio meaning that she's watching me or seeing a relection of a rainbow (she loved rainbows) meaning that I was doing the right thing. <br />
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It's been very strange because I'm naturally ruled greatly by logic and most of what I'm doing contains no logic at all. However, my current belief is that if it makes me feel better and there's no way to logically prove that it I'm incorrect than I can allow myself to believe that I'm right. Honestly, none of it really matters anyways. Tons of people, especially if they're religious, believe a lot of things about death, afterlife, etc. and it really makes no sense to me. The only time you can know if you're right or wrong about your beliefs is after you pass away when it doesn't even matter anymore. I don't care if my mom is actually watching me; I'm fine believing a lie. <br />
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<u>Dawn</u><br />
My sister has been acting more like Dawn than I have. Even though we both went to visit my mom and look at her body after she passed before she was cremated my sister was much more demanding about doing this than I was. It was very weird seeing her and there were times when I chose not to; for example, when they took my mom out of her room in a bag I hid in my room while Sam watched them carry her out. I think I behaved more as Buffy did where she saw her mom's body but didn't really go out of her way to see it and that it just sort of happened. Every chance Sam got to see my mom she took and, whenever it wasn't offered, she asked while I sort of just went along for the ride with her but would have been okay only seeing her once more at the funneral home before she was cremated instead of the 2-3 times my sisterhad us go in to see her. Seeing the body helps a bit make this feel more real but it also is a very, very hard image to shake and now I feel as if most of my memories are with a dead body rather than my mom while she was alive. My memories actually mirror the dinner scene at the begining of this episode pretty well. I'll think of an event or something with my mom that was good and it'll be interrupted by images of her as I found her that morning or saw her at the funeral home. <br />
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So there you go guys. I hope you enjoyed this weird post about The Body. Hopefully I can get back to not getting word vomit every five minutes about my mom soon. But until then, I suggest making a drinking game out of it and take a shot everytime I say something about her. It should get you nice and drunk.Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-89778232827104765082011-11-18T21:08:00.000-08:002011-11-18T21:08:48.802-08:00Does This Blog Still Exist?<i>*Looks around* What is this? It appears to be a supermegafoxyawesomehot blog but it hasn't been updated at all recently. These Wits suck! </i><br />
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We don't suck! We've been busy! REALLY BUSY!<br />
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<i>Buffy should always be a priority. You both must not like this show enough. </i><br />
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Yes we do! We love Buffy more than anything (besides perhaps Harry Potter)<br />
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<i>Then why did you guys stop blogging?</i><br />
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Well, you see, Kali is an insane person and works like 4 jobs and never has anytime to do anything anymore while Sarah is busy with graduate school so she can get smarter and become even more irritating with all the random crap she knows. We're both trying really hard, but it's difficult. :(<br />
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<i>So when should we be able to expect a new post? </i><br />
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This is a hard question to answer. You see, Kali is the next writer up to bat and as we've said she's a very busy little turtle. However, we'll both work on discussing when we'll have time this week and try to get a new schedule in place. We can't promise anything, but hopefully we can find some time to get back to work on this blog because we both really miss Buffy!<br />
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<i>Did you guys see the new Hunger Games trailer? </i><br />
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Hell yeah we did! Actually, that's a GREAT idea! While you wait for us, go watch<a href="http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/the-hunger-games/"> this trailer <i> </i></a>about 50 times. It's soooooooo good.<br />
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Remember that we still love you all very much! *hugs* We'll see you for more Buffy blogging fun soon =D<br />
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-SarahTwo Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-30654684700430279612011-10-01T21:06:00.000-07:002011-10-01T21:06:58.215-07:00Episode 13: Blood TiesUgh, sorry guys. I forgot this week is high holidays for us Chosen Ones (meaning Jews, not Slayers). Because of this I've had dinner every night with different groups of people which has kept me from being able to watch and write for you guys. But don't worry, I'm back with my recap of:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Season Five, Episode Thirteen</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Blood Ties"</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div>The scoobies begin by sorting through what they know about Glory which is:<br />
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1. She's crazy<br />
2. She's immortal<br />
3. She's a god<br />
4. She sucks people's brains to get energy within this dimension<br />
5. They are all screwed<br />
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And with the music change, it's pretty easy to tell where the episode is heading: learning who the key is to be better prepared for Glory. Without realizing it, they are all asking that Buffy do something that she reeeeeeeally doesn't want to do; and for some good reasons. She's afraid of them knowing that Dawn's the key because they might treat her differently. Also, it's some very serious information that could get them into trouble with Glory if she suspects they know something *cough* this might be relevant in a future episode *cough*.<br />
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Buffy makes a silly decision telling them that her and Giles know about the key but didn't tell them. However, she comes clean moments after and now all the scoobies know about Dawn.<br />
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And now there's chanting! And mass murder! Boy, will this episode be fun; cue the intro!<br />
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And now that they know about Dawn, let's see how they act around her:<br />
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<i>Willow & Tara: Awkward</i><br />
<i>Anya: YOU MAKE A VERY PRETTY LITTLE GIRL</i><br />
<i>Xander: Too busy needing help with his thing </i><br />
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Huh, so as of right now I think Buffy is being proven right in fearing telling her friends. We'll keep track of the score throughout the episode before making our final judgement.<br />
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OH LOOK, PARTY TIME!<br />
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<i>WILLOW: See, just what you needed. (Blows bubbles)<br />
BUFFY: You are very, very wise. Now gimme, gimme, gimme! (Tara hands her a gift. Buffy begins ripping off the paper.)<br />
ANYA: This is extremely suspenseful! I want the presents.</i><br />
<i>Buffy pulls out a dress.</i><br />
<i>BUFFY: Ohh ... it's beautiful. Thank you, guys.<br />
TARA: Well, we thought you'd get lots of crossbows, other killy stuff.<br />
WILLOW: Yeah, so we figured, less killy, more frilly.<br />
ANYA: Gotta look. (Grabs the dress from Buffy) Oh, it's just so lovely! Oh, I wish it was mine!</i><br />
<i>Everyone gives her a look.</i><br />
<i>ANYA: (quietly) Oh, like you weren't all thinking the same thing. (puts the dress down)<br />
GILES: I'm fairly certain I wasn't. (whispers to Xander) I've got one just like it.</i><br />
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Raise your hand if you love Giles *raises hand*<br />
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And now it's time for Dawn's gift: a sweet picture frame with a picture of a memory that was implanted into everyone's brain. How lovely. Don't worry, there's more awkwardness ahead.<br />
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After the present opening, Dawn walks around realizing everyone acts weird once she enters the room. So she does the only rationally think she can think of.<br />
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<i>DAWN: Why does everybody start acting all weird when I'm around?<br />
XANDER: Me? Me not weird.</i><br />
<i>DAWN: I'm not an idiot. I know you're talking about me.<br />
XANDER: No, no, we really weren't.<br />
ANYA: (fake voice) We were talking about sex.</i><br />
<i>DAWN: (to Joyce) They were talking about me, just like everybody is.<br />
XANDER: Again, not so much. In fact, none.<br />
ANYA: We were talking about sex. I mean, you know us, sometimes we like to pretend stuff-<br />
JOYCE: Um...<br />
XANDER: Anya!<br />
ANYA: You know, like, say there's a fireman, or a shepherd-<br />
BUFFY: You know what? Let's not have this exchange of images right now.<br />
DAWN: Oh. Right. Of course. Can't let Dawn hear anything. (angry) Fine. I'm just gonna go to bed. That way I won't accidentally get exposed to, like, words.</i><br />
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Who believes that Dawn is actually going to bed? Nobody? Good, because if you did then you definitely should not be the parent of a teenager. Luckily she runs into Spike as she's sneaking out of the house. She tells him of her plans to go to the Magic Box and steal things and he tags along to help protect her.<br />
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Uh-oh, she plans on stealing Giles's notes. This can't end well...<br />
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She finds it and starts piecing it together. Only those outside of reality can detect it? <a href="http://thetwowits.blogspot.com/2011/05/season-5-episode-2.html">Check. </a> The key is also susceptible to necromanced animal detection, particularly those of canine or serpent construct? <a href="http://thetwowits.blogspot.com/2011/05/season-5-episode-8.html">Check</a>.<br />
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<i>SPIKE: (frowns at book) "The monks possessed the ability to transform energy, bend reality." Blah, blah, blah. (looks at Dawn) Good lord, Giles writes as dull as he talks, doesn't he? (back to book) "They started work. But the Council ... has suggested ... to us that they were interrupted. Presumably by ... Glory." (Dawn continues staring into the distance as she listens) "They obviously did manage to accomplish the taste..." (looks closer) "accomplish the task. They had to be certain the Slayer would protect it with her life. So they sent the key to her ... in human form. In the form of a sister." Huh! I guess that's you, nibblet.</i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim9uv1yoOeCmMX-PmcKweYUYOc0EavrDC7my9ErEj3zKSO0E0-5qimJr7i-w7sKL-jdq4yEZpRUDvCc0wTiDKFf7Gw7yb15u-YYXh0eZ2kf8rIo_cJtpvyv3nZJzfiiGBMWMiEdVa8sWs/s1600/BloodTies240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim9uv1yoOeCmMX-PmcKweYUYOc0EavrDC7my9ErEj3zKSO0E0-5qimJr7i-w7sKL-jdq4yEZpRUDvCc0wTiDKFf7Gw7yb15u-YYXh0eZ2kf8rIo_cJtpvyv3nZJzfiiGBMWMiEdVa8sWs/s320/BloodTies240.jpg" width="320" /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Dun Dun DUN</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">We interrupt this important revelation to bring you this amazingly adorable moment:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>BUFFY: Maybe it's time to start a new tradition. Birthdays without boyfriends. It could be just as much fun.<br />
WILLOW: Preaching to the choir here, baby. (smiles at Tara)</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">We shall now return to your regularly scheduled programming.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh, look. Dawn seems to be handling this well; she just sliced up her arm. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Everyone leaves the party so Buffy and Joyce can talk to Dawn. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><i>DAWN: (softly, not looking up) Why didn't you tell me?</i><br />
<i>BUFFY: We were going to. It just... (trails off. Dawn gives her an angry look)<br />
JOYCE: We thought it would be better if we waited until you were older.<br />
DAWN: How old am I now?<br />
JOYCE: You're fourteen, sweetheart, you know that.<br />
DAWN: No. The monks. When did ... when did they ... (trails off)<br />
BUFFY: Six months ago.<br />
DAWN: (trying to hold back tears) I've only been alive for six months, huh?<br />
JOYCE: Honey, you've been alive a lot longer than that to us.<br />
DAWN: You don't know that! You don't know anything. I'm, I'm just a key, right? Everything about me is made up.<br />
BUFFY: Dawn ... (sits on the bed next to Dawn) Mom and I know what we feel. I know I care about you. I know that I worry about you-<br />
DAWN: You worry about me because you have to. I'm your job. Protect the key, right?<br />
BUFFY: I worry because my sister is cutting herself!<br />
DAWN: Yeah? How do you know? Maybe this is just another fake memory from my fake family.<br />
JOYCE: Sweetheart-<br />
DAWN: Get out.<br />
BUFFY: Dawn...<br />
DAWN: Get out, get out, get out!</i><br />
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Buffy tells Giles they need to find out more about the key so Dawn can know about where she comes from but he's still confused on how she found out. He doesn't have to guess for long though because Anya is going to find a cigarette in some of the merchandise.<br />
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And it takes all of two seconds for Buffy to go and attack Spike.<br />
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<i>BUFFY: How could you let her find out like that? From books and papers? You hate me that much?<br />
SPIKE: I was just along for the ride. Not like I knew she was mystical glowy key thing. Nobody keeps me in the bloody loop, do they?<br />
BUFFY: (bangs the lid, steps back) You could have stopped her.<br />
SPIKE: Oh, yeah, here it comes. Something goes wrong in your life, blame Spike. News flash, blondie. (Heaves the lid up off of him, tossing it aside) If kid sis wants to grab a midnight stroll, she'll find a way sooner or later. I just thought she'd be safer with big bad looking over her shoulder.<br />
BUFFY: (glares at him silently for a moment) She shouldn't have found out like that.<br />
SPIKE: You didn't think you could keep the truth from her forever, did you? (angrily) Maybe if *you* had been more honest with her in the first place, you wouldn't be trying to make yourself feel better with a round of Kick The Spike.</i><br />
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He has a point about this. The issue is highly complex but she can't blame Spike for her finding out the way she did. It was her idea and he was just keeping her safe while she went through with it because she'd have done it with or without him.<br />
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Meanwhile, Dawn is freaking the eff out. She's yelling at everyone, getting suspended from school, and, obviously, she has to overhear this:<br />
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<i>JOYCE: (OS) She yelled at a teacher. The things she said, Buffy, I mean she never used language like that<br />
BUFFY: (OS) She probably feels like she can say or do anything right now. She's not real. We're not her family, we don't even know what she is.</i><br />
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To which she takes all her journals and burns them before running away. However, if she had stayed to finish listening in, she would have heard this:<br />
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<i>JOYCE: How can you talk about Dawn as if she's a thing?<br />
BUFFY: I'm not! I'm just ... saying that's probably how she feels.<br />
JOYCE: Well, then we have to show her that it isn't true. She needs to know that she's still a part of this family and that we love her.<br />
BUFFY: It's not that simple! We're not gonna be able to fix this with a hug and a kiss and a bowl of soup! Dawn needs to know where she came from, she needs real answers.<br />
JOYCE: (sits) What she needs is her sister, Buffy, not the Slayer.<br />
BUFFY: The Slayer is the only thing standing between Dawn ... and this god from the bitch dimension that wants to shove her in some kind of lock and give her a good twirl. Mom, I need to be out there, doing my job</i><br />
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God, is this one big mess. A whole bunch of big questions need to be answered: What's necessary to know about yourself in order to feel whole? What constitutes a person being a person? How much can we, or should we, rely on our memories?<br />
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And while we're all trying to formulate answers to them, Dawn is breaking into the mental ward of the hospital. Luckily, Ben finds her and she starts talking to him about her issues. And this can't possibly go wrong because there is no way that he's---<br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Glory is asking Dawn if she knows where Buffy is keeping her key. Dawn is stalling by asking what the key looks like and getting her to talk as long as she can in hopes that--</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">And with the help of the scoobies, Dawn is saved from Glory! But it's thanks to Buffy herself for saving Dawn from herself</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i></i></div><i><div style="font-style: normal;"><i>BUFFY: Are you okay? Did she hurt you?<br />
DAWN: Why do you care?<br />
BUFFY: Because I love you. You're my sister.<br />
DAWN: No I'm not.<br />
BUFFY: Yes you are. (Lifts Dawn's arm, so we can see her arm and hand are still bloody) Look, it's blood. It's Summers blood. </i></div><i><div style="display: inline !important;">It's just like mine. It doesn't matter where you came from, or, or how you got here. You are my sister. (pause) There's no way you could annoy me so much if you weren't.</div></i><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Dawn tries telling Buffy about Ben but she can't really remember what happened to him...what's with that? It's as if Joss is just doing a lot of foreshadowing or something. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">ANYWAYS</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Thus ends my long string of posts. Stay tuned next week for Kali's episode recap of </span>Crush. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Until next time,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Sarah</span></div></i>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-75547969949771401882011-09-25T12:47:00.000-07:002011-09-25T12:47:30.087-07:00Episode 12: Checkpoint<div align="center"><strong>Season Five, Episode Twelve</strong></div><div align="center"><em>"Checkpoint"</em></div><br />
It's time for a Scooby meeting! Giles was able to score some information about Glory from the council. Or at least will score some information once the council comes to Sunnydale to tell them what they've discovered. The world freaks out and Tara doesn't understand why because Watchers should just be like "other Gileses." However, before she learns how wrong she is, I'd like to point out how amazing she looks:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Everyone done swooning? Okay, good! Now Buffy goes back to freaking out saying that the council almost killed her and she doesn't want them here. And she does have a point. As Willow pointed out, the last time they tried to kill her they thought she was Faith but the time before that in <em>Helpless?</em> What was their excuse then? Buffy rehashing these stories worries Anya who doesn't believes that they will be ex-demon compatible. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy continues freaking the hell out saying that it's a delicate time since she has to take care of Dawn...but, as Xander points out, she's always had to take care of Dawn. And then she freaks out more when she finds out Dawn was listening in but, as Willow points out, what's she gonna do? "<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">set the Junior High buzzing with 'There's a delegation a-comin'?'" </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">We then switch over to Glory who has a killer migraine that can only be cured by sucking someone's brain. So basically just your run of the mill migraines that everyone get. Anyways, after she's cured she discusses with her ugly minion how she needs to find the key and she's going to use "Mousy the Vampire Slayer" to figure out where it is. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And now it's party time at The Magic Box! And there ain't no party like a Council party because a Council party, well, isn't any fun...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">They start off their party by going through the store and pointing out everything wrong with it and which items should be removed. They then move onto the second stage of their grand ole' time: closing the store! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">After Anya gets upset, the Council announces who they are and she very abruptly leaves. After, they announce that the reason for their visit is because they have vital, but delicate, information and they needs to do a review in order to know that Giles and "his Slayer" can handle it. But don't worry, Buffy has acquired "remarkable focus":</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">PROFESSOR ROBERTS: <em>I assure you, there's near consensus in the academic community regarding Rasputin's death-</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">BUFFY: <em>There was near consensus about Columbus too, until someone asked the Vikings what they were up to in the 1400's and they were like - "discovering this America-shaped continent."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Now this is a bit strong but Buffy does have a point. She's in college and has opinions and her suggesting to come at things from a different perspective should not have been made fun of so harshly by this professor. This gives us some insight as to how the Council review is going to unfold. These old academics believe they deserve respect because of the work they've put in. However, Buffy doesn't deserve the same respect because in their eyes she's just a student. Buffy keeps fighting with authority figures because it doesn't seem fair or right that they get respect because they've earned a title whereas she isn't warranted any because of the title given to her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">But don't worry, Buffy's going to take some of her anger out on the next vamp she meets; just like always. However, Spike ends up staking the vamp for her. Uh-oh, poor guy. Buffy is very angry and she didn't need his help! He made a boo boo by coming to her rescue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">We move over from angry!Buffy to grumpy!Ben. Glory's minion approaches Ben to ask that he gets closer to the Slayer since she would like more information on her. Ben doesn't think he knows the Slayer but once the minion tells him that her name is "Buffy something" it registers: Buffy Summers is the Slayer. However, I doubt he's going to be willing to help her. He announces that he has a message for Glory too and the screen cuts to black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">And now back to The Magic Box where Buffy walks in and sees the Council. She tries to leave since she's already had a bad day but they stop her. Everything is pretty boring with them explaining their stupid rules to her and what is going to take place. However, things get adorable when Giles gets angry and begins yelling at Travers saying that she's not their bloody instrument. Poor guy, he just wants to protect Buffy from these pricks but he holds no power over them. In fact, they announce how much power they hold over them by saying that, if they don't follow by their rules, they'll close The Magic Box and send Giles back to England. Again with annoying people with earned titles demanding Buffy's respect. How annoying...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>GILES: It's a power play, is what it is. It's all about who has the power.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>BUFFY: I'm guessing they do. Big power outage in Buffy County.</em></span><br />
<em> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">GILES: I should've set you loose on 'em, that's what I should've done.</span></em><br />
<em> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">BUFFY: Giles, that guy Travers, he's like sixty something years old. I can't hit him. Can I?</span></em><br />
<em> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">GILES: I suppose not. But I bloody well could. Think I will.</span></em><br />
<em> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">BUFFY: Can they really do the stuff they threatened to do? Kick you out of the country?</span></em><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">GILES: In a hot second. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">They're all right when it comes to the rough stuff, a little ham-handed but they get it done. But this stuff, bureaucracy, pulling political strings, paperwork... this is where they're the best in the world. They can kill you with a stroke of the pen. Poncy buggers.</span></em></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">This is a big issue within the entire series of Buffy and frankly all of Joss' work: power lies within the bureaucracy. What this means is that while </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Buffy and the scoobies hold knowledge about demons and have the ability to save the world and <em>should </em>hold the power, they don't because they don't have the paperwork to prove it. Welcome to the world where shit is really annoying most of the time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">We'll go back from this intensely informative moment into more adorableness: Buffy telling Giles that they worked the right angle with her because she can't lose him. D'awwwwwww.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Buffy ends by asking Giles where they're going to start and the answer to this is with the interogation of her friends! God, do I love this part! </span><br />
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<em>Anya: Anya Christina Emanuella Jenkins, twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July, and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. "Who's our little patriot?" they'd say, when I was younger, and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now. </em><br />
<em>Philip: (taking notes) So, you spell it A-N-Y-A, yes?<br />
Anya: Yes.<br />
Philip: Fine, now we can get to the questions.</em><br />
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<em>Nigel: Good. I need to know a little bit more about the Slayer, and about the both of you. Your relationship, whatever you can tell me.<br />
Tara: O-o-our relationship?<br />
Willow: We're friends.<br />
Tara: Good friends.<br />
Willow: Girlfriends, actually.<br />
Tara: Yes, we're girlfriends.<br />
Willow: We're in love. We're ... lovers. (puts hand on Tara's knee) We're lesbian, gay-type lovers.<br />
Nigel: I meant your relationship with the Slayer. </em><br />
<em>Tara: Um, just good friends.</em> <br />
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<em>Xander:</em> Best <em>friends. Willow and me and Buffy. The three of us have been together from the beginning. We've always gone on patrols, and uh, done demon research with her and everything.<br />
Philip: Have you mastered any fighting disciplines over the years?<br />
Xander: No.<br />
Philip: So, you have no special skills, or powers, or knowledge that you bring to the mix. Neither of you.<br />
Anya: Just enthusiasm for killing the demons. Go deadness for the demons.<br />
Xander: I don't have any powers, but I do help.<br />
Philip: How? Be specific.<br />
Xander: Last year, uh, Willow, Giles and me combined our essences with Buffy, which isn't as weird as it sounds. (laughs nervously) We merged, and I was the heart part of a super-Buffy. Again, let me stress the not-as-weird thing.<br />
Anya: I'm told it was all very professional.</em><br />
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<em>Nigel: Are you saying that the Slayer needs that level of help from you often?</em> <br />
<em>Willow: No, no, she doesn't need help.<br />
Tara: She'd be fine without us. Sometimes she goes off and does stuff without even telling us.<br />
Willow: Not that she's like a, a weird loner or anything.<br />
Tara: I'm not sure we're saying this right.<br />
Willow: See, here's the thing. We, we can help because we do magicks. I'm working on this ball of sunshine thing. See, I have this theory.<br />
Tara: It's very cool.<br />
Willow: A-and if it works, easier slaying for Buffy. Not that it's hard for her now!<br />
Nigel: Interesting. What level are you at?<br />
Tara: Level?<br />
Nigel: Magical proficiency level?<br />
Willow: Oh! Uh, high, a high level. Very high. One of those ... top levels.<br />
Tara: Five! </em><br />
<em>Nigel writes this down as Willow and Tara give each other anxious looks. Willow mouths, "five??" and Tara shrugs. </em><br />
<em>Nigel: And you're registered as practicing witches under the names as you gave them to me?<br />
Tara: R-registered?<br />
Willow: Oh yes! Yes, of course we're-<br />
Tara: ...r-r-registered. </em><br />
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<em>Philip: Do either of you know anything about the key?<br />
Anya: Nope, but it sounds demony to me. I don't hold with that demon nonsense. Muffin? I cooked them myself.<br />
Philip: So, Buffy sometimes protects you from the dangerous elements of her work.<br />
Xander: Yes. She's saved my life lots of times. The Vampires in this town hate her.</em><br />
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<em>Watcher: We understand that you help the Slayer</em><br />
<em>Spike: I pitch in when she pays me.<br />
Watcher: She pays you? She gives you money?<br />
Spike: Money, a little nip of blood out of some stray victim, whatever.<br />
Watcher: Blood?<br />
Spike: Well, if they're gonna die anyway. Come to think of it, though, that's a bit scandalous, isn't it? Personally, I'm shocked. The girl's slipping</em>.<br />
<em>Watcher: You've noticed a decline in her work?<br />
Spike: Oh, yeah. See, the poor little twig can't keep a man. Gets her all down. Few more disappointments, she'll be cryin' on my shoulder, mark my words.<br />
Watcher: Is that what you want? I'd think you'd want to kill her. You've killed Slayers before.<br />
Spike: Heard of me, have you? </em><br />
<em>Watcher: I ... wrote my thesis on you.</em><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">So. Freaking. Hilarious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Next we move onto the physical test where Buffy will be given instructions in Japanese. Which in other words means Buffy is screwed. After she epicly fails this task she asks for another chance saying she "might be getting this, like, inner ear thing, and so maybe, maybe if I got a note, I could try again." I love this line; apparently Buffy thinks she's at school or something saying she could get a doctor's note. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">The last part of the test will be to look into Buffy's strategies. This section will begin tonight giving Buffy a few hours to "prepare." Or, you know, have a conversation with Glory in her living room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Dawn once again proves she's an idiot when Glory brings her into the conversation. Buffy tells Glory that she knows nothing and Dawn interrupts saying that she knows stuff and she hears things she's not supposed to all the time and she'll figure it out eventually. *head desk* Dawn, why are you stupid? Buffy was trying to PROTECT you because you ARE the key! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">After this conversation, Glory threatens to kill everyone Buffy loves while she watches which makes Buffy force Dawn and Joyce to pack their bags and take them over to Spike who is going to babysit them. The best part of this is when Joyce and Spike connect over Passions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Back at The Magic Box, the Council morons are counting each minute Buffy is late because this is the most important thing ever. It's not as if she has a sacred birthright that sometimes forces her to need to fight evil things on her way to meetings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">However, through this surprise attack from the Knights of Byzantium, Buffy learns exactly how to get back at the Council. </span><br />
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<em>Buffy: No review. No interrogation. No questions you</em> know <em>I can't answer. No hoops, no jumps -and no interruptions. See ... I've had a lot of people talking at me the last few days. Everyone just lining up to tell me how unimportant I am. And I've finally figured out why. (looks Travers in the eye) Power. I have it.</em> <br />
<em>Buffy: Glory ... came to my home today.<br />
Giles: (alarmed) Buffy, are you-<br />
Buffy: Just to talk. She told me I'm a bug, I'm a flea, she could squash me in a second. Only she didn't. She came into my home, and we talked. We had what in her warped brain probably passes for a civilized conversation. Why? Because she needs something from me. Because I have power over her. You guys didn't come all the way from England to determine whether or not I was good enough to be let back in. You came to beg me to let you back in. To give your jobs, your lives some semblance of</em> <em>meaning. You're Watchers. Without a Slayer, you're pretty much just watchin' Masterpiece Theater. You can't stop Glory. You can't do anything with the information you have except maybe publish it in the "Everyone Thinks We're Insane-O's Home Journal." So here's how it's gonna work. You're gonna tell me everything you know. Then you're gonna go away. You'll contact me if and when you have any</em> <em>further information about Glory. The magic shop will remain open. Mr. Giles will stay here as my official Watcher, reinstated at full salary...<br />
Giles:</em> (coughing) <em>Retroactive.<br />
Buffy: ...to be paid retroactively from the month he was fired. I will continue my work with the help of my friends...<br />
Watcher: I, uh, I ... don't want a sword thrown at me, but, but, civilians, I - we're talking about children.<br />
Buffy: We're talking about two very powerful witches and a thousand-year-old ex-demon.<br />
Anya: Willow's a demon?!<br />
Philip: The boy? No power there.<br />
Buffy: The boy has clocked more field time than all of you combined. He's part of the unit.<br />
Willow:</em> (whispers to Xander) <em>That's Riley-speak.<br />
Xander:</em> (whispers back, with a big grin)<em> I've clocked field time.<br />
Buffy: Now.</em> (addresses the Watchers)<em> You all may be very good at your jobs. The only way we're gonna find out is if you work with me. You can all take your time thinking about that. </em>(turns back to Travers)<em> But I want an answer right now from Quinton, 'cause I think he's understanding me.<br />
Travers: </em>(clears throat) <em>Uh, your terms are acceptable.</em> <br />
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</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Then funniness happens when Travers tells Giles they found some alcohol when they were looking through his shop and he'd like a glass. Buffy tells him to wait until she hears about what kind of demon Glory is. But that's just the thing, Glory isn't a demon: she's a God.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Until next time!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">-Sarah</div><div align="left"></div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-20657422053864592482011-09-14T10:00:00.000-07:002011-09-14T10:00:01.547-07:00Episode 11: TriangleWHY HELLO MY LOVELIES! *hugs*<br />
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Aaaaaand we're off!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Season Five, Episode Eleven</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Triangle"</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We start off with Xander and Anya discussing Riley. Just in case you all forgot, Riley went bye-bye very suddenly after giving Buffy an ultimatum. This leads Anya to tell Xander that if he ever decides to leave, she needs a warning that it's going to happen first. It's pretty adorable, actually. But ultimately she decides that this won't be necessary since it's about Buffy messing up and, last time I checked, Buffy wasn't included in Xander and Anya's relationship. But poor Buffy, she just doesn't know how to deal with a breakup by herself so she obviously goes to seek the lord's help. No, seriously:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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BUFFY: So, um, a-about being a nun... (They begin to walk along together) you know, um, with the whole ... abjuring the company of men ... you know, how's that working for you? The... abjuring. <br />
NUN: (confused) Um ... good. <br />
BUFFY: Yeah, do you, do you have to be like super-religious? <br />
NUN: Well, uh... <br />
BUFFY: How's the food?<br />
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Raise your hand if you love Buffy's priorities.<br />
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Once she comes to learn that the lord's work isn't for her, she goes back to what she knows: beating up things. While she punches, Giles discusses how he plans on asking the council to help find information about Glory but promises not to include Dawn's name.<br />
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To get this information, Giles needs to leave to go to England. The scoobies have different opinions on how they feel about his departure...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles still seems a bit uneasy about Anya running the store alone because of all the responsibilities including the trash and all. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><i>BUFFY: Look, don't worry about the shop. We'll take care of it. We can open and close, and, and we'll deal with everyone. </i><br />
<i>WILLOW: We can come by between classes! Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens ... but it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know, insane. <br />
TARA: I said "quirky." <br />
ANYA:</i> (annoyed)<i> Hello, I work here! I'll take care of everything. <br />
XANDER: (not looking up from his reading) Yeah, Anya can do it! <br />
ANYA: Thanks, sweetie. (pats him on shoulder) Well said. <br />
GILES: Um, Anya, while, while I completely trust you uh, uh, to take care of the inventory and the money, um ... dealing with people requires a certain, uh ... finesse. <br />
ANYA: </i>(angry)<i> I have finesse! I have finesse coming out of my bottom! I can completely lie to the health inspector. I can, you know, distract him with coy smiles, and, and bribe him with money and goods. <br />
XANDER: See there? She'll be great. <br />
WILLOW: Don't worry, Giles. I'll help her take care of everything. It'll be ship-shape. Better, it'll be shop-shape.</i> (smiles) <i><br />
ANYA: Xander, she's talking to Giles like I'm not here. Make her stop. <br />
GILES: Perhaps I'd better call the airline... <br />
WILLOW: I'm just trying to help out! Xander, tell her. </i>(smacks Xander in the arm) <i><br />
GILES: ...schedule an earlier flight back, excuse me. <br />
ANYA: Tell her that I don't need her help. </i><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><i>XANDER:</i> (to Buffy)<i> So, how goes the slaying? </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">By now we should all be able to see why this episode is entitled "Triangle."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But enough about this crap, Joyce is out of her bathrobe!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">After Dawn and Buffy finish teasing their mom, aka the woman with a hole in her skull, they both head to Buffy's room and have an adorable sister-to-sister conversation about Riley. It's nice but I'm not even going to discuss any of it because LOOK AT SPIKE:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<i>SPIKE: (softly) Um ... there's something I got to tell you. About showing you Riley in that place. (deep breath) I didn't mean to ... (long pause) Anyway, I know you're feeling all betrayed - by him, not me. (The camera pans around and we see he is talking to a mannequin, which has no legs but wears a blue blouse and a blonde wig. It's set up on a block of stone so that it is about Buffy's height.) I was trying to help, you know. Not like I made him be there, after all. Actually trying to help you. Best intentions. </i><br />
He gets a little agitated, paces a few steps away. <br />
<i>SPIKE: I mean, you know, pretty state you'd be in, thinking things are all right (moves back toward the mannequin) while he's toddling halfway round the bend. (Stares at the mannequin, gets madder) Oh, I'll insult him if I want to! I'm the one who's on your side! Me! Doing you a favor! (very angry) And you, being dead petty about it - me, getting nothing but your hatred and your venom and - you ungrateful bitch! </i><br />
He loses control of himself, smashes the box of chocolates over the mannequin's head. <br />
<i>SPIKE: Bitch! </i><br />
He hits the mannequin with the chocolates again and it falls over. The box of chocolate goes flying.<br />
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Spike sighs. He picks up the mannequin and replaces it. He carefully rearranges the wig, sighs again, picks up the box of chocolate, tries to stuff the chocolates back in. He composes himself and faces the mannequin again. <br />
<i>SPIKE: (quietly) Buffy ... there's something I wanted to tell you.</i><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">I have lost all faith in me getting this post to flow very well. The episode is amazing, but it jumps to different plot points way too much for me to think of enough catchy transitions so I just give up; here's Willow being hot.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">But omg look at the cash register! Willow endangered the money! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>WILLOW: Of course, that's what she cares about. </i>(imitates Anya)<i> "I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services." <br />
ANYA:</i> (horrified) <i>Xander, she's pretending to be me! <br />
WILLOW: Well, can you even believe how she's acting? <br />
XANDER: Okay, you know what? I'm tired of being the one in the middle. I'm not gonna let you pull me into this. <br />
WILLOW: I'm not. <br />
XANDER: Whatever the issue is between you two, just figure it out without me.</i></div><br />
<i>WILLOW:</i> (softly) <i>You made him mad. <br />
ANYA:</i> (angrily) <i>Me?! <br />
WILLOW: Tara, who do you think he was more mad at? <br />
TARA: Um, you know? I think, uh, maybe, maybe you guys have some stuff you need to work out, you know, just really ... talk. </i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Who doesn't love Tara? </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">After both her and Xander leave, Willow goes back to stealing Giles' merchandise in order to make a ball of light, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GqPupmPLqc">a tiny ball of light.</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">While Willow brews, Anya spouts out prices of every ingredient being used. Before Willow starts the actual ritual, she tells Anya that it is very specific and any non-ritual word can disrupt it so she needs to be quiet. Let's see how well this works out:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<i>WILLOW: Spirits of light, I invoke thee. Let the gloom of darkness part before you. </i><br />
<i>A small circlet of yellow-orange light arises out of the cauldron and begins to spin. </i><br />
<i>WILLOW: Let the moonlight be made pale by your presence. Spirits-<br />
ANYA: Is it done? <br />
WILLOW: Shh!!! </i><br />
The circle of light flashes brighter and grows a bit larger. <br />
<i>WILLOW: Spirits of light, grant my wishes. <br />
ANYA: Sorry, I thought you were done. <br />
WILLOW: </i>(angry)<i> Do you</i> wanna <i>screw this up? </i><br />
Willow turns away to yell at Anya. The circle of light grows bigger and brighter, and its spinning becomes less smooth. It continues to grow and twist crazily. <br />
<i>ANYA: No. No. I'm sure you can do that all on your own. <br />
WILLOW: Hey Anya, whatever really has you mad, why don't you just say it, like you do every other thought that stomps through your brain? </i><br />
<i>ANYA: </i>(stands up) <i>I believe I have said it. <br />
WILLOW: No. You haven't. Come on. Let it out! </i><br />
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The next scene makes me very happy because Tara and Buffy are talking together after their class. I looooooove their friendship and it isn't shown nearly enough. But anyways, that's not the point. The point is that Buffy's about to go insane:<br />
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<i>BUFFY: </i>(stops walking) <i>Sort of. But I'm starting to get perspective on the whole situation. You know, maybe Riley's ... where he's supposed to be. You know, maybe he needed ... to be where he was needed. <br />
TARA: Willow says that things always happen for a reason. <br />
BUFFY: But you ever notice people only say that about bad things? </i>(Tara laughs)<i> But not for me the furrowed brow.</i> (resumes walking) <i>What do you say we go pick up Willow and indulge ourselves in a little after-school hamburger? <br />
TARA: I guess we could. She might still be at the magic shop. I was there earlier, and she and Anya kinda got in this little squabble ... Xander and I sort of cleared out, he was pretty upset. <br />
BUFFY:</i> (stops walking, looks very concerned) <i>Anya and, and Xander are in trouble? <br />
TARA: Oh! No, I-I said that all wrong. It was nothing. Willow and Anya were sort of fighting, and then Xander kind of snapped at both of them and he left. <br />
BUFFY:</i> (alarmed) <i>He left? Xander left Anya? <br />
TARA:</i> (frowning) <i>Ummm ... no, not "left her" left her, he just left. It was only a little thing, it-<br />
BUFFY: Little thing? </i>(tearfully) <i>See, the thing is, the ... little things get bigger, you know, and, and, and, and, if you don't catch the little thing and then, boom! You have this, this, this whole huge thing! <br />
TARA: Oh dear. <br />
BUFFY:</i> (sniffling) <i>Not, not, not them with the little things! They can't break up! <br />
TARA: Oh, I think-<br />
BUFFY: They have a beautiful love. <br />
TARA: I think they'll be fine.</i> <br />
Buffy bursts into tears and puts her face against Tara's shoulder, hugging her. Tara looks alarmed, pats Buffy on the back. <br />
<i>BUFFY:</i> (muffled) <i>They have a miraculous love! <br />
TARA: What? <br />
BUFFY: </i>(sobbing)<i> A miraculous love! </i><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">And back to Anya and Willow who are driving in Giles car trying to find Olaf. Nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">And now time for another duo I love: Xander and Spike. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br />
<i>SPIKE: Hey, watch it. </i>(looks at Xander) <i>Oh, it's you. <br />
XANDER: Spike, don't let me stop you from not being here. <br />
SPIKE: I was here first, you know. <br />
XANDER: Uh-huh. Go away. </i><br />
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But he doesn't. Instead he talks with Xander about the chicken wings and "a sort of a flower-shaped thing they make from an onion" that's, in Spike's own words, brilliant. Keep this conversation in mind; we'll revisit it in 2 seasons.<br />
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Now back to Buffy and Tara. They both went to The Magic Box to find Willow only to find a big, big mess. This leads Tara to make my heart melt by saying, very sadly, <i>"Buffy, something's been here and Willow's gone." </i><br />
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After Tara causes the world to have a collective sad, we begin a series of conversations which lead to uncontrollable laughter. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Lulz #1-</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br />
<i>OLAF: Barmaid! Bring me stronger ale, and some plump, succulent babies to eat. </i><br />
<i>XANDER: I'm gonna run and get Buffy</i>. (Pats Spike on the shoulder) <i>Or maybe you could fight him. <br />
SPIKE: Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much. <br />
OLAF: </i>(pointing at Spike) <i>You there!</i> (walks up to Spike and Xander)<i> Do you know where there are babies? <br />
SPIKE:</i> (to Xander) <i>What do you think, the hospital? <br />
XANDER: What? Shut up!</i> (to Olaf) <i>Um ... listen... <br />
OLAF: I find myself very hungry. And when I'm hungry I grow short of patience. <br />
XANDER: Well, we can take care of the hungry, so how's about you just sit down in one of the ... sturdier chairs, and we can ... have a calm talk and something to eat. <br />
OLAF: Can it be babies? <br />
XANDER: Well, not so much. <br />
OLAF: </i>(disappointed)<i> Oh. <br />
XANDER: But maybe ... some roast pigs, and ... stags, and ... much hearty grog.</i> (grins nervously) <br />
<i>SPIKE: They've got this onion thing... </i><br />
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<b>Lulz #2-</b><br />
<i>WILLOW: I wish Buffy was here. </i><br />
The door opens again and Buffy runs in, followed by Tara. <br />
<i>BUFFY: I'm here</i>. <br />
Willow looks surprised. <br />
<i>WILLOW: I wish I had a million dollars.</i> (The others look at her)<i> Just checking. </i><br />
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<i>BUFFY: </i>(looks at Olaf) <i>What's going on? Where did he come from? </i><br />
<i>Spike steps forward, looking nervous. <br />
SPIKE: Hello, Buffy. </i><br />
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<b>Lulz #4-</b><br />
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<i>WILLOW: Uh, let the conjuring be-<br />
OLAF: Stop! </i><br />
<i>WILLOW: Nobody lets me finish! </i><br />
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After all of our lulz, we learn a new interesting fact about Anya: she dated a troll! Only he wasn't a troll then, she turned him into a troll after he cheated on her thus getting setting her on her new vengeance demon career path. <br />
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Oh, look, more lulz!<br />
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<i>BUFFY: What are you doing? <br />
SPIKE: Making this woman more comfortable.</i> (looks up at Buffy)<i> I'm not sampling, I'll have you know. Just look at all these lovely blood-covered people. I could, but not a taste for Spike, not a lick. Know you wouldn't like it. <br />
BUFFY:</i> (amazed) <i>You want credit for not feeding on bleeding disaster victims? <br />
SPIKE: Well, yeah. <br />
BUFFY: You're disgusting.</i> (Walks away)<br />
<i>SPIKE</i>: (to himself) <i>What's it take?</i><br />
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Buffy instructs Willow and Anya to go to The Magic Box to look up a spell to stop Olaf. It's here that we get to the real heart of the issue between the two of them:<br />
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<i>WILLOW: You're so rude! I mean, sure, at first, ex-demon, doesn't know the rules. Well, you been here forever. Learn the rules. <br />
ANYA: Rules are stupid. <br />
WILLOW: Great, whatever. I just thought you might be interested in learning to act more human. Some of us enjoy it. Oh, look for, uh, spells with dimensional portals too. <br />
ANYA: I </i>am<i> a human. And there are ... many humans who are stranger than me. <br />
WILLOW: Uh-huh, but, unless I'm really wrong about crazy Larry down at the bus stop, he's probably not gonna turn Xander into a troll. <br />
ANYA: Well, now, that's a very complicated proced... (pauses) Oh. You think I'm gonna hurt Xander? I would </i>never<i> hurt Xander! You really think I would do that! <br />
WILLOW: Anya, it's what you do. You spent what, a thousand years hurting men? You got your "thousand years of hurting men" gold watch. <br />
ANYA: I was a demon then, and, and I don't even have any powers now! Is this the spell? <br />
WILLOW: Only if you want him to double in size, and grow extra arms, which ... let's not. A-and by the way, you weren't a demon when you turned Olaf into Lord of the Hammers. You managed that. Also, there's ... other ways to hurt Xander. <br />
ANYA: I don't do magic now. You're the one with that kind of power. In fact, D'Hoffryn offered you my old job. You're closer to being a vengeance demon than I am, maybe Xander should be afraid of you. <br />
WILLOW: Xander's my best friend! <br />
ANYA: Oh, and you don't want anyone else to have him. I know what broke up him and Cordelia, you know. It was you! And your lips! <br />
WILLOW: No it was not! Well, yes it was so, but ... that was a long time ago. Do you think I'd do that again? <br />
ANYA: Why not? <br />
WILLOW: Well, hello, gay now. <br />
ANYA: But you're always doing everything you can to, to point out how much I'm an outsider. You've known him since you were squalling infants together. You'll always know him better than I do. You could sweep in and, and poison his mind against me. <br />
WILLOW: You're insane! I am not gonna take him away and I am not gonna hurt him. <br />
ANYA: Well, I'm not either! </i><i> </i><br />
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Look how loved Xander is! Both Anya and Willow want him to be happy but are uneasy about the other and their ability to hurt Xander. This is all well and good and should make perfect sense to everyone. I think this dialogue is important, but I don't want to discuss it. What I want to discuss is Willow's line saying she's "gay now." I think I've mentioned before here that I've done my fair share of large research papers on Willow's sexuality and I have actually found a piece that discusses this line in particular:<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Similarly Willow’s ‘Hello? Gay now’ to Anya (‘Triangle,’ 5.11) not only recalls there was once a time that Willow was not gay, but raises the possibility that there may also be a time in the future where she may not be. Hello? Gay now. It’s notable, then, that those moments in which Willow seems to articulate her sexual identity most clearly also contain the possibility of their own failure. Willow’s equivocations contain not only an ambivalence toward directly expressing a gay identity, but also the possibility for a more fluid sexual identity.” </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(McAven, 2007)</span></i><br />
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This is a very interesting point but, personally, I don't really find it true for Willow's character. I believe that Willow, once falling in love with Tara, would close herself off from seeing herself as anything but 100% gay calling past heterosexual urges "mistakes" or any other words of her choosing which indicate that the action will never happen again. I think this because I believe that Willow can't half ass anything and she, rightly or wrongly, would consider being bisexual or any other terms that fall within the binary of sexuality (such as sexuality fluid, pansexual, etc.) half ass. So, when I hear this line, I believe that Willow is 1) making light of her sexuality and 2) showing her confidence in her identity. I do this crap all the time with people because it's fun.<br />
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Anyways, moving on: Xander comes in and (amazingly) battles Olaf without getting himself killed. As his reward, Olaf allows for one of his women to be spared. However, he refuses to choose saying that forcing him to make this decision is "crazy troll logic." Luckily for him, it's Buffy to the rescue! Anya informs Buffy that his strength is in his hammer. But this:<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Some action occurs, Buffy beats Olaf, Willow sends him to another dimension, blah blah blah. I always find it amusing how, whenever I write these posts, I always start to half ass it and not care about elaborating on the end of the episode, which usually is the biggest moment of a story. I think this just further proves that Buffy isn't about the ending; it's all about the journey. [/stupid cliche]<br />
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Oh, and we can't forget Giles coming back to a huge ass mess! Poor guy...<br />
And Dawn overhears Giles, Buffy, and Joyce talking about her. Poor girl...<br />
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See you all next week!<br />
-Sarah</div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-20984752992230877682011-09-07T19:12:00.000-07:002011-09-07T19:12:11.721-07:00We Have to Stop Meeting Like ThisAnd you thought you were done with these little messages, huh? Sorry folks, I got some good news and bad news for you. Bad news, no new Wits today =/ Good news, I have my full class and work schedule so I'm here to give you a legit schedule that I MUST FOLLOW <strike>unless I don't want to/get too busy/get tired. </strike><br />
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-SarahTwo Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-23783995787614100592011-08-25T13:07:00.000-07:002011-08-25T13:07:12.246-07:00Episode 10: Into the WoodsWhoa, what's this? A post? From the Two Wits? And one that isn't an excuse as to why there's still no episode recap? Yes, my friends. It is us. Back after several weeks of annoying absence from the Buffy blogging world. Hopefully this post will have been worth the wait. I am delighted to bring to you...<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Season Five, Episode Ten</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Into the Woods"</i><b> </b></div><br />
We start off the episode with a scene that is oh so familiar to me: waiting for a loved one to get out of surgery. Not too much happens, it's actually pretty funny. You prepare to have a bunch of free time and bring things to do but ultimately end up sitting there being a nervous wreck. It's pretty fun as I'm sure you all can tell by this scene.<br />
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In my opinion, Buffy is pretty lucky that this lull ends with the surgeon telling her about what occurred during the operation. There was one time where my mom was released from surgery early because she flatlined. However, we weren't told this by the surgeon because he ran away from us. No, we were told this by my mom and then some nurses confirmed it. So yay for them actually being told that Joyce is fine!<br />
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The next scene I find hysterical:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li4f4g3NZm1qgbabho1_500.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li4f4g3NZm1qgbabho1_500.gif" width="320" /></a></div><i><strong>DAWN:</strong> When I was younger, I used to put my chopsticks in my mouth like this… (Dawn puts chopsticks in her mouth like vampire fangs) … and Buffy would chase me around the house yelling “I’m the Slayer! I’m gonna get you!”<strong> </strong></i><br />
<i><strong>ANYA: </strong>That’s disturbing. You’re emotionally scarred and will turn out badly.</i><br />
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Anya is so great. First she tells Dawn that she's emotionally scarred, then tries to get her to gamble money before saying that they can bring alcohol in for her to try. She's gonna make a great mom, ain't she?<br />
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You may ask though why is Dawn even hanging out with Xander and Anya? Well, let's let her explain the reason...<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/5X10Into_the_wood/5X10_Into_the_Woods_0142_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="174" src="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/5X10Into_the_wood/5X10_Into_the_Woods_0142_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Theonly reason I'm sleeping over here is so Buffy and Riley can boink...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">'Alone time' always translates into 'Get Dawnout of the house so we can have loud obnoxious sex.'</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/5X10Into_the_wood/5X10_Into_the_Woods_0152_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="174" src="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/5X10Into_the_wood/5X10_Into_the_Woods_0152_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Does that mean we can't?</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And now we get to rejoin Buffy and Riley for some sexy time. They boink and right after, Riley leaves. I sort of feel like I'm watching Barney from How I Met Your Mother. But luckily, Riley isn't the only one finding Buffy supermegafoxyawesomehot. Spike was creeping outside her house making him able to witness Riley's Barney-esque exit. Where on earth could he possibly be going...?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>JOYCE<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">: </span></span>I think you have more important<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>things to make up. I know you've<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> been missing a lot of school...</span></i></div><i> </i> <br />
<i>BUFFY: I'm fine. Willow's been bringing<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>me my work. I may have to take<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>a few incompletes, but I'll get<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> through the semester.</span> </i> <br />
<i>JOYCE:<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>Well what about slaying - and your<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>friends? I want you to get back to<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> your life.</span> </i> <br />
<i>BUFFY:<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>I will. I promise. But right now<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>I'm more into being here - and<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>styling your beautiful new plastic<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> dream hair.</span> </i> <br />
<i>JOYCE:<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>Fair enough. But you don't have<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>to keep me company all night.<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>Go have fun. Get Riley to take<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> you to a movie or something.</span> </i> <br />
<i>BUFFY:<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>I am having fun. Besides, I gave<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Riley the rest of the day off.</span> </i> <br />
<i>JOYCE:<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>I don't think he thinks of you as<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> a chore, Buffy.</span> </i> <br />
<i>BUFFY:<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>Mom - I told Riley to make his own<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>plans tonight because I wanted to<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>have you all to myself. Okay? I<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>can see him anytime.(then)<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>Besides, I'm sure he'll come around<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>later looking for some-(catches herself)<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Bible study.</span> </i> <br />
<i>JOYCE: <span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></span>(a little unsure)<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>Well - good. As long as you two<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>are getting come quality time with...<span style="font-family: Verdana;">the Lord.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A few things about this conversation intrigue me. One, on the surface Buffy appears to be a nice, considerate daughter volunteering to help her mom and stick by her side. However, I think even Joyce is able to see past this guise. Buffy's putting off responsibilities and important conversations that need to be had and emotions that need to be felt. She's moving from action to action, as she normally does, by first helping her mom cover up her scars instead of discussing the more serious topics that are more apparent than her visible scars and giving Riley the "day off" only to invite him back for sexy time. At what point will Buffy start actually talking about her feelings and emotions? And secondly, hehe time with the Lord *giggles*.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Aaaand it looks like my question of "when will Buffy listen to her heart" is going to need to be answered fairly quickly. Riley's commando buddies are planning a mission in a distant land. For my own amusement, we're going to call this Mission No One Actually Likes Riley, or MNOALR. And, just as the title of the mission suggests, this mission is going to be used to get Riley off the show since no one actually likes him. Let's see who will win the race to secure Riley for their own <strike>sexual </strike>needs, Buffy or commando guys. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now back to sexy time! Only this time, it's occurring with Spike. Please, someone go check to make sure Kali's still breathing after reading that last sentence. I'm just kidding Kali, Buffy would never sleep with Spike <strike>this season. </strike>Anyways, Spike goes to Buffy's room while she's sleeping, very much naked, and tells her that he wants to show her something...</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Wait, are you saying he doesn't take her on a magic carpet and show her the world? *Sigh* okay, fine. Spike takes her to a vampire whore house (not to be confused with the whore house Joss also creates on Firefly or the Dollhouse which basically is a whore house as well. Why does Joss love whore houses so much?) Inside this whore house, Buffy sees Riley being taken advantage of by an anorexic vampire chick. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now, since we are dealing with Buffy here, she obviously sits Riley down and they both have a heart-to-heart talk about their emotions. Ha, I'm just kidding. Buffy just beats up everyone who enters her path. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><i> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Buffy and Riley each go to their respective homes where Buffy mopes alone and Riley is greeted by his third group of sexy time partners.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div>Who else loves how Mr. Commando Guy describes the job to Riley as "the real deal" with "High risk, low pay and seriously messy." Where can I sign up?<br />
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We now interrupt the issues looming over the horizon to bring you Where There is Anya, There is Hilarity time:<br />
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<i>ANYA: Who ordered more chicken's feet? The ones we have aren't moving at all.<br />
XANDER: That' generally what happens when you cut them off the chicken.<br />
ANYA: I'm serious... Maybe we should do a holiday promotion - one free with every purchase.<br />
GILES: Ah yes, what dear holiday memories. Joyful tykes by the fire, enjoying their new Christmas chicken feet.<br />
WILLOW: (teasingly) Holding them close as they fall asleep, painting their tiny toenails...<br />
ANYA: Oh, yes. Very humorous. Make fun of the ex-demon. I can just hear youin private: "I dislike that Anya. She is newly-human and strangely literal."<br />
WILLOW: What? I don't say that. No one says that. No one talks like that.<br />
ANYA: There is nothing wrong with my idea, anyway. I have been very good for this store. If it wasn't for me, Giles would be a terrifiedold man staring at a quarterly tax statement and wetting himself.<br />
GILES: I say, that's an exaggeration--<br />
WILLOW: Anya, you've helped out a lot, but I have too.<br />
ANYA: Yes, that's right. I forgot about all the vigorous sitting around.<br />
XANDER: (to Anya) Hey, Ahn, you can back off a little. You get paid. Willow's doing this on her own time.<br />
ANYA: (sweetly) I'm sorry, Willow. Thank you for making time in your busy life to come in here and get in the way of mine.<br />
XANDER: Anya! Play nice!<br />
ANYA: Fine! Take her side instead of mine. Even though I'm the one who sleeps with you and feeds you and bathes you!<br />
WILLOW: She bathes you?<br />
XANDER: (embarrassed) Only in an erotic, Penthouse-y way. Not in a sponge-bathy, geriatric sort of-<br />
GILES:(cutting him off) Please. Stop. I beg of you.</i><br />
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And before we even have time to stop laughing and catch our breathe, Buffy rushes in ready to kill all the things. She asks Giles about vamp whore houses and he acts pretty nonchalant about them. However, Buffy is ANGRY and angry people must KILL EVERYTHING THAT MOVES so she tells the gang that they can join her if they want, but she's going now. Everyone follows her psychopathic lead while Anya stays behind to watch the shop.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The scoobies find the whore house in a vacant state. She's still very angry and shows off some skillz she's learned from Seamus Finnigan about pyrotechnics. And why she is off setting things on fire, Riley is off STAKING SPIKE. Or, you know, tricking Spike into thinking that the stake is actually wooden. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">After the almost killing nature of their meeting, they each share a drink and discuss their Buffy woes. Spike tells Riley that he's not the long haul guy and that she needs a little monster in her man. Riley asks if Spike actually thinks he has a shot, to which he says no. And this is why I like Spike; he's very realistic about love; also very similar to Riley. They each understand that love is not enough and neither of them, as much as it kills them to admit this, will ever be with Buffy long-term. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">FINALLY Riley goes to talk to Buffy. Of course, maybe he should wait until she's not beating things up so damn much. Although, I guess that would mean that they'd never be able to talk...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm actually going to sort of ignore most of their fight/explanations for their actions because I think we all pretty much get what's going on. Well, all of us except for Buffy herself. Riley went to the vamp whore house because his relations with them satisfied mutual needs. Buffy doesn't understand this at all, but it's pretty clear. Buffy could really use a reading of the Warlock's Hairy Heart from The Tales of Beedle the Bard. As a quick recap for those who haven't read the story, it's about a warlock who removed his heart from his chest and kept it locked up in his basement. He did this to protect himself but then when he decided he wanted it back in order to love a woman, the heart wouldn't work and it lead him to kill the woman he wanted to love in order to try using her heart as his own which didn't work and lead to both of them dying. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy is extremely guarded and really isn't letting Riley in and, quite honestly, isn't really letting <i>anyone </i>in. She just goes through the motions of caring but doesn't actually feel them wholeheartedly. Now, this isn't necessarily a bad trait to have. Within her line of work, it's only natural that this would be how she would act and react to others care and concern. In this season in particular we'll see just how messy her job becomes once her emotions and the ones she loves are drawn into the fire. However, within relationships, she has to realize that this is how she behaves and works extra hard to not fall into her normal emotional range <strike>of a teaspoon </strike>because this normal range for her keeps others at a distance which leads to her partners acting just as Riley did. Neither of them were wrong and neither were right with their actions because they were just that: actions. The only way to truly settle their issues is by communicating with neither did and it lead them to where they are now.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">So Buffy is obviously upset because Riley offers her the ultimatum of working things out tonight or he's leaving for <span style="font-family: Verdana;">MNOALR. Her first course of action is, of course, to stake some vamps. Luckily for her, Xander is creeping in the shadows, ready to come to the rescue.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><i>BUFFY: Just leave me alone, Xander. You have no idea what's going on.<br />
XANDER: No? Good. So you and Riley aren't imploding? Doesn't take a genius. What I can't figure out is how you didn't see it coming?<br />
BUFFY: What? Who told you-<br />
XANDER: Nobody told me anything, Buffy. It's been right in front of my Xander face. The guy would do anything for you-<br />
BUFFY: (cutting him off) The guy got himself bit by a vampire! He lied to me. He ran around behind my back and almost got himself killed. And now he has the nerve to tell me that he's leaving with some covert military operation at midnight, unless I convince him not to. No tell me you "understand" - because I sure as hell don't.<br />
XANDER: Are you going to let him go?<br />
BUFFY: It's not my decision if he wants to take off--<br />
XANDER: Of course it is.<br />
BUFFY: Well, that's not fair!<br />
XANDER: Who cares if it's fair? In about twenty minutes Riley's gonna disappear -- maybe forever -- unless you do something to stop him.<br />
BUFFY: What am I supposed to do? Beg him to stay?<br />
XANDER: Why wouldn't you? To keep Riley here, you wouldn't --<br />
BUFFY: I don't even know who he is! I mean he's... I thought Riley was dependable --<br />
XANDER: Dependable? What is he, State Farm?<br />
BUFFY: You know what I mean.<br />
XANDER: Yeah, I think you mean convenient. I think you took it for granted that he was gonna show up when you wanted him to and take off when you didn't.<br />
BUFFY: Look who's talking! You've got Anya following you around like a love sick puppy --<br />
XANDER: Oh boy is this not about me --<br />
BUFFY: Is she more than a convenience? 'Cause that'd be kind of a surprise.<br />
XANDER: If you don't want to hear what I have to say, I'll shut up right now.<br />
BUFFY: Good. 'Cause --<br />
XANDER: I lied. See, what I think? You got burned with Angel. Then Riley shows up-<br />
BUFFY: I know the story, Xander.<br />
XANDER: But you missed the point. You shut down, Buffy. And you've been treating Riley like the rebound guy, when he's the one who comes along once in a lifetime. He's never held back with you - he's risked it all - and you're about to let him fly because you don't like ultimatums? If what he needs from you just isn't there - for God's sake, let him go. But if it is? If you can go deeper... Let him get to know that raw, unguarded heart you tried to put away... Maybe you'd better risk something too. Okay. So he's drawn the line. Good. Cause either this is the end - or maybe it's the beginning. It's up to you.<br />
Buffy looks at Xander with stunned tears in her eyes.<br />
BUFFY: Xander-<br />
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Now before we watch Buffy and Riley experience all the sads, Xander has something to say to Anya:<br />
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<i>XANDER: I need to say something to you.<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>I should have said it a long time<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>ago. I mean, you may not even<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>know... I love you, Anya, more<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>every day. I love the way you see<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> t</span></span>hings. I love the way you work a<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>cash register and how beautiful<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>you are - and how amazingly sweet<span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>and crazy you can be at the same<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> time...I can't imagine my days without you - and I wouldn't want to.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And we close the episode with Xander about to get some sexy time of his own while Buffy and Riley continue their sads, alone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Before I part with you all I have one more thing I'd like to add. As much as Xander can be annoying or feel useless or, quite frankly, even be a jackass at times. He <i>always </i>proves why he deserves to be a scooby. In a pinch, he's always the one that's their to quietly save the day without the need for recognition of his heroic and life changing actions. He's a true friend and a greatly under appreciated member of the gang. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Again, thanks to you all for sticking with us during our very, very long absence. Next time I am very pleased to be bringing <i>Triangle </i>to you. God, do I love that episode! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">-Sarah</span><br />
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P.S. As previously stated, the next three episodes are mine, ALL MINE! So, as a quick guide, here's a brief synopsis of my schedule so that way you know when you can expect the next episode until we work our way back to a more concrete schedule that you guys can rely on.<br />
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<u>Friday: </u>I start work, have grad school orientation, and a birthday dinner<br />
<u>Saturday: </u>TODAY IS MY 20TH BIRTHDAY! I'LL BE CELEBRATING MY BIRTH AT DISNEYLAND!<br />
<u>Sunday: </u>I'LL STILL BE AT DISNEYLAND!<br />
<u>Monday: </u>I have work and start graduate school<br />
<u>Tuesday: </u>Same as Monday<br />
<u>Wednesday: </u>Work<br />
<u>Thursday: </u>Same as Monday and Tuesday<br />
<u>Friday: </u>Same as Wednesday<br />
<u>Saturday & Sunday: </u>I have nothing currently planned so hopefully I will have time to create and post the next episode on one of these days.<br />
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However, if I receive my Pottermore email on any of these days, nothing else holds any importance to my life and I will be forced to drool over Jo's new canon as well as my official house sorting and Hogwarts attending all day. <br />
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Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-39171564024316189892011-08-21T10:56:00.000-07:002011-08-21T10:56:58.974-07:00jkfhjkfhskfSo if you checked the blog yesterday/today, you would have seen a half finished post >.><br />
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Sorry about the mistake but, since I'm here anyway to correct it, I'll tell you the plan Kali and I currently half for The Two Wits.<br />
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This week Kali starts a new full time job and next week Sarah starts graduate school and (hopefully) work again. We're currently trying to figure out a new schedule that will work since we originally had every day but Sunday which was difficult so here's the plan I'm *hoping* to be able to accomplish.<br />
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The goal is for me (Sarah) to do the next four episodes and post one per week. This way it gives us a month to figure out a plan that works with our new schedules. I'm really hoping to be able to start posting this week, but we do appreciate your patience. I'm currently moving so watching Buffy and doing the work for this blog is a bit difficult but I'm still hoping I'll be able to get it done.<br />
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Thanks for your understanding,<br />
The Two Wits<br />
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Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-49625902512761516372011-08-04T22:49:00.000-07:002011-08-04T22:49:54.077-07:00We Fail*Shakes head* we're very sorry, guys. Things have been happening! BUT WE SWEAR WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU; WE STILL LOVE YOU! *hugs blog readers* <br />
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You guys should expect more episode recaps soon! Hopefully next week! Not going to give you a date since that means we won't post anything then since we currently suck but we'll get it done as soon as we can and let you know a general idea of what to expect from each of our schedules with our own respective posts (so you know that we have good reasons for leaving you guys and if you should expect us to suddenly leave again.) <br />
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Until next time: keep each other safe, and keep faith. And go get into the Pottermore Beta test! <br />
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SarahTwo Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-42715670119934173372011-07-10T20:36:00.000-07:002011-07-22T08:35:59.347-07:00Question and Answer Time...1. Are you guys still alive? *taps on computer screen*<br />
<ul><li>Yes, we didn't die.</li>
</ul>2. Did you just give up because writing is so time consuming and hard?<br />
<ul><li>No, we will be finishing the series. The summer is just a busy time!</li>
</ul>3. 42<br />
<ul><li>You know the question...</li>
</ul>4. So when will we be hearing from you again?<br />
<ul><li>Our new schedule will be posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday starting July 25th!</li>
</ul>5. How come you aren't starting until then?<br />
<ul><li>Sarah and Kali will be at a little conference called LEAKYCON where we will be getting our Harry Potter freak on!</li>
</ul>6. Oh that sounds super fun and neat! I wish there was some way for me to get some Two Wits during Leakycon!<br />
<ul><li>My friends, you are in fact in luck! Sarah and Kali will be presenting our very own panel comparing Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It will be Thursday at 12:00pm, check your schedule for more details. If anyone that reads our blog is in attendance please come say hi and let us know that you do!</li>
</ul>7. Why do you use so many exclamation points?<br />
<ul><li>Because Kali is very excited for Leakycon and this panel and just loves to exclaim! I am excite! WHEEEEEE!!!!!!</li>
</ul>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-12655695549838146362011-06-06T10:00:00.000-07:002011-06-07T23:22:35.650-07:00Episode 9: Listening To FearHi everyone *waves* I'm back! Thanks for being patient with me. It's been very hard going back into the normal routine of my life and realizing how much my mom fit into every part of my day. Because of this, I've been trying very hard to avoid normalcy which includes watching Buffy and writing this blog with Kali. But, alas, it's been 19 days now (at the time I'm writing this) and I've missed Buffy. So hopefully I haven't forgotten how to write these things. Let's begin with...<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Season Five, Episode Nine</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Listening to Fear"</i></div><br />
We start off with Dawn and Buffy joining Joyce for meal time at the hospital. This scene actually makes me laugh every time I see it because whenever my mom was at the hospital, she'd basically force my sister and I to eat her food. Most of it's disgusting but I'd generally share her meals with her to get her to stop asking.<br />
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Buffy informs Joyce of the fact that she's hers for the night since she's gotta the gang to cover for her. And Willow is on a roll tonight; she dusted two vamps! She's so adorable when she's proud of herself<br />
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Xander complains to Giles and Willow about Riley not showing up. Where is he, you may ask? Let's see.<br />
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<span style="color: white;">Looks like he's getting bitten by vampires which is basically the exact opposite of what he was supposed to be doing. And this whole Riley-acting-out-with-vampire-whores thing is weird; is this basically the Hellmouth version of self-injury?</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">And now we rejoin the Summers at the hospital. And Willow brought some very important gifts!</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">After the gift giving, Joyce has an outburst and screams ("I'd rip it in half and stick it in bed with me!") and next, as they leave the hospital room, they run into a mental patient who says weird things to Dawn ("There's no data. There's no pictures on this one. There's no one in there.") I'm going to hold off on my comments about this for another few scenes. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">Ladies and Gentlemen, the moment I'm sure you've all been waiting for: Willow and Tara being adorable. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
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<em><span style="color: white;">WILLOW: I used to love to look up at them when I was little. They're supposed to make you feel all insignificant but they made me feel like ... like I was in space. Part of the stars.There's Canis Minor. Cassiopia.<br />
TARA: The Big Pineapple.<br />
WILLOW: Um... you know... not sure I remember that one.<br />
TARA: Oh, it's a major one. See those three bright stars right there?<br />
WILLOW: Yeah...<br />
TARA: And see those stars along there? That's the bottom of the pineapple.<br />
WILLOW: It's big.<br />
TARA: Hence the name. The real ones never made sense to me. I sorta have my own.</span></em><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">Wait, are you telling me that the point of this scene <em>wasn't </em>just to show us how adorable they both are? Really?! Huh, apparently something major happened involving some alien spaceship thing coming down from the sky. I guess I didn't notice...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">We go back to the hospital and listen to Joyce as she complains about the lack of nurses coming as she pushes her help button on the hospital bed remotes. She tells Buffy it's probably not even hooked up to anything, like crosswalk moniters. From this Buffy seems to question her entire existance as if crosswalk moniters are the most important things in the world and having them be a lie will change the course of her life. Or, you know, something less dramatic. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">A doctor finally comes in (Note: This would NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPEN. The best you'll get is a nurse telling you that they'll try to get a doctor to come in within the next hour. [/rant]) Anyways, he actually agrees to let Joyce go home! More on how stupid this is later, for now I want to discuss the stupidness of not telling Dawn about things going on around her. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">I have always believed that honesty is the best policy in almost every circumstance and what goes on with Dawn just pushes this philosophy further for me. Yes, she's young and yes we want to not overwhelm/scare her but she's going to find out eventually. Speaking as the youngest child in a family with a disabled parent, I can tell you for certain that not telling Dawn doesn't make the problem cease to exist. When I wasn't informed about things for my mom it might have been easier for a brief period of time but, once the truth came out, it hurt like hell. As you all know, we haven't had any current posts because of my mom passing away. From this, some things have come to light about different things she had spoken to my older sister about but had neglected to discuss with me because she didn't want to scare me. I obviously can't say for certain that I'd have wanted to hear these things but I can say that knowing now the things I missed out on knowing and hearing first hand from my mom hurt very much. I'm going to try and not get more personal but rewatching these scenes and seeing how things are handled with Dawn upset me. She's not entirely stupid and she knows something's wrong and, in my opinion, it would be better if they just told her about Joyce's tumor and her being a big bundle of energy. I'm sure also the latter discussion would be very amusing to overhear. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">Buffy: So Dawn, I have something important to tell you. You know how you're my little sister and you've always been in my life. Yeah, that's not really the truth. You see, I've actually had four seasons of my own TV show as an only child and you just randomly came out of nowhere into my life. At first it felt as if you've always been there but then I talked to this dying monk guy and he said that him and a few of his monk friends created you and that, before they got to you, you were just a big bundle of energy. Just thought you should know, kthxbai. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">Dawn: ......</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
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<span style="color: white;">The scoobies investigate the weirdo spaceship. They all make some suggestions as to what could have been contained inside the ship. And Anya makes fun of most of them. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><em>"No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb</em>" who else loves Anya?</span></div><span style="color: white;"><br />
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<span style="color: white;">They go off looking for the lamb and Willow finds a body. She tells the others about how the body belonged to a mental patient they let out of the hospital today. And for some reason this makes Riley wanna insert objects into his mouth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><i>TARA: Yuck.<br />
RILEY: It might be toxic, don't touch it.<br />
XANDER: <b>Oh yeah, touching it was my first impulse. Luckily I've moved on to my second, which involves dry heaving and running like hell.</b> </i>(Favorite Line)</span><i><span style="color: white;"> Oh man, does that smell.<br />
ANYA: What do we do now?<br />
WILLOW: Well, we can't call Buffy. I want to call Buffy.<br />
TARA: We can't. She's got... life stuff. That has to come first.<br />
WILLOW: So we'll figure this out ourselves. We're experienced.<br />
ANYA: Yes. It seems like we're always dealing with creatures from outer space except that we don't ever do that.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: white;">The scoobies all opt to do research and Riley stays behind because he likes to be a loner. They all leave him and ask him to call if he finds anything. As they walk away, Willow says "I don't want to be the one that finds the bodies anymore." Before I would have found this line funny, but after finding my mom I feel very sad over the fact that Willow, or any of them for that matter, have had to discover any dead bodies. It is definitely not something on my list of most fun things to do.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Next we go into the mental ward of the hospital with this one guy yelling. The scene changes to a hospital worker at her desk with no intention of going to check to see what's wrong with the screaming guy. Unfortunately, this is pretty consistent to real life. I was once in the hospital with my mom and the person next door to her was screaming for help. I ended up getting a nurse and asking them to check on her and they told me "oh, she just does that." A few minutes later, they came to my mom's room and said that if she was bothering us then we could close the door. It was really sad.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Oh, look, now Joyce is going home with Buffy. It's kind of weird that they let her go home, not gonna lie. It's also weird that Buffy wanted Joyce home. Whenever my mom was in the hospital it was sort of nice because we didn't have to watch over her. I'm going to just completely skip over the weirdness of Riley calling in the commandos for help and them coming to the rescue and move onto Joyce's behavior.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">We see Buffy and Dawn watching tv down stairs away from Joyce. My first instinct is to say how stupid Buffy is but I have to remember that she isn't used to this life. Watching over someone who can't fully care for him/herself is difficult. With my mom, it was always a struggle because she couldn't do things but would refuse to accept to the fact that her daughters had to care for her instead of the other way around. And Joyce's behavior isn't far off from instances I've experienced. There were a few times when my mom would get up and walk out the door in the middle of the night and we'd have to run after her. Or times when she'd get up and decide to move heavy furniture two inches so that it was stupidly placed in the middle of the room (and she wouldn't let us move it back for a while.) So the fact that Buffy and Dawn walk in on Joyce using the stove in the kitchen isn't surprising and why I think the doctor was stupid to let her go home. You can say you want to help and do what's needed all you want but the fact is that it's a very difficult task and it takes a lot of learning and patience. The best way I can think to explain it is if you imagine getting a new puppy. Puppies are fun, but they're also work. As you spend more and more time with your puppy, you learn his/her different cues and what they mean. As opposed to humans, this takes more time and you have to try to learn it because they can't just talk and tell you what they need. For instance, my dog Noah is OCD and scratches his dog bowl when the food isn't covering the bottom of the bowl. He has two specific scratches so I can tell if he's being a weird dog or if he's actually out of food. The same goes with care-giving. My mom acted a certain way when she required certain medication; she started talking crazy when she needed to put her oxygen on. There are things doctors can't tell you and you just need to pick up as you go along.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Ha, well look at that, this post suddenly became all about my mom. I have a feeling this will happen from time to time. Especially since she obviously felt the need to pass away as we're watching Joyce go through treatment for her brain tumor. *Sigh* anyways, moving on past Buffy's incompetence.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Poor Dawn. Two crazy people in one day tell her that she's nothing. This is certainly not something a teenager needs to hear. And now poor Buffy; how the hell do you make Dawn feel better without telling her that everyone's right and she actually isn't real?</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><i>XANDER: I still don't get why we came here to get info about a killer snot monster.<br />
GILES: <b>Because it's a killer snot monster from outer space. I did not say that. </b></i>(Second Favorite Line) </span><i><span style="color: white;">What I said was, there are demons who approach our world in all sorts of different ways. This one came from above ...<br />
XANDER: And the university library's astronomy section is the home of aboveness... got it. </span></i><br />
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<span style="color: white;">From the scoobies research on the snot monster, they come to learn that he's known as the Queller and he needs to be summoned to calm the crazies. Willow calls to inform Riley but he already knows since there has been five murders at the Sunnydale psych ward.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Next we hear Joyce being crazy while Dawn listens in from the next room. Buffy's downstairs cleaning up the house and crying. Because she's having a sad, I will not comment on how horrid the music is that she's listening to.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Riley and the commandos are trying to track the Queller when one of them mentions how someone checked out today and took the Queller straight to their own home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">And then we see that Joyce has actually been talking to the Queller this whole time while he was staring at her from the ceiling (how creeper like.) Joyce screams and Dawn runs in to hit with a coat rack. She then yells for Buffy, but she can't hear her over the loud disgusting music. She yells a few more times and Buffy finally hears her. She goes off after the snot monster and runs into Spike who was "stealing from their basement" aka being a creeper and stealing pictures of Buffy. Many lulz would have taken place if the snot monster didn't interupt the hilarity. They save the day and Buffy runs up to hug her mom and Dawn and tell them how everything's all right.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: white;">DREG: Forgive me. I just want to understand. Why summon the Queller?<br />
BEN: Why do you think? Because I'm cleaning up Glory's mess. Just like I've done my whole damn life.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: white;">*Gasp* What could this meannnnnn?</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: white;">JOYCE: No, I guess it isn't. I do know I was pretty out of it. And I had - not a dream exactly. More like, I had this knowledge. It just came to me - like truth, you know? Even though it didn't seem possible. Even though I shouldn't think such things.<br />
BUFFY: What, Mom? It's okay.<br />
JOYCE: That Dawn...(pained) She's not mine, is she?<br />
BUFFY: No.<br />
JOYCE: She's - she does belong to us though.<br />
BUFFY: Yes. She does.<br />
JOYCE: And she's important. To the world. Precious ...<br />
JOYCE: As precious as you are to me? Then we have to take care of her. Promise me, Buffy - if anything happens to me, if I don't come through this-<br />
BUFFY: (cutting her off) Mom-<br />
JOYCE: No. Let me finish. No matter what she is, she still feels like my daughter, and I have to know you'll keep her safe. You'll love her like I love you.<br />
BUFFY: I promise.<br />
JOYCE: Good. Good...My sweet, brave Buffy. What would I do without you?</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: white;">You may all start crying over how sweet this moment is. Until next time!</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">"Shadow"</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rewritten by: Kali Waddilove</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>Scene: Joyce getting a CT Scan. NOT a CAT Scan, although it's pronounced that way.</em> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: Here drink a soda, it'll make the fact that our mother is dying better.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Dawn: Why's it called a CAT Scan? Do they test it on cats?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: *claps hands over Dawn's head* Stupid sister! Don't ask dumb questions.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>Scene: At the Magic Box with Giles, Tara, Willow, Anya, and Xander</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">Tara: This ad is hard to say, but you're British and talk funny so it's ok.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Anya: Am I mentioned? Since I am the only thing that's important!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: No. Go away.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander: So Riley was totally supposed to meet us to kill some vamps and he blew them all up instead.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow: What an asshole!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Everyone: Willow!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow: I mean... what a poop head!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: That is not of import. We must research the superpower bitch that kicked Buffy's ass.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Anya: Or just flip through pages and pretend to be busy.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander: I'm sure she's off planning evil in the sewers.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>Scene: Glory in a super awesome apartment, trying on new shoes.</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">Glory: I am so awesome and powerful that I can try on shoes and have my minions do all the work.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Dreg: I will do everything for you, your supermegafoxyawesomehottness. Here is a spell that will do something that I don't know yet!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Glory: Sweet, I just need to go to a magic store and get some ingredients. Hmm, look at this phone book that is convienently opened to a page for the Magic Box. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>Scene: Riley enters Buffy's house since the door was left open. He walks up to Buffy's room and finds Spike.</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">Riley: Doobdee doo... I'm cowboy guy... Wait, what the devil is going on here?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Spike: Um... I'm not stalking Buffy and smelling her <strike>underwear</strike> sweater if that's what you think. No sir.<br />
Riley: That's alright I smell her panties all the time... I mean, stop that you creeper! Get out!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Spike: But she said I could. We spent last night together if you know what I mean.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Riley: No, actually I don't. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Spike: Buffy like vampires, you just can't satisfy her like we can.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>*Riley puts Spike in the sun.*</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">Spike: HEY! That's really hot! Shouldn't you be with Buffy at the hospital?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Riley: Wait... what? I was busy in my cowboy acting class. What's going on?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Spike: Her mom is having some test. I'm apparently more important than you since she told me.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Riley: Stop making fun of me or I'll tell my mommy!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>*Riley grabs his marbles and runs home*</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>Scene: The hospital with Buffy and Dawn. Enter Riley.</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">Riley: I came as soon as I heard from Spike and not you because you don't seem to care enough to tell your boyfriend anything that's going on in your life.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: I have more important things to do. *<em>leaves room</em>* </div><div style="text-align: left;">*<em>Buffy enters X-Ray room with her mom and the Doctor*</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Doctor: I need to go get in my TARDIS, I mean, schedule the OR. I'll be back. *<em>exits</em>*</div><div style="text-align: left;">Joyce: There is a shadow.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: Is it a shadow puppet? Because any other kind of shadow sounds bad.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Joyce: Well it seems they are going to cut into my brain, so I'm guessing its the bad kind of shadow. (To self) I seriously raised the dumbest children on the face of the earth.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>Scene: Back at the Magic Shop</em>...</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander: I can't find anything on a superpowerful chick because it totally makes sense that there have never been superstrong chicks in the history of time that might fit the description of Glory, but we need to seem hopeless so thus there is nothing!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: I'm sure if you keep looking you will continue to find nothing, so keep looking.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tara: Maybe she's not in the books.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander: I could have told you she wasn't in the freaking books...</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tara: Maybe she is super old and pre-dates the written word.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow: Good job honey! I'll reward you later. *<em>wink</em>* So Giles, you said that the Dagon Sphere repelled-</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: That Which Cannot Be Named</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander: OMG, we have to fight Voldemort?!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: *<em>facepalm</em>* Xander, do we have to go back to the No Speaking rule with you?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander: No, sir.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: Then stop being an idiot. Anyways, I need to go help this lovely lady that just walked in the door...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Glory: I need to buy these.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: Well certainly young lady that in no way can be the very thing we were just discussing.</div><div style="text-align: left;">*Glory buy her things then leaves*</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: So, we have to be on our toes for this woman that Buffy fought. Yes, constant vigilance!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>Scene: Back at the hospital...</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Doctor: I just got off my TARDIS, I mean, out of your mom's surgery and everything went well.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: Is she going to be ok?</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Doctor: Do you even know Joss Whedon? Do you understand the universe that you live in? He is your god and you are his pawn to push around. NOTHIGN WILL EVER BE OK!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: Um... I'm very confused. Can you just tell me what's wrong with my mom?</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Doctor: Ugh... fine. She has brain cancer. She's going to act really weird because we cut up her brain. She may or may not die. But knowing Joss Whedon, I wouldn't hold my breath for a happy ending... Now, I'm off to save the world once again!</div><div style="text-align: left;">*<em>Exit The Doctor, enter Ben</em>*</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ben: Hey, I'm totally just a med student here to be a caring shoulder and absolutely nothing else...</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: My brain is going to explode.</div><div style="text-align: left;">*Exit Ben. Enter Riley*</div><div style="text-align: left;">Riley: I'm cowboy guy!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: We have to do a spell to save my mom!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Riley: Should we really be "doing a spell" at a time like this?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: *facepalm* I'm going to the Magic Box. You wait here with Dawn.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>Scene: Back at the Magic Box...</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">Anya: OMG GILES! ARE YOU A FUCKING IDIOT?!?!?!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: Apparently I am for hiring you!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Anya: No you dummy! You sold a Khul's amulet and a Sobekian bloodstone to someone and those are used in super dark magic!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: But that's an ancient old spell and the young women who seemed surprisingly strong could in no way have that kind of knowledge.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow: Young woman? Like the bitch that beat up Buffy?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: I'm an idiot.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander: ... I don't get it.</div><div style="text-align: left;">*<em>Enter Buffy</em>*</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: Giles! I need a healing spell or potion for my mom. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: Buffy, there really isn't anything or else there would be a cure for the common cold or herpes by now.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tara: Yeah, it would only make things worse. Like when Xander got the funny syphilis.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Anya: We've made things worse enough, haven't we Giles?!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: What?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles: Nothing... I just kind of... sold an amulet and bloodstone... to *<em>mumbles quickly</em>* the demon woman that beat you up and is going to create a giant snake.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: Well all we need is a bunch of dynamite again since that worked well last time we fought a giant snake.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>Scene: Buffy goes to the zoo to try to stop Glory's spell</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">Glory: Chanting, chanting, blah blah blah.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: I am here to stop you.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Glory: BAHAHAHAHA *swiftly kicks Buffy's ass and finishes spell* Giant snake, go find my Key!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buffy: Key? Wha? Oh this is no bueno.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Scene: Again at the Magic Box... *Riley enters*</div><div style="text-align: left;">Riley: Cowboy guy is here. Where's Buffy?<br />
Xander: She left because she totally doesn't give a shit about you.<br />
Riley: *sad face* But I'm cowboy guy...<br />
*<em>Riley goes to let a vampire bite him to get back at Buffy because that totally makes sense</em>*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">*<em>Giant snake goes after Dawn because she's the Key. Dawn screams and scares the snake. Buffy chases it to stop it before it tells Glory that Dawn is the Key. Very, very bad CG ensues. Buffy defeats the snake. Kinda like Rock beats Scissors</em>*<br />
<em>Last Scene: At the hospital... Buffy and Riley</em><br />
Riley: Just let it all out. I'll be your shoulder to cry on. I'm totally here for you.<br />
Buffy: Whatever.<br />
Riley: *<em>sadface</em>*<br />
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- Kali!</div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-4203293436497069652011-05-10T10:00:00.000-07:002011-05-10T10:00:07.794-07:00Episode 6: FamilyGoof afternoon, we're gonna have a great post today!<br />
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Welcome to our first Tara centric episode. If this isn't cause to celebrate, I don't know what is! Buckle up and enjoy the ride.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Season Five, Episode Six </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Family"</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We start with story time! <i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"Okay. Once upon a time there was...um... a kitty. She was very little, and she was all alone and nobody wanted her.</span> [...] <span style="font-family: Verdana;">one day the kitty was running around on the<br />
street and a man came and swooped her up --</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and took her to the pound. And at the pound there were lots of other kitties, and there were puppies, and some ferrets." </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Wanna guess who the kitty is? Anyways, let's not get ahead of ours or we'll miss the adorableness of Willow and Tara. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Tara asks Willow if she can leave the light on and Willow pouts and says that she doesn't need to be snuggled to which Tara calls her a vixen. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Tara explains that she's been working on spells to keep up with Willow and to be useful since she never feels useful. Sadness. Willow tells Tara that she's essential though and then they snuggle and are adorable once more. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Back at Buffy's, she's telling Giles about the fact that her sister is a ball of energy. I believe this is pretty high on the list for weirdest things someone could ever need to tell you. Giles suggests sending Dawn away somewhere to keep her away from super strong, high heel wearing bitch's sight. Buffy asks where and he responds by suggesting her dad's. And we learn some nice information about dear ol' Mr. Summers: </span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"He's off in... Spain or something, with his secretary. Living the cliché. I called when Mom got sick, he hasn't even... You know when he bailed on us, I remember Dawn cried for a week. Except she didn't. She was never there, but I can still feel what it was like.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">From here, we see how well the monks thought out this placement and all they did to Buffy's life. They constructed memories which in turn elicit emotions. Last episode, it was Willow's having involuntary empathy for Dawn and now Buffy not only knowing, but <i>wanting </i>to care for her. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">They end up deciding not to tell the others though, for fear that they'll act weird around her. This would be a good plan if Dawn weren't a teenager who is going to become nosy and snoop until she gets this information, anyways. So let's see how long this secret plan will last...</span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Next we learn what great friends the scoobies are by helping Buffy move out. Of course, Anya doesn't want any part of this: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"<i>But we just helped her move this stuff in a few days ago! (sees Buffy) And it was fun!</i></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">" </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> And while she is less than thrilled, Giles takes on my traditional role when helping people/myself move: <i>"</i></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I see myself in a patriarchal sort of role. You know, a lot of pointing and scowling." </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">(this is why my sister hated me for wanting to move my two heavy bookshelves and dresser) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Tara then makes me fall in love with her even more by acting completely like me. The gang are talking about superpower bitch and say that they'll find her weaknesses so Buffy can get her next time to which Tara says: </span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"Yeah, you learn her source and we'll introduce her to her insect reflection. (much quieter) That was funny if you've studied Taglarin mystic rites and are a total dork." </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnzIAxAxf2XDWoTUrNGwk_gQ9LdJUkUiuYEgqCpiIiJpcb4BdvA_2wsWjWWXmCA2aH0-BJ34W4q2LqvaXgHVWNdmk01xnw1y6lP2rnuDWfT9B93Yygy6J93FjAUbCJGUCi_Hjnb_uLjyo/s1600/aly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnzIAxAxf2XDWoTUrNGwk_gQ9LdJUkUiuYEgqCpiIiJpcb4BdvA_2wsWjWWXmCA2aH0-BJ34W4q2LqvaXgHVWNdmk01xnw1y6lP2rnuDWfT9B93Yygy6J93FjAUbCJGUCi_Hjnb_uLjyo/s320/aly.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Don't worry, Tara. If I had a nickel for every time people didn't understand my references, I'd be rich. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Tara leaves feeling embarrassed and passes by Willow. Seeing Tara left, Willow goes into the room and reminds everyone to be at the Bronze by 8. But none of them have any idea what for...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><i>WILLOW: Tomorrow night! Tara's birthday!<br />
BUFFY: Oh, right. Right.<br />
ANYA: We have to bring presents, right? Birth is a present thing.<br />
XANDER: I got something... picked out, yeah...<br />
WILLOW: You all can still come, right? I mean, I know there's this new evil and all...<br />
BUFFY: No, no, we can make it. I could definitely use a break from all this craziness.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Then, just after hearing about Willow's party for her lesbian lover, we switch scenes to a topless guy. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ben just got off his shift and is about to be greeted by an ugly demon man. However, before ugly demon man can make it over to Ben, he's stopped and taken away by superpower bitch. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now at the Magic Box, Anya now has meaning to her life: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">ANYA: They come in, I help them, they give us money in exchange for goods, you give me money for working for you... I have a place in the world now. I'm part of the system. I'm a workin' gal.<br />
GILES: Yes. Well why don't you start organizing the shipping orders?<br />
ANYA: No, that's boring, I just wanna do the money parts. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Buffy and Xander walk in discussing how they forgot about Tara's birthday party. But they both agree to be there, barring any monsters, because it's important to Willow.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">They begin searching to figure out superpower bitch's identity but they don't have much to go on besides Buffy's helpful description of "she was kind of like Cordelia" and "I think she dyes her hair." They begin searching through books and stay completely focused on the task at hand.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">BUFFY: So what'd you get her?<br />
XANDER: Huh?<br />
BUFFY: Tara. You said you had a present already.<br />
XANDER: Yeah. That was a tangled web of lies, sweetie. I'm not really sure what kind of thing she'd... I mean I don't really know her that well.<br />
BUFFY: I know.<br />
XANDER: I mean she's nice --<br />
BUFFY: Yeah yeah! Nice nice. I just sort of...<br />
XANDER: I don't necessarily 'get' her. But she's real nice!<br />
BUFFY: Oh yeah. There's that thing, you know.<br />
XANDER: That thing.<br />
BUFFY: That thing of not understanding...<br />
XANDER: Half of what she says?<br />
BUFFY: As for example. A lot of... not understanding. But she's so nice.<br />
XANDER: You betchya.<br />
BUFFY: You think there'll be a lot of wiccans at the party? Big wiccan crowd?<br />
XANDER: That's sort of her deal. Her and Willow are all... wiccie. Swinging with the wiccan lifestyle.<br />
BUFFY: Which is cool.<br />
XANDER: Oh yeah.<br />
BUFFY: I just hope we fit in. Not awkward.<br />
XANDER: <b>With Willow, it's like she's got this whole new thing in her life, but she's still Willow, I can always figure her out. But Tara, I just know she likes Willow, and she already has one of those. </b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I love Xander's last line. This whole Tara thing must be difficult for them. Unlike with Oz, they didn't know Tara until she was dating Willow and they have nothing really in common with Tara yet. Let's draw a venn diagram in order to show why the disconnect is occurring, shall we: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjis0mRNSYVHEZrOzH4FniR0aQ8fxa7VfrgK-ulpDCE_ELogM-NLv6Rdzne4fXiaXRX7h5uYIZJqClHGGOQ6WOmMUuoPc_fI9Q7XqNaw4-twBgQJc24qNO7DMWiuKql-yjKOeLh8425jgA/s1600/venn.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjis0mRNSYVHEZrOzH4FniR0aQ8fxa7VfrgK-ulpDCE_ELogM-NLv6Rdzne4fXiaXRX7h5uYIZJqClHGGOQ6WOmMUuoPc_fI9Q7XqNaw4-twBgQJc24qNO7DMWiuKql-yjKOeLh8425jgA/s640/venn.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here is a venn diagram representing Buffy and Xander vs. Willow. As you can see, they have a lot of overlap because they're friends and have a lot of history together. The only real things that separate them are their sexualities and the fact that Xander and Buffy are muggles. But for Buffy and Xander vs. Tara</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">For this venn diagram, the only real overlap is the fact that all three love Willow (hopefully in different ways, although I would totally understand if they all loved her the way Tara does.)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Buffy claims to be getting a present buying headache from this stress so Xander recommends she go train and work off some of the tension. Cue transition to her and Spike beating each other bloody. And then, something weird happens...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Back in reality, Giles asks Buffy and Xander if they found anything yet. They mention candles and other things that make no sense to Giles since he's obviously referring to information about superpower bitch's identity and they are talking about Tara's gift. Giles then shares how "profoundly stupid" he thinks they both are for being in a magic shop and not knowing what to get Tara. Seriously, guys, this is pretty dumb of you not to consider looking around your current location and finding a gift. </span><br />
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Drunk guy enters the scene and asks like a moron. Everyone is confused until Tara and Willow walk in and drunk guy says "what's the matter, you don't have a hug for your big brother?"<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Drunk guy (or Donny) continues to be a huge jerk and makes snide remarks about Tara in front of her friends. Then her dad and cousin Beth come in to join in the let's-emotionally-abuse-Tara party. Her dad asks Tara to have dinner and then leaves promptly because he's <strike>a huge jerk </strike>double parked. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Buffy returns home to Riley where they exchange some dirtiness about owing favors and outfits when Dawn <strike>cockblocks </strike>interrupts to inform everyone that she's going to a friend's for dinner and Buffy freaks the hell out. It's quite understandable why she'd freak out, I mean with a bad of an influence as this Melinda seems to be...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</div>Riley questions Buffy's reaction. He agrees with her though that "a lot of young people nowadays are experimenting with shortness" and that we've "gotta nip it in the bud." Poor Buffy can't explain to him that she can't let Dawn go out because she's a big bundle of energy. Awkwardness ensues because Riley is hurt by her reaction, thinking she's just keeping this from him. This is a no win situation, really. Buffy thinks keeping this secret is right but it's just destructive.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Speaking of destructive, Tara walks into her dorm to see her dad there, starring at her "toys" and commenting on how she "doesn't even try to hide it anymore." Get your mind out of the gutter, guys, he's talking about magic. Her dad explains that they came because she's almost turning twenty which means something terrible will soon occur, but we don't know what. He tells her that she's going home with him and the world gets sad. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He talks complete nonsense commenting on how her friends "think [she's] human" and then begins talking about her evilness: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>MR. MACLAY: Tara, you can't control what's going to happen. You're my daughter and I love you but you are a demon. You have evil inside you and it will come out. And letting yourself work all this magic is only gonna make it worse. Where do you think that power comes from?<br />
TARA: I... it doesn't feel... evil. Sir.<br />
MR. MACLAY: Evil never does.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This dialog is so interesting because, as we've noted previously, Joss has a running metaphor of magic being used to describe sexuality. Here we see Tara's dad discussing how she has evil inside of her to which Tara comments saying that it doesn't feel evil and he responds saying that evil never does. On the surface, this conversation is about her being a legit demon, apparently, but the subtext is so much greater with her being evil and a figurative demon rather than a literal one. Poor Tara is trying so hard to be good and do the right thing and he's telling her that what she's doing is evil and she's just refusing to see it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow comes back and they have a fight. Willow wants Tara to join in the scooby meeting and they can try the demon locating spell again (remember, the one that Tara sabotaged back in the last season?) Tara says no and when Willow pushes she says that her family's in town and "not everything is about [Willow's] friends." Ouch...Tara tries to backtrack but the damage is already done. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Alone once more, Tara gathers material and goes creepin' around the Magic Box and conducts a spell of her own. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">We next see who other than Riley enjoying the ambiance of a demon bar. What the heck is going on here? Luckily, when he gets hit on by a vampire he declines the offer. At least we won't have to worry about him turning to any vampires for some lovin'...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Next Harmony enters Spike's crypt and tells him of the plans that I neglected to mention (oops) about the ugly demon man being recruited by superpower bitch to kill the Slayer. Spike leaves under the notion that he wants a "decent seat" to watch if the Slayer's going to die. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Back to Tara, we see her leaving the Magic Box and running into <strike>Giselle </strike>cousin Beth. Tara tells Beth that she's not coming back and she calls her a selfish bitch. Oh snap! But don't worry, Beth informs Tara that they'll soon see unless she did a spell on them...uh-oh, apparently Tara's spell was to keep them from seeing the demon side of her. For some reason, I doubt a spell causing the Slayer and her friends not to be able to see demons is a bad thing...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Aaand I'm proven right. Ugly demon man walks on into the Magic Box without anyone noticing him. He makes his way to Buffy who screams for help after seemingly being attacked by nothing.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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And now here's a sad scene: </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>TARA: I'm sorry... I'm s-so sorry...I w-was just trying to hide... the spell went wrong...<br />
WILLOW: Tara, what...<br />
TARA: I didn't want you to see... what I am.<br />
WILLOW: What you are?<br />
MR. MACLAY: I told you, you try to run from it you'll put these people in danger. And, my God...<br />
TARA: I didn't mean for anyone to get hurt.<br />
BUFFY: I think you better explain. What do you mean, what you are?<br />
MR. MACLAY: Demon. The women in our family have... demon in them. Her mother had it; it's where the magic comes from. This isn't something we generally like to share with strangers. We came to take her home before... well, before things like this started happening.<br />
WILLOW: Tara, you're not... how could you not say something to me... to me...<br />
GILES: You put a spell on us to keep us from seeing your demon side. That's why we couldn't see our attackers.<br />
BUFFY: Nearly got us killed.<br />
TARA: I'll go.(to everyone) I'm very sorry.<br />
MR. MACLAY: The camper's outside.<br />
WILLOW: Wait! Go? She just did a spell that went wrong! Buffy, it was just a mistake!<br />
MR. MACLAY: It's not the point and it's not your concern. The girl belongs with us. We know how to control her problem.<br />
WILLOW: Tara, look at me. I trusted you more than anyone in my life. Was all of that a lie?<br />
TARA: No! No...<br />
WILLOW: Do you want to leave?<br />
MR. MACLAY: (to Willow) That is not your decision, young lady --<br />
WILLOW: I know that....</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now after all of the epic adorableness, we have some funniness supplied to us by Anya</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>BETH: Well, I hope you'll all be happy hanging around with a disgusting demon.<br />
Anya raises her hand.<br />
ANYA: Excuse me. What kind?<br />
BETH: What?<br />
ANYA: What kind of demon is she? There's a lot of different kinds, some are very very evil, some have been considered to be useful members of society...<br />
BETH: Well, I don't... what does it matter?<br />
MR. MACLAY: Evil is evil.<br />
ANYA: Well, let's narrow it down...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And now we get to party at the Bronze! Riley joins Buffy, Tara tries to explain the hilarity of her insect reflection joke to Anya, and Willow takes Tara away to dance with her and I instantly die. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>WILLOW: Good birthday?<br />
TARA: Best birthday.<br />
WILLOW: I still can't believe you never told me about your family and all that.<br />
TARA: I was just afraid if you saw the kind of people I came from... you wouldn't wanna be anywhere near me.<br />
WILLOW: See? That's where you're a dummy. <b>I think about what you grew up with, and then look at what you are... it makes me proud. It makes me love you more. </b></i>(Favorite Line)<i><br />
TARA: Every time I... even at my worst, you always make me feel special. How do you do that?<br />
WILLOW: Magic.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you can watch this episode and not fall in love with Tara or here this last bit of dialog and not ship Willow/Tara, I don't understand you at all. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b></b>-Sarah</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u>Kali's Notes:</u></b><br />
- I am with Tara and Sarah in the people not understanding my jokes department. I've grown accustom to explaining my obscure references or just laughing at myself. It's fun.<br />
- I really love how Joss uses the metaphor of her family being conservative about her witchcraft for homosexuality. Her "family" is filled with real jerks that don't care to understand the person that Tara is, they only want to judge her based on certain aspects of her life. Especially her brother who should be wearing a helmet and riding the short bus. Or her dad that should be on Fox News with a sign that says "God hates queres!" (And yes, I spelled that wrong on purpose because I did in fact see that exact sign on the news).<br />
- This episode has one of my all-time favorite Buffy moments. (Favorite line: We're family.) I really understand her here because there are people that I consider family and are of no blood relation to me. On the flip side, there are people that I am closely related to and wouldn't consider them my family more than a stranger on the street. I feel like Buffy was talking about Tara, but also partly thinking about Dawn here. She just found out the Dawn is really a ball of energy, but Buffy still considers her her sister. <br />
- Lastly, I of course have to mention Spike. Nothing in particular to add, just needed to mention him. ;)</div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-9644404415594453902011-05-09T17:04:00.000-07:002011-05-09T17:04:31.654-07:00Season 4, Episode 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>"No Place Like Home"</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We decided to do what we haven't done since Season One... a chat log during the episode! Yay!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kali Waddilove: Ok, I'll count down to play..<br />
Sarah Steelman: How exciting!<br />
Kali Waddilove: Ready <br />
Kali Waddilove: Set...<br />
Kali Waddilove: Play!<br />
Sarah Steelman: Men are running@!<br />
Kali Waddilove: One has a really bad haircut<br />
Sarah Steelman: Apparently they're running @ something!<br />
Kali Waddilove: What language are they speaking?<br />
Kali Waddilove: I wonder if they are wearing anything under those robes<br />
Sarah Steelman: lulz<br />
Sarah Steelman: Buffy really wanted piano lessons, really?<br />
Kali Waddilove: Yeah, I don't see her having the patience for that<br />
Sarah Steelman: Her fellow ravers haha<br />
Kali Waddilove: I like how Buffy dresses for a rave when she goes slaying<br />
Sarah Steelman: You always need to be prepared by looking hot<br />
Kali Waddilove: Ooo, its a shiny glowy ball. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Sarah Steelman: it must be evil! <br />
Kali Waddilove: You'd think it'd be hot to touch<br />
Sarah Steelman: She better not drop it like it's hot<br />
Sarah Steelman: Apparently we're in the 90's now <br />
Kali Waddilove: Fucking Dawn<br />
Sarah Steelman: Dawn was totally me as a child/yesterday...<br />
Kali Waddilove: We can no longer be friends<br />
Sarah Steelman: I'm sort of an idiot; it's not my fault no matter what my sister tells you!<br />
Sarah Steelman: Poor Buffy wants a nickname. We should give her one<br />
Kali Waddilove: Poor Buffy being sad that Dawn was a little pumpkin belly and she was nothing. When in reality Dawn was nothing until 2 months ago, ha<br />
Sarah Steelman: Haha<br />
Sarah Steelman: Spoilers!<br />
Sarah Steelman: Giles outfit = HAHAHAHA</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Kali Waddilove: Ha, I love Giles<br />
Kali Waddilove: I love how just from Buffy's glare he takes the hat off.<br />
Kali Waddilove: "Check out all the magic junk" "Our new slogan"<br />
Sarah Steelman: I love that part<br />
Kali Waddilove: Hand over fist, lolz<br />
Sarah Steelman: I love when Buffy questions cliches<br />
Kali Waddilove: It really doesnt make much sense<br />
Sarah Steelman: It really doesn't<br />
Kali Waddilove: Omg, I love Giles line<br />
Sarah Steelman: "it appears to be paranormal in origin" "how can you tell?" "well, it's so shiny"<br />
Kali Waddilove: LOLZ<br />
Sarah Steelman: Again, Dawn is totally me as a kid. Why did my sister let me hang around her and her friends?<br />
Kali Waddilove: Because she was forced to?<br />
Sarah Steelman: Probably<br />
Sarah Steelman: Willow's so hot<br />
Sarah Steelman: "and why can't I ever be little pumpkin belly?!"<br />
Kali Waddilove: Aww<br />
Kali Waddilove: I love how Willow relates to Dawn because she was a spaz too<br />
Sarah Steelman: I love how insanely hot Willow always is..<br />
Sarah Steelman: "but you can call me man nurse, everybody else does" lulz<br />
Kali Waddilove: I know how Buffy feels here, having to be the adult to keep everything together. Its sad<br />
Kali Waddilove: And the doctors are dumb because Joyce should have had a CT Scan right away if she has been having headaches<br />
Sarah Steelman: Dr. Waddilove is apparently on duty now<br />
Kali Waddilove: I've seen enough doctors that I'm pretty qualified myself!<br />
Sarah Steelman: Didn't she have an MRI? That would have been a good test too<br />
Kali Waddilove: Not yet.<br />
Sarah Steelman: Oh, am I completely ahead of where we actually are? lol<br />
Kali Waddilove: Lols at Giles being excited about making money<br />
Sarah Steelman: "the nightwatchman who found this thing went crazy over night"<br />
Kali Waddilove: Oh hey look at this object that might be driving people crazy, lets continue keeping it around<br />
Kali Waddilove: Buffy is like me. Come after me and whatever, but if you hurt my family I will rip your spine out<br />
Sarah Steelman: Yeah, if I did that I'd end up hurting myself...<br />
Sarah Steelman: And I love how we aren't talking about superpower bitch at all now<br />
Kali Waddilove: So crazy superpower bitch is torturing a monk wanting to know where the key is. <br />
Kali Waddilove: Apparently she lost hers and needs his copy<br />
Sarah Steelman: She should go to walmart; that's where I got my toy story key made!<br />
Kali Waddilove: Or call a locksmith<br />
Sarah Steelman: I feel bad for this working dude =(<br />
Sarah Steelman: But what the hell is he doing working in an abadoned building?<br />
Kali Waddilove: Omg, she's losing her shit<br />
Sarah Steelman: So she steals his mind and gets better.<br />
Kali Waddilove: Yay for her<br />
Sarah Steelman: "Do we! Do we? Oh, we do!" this is how I act at work; I don't know how I got hired lol<br />
Kali Waddilove: "That's not candy"<br />
Kali Waddilove: Ha, Xander- "Stay British, you'll be ok"<br />
Sarah Steelman: please go just got replaced with have a nice day, ha<br />
Kali Waddilove: Ha, I like Xander now<br />
Sarah Steelman: Me too<br />
Sarah Steelman: And that's how I gift wrap...<br />
Kali Waddilove: Poor Buffy. She wants to believe that her mom has a spell on her or that something supernatural is hurting her because then she can fight it. When in reality Buffy knows that if its just something medical she can't fight it. <br />
Sarah Steelman: All spells leave a trace. Now where have I heard that before...?<br />
Kali Waddilove: And poor Riley too. He is no longer useful.<br />
Sarah Steelman: "all prayin, no slayin" should be a slogan for some religion<br />
Sarah Steelman: And I feel bad for Riley but he really irks me with his need to be all powerful. He's like Xander only with him not being comfortable taking on the "feminine" aspects of the relationship<br />
Kali Waddilove: Aww, "How about we agree to take care of each other"<br />
Kali Waddilove: I don't think he wants to be powerful, he just wants to feel like Buffy's equal instead of weaker than her<br />
Sarah Steelman: "what are you doing?" "my boyfriend" LOL<br />
Kali Waddilove: LOLZ!<br />
Sarah Steelman: But why can't he be weaker than her? Everyone else is. I agree that their relationship has issues but I think that this need of his to be her equal just exagerates the issue<br />
Sarah Steelman: And can we just all stop and freak out over the fact that Buffy correctly worked this spell?!<br />
Kali Waddilove: I think she just dropped acid actually<br />
Sarah Steelman: lol<br />
Sarah Steelman: Well, Riley did tell her to have a nice trip<br />
Kali Waddilove: Ha! It tastes like yellow!<br />
Kali Waddilove: I'm not tripping mom, I'm fine<br />
Sarah Steelman: It's very weird watching Buffy investigate while Harriet the Spy just stands there watching her instead of investigating herself<br />
Kali Waddilove: LOL! I actually feel a little bad for Dawn here since she has no idea whats going on and Buffy just told her she's not her sister<br />
Sarah Steelman: I feel bad too<br />
Kali Waddilove: SPIKE!<br />
Kali Waddilove: Of course his reaction to realizing he loves Buffy is to stalk her<br />
Sarah Steelman: five words or less</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Kali Waddilove: Out. For. A. Walk... Bitch<br />
Sarah Steelman: and is stalking not the correct reaction?<br />
Kali Waddilove: Only if you internet stalk them<br />
Kali Waddilove: "And I never really liked you anyway...and... and you have stupid hair" lol!<br />
Sarah Steelman: lol<br />
Kali Waddilove: Dawn giving Joyce tea right here reminds me of the little girls in The Shining<br />
Sarah Steelman: I never saw that...<br />
Kali Waddilove: I'm not surprised, its slightly scary<br />
Kali Waddilove: OOO, Buffy got bitch slapped<br />
Kali Waddilove: Hand of Glory!<br />
Sarah Steelman: Buffy is getting every square inch of her ass kicked!<br />
Kali Waddilove: Hell yeah she is<br />
Kali Waddilove: And superpower bitch is like "Huh, so you hit me. Totally doesn't hurt"<br />
Kali Waddilove: I love how Buffy rescues the monk JUST in time for him to tell her crucial information and then die. How convienent. What is this Harry Potter? Ha<br />
Sarah Steelman: Ha<br />
Kali Waddilove: But at least we find out pretty early that Dawn is the Key, made by these monks so Buffy can protect her. It would have sucked to have to wait all season to figure out what she was<br />
Sarah Steelman: That would have been horrible<br />
Kali Waddilove: They should have made her a rock and hid her on the bottom of the ocean. Just like Voldemort should have done with his horcruxes<br />
Sarah Steelman: He was really stupid with his horcruxes<br />
Kali Waddilove: Totally<br />
Kali Waddilove: Aww, Buffy is trying to be nice to Dawn now<br />
Sarah Steelman: I know, I'm happy about that<br />
Kali Waddilove: Dawn is less annoying when Buffy is nice to her<br />
Sarah Steelman: And now you feel bad for her because she's a bundle of energy<br />
Kali Waddilove: Couldn't the monks have made her a less annoying bundle of energy tho?<br />
Sarah Steelman: You'd think!<br />
Kali Waddilove: Stupid monks<br />
Sarah Steelman: At least she's a hot bundle of energy; that sort of makes up for it...<br />
Kali Waddilove: Ew<br />
Sarah Steelman: I know, she's not as attractive as Willow but she's not ugly</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kali Waddilove: Alright, so favorite line for the episode? Mine is definitely. "Out. For. A. Walk. Bitch."<br />
Sarah Steelman: Hmm, I think mine's Giles' about it being supernatural in origin since it's so shiny<br />
Kali Waddilove: Ha, yeah that ones good. Xander has a couple good ones too. <br />
Kali Waddilove: This episode isn't too great, but it wasnt definitely necessary to have an exposition episode to explain all this crap about Dawn and the superpower bitch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sarah Steelman: Yeah, it has some funny moments in it. <br />
Kali Waddilove: Well, I think that's all unless you have anything to add?<br />
BUZZ!!!<br />
Sarah Steelman: Have I mentioned that Willow's amazing yet?<br />
Sarah Steelman: Buzz what? lol<br />
BUZZ!!!<br />
Kali Waddilove: I dunno, but it was a button so I pushed it to see what would happen LOL<br />
Sarah Steelman: LOL<br />
Kali Waddilove: Ok, we're done now.</div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-48711564505836671482011-05-07T09:00:00.000-07:002011-05-07T20:24:58.774-07:00Dr. Horrible's Sing Along BlogWeekends are kind of hectic for both of us right now, so instead of a Saturday post, you are getting a recap of what happened last night!<br />
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Sarah and I (and a group of friends) attended the opening night of a live production of Dr.Horrible's Sing Along Blog. It was beyond amazing! The guy that played Dr. Horrible did a fantastic job in capturing his character and his voice was almost better in some spots than Neil Patrick Harris's. The actor playing Captain Hammer didn't have what Nathan Fillion brought to the character, but did and excellent job and was hilarious in his own right. The actress playing Penny had a superb voice, but I felt that she was slightly lacking on the character portion. She just wasn't very Penny-ish.<br />
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The play itself added it's own twists here and there to make it more interesting and to make up for the being live and not being able to change scenes as you can on television. I enjoyed the use of a projector and pre-recorded videos. I also liked the things they didn't change, such as the songs. Every song was exactly the same, which I think was highly appreciated by the fans (especially the portions we were invited to sing along to) It was a smaller production so it had a nice intimate feel.<br />
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My favorite part was when Dr. Horrible sang A Brand New Day. This is the song that I really felt the actor's emotion coming out in and the quality of his voice was outstanding. Another highlight was the entire audience singing the line "We'd do the weird stuff." We totally would for Nathan Fillion. "The hammer is my penis". Tee-hee.<br />
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Sarah will add anything when she gets a chance. Let us know your favorite parts of Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog in the comments!<br />
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-Kali<br />
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<i>Hey look, Sarah has spare time! As Kali mentioned, we're both very busy. Luckily though, I shall become a college graduate this Saturday meaning that I shall (temporarily) have more time! At least until I find myself a second job *head deak.* Anyways, the point is that soon I will have more time which means I will be going back to add my notes to Kali's episodes. Until then, I will post my review of the Dr. Horrible show.</i><br />
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<i>I thought it was freaking awesome! Unlike Kali, my focus wasn't really on the individual actors, but more the atmosphere the created so instead of comparing how they measured up to Neil, Nathan, and Felicia, I'm going to talk about the difference between watching this at home vs. here at the theater. Obviously, everyone knows by now that Kali and I are huge Harry Potter nerds and the experience at this show was akin to that of a midnight release or a showing at an HP conference. Dr. Horrible and Harry Potter are great, great works of art and are always enjoyable. But part of the magic is lost when you are watching it by yourself on DVD. Watching this production was a great way of showing in an amazing moment with a bunch of fellow fans that we may or may not know, ever talk to, or see again. The show was brilliant because it allowed us all to be fans and experience the beauty of this piece together. It didn't really matter to me whether or not I enjoyed their acting, set designs, costumes, or props (even though I thoroughly enjoyed all four), it was just the fact that they created this show that was amazing for me. [/mild sappiness]</i><br />
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<i>Plus, it was a ton of fun going to see it with a group of good friends. I'm sure most of you reading this blog are fellow introverts who live on the interwebz and enjoy time to yourself, but it's still nice from time to time to get together with fellow introverts and act like extraverts.</i><br />
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<i>-Sarah</i>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-43744450571793754532011-05-06T11:10:00.000-07:002011-05-06T11:10:22.879-07:00Season 5, Episode 4<div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">"Out of My Mind"</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">I have to say, I'm glad to see Buffy back in a cemetery more. We open on her trying to stalk and slay a vampire, but Riley shows up to stake him for her. Don't worry, there's another one. Oh wait, Spike tries to take care of that one. Afterwards, Spike has an ominous line: <em>I will know your blood, Slayer. (pause) I will make your neck my chalice ... and drink deep. </em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Then proceeds to fall in an open grave. Lolz.<br />
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We go to Buffy and Willow discussing class while walking down the hall. I like that we know Buffy is still in college, but we aren't there as much as last year. I'm glad that this season is heavily focused on her being the Slayer since we kind of wandered away from that last season. <br />
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At the Magic Shop, Xander and Giles are putting the final touches on carpentry while Anya rearranges the shelves. I have to include the next part or Sarah might stab me.<br />
<em>TARA: I just ... keep thinking how cool it would be, if we got a real psychic to sit up here and read fortunes and stuff. <br />
WILLOW: You should do it. <br />
TARA: Not me. But, but I'd love to, to watch and learn. From someone who's really good, you know? <br />
WILLOW: You're really good. (holds out her hands) I'll prove it. Here, do me. </em><br />
<em>Tara nods and sits, putting down the cards, taking one of Willow's hands. Willow watches her study it. </em><br />
<em>TARA: Hmm. <br />
WILLOW: What do you see? <br />
TARA: Willow hand. </em><br />
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In the backroom, Riley is on crack apparently and wants to wrassle. Buffy just wants to look at the pretty training room that Giles and everyone designed for her. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">To be a Slayer, you must score at least an 8.5 on the pommel horse!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">Next, we have a silly moment, but it actually really applies to the situation. Spike is in front of the telly and he says to it "<em>Oh Pacey, you blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?" </em>For those not aware, Pacey is a character from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson's_Creek"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Dawson's Creek</span></a> who falls in love with his best friend's ex-girlfriend and drama ensues. But this is foreshadowing Spike's feelings towards Buffy and it's interesting too if you know who Pacey does end up with...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Anywho, to get back on track. Harmony shows up because Buffy "won't give up until she's killed me to death!" No one cares to kill you because you are an idiot and need to just go away. Spike lets her stay in his crypt in exchange for sex. They're classy like that. He also wants something else from her (no, not that)- kill the Slayer.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The next morning in the Summer's kitchen, Dawn is apparently 7 years old digging through the cereal box for a prize. Joyce collapses after asking Dawn "Who are you?" Good question. Dawn calls 911 (at least she knows THIS much) and at the hospital Dawn is once again a small child and is playing with the doctor's stethoscope. Seriously, Harry Potter was fighting Voldemort in a cemetery at 14 and Dawn is freaking acting like a toddler. Boo. At least because of her childish antics, we discover that Riley really must be on crack because his heart is beating at 150 bpm. That's really fast and not good at all for a resting heartbeat. But Riley is big tough man and thinks that he can just walk it off and be fine. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Buffy wants to get in contact with the Initiative, so she picks up a phone and says that Riley needs help because apparently that's how phone taps works now. Riley is getting all sweaty playing basketball and Graham goes to <strike>hit on him</strike> tell him that he needs help. You cut a chip out of your heart with broken glass after being pumped full of drugs. Yeah Riley, you're just A- OK. So Riley goes all PCP crazy, beats everyone up, and runs away. The Scooby gang gather in order to form a search team for him. Buffy decides to <strike>screw</strike> question Spike.<br />
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Now, for fun times at Spike's crypt:<br />
<em>SPIKE: Okay, is it bigger than a breadbox? <br />
HARMONY: (smiling) No. Four left. <br />
SPIKE: So it's smaller than a breadbox. <br />
HARMONY: (giggling) No! Only three! <br />
SPIKE: (quietly annoyed) Harmony ... is it a sodding breadbox? <br />
HARMONY: (clapping and laughing) Yes! Oh my god! Someone's blondie bear is a twenty-question genius! </em><br />
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Buffy tells Spike the situation with Riley and offers to pay him to help bring Riley to the doctor that will help him. Smart move there since now Spike and Harmony head directly to the doctor and force him to remove the chip from Spike's brain. <br />
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Tara and Willow are searching for Riley in the burnt down Sunnydale High School where he camped out before. Willow performs a powerful spell to create light in the dark building. We start to see how much Willow's powers have really grown and how it slightly concerns Tara here.<br />
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And now, the beginning of the end of Buffy/Riley:<br />
<em>BUFFY: What's happening to you? <br />
RILEY: I go back ... let the government get whimsical with my innards again ... They could do anything that- Best-case scenario, they turn me into Joe Normal, just... (sighs) Just another guy. <br />
BUFFY: And that's not enough for you? <br />
RILEY: It's not enough for *you*.<br />
BUFFY: Why would you say that? <br />
RILEY: Come on. Your last boyfriend wasn't exactly a civilian. <br />
BUFFY: So that's what this is about? You're going to die, all over some macho pissing contest. <br />
RILEY: (shakes his head) It's not about him. It's about us. (Buffy shakes her head, not understanding) You're getting stronger every day, more powerful. I can't touch you. Every day, you're just ... a little further out of my reach. <br />
BUFFY: You wanna touch me? (walks toward him) I'm right here. I'm not the one running away. <br />
RILEY: Not yet. <br />
BUFFY: So you have this all figured out? I'm bailing because you're not in the super club. <br />
RILEY: (shrugs) It's human nature. <br />
BUFFY: (angrily) Don't Psych 101 me. (Riley looks away) Not now. Not after everything that ... Nobody has ever known me the way you do. Nobody. (Riley doesn't look at her) I've opened up to you in ways that I've never opened up to ... God, you're just sitting back there thinking that none of this means anything to me. </em><br />
<em>RILEY: (still not looking at her) I never said that. <br />
BUFFY: (teary-eyed) Because it obviously doesn't mean anything to you. Do you really think so little of me-<br />
RILEY: Buffy. <br />
BUFFY: No! No. Do you think that I spent the last year with you because you had super powers? If that's what I wanted, then I'd be dating Spike. </em>[Don't count that out too soon, Buffy] (<em>quietly) Riley, I need you. (He looks at her, looks apprehensive) I need you with me ... and I need you healthy. But if you wanna throw it all away because you don't trust me, then ... (firmly) then I'm still gonna make you go to that doctor. </em><br />
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Riley agrees to see the doctor and again says such a sweet line (seriously, how can people not love Riley)<br />
<em>RILEY: Loving you is the scariest thing I've ever done, Buffy.</em> (Favorite Line)<br />
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</tbody></table>Buffy and Riley discover Graham knocked unconcious and once they wake him up he informs them that Spike and Harmony kidnapped the doctor. Buffy takes Riley to go find them and rants about how she's going to kill Spike. Yeah, right. Then Spike rants about how he's going to kill Buffy. Let me repeat my "Yeah, right". The doctor pretends to remove the chip. Buffy/Riley vs. Harmony/Spike battle ensues and after Spike realizes the chip is still in plus Riley collapses because of his heart everyone goes their seperate ways. <br />
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As Spike and Harmony run off through the cemetery, Spike starts to realize a little bit more about how he feels about Buffy.<br />
<em>SPIKE: She follows me, you know, tracks me down. I'm her pet project. Drive Spike round the bend. Makes every day a fresh bout of torture...You don't understand. I can't get rid of her. She's everywhere. She's haunting me, Harmony! ... (quietly) This ... has got to end. </em><br />
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At the hospital, Riley is all patched up, but we can see that Riley really feels like Buffy is slipping away. Even Buffy quickly leaves his side in order to check on her mom (ever heard of a phone?). Now, Graham is trying to convince Riley to come back with him and rejoin their mission. We'll see where this leads...<br />
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And now, for what we've all been waiting for...<br />
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<em>Cut to Spike's crypt. Spike is sleeping in his chair. Banging noises. Spike opens his eyes and gets up as the door flies open and Buffy walks in. <br />
SPIKE: Should have known it's you. Been nearly six hours. <br />
BUFFY: Well, it would've been less if I wasn't busy cleaning up your mess. <br />
SPIKE: *My* mess? I just *borrowed* the doc. The mess is yours, Slayer. Yours and the boy's. <br />
BUFFY: I'm done. </em><br />
<em>She takes a stake from her back pocket and walks toward Spike. He looks surprised. </em><br />
<em>BUFFY: Spike, you're a killer. And I shoulda done this *years* ago. </em><br />
<em>Spike looks her in the eye. </em><br />
<em>SPIKE: You know what? Do it. Bloody just do it. <br />
BUFFY: What? <br />
SPIKE: End ... my ... torment. Seeing you, every day, everywhere I go, every time I turn around. Take me ... out of a world ... that has you in it! (Yanks off his shirt and throws it aside) Just kill me! </em><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hi there, Mr. Yummy Abs</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>And then this happens:<br />
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<em>BUFFY: (panting) Spike ... I want you. <br />
SPIKE: (muffled against her neck) Buffy, I love you. God, I love you so much.</em><br />
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Too bad Spike suddenly awakes to realize it was all just a dream. Yet from his next line we know that while it was just he dream, he knows that the underlying emotions are still there.<br />
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</tbody></table>Well there you have it folks. I've been waiting for this moment since we started this blog. Spike is in love with Buffy (as much as a soulless vampire can be in love with someone). Yet, we've seen how much he loved Drusilla so at some level he must be capable of those kind of feelings. Even he knows that this is wrong from his reaction, but who we fall in love with is one of those things that you don't really get a choice about. Excited to see where it goes from here? I sure the hell am! <br />
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-Kali!Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-59589385046625622952011-05-05T10:00:00.000-07:002011-05-05T10:00:05.350-07:00Episode 3: The Replacement<div align="center"><strong>Season Five, Episode Three</strong></div><div align="center"><em>"The Replacement"</em></div><br />
The gang (minus Willow and Tara <strike>because they're busy having sex) </strike>are in Xander's apartment watching a movie. Xander is feeling a bit incompetant because he lives in a basement and isn't a macho man like Riley. He ends up bringing up the idea of getting his own apartment. The conversation quickly turns to the movie where Buffy points out all the inaccuracies. Riley tells her that she's "not always in Slayer mode" and she retorts saying that he'd be the same way with a military movie and Willow's the say with witch movies. She then calls in Xander for backup and we get to our very smooth transition.<br />
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<em>Xander: "<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">What? Oh - yeah… She's all "What's that? A Cauldron? Who uses a cauldron anymore?"</span></em><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander and Anya go apartment hunting! Anya is very good at this: "<em>I want it; pay anything."</em> He hears from the realitor while Anya helps some more: <em>"<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">We could have Scooby meetings in the living room. Giles can explain the boring things over here.</span>" </em>The realitor isn't interested in Anya's commentary and continues discussing the application with Xander who is shocked she won't just accept him based on his one fake reference and needs to do a credit check first! The nerve of some people...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">He freaks a bit and Anya says more things:<em> "</em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em>He'll take it! Xander, go get the furniture, I'll wait here.<br />
(to the manager) He lives in his drunken parents' basement where something urinated on the hot plate"</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Her constant speaking requires Xander to pull her aside to have the conversation ever man wishes to have with his girlfriend:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>ANYA: But why can't we have it?<br />
XANDER: I told you. The construction job is ending, I'm not going to have any money coming in. And, by the way, you do have your own place.<br />
ANYA:So when I want to visit you I have to be in that awful basement?<br />
XANDER: Not forever. Just until things come together…<br />
ANYA: Which is when, Xander? 'Cause right now things are looking pretty un-together and you can't expect me to just wait around-<br />
XANDER: Quiet, please. Anya, what is this? What's going on with you?<br />
ANYA: What's going on is my arm is hurt and I'm tired and I don't really feel like finishing the tour of beautiful things I can't have.</em></div>Poor Xander. He's learning faster than the rest of the scoobies the value of a dollar. I'm not quite sure why this is though, because Willow doesn't have a great family either. However, at least for now, Xander is the only one out of the group that has to face this harsh reality that things don't just fall into place. His situation sucks hardcore with him needing to pay to feel like a failure in his parent's basement and have to tell Anya that he can't spoil her the way other boyfriends can do to their girlfriends. Xander's problem within this series isn't anything paranormal like Buffy and Willow; his issues are just life and ones that we all have to face. It's debatable that he faces these real life issues more so than the other characters on this show (or at least longer than they do.)<br />
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And now we move our way into Giles' new store. Yay for the Magic Box! Uh-oh, Mr. Cauldron Man shows up and tells Giles that "he doesn't concern [him]". Poor Giles doesn't concern the demon =( The best part of this event is him explaining it to the scoobies as if he was some big hero fending off a demon solo. They catch on and figure out the truth though:<br />
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<em>BUFFY: He ran away, right?<br />
GILES: Sort of, more… turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him.<br />
BUFFY: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe?<br />
GILES: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.</em><br />
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And Giles starts a fun new game for us: Demon or British Slang! First word: <em>Toth. </em>Buffy, what's your guess.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>BUFFY: He called you a toth. It's a British expression. It means, like, a moron.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">*buzzer sounds* WRONG! Giles, what's the right answer?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>GILES: No. Toth is the name of the demon. Ancient demon… very strong… last survivor of the Tothic Clan. It also says that for a demon he's unusually sophisticated.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Giles continues explaining about Toth and informs them that he mentioned "The Slayer." Riley responds as any manly man in love would:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>RILEY: He mentioned Buffy? Where do we find him and how hard can I kill him?</em></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">They go into the dump, since Toth apparently smelled, and they run into Spike. And since he's there, they decide to ask for his help:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>BUFFY: Spike, we're looking for a demon. Very tall, robe, skin kinda hanging off, deep voice…<br />
SPIKE: What, you mean a great tall robe-y thing like that one?<br />
The Scoobies turn and look behind them. TOTH LOOMS OVER THEM from a nearby hill of garbage, holding the black rod from the teaser.<br />
TOTH: Die well, Slayer<br />
Toth rushes forward as Giles and Riley circle around behind him, axes ready as Toth raises the rod.<br />
SPIKE: Hey, big guy! Kick 'er ass!<br />
Buffy sees the rod in Toth's hand - a fighting staff? She picks up a length of pipe. But Xander sees that Toth is aiming the rod at her.<br />
XANDER: Watch out!<br />
A BLAST OF SPARKS ERUPTS FROM THE ROD AND A PILE OF GARBAGE NEXT TO BUFFY EXPLODES!<br />
RILEY: Take cover!<br />
Riley grabs Willow's arm, pulls her away from the action. TOTH FIRES THE WEAPON AGAIN. SPIKE'S NEW LAMP IS HIT, SHATTERING IN HIS HAND.<br />
SPIKE: Oh, very nice. I was on your side!</em></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander gets hit by Toth's nerf blaster gun and then some weird shit starts to happen...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We start the strangeness by Xander waking up in the dump and going over to find Anya and finding himself!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">He goes to call Buffy on a payphone and she answers just as he passes himself. Wtf is going on here?!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander's stuff is what's really important, so the other points that come up I'm just going to bullet point <strike>because I am stressed with finals and don't have that much time to write this.</strike></div><br />
-Dawn is sort of awesome:<br />
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<em>DAWN: *after making gagging noises while watching Riley and Buffy kiss* My friend Sharon's older brother knows a girl who died 'cause she choked on her boyfriend's tongue.<br />
BUFFY: Go away, Dawn.<br />
DAWN: I'm not in your room. I'm in the hallway. The hallway doesn't belong to you.</em><br />
-Spike builds himself a new little toy Buffy because it's cheaper than buying the ones they sell in stores.<br />
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BACK TO XANDER! <br />
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Xander (X1) is working at the construction site while Xander (X2) watches him. X1 goes into the office and X2 waits for him to get fired, but he doesn't. X1 gets the job. X2 sees X1 flipping a little coin and assumes that he's using magic. X1 goes to the apartment and learns that he's been accepted! And the realitor hits on him! X2 doesn't understand anything about what's going on...<br />
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X1 calls Anya to ask her to meet him at his new apartment, only he doesn't tell her that he was approved yet. X2 reacts by attacking himself. <br />
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X1 leaves and X2 declares that he needs Buffy but he arrives too late and sees that X1 is already inside with Giles, Buffy, and Riley. He thinks that Buffy will know that it's a spell and not really him but overhears her saying that whoever stole his face, has to deal with the Slayer now. Poor X2...<br />
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X2 goes to Willow and they have this awesome conversation:<br />
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<em>XANDER: Don't be scared, Will. Just listen. It's me, Xander. And I can prove it.<br />
WILLOW: Um... okay.<br />
XANDER: Let's see... stuff only you and me know. Okay, for my seventh birthday I wanted a toy fire truck and I didn't get it and you were really nice about it and then the house next door burned down and real fire trucks came and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me. And for a while last year I thought I was lactose intolerant but it was just some bad brie. And, by the way, if I had time to prepare, I'd have way better material than this. Oh! Every Christmas we watch Charlie Brown together and I do the Snoopy dance!<br />
WILLOW: Are you just going to keep going?<br />
XANDER: Yes!! Yes! I will keep going until I have you convinced!<br />
WILLOW: Xander, stop dancing!<br />
XANDER: A-ha! You called me Xander!<br />
WILLOW: Xander, shut up. Why wouldn't I think you were Xander?<br />
XANDER: Oh. Huh.<br />
WILLOW: What's going on?</em><br />
X2 then explains to her about what's been going on and tells her about X1 and how he stole his face and is hypnotizing people and they need to kill him! Back at Giles, X1 is having the same conversation with his supporters. We then learn what is causing this: <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>XANDER: It's a robot! An evil robot constructed from evil parts that look like me and are designed to do evil!</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>WILLOW: Uh-huh. Or, it's Toth.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>XANDER: <u>Or</u>, it's <u>Toth</u>!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Infinite lulz</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Now, with Willow, X2 has a sad:</span><br />
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<em>WILLOW: Xander, you sound a little-- You have to help me figure this out, you know.<br />
XANDER: But I never help. I get in trouble and Buffy saves me.<br />
WILLOW:<strong> That's not true! Sometimes we all work together to save you!</strong> </em>(Favorite Line) <em>And sometimes you're not in trouble.</em><br />
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He begins telling Willow about his insecurites and how he can't do anything right and how X1 is doing everything better than him. He is in the middle of telling her how he doesn't have anything that's worth--and then he remembers Anya and tells Willow how he needs her (to which she replies "really?" lulz) <br />
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He starts to leave to go to Anya when Willow asks him the question we all were, or should have been, wondering<br />
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<em>WILLOW: Xander, you already knew he was taking over your life. You didn't think about Anya 'til just now?<br />
XANDER: Hey, wait 'til you have an evil twin, see how you handle it!<br />
Willow is left alone.<br />
WILLOW: I handled it fine.</em><br />
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Willow is really bringing the lulz in this episode! <br />
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Back at the apartment, X1 is telling Anya about how he got the apartment and that it's all for her. D'awwww. Next, Anya becomes more awesome:<br />
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<em>ANYA: So what happens next?<br />
XANDER-DOUBLE: Well, at some point we take our clothes off.<br />
ANYA: I mean, what's next in our lives? When do we get a car?<br />
XANDER-DOUBLE: A car?<br />
ANYA: And a boat. No, wait. I don't mean a boat. I mean a puppy. Or a child? I have a list somewhere.<br />
XANDER-DOUBLE: What are you talking about?<br />
ANYA: Just, we have to get going. I don't have time to just let these things happen.<br />
XANDER-DOUBLE: There's no hurry.<br />
ANYA: Yes, there is. There's a hurry Xander. I'm dying. I may have as few as fifty years left.</em><br />
X1 understands the issue here and talks with Anya about how scary being newly human must be for her. He's very sweet and tries to comfort her until...<br />
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They then both force Anya to pick which Xander is the real Xander. She determines this simply by asking the real Xander to please stand up. Why didn't everyone else think of this?! <br />
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Back with the incompetent scoobies, they work toward becoming more competent<br />
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<em>WILLOW: He came to me. I mean, Xander did. He's in terrible shape. We need to help him!<br />
RILEY: He came to us, too.<br />
WILLOW: No! We each had a Xander. I mean you didn't have a Xander! You had a demon in a Xander-suit!<br />
BUFFY: But, wait, what make you think yours was the right one?<br />
WILLOW: He knew stuff. He did the Snoopy dance. Buffy, it was Xander and he needs us!<br />
GILES: Oh dear lord.<br />
RILEY: Buffy... Our Xander. Did he seem a little...<br />
BUFFY: He was kind of... forceful and confident.<br />
WILLOW: <strong>That's not Xander! (</strong></em>LOL)<br />
<em>GILES: I said oh dear lord.<br />
BUFFY: You always say that.<br />
GILES: Well, it's always important! Neither one of the Xanders is a demon.<br />
WILLOW: Um... is one of them a robot?<br />
GILES: What? No. The rod device, it's called a Ferula-gemina. It splits one person into half, distilling personality traits into two separate bodies. As near as I can tell Toth was attempting to split the Slayer into two different entities.<br />
RILEY: Two Buffys?<br />
GILES: Yes, one of them with all the qualities inherent in Buffy Summers. The other with everything that belongs to the Slayer alone: the strength and speed, the heritage. When it hit Xander, I think it separated him into his strongest qualities and his... weakest.<br />
RILEY: But which one is the real one?<br />
GILES: They're both real. They're both Xander. Neither of them is evil. There's nothing in either of them that our Xander didn't already posses.<br />
RILEY: I still don't get the original plan. Why do it? The Slayer half would be like Slayer-concentrate. Pretty unkillable.<br />
GILES: But the two halves can't exist without the other. Kill the weaker Buffy half and the Slayer half dies.<br />
BUFFY: So, same thing for the Xanders, right? Both of them need to stay alive or they both die.</em><br />
Luckily for those in the know, X1 brought a gun to the party! <br />
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Willow, Buffy, and Riley come just in time to stop the X2 from shooting X1 and killing them both in the process. They tell the Xanders about what happened but they don't believe her so to prove that they are the same person she comes up with this genius plan:<br />
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</div><div align="left">X1 still isn't convinced because of X2's shiny magic disk which turns out to be a flatten coin he found on the construction site. With all of this settled enough for each Xander to not act all murderous toward the other, they're attempt to move their party over to Giles appartment but their plans are foiled by Mr. Cauldron Man errr, I mean Toth. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Some fighting occurs and, obviously, Buffy wins. Doesn't it feel like this <em>always </em>happens? When is she going to lose a battle against someone? *cough* soon *cough* </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">They then travel to the Magic Box where Buffy and Willow point out every weird physical flaw on both Xanders while Riley gets all psychology crazy and wants to lock them each in separate rooms and perform experiments on them.</div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">And Anya decides that they shouldn't put them back together quite yet. At least not until she gets to do dirty things with both of them. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>GILES: Now, we need to arrange the candles. Also, we can continue to pretend we heard none of this disturbing sex talk.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow's ready with the spell and Anya asks:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>ANYA: What do we do if it doesn't work?<br />
XANDER/XANDER-DOUBLE: Kill us both, Spock!<br />
They laugh, cracking each other up.<br />
BUFFY: They're kind of... the same now.<br />
GILES: Yes. He's clearly a bad influence on himself.</em></div><br />
And now Giles is bringing the lulz! <br />
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Willow works some magic (literally) and Xander is now one person again. But Anya isn't happy...<br />
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Riley is helping Xander move out and Anya comes in, slingless, to declare to the world that she isn't dying anytime soon. Xander asks her to carry a box and she gets pouty, but obliges. Once she leaves, Riley and Xander have a conversation:<br />
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<em>XANDER: How is it that she can always make me feel like Suave Xander has left the building?<br />
RILEY: You two have your friction, but she digs the whole package. It's obvious.<br />
XANDER: Still, I do envy you sometimes. I mean, for the sanity. Not that I'm still into Buffy. Not that I ever was.<br />
RILEY: Hey, I'm well aware of how lucky I am. Like, lottery lucky. Buffy's like nobody else in the world. When I'm with her, it's like I'm split in two -- half of me is just on fire, going crazy if I'm not touching her. Other half is so still and peaceful, just perfectly content. Just knows: this is the one...</em><br />
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<strong><u>Kali's Notes:</u></strong><br />
- There really isn't anything else to cover or add. I just want to say that the end of this episode is one of my all-time favorite Riley moments. (Favorite line: <em>When I'm with her, it's like I'm split in two -- half of me is just on fire, going crazy if I'm not touching her. Other half is so still and peaceful, just perfectly content. Just knows: this is the one...) </em>This is such a beautiful line, and I know exactly how he feels, but it's heart-breaking that he knows she doesn't feel the same way about him. Sadz. :(<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Oh my god, so this episode totally starts out all boring with Buffy training with Giles and some stupid magic crystals. Like who cares, right? I mean, she does do a pretty awesome handstand, but she’s still boring. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Yay, it’s Dawn! She’s totally this shows best character. I think the show should be all about her. No one understands her pain. She’s the little sister of Buffy, who is totally not all that and a bag of chips. Anyone could do what she does if they had super powers. I bet Dawn could do it even more awesome than Buffy since Dawn is totally cooler. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So now, Buffy is all “I’m going to the magic shop with Giles” and Joyce is all like “Take Dawn school supply shopping Buffy” which is totally not cool. And oh my gosh, Dawn makes the funniest joke EVER by saying “<strong>Yeah mom, I’m not going to Hogwarts</strong>”. LOL, Dawn is so awesome and Buffy sucks for not finding this funny! Totally my favorite line in this episode!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Riley comes over and is totally all over Buffy and it’s really super gross. Then Buffy totally bails on him to go shopping with Giles. Then Giles is listening to boring music and yells at Dawn for trying to change the station, what an old fart. He’s just so old and boring.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Look! It’s Willow and Tara. They are totally the coolest people in the whole wide world. They are smart and into witchcraft, which is totally more awesome than stupid slaying. I wish I could watch them do a spell together! So, they get to the magic shop and oh what a surprise, the shopkeeper is dead. Why is everyone always dying in this town? It’s weird. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Buffy is a totally biatch and makes Dawn wait outside where some creeper totally comes up to her and says really weird things. </div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>GUY: That's why I'm a cat. Quiet. See, cat's in the cupboard (making cat-scratching gestures with his hands) but they find you there anyway, and it hurts… Please, make it stop. (in a different tone) Shut up, shut up, they'll hear you!…I know you. Curds and whey. I know what you are. You ... don't ... belong ... here. </em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Isn’t it totally awesome how the creeper says something about curds and whey when last season and the season before the show made references to Little Miss Muffet when talking about the arrival of Dawn? I think it’s awesome.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So Buffy, Willow, and Giles are researching the shopkeeper’s murder. Giles seems pretty interested in the shop business. They figure out that someone took some stupid unicorn statue. Oh, and look who it was.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> Now Buffy wants to go patrolling, but Joyce has some work thing to do. It’s totally unfair because Dawn is way old enough where she doesn’t need a babysitter. Like seriously guys, she’s not a kid, she’s 14. It’s totally unfair.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">But Xander is the one to come watch done which is cool since he is so totally hot. He’s so awesome that he didn’t even need to go to college because he got a job unless Buffy who doesn’t even have a <i>real</i> job. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">He’s so hot and he brought pizza!</span></div></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> Tara is feeling like she’s outside of the Scooby gang and how Dawn must feel the same. Then Willow is so adorable and tells Tara that she’s an important part of the gang.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aww, they hug because they are super best friends…right? </span></div></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When Xander tells Buffy what happened, she totally overreacts and is really super mean to Dawn. But oh my gosh, look who it is!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Spike is so freaking hot, especially with that sexy jacket he wears. Harmony thinks she’s all evil and awesome, but Spike points how dumb she really is. Harmony has some sort of plan to kill Buffy, but it’s totally not gonna work. I bet Xander will save the day. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Buffy starts ranting to Riley and Xander about Dawn not understanding anything and is being a total bitch. She’s like seriously mean guys. </div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>Buffy: No, it was common sense. But nobody expects even that much from Dawn, do they? No, she has to be protected and coddled from the big bad world, well you know what? We are doing nothing but turning her into a little idiot who is going to get us all killed.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Dawn rightly gets pissed off and runs out of the house, but unfortunately there are big vampires waiting to capture here. Anya tries to stop them but gets knocked out because she’s not super powered. So Harmony and her minions have Dawn all tied up to lure Buffy into a trap. Buffy goes to find Harmony’s lair by beating up Spike. Like seriously, why is she so mean to him? She’s always beating him up, like little kids do when they like someone. I wonder what that’s about. </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So Harmony is totally feeling sad about no one listening to her because she’s a dumb slut. But Dawn feels her pain. Then her minions are all trying to rebel against her, but Buffy shows up and totally kills all of them. Buffy tells Harmony how dumb she is and Harmony runs off because she’s a big scaredy-cat. Then Buffy gives Dawn a hard time when it totally wasn’t even her fault. At least Buffy doesn’t tell her mom what happened.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Now Giles is totally going to buy and run the magic shop so he actually has something to do other than be unemployed and buy mid-life crisis cars. Oh and “watch Passions with Spike”. LOL. So Dawn is sitting writing in her journal and Buffy is all telling her what to Dawn and Dawn writes in her journal “<i>She still thinks I'm Little Miss Nobody, just her dumb little sister. Boy, is she in for a surprise.” </i>Yeah, Buffy is totally not prepared!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">-Kali! <3</div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-56129887140501327302011-05-03T10:00:00.000-07:002011-05-03T10:59:42.249-07:00Episode 1: Buffy vs. DraculaAnd so we begin our journey through season five with the <strike>horrendously aweful </strike>episode<br />
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<div align="center"><strong>Season Five, Episode One</strong></div><div align="center"><em>"Buffy vs. Dracula"</em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">If you were wondering what this season was going to be about, look no further than the teaser. We see here Buffy sleeping next to Riley, yet seeming very distant from him. She then gets up and chases after a vampire who's running away from her. She keeps going until she catches him and he turns to dust and then she gets back into bed with Riley without him ever knowing that she left. If you've already seen this season, you should be able to see the parallels between this teaser and the season. If not, don't worry, you will soon. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Next scene we're at a beach with Buffy and Riley playing catch. Riley quickly becomes an idiot and tells Buffy, who has declared herself "team me", that she throws like a girl. But don't worry, he gets what he deserves from making a sexist joke. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Hanging back watching them play are the rest of the scoobies with an epicly hilarious conversation:<br />
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<em>XANDER: I'm exhausted just looking at those two. The splashing and the jumping and the running… Shouldn't relaxing involve less exertion?<br />
ANYA: Absolutely. Exertion can lead to sweatiness.<br />
TARA: Which can cause the pain and heartbreak of stinkiness. Better to just stay put.<br />
WILLOW: I think we've just put our finger on why we're the sidekicks.</em><br />
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I totally agree with them though. Which is why I don't leave my house unless I absolutely have to and live primarily on the internet. Anyways, back to our show...<br />
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Riley comes back to join the gang, declaring that Buffy slayed the football, and the two of them ask Xander for their burgers. However, since Xander fails at most aspects of life, he can't figure out how to work a match. Luckily Willow's there to help. She starts a fire with magic and explains how you just have to make sure messing with one element doesn't affect...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In an attempt to get a bit nerdy, Giles and Willow set out to achieve his entire library on his computer. Willow comments on how he's been project man for a while now and Giles tells her not to repeat what he's about to tell her, especially not to Buffy:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em>GILES: Do you swear?<br />
WILLOW: Oh God… I guess. Now that I know there's something to know -I can't not know just because I'm afraid someone will know I know, you know?<br />
GILES: Did you mean yes?<br />
WILLOW: Yeah…<br />
GILES: We're doing all this because I want you and the others to have everything you need at your fingertips. You see, I'm going back to England.<br />
WILLOW: You're - what? But you can't. You're Buffy's watcher. I mean, in a fired way.<br />
GILES: It's become quite obvious that Buffy doesn't need me anymore. And I don't say that out of self pity, I'm quite proud, actually.<br />
WILLOW: But what about the rest of us? We still need to be watched. Personally, I can't get through a day without a little hairy eyeball.<br />
GILES: I appreciate the sentiment, but it's just not so. You'll be fine. You all will. (kindly) And we'll stay in touch. You can call me whenever you like.(off her silence) It's time from me to get on with it, Willow. I need to find out what's next for me - and England's my home.<br />
WILLOW: When are you going to tell Buffy?<br />
GILES: Soon.</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sadface. But don't worry, he's not leaving yet! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But you know who is leaving: Buffy. She leaves dinner with her mom to go patrol. And here's where the weirdness starts. On this hunt, she runs into a vampire. One named Dracula.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em>DRACULA: I came to meet the renowned killer.<br />
BUFFY: I prefer the term "Slayer." "Killer" just sounds so…<br />
DRACULA: Naked?<br />
BUFFY: Like I paint clowns or something. I'm the good guy, remember?<br />
DRACULA: Come now. You can't deny your history.<br />
BUFFY: What do you mean, history? I hail from a long line of white hats, period.<br />
DRACULA: Perhaps. But your power is rooted in darkness. You must feel it.</em></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Remember this conversation and we proceed onwards. </div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, there conversation ends soon after this with him pulling a Snape and turning into a bat. </div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back at Casa de Giles, they discuss Dracula. This conversation ranges from Buffy, Willow, and Anya talking about the sexiness of him while Tara questions Willow's interest in the Y chromosome again to Willow trying really hard to make Giles feel as if he needs to stay in Sunnydale to Riley getting thirsty to make the kill before his girlfriend falls in love with another vampire. </div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On his way home, Xander runs into his new master. Dracula makes Xander his <strike>bitch</strike> emissary; his eyes and ears in daylight. So, basically, he's now one of Dracula's deatheaters. If Voldemort choose deatheaters as horribly as Dracula is, no wonder he was killed. </div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And next, as if Joss was able to hear Kali's cries for some sexy vampire action, Spike and Riley have a little conversation about Dracula. He spills about how much of a "poncy bugger" Dracula is and tells Riley to look for him in some luxarious places since he's too good to live as other vampires do. Well, he actually tells Riley <em>not </em>to look for him since this is a bit out of his league. They then have a testosterone contest that ends with Riley leaving Spike mid warning:</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div align="left">And now we get a reenactment of Angel/Buffy's relationship with Dracula creepin into Buffy's room while she sleeps. Speaking of Angel, Dracula sees his bite marks on her neck. He takes a bite out of her and sucks her dry. Thus concluding this episode and the series. It's been fun folks! </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Oh, wait, you're telling me he stops drinking her blood before she dies? This episode <em>isn't </em>over? Ugh, how irritating...</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">The next day, after Buffy covers up her vampire hickey with a scarf, they head to Giles' place where both she and Xander act strange. Willow, Riley, and Giles are all set in research mode while she is distant and feeling guilty about her act of adultery and Xander is angry over the fact that he wasn't blessed with any such acts from the Unholy Prince. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Buffy leaves and Riley follows her out, asking her to take off her scarf. Here's a good rule to go by: when you're job requires you to come into contact with vampires often, wearing a scarf randomly around your neck one day will probably lead to some questions. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Willow and Tara go over to Buffy's house to put up a protective spell to lock Dracula out (another throw back to Angel). This task leads to a hilarious conversation with Joyce:</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><em>JOYCE: He seemed so nice and normal… A little pale…<br />
WILLOW: A good Sunnydale rules of thumb? Avoid white-skinned men in capes.<br />
JOYCE: I didn't - he was in a suit. A lovely suit… He came by the gallery, and he was amazingly well informed about art history-<br />
TARA: Probably because he was around for most of it.<br />
JOYCE: I want you both to know, I am not like this. I do not invite strange men over for coffee. It's just , it's been way too long. Since I met anybody. You know, someone even remotely interesting. When you girls get older, you'll understand. It's hard to date. Sometimes you feel like giving up on men altogether.</em></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">And now it's showtime! Riley and Giles head to find Dracula while Anya talks Xander's ear off about how she should have been included. But he's not listening to her at all and instead locks her in a closet and tells Buffy the plan.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Xander takes Buffy to Dracula and she stakes him until he turns to dust! Ha, just kidding. He tells her to put the stake down and she does exactly what he says. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Luckily, Riley and Giles find the place where Dracula must be hiding. Apparently he decided to bring a mansion with him to Sunnydale. Very discrete.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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DRACULA: Are you afraid I'll bite you? Slayer, that's why you came.<br />
BUFFY: No… last night was… That's not gonna happen again.<br />
DRACULA: Stop me. Stake me.<br />
BUFFY: I'm… any minute now…<br />
DRACULA: Do you know why you can't resist?<br />
BUFFY: 'Cause you're famous?<br />
DRACULA: Because you do not want to.<br />
BUFFY: My friends are -<br />
DRACULA: They're here. They will not find us. We are alone. Always… alone. There is so much I have to teach you. About your history, your power… What your body is capable of…<br />
BUFFY: I don't… need to know…<br />
DRACULA: You long to. And you will have eternity to discover yourself. But first… a little taste.<br />
BUFFY: I won't… let you…<br />
DRACULA: I didn't mean for me.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>BUFFY: I'm not hungry.</em></span><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">DRACULA: No. Your craving goes deeper than that.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> You think you know. What you are, what's to come… you haven't even begun. (<strong>Restless falshback!) </strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Find it… the darkness…. Find your true nature.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Buffy listens to him and drinks his blood. But I'm sure her reaction is not what he was expecting from her:<em> "That was really gross." </em>And, suddenly, she has her power back. </span><br />
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<center><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">DRACULA: What is this…? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">BUFFY: My true nature. Wanna taste?</span></em></center><center> </center><br />
<div align="left">During this time, hilarity ensues. We'll hear all about it in this closing conversation:</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><em>XANDER: Where is he? <strong>Where's the creep who turned me into his spider-eating man bitch!? </strong></em>(Favorite Line)<em> I've got a flaming enema with his name on it-<br />
BUFFY: He's gone.<br />
XANDER: Damn it!.. You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats the insects and gets the funny syphilis! As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!!<br />
BUFFY: Check. No more butt monkey.<br />
RILEY: It could have been worse. At least you weren't making time with the Dracubabes like Giles here.<br />
XANDER: No kidding? You got tranced?<br />
GILES: I did not. And I was not making time! I - I was just about to kill those loathsome creatures when Riley interrupted me-<br />
RILEY: Really? You were gonna nuzzle 'em to death?</em></div><div align="left">After this hilarity, Buffy and Giles have a serious conversation. Giles called her over to talk with her about leaving, but Buffy has to tell him something too. She tells him about the darkness she is sensing in herself and asks Giles to teach her about where she comes from and about the other Slayers. All in all, she asks him to be her Watcher again because she can't do it without him. And, suddenly, Giles has nothing to tell her anymore. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">And we end our episode just as we would any other: Buffy is leaving to meet Riley and Joyce tells her to take "her sister" with her. Now, I know what you all must be thinking...</div><div align="left"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuk_WqwY-5gC7tJSqDJWYh9oEXwSVH2CYK59rTY2L-6CRrfOD7VnRjE2Ni9UUe8Mv4hMk-iq0kU3rJQqZfHvTKg1vkKAeH-zd24iGbTZFBnnZxlsb-pp37AmMep3FOKAkNPqq3eB8dRPA/s1600/aly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuk_WqwY-5gC7tJSqDJWYh9oEXwSVH2CYK59rTY2L-6CRrfOD7VnRjE2Ni9UUe8Mv4hMk-iq0kU3rJQqZfHvTKg1vkKAeH-zd24iGbTZFBnnZxlsb-pp37AmMep3FOKAkNPqq3eB8dRPA/s320/aly.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div align="center"><strike>Damn, Harriet the Spy grew up good. </strike></div><div align="center"><strike>Does Gossip Girl know that Georgina is in Sunnydale?</strike></div><div align="center"><strike>WHEN DID BUFFY GET A SISTER?!?</strike><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">WHO THE FUCK IS THIS?</span></div><div align="center"></div><div align="left">-Sarah<br />
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<u><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">Kali's Notes:</span></strong></u><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">-I don't have much to add mostly because I really dislike this episode. For such a great season, the first 2 episodes suck hard. Although they set up SO MUCH for the season and the series, I wish this wouldn't have involved Dracula and Buffy staking him, but then not really and everything being weird. I just felt like everything was so weird in this episode and I didn't like it!</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">- I actually watched Buffy when it originally aired starting at about Season 4. When I saw this episode I was so freaking confused and thought that I must have missed something when all of the sudden Buffy had a sister. At least it gets explained early on in the season and not at the very end. But still, way to throw that in there and confuse the hell out of everyone!</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">- Favorite line: <em>Xander: I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!!</em></span></div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-33162807151077666502011-05-02T12:16:00.000-07:002011-05-02T12:35:09.374-07:00Season Four Recap<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2441965489994288134">I'm currently in a state of confusion since I'm typing up this recap while listening to the <em>Once More, With Feeling</em> soundtrack but it's too good to turn off so I'm just going to have to deal. So here's the deal with this recap since we haven't ever done a season recap in non-video form. Sarah gets to make the rules since she's the one currently typing this *evil laughter* <br />
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So I'm going to set everything up with <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sarah's answers in blue </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">and</span> </span><span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Kali's in bronze </span></span><span style="color: white;">(I asked Kali what color she wanted and she said she'd "like bronze. Ravenclaw colors ftw!" so there you go...) </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">We're going to format our discussion as we usually do our videos, except with not as much conversation between us and more of us just each writing our own answers (and taking the time to think about what our answers are as opposed to 45 minutes of unused footage.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">So, let's begin with...</span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="color: white;">Season Four Summed Up</span></u></strong><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Season four is one of my favorite seasons of Buffy because of how much growth our characters go through individually, yet still learning how to find their way back to each other. Obviously, I love Willow's arc through this season. I adore Tara and believe this arc was handled near perfectly (which is saying something since my main area of interest is sexual and gender identity issues and how they are shown within the media.) But apart from Willow, this season was beautifully done because it was incredibly real. Yeah, everything in Buffy has a supernatural twist but season 4 is the first that really deals with life changes as a cause for turmoil and distruction as opposed to just the Big Bad of the season. This season dealt with changes from high school to college in terms of identity, family, relationships, etc. Everyone learned and everyone became a better person because of this season. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">I'm with Sarah about how this season really shows a lot of individual character growth, which is pretty much what happens when you leave high school. You have to learn to be your own person outside of your group dynamic. Outside of high school, Willow discovers her sexual identity. Buffy learns that she's not the big man on campus anymore in the first episode, but still finds her way in the first half of this season. She really backs away from her Slayer duties this year. Just think back to how few of times we saw her in a cemetary compared to the past 3 seasons. Xander is still searching for his place by the end of this season, but he has matured by leaps and bounds this season with the help of his relationship with Anya. While they have a very odd relationship, it's actually perfect for both of them. Giles has been a Watcher his entire life and is at first enjoying a life of leisure but that gets old fast so he tries to figure out what exactly he should do now. I feel like this season is a perfect set-up to season 5. Everyone has grown and grown apart through the whole season, but finally come together at the end. Now we will see what our characters do with all of these developments next season.</span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="color: white;">Favorite Season Four Moment</span></u></strong><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I wonder what I'm going to choose...</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">It's cheating to say the whole Willow/Tara storyline so, if I have to choose one moment, I think I'd choose Tara telling Willow that she's hers. This moment is a good summation of their relationship and the high level of adorableness it contains.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">I don't really have a favorite scene. I do love when Tara tells Willow that she hers. I also have always loved when Faith is in Buffy's body and tells Spike how she'll make him pop like warm champagne. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Who Are You has some really great moments in it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: white;">Favorite Episode</span></u></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><em>New Moon Rising </em>& <em>Who Are You</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">First episode should be very obvious since I wrote all about my love for it in my post. But, if you missed that post or tried to read it but lost interest because of the number of times I mentioned how much I adore Willow, the basic reason why I love this episode is because it's very realistic. It's common for friends and family to react as Buffy has (or worse) and for the person coming out to not actually <em>say </em>that they're coming out but rather just suggest it as Willow did. This scene alone could make this episode one of my favorites, but I also really enjoyed the Oz storyline and how Willow was the only thing that made him lose control of his wolfyness and Tara's with her telling Willow that she'd be there for her whether she was just a friend or something more. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Who Are You is also awesome because I enjoy Faith a lot and I think her transformation throughout the episode is really sad and well done. At first, she was just mocking and messing with Buffy's life, but then she really learned who she could be if she were treated as Buffy is. And, on the flip side, Buffy learned about how Faith is treated and really didn't learn much of anything...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">I won't cheat and pick two like Sarah did (mostly because my second would also be Who Are You) and I will go with Restless. I think it's pretty obvious how much I love when Joss writes dreams for the characters in the show. And it's not just the amazing dialogue and symbolism in this show, but the visuals and the lighting and all of the cinematography. It's hard to pick a favorite episode for this season because while I think this season as a whole isn't very cohesive in theme or elements, I think it has some of the best individual episodes of the whole series. That's probably why I season itself isn't great in following a theme each episode because each episode stands alone in awesomeness.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong><u><span style="color: white;">Favorite Quote: </span></u></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Do you guys remember when we used to do favorite quotes for each episode? I guess sort of forgot this time around; we'll have to remember to bring it back for season five. Anyways, to figure this out, I'm going to use wikiquote *looks* THIS IS TOO HARD! Okay, to solve this issue, I'm having a favorite from each person.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">*Anya: </span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I like you. You're funny and you're nicely shaped. And, frankly, it's ludicrous to have these interlocking bodies and not... interlock. Please remove your clothing now.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">*Oz: <span style="color: black;"><em><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> (Xander: I could've been God.)</span></em> </span>Blasphemer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">*Willow: (investigating the professor's death in <em>Pangs)</em><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> No. She cut off her ear, then killed herself, then dumped the body--I'm really off my game, aren't I?</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">*<span style="font-family: inherit;">Buffy: <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Giles, Faith has taken my body and for all I know she's taken it to Mexico by now. I don't have time for bondage fun.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*Xander: <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sometimes I think about two women doing a spell, and...then I do a spell by myself.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: inherit;">*Giles: A watcher scoffs at gravity! </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">*Tara: I am you know (Willow: what?) yours</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br />
</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I'm such a cheater...</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Yes you are! And it hurts my feelings that you didn't do a Spike quote Sarah, so just for that I will pick 3 favorite Spike quotes for Season 4!</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="color: #bf9000;">From Something Blue- </span><span style="color: #bf9000;">Spike: Oh, pouty! Look at that lip.. gonna get it.. gonna get it..<br />
From Primeval- <span style="color: #bf9000;">Spike: Well, then everything's all right. And we all get to be not staked through the heart. Good work, team.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">From Superstar- Spike: <span style="color: #bf9000;">Someday sweet slayer." [He puts a hand on Buffy's hair.] "I would love to take you on." [He moves his hand to her neck and just below her throat.] "See you face the evil alone for once."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Kali's right! I forgot to include Spike's because I didn't have to look one up for him on wikiquote! Favorite Spike line: A Bear! You made a Bear! Undo it, undo it! </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><br />
<div class="post-body entry-content"><strong><u><span style="color: white;">How Seaon Four Ranks with One, Two, and Three</span></u></strong></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">For me, it goes in reverse numerical order with Four being first and One last. I really don't love One or Two but Three and Four are pretty amazing. Four beats Three though because Each episode is awesome in Four whereas I felt Three wasn't great until the second half. </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="color: #bf9000;">I agree with Sarah (big surprise there). Like I said above, Season 4 doesn't really have a good flow or cohesive theme throughout other than growth, but it has some really amazing individual episodes (Hush, Restless, Who Are You, etc). Season 3 on the otherhand I see as one giant linked season with no episodes that really stood out on their own, but when looked at altogether made a pretty good season.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content"><strong><u><span style="color: white;">How Excited Are We For Season Five </span></u></strong></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">So excited I just wanna hug everybody!</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><br />
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</div></div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-2794452965992713972011-04-29T10:47:00.000-07:002011-04-29T10:47:20.126-07:00Restless<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">We begin with the Scooby gang gathering at the Summer’s residence to watch some movies. Riley heads out in order to testify about everything that went on with the battle and the Initiative. Apparently the gang is too buzzed from the battle to sleep so they begin watching Apocalypse Now and before the credits begin, Willow, Xander, Giles, and Buffy fall asleep on the couch in front of the television.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div>Guess who's writing Willow's dream? IT'S SARAH! I bet no one saw that coming! I obviously have a very fond attachment to Willow <strike>because she's hot </strike>so I shall be leading our tour into the realm of <strike>Narnia </strike>her mind. Let's begin with some hotness, shall we?<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now I'm sure you all are ready to concentrate on disecting Willow's subconscious and aren't at all distracted by Tara's hotness. Anyways, moving on to conversation!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They begin discussing Miss Kitty Fantastico and Tara asks if she's worried about not knowing her name yet. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>TARA: You'd think she would have told us her name by now.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>WILLOW: She will. She's not all grown yet.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Before I start analyzing, let me point out that this is all dreams so there is no right and wrong. I can say whatever I want about her dream and it all could be nothing like Joss intended it to mean. With that said, here are my thoughts on how to interpret Willow's dream.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">I believe that this is a connection on Willow's recent "coming out." Unlike most people, however, Willow hasn't actually come out as something; she's just told people that she's dating Tara. I think this discussion about names and not knowing them yet is a reflection to Willow being confused as to what this relationship makes her. She was with Oz, so can she be a lesbian? She's not sure if she'll be interested in guys again, so can she be bisexual? The world of labeling sexuality is a difficult one and Willow is in the thick of confusion. I won't speak for everyone, but I know that for me, after coming out by telling people that I liked girls, I second guessed myself a lot and was so concerned that I was wrong. On the same point though, I think Willow telling Tara that "she's not grown yet<em>"</em> and that she feels "safe here" is her acknowledging that it's okay to be confused on what to call herself. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em>TARA: They will find out, you know. About you.<br />
WILLOW: I don't have time to think about that. You know, I have all this homework to finish.</em></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">This part makes me think of Inception. Remember when they told the guy about the safe so that he'd put his important information inside of the safe? I think the same is occurring here. Tara is very vague and just tells Willow that they'll find out about her. This could be anything and only Willow knows which piece of her she's most afraid of coming out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Willow opens the window and we get our first glimpse of a desert landscape which can only mean one thing...</span><br />
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Next we see Willow walking down the halls of school, on her way to drama class, and she runs into Xander and Oz who have this awesome conversation: <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>XANDER: So, whatchya been doing? Doing spells? (to Oz) She does spells with Tara.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>OZ: I heard about that. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>WILLOW: I'm gonna be late.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>XANDER: Sometimes I think about two women doing a spell… and then I do a spell by myself.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">In the commentary, Joss actually talks about how he shouldn't have had the last line because Willow left and this is her dream but it's too freaking funny not to include.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Willow then walks into drama and they're already getting ready for their first production! Both Harmony and Buffy are there to comfort her by telling her "not to step on [Harmony's] cues" and that "[Willow's] whole family is in the front row and they look really angry." And then Riley shows up, being awesome:</span><br />
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</div><div align="left">Are you guys done laughing yet? No? Don't worry, I'm not either. Riley's cowboy guy; this will never stop being funny.</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Back to seriousness, Buffy says to Willow: <em>"</em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Your costume is perfect. No one is ever gonna know the truth. You know, about you." </em>And again we get a glimpse at the idea that there's something Willow is trying to hide about herself. </span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Now done with seriousness; listen to how hilarious Giles is!</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>GILES: All right, everyone, pay attention. In just a few moments that curtain will open on our very first production. Everyone Willow has ever met is in that audience, including all of us. That means we have to be perfect. Stay in character, remember your lines, and energy energy energy. Especially during the musical numbers. Remember, acting isn't about behaving. It's about hiding. The audience wants to find you, they want to strip you naked and eat you alive so HIDE.</em></span></div><div align="left"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-VJueBj7I1EXbV5CgFRMmmLsm6ZyoeoJqn-Q5zqI9eNC7UCBGLM6PUPr2X2qciBeMpRK6owpabsYEneePUnilFNsNh5kNcMV6dz-MOQsA6VIQe3BzMld5EqD8ZpP6bCZSmG1GbNsuF90/s1600/aly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-VJueBj7I1EXbV5CgFRMmmLsm6ZyoeoJqn-Q5zqI9eNC7UCBGLM6PUPr2X2qciBeMpRK6owpabsYEneePUnilFNsNh5kNcMV6dz-MOQsA6VIQe3BzMld5EqD8ZpP6bCZSmG1GbNsuF90/s320/aly.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Stop that. Costumes. Sets. The things, you know, things, you touch them and hold them --</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">HARMONY: Props?</span></em></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>GILES: No…</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>RILEY: Props.</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>GILES: Yes. It's all about subterfuge. (to Harmony) That's very annoying. (to the company) So get out there, lie like dogs and have a wonderful time. If we can stay focussed, keep our heads and if Willow can stop stepping on everybody's cues I know this will be the best production of Death of a Salesman we've ever done. (to Harmony) Stop it.</em></span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Three things happen here. First, when Giles forgets the word for props and Harmony tells him he says she's wrong but accepts Riley's answer not even two seconds later. This is obviously because males are smarter than females. Or Riley's just smarter than Harmony. Second, again we see Willow's need to "act" infront of everyone she knows because they want to "strip [her] naked and eat [her] alive." Isn't that beatiful imagery? And third, lmao this scene is hilarious!</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">And now time for a little snack break:</span></div><div align="left" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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Willow then walks through some dirty curtains (seriously, listen to Joss's commentary and learn how rated R he makes these things), she runs into Tara who warns her that <em>"</em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>If they find out, [she'll] be punished. [She] can't help [her] with that." </em>And during this time, the play going on is insanely awesome:</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnBoiUvtoax9w7uBO4vntKCvdCl3GHjM2_7h9nehj1gIX2ZaE0XU1f1Jjn7W5owNS-WxpUNQBSN-w618NnQ9XerlLloqSyBBkVN4OZqtG_k9L80YqQgiPcI69P9FP1QpPUrG-cQoYFAw/s1600/aly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnBoiUvtoax9w7uBO4vntKCvdCl3GHjM2_7h9nehj1gIX2ZaE0XU1f1Jjn7W5owNS-WxpUNQBSN-w618NnQ9XerlLloqSyBBkVN4OZqtG_k9L80YqQgiPcI69P9FP1QpPUrG-cQoYFAw/s320/aly.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em>Men, with your groping and spitting, all groin no brain three billion of ya </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em>passin' around the same worn out urge. Men. With your… <b>sales</b>.</em></span><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"></span></em></div>Back to Willow, she loses Tara and is attacked by something outside of the curtains. Luckily, Buffy saves her and asks what Willow did wrong because she must have done something wrong. And Willow refutes this claim:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>WILLOW: No! I never do anything! I'm very seldom naughty. I just came to class, and then the play was starting…</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>BUFFY: Play's long over. What are you still doing in costume?</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>WILLOW: Okay, still having to explain wherein this is just my outfit.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>BUFFY: Willow, everybody already knows. Take it off.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>WILLOW: No… No, I need it…</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>BUFFY: Oh, for God's sake just take it OFF</em></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">And Willow is suddenly infront of a class full of her friends, reading a book report. She looks and sees Oz lean over and tell Tara that he tried to warn her. </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibhloP_2M6bW54Xhd4gikhlhbCuQw__CbmIvv4TPqx_XbbO6c-iXcTdhN5Bwdtkkru-IAJ0WojTic6-v3QvRvIszmlivuwvCf3WFkmA9ubFucHNaCJjo95cYvuncnQqr_wd2dFOjCxbXM/s1600/aly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibhloP_2M6bW54Xhd4gikhlhbCuQw__CbmIvv4TPqx_XbbO6c-iXcTdhN5Bwdtkkru-IAJ0WojTic6-v3QvRvIszmlivuwvCf3WFkmA9ubFucHNaCJjo95cYvuncnQqr_wd2dFOjCxbXM/s320/aly.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>Poor Willow...</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">She continues on with her presentation until she is attacked and knocked to the ground. But this time Buffy isn't there to save her. In fact, no one seems to care at all. </div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">First, I have to say that Xander’s dream has always been my favorite. While some parts are so easy to analyze, other parts delve much deeper into Xander’s character. This is also the longest dream of the four, which you might find odd since Xander has been feeling like the “unimportant” role this past season.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">At the beginning of the dream, we are back in the living room not really sure whether everyone is awake or not. Buffy and Giles are watching Apocalypse Now while Willow twitches in the corner asleep (and being harmed by a strange primal being) and enjoying “New Car Smell” flavored popcorn. Yum.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Giles first claims that the movie is overrated, but Xander promises it will get better. I love Giles next line of “<i>Oh, I'm beginning to understand this now. It's all about the journey, isn't it?” </i>and as Joss Whedon says in the commentary how this applies to the episode, “It’s the journey of life, the journey through these people’s psyche- it’s not about the reveal.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Xander excuses himself to go to the bathroom, and of course being Xander we have the standard “sexual dream about your friend’s mom”. Yet, it’s written well where there is a reference to how everyone left awhile ago, showing Xander’s fear of being left behind by all his friends. And there’s this great dialogue:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>XANDER: I'm a conquistador.</i></div><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>JOYCE: You </em><em>sure it isn't comfort?</em></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>XANDER: I'm a comfortador also.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Before Xander can have sex with Buffy’s mom, he heads to the bathroom where the entire Initiative is standing there watching him. Again, one of your typical dreams where you are doing something private and the whole world is watching. As Xander leaves, he goes through a door in Buffy’s house, but ends up in his basement. This is a recurring theme throughout the episode that I’ll touch on more a bit later. Just remember, “That’s not the way out.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Now outside, Xander is at the playground with Giles and Spike on the swings and Buffy playing in the sand. Giles and Spike on the swings is pretty hilarious, but it also goes to Xander feeling like he has no true place in the group. In his dream, Spike is “like a son” to Giles and is being trained to be a Watcher. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">We have a great moment between Buffy and Xander when he warns her about playing in the sandbox and she replies:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>BUFFY: I'm okay It's not coming for me yet.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>XANDER: I just mean ... you can't protect yourself from ... some stuff.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>BUFFY: I'm way ahead of you, big brother.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>XANDER: Brother?</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">This shows Xander really understanding the relationship he has with Buffy now. Up until last season, he still had some romantic feelings for her, but now he knows that their relationship is more like that of a brother and a sister. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Another typical dream element we have is where you sometimes watch yourself within the dream. Here we go from Xander watching himself be the ice cream man to actually being in that role watching Xander in the park. Now inside the ice cream truck, Xander and Anya have a very believable conversation about her getting back into the vengeance business. Just keep this in mind, Xander…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Of course, this being Xander’s dream, his mind jumps to this: </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Do you want to come in the back with us?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">While Xander (being a guy) tends to sexualize many situations and the females in his life, this goes back to what he was saying about being a “comfortador”. He wants sex, but deep down he is looking for the love and comfort that he is lacking in his home life. Xander crawls through the back and once again ends up in his basement. The pounding on his door continues, but we don’t know what is on the other side yet.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Then of course, in comes the best part of this episode.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Xander runs into Giles, asking him what’s after him. Again, Xander’s friends have gone on ahead and left him behind. In addition, everyone is speaking French implying again that everyone has surpassed him. Xander gets lost in the crowd and his dream begins to mirror the movie that he was watching as he fell asleep (I love and hate when this happens to me, depending on what I’m watching). This scene is just too damn funny to summarize.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>MALE VOICE: Where are you from, Harris?</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>XANDER: Well, the basement, mostly.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>MALE VOICE: Were you born there?</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>XANDER: Possibly.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>VOICE: I walked by your guidance counselor's office one time.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>(The person sits up partway and we see it's Principal Snyder, with a towel around his neck.)</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>SNYDER: A bunch of you were sitting there ... waiting to be shepherded.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>SNYDER: I remember it smelled like dead flowers. Like decay. Then it hit me. The hope of our nation's future is a bunch of mulch.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>XANDER: You know, I never got the chance to tell you how glad I was you were eaten by a snake. </em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>(Snyder sits up slowly. His face is all sweaty.)</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>SNYDER: Where are you heading?</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>XANDER: Well, I'm supposed to meet Tara and Willow. And possibly Buffy's mom.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>(Snyder's hands lifting water from the bowl and pouring it over his bald head.)</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>SNYDER: Your time is running out.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>XANDER: No, I'm just trying to get away. There's ... something I can't fight.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>SNYDER: Are you a soldier?</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>XANDER: (shakes head) I'm a comfortador.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>SNYDER: You're neither. You're a whipping boy. Raised by mongrels and set on a sacrificial stone.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>XANDER: (nods) I'm getting a cramp.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Xander walks away and as he runs from whatever is chasing him, he goes through several rooms like Giles’s living room, Buffy’s dorm room, and the college corridor to end up back in his parents’ basement. Again, Xander states “That’s not the way out” while looking at the door to the basement that is still being pounded on. We think that it’s whatever is after everyone, but in fact it turns out to be Xander’s father yelling at him. This is Xander’s biggest fear. That no matter what he does, he will end up in his parent’s basement alone and friendless. He looks at his parents and knows that they aren’t “the way out” in regards to not just leaving the basement, but to leaving behind the life that he doesn’t want to live. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">His father turns into the primal Slayer, who in turn rips out Xander's heart (since Xander was "the heart" in the spell they did). This is also a great symbol since Xander feels his heart is being ripped out by his parents, particularly his father.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I think this is why I love Xander’s dream out of everyone’s because I can relate to him here wanting to get out of your parent’s house, wanting to leave your life behind, but still having no idea what to do with your life or even who you are. And onto...</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Ah, sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To sleep, perchance to dream…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I’m quoting the Bard’s Hamlet, but it seemed only fitting since this is Giles’s dream, and he’s British.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*nods convincingly*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Here we launch into Giles’s dream, opening with him standing before a seated Buffy, telling her to “stop thinking.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is dangling a watch (Oho!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see what you did there, Joss—he’s a WATCHer!) in front of her in the classic hypnotizing stance, which Buffy promptly calls “old-fashioned” and laughs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*sigh*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kids today… </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">We cut to a scene of a carnival in a cemetery (‘cause that’s where all the fun happens in this show, dontcha know) into which enter Giles, accompanied by his “orgasm buddy” with an empty pram, and a childlike Buffy with pigtails (clearly, Giles strongly identifies as a father figure to Buffy, and this shows his buried yearning to be a normal person with a normal family and life).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Playing along with the Buffy-is-Giles’s-child idea, we see Buffy playing carnival games in which she attempts to stake a game-version vampire and Giles instructs her (proof that no matter how much Giles may long for a normal life, he can’t get away from Buffy’s Slayer birthright and his role as her Watcher), as well as Buffy wanting a treat, to which Giles tells her not to get it all over her face (showing how much Giles tries to keep things from getting “messed up,” but Buffy’s innocently-enough-intended flouting of the rules and marching to the beat of her own drummer always seems to ruin Giles’s most carefully laid plans).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Buffy turns to him with stuff smeared on her face, Giles says, “I know you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">This glimpse of the primitive is quickly diverted by Spike calling for them, “Come on!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re gonna miss everything!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is standing outside of his crypt, and, strangely enough, there is an abundance of garden gnomes outside it (how… homey?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spike says he has hired himself out as an attraction, and when they follow him into the crypt, a crowd of people are taking pictures of Spike in multiple poses (proof that they don’t take Spike seriously as a threat; oh, and the whole thing where people say “I’ll steal your soul!” when they take your picture… Spike hasn’t got one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*cue Nelson HA HA!*).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Upon entering, Giles passes his orgasm buddy crying, sitting beside the pram where it is on its side, still empty (further proof that Giles can never have a normal family life like other people; also showing the loss of innocence and disillusionment that continues to happen as the show goes on).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time we see Spike being photographed, everything is in black and white, but all the rest is in color (equating Spike with old-timey movie villains who are rather antiseptic and caricatured, unlike the real world of the Hellmouth that is in color, showing how vividly REAL it is—plus, you can see blood and gore much more effectively in color than in sterile black and white).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When we get to Giles entering the Bronze, we see his living room in the middle of it, with Xander (sans heart, of course) and Willow there with his beloved books doing research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, Giles’s role is such that he can’t escape it, even when (or particularly when) he tries to take a night off—like going to the Bronze for entertainment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Willow tells Giles that this is his fault, placing the responsibility on his shoulders, even in the midst of a place of frivolity, reiterating the idea that Giles must be “on” and “working” and “responsible” at all times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Anya is onstage, behind Giles, in the background as a stand-up comedienne, but is having a hard time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She serves as the corporeal manifestation of the things that are always in the back of Giles’s mind, serving to distract him, like his deep-down wish to be a rock star (which we see him singing/performing in other episodes, and I don’t just mean the musical episode).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His inner rock star is a dream that wants to surface, so it does in this dream, and he takes the stage and starts singing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, his “fun” is cut short by the looming responsibility and the music stops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He crawls backstage, following the cord to a huge, hulking pile of tangled cord, in which he finds the watch from the start of the dream (I see what you did there—he’s “tied up” and can’t get away from his responsibility as… wait for it… a WATCHer!).</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">After this, Giles’s dream is over, and we move on to the next, but that’s not my part, so I’ll leave that to my partners in crime to do!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Cheers!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">~Nicole</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoHeading8" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">And so we begin with Buffy waking up in her dorm room, with Anya lying awake in Willow’s bed. I don’t fully understand Anya’s presence, though I suppose it could mean that she’s one of the replacements of “high school Willow.” Though Xander and Willow maintain a close friendship in the later years, Anya has replaced Willow as “the girl who dotes on Xander.” Which he still needs at this point in the series, honestly. But all the same...<br />
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WHAT THE F***, JOSS?!<br />
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Seconds later, Buffy wakes up in her bed at home, and is then magically on the other side of the room with Tara. This scene primarily serves as the foreshadowing of Dawn. The clock reads “7:30,” referencing Faith’s line from Graduation Day Part 2: Little Miss Moffat counting down from 7-3-0. When Tara says, “Oh, that clock’s completely wrong,” she, of course, means that Dawn’s arrival is much closer than it was at the end of the third season. Though that always confused me, because 730 is the number of days in two years, and unless I’m as bad at math as Mr. Shue, there were way less than 730 days between May of 1999 and August/September of 2000...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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The making of the bed calls the Faith dream to mind, once again, and is already another reference to sleep. The mentions of sleep are cropping off an awful lot, and they do absolutely have a purpose. <br />
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“You think you know what’s to come. Who you are. You haven’t even begun.”<br />
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The importance of this line is apparent in its repetition, and in that it asks the age-old question of “who are we?” Or “who am I?” It foreshadows Buffy’s year of self-discovery in the fifth season, which is loaded with Slayer lore, of course. The line, “You haven’t even begun” could be tied directly into how much of Buffy’s character development is dependent on Dawn in the next season. Since Buffy isn’t an older sister yet, she hasn’t begun her role as the sibling protector...the one who will willingly sacrifice her life for another, however annoying, bratty, and useless said other might be. <br />
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“Be back before Dawn.” <br />
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F*** YOU JOSS WHEDON, for the existence of Michelle Trachtenburg’s character. I felt more sorry for her than anything else in the fifth season (except for when she got screechy), and I actually liked her in the seventh season, but I couldn’t STAND her in the sixth season. And I still think the show would’ve been better off without her. <br />
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In the next scene, Buffy finds herself in the halls of UC Sunnydale, and visiting familiar places in one’s dreams isn’t all that unusual. But then she realizes her mom’s face appears through a hole in the wall. Joyce is on the other side of a wall, and it’s a place that Buffy can’t reach unless she breaks down the wall and crosses over to the other side. GREAT, now I’m just thinking about the separation of the Doctor and Rose in Doomsday. Not that walls separating characters metaphorically is at all unique in film and television (see also: Pushing Daisies), but I’ve got Doctor Who on the brain since the sixth season just started.<br />
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F*** YOU, JOSS WHEDON, FOR REMINDING ME OF THE SADDEST MOMENT OF TELEVISION EVER. <br />
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</div>I have NO idea what this Riley scene means...I honestly think it’s just there because if Riley wasn’t in it he would be considered one of her “friends,” and he’s certainly not among her friends. From the moment they met, Riley was always a potential suitor (or even enemy), but never a true friend. I know people who thought Riley would have been a great addition to the team if he hadn’t been first and foremost Buffy’s boyfriend. The line, “I’ll get some pillows” in response, “We better make a fort” could be seen as a humorous moment mocking the immaturity and futility of Riley’s profession, but I read it as another reference to sleep. And I’ll get back to that later. <br />
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Buffy covering herself with grey goop and then light shoots out of her eyes? My first thought: OMG BUFFY’S THE AVATAR! (Airbender? Anyone? Anyone? Oh come on, they’re both The Chosen One but also normal kids who want to be treated as such...never mind.) <br />
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</div>“Okay, killer, if that’s the way you want it...you’re on your own,” foreshadows Riley’s departure in 5.10, “Into the Woods,” as well as his reasons for leaving. GOOD RIDDANCE TO THIS SHOW’S EQUIVALENT OF DEAN FROM GILMORE GIRLS! <br />
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In the next scene, we’re in the same desert that Buffy will return to for her “spritual journey.” I wonder if that’s significant. I don’t really understand Tara’s role as the voice of the higher power/first slayer. I mean, Amber Benson has a truly beautiful voice that suits the identity of a spirit guide. There’s always the possibility that Joss gave her the chance to speak in this dream episode because she’s the quietest of the group, bless her heart (if true, this will be repeated in the musical episode, in which she sings a great deal because she has been keeping things bottled up inside of her for so long). <br />
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CHEESE! I LOVE CHEESE! There’s this Quebec cheddar that the cheese store in my college’s town sells that is just AMAZING...<br />
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The two Slayers get into a tussle! Time for a shot in honor of a clear sighting of the SMG stunt-double!<br />
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Before we know it, Buffy’s back in her living room, but the first Slayer’s still there, so she’s still asleep. Some dialogue and stabbing ensues, concluded with: “...What kind of impression am I making in the workplace, because-” And then she’s suddenly interrupted by waking up. I read this as another reference to Buffy’s Slayerhood, because she currently still views her slaying as a job. The graveyard is her workplace, and for those concerned, she’s not exactly well-respected. I never thought vampires found a petite, blonde girl all that intimidating (pre-stake-age, of course), and the Watchers Council certainly finds her irritating. It’s also a reference to how Buffy is a completely different kind of Slayer, and representing the change and modernization of who the Slayer is. Her choice method of criticizing the original Slayer is her fashion sense. <br />
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The most important running themes in Buffy’s dream are sleep and the act of waking up, and the absence of her closest friends and mentor. We’ll tackle the latter first, because it’s simple: Buffy is really alone in this journey. Sure, her closest friends are present in her life, but in her own life journey, she has to do everything on her own. She’s looking for their support, but they’ll never be able to give her everything she needs.<br />
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Sleep, of course, represents death. Joss’ overwhelming use of sleep and dreaming and symbols that we associate with sleep foreshadow the deep, long sleep awaiting Buffy at the end of this next journey, which is confirmed when she’s told that “death is her gift.” No matter where she is, Buffy can’t escape sleep. It’s like Inception. Except really well-written.*<br />
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*I AM NOT COMPLETELY DISSING INCEPTION. It was a pretty good movie, but much more of a popcorn movie than a high-art one.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">Well, that was fun, huh? Hope you enjoyed this four person write up doingness. This episode is so important and awesome that we felt it would be really neat to have someone handle each person's dream. But to wrap everything up, this episode tells us a lot about each person's insecurities. These should all be remembered as we go on because, after this, we're back into real life where people don't normally talk about their insecurities but instead act on them and make decisions because of them and also to avoid finding out that there is some truth to their fears. Also, Buffy's run-in with the First Slayer in her dream will have a profound effect on her for all of Season Five starting with the first episode.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">P.S. Tomorrow there will be a written recap of Season 4, and HOLY CRAP Season 5 starts on Monday!</div></div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-14649691250520846212011-04-28T12:14:00.000-07:002011-04-28T21:39:02.102-07:00Season 4, Episode 21<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>"Primeval"</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Just as Harry Potter learned in the fourth book that he could accomplish much more with the help of his friends than without, Buffy learns that same lesson at the end of Season 4. The parallels are endless! Anyways, we begin where last episode left off. Buffy told the Scoobies that she would go get help from the one person that she could count on.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So where is Riley? Oh he’s kicking it with his new homeboy, Adam. Apparently Professor Walsh did put a chip inside Riley (I won’t point out how the thoracic nerve would in no possible way be able to control Riley’s behavior because if I start pointing out all the things that can’t happen well… you get the idea). So Adam activated this chip and is controlling Riley now. Adam tells him how they are brothers and together they will rule the world or some shit like that. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Adam: That's how I want her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where I want her is down in the</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Initiative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(stops walking) She will ensure that as many demons die</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>as humans, she will achieve maximum carnage before she's too weak to</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>go on.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Spike: Right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Initiative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But getting her there--that's what the</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>bleeding disks are for, isn't it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our little witch gives her the info</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>and pop--Alice heads back down the rabbit hole.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Adam: The witch.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Spike: Uh, Willow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(uses his hands to demonstrate height) About so</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>high, perky, good with math.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Natural choice.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Adam: A friend.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Spike: Right.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Adam: One of the friends from whom you so efficiently separated her.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Spike: Damn right I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You should've seen her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They won't be</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>talking to each other for a long, long--</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Adam looks down at Spike.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Spike: Hang on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I might've detected a small flaw.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">After a run-in with Spike, Buffy figures out that they’ve been had… by Spike. I really feel like the Scoobies deserve to be punished for being so dumb sometimes. Hey, kinda like Harry. Buffy gets everyone to gather at the college campus and Giles says what everyone is thinking.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> Buffy figures out Adam’s evil plan and the breakdown goes like this:</div><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Buffy: Those demons were just too easy to catch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's like they</em></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>wanted in that place.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Giles: The Trojan horse.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Buffy: Adam's gonna make sure the demons attack the Initiative from</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>the inside.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Xander: Demons versus soldiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Massacre, massacre.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Willow: And Adam has a neat pile of body parts to start assembling his</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Diabolical, yet...(makes a face) Gross.</i></div><pre style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0000a0;"><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> </span></span></span></pre><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In order to defeat Adam, Xander comes up with the plan. That is not a typo; Xander really did come up with the idea that leads to the plan to take down Adam.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Xander: So no problem, all we need is combo Buffy--her with Slayer</i></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>strength, Giles' multi-lingual know how, and Willow's witchy power.</em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">With all your planning did you really think that the Initiative wouldn’t have like a camera or sensor in the elevator. REALLY?! Anyway, the military man thinks he knows everything like they tend to do. Buffy tells him that he doesn’t know shit, she’s the mother-fucking Slayer, and he needs to back the hell off because she’s the bitch in charge. Or something like that.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</tbody></table>After removing the chip, Riley is able to fight on his own and kill Zombie-Forrest. Willow performs a spell where she is the spirit, Giles is the mind, Xander is the heart, and Buffy is the body/vessel. They join together in Buffy's body in order to perform another spell that will allow her to remove Adam's power-core. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Spike: Nasty sort of fellow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucky for you blighters I was here, eh?</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Giles: Yes, thank you. Although your heroism has been slightly muted by the fact that you were helping Adam to start a war that would kill us all.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Xander: You probably just saved us so we wouldn't stake you right here.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>Spike: Did it work?</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i>They all get up.</i></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Spike: Well, then everything's all right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we all get to be not staked through the heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good work, team.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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The Scoobies rally together to finish off rest of the demons. The military men talk about what an utter failure the Initiative was. And just like the government, they abandon everything and are supposed to fill it in with concrete, but never do. But yay! Buffy and the gang saved the day once again! Well, that wraps up Season 4- wait, there's still one episode left? But the Big Bads were defeated, everyone lived happily ever after, what else is there? Only one of the best Buffy episodes EVER MADE!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">This episode rocks</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">I <3 Buffy and Willow's comversation</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Everything about this is made of win</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Spike made me giggle</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Willow is hot</div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-90886546897479165012011-04-27T10:29:00.000-07:002011-04-27T10:29:53.935-07:00Episode 20: The Yoko Factor<div align="center"><strong>Season Four, Episode Twenty</strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em>"The Yoko Factor"</em></span><br />
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</div><em><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: inherit;">Note: Kali is going to creep her notes into the episode because she wants to be a creeper today.</span></em><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We start this episode off by learning about everything that is currently going wrong with the Initiative. Morale is low, everyone is having a sad about Professor</span> Walsh, etc. And plus now Riley fell in with "a bad crowd" and left the commando life behind. The upper commando guys understand that he is with a Buffy Summers and say they don't have much information on her. The stupid head says she's "just a girl."<br />
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Cue Spike telling Adam how Buffy is "more than just a girl." He tells Adam how badass Buffy is. And then Adam says something that makes me nervous:<br />
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<em>SPIKE: Just wanted you to know, when the Big Ugly goes down, Slayer's gonna be right in the thick of it. You ready for that?<br />
ADAM: I'm counting on it.</em><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Adam promises to restore Spike to the "savage" he once was once he gets Buffy where he wants her. Spike tells Adam how the scoobies are the piece of the puzzle that messes up their chances:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
<em>SPIKE: Easier said. She's crafty. She and her little friends.<br />
ADAM: Friends…<br />
SPIKE: Yeah. There's your… whatcha call it - variable. This slayer's got pals. You want her evening the odds in a scrape, you don't want her slayerettes mucking about.<br />
ADAM: Take them away from her.<br />
SPIKE: Yeah, that's a plan. She's working solo, she won't have a chance to come after us when the wild rumpus begins. Plus it'll make her miserable, and I never get tired of that.<br />
Oh yeah. Leave them to me.<br />
ADAM: You can't hurt them. What can you do to make sure they're out of the picture?<br />
SPIKE: Not a blessed thing. They're gonna do it for me.</em><br />
And now we know exactly where this episode is going. In order for Spike to succeed, he has to play at the scoobies biggest insecurities and get them to turn against each other. <span style="color: #ffd966;"><em>This goes back to how in Lovers Walk, Spike was able to see the reality about the Angel/Buffy relationship and how earlier this season he saw that Willow was in more pain than she was letting on when Oz left. Spike really has a gift for seeing into people and understanding them better than even their friends can. <strike>One of the many reasons I love him</strike></em></span>. Now, let's think as to what these insecurities could be...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Target One: Giles</div><div style="text-align: left;">-Used to be Buffy's Watcher and now is her grown up friend with an apartment they can use for Scooby meetings</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Target Two: Willow</div><div style="text-align: left;">-Is vulnerable and concerned because she just came out to Buffy and she didn't handle it so amazingly at first</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Target Three: Xander</div><div style="text-align: left;">-Besides his insane military knowledge from his two minute long soldier days, he really's got nothing to offer the gang besides his friendship </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">After this big reveal, we get to creepily watch Buffy sleep. <span style="color: #ffd966;"><em>You know something happened with Angel when we go back to watching Buffy sleep. *waves hi*</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Next, Xander brings Riley some clothes while his laundry is getting washed. Looks like Xander suddenly became Riley's bitch; when did this happen?<br />
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They both talk about their distain for Angel:<br />
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<em>XANDER: What did Buffy tell you?<br />
RILEY: About Angel? Everything. More than I wanted to know, sometimes. She loved him. He turned evil. He killed people. She cured him. He left.<br />
XANDER: "And they all lived happily ever after." Did she happen to mention what turned him evil?<br />
RILEY: He was cursed. Some kind of gypsy thing. And then… I dunno. Hundred years passed or the moon hit a certain phase or…<br />
XANDER: One moment's happiness.<br />
RILEY: What about it?<br />
XANDER: It's his trigger. Angel's an okay guy - so long as he's mopey and sad and brooding. But give him even one second of pure, real pleasure…<br />
RILEY: And that sets him off.<br />
XANDER: Only in a big old kill-your-friends kind of way. And you know what makes Angel happiest? Give you a hint: it's not crème brulee.<br />
RILEY: Buffy. Sex. With Buffy</em><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Looks like someone only gave Riley the spark notes version of her and Angel's sexy little romance. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And now, just in case you didn't get enough of sexy Giles singing, we get an encore performance in his living room. <em><span style="color: #ffd966;">Giles singing "Free Bird" here is one of the sexiest things ever.</span></em> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">And just to make things more awesome, Spike walks in on him and the lulz begin. Spike makes himself a cup o' blood and begins telling Giles how he's looking for Buffy to give her some information about Initiative files. He asks for some compensation: <em>"</em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em>Year's supply of blood, guaranteed protection, merry bushels of cash and - most important - a guarantee that I'm not to be in any way slain." </em>Thus proving that Giles has been spending too much time with Anya, he responds to Spike's list of requests by saying "done" but Spike ain't to quick to take his word for it:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>SPIKE: With a smile and a nod from you? Sorry - not close to good enough. This deal's with the Slayer.<br />
GILES: I'll tell her.<br />
SPIKE: Oh, you'll tell her. Great comfort, that. What makes you think she'll listen to you?<br />
GILES: Because.<br />
SPIKE: Very convincing.<br />
GILES: I am her Watcher.<br />
SPIKE: Think you're neglecting the past tense there, Rupert. Besides, she barely listened when you were in charge. I've seen the way she treats you.<br />
GILES: Yes? A-and how's that?<br />
SPIKE: Very much like a retired librarian. Look. I've got what she wants - long as she has what I want. Pass the word. She knows where to find me.</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Target One: Giles</div><div style="text-align: left;">☑ Insecurity seed planted</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Giles responds to this in the best way possible, by having himself some alcohol. <em><span style="color: #ffd966;">Drunk Giles FTW.</span></em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Time for some adorable action! Willow and Tara are discussing the newest addition to their little family: Miss Kitty Fantastico! <br />
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</tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: left;">Besides the obvious kitty cuteness, they both spend the scene talking about important crap such as next semesters schedules and living situations for next year. And we see some more of Willow's insecurities without Spike even talking to her. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>WILLOW: We haven't really talked about it. I used to just assume we'd be roomies through grad school and into little old ladyhood -- you know, cheating at Bingo together and forgetting to take our pills.<br />
TARA: But…<br />
WILLOW: But, I don't know. It hardly feels like we're roommates now. She's all busy with Riley, and I'm gone a lot too. And when we are there together, it's just Slayer business talk and feeding Amy the rat. I guess I should ask her…</em></div><br />
It looks like she's going to be pretty easy to sway...<br />
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</div>And now I'm not even going to pretend I'm interested in Buffy and Riley's conversation. <em><span style="color: #ffd966;">I'm sure you are just distracted by Riley's clown pants.</span></em> They both are in such different places and are mad the other isn't there to help them through and talk about what they're keeping hidden. Well, this mainly applies to Riley since he knows about Angel but Buffy doesn't know that he knows. This reminds me of <em>Friends</em> when Joey found out about Monica and Chandler but couldn't tell anyone and then Rachel found out and they both had an awkward conversation before learning they both knew. Then Phoebe found out and they decided to mess with Monica and Chandler who didn't know that they knew. But then of course they found out and messed with Rachel and Phoebe since they didn't know that they knew that they knew about them. And then....oh, wait, we're discussing Buffy, aren't we? Sorry, wrong obsession, moving on...<br />
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Xander gives Spike some clothes and Anya tells him that Xander "did Riley yesterday"<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now Spike's attempt to make Xander feel more insecure is clever. Just like the show uses his military knowledge every chance they get, he's gonna use it too:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>XANDER: Can I tell you how much I really don't care?<br />
SIPKE: Attitude. We'll see how far that takes you at boot camp. Hey, s'pose you'll get a tough-as-nails drill sergeant who's only hard on the men 'cause he's trying to keep 'em alive when the bullets start flying? I love that stuff.<br />
XANDER: Boot camp? Yeah, like I'd go there.<br />
SPIKE: Oh, you changed your mind? Not gonna join?<br />
Anya jumps up, goes to Xander. Smacks him on the arm.<br />
ANYA: You're joining the army?!<br />
XANDER: (to Anya) Okay, one: ow. Two. (to Spike) Where'd you get that idea? And three: (to Anya) Ow! I am not joining the army.<br />
ANYA: Well, good. Stopped that nonsense just in time.<br />
XANDER: I was never--(to Spike) Who told you this?<br />
SPIKE: Your little girlie-mates were talking… something about being "all you can be" or "all you can be." Having a laugh… I figured you were signing up. Say, you got anything larger in the toy gun line?<br />
XANDER: All I can… can you believe that? Like I'm some useless lunk. It happens that I'm good at lots of things! I help with all kinds of… stuff… I have… skills, and strategems, I'm very…(to Anya) Help me out.<br />
ANYA: He's a viking in the sack.<br />
SPIKE: T'rific.(examining clothes) You didn't have these cleaned after the last time, did you?<br />
XANDER: This is so like them lately. It's all about them and the college life. You know what college is? It's high school without the actual going to class. Well, high school was sort of like that too but the point is, I'm the one working hard to earn a living and it's a huge joke to them. (mocking) "Xander got fired from Starbucks." "Xander got fired from the phone sex place…"<br />
ANYA: They look down on you.<br />
XANDER: And they hate you…<br />
ANYA: But they don't look down on me.<br />
SPIKE: It was just a laugh. Don't have to go insane over it.<br />
XANDER: Is anybody talking to you?<br />
SPIKE: Sir, no, Sir.</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">Target Two: Xander</div><div style="text-align: left;">☑ Insecurity seed planted</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And this next scene is boring because I hate Forrest so here's what you need to know: Apparently, Buffy is the "first girlfriend Riley's had" [insert Riley/Forrest joke here] and Forrest is killed by Adam and nobody cares.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/4X20The_yoko_factor/4X20_The_Yoko_Factor_2962_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="174" j8="true" src="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/4X20The_yoko_factor/4X20_The_Yoko_Factor_2962_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Congrats, Forrest. Out of everyone Joss has ever killed off, you are possibly the one that everyone cared least about. Or at least I cared least about. <em><span style="color: #ffd966;">I cried for weeks over Forrest's death Sarah! Gosh. He was probably one of the best characters Joss ever came up- HA, ok, I can't keep a straight face anymore. No one cares about Forrest unless he's running.</span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now back to people I do care about: Willow and Tara! Spike gives Willow some discs and she tries to break into them to get some information. Spike asks when he gets paid and Giles says that he'll get paid once Willow lets him know that they have some useful information. He looks over and sees his in:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><em>SPIKE: Well, why did… can you fix them?<br />
WILLOW: Crack a government encryption code on my laptop? Easy as really difficult pie.<br />
SPIKE: You're not exactly the whiz these days either. God, I'm never getting paid.<br />
WILLOW: I am a whiz!<br />
TARA: She is a whiz.<br />
WILLOW: If ever a whiz there was… I just need some time.<br />
SPIKE: No, I just heard you weren't… your mates said you weren't playing with computers so much. Into the new thing.<br />
WILLOW: What new thing?<br />
SPIKE: You know: you two, the whole… wicca thing.<br />
WILLOW: They were talking about that?<br />
SPIKE: Can we get back to business here? I got a deal at stake.<br />
WILLOW: What'd they say?<br />
SPIKE: Talking about, you know, it's a phase, you'll get over it.<br />
WILLOW: What? Who said that?<br />
TARA: Maybe we should focus on the gobbledygook…<br />
WILLOW: Was it Buffy? (to Tara) 'Cause you know what she means by that…<br />
SPIKE: She was defending you. 'Cause Xander said you were just being trendy.<br />
WILLOW: Trendy?<br />
SPIKE: I didn't see why they were going on. Person wants to be a witch, that's their business.<br />
WILLOW: I knew Buffy was freaked.<br />
TARA: You should talk to her, 'cause I'm sure…<br />
SPIKE: Pressing business, ladies. Let's not get sidetracked. Still got your monsters to fight.</em> <br />
<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Target Three: Willow</div><div style="text-align: left;">☑ Insecurity seed planted</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</em>Next scene is fun. Angel comes back and who else besides Riley will be there to welcome him back to Sunnydale. I really hate whenever Buffy boyfriends and exes do this throughout the series; they claim her as their property. Why would you do this? Buffy can kick each and every one of your asses and still have enough energy to pun. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">After Angel and Riley fight, Angel goes to see Buffy. <em><span style="color: #ffd966;">I love what Buffy says to Angel about why he's there. "You thought of something else really hurtful to say and, well, you couldn't tell me on the phone because the funniest part is that look on my face--" </span></em> Riley remains very sane and points a gun at Angel's head. Luckily Buffy's here to stop all of this stupidness: <em>"</em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>I</em> <em>see any more displays of testosterone poisoning, I will personally put you both in the hospital. Anybody think I'm exaggerating?"</em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Angel asks to talk to Buffy but Riley says he's not leaving so Buffy responds accordingly. And leaves. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">They go outside and discuss what just recently happened on Angel to confuse everyone who isn't watching that series and trick them into thinking <em>Buffy </em>is more connected to it than the show actually is. <em>Angel </em>has a few moments where watching the series helps you understand <em>Buffy </em>but they are very much two separate series. But <em>Angel </em>is good and, if you like <em>Buffy</em>, you should consider watching it. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Back to the point of this episode. Spike goes to Adam and tells him that he's accomplished his task and everything is set in place. And Adam tells him there is still one thing...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And then some funny shit happens when Riley thinks that the Angel he just met was Angelus. Maybe someone should let him watch season two of this show and let him understand how much the man he just met is <em>not </em>Angelus. After discussing Angel for a bit, Buffy lets Riley know that Forrest is dead. Poor girl, needing to relay this horrible message to him. And poor Riley, as if he doesn't already have enough going on.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The scoobies all reconvine once more at Giles' place and the buttons Spike pushed become very apparent:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>BUFFY: Sorry everyone, but we're on a clock here. Adam was at that cave. Maybe he was there for a reason. I can go back, scope it out, track him if I have to…<br />
WILLOW: Right! And maybe you'll get lucky and he'll still be there and he can rip your arms off for you! Buffy, you can't go back alone.<br />
GILES: (cheerful smile) You never train with me anymore. Adam's gonna kick your ass.<br />
BUFFY: Giles?!<br />
GILES: Sorry! Didn't mean to be so honest. Terribly sorry.<br />
XANDER: So she doesn't go alone. Giles, weapons all around--<br />
BUFFY: You're not coming, Xander. You'd get hurt. It'll be easier for me if I'm not worrying about protecting you.<br />
XANDER: Oh. Okay. You and Willow go do the superpower thing. I'll stay behind and putter around the batcave (indicates Giles) with crusty old Alfred here.<br />
GILES: Ahh. I am no Alfred, sir. You forget - Alfred had a job.<br />
BUFFY: Willow stays behind too. I'll do it alone.<br />
WILLOW: Great. And then, when you've got your new no arms, we'll all say, gee, it's a good thing we weren't there getting in the way of that!<br />
XANDER: Right, and maybe we can help in other ways. Need some fightin' pants, Buff? I could go get you some fightin' pants.<br />
BUFFY: Guys, you're just making this harder.<br />
WILLOW: Wow. We're already getting in the way. We're good at this, huh, Xander?<br />
XANDER: Right. I'm so good at it you might have to ship me off to the army to get me out of the way.<br />
BUFFY: The army?<br />
XANDER: You didn't know I knew about that, did you? You two talking about me behind my back.<br />
BUFFY: Us talking about you? How about you telling Riley every last detail of my life with Angel--<br />
WILLOW: (to Buffy) Besides - when is there any "us two?" (to Xander/Buffy) You two are the two who are the two. I'm the other one.<br />
XANDER: Uh-huh. But maybe that all changes when I'm doing sit-ups at Fort Dix.<br />
GILES: Fort Dix. Heh heh…<br />
BUFFY: (to Giles) Are you drunk?<br />
GILES: (happily) Quite a bit, actually!</em> <span style="color: #ffd966;">Man, I freaking love drunk Giles.</span><br />
<em>BUFFY: Well, stop it.(to Willow and Xander) This is stupid.<br />
XANDER: Stupid. So you finally have the guts to say it to my face…<br />
BUFFY: I don't think you're stupid, Xander, so stop being an idiot and help me fix things. I need both of you. I need you all the time, just not now. Adam is dangerous--<br />
WILLOW: Wait. How do you need me? Really.<br />
BUFFY: I need you a lot. You're great, with, with the computer. Usually.<br />
GILES: Right you are. And I'm great with the pacing and the saying of "hmmmmm" and "ahhhhh," and "Good Lord!"<br />
BUFFY: And you got the witch-stuff… that's…<br />
WILLOW: Witch stuff?! What do you mean by witch stuff?!<br />
BUFFY: What is happening? This is crazy.<br />
GILES: No it's not! It's all finally making perfect sense and I'm not going to miss a moment of it. *sits and falls over*</em><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">Side note: here's another reason why I love this show. Tara and Anya left the room so normally I'd be thinking about the awkwardness going on with them. However, this show is so amazing that they show us their awkwardness inside of Giles' bathroom</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>TARA: You think this'll go on awhile?<br />
ANYA: Hard to say.<br />
TARA: Nice bathroom.<br />
ANYA: Like the tile.</em></div><br />
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<em>XANDER: And if I did join the army I'd be great. You know why? Because maybe they'd give me a job that couldn't be done by any well- trained Border Collie.<br />
GILES: That's it. I'm going to bed!<br />
Giles heads for the stairs, unbuttoning his shirt as he goes.<br />
WILLOW: Sure, you'd be wonderful in the army -- you think the umbilical cord between you and Anya would stretch that far?<br />
XANDER: I knew it. I knew you hated her.<br />
Giles' shirt sails over the banister and lands on Xander's head.</em> <span style="color: #ffd966;">Why can't they show Giles shirtless? WHY?!</span><br />
<em>WILLOW: Hey, I'm not the one being judgmental, here. I'll leave that territory to you and Buffy.<br />
BUFFY: Judgmental? If I was any more open minded about the choices you two make my whole brain would fall out. <br />
XANDER: Oh. And superior. Don't forget that. Just because you're better than us doesn't mean you can be all superior.<br />
BUFFY: Guys, stop this. What happened to you today?<br />
WILLOW: It's not today. Buffy, everything's been wrong for a while. Don't you see that?</em> <span style="color: #ffd966;">Even though Spike pitted everyone against each other, this statement is very true.</span><br />
<em>BUFFY: Willow, what do you mean things have been wrong? Things don't have to be wrong, do they?<br />
WILLOW: Buffy, things haven't been right since Tara. We have to face it. You can't handle Tara being my girlfriend.<br />
XANDER: No, it was bad before that. Since you two went off to college and forgot about me, just left me in the basement to --(suddenly, quietly) Tara's your girlfriend?<br />
GILES (O.S.): Bloody hell! <br />
BUFFY: Enough. All I know is that you want to help, right? Be part of the team?<br />
WILLOW: I don't know anymore-- <br />
XANDER: Clearly not wanted-- <br />
BUFFY: No. You said you wanted to go. So let's go. All of us. We'll walk into that cave with you two attacking me and the funny drunk drooling on my shoes. Maybe that's the secret way to kill Adam.<br />
XANDER: Buffy--<br />
BUFFY: Is that it? Is that how you can help? You're not answering. Go on. How can you possibly help? So I guess I'm on my own. And you know what? <strong>I'm starting to get why there's no ancient prophecy about a Chosen One and her <u>friends</u>. <-- </strong><span style="color: #ffd966;">I love that line.</span></em><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">☑ Mission Complete</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now would be the time where I would get all analytical and explain how all this happened, but that will all come out in tomorrow's episode so I'm just going to leave it as is. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And as if all of this fighting isn't bad enough, we end tonight's episode with Adam getting a vistor</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">-Sarah</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Two Witshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09633175054533025530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9048388274072468538.post-33088477106512532312011-04-26T11:00:00.000-07:002011-04-26T14:06:35.652-07:00Episode 19: New Moon RisingI'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS EPISODE YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA! This is probably my most watched episode of Buffy and within my top 5 favorite episodes for very obvious reasons. So now I present to you all...<br />
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<div align="center"><strong>Season Four, Episode Nineteen</strong></div><div align="center"><em>"New Moon Rising"</em></div><br />
This episode starts with Willow and Tara having an adorable conversation about cats. Willow says she's more of a dog person, but she doesn't want death to all cats. Tara continues pressing until she knows for certain that Willow isn't allergic or anything, because she wants her room to be "Willow friendly." Willow responds to her concern by holding Tara's hand:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">They walk over and Tara experiences her first scooby meeting. Did you hear that guys, she lost her scoobyginity! Anyways everyone talks and basically I don't care what they're saying because Willow and Tara are adorable. However, Anya and Giles start arguing and who walks in through the door...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/4X19New_moon_rising/4X19_New_Moon_Rising__040_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" i8="true" src="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/4X19New_moon_rising/4X19_New_Moon_Rising__040_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Holy Mother of WoW, it's Oz! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow is shocked and asked when he got back. He asks if they can meet later tonight to talk. She says okay and Anya states the obvious: "everyone's uncomfortable now." Adorably, Tara freaks the heck out and leaves; Willow has a sad =(</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Riley is a lost kitten and feels he's missing something with Willow and Oz. Buffy starts explaining to him about their breakup and how it was rough and left Willow devasted. She casually mentions him being a werewolf and then this happens:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>RILEY: Whoa. Back up there. Werewolf?<br />
BUFFY: Right. Important detail. He got bit a couple of years back. Anyway - <br />
RILEY: Oz is a werewolf and Willow was dating him?<br />
BUFFY: Well, yeah. Hence the high emotion.<br />
RILEY: Man. You're kidding me.<br />
BUFFY: It wasn't like he was bad all the time. He only changed three nights a month. I mean, besides the wolf thing, Oz is a great guy.<br />
RILEY: That's a big "besides," Buffy.Gotta say. I'm surprised. I didn't think Willow was that kind of girl.<br />
BUFFY: What kind of girl?<br />
RILEY: Into dangerous guys. She seems smarter than that.<br />
BUFFY: Oz is not dangerous. Something happened to him that wasn't his fault. God, I never knew you were such a bigot.</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">Awkward conversation is awkward. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Oz stops by Willow's place that night, as planned, and takes her outside to talk. She is still in shock and rambles on until Oz tells her to look up. It's a full moon. And Oz isn't transforming into a werewolf. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Anddddd this is when it gets awkward...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Oz tells her talked to Xander and he said she didn't have a new guy. Willow says that this is true; she doesn't have a new <em>guy</em>. He then goes on about how he's ready for her now and can be what she needs and shit just gets more awkward. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Back in the non-Willowness of the episode, the comandos are attacked by none other than:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/4X19New_moon_rising/4X19_New_Moon_Rising__150_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" i8="true" src="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/4X19New_moon_rising/4X19_New_Moon_Rising__150_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hey, do you guys think they might mistake this werewolf for Oz later on in the episode?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow and Oz talk all night and then Willow suggests that they go have some breakfast. Oz grabs her hand and says they could sleep for a while instead. Willow responds by saying she'll take the "less confusing waffles right now." And I say we just end the episode here. Willow doesn't need to choose between Tara and Oz, she can just date me. Is everyone okay with this? They are? Good. I'm sure we will both be very happy together. <3</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Wait a minute, you're saying I <em>can't </em>marry a fictional character and Alyson Hannigan is already married to someone else who isn't me? *Sigh* fineeee, let's just continue with the episode and ignore my pain.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow goes to freshen up and, obviously, Tara chooses the moment she leaves to knock on her door and have Oz answer. Oz is nice to her, but Tara (rightfully so) says she can't come in and wait because seeing Willow with him is too painful. She doesn't actually tell him the second part, that would be awkward. And this episode has enough awkwardness as it is. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In other news, Riley is a freaking weirdo. He gets up out of bed and immediately starts doing push ups. Thank god Buffy is there to make fun of him: <em>"<span style="font-family: inherit;">And then you have your perfectly balanced breakfast and call your mother." </span></em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Riley and Buffy discuss what they were talking about last night. She tries to explain to him that some demons aren't bad at all when he asks her to name one. And, once again, very awkward. Just as I'm sure Buffy is about to spill about her lover, Angel, Forrest opens the door and tells Riley that Graham was attacked last night. Buffy asks what kind of demon it was and Riley snaps "does it matter?" and storms off. Oh, Riley, you will learn soon that it does matter very much...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now, ladies and gentlemen, comes the most awesomest of awesome scenes ever that I will never tire of. I'm not even going to summarize, we're just going to read the script word for word. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>BUFFY: Hey.<br />
WILLOW: Hey. You okay?<br />
BUFFY: I just... don't really feel like talking about it. I want to hear about you and Oz. You saw him, right?<br />
WILLOW: I was with him all night.<br />
BUFFY: All night? Oh my God - (realizes) Wait. Last night was a wolf moon, wasn't it?<br />
WILLOW: Yep.<br />
BUFFY: So... You're about to tell me something incredibly kinky, or -<br />
WILLOW: No kink. He didn't change, Buffy.He said he was going to find a cure, and he did. In Tibet. <br />
BUFFY: Again - Oh my God! I can't believe it! (stops) Okay. I just noticed I'm all with the "woo hoo" - and you're not.<br />
WILLOW: No - there's "woo" and "hoo". But there's also - "uh oh". And "why now?" And... it's complicated.<br />
BUFFY: Why complicated? You got your boyfriend back. What?<br />
WILLOW: It's complicated - because of Tara.<br />
BUFFY: You mean Tara has a crush on Oz? (off Willow's look) No, not -(getting it) Oh. Ohh. Well... That's great too, right? I mean, she seems like a great girl, Will.<br />
WILLOW: She is. And there's somethingbetween us... I wasn't lookingfor it, you know. It's just totally powerful. And it's totally different than what Oz and I had.<br />
BUFFY: Well, there you go then. You have to follow your heart, Will. I mean, that's what's important, Will.<br />
WILLOW: How come you keep saying my name like that?<br />
BUFFY: Like what, Will?<br />
WILLOW: Are you freaked?<br />
BUFFY: What? No, Wi- No! Absolutely no to that question. I'm glad you told me. What did you say to Oz?<br />
WILLOW: I was going to tell him... But then we hung out and I could feel everything coming back. He's Oz, you know.<br />
BUFFY: Yeah. I do.<br />
WILLOW: I don't want to hurt anybody, Buffy. I think of either of them and I can't stand it. <br />
BUFFY: No matter what happens, somebody's going to get hurt. The main thing is, you have to be honest - or it'll be a lot worse. </em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This moment is so beautifully done that I want to just hug Marti Noxon for creating it. I don't even think I can put into words how amazing this scene is. It's so real and Buffy's reaction is really awesome. Telling someone sucks because, unless you're like me and your sister calls her gay friends before talking to you because she already knows you're going to come out to her, the person you're telling doesn't know what you're going to say. I would say Buffy is a bit too busy to notice the small things that went on between Willow and Tara and didn't have any idea that this was coming. Obviously it was weird at first; she essentially learned that there was a huge part of her best friend that she didn't know about. But, what made it great was that she changed her attitude the second she realized what she was doing when Willow pointed it out.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now that I am all happy with my awesome Willow scene, I guess they decided they needed to make Kali happy by throwing Spike in the next scene. He starts by showing off his awesome reflexes as Adam <strike>like a creeper </strike>stands over him while he sleeps. Adam asks Spike to come and Spike responds by punching him and then suffering intense pain. Ultimately, Adam wins after he promises to help Spike with his "problem." </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow goes to Tara's room and explains to her that nothing happened and her and Oz were just talking. Tara looks completely relieved <strike>I would be too. </strike>Tara lets Willow know that, no matter what happens, they'll still be friends. What she doesn't mention on screen is how she's be pissed off that she won't get the hottest girlfriend ever. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Willow has a sad over her confusion:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>WILLOW: I don't know. It's just - life was starting to get so good again, and you're a big part of that. And here comes the thing I wanted most of all.And I don't know what to do. I want to know. But I don't. </em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">And Tara, being the sweetest girl ever, puts her hand on Willow's cheek to comfort her and tells her to "do what makes [her] happy." And then they hug, because they are absolutely adorable. However, we all know what Tara is thinking:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">And just when shit was getting less awkward, Tara runs into Oz in the hallway. He smells Willow and quickly realizes that it's not her, but Tara. They talk and Oz starts to understand life.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>OZ: Is that Willow's?<br />
TARA: I hope you'll be v-v-very -<br />
OZ: You smell like her. She's all over you, you know that?<br />
TARA: I can't. I can't talk about th- th..<br />
OZ: But there's something to talk about - She's...involved? But she said -<br />
TARA: I-I have to g-g-g-<br />
OZ: We talked all night and she never said anything. Nothing. I -Stop! Is she in love with you? Talk to me! What is... what..*he transforms* </em><em>Run.</em></div><br />
He chases her in the one classroom this college apparently has until the commandos catch him. Tara tries to tell them that it's Oz but they just shut her up and tell her that she's in shock. Anyone else hate these commando guys yet? <br />
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Back to Spike and Adam now. Adam wants some humans being murdered up in here but he also wants himself some demons. He asks Spike to get Buffy to go to the Initiative during the battle so that their can be a pretty even number of human to demon deaths. Spike tells Adam that Buffy has a slight tendency to win. Adam tells him that he should be on her side then. *cough* season five *cough* <br />
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Tara runs to Willow to <strike>make out </strike>tell her that the commandos took Oz away after he transformed. Willow goes over to Giles' place to talk with him, Buffy, Xander, and the always helpful Anya.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They discuss how they need to make a plan without Riley, since he isn't calling, just before we see why exactly he isn't answering his pages. Seems as if he's too busy trying to shoot and kill Oz. He points his gun at the werewolf who then transforms back into Oz. The Initiative start doing tests on him while Riley tries to explain that he isn't a threat anymore and that Oz is a good guy, who he knows. They force him to leave while they have fun playing with their new toy. Kind of reminds me of Vamp Willow with "puppy" Angel. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Buffy decides on a plan and Willow demands that she comes along. As they begin discussing how to break in, Spike comes through the door telling them that they should try the back way. Hilarity ensues, as it always does when Spike has a conversation with Buffy and the scoobies. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then we all get to see Oz, naked, in a cage. Fine, fine, I'll put a picture of it:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Riley opens up his cage and comes onto naked Oz. Erm, I mean offers him clothes and a way out. Now it makes sense why everyone hates Riley; he gave naked Oz clothes! What a jerk! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">He's caught in the act and punished for giving Oz clothes. The commandos decide to lock him in a cage, fully clothed because everyone would much rather just see Oz naked. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Anyways, Spike helps the gang get in with a little help from Adam. Anya and Giles are at his place trying to hack the system when everything shuts down. And when I say everything, I mean everything. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Anya is very proud of herself and asks Giles to "slap [her] hand now" in celebration. He does and hurts her hand. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/4X19New_moon_rising/4X19_New_Moon_Rising__487_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" i8="true" src="http://www.ehiztari.com/yolanda/Buffy_Screencaps/4X19New_moon_rising/4X19_New_Moon_Rising__487_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">lulz</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Next, in the least secret agency way possible, the main commando moron is woken up by Buffy who asks him to "lead her to him." He tells her that Riley is staying there because he tried to save Oz and she is confused. He then realizes that he's a moron and that Buffy was after the werewolf. Well, duh she's after the werewolf! Buffy likes her some demons, dude. She forces him to get dressed so that way he can lead them to their two for one sale.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>RILEY: How did you-<br />
BUFFY: Talk, later. Stealth-y escape now.<br />
RILEY: Buffy, I leave now, I can't ever come back.Just wanted to hear it out loud.</em></div><br />
lulz<br />
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<em>BUFFY: Stay back or I'll do a William Burroughs on your leader here!<br />
XANDER: You'll...bore him to death with free prose?<br />
BUFFY: Was I the only one awake in English that day?(to the Commandos) I'll kill him!</em><br />
double lulz<br />
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They all save Oz and Riley and then take a page out of Jo Rowling's book and decide to have a camping trip. Riley tells Buffy that she was wrong about Oz and Buffy apologizes by telling him exactly what she wants to be telling herself: <em>"<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">No you weren't. You were thrown. You found out Willow was in kind of an unconventional relationship and it gave you a momentary wiggins. It happens."</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After, Buffy decides to come clean to him about her past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And next we get a lesson in irony from Oz: apparently Willow is the one thing that brings the wolf out in him. They both talk about Willow tells him that she's happy and he beats himself up over the fact that he let such an amazing girl go. She's so sweet and tells Oz that he's apart of her and he tells her that now is just not that time. They finish their conversation and Oz tells her he's going to take off "pretty much now." Damn, I'm gonna miss Oz but not as much as I'm going to love what's coming next.</span><br />
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Everyone ready for shit to get adorable? Okay! <br />
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<em>Tara, alone, has been crying in the dark. A knock takes her to the door. Willow stands in her threshold, holding a lit candle.</em><br />
<em>WILLOW: No candles? Well I brought one --it's extra flamey.<br />
Tara, I have to tell you that --<br />
TARA: I understand. You have to be with the person you l-love.<br />
WILLOW: I am.<br />
TARA: You mean --<br />
WILLOW: I mean. Okay?<br />
TARA: Oh yes.<br />
WILLOW: I feel horrible about everything I put you through. I'm gonna make it up, too. Starting right now.<br />
TARA: Right now?</em><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aaaand this is the moment where Sarah dies</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">P.S. I've been waiting for this episode to post this picture! If any of you have a tumblr, you'll know that there was this "bitches love" meme going around. This one in particular cracked me up and I printed it and put it up on my bulletin board because it's so funny. Enjoy!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS2UavbiGs10rhaaaMZJrEV3uUVCQeiLRSMx1N1cr51A6AUDMSc5yflPyu1J0qXXzZ4plDeXlBydvOSoCXAcnOiMZkOT4eBgMFdmYQHx6vBohWg1ampGnsK7pU9uWhWhdEedNfaDlHbZg/s1600/candles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="182" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS2UavbiGs10rhaaaMZJrEV3uUVCQeiLRSMx1N1cr51A6AUDMSc5yflPyu1J0qXXzZ4plDeXlBydvOSoCXAcnOiMZkOT4eBgMFdmYQHx6vBohWg1ampGnsK7pU9uWhWhdEedNfaDlHbZg/s320/candles.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>-Sarah <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong><u>Kali's Notes:</u></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- Isn't Tara one of the most amazing girlfriends ever? I really love her in this episode because she was not only willing to give Willow up if that's what made her happy, but she was attacked by Willow's ex and actively worked toward saving him from the commandos. She's so awesome.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- I'm glad that Joss brought Oz back for this one episode. This way he can show that Oz leaving Willow didn't force her to date Tara or that Tara was a rebound from Oz. Willow chose to date Tara and now she makes that choice again, not because of anything Oz did but because that's who she loves. Aww.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- I also really love how Joss has Buffy call Riley a bigot for finding it strange that Willow was dating a werewolf, but then have Buffy react semi-poorly to Willow having a girlfriend. Buffy understands Willow dating Oz because Buffy herself dated someone from the demon/vampire/supernatural world, but Willow dating Tara is very different since Buffy has never had any experience with homosexuality.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- I'm gonna talk about how awesome Riley is for a second. We've seen him start to think for himself over the season, but now he really makes a choice to do what he thinks is right, even if that goes against everyone else that he works with/for. In order to save Oz, Riley has to pretty much turn his back on everything that he has spent his life building and believing in. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- Timeline wise, it's between this episode and the next one (The Yoko Factor) that Buffy goes to L.A. to visit Angel about Faith, which is very fitting since she just came clean to Riley about her past with Angel. So you know what that means- someone's coming back to Sunnydale...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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