Buffy Rewatch: 3.1 - 3.4

[dragonyphoenix]

Anne (3.1)

• On the first fight in the cemetery: if these disorganized bumpkins can survive a vamp, even a fledge, then I think anyone trained in fighting could fight vampires.


• “past tense rules” - Willow has a rules for everything.


• Willow: “Do you think Buffy knows school's starting tomorrow?” Oz: “Tomorrow. Right.” Isn't it awesome that Oz has no idea that school's starting the next day?


• Angel: If I was blind, I would see you. Aaaah! I'm so glad he only said that in a dream, but could Buffy's dream be more of a cliché?


• Buffy waking up in her apartment. Buffy sleeps with her makeup on? And it doesn't get smudged? Do you remember those nights when you got drunk and crashed with your makeup on and then you woke up the next morning and your makeup was all smudged and you were wondering if it got smudged while you were drunk or while you were sleeping? No, me either.


• The jerks at the table harassing Buffy: once when I was visiting family my Uncle Ralph picked me up at the airport and we stopped at a bar with a friend of his. I was so embarrassed by the way they treated the waitress that I left her a huge tip. Sadly I don't believe this made any impression on my uncle or his friend.


• Oh, and of course Anne is my all time favorite character on Angel, more for her later incarnation as runner of the shelter, but I like her here too.


• The library is full of students? The library never has students, well hardly ever. I get that they're all supposed to be picking up textbooks but it still looks odd. Sign of an apocalypse or something.


• Xander talking about seeing Cordy and how there's going to be heat, and then he calls himself geeky. No, Xander, the word you're looking for is creepy.


• The clatter inside the school vs. the silence of Buffy's room is really well done.


• Larry: If we can focus, keep discipline, and not have quite as many mysterious deaths, Sunnydale is gonna rule! Hmmm, I'm thinking this was added to set up the Class Protector award at the end of the season.


• Anne is Buffy's middle name? I think I'd seen that written someplace but I didn't realize where in the canon it came from. Just a heads up, but if I ever change my name, I am not calling myself Truesdell.


• The concerned pseudo-churchy guy? I think it's sort of obvious that he's the bad guy.


• I love it when Joyce blames Giles, and I think referring to Buffy as a child was something of a mistake. It doesn't support any kind of defense he could make to say he's been influencing a child without parental approval or knowledge.


• So this is the second nurse we've met on the series – am I correct there? - and the second nurse affiliated with evil. Aha! BtVS is saying all nurses are evil!


• Xander: you get your hope all up. Yesterday or today I saw a memorial bench with a quote about hope on it. The first name of the person it is a memorial for is Hope. Then I saw the dates. She was about a month old when she died. I didn't expect that. Most of the time they're for adults. That is so sad. ;-(


• So as Cordelia falls onto the vampire, the stake goes through its heart and it goes poof. Luckily the stake vanishes with it or that stake would have gone right through Cordy's heart. What is the rule for objects vanishing with vampires anyway?


• Buffy gets some of the kids out and the demons close the gate to their realm. Okay, so they still have humans imprisoned in their world and they have the technology to open another gate. I mean, great that she saved those she did but it doesn't seem like it's going to even slow them down much less stop them completely.


• Oh, and before the gate is closed, while they're still fighting, the one demon is freaking because somebody is fighting back? In all the time they've been doing this, not one person has fought back? Really?

Dead Man's Party: (3.2)

• Now this is how a bunch of untrained kids fighting a vamp should go. If Buffy hadn't shown up, at least one of them would have been dead. I mean, not saying I want them dead, but no injuries so far seems sort of unrealistic.


• Incorrect Buffy Quote for this episode because I want someone to be straight with Buffy: Dawn sees Joyce hugging Buffy. Dawn: So the prodigal son returns. Great. Buffy: I'm a girl. Dawn: Whatever. You hurt Mom. I don't forgive you.


• Oh joy, another dream sequence. Dreams in the Buffyverse are awfully spot on to what people are going through. My dreams are more like I'm driving a vehicle through someone's living room and nobody thinks it's odd at all.


• How did Giles get that cat out from under Joyce's bed without getting scratched. And later, when Giles is talking about the mask in Joyce's bedroom, Cordelia's question is “Mask?” Why isn't she asking “How do you know what's in Joyce's bedroom?”


• So what kind of animals would you expect to see in the Hellmouth Petting Zoo? Would you really want to pet them?


• Cordelia: Don't you like anything regular? Golf, USA Today? Come on. Who really likes USA Today?


• Why is every single one of them avoiding Buffy? Can't even one say “Hey, glad you're back?”


• When I look at that mask, I see this year's Halloween costume. I actually think I'm going to be the sun but that mask would make an excellent costume.


• Why didn't the mask raise zombies while it was on its way to Sunnydale? Is the power of a plywood box too much for the demon mask?


• So everyone's avoiding being alone with Buffy. Willow darts away as soon as she avoids Buffy's question. Joyce hides in the kitchen. Then why, suddenly, are they both in Buffy's room? Willow in particular went a complete 180-degrees from fingers in her ears “la la la I can't hear you” to “we have to talk and we have to talk now.” I don't buy it.


• I'm including this little vid because I just adore this scene that much.


• I really, really hate it when everyone gangs up on Buffy.


• I mean, honestly, Buffy's about to burst into tears and they keep piling on the anger. It's horrible.


• While I don't like Pat all that much, she was there for Joyce during a difficult time and she gets killed because, apparently, Joyce can't have nice things, er, friends of her own.


• Buffy to Willow: You're really enjoying this whole moral superiority thing, aren't you?” Not to whip a dead cat or anything but … what moral superiority. Willow and friends were horrible to Buffy throughout this whole episode. I don't believe Buffy acted worse than they did.


• The first time I saw this, I laughed and laughed and laughed.
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Faith, Hope, and Trick (3.3)

• I love the scene where Oz and Xander carry/drag Willow off campus, and then “Hey, I'm walking here.”
  
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• Did you ever notice that Willow dates really cool people? Both Oz and Tara have that quiet thing going but in really cool ways. Then after Tara dies Willow turns it around 180-degrees and dates real “look at me” extroverts (Kennedy and that snake demon goddess)


• cluck-cluck sound? That would have gone better if we'd ever heard Giles make a cluck-cluck sound.


• Yay, Faith!


• Buffy on Faith saying Giles is young and cute: “Raise your hand if 'ew'.” Notice that Willow doesn't raise her hand. She just sits there smiling. ;-)


• Incorrect Buffy quotes: Buffy: I've got makeup tests to pass, missing people in Sunset Ridge, and a zesty new Slayer to feed. Giles: Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, you haven't' got anything.”


• So vamp healing hasn't kicked in to take care of Kakistos' scar. Right, so what exactly are the vamp healing rules?


• Kakistos: I don't care if there're a hundred Slayers! Do you think Joss was already anticipating season 7?


• I don't know how to include a whole set of those moving giffy things so these are Dawn meeting Faith in this episode. It's delightful. Go check it out.


• Joyce: It's probably good you were an only child. I first saw Buffy in reruns. Three episodes a week, all on the same night, one right after the other: season 3 of Buffy, I think season 4 of Buffy, and some season of Angel. That's where I first heard this line. I didn't know Dawn was on the way, but I did know something odd was going on. It was just such a weird thing to say.


• Giles knows Kakistos' name without doing any research and Buffy asks “Is that bad?” Um, yeah, if he knows the vampire off the top of his head, it's probably really, really bad.


• So Giles tells Buffy that Faith's Watcher is dead during the school day, but Buffy doesn't get to Faith's room until after dark? Granted dark is early because in the next episode Oz goes into the cage around – if I recall it correctly – 5:30 but still that gives Buffy a good two hours to find Faith before dark.


• Faith starts packing to get the hell out of Dodge. Is that the same bag Buffy was packing clothes into last episode?


• Do we ever learn who/what brought Angel back? Because that's a pretty big plotpoint to leave unexplained forever.

Beauty and the Beasts (3.4)

• Willow referring to werewolf Oz: Now, he's had his 2:00 feeding. Two o'clock feeding? What is he, a baby?


• Xander: We're doing crime here.
  
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• The Angel silhouette: are we saying Keith Haring was here?


• I was at first less than thrilled that Buffy wasn't sharing Angel's return with the gang. Oz is all worried that he might be the feral beast and this wouldn't say he's absolutely not, but it would suggest he might not be. But then Giles says a returned Angel would likely be a monster. Okay, so her friends aren't about to give Angel the benefit of the doubt. I can see her not sharing.


• So after Mr. Platt dies, Buffy doesn't have to see another psychologist? Her evaluation just drops off the agenda?


• I hate that scene where Debby comforts Pete. That is so creepy and disturbing. Good for the plot and all, but eeeegh!


• In the locker room where they find Debby, there is a poster behind Buffy's head: Most women aren't attracted to dead guys. ;-)

Comments

[rbfvid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, dusting there was extremely inconsistent - ometimes stakes dissapeared with the vamps, other times - no.

Like I said, if you think, the weirdest thing is - here is a creature which's death breaks the first law of thermodynamics. But Initiative scientists are studying what... vampire psychology?!

[kikimay]

Well, the Science Side of BtVS and AtS is really, really inconsistent.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

;-)