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Quickie ep thoughts
Apr. 3rd, 2010 01:08 pmCrush: It always amazes me how Drusilla shows up and just flips a switch in Spike; after two and a half years of alternately mopey, pathetic, and cranky Spike he's dangerous again. The change is palpable.
I Was Made to Love You: I still feel as though this ep is saying important things about Buffy's love life, but all I get out of it are fragments.
Tough Love, Weight of the World: I keep rewatching these and I keep being unimpressed. They're just in-betweeners, transitions between the interesting stuff.
Spiral: I like Spiral. I like the actiony scenes, I like every single moment with Spike (not yelling at Tara for burning him, grabbing the sword blade with his bare hands, having Xander light his cigarette), I love Giles' speech to Buffy. I've heard people say it's one of the weaker episodes, but I don't get why.
The Gift/Bargaining: How weird is it that the swan dive flashbacks in "Bargaining" hit me way harder than the actual swan dive in "The Gift"? By the end of "The Gift" I just want it all to be over, whereas in "Bargaining" the running leap off the tower, the accompanying music, and the look on Dawn's face hurt.
In other news, the housemate wishes to inform the Internet that she thinks Buffy's epitaph is tacky and tasteless. I tried to sell her on the irreverence as being in-character, for both the Scoobies and the show, but she was having none of it.
I Was Made to Love You: I still feel as though this ep is saying important things about Buffy's love life, but all I get out of it are fragments.
Tough Love, Weight of the World: I keep rewatching these and I keep being unimpressed. They're just in-betweeners, transitions between the interesting stuff.
Spiral: I like Spiral. I like the actiony scenes, I like every single moment with Spike (not yelling at Tara for burning him, grabbing the sword blade with his bare hands, having Xander light his cigarette), I love Giles' speech to Buffy. I've heard people say it's one of the weaker episodes, but I don't get why.
The Gift/Bargaining: How weird is it that the swan dive flashbacks in "Bargaining" hit me way harder than the actual swan dive in "The Gift"? By the end of "The Gift" I just want it all to be over, whereas in "Bargaining" the running leap off the tower, the accompanying music, and the look on Dawn's face hurt.
In other news, the housemate wishes to inform the Internet that she thinks Buffy's epitaph is tacky and tasteless. I tried to sell her on the irreverence as being in-character, for both the Scoobies and the show, but she was having none of it.
