I think this was a success

[snick_backup]

The housemate and I just watched Superstar, and she requests I tell the Internet that she approves of this episode. Also, that she feels rather pleased with herself for spotting Jonathan on a cereal box (at Giles's place) and on a globe (in Xander's basement).

(Seriously, there was much chortling, snorfling, and snickering, laced with occasional guffaws. I kept having to pause so she could get control of herself again, over lines like, "I think -- for once -- we should follow her lead." [Riley])

(Also: in rewatches I keep marveling how hard the writers pushed Riley and Buffy's non-communication problems, from very early on. If it wasn't intentional that they get their first kiss in the episode without dialogue, then it was awfully fortuitous. And in this ep, this exchange:

BUFFY: I'm glad we talked this all out.

RILEY: Um... we haven't talked at all.

(And finally: I note that after Buffy moans, "Oh, Jonathan," in that very last shot with Riley, the shooting script has her say, "Just kidding" before the fade to black. I'm amused that they cut that.)

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Tell your roommate that the internet (aka ME!) approves of her approval.

I haven't watched that episode in forever! I really should--it's such a giggly one!

That is really interesting about Buffy/Riley. I'm glad you pointed it out.

Hee!

[snickfic]

Hee. The roommate appreciates your approval. (She keeps asking me to go back and watch the credits again. She loved the credits.)

I, meanwhile, adore your icon. Aw, happy!Buffy. (Or, yanno, sloshed!Buffy. I guess we take what we can get.)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I like your roommate! I love the credits, too! Buffy being awesome and Spike being pretty, all against a backdrop of energetic music!


This whole S8 thing is teaching me that, more than anything else, I just want Buffy to be happy. I think that's why I struggle with the idea of S8. As the canon stood, after "Chosen" I could imagine Buffy going on to find peace and a measure of happiness. But S8 just perpetuates the idea that Buffy will always be alone and miserable. And I hate that. I want my girl to be happy! Like in your icon!

[snickfic]

Yes, she has a thing about credits - she says they're part of the tv experience. Pretty much as soon as I figured this out - somewhere in S1 - I started being excited about "Superstar," because it meant I didn't have to make a big deal about, "Oh, this time we should watch the credits, 'cuz, you know, why not?" So she saw them completely unprepared for the intercut Jonathan bits. It was fab.

(I soooo cannot wait for FFL. Cannot WAIT. She declared to me a few eps ago that Spike is her favorite character, which I gotta say I find pretty impressive, since Spike was busy driving me up the wall in S4 the first time I watched it. And today she noticed the eyebrow scar and asked if it was addressed, and I said yes. Yes, in fact, it was. *anticipates*)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with her about the tv experience. It makes me sadface that so many shows are forgoing them now.

Oh, the credits in "Superstar"! Greatest thing ever!

OH OH OH. FFL. My favorite episode of TV eeeeever! You will have to tell us her reaction when you get there! And yay for the eyebrow scar!

[snickfic]

Are they? I guess I don't watch enough TV to realize. Sad. And as with so many things, Joss was so detail-oriented about his credits for Buffy. Like with Superstar especially, but also Tara in Seeing Red (grumble grumble) and not having Dawn in Buffy vs. Dracula, and so on.

FFL is the ep that made me the Buffy-obsessed fanatic I am today. It made the show for me. Like I said - cannot WAIT.