"Same Time, Same Place" and "Help"
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snick_backupSame Time, Same Place.
STSP is, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
penny_lane_42 so succinctly told me, pretty lame.
I do love the double Spike scenes in the basement, because I am such a sucker for that kind of structural play, and clearly Jane Espenson is too - look at Superstar and Storyteller and Spy in the House of Love (Dollhouse).
Also, I really enjoyed all the scenes with Willow and Anya. I've complained before that there isn't enough same-sex friendship on this show, but episodes like this help make up that lack. Plus you've got the tentativeness and awkwardness and the fact they've never really been friends. Yay. And the Buffy&Willow scene is also an awwww scene (perhaps too much so...).
But generally? Pretty lame. Those scenes in the caves go on forever. Ugh. Willow coming back ought to have been huge and affecting, and they certainly tried, but it, um, didn't take. And the execution of the cool structural premise was not nearly as fabulous as it should have been.
Also: I think this may be the one ep in all of BtVS that just plain grosses me out.
Help
- I like Cassie, although I can't help but think she's pretty wise for her years.
- I kept remembering that Wood was getting on Buffy's case about going to Cassie's dad's house and accusing him of child abuse, which he actually didn't.
- I was ohsopleased to see Amanda. (Housemate instantly liked her, too. She doesn't know yet that we get more Amanda. Yay, Amanda!)
First big thought: Towards the end, Cassie tells Spike, "She'll tell you. Someday, she'll tell you." Question: did anyone else instantly assume Cassie meant that Buffy would someday tell Spike she loved him? Because the first time through, I took it to mean exactly that, and I waited the whole rest of the season to see it happen.
So, would Spike? Did he spend the whole season anticipating? If so, then his reply there at the end could easily have been worded in advance - sometime after she gave him the amulet, probably.
Second big thought: In Cassie, we have a control case for Dru. Her foresight and Dru's seem remarkably similar, with discrete images and bits of knowledge dropped in their heads without any context or explanation. The key differences are that Cassie is both sane and soulled.
What does that tell us about Dru? I'm not sure, other than that it gives us a much clearer picture of what she might have been like before Angelus.
STSP is, as
penny_lane_42 so succinctly told me, pretty lame. I do love the double Spike scenes in the basement, because I am such a sucker for that kind of structural play, and clearly Jane Espenson is too - look at Superstar and Storyteller and Spy in the House of Love (Dollhouse).
Also, I really enjoyed all the scenes with Willow and Anya. I've complained before that there isn't enough same-sex friendship on this show, but episodes like this help make up that lack. Plus you've got the tentativeness and awkwardness and the fact they've never really been friends. Yay. And the Buffy&Willow scene is also an awwww scene (perhaps too much so...).
But generally? Pretty lame. Those scenes in the caves go on forever. Ugh. Willow coming back ought to have been huge and affecting, and they certainly tried, but it, um, didn't take. And the execution of the cool structural premise was not nearly as fabulous as it should have been.
Also: I think this may be the one ep in all of BtVS that just plain grosses me out.
Help
- I like Cassie, although I can't help but think she's pretty wise for her years.
- I kept remembering that Wood was getting on Buffy's case about going to Cassie's dad's house and accusing him of child abuse, which he actually didn't.
- I was ohsopleased to see Amanda. (Housemate instantly liked her, too. She doesn't know yet that we get more Amanda. Yay, Amanda!)
First big thought: Towards the end, Cassie tells Spike, "She'll tell you. Someday, she'll tell you." Question: did anyone else instantly assume Cassie meant that Buffy would someday tell Spike she loved him? Because the first time through, I took it to mean exactly that, and I waited the whole rest of the season to see it happen.
So, would Spike? Did he spend the whole season anticipating? If so, then his reply there at the end could easily have been worded in advance - sometime after she gave him the amulet, probably.
Second big thought: In Cassie, we have a control case for Dru. Her foresight and Dru's seem remarkably similar, with discrete images and bits of knowledge dropped in their heads without any context or explanation. The key differences are that Cassie is both sane and soulled.
What does that tell us about Dru? I'm not sure, other than that it gives us a much clearer picture of what she might have been like before Angelus.
