What is with the obsession with the PTB having to be behind everything, choosing and helping? Like , the PTB are prime targets for what horowitz described as getting flipped the bird. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have some connection to the First Evil.
I guess the monks were extremely thorough with her memories and abilities…
The ep really lacked for Giles though, considering that it’s all about ancient foundational stuff, watcher/slayer stuff, and the fact that Giles and Anya learned about Buffy’s part in all this from that eye thing… which was NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. Good job there guys! “Things are getting desperate! We’ve got to go find this great seer!” “We found him!” “He told us how Buffy plays into all this!” “Ahhh… forget it”
Giles not being on the show when needed really hurts it. I mean, shouldn’t he and Wood have a heart to heart? Doesn’t look like he’s gonna be on next week either though…
You know, it occurs to me that it is just as wrong to fear backlash for killing off a lesbian character as it is to have backlash for having one in the first place.
Also, one point that’s being made (to me, at least) is that you can’t out-evil the first evil. It seems to me that when you have an all-powerful, all-corrupting agent around, you don’t want a vampire with MPD and a level 18 wicca with unresolved girlfriend issues flitting about. It would be really cool if the First made Buffy build up her invincible army of doom, did nothing, and let her ‘leadership’ start a civil war in Sunnydale.
I guess it’s not a spoiler that Dushku is coming back as Faith later in the season. My guess, when thinking about it, is that Giles are away to fix for her release. I think the eyeball thingie will be brought up then, in a “previously on…” and that is going to clear up whatever the oracle said. I can’t be bothered to search for it right now.
Giles has nothing to do, from what I understand, with Faith’s release. She’s going to be on Angel before she’s on Buffy. (I don’t think that’s a spoiler either, since there are already promos for her Angel appearance.)
Just a few thoughts- Dracula told Buffy that her power was rooted in darkness, same as his, and that was a theme that failed to be examined the whole rest of S5. I think the Black Smoke was a plot device to show that she’s not ready to embrace her dark side. Also, it’s easier to give advice than it is to take your own advice. William was a wuss. Spike needs his soul to be a good man, but he still needs the demon in him to be an effective fighter. I’m still up in the air about Willow. Her getting in touch with her dark side could still have disastrous results.
Now, since I’m too lazy to go back to previous posts to cut and paste…
For those of you who are wondering about where The Duster came from, back in S5, “Fool for Love”, in a flashback, Spike is fighting Nikki (Wood’s mother), kills her and takes The Duster as a trophy. I was kind of hoping we would never see the duster again, or if we did, it would be when Spike gave it to Wood. But I gotta say, he does look awfully sexy in it. I think putting it back on was a heavily symbolic gesture, acknowledging that it is the killer in him that makes him a powerful warrior. Also, the “gameface” bits with him taunting the demon as he fought it took me back to “School Hard”, Spike as the comic-witty badass (“We don’t really need the weapons, do we?” “Nah. I just like them. They make me feel all manly.”) Then, after he killed the demon, he made the statement that the fight was good for his soul. So, I guess he realized he needed to get his ya-ya’s out, as Trick would have put it.
I think before the season is out, Buffy is going to have to finally come to terms that it is her dark side that makes her the Slayer, and not just some chick who kills the odd vampire here and there. Remember that Star Trek ep where Kirk gets split into his two halves, and realized that he needs both to be an effective leader?
“Kill us both, Spock!”
Although it was just in the dream sequence I imagine that the huge table of dictionaries is actually a feature of the house. Given that Dawn is being made to do most of the brain-leg work with Giles popping in and out and her not needing to train like the potentials she has picked up good translation skills. If she survives she can be amazingly impressive for college admissions.
So I reviewed the tape. Dawn cannot speak ancient Sumerian. She did a translation using other books, I gather, until the text translated itself for her during the shadow show. Then yes, the text disappeared, which would indicate that the only way back was via the three wise men (or a very pissed off witch).
So I reviewed the tape. Dawn cannot speak ancient Sumerian. She did a translation using other books, I gather, until the text translated itself for her during the shadow show. Then yes, the text disappeared, which would indicate that the only way back was via the three wise men (or a very pissed off witch).
So I reviewed the tape. Dawn cannot speak ancient –
GAH! Sorry folks. It was a spell. Careful, or you too will become afflicted.
Watch out for that mummy hand.
re: the Three Wise Men. Personally, I think they were a little overdressed to be from the period that the First Slayer is supposed to be from. Either way, it’s good to see PM Dawn doing some work again.
re: Spike. Meh. He’s a fighter, always has been. It’s only when he weenies out for his love of the Slayer that he gets his ass kicked. Maybe now he’ll realize that he’s her equal, and stop putting her up on the pedestal. Lord knows she doesn’t deserve it.
re: the speech. Lame. All the speeches to date have been lame… although I don’t know if that’s Buffy, or SMG. Maybe she just can’t be inspirational… it all seems to forced.
Overall, I thought it was decent. I’m looking forward to learning more as I watch the seasons (1-6) that I missed.
I think it’s SMG. I think she’s tired of playing Buffy. My main evidence is that her best scenes this season have been when she’s playing TFEBuffy. After five seasons of being the Good Guy, and then a season when she was supposed to be good, but was spending a lot of time being an abusive boy-, er, I mean girlfriend, she seems to be getting off on playing Evil. Also, I think out of all the speeches she’s given this season, the pissed-off one she gave in “Get It Done” is the best, probably by virtue of being the least bad.
:eek:
Okay, I’ve never done this before. Let me know if I get it right.
>ahem<
ROTFLMAO!!!
Historical accuracy in Buffy???*
BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!
[sub]dang SCA geeks. They’re everywhere.[/sub]
Ok, I suppose I asked for that.
But C’mon… you would think they could at least have made some sort of attempt.
here I was, all hoping you were laughing at my PM Dawn joke.
sigh
I laughed at your PM Dawn joke, just as soon as I stopped trying to figure out what “PM” stood for in terms of Dawn Summers and realized you were talking about the music group.
So how is it again we know that Wood’s mother’s name is “Nikki”?
Well, that’s her name in the shooting scripts and also, there is a comic book about her. It’s Tales of the Slayer, right? I never read it, just heard of it.
In the commentary for “Fool For Love” on the Season 5 DVD Doug Petrie mentioned how he made up a name for her and she was used in a comic book, or something.
“Met her in a hotel lobby masturbating with a magazine”
Sorry, just couldn’t resist the “Darling Nikki” reference.
I really liked Spike’s comment about her in “Fool For Love”, though. “She was hot. I could have danced with her all night.”
I wonder if he’s going to tell Wood anything about the fight, though, say she was a brave fighter, or, making reference to “School Hard,” when he told Buffy, “The second Slayer I killed begged for her life,” and say that now he knows why, it wasn’t cowardice, she had a child to take care of or somesuch.
I keep visualizing these little scenes, hope I’ll see something resembling them in an episode, and it never comes to be.
Darn.