A complete 6-DVD set of season 1 of Kennedy the Vampire Slayer and Her Slayerette Friends. Use them in good health.
…did alot of you not watch the preview for next week?
Caleb ain’t dead. He’s clearly shown bleeding and ranting next episode.
But yeah it was silly for Buffy not to behead him
Here’s my suggestion for the final episode: To confuse the bad guys, everybody gets their hair dyed blonde and cut short. Then they all put on red shirts (it’s the end of the show: they’re all expendable) and we have a 40 minute manic melee where everybody dies. No loose ends are tied up, no questions are resolved (c’mon, what do you really expect?) and we all go watch some different show.
As far as the axe goes, it killed Caleb, and no ordinary axe could do that, IMO. The everybody-shows-up-at-a-random-place scene was stupid beyond words, as everyone else has said.
Oops, gotta do actual work. See ya later!
IIRC, in Season 1 they established that there is some absurdly high number of graveyards (and churches) in Sunnydale. Said establishment was, I am sure, for just such circumstances - to allow the Scoobies to keep finding new things in said graveyards.
Sua
I don’t know that Caleb in next weeks promo means he’s still kickin’. Could just be the FE taking his form.
And, did I imagine it, or was that Willow in the preview all tricked out like the old woman in this weeks ep? She was white-haired and everything.
I’m thinking that Willow taps into some positive energy making her hair white instead of the negative energy that made it black before. If that’s right, then she’s gonna be mega-badass next week.
So?many? slowly? delivered? speeches?yawn
No terrible plot twists ala Buffy gets kicked out of her own house, but no really good moments either. I would say that it is a decent ?filler? episode, except that by now we should be near the climax.
I really miss the connection between the Scoobies that was in previous seasons. Willow and Xander are barely friends with Buffy anymore, and Giles has been almost invisible ever since he came back. Oh, well? one more episode left to get everything right?
How would we know that? No one ever got a hit in before. All the axe seems to have going for it so far is that it’s neon pink for some reason.
Wow… I have NO idea where all of those “?” came from. Sorry.
It should have been like this:
So… many… slowly… delivered… speeches… yawn
No terrible plot twists ala Buffy gets kicked out of her own house, but no really good moments either. I would say that it is a decent ‘filler’ episode, except that by now we should be near the climax.
I really miss the connection between the Scoobies that was in previous seasons. Willow and Xander are barely friends with Buffy anymore, and Giles has been almost invisible ever since he came back. Oh, well. One more episode left to get everything right…
The wimmen-folk in casa-Dinsdale liked Buffy’s hair the way she was wearing it last night, for what that’s worth.
I was completely surprised. The “punch double” was so unconvincing I was all mini-outraged that they were introducing yet another new character in the next-to-last episode. I’m all like, what the hell is A Martinez doing there?
In S3 Giles tells Gwendolyn Post (Mrs) that there are twelve cemeteries in Sunnydale. Oddly, the same people are buried in all of them. I’ve visited that one mausoleum so many times I feel like I should bring a wreath.
Say, whatever happened to Mister Post? Now there’s a loose end for ya!
Thank you! The link is there…click on the damn link. But instead they both get up and go away. How stupid was that? (btw, am I the only one who doesn’t think that the BDS looks like a scythe? It looks like an axe.)
Also, why did it take Xander so damn long to chloroform Dawn? In fact, why did he chloroform her at all? Why not just say “We need to take another trip up to the monks to look for more information” or “lets go for supplies” or any of many other things to get Dawn into the car with him and drive away. Why chloroform? And then, why did it take so long? That scene lasted forever and was telegraphed poorly. Good for Dawn though. Still, she should have switched places with him, driving from the passenger seat can’t be easy.
And why won’t Kennedy die?
And the wheelchair fight was very Andrew & Anya. I liked their moment. And I liked the slayers’ moment. I hated the end. Too many people in the same place for no particular reason at all, and stupid fighting tactics. It isn’t as bad as [sub]La Femme Nikita[/sub] where things got so bad I was happy to see it end… but they’re coming close.
I think we’re spoiled.
We’re ragging on the show only because we’re used to it being one of the best pieces of storytelling in any format or medium.
Now that it’s merely one of the best shows on television, we feel violated.
See, it didn’t bother me that they all showed up at the crypt, because I, y’know, paid attention. Buffy mentioned to Spike that she had to go to some crypt on unconsecrated ground or something stupid like that, which meant that Willow and Giles knew where she was going and could therefore tell Angel when he showed up at her house (okay, that much might be fanwanking), and Spike mentioned to Buffy that he was going to go keep tabs on Reverend Mal. As for Captain Tightpants, he could have gone there based on, I dunno, the orders of his Force of Nature boss with all kinds of arcane knowledge, right? The Really Old Lady did say that she had remained hidden until the right time arose, or something, which explains why the First couldn’t have sent Captain Caleb there before and why Buffy never really went to that tomb before.
Anyway, all in all, I liked it. I liked that the Really Old Lady said that her group (presumably all women) were there before the Shadow Guys who impregnated the First Slayer with the demon and the implied metaphor that wymmin power is somehow older and wiser than what the guys offered her. I liked that there was actual, real-life Scoobage. It seemed, especially in the opening scenes, that Xander, Willow, Giles, and Buffy were finally getting back to a bit of normalcy. For them, that is. Impending apocali and all…
Howe’er, I really hated some bits. I hated, hated, hated that Buffy was right about the vineyard based on a whole lot of wild guesses. Just because the show is named after her doesn’t mean that Buffy always has to be right and Faith always has to be wrong, y’know? I’m really spitting nails over that bit of the storyline. The other bit that pissed me off is this retcon of Willow’s inability to use magic. I know that she needs to be set up for this arc where she learns to harness her power for good, or whatever, but not a month ago she faced down a freakin’ Power that Was in Los Angeles. I mean, come on! She didn’t have a problem delivering the magical smackdown then, so what has changed? Nuthin’, that’s what! I also, unlike most people here, I guess, didn’t care for the Anya/Andrew scene in the hospital (though it was funny. Wheelchair fight? Bwah!). I just plain do not care about either of these characters, so why should we be wasting valuable next-to-last episode screentime on only them? Oh, and Kennedy. Dammit.
I always like scenes between Xander and Dawn, though, and the Slayers’ talk was good. Maybe this episode only seems good in comparison to last week’s, but this one made me laugh four or five times, and, while that would have been bad for a Season Three Buffy, it’s good for a Season Seven episode…
Just wanted to possibly address this point:
I think Willow’s current magical fear is not so much the magic as it is the influence of The First and the Hellmouth. Whenever Willow tries magic in Sunnydale it goes totally wonky… remember the scene earlier in the season when she tried a locator spell and TF took her over for a bit? TF’s (implied) increasing power is making it even more difficult for her to remain in control (she could only do very basic spells successfully when TF went into hiding)… that’s what she’s afraid of, especially now with impending doom. JMHO, though.
Also, amarinth, Xander was fighting Xander-guilt at what he was about to do… he and Buffy knew Dawn would never go willingly, and even though he’d agreed to the plan he still felt badly (not only for his actions, but also because he really was being put out to pasture by Buffy). That scene was very much in character for the Xander we knew and lost.
Overall a very meh episode.
-BK
I’m betting Xander wakes up in the car on the way back to Sunnydale, and instead of struggling or arguing with Dawn, he assents to their both going back home to fight, since it’s what they both would’ve preferred anyway.
It isn’t that I thought Xander wasn’t in character, (even though, there were still 100 better ways to drive off with Dawn than chloroforming her) its the way I watched it (which might have something to do with my general annoyance at the show by that time in the episode).
At first, I couldn’t figure out what Buffy was asking Xander to do. But then when I saw Dawn and Xander by the car it became obvious before they even spoke a line, Xander’s going to kidnap Dawn and take her out of town. So, I was waiting for it to happen and wondering why it was taking so long. When he finally got around to drugging her, it looked like it was meant to be a surprise to the audience, but it wasn’t. They telegraphed the surprise to us…bad form.
Well, she can conjure up clothing, since she doesn’t wander through the show bare-ass, so I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to believe she could conjure up a fake version of the axe. Not to mention the ritual she did with Caleb seemed to involve making them stronger. They’d said it’d been a while, perhaps her not-being-able-to-lift-things is a side effect of that.
I’m still reading the thread, but…
THAT’S NOT A FUCKING SCYTHE! IT’S AN AXE! AN AXE! AN AXE!!!
When Willow was doing web research, and looking at the Axe of Drakenor-- they had an illustration of a scythe on the screen.
Idiots. Buffoons. Twits.
Okay, the parallels between Angel and Buffy got a little ridiculous. Big Bad dies in second to last episode in both series, but another bad manifests itself in Connor and Spike.
My prediction: Buffy spikes Spike, but because she loves him, the Scythe-that-is-really-an-axe drives out the last vestiges of TFE’s fearful, hating influence.