Does anyone else think that Caleb is the “big bad”, because I thought that the “big bad” this season was the first evil??? Maybe I’m wrong though.
Also, I don’t think that Spike is going to go “bad”, even if influenced by the First. I have nothing to support this, but I think that it would be in character for him to be upset, but remain loyal and help the gang until the end. I also do not think that Buffy will kill Spike, unless he was to do something really really bad, like for example, hurt Dawn, which for the same reason as above I also find unlikely that he would be so distraught over the buffy/angel kiss, that he would actually take drastic action.
But, hey I guess anything can happen. I have no idea how they will wrap this all up in one episode, and I can’t wait til next week.
Okay, so what’s with the magical Internet on this show?!? Every little magic item in the world is discussed on the Internet? Even the ones kept hidden for thousands of years? So you made this magic axe, called it a scythe, and then only told your web designer about it? WTF?!?
I want that kind of Internet. You do a search on this one for a good chocolate cake recipe and it directs you to porn and badly spelled fan pages for the band Good Chocolate Cake. Again, I say WTF?
There’s been mention of the mystic on the Internet since S1. Giles and Willow scanned texts in one ep and one would think that someone somewhere else in the world would have had the same idea. Unless you’re the Watcher’s Council, in which case you leave everything in a big pile to be exploded. Jenny Calendar had access to all sorts of mystical resources online and a worldwide network of people who exchanged information. So it’s not completely unreasonable that Willow could find links to information on the m-glottal stop axe-scythe even if after she found them she didn’t click them.
However, what impressed me was the battery life on her laptop. The power’s been out throughout the city for a day or more but she’s still able to surf.
[spoiler]Because in the previews for next week’s episode, there he was. I’m only using this box because I know some people watch the show in other countries or off the web, and maybe don’t see the previews and consider them spoilers. But that’s not true for most of you!
Caleb isn’t dead. Maybe he’s as much as mostly dead, but he isn’t dead yet.
Well it would be in keeping with some deluded parts of Buffy-fandom to consider Caleb the big bad… There’s people who still insist Warren was the big bad last season…Which he clearly wasn’t.
Big bad, lesser bad, whatever. Any thug who hangs around for a couple of fights in the episodes towards the end qualifies as a big bad (if not the major bad) for me.
As for previews, well we don’t get 'em up North-- but Caleb could always be dead and just be a manifestation of TFE, eh?
Agreed. This episode was not the wretched slop dished out of the Cafeteria of Hell like the previous few episodes, but neither is it the Michelin star cuisine of the earlier seasons. It might be comparable to a decent burrito, but kind of a sloppy one, with roasted plot chunks falling out.
As for that AXE, besides looking like it was made from the side panel of a two-tone hot rod, the shape was all wrong. It either should have had a proper axe head like this one, or a longer haft and call it a halberd, like this one. Plus, I’d be interested to know what kind of magic would allow the wooden stake portion to penetrate stone, but not cleave someone in twain with the blade portion. Instead, we get a measly scratch across the belly. Maybe the smith should have spent more time on the death dealing and less on the cheesy sound effect. Did I say “smith”? I meant “writers”.
Someone thinks Charmed is the better show for a whole lot of reasons. I have not seen a lot of Buffy and even less of Charmed what do the sdmb fans of Buffy think of his article?
I’ve seen three, maybe four episodes of Charmed, but reading that article, most of the guy’s complaints can be traced to the last two seasons of Buffy (widely regarded as sub-par; especially this season), or are entirely subjective. Charmed is more “moral”? So what? I’m watching TV, not sitting in church. And a few are just dead wrong. Death has no meaning on Buffy? I beg to differ.
But one would think that Angel would notice that his lips ain’t gettin’ smacked by nuttin’ but a wispy wench. Unless TFE was Angel, too.
The only thing I’m upset about is that the last friggin’ episode is only going to be the usual 40-some minutes long. Why the heck couldn’t they make it two hours? I think it deserves two hours if you ask me.
Also, Season 4 is coming out on DVD this June! (Some of you may already know that, but I just found out, so color me excited. Just don’t color me pink like scythes are wont to be.)
It’s not out yet? I’ve already seen screencaps from Wrecked (wide-screen format)…the editing sucked and let’s just say that we see a bit more of James Marsters than we were ever supposed to see.
(I know, I know: trust me. My laptop plays all the regional codings for DVDs, but my DVD player does not. And as much of a computer geek that I am, I’m certainly not one who prefers watching his DVDs on a laptop–even one hooked up to a nice video unit. So, even though I came sooooo close to ordering the European DVDs, I didn’t. I’ll wait. And wait. And put up with smug, smarmy gloaters such as yourself.
Oh yeah, I know, I was referring to S6. I thought S6 was already released. You know, Wrecked—the morning after where Spike is naked. Due to the wide-screen editing, we see his bare bum and we see the strap that holds the sock in place.
