Well, you have to keep in mind that she has the dirt on the Double Meat Palace, with the whole burgers not actually being meat, and all.
Was anyone else wanting to shoot Dawn when she went off trying to make the problem of Buffy’s delusion’s all about her. I mean, seriously. My sister has been stabbed by a psychosis causing demon, and when she hallucinates, she doesn’t hallucinate about me. I am, therefore, the most unloved person in the world and I am going to run off at a time when my sister needs me to be supportive, and go somewhere where they are stupid enough to actually want me around…
I don’t know when you were last a fifteen year old girl, but when I was one, about 5 years ago, I may have had my moments of self-absorbtion, but nothing like that. If my sister was going through something like, I would NEVER have reacted that way. No one I know would have, unless they were completly selfish.
You can’t explain something like that away by saying she is just being a teenager. Some of her stuff you can, but that sort of thing is just bad. Besides, even if that were the excuse you gave, in the Buffyverse, when all of the Scoobies were 15, the only person we saw making all the problems hers was Cordelia, and it was used as a method to show how complete self-absorbed she was. I think that when most of us saw Cordelia doing something like that we saw it as, “Wow, she is a real spoiled princess, hehe.” It worked for Cordelia because they used it as humor. In Dawn it is just annoying because they are trying to make such self-absorbed behavior dramtic.
I’m wondering what Warren and Andrew had in those packages.
I hope that J.T. Cornpone is correct about the explanation for the final scene.
Re Buffy’s Dad, I think we did see him in a few early episodes. I, too, am both bugged and puzzled by his continuing absence. Surely by now he should have found out about Joyce and rushed home. I’d like to find out if he thinks he has one daughter or two. He wasn’t around when Dawn joined the family, so may not have been included when Buffy, Joyce, and their immediate circle suddenly started thinking Dawn had always been there.
The was the first episode I’ve seen in a while, and I thought it was good but the possibility that it’s all been in her head wasn’t really believable, even with the final scene. It seemed more like a subtle joke on the show, which is both amusing but shows the age of the series. One of the show’s primary features (and strengths, I think) is expanding metaphors into real-life (well, in a fantasy world) situations. This is more of the same, only now it’s the Joss (and probably others) projecting the ideas of creating a whole fictional show and having to live with these characters you’ve created.
I think the line about adding Dawn, “to create a familial bond” was along these lines. Sort of like, “I guess the spirits though the main vision was a little weak.”
I’m surprised by how much the Tara spoiler bummed me out. All along people have said she’s doomed. I myself have joked that she couldn’t be more marked for death if she were traipsing down a dark deserted wearing a short skirt and saying “I’m not going to let a broken-down car and a psychopathic killer on the loose stop me from reaching that haunted house.”
Even so, I love the character and I think she’s an important part of the show, both with Willow and in her own right. I was hoping the rumors would turn out to be wrong.
I thought it was a top-notch episode; a perfect opportunity taken to remind the fans that it is just a show.
But even better, it was a fantastic ep that brought the show back to its roots. Buffy isn’t a show about vampires and demons; it’s a show about the hell that is growing up, no matter how strong or capable you are.
If all you want are some chicks kicking demonic ass, go watch * Charmed*.
History has shown that there are many false “Spoilers”. I have little faith that the spoiler posted above is anything more substantial than some fan’s idea of what should happen. It may be correct, but history would advise you to remain suspicious.
Ok, the times I remember seeing Buffy’s dad before was in season one, episode 10: Nightmares. He also made a quick apperance in season 2 episode 1 talking to Joyce after dropping Buffy off for the summer.
I never recall seeing Xander’s mom before, but his father was shown in Season 4 episode 22, during Xander’s dream sequence, but I’m not sure if it was the same actor or not.
Watching the Gift it occured to me why Dawn takes so much offense to being ignored by Buffy. Just as Buffy feels like Dawn is an extension of her Dawn feels the same connection. Being ignored by Buffy is not just being ignored by her big sis for Dawn it is being spurned by part of yourself. The very source of your existence doesn’t want you. Like a parent’s hate but even worse because the extension is more literal.
Buffy’s dad also made an appearance in Buffy’s memories of her parents bringing lil sis home in season five, when she went catatonic after letting Glory get her hands on Dawn.