I mentioned this is the episode thread; I noticed it as soon as Spike walked into the Magic Box. In “Restless” (I mistakenly called it “Dreams”), Spike says he’s going to follow in Giles’ footsteps–he’s going to be Watcher.
I suspect that we’re to assume Watcher’s are paid fairly well, and he did have the librarian’s salary as mentioned. Early on (first episode) when they introduce Rupert Giles as Sunnydale’s new school librarian, they make a reference to his being a museum curator from England, which assume large museum and hefty credentials could mean a big salary. He could’ve invested his salary well too. And when Giles was re-instated it got double (?) his salary plus backpay to the date they fired him, per Buffy’s agreement with the council. I do believe we are to think Giles is frugal. I would also assume – though it’s not said – that the counsel helps provide and/or pay for the acquisition of books, weapons, and charms.
Another question to ponder…where does Willow get her money? She obviously doesn’t work, but she can afford magical charms/ingredients, clothes, etc. Are her parents supporting her exclusively through college? Did she tell her parents she had moved off campus to live in Buffy’s house with her girlfriend?
I get the impression that WIllow’s parents are well-off and I imagine they support her. She is undoubtedly also on full scholarship at UC-Sunnydale and may even get a stipend from them (since she is super brainly-intelligent). As for where she gets her spell ingredients, some of the plants she can either gather or grow, and for others she raids the magic shop (while Anya clucks and kvetches in the background).
I also suspect that Willow isn’t above a little bit of money magic. This would include doing little summonings like for the party favors which cut down on the price of living. It looked like the most recent episode she could just change clothes with magic. I’m not sure if they’re summoned from her dresser, from elsewhere or created spontaniously. If it’s one of the second two then it’s a money saver.
I re-watched “Restless” with an eye for what has happened since then. I think that it’s pretty easy now to see whatever I’d like to see. Still, I think that Riley leaving Buffy seemed pretty obvious (in hindsight). I thought it was funny that a shark was mentioned in the same scene where Spike is dressed up as Giles. There were several references to Willow not being who she appeared to be, and I had to wonder if that wasn’t about the upcoming badness of Willow. That type of personality also seemed foreshadowed with vamp Willow.
I don’t know. Again, I thought the references could be taken so many ways, it was too easy to see stuff in hindsight, and over analyse the whole episode.
Unrelated to the above, I found an interesting article about the show at The Guardian.
And showing that I really need to get out more, I scored 97 out of 100 on the Buffy Quiz at the BBC site.
WICCA-4 is part of a sweepstakes promotion. And if you’re watching it in the SF bay area, Saturday started from the first season, Sunday started from the 3rd season.
Bram Stoker:
[list][]able to change into a wolf or a bat, able to travel as mist or elemental dust on moonlight rays, able to enter or exit any space no matter how well sealed, and able to see in the dark.[]dispached by a stake through the heart (very bloody) followed by severing the head and filling the mouth with garlic - apparently firing a "sacred bullet into the coffin works too.[]halted by things sacred (crusifixes, the host) and by garlic.[]killing a vampire cures those victims who have not yet been turned.[]immortal, but capable of weakening and aging due to a lack of blood.[]has no shadow or reflection.[]only able to enter at the bidding of the member of a household, but free to enter afterwards.[]only able to cross running water at the the slack or the flood of the tide.[]a branch of wilde rose on a coffin will keep a vampire from exiting it.[]“Only at certain times can he have limited freedom. If he be not at the place whither he is bound, he can only change himself at noon or at exact sunrise or sunset. These things we are told, and in this record of ours we have proof by inference. Thus, whereas he can do as he will within his limit, when he have his earth-home, his coffin-home, his hell-home, the place unhallowed, as we saw when he went to the grave of the suicide at Whitby, still at other time he can only change when the time come.”weakest between the hours of noon and sunset.
Ok, since this thread got bumped again, and we skimmed over the whole Stroker/Rice thing I would like to ask a question:
Where did Joss get his ideas for the buffyverse? I see similarities with Ann Rice’s and Bram stroker’s vampires as well as White wolf’s World Of Darkness, but there are major differences as well (Garlic anyone?).
Also, the way magic works is similar to the way it works in Charmed and white wolf’s Mage. (see the Jonathan episode, series 2 or 3 I think.)Is there some sort of common ‘Hollywood’ understanding of how demons and whichcraft works or are these mere coincidences?
The Monster Book goes over all of the mythology and where Joss got his ideas from. I would paraphrase, but I don’t have time. Maybe someone else? I do remember that he got several of his ideas from The Lost Boys.
So I’m watching Prom on FX right now and the hellhounds are about to be loosed, and I have to ask myself, where were the flying monkeys? In the first appearance this season of the Ghastly Trio, one of them says it was his brother who loosed the hellhounds on the prom, that his schtick was that he sent flying demon monkeys somewhere (I forget where). So what episode was that? I seem to have missed it on the FX reruns.
I don’t think that was actually on the show. I’ve seen nearly every episode. I think the comment just meant that training strange beasts ran in the family.
There wasn’t a flying monkey episode (alas). I think Whedon was just short of surviving super-genius villains. I think he should have brought back the junior Dr. Frankenstein, who patched his dead jock brother back together in season one or two. However, I like these little toss off lines that confirm a host of wiggy goings-on that aren’t worth their own Buffy episode. Just imagine all the strange, but inconsequential, things we don’t see. “Honey, there’s blood coming out of the kitchen faucet again! Who did we get to fix it last time, the plumber or the exorcist?”