Why was Jesse, who was obviously a best friend to Xander, never mentioned again after the first two episodes?
Yes, it was a bit corny. But one of those dream sequences gave me a favorite moment from the show: In dead man’s party, when Buffy dreams of the school and meets Angel in the courtyard - in reasonably broad daylight.
Buffy: (looks at him) Am I dreaming?
Angel: (smiles and chuckles) I’m probably the wrong person to ask.
But he was vamped and tried to eat them and then Xander had to stake him.
Yeah, I wouldn’t talk about it either.
She obviously hadn’t yet seen him on his own TV show, when they eventually decided, what the hell, let’s frolic in the sunbeams and ignore it.
But she never even realized he was lying! And then when she found out, it wasn’t pursued at all.
I don’t even know that it was the right thing to do, although the end result dialed up the angst factor by ONE MILLION DEGREES.
If it had really been Willow in Dopplegangland, it would have been mentioned again.
Then again, Giles didn’t seem to grieve over Jenny for very long, and Cordy wasn’t mentioned much after she went into her coma and later died, so who knows.
And didn’t she look damned fine for the moment she was human?
yes, I have a major letch for Elizabeth Anne Allen.
When your locale and occupation have the body count of the Scoobies and the Fang Gang, you really can’t do anything but keep on keepin’ on. If they stopped to properly mourn every one of their friends/fellows/classmates/pals who became demon-fodder, they’d be at it non-stop, 24/7. So you tuck their memories away someplace safe and get back to fighting The Good Fight.
Not to mention that nobody even missed Cordy at all once she went to LA, even though she’d been a regular Scooby.
Cordy and Willow did have that one awkward phone conversation when Harmony showed up at Cordy’s.
Well, *that *I can understand.
Um, no. I have never read the novelization of the original movie. Until I read your post I didn’t even know that a novelization of the original movie even existed. My only knowledge of Buffy comes from seeing the movie and watching every episode of the TV show except the one where Willow becomes addicted to magic.
I like the way you think, though. The idea that the master may have emerged in history in the form of various madmen, murderers, and degenerates appeals to me!
They should make a show about it!
Yeah actually this is something I didn’t quite get. When we get the Anya flashback, she is happily raising bunnies in her house. How did she suddenly become afraid of them?
Why did Buffy not teach self defense classes instead of working at Double Meat Palace?
How did Wesley get the nickname “head boy”?
What’s the story on the Immortal?
“Head boy” is not a nickname, it is an actual title awarded by British public schools to an outstanding student in the graduating class. If you are not a fan of novels set in British public schools (which are what we in the US would call a “private school”), you can find reference to this title in the Harry Potter series.
According to the canonical Season 8 comics, Andrew was just messing with Angel and Spike when he claimed Buffy was dating the Immortal.
I thought the comics also said it was a Buffy decoy and not actually Buffy. Wikipedia backs me up as well. Cite
Another thing to consider was that Sarah Michelle Geller was supposed to be in that episode but canceled at the last minute. So that’s why they came up with the explanation they did in the Comics.
Buffy probably wouldn’t be a very good choice for a teacher of self-defense classes:
“So, if some creep jumps you, just, you know, punch him. But if it’s just some ordinary creep, like a loser ex-boyfriend or something, try not to punch him too hard, 'cause you don’t wanna get all skull-fracture-y or crush his sternum or anything like that.”
I mentioned this in another thread, but they never touched back on the “The First Evil is getting strength and attacking now because Buffy died and came back.” It seems they were going to go a route where maybe the Slayer’s power was “divided” and one of the two (Buffy or Faith, probably Buffy) would give up their power to the other to save the day, but instead they went the complete opposite route and made the Slayers’ power even MORE divided by activating all potentials.
It seems the Season 8 comic might be doing something with this, but I’m a few issues behind. In the last one I read:
Angel was revealed as Twilight, him and Buffy can fly because someone/something (the PTB?) is giving them the power that the Slayers had but lost when they died. So now it’s even more confusing…so before, the power was divided amongst two and that wasn’t good…but then thousands had it but it was ok, but now once some of those die it’s going back into the original, and making her much stronger? I really hope we get some sort of explanation other than “the PTB did it.”
LOL woosh
Yeah, I saw that, but still, the Immortal is an offscreen character and given all this mystique. Buffy aside, what’s his whole deal? I of course realize he was intentionally portrayed that way and actually learning more about him would defeat the point. But still it’s fun to imagine him actually being all he’s cracked up to be…
Huh? The only times Angel frolicked in the sunbeams, as you put it, were when he had the gem of Amara, which makes vampires indestructible, and when they went to Pylia, which has a different ruleset for vampires - sun doesn’t ignite them, they turn into demons outright instead of getting wrinklies, etc.
Neither case was a “what the hell let’s ignore it” moment, and even right in the last season, they still had to note that the W&H offices (and car fleet) had “necro-tempered” glass to prevent vampires going all flamey in the daytime.