Fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” know the games Mr. Whedon and Co. like to play with us. An offhanded reference to something two seasons ago suddenly acquires major significance in this season. You can watch old episodes and pick them apart for things that were being foreshadowed.
So…the game is this: Pick out a seemingly inconsequential sequence from a relatively recent episode, and tell us what it foreshadows. The freakier and weirder the better.
For example: In the recent musical episode, when the two guys in the park check her out, Tara jokes with Willow, “Oh, I’m cured! I like boys now!” What does it foreshadow? Sometime in season eight, Tara discovers that she actually does like boys after all. Or at least a boy. Angst ensues.
Oh yes, and by an amazing coincidence, this is when Amber Benson finally gets into the opening credits. :rolleyes:
Good thread concept. I hope everyone runs with it. Here’s my contribution.
Tara’s amazement at the size of Dawn’s milkshake (during their movie outing) foreshadows the reappearance of Tara’s family. In a flashback, we find out that her mother was severely wounded by a frost demon Tara accidentally summoned. The beast dripped with a brown slush that made it look like a walking chocolate milkshake. Tara’s mom died a lingering death as a result of her injuries.
This is why Tara has never developed her magickal abilities to the same level that Willow has.
A previously unknown younger relative of Tara’s has made the same mistake. The newly summoned demon comes after Tara and the Scoobies must fight to save her. In the end, the beast runs off in terror when Dawn arrives brandishing a straw.
Ok so in this most recent episode Willow calls Dawn cutie and asks if she wants to play with the grown ups. Willow has taken an interest in Dawn, a not so healthy interest. This leads to the Buffy/Willow fight and drives Willow finally to the dark side entirely. She becomes Wrack’s apprentice and gets into the same business as him. That one is based on how Wrack is so interested in her.
Pretty good response so far, although…Willow coming on to Dawn? That feels…incestuous. Though it would give new meaning to the scene where Dawn slaps her.
Right now I am trying to come up with something for the bit where Wrack says to Willow, “You taste like strawberries” but I’m drawing a blank. Anyone?
Joss likes bringing on muscians, the music tends to mean something. Tori Amos has a song referencing a Beatle’s lyric (if I’m not mistaken). Happy Phantom, “We’ll wake up in strawberry fields every day.”
So Willow tastes like happy death. Which is retrospectively ironic because she stole that from Buffy. More over Willow is now holding what ever it is that Buffy is lacking. That strawberry flavor is what Buffy needs to not be wrong.
See. Perfectly reasonable when you haven’t slept for awhile. The original song the lyric comes from may matter.
Xander keeps finding answers in D&D manuals. This is to foreshadow that the Geek Trio will begin summoning D&D monsters.
For those who don’t also watch Angel, Angel got Darla pregnant. I have to assume Buffy and Spike didn’t know about that, and that they didn’t use protection, him being dead and all…
In the recent sequence, when Willow took Dawn out for a movie but got sidetracked, and then Dawn and Willow are confronted by a baddie in the alley and Willow is too exhausted to use magic… Dawn delivers a fan-freaking-tastic kick that knocks the baddie way back.
I predict that Slayer’s Sister is gonna develop Slayer-like powers.
Of course, in the most recent Halloween episode, Giles displayed a previously unsuspected ability to jump kick, so maybe Slayerness is catching. Like the flu.
However, I’m still keeping my eye on the bunnies. Anya clearly knows something the rest of us mortals don’t.
In the most recent episode on FX, “The Yoko Factor” I think is what it’s called, Willow is selecting an elective for her second semester. She considers drama and tells Tara’s new kitten she has a cat nip problem. Clearly forshadowing Willow’s problem.
At the end of the most recent ep (and the last one until January… lament!) Buffy states that Dawn’s arm is fractured.
Which, I believe, foreshadows an upcoming divergence in Dawn’s personality; after all, she is both a human being, and a creature of energy. I see her gradually developing a dichotomy between those two aspects of her being, and having to decide what type of creature she wants to remain.
I’m surprised no one has picked up on the Buffy Musical foreshadow on the last number.
As Buffy goes outside to stop Spike and make out, the last lyrics sung in “Where do we go from here” are something about a kiss, the curtains closing and “you know the end is near”
Well Spike and Buffy then kiss and then black curtains close and its the end of the episode.
See it was forshadowing by seconds.
Or actually if you wanted to make some sort of point you could say that since the lyric is about the end being “near” and not “here”, it must mean in the larger scheme of things that Buffy and Spike getting together is a sign that the end is near. Maybe the show will go only another season or taht Spike might get dusted at the end of this season thereby being his end.