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Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In February I gave candlelightfrot a kidney (1000 points). Last Friday I pulled sadbhyl's hair (-5 points). In July I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points). Last Wednesday I helped poshcat across the street (6 points). In October I donated bone marrow to beanbeans in a life-saving procedure (300 points). Overall, I've been nice (1627 points). For Christmas I deserve a Lego set! Sincerely, frenchani

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Since it's wish time

I rewatched The Wish during lunch time before going to do some shopping. I think

I hadn't seen it for a long time...I don't watch season 3 very often.

Is it me or the feeding machine scene was a wink at "Modern Times" ? Except this time, men (a woman in this case) aren't fed but food! I'm sure Chaplin would have smiled...


The Wish was a case of "the biter being bit"...if Anya hadn't granted Cordelia's wished she wouldn't have lost her powers...

I have a problem with the amulet though (that Anya said her dad gave her! D'Hoffryn is indeed her surrogate father). I know that she had to put it around Cordy's neck for the plot's sake, because without seeing it on Cordy's corpse, Giles wouldn't have figured it out, summoned Anyanka and invalidated the wish...but how does it come that she still had it when she was choking Giles?

I guess that the one she gave Cordy was only an avatar of her real amulet as a demon (just like Anya in Sunnydale High would be an avatar of Anyanka), allowing Cordy to remember the pre-wish-world, and a symbol, not the centre of Anyanka's power, but I can't help thinking there's a plot hole in there.

Based on this, I now think that D'Hoffryn and his Vengeance Demons don't belong to any time nor any dimension, unlike basic demons like Clem, but can be embodied in a human body whenever and wherever they want in order to grant a wish. They are off limits, off time and off life. They can switch alternate realities, move through dimensions (with or without shrimps!) while to be human is being stuck in one time-line. This explains why Anya couldn't understand Joyce's death in The Body. As a VD she was unbound and didn't know the taste of ending no matter how many people she killed.

By the way the fact that Anyanka and Halfrek were doing stuff during the Crimean War doesn't necessarily mean that Cecily was already a VD in FFL, even though Crimean War is prior to 1880!

 

Any thoughts dear flist of mine?

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