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Buffy is still the best !
I love our French cable because they show reruns of BTVS all the time so I often come across an episode. It was "Spiral" this time, and since they also showed "The Weight of the World" and "The Gift" in a row, I got to re-watch them as well.
And I still find new stuff to ponder!
While they were attacked by the Knights of Byzantium, Willow asked Giles to not harm the horses...She wasn't that sensitive a few months later when she killed Bamby in "Bargaining" !
When Buffy is questioning Gregor there's a shot of Spike where he is incredibly beautiful. OK he's always gorgeous but he is breathtaking there.
And I loved how much Buffy loved a wounded Giles. The way she stroked his hand. To save him she put Dawn in danger, without knowing it. Of course later in "The Gift" she said she was ready to kill anyone, including Giles, in order to protect Dawn. I wonder if she would have done it...
Buffy's catatonia makes her look like....a robot that would have been shut down, disconnected!
I think there's a leitmotiv about The Slayer being a killing machine through the show. In my opinion it started in "This Year's Girl" (but maybe even earlier with Kendra) when we got to see Buffy through Faith's eyes in her dream before she got out of a coma.
In season 5, they played again with that idea in "Intervention". It isn't by chance if Spike got his Love bot, the Buffybot, just when Buffy was wondering about her ability to have feelings, about the fact that slaying might turn her into "stone" which means a thing not a human being, a machine. By the way, the Scoobies didn't see the diffrence between the Buffybot and her!
You guys couldn't tell me apart from a robot?
Ironically enough, the Buffybot replied: Oh, I don't think I'm a robot.
It's a twisted metaphor because the Buffybot who could be a metaphor of Buffy's hardness, actually was tender and sensitive, voicing things that the real Buffy wouldn't have dreamed of speak ing out loud.
And again in "The Gift", Glory was fooled. That bot was very well done indeed, because when facing the Goddess she was The Slayer with the whole attitude and the repartee. By the way it's a shot of the Buffybot, not of Buffy that was used in the credits during season 6! And in OMWF Buffy sang she was going through the motion....like an automaton!
The Buffybot was Buffy. Buffy was the Buffybot.
Also the Ben-is-Glory scene in "The Weight of the World" still cracks me up. I hadn't seen it for a while and I found myself giggling in front of the tv. James was really good in it.
But back to "The Gift" that made me cry again. Suddenly I realized that when Tara slapped Willow in the face it echoed Anya slapping Xander earlier...Was it a clue foreshadowing the pain they would both suffer from their significant other and the anger thay would feel then?
Anya never slapped Xander in the face after he left her at the altar. Because it was already done, in advance in "The Gift".
Same with Tara. Willow played with her mind twice in season 6. And we know that crazy-Tara was a bit prescient, pointing Giles as a killer before he murdered Ben.
And I still find new stuff to ponder!
While they were attacked by the Knights of Byzantium, Willow asked Giles to not harm the horses...She wasn't that sensitive a few months later when she killed Bamby in "Bargaining" !
When Buffy is questioning Gregor there's a shot of Spike where he is incredibly beautiful. OK he's always gorgeous but he is breathtaking there.
And I loved how much Buffy loved a wounded Giles. The way she stroked his hand. To save him she put Dawn in danger, without knowing it. Of course later in "The Gift" she said she was ready to kill anyone, including Giles, in order to protect Dawn. I wonder if she would have done it...
Buffy's catatonia makes her look like....a robot that would have been shut down, disconnected!
I think there's a leitmotiv about The Slayer being a killing machine through the show. In my opinion it started in "This Year's Girl" (but maybe even earlier with Kendra) when we got to see Buffy through Faith's eyes in her dream before she got out of a coma.
In season 5, they played again with that idea in "Intervention". It isn't by chance if Spike got his Love bot, the Buffybot, just when Buffy was wondering about her ability to have feelings, about the fact that slaying might turn her into "stone" which means a thing not a human being, a machine. By the way, the Scoobies didn't see the diffrence between the Buffybot and her!
You guys couldn't tell me apart from a robot?
Ironically enough, the Buffybot replied: Oh, I don't think I'm a robot.
It's a twisted metaphor because the Buffybot who could be a metaphor of Buffy's hardness, actually was tender and sensitive, voicing things that the real Buffy wouldn't have dreamed of speak ing out loud.
And again in "The Gift", Glory was fooled. That bot was very well done indeed, because when facing the Goddess she was The Slayer with the whole attitude and the repartee. By the way it's a shot of the Buffybot, not of Buffy that was used in the credits during season 6! And in OMWF Buffy sang she was going through the motion....like an automaton!
The Buffybot was Buffy. Buffy was the Buffybot.
Also the Ben-is-Glory scene in "The Weight of the World" still cracks me up. I hadn't seen it for a while and I found myself giggling in front of the tv. James was really good in it.
But back to "The Gift" that made me cry again. Suddenly I realized that when Tara slapped Willow in the face it echoed Anya slapping Xander earlier...Was it a clue foreshadowing the pain they would both suffer from their significant other and the anger thay would feel then?
Anya never slapped Xander in the face after he left her at the altar. Because it was already done, in advance in "The Gift".
Same with Tara. Willow played with her mind twice in season 6. And we know that crazy-Tara was a bit prescient, pointing Giles as a killer before he murdered Ben.
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Of course there's the theme of "One day he's going to be a real boy"...:- )
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I wondered once if there was some hidden meaning in Spike being the only person able to see that Ben is Glory - and came to conclusion that writers chose him because they knew that James would squeeze maximum fun from each word. And his dialogue with Xander in the hospital is a hoot!
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Also with Spike having issues with Ben, being jealous of him (soemthing they pointed again before the epiphany scene), it made sense that he was the one who had to see and remember the transformation, to know the truth about Ben being Glory aka the biggest danger for Buffy!
Ben has always been the enemy for Spike...
Oh and I wanted to ask you something. For a few days French television has been showing several documentaries about Chernobyl disaster...btw I should stop watching them, it's depressing. But how does Russian tv deal with the 20th anniversary?
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I practically don't watch TV "live". Often they air good films and TV shows at night, I tape them and then watch fast-forwarding the ads. For example I just finished programming new BSG episode which will be aired tonight at 4 a.m. Wednesday they air Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" at 3 a.m.
Russian TV have very weird programming principles.
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But "The Body" is still the episode that si the hardest to watch for me.
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Anya's speech alone is worth the price of admission, and Dawn's lament at the end: "Where did she go?" Every moment actually, is a gem.
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She slaps him in Never Leave Me *winks*