I know a beast who knows a guy

Mostly Filler, Installment 40
3:6 Band Candy

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suburban mom plus
librarian watcher make
the sixties appear

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Funniest Moment:

Hee hee! Willow is so cute in the driving scene. Reminds me of how my sister is always saying, "We are gonna die!" when I drive.

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Favorite Character: Giles
Or Ripper, I suppose. This episode gives us the character we've been longing for ever since the Eyghon episode. If anyone managed to not be in love with Giles up until this point, there's no hope after it.

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Best Dressed: Cordelia

This isn't the best screencap, but this is a typical adorable Cordy outfit. Plaid skirt, love it!

Worst Dressed: Joyce

I guess it's not so so bad, but I just want Joyce to be hipper than this. She is an art gallery chick, after all.

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Musings:

• Studying for the SATs in a cemetery pretty much tells the story of the whole series - slayering superimposed over life. Great scene.
• Angel - I try so hard to care about him, and I just can't. Meh. I do, however, LOVE the music behind Angel's little exercise montage.
• Principal Snyder and the Mayor are both such brilliant characters, and both are played flawlessly. Love love love.
• Joyce and Giles both have fabulous hair.
• I bet this episode was way fun to make for the actors.
• The mailman sitting in the playground reading people's mail is so hilarious. Makes me laugh every time. I have no love for the USPS, so mailmen behaving badly is fun for me.
• One of my favorite lines of Buffy speak is in this episode. I use it all the time. "...somewhere that's else."
• I always wish we could have had Giles/Joyce for real. They would have been a great couple.
• This is one of my favorite episodes. It's just so much fun. And so many fabulous quotations: What? I can't have layers? Those tall, fuzzy hats ain't cheap. But they go with everything. I think that is my doctor. He's usually less topless. Summers, you drive like a spaz!
  

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Band Candy Drabble

"So, why do they call you Ripper?" Joyce asked afterwards.

The part of Giles’ brain that had up until just recently been trying to take back control had disappeared. Not exactly like losing a soul, but…

The words "I was an adventurous lad in my youth, you see, and my chosen comrades were not such that my responsible side often won out" did not form like they should have, and did definitely not make it to the outside air.

Nope. Instead, our Rupert just grinned a devilish grin, leaned back, and struck a match on the sole of his shoe.

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Slayerfest 1998

Mostly Filler, Installment 39
3:5 Homecoming


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red and green dresses
really bad breakup outfit
the clothes distract me

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Funniest Moment:

Faith gets a little revenge for Buffy. Gotta love it.
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Favorite Character: Xander
He's just so sweet and adorable.
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Best Dressed: Willow

The black dress will always win in my book.

Worst Dressed: Buffy

So, so hideous. All that pink. And the shoes. And the honkin' big purse. Make it stop.

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Musings:

• Oz is so adorable. The whole opening scene is lovely.
• I can't really care about Buffy/Scott. I guess we're not supposed to.
• I still miss Jenny.
• Some awesome lines in this one -- Just because you were guacamole queen when you were three... You've awakened the prom queen within. There'll be no more fluking! She's a slayer; I'm a homecoming queen.
• I love that we finally get Willow/Xander, even though it's short-lived.
• Xander is seriously sexy this season -- really not ever before or after, IMO.
• This is the best episode for outfits. So many fabulous ones!
• What was homecoming like at your school? I don't even remember back that far.
• I absolutely love that Giles assumes Buffy will win. Sweet, precious Giles.
• Trick is a fun, creepy character. Best Trick quote: That all got old long before I became a vampire.
• I'm glad neither Cordy nor Buffy won homecoming queen.
• The Mayor is waaaaay creepy.

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Homecoming drabble

Faith was thinking she might just fit in here. So what if they were all actually enrolled in high school, taking classes, getting ready to graduate, dating, having fun? So what if all they had to worry about was what to wear to homecoming and getting their smiling yearbook pictures taken? So what if Buffy’s friends were, well, Buffy’s friends? Whatever. It’s not like she needed a posse. And the watcher seemed decent, like he could take care of both of them. Not that she needed taking care of. Faith would do just fine here. She was five by five.

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Actually, I think he makes his own drums.

Mostly Filler, Installment 38
3:4 Beauty and the Beasts

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oz angel pete faith
jekylls and hydes back and forth
who's beauty who's beast

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Funniest Moment:

I may be a cold-blooded jelly doughnut, but...

Oz just has such perfect deadpan humor. I love his character.

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Favorite Character: Willow

I love the way she's growing into herself. She's so suave about having a boyfriend now - a werewolf, no less. But she goes from suave to insecure in an instant. She's just so believable at the full range of emotions.

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Best Dressed: Xander

It's the hotness factor. Has Cordy started dressing him?

Worst Dressed: Buffy

Nope.
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Musings:

• It's funny how Xander is still jealous of Willow and Oz. He's always going to want Willow and Buffy to be his no matter what.
• Funny how Willow talks about Oz so casually - "...then he's a real wolfer..." like it's just no big.
• What's with the weird smoking counselor??
• Willow's Scooby lunchbox (at the morgue) is so adorable.
• Steroids bad - check. Don't let your boyfriend beat you up - check. Smoking super bad - check. Yeah, this one's a little preachy.

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Beauty and the Beasts drabble

It started with a trip, just for fun, to that weird little magic store place in town. They went in as a joke, to maybe find a hex and play a trick on Scott. Or get some rat eyes and jars of oogety boogety to mix in the old chemistry set beakers. They didn’t expect anything there to be real.

But then Pete started reading some of the so-called spell books and mixing up potions. He became obsessed, but the change happened so slowly, as changes sometimes do, that his friends didn’t notice anything wrong until it was too late.

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