synchronized slaying

 

Well, it's like this. I abandoned this blog 5 years ago, and yet, my love for all things Buffy has not waned. I have a different perspective now, but I still love the show and the characters. So I think I will continue, sans the fanart, which I think I no longer have the brain power to make. Pity. Looking at the old posts makes me remember the fun. But anyway...

 

Mostly Filler, Installment 41

3:7 Revelations

 

 

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watcher feels betrayed
faith's lipstick is awfully dark
there's guilt a-plenty

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Funniest Moment:

Wow, this episode is humorless. But Willow makes cute faces.

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Favorite Character: Buffy

I actually have a lot of sympathy for B in this episode. I totally get why she kept Angel's return a secret. You get so tired of the judgment, the looks from your so-called friends... ugh. Rational or not, I can't help being on her side for this one.

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Best Dressed: Buffy

 

Love this. Supercute.

 

Worst Dressed: Also Buffy

 

Tank top bag shirt and winter hat? I don't get it.

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Musings:

• I can't remember whether Gwendolyn Post fooled me on the first watching. Probably. I find myself wondering what happened to her to make her lose her marbles. She's funny because, in spite of having turned evil, she still has that whole watchers' council snobbery thing going.
• I am so over the Buffy/Faith innuendo. Whatever. But on the other hand, I cannot stand to watch that fight scene. I do not want the slayers to beat each other up.
• I'm still a fan of Willow/Xander. I never saw them as brother/sister and always wished they'd have a chance. But alas...
• Does an intervention ever really work?
• I wonder if someone other than Xander had been the one to see Angel first if things would have gone differently. Xander really never stops being a jealous ass for an entire 7 seasons. Interesting how he sticks up for Angel in front of Faith but blames Angel in front of Buffy. And I wonder whether Willow would have reacted differently if she hadn't been wrapped up in her own secret.
• Why did Giles not suspect Angel's return when Buffy told him about her "dream?" He's usually more astute, right?
• Many of the characters are at their most insipid in this episode - Angel, Faith, Xander, Cordy. Yet they're still all such sympathetic characters. Currently, I'm into season 2 of Dexter - everyone says to keep watching because it's such a great show. But I have yet to find even one character on that show sympathetic, thus I'm just not interested.
• Still, after many years of Buffy watching, just cannot care that much about Buffy/Angel.
• Buffy is awfully naïve, even if well-meaning, to tell Faith, "You can trust me." She has no concept of her own privilege in this situation, none whatsoever.

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Revelations Drabble

 

OK, listen, I researched how to do this the right way. You have to use what’s called “I statements.” Otherwise the person feels like they’re being attacked.

Yeah, we did this for my Uncle Rory once. It so didn’t take.

I mean it, Xander. We have to help Buffy here. I’m sure she didn’t mean to… I mean, I’m sure she was planning to tell us as soon as she...

Yeah, no doubt. I mean, why wouldn’t she want to tell us Angelus was back? It’s not like he’s a cold-blooded murderer. Damn, how many lives does that guy have?

Raise your hand if ew

Mostly Filler, Installment 37

3:3 Faith, Hope and Trick

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another slayer

hmmm a new boyfriend perchance

oh right, Angel's back

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Funniest Moment:

It's not the funniest of all funny Buffy moments, but it is awfully cute. Willow is just fun.

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Favorite Character: Buffy

Yes, I'm still caring about the slayer herself. Don't worry, it won't last. She's just so vulnerable, trying to get her life back together, and nothing is easy. Everyone is coupled, she doesn't know what to do about dating, things with mom and Giles are still not quite right because of the whole disappearing for a summer deal, and another slayer shows up to remind her of hers and Kendra's deaths.

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Best Dressed: Faith

Great outfit for the Faith debut. Sort of urban and tough.

Worst Dressed: Buffy

I don't really feel this needs an explanation. Also - the hair.

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Musings:

• Why does Faith, from Boston, have a Minnesota accent?
• There's some sort of rainbow something in the cupboard behind Joyce when she says the phrase "slayer pride parade."
• Buster Keaton, who knew?
• Why is Giles always so out of the watcher loop? I just don't get it. I would think they'd keep very close tabs on him. How come he never knows about big stuff like the fact that there's another slayer?!
• The dream sequence is, as always, really fabulous.
• I kind of like Scott Hope, but he doesn't stand a chance, does he?
• It's interesting how Trick never really became a beloved character like Spike. They started off the same - bad guy vampire coming to Sunnydale to cause trouble.

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Faith, Hope and Trick Icons (shareable, a capturing of the weird facial expressions in this episode)

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Faith, Hope and Trick Drabble

Her watcher had mentioned the other slayer, the first slayer. That was as good a place as any to check out. Faith didn’t consider herself intuitive or spiritual, but the closer she got to the hellmouth (whatever that was) the more she felt… something. Something not good. But no matter. Whatever it was giving her the willies, she’d kick its ass and move on.

Her watcher was gone, that was that, and she wasn’t going to cry about it. Keep moving, start over, do what you need to do. She had a plan. Sunnydale. This was going to be fun.

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Welcome to the hellmouth petting zoo.

Mostly Filler, Installment 36

3:2 Dead Man's Party

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buffy's back in town

nothing like dead cat smell

to rally the troops

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Funniest Moment:

How did you find her?

Well, I pretty much remembered the address.

I know, I know, this is so cheesetastic, but it makes me laugh every time.

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Favorite Character: Buffy

I just empathize with her so much. She knows she messed up big time, but she also feels like she did the only thing she could. She wants things back to normal but knows that's unlikely. Such a hard spot to be in. Being in a situation of badness that you caused yourself is usually worse than being in a situation that's out of your control and therefore not your job to be guilty about. I really ache for her throughout this episode; she's not very often the character I'm actually caring about, so this is a bit unusual. You found out who I was and you couldn't deal. Yep.

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Best Dressed: Buffy

This is just so pretty. I love the little hair clip.

Worst Dressed: Buffy

OK, granted, this is a dream outfit (not dream as in most coveted, but dream as in she was having a nightmare), but still - ugh! Here's the scenario I'm imagining: someone in the wardrobe department just couldn't let go of this hideousness, and everyone else finally gave in and said, fine, we'll put it in the dream sequence.

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Musings:

• The opening scene with Buffy and Joyce is so well done, some of SMG's best, I think.
• I do appreciate and relate to the you can't come home theme that really carries throughout this whole season. You can come home, but things will not be the same ever again, even if they look the same on the surface. Maybe you don't regret leaving or returning, but that doesn't change the fact.
• Principal Snyder, as usual, is brilliant and hilarious, and really kind of creepy.
• Home schooling, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.
• Buffy's hair is fabulous. Just sayin.'
• Oz's whole party genre speech is one of the best scenes ever.
• I'm so glad Willow called Buffy on her total egocentrism. Hello, it's not always about you. Interestingly, she never really does learn that lesson.
• I love tough guy Giles, he's wonderful.
• Possibly the most cheesetastic transition ever: You can't just bury stuff, Buffy. It'll come right back up to get you. LOL

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Dead Man's party icons (shareable, exercise in playing with one Giles screencap)

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Dead Man's Party drabble

Cordy and Devon chat the next day

What. Was. That?

Well, Devon, there’s some stuff you should know. See, Sunnydale isn’t your regular town. I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but, well whatever. We’re on a hellmouth, yep our very own cornucopia of demony badness. Buffy’s a vampire slayer. She kills stuff all the time and has this whole secret identity deal, which, between you and me, tends to keep her ego inflated and her hair a little flat. But you know, we can’t all be…

Yeah, Cordy, I get it. Vampires and stuff. But what was with you and Harris last night? Man, get a room.

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Color me stunned

Mostly Filler, Installlment 21
2:9 What's My Line, Part 1

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this episode is

a one-liner-palooza

and Giles wears clown tie

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Funniest Moment:

Giles, dear clueless man, says, "Have you considered law enforcement?" And the look on Buffy's face is beyond priceless. Perhaps I confuse funny with sad.

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Favorite Character: Buffy

Weren't expecting that, were ya? She is a high school girl in this episode. She's annoying as all get-out with the whining and the woe-is-me and the talking back. She has that overwhelming feeling that we all had at times back then (sometimes still do?) - why oh why did I get this life? And how? And it sucks to be me. And I'm going to fuss about it, reason be damned.

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Best Dressed: Cordelia

Honestly, I don't think anyone was especially well-dressed in this episode (see haiku above), but I will admit that this is awfully prep-school cute and somehow appropriate for Cordelia on a Saturday.

Worst Dressed: Willow

She may be the best actor on the show a large percentage of the time, but dang, they dress her funny.

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Musings, in no particular order:

• This episode is pretty much just a bunch of one-liners strung together. I happen to kind of enjoy that. Can you identify the characters for the quotes? I'll give you a cookie if you can.

...an airborne toxic event.

It's all mootville for me.

...as in polyester, doughnuts, and brutality.

...jump off that bridge when I come to it.

No, it's a statistical impossibility for a 16-year-old girl to unplug her phone.

Note to self: religion freaky.

The hellmouth presents Dead Guys on Ice!

So you're saying the vampires went to all that trouble for your basic decoder ring?

There's a guy big with the sinning.

• Where the heck was Angel while Buffy was skating and then being attacked? In the men's room?
• How on earth did Angel manage to decorate his apartment with all furniture and art and whatnot?
• What's wrong with Dru anyway? Do we ever find out? Was I just not paying attention?
• You kinda gotta feel bad for the vampire lackey. He really does get the short end of the stick.
• About Kendra - very cool idea, and I like her. But. She's kind of the Fez of Buffyland. This show is really not big on being culturally respectful. I find that disturbing sometimes.
• I love Principal Snyder.

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What's My Line, part 1 Icons (shareable)

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What's My Line, part 1 Drabble

Oz ponders
As days go, this one has been weird. That girl Buffy, she’s high strung, more so than most. I think I could like her. Although it’s the other one, Willow, the redhead. She’s something different. Special. Seeing more of her would be prudent, I think. The guys. Wasn’t sure what to make of them. The suits and big plans. I don’t really think I’m a big plans kind of guy. Not right now anyway. Career? I guess I just don’t see the point of it all. Not yet. No. Everything in its time. Tomorrow I’ll talk to her I think.

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