More Tuesday Night TV
Nov. 27th, 2002 02:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosBuffy. I didn't want to slap anyone nearly as much.
I enjoyed this week's episode: yay Buffy with plot that makes some sense! Yes, it was predictable, and yes, any more Spike and Buffy "I know you" scenes and I would have rolled my eyes. Even more. But still, pretty fun.
Andrew pretending to be a big bad. FABulous. And Giles may not have been in the episode, but there were indications that he's important, which means maybe more scenes than boring that Dumbledore stuff at the beginning of the season. Maybe we'll actually have Gilesy goodness.
The cut to Principal Wood in his office towards the end of the episode was nervewracking for me. He's a fun character. And a black guy who doesn't seem to be evil or dead. As I was watching him walk down the halls, I was all "oh no! I recognize this cinematography! he's either going to be jumped by something or we're going to find out something bad about him! I really, really, really hope he doesn't become evil or dead." Then he turned out to just be morally ambiguous: burying Jonathan isn't exactly evil, and he didn't summon a big bad or anything. So no definite "I'm evil" moments as yet, as far as I'm concerned, and I'm just going to put my hands over my ears and sing "lalala I can't hear you" at those who think his action tonight is a marker of evilness. He might be a watcher, cleaning up after the usual stuff, since he seems to know something about evil and Sunnydale, although the watchers don't seem to have time for that kind of thing these days. Or maybe he could be a friend of Giles' in the secret not-Watcher society, doing Giles a favor by keeping tabs on his Slayer, since Giles is so worried about Buffy's codependence that he can't. Yes. I like that option. Because I like Giles. That way Giles isn't a deserter and he's got someone making sure Season 6 doesn't happen again. I am also very much in favor of season 6 not happening again. Also, this would explain where the strange and inexplicable extra money came from in a California public school: Giles is taking care of his slayer, but giving her her independence and letting her make her own choices at the same time.
The First Evil, huh? Innnnnteresting. We were all thinking we had to be wrong, and they'd do something much more subtle. We were all "okay, shapeshifting, back to the beginning, okay, but that's all got to be a subtle ruse." Plus, this big bad doesn't perfectly match the first evil -- subtle hints that it isn't, or forgotten plot stuff from season 2, like Anya's necklace? You be the judge. I still want to know where they summoned this mother.
And the Harbingers don't match the Harbingers of "Amends."
Giles: Um, they're known as the Bringers or Harbingers. They're high priests of The First. They can conjure spirit manifestations and set them on people, influence them, haunt them. and For they are the Harbingers of death. Nothing shall grow above or below them.
Where's the dead foliage, I ask.
Also, this First Evil isn't managing quite as well as the First Evil in season 2. I mean, S2FE convinced Angel to kill himself in about .3 seconds. This one can't convince Spike to consistently do anything, even with sleeper songs. And S2FE didn't use sleeper songs or programming or anything...
Also, the snow in "Amends" was pretty clearly implied to be the work of some higher powers. So where the hell are they, eh? If this is the First Evil being the little devil on Spike's shoulder, where're the snow-making dudes? I ask you.
It seems a little inconsistent to me, still, so I'm just wondering if maybe the Council and Buffy are both wrong and the Evil is maybe just the Second, but really trying to be First, or something. OTOH, both of these Big Bads seem to be able to only look like those who have died at some point...
Maybe I'll have to go watch "Amends" again. Pfui. No me gusta.
Big Bad vampire. Blah blah. Looks like the Master -- JW said he thought older vampires would be sorta animalistic, so that's making of the sense, except that the only non-Master older vampire we've seen looked like a different animal. Goat, I think. Why's this one look like the Master, then?
And: Spike knows Tucker, not Andrew? Sorry, they're reaching too far for that running gag. Also, running withdrawal moments. Magic: no longer sex, now a drug. Human blood: also, now a drug. Oy.
Don't get the whole new Spike as sexual predator liking-to-hear-them-scream deal. He bitched at Angel for dragging out the torture, and seemed to be into the fight for the thrill, for the chance that he might lose, not for the torture. There were some moments in "Lover's Walk" that maybe contradicted that, or maybe continued his violence-as-good-as-sex thing. Hard to know. Anyway, maybe that was Spike trying to convince Buffy to kill him, since we got no hint that he did those things when being all Big Bad these past few weeks. Hmmmm.
I enjoyed this week's episode: yay Buffy with plot that makes some sense! Yes, it was predictable, and yes, any more Spike and Buffy "I know you" scenes and I would have rolled my eyes. Even more.
Andrew pretending to be a big bad. FABulous. And Giles may not have been in the episode, but there were indications that he's important, which means maybe more scenes than boring that Dumbledore stuff at the beginning of the season. Maybe we'll actually have Gilesy goodness.
The cut to Principal Wood in his office towards the end of the episode was nervewracking for me. He's a fun character. And a black guy who doesn't seem to be evil or dead. As I was watching him walk down the halls, I was all "oh no! I recognize this cinematography! he's either going to be jumped by something or we're going to find out something bad about him! I really, really, really hope he doesn't become evil or dead." Then he turned out to just be morally ambiguous: burying Jonathan isn't exactly evil, and he didn't summon a big bad or anything. So no definite "I'm evil" moments as yet, as far as I'm concerned, and I'm just going to put my hands over my ears and sing "lalala I can't hear you" at those who think his action tonight is a marker of evilness. He might be a watcher, cleaning up after the usual stuff, since he seems to know something about evil and Sunnydale, although the watchers don't seem to have time for that kind of thing these days. Or maybe he could be a friend of Giles' in the secret not-Watcher society, doing Giles a favor by keeping tabs on his Slayer, since Giles is so worried about Buffy's codependence that he can't. Yes. I like that option. Because I like Giles.
The First Evil, huh? Innnnnteresting. We were all thinking we had to be wrong, and they'd do something much more subtle. We were all "okay, shapeshifting, back to the beginning, okay, but that's all got to be a subtle ruse." Plus, this big bad doesn't perfectly match the first evil -- subtle hints that it isn't, or forgotten plot stuff from season 2, like Anya's necklace? You be the judge. I still want to know where they summoned this mother.
And the Harbingers don't match the Harbingers of "Amends."
Giles: Um, they're known as the Bringers or Harbingers. They're high priests of The First. They can conjure spirit manifestations and set them on people, influence them, haunt them. and For they are the Harbingers of death. Nothing shall grow above or below them.
Where's the dead foliage, I ask.
Also, this First Evil isn't managing quite as well as the First Evil in season 2. I mean, S2FE convinced Angel to kill himself in about .3 seconds. This one can't convince Spike to consistently do anything, even with sleeper songs. And S2FE didn't use sleeper songs or programming or anything...
Also, the snow in "Amends" was pretty clearly implied to be the work of some higher powers. So where the hell are they, eh? If this is the First Evil being the little devil on Spike's shoulder, where're the snow-making dudes? I ask you.
It seems a little inconsistent to me, still, so I'm just wondering if maybe the Council and Buffy are both wrong and the Evil is maybe just the Second, but really trying to be First, or something. OTOH, both of these Big Bads seem to be able to only look like those who have died at some point...
Maybe I'll have to go watch "Amends" again. Pfui. No me gusta.
Big Bad vampire. Blah blah. Looks like the Master -- JW said he thought older vampires would be sorta animalistic, so that's making of the sense, except that the only non-Master older vampire we've seen looked like a different animal. Goat, I think. Why's this one look like the Master, then?
And: Spike knows Tucker, not Andrew? Sorry, they're reaching too far for that running gag. Also, running withdrawal moments. Magic: no longer sex, now a drug. Human blood: also, now a drug. Oy.
Don't get the whole new Spike as sexual predator liking-to-hear-them-scream deal. He bitched at Angel for dragging out the torture, and seemed to be into the fight for the thrill, for the chance that he might lose, not for the torture. There were some moments in "Lover's Walk" that maybe contradicted that, or maybe continued his violence-as-good-as-sex thing. Hard to know. Anyway, maybe that was Spike trying to convince Buffy to kill him, since we got no hint that he did those things when being all Big Bad these past few weeks. Hmmmm.
