Buffy - Season 4 impressions (episode 18)
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thalia_seawoodWhere The Wild Things Are
For a summary click here.
Considering that this episode deals mostly with sex I'm surprised it was aired at all. :-) Plotwise not an impressive episode, it nevertheless has some great character interaction.
- Buffy/Riley
Nice to see they have made up again. :-)
Liked the look they give one another before the credits start rolling.
- Anya/Xander
Anya is just so worried their relationship will end, because they haven't had sex twice. Heh.
ANYA: I don't understand. I'm pretty, I'm young... I mean... (stands up, walks closer) Why didn't you take advantage of me? Is something wrong with your body?
XANDER: (getting mad) There's nothing wrong with my body.
ANYA: Well, there must be. I saw that wrinkled man on TV talking about erectile dysfunction-
XANDER: Whoa! Hey. (Chuckles nervously) All systems go here. (Gesturing at his crotch) No function problem, okay?
(Anya looks skeptical)
XANDER: (claps his hands, starts unbuttoning his shirt) You want sex? Let's have sex. Right here. Hot, sweaty, big sex.
(Camera angle changes so we see into the truck from the perspective of the customer window in the side of the truck. Xander's hands stop moving. His and Anya's heads turn together.)
(Shot of a group of kids and parents staring up at them.)
Their row in the middle of the party made me smile. You just can't take them seriously when they yell at one another from this enormous distance.
XANDER: (yells across the room) I'm having fun already!
ANYA: (yells) Me too! (Unhappy face) Woo hoo! (Turns and stalks off)
Liked it that they fight side by side in the end and that Anya rescues Xander from drowning.
- Funny comment:
WILLOW: So ... what brought these two [demons and vampires] together?
RILEY: Not what. Who.
GILES: (realizing) Adam. (Pulls off his glasses)
BUFFY: Think about it. Who better to bring together a bunch of ... demon types than someone who's made out of a ... bunch of demon types?
TARA: So he's, um, bridging the gap between the races.
WILLOW: Huh, like Martin Luther King.
- How did they get a way with this scene? Apparently the guys from censurship have no clue about naughty double meanings...
RILEY: Buffy, hey, look at the time. Don't you, uh, have a class?
BUFFY: Yeah, in about 20 minutes.
RILEY: Yeah, but ... I have that ... thing... (Buffy gets it)
BUFFY: Right, that ... thing, we could ... squeeze in ... before.
RILEY: Yeah.
- Loved all interaction between Spike and Anya. My favorite is when they form the selfhelp group. :-)
ANYA VOICEOVER: Boy, I miss those powers.
(Cut to Anya and Spike sitting on a couch at the Bronze, holding beers and looking morose. Spike has his arm along the top of the couch, almost touching her.)
SPIKE: Yeah, tell me about it.
ANYA: A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. (Sighs) Things used to be so much simpler.
SPIKE: (wistfully) You know ... you take the killing for granted. (Anya nods nostalgically.) And then it's gone, and you're like, "I wish I'd appreciated it more." Stopped and smelled the corpses, you know?
ANYA: Yeah. Now everything's complicated.
SPIKE: It's a terrible thing, love is. I been there myself. (Pause) It ended badly.
ANYA: Of course it did. It always does. Seen a thousand relationships. First there's the love, and sex, and then there's nothing left but the vengeance. That's how it works.
(Spike smiles, leans in really close.)
SPIKE: You and I ... should just go do the vengeance. Both of us! You eviscerate Xander, and I'll stake Dru. Like a project.
(Anya looks tempted.)
ANYA: I don't know. I just can't. (Sighs)
(Spike looks resigned. He takes his arm down.)
ANYA: (encouraging) You can go do Dru though.
SPIKE: (nods) Yeah. I will. (Sits still for a moment) Maybe later.
(Anya smiles. They sit together quietly.)
- So Willow has discovered she wants more from Tara than just friendship. Hmmm. Tara's hostile reaction is most certainly triggered by the feelings she picks up from the poltergeist. After all these children have been taught to see sex as something disgusting.
- Spike *not* helping cracked me up. Scoobies, what did you expect? He made it abundantly clear he hates you.
XANDER: [...] Now who's with me?
(Willow and Tara hesitate.)
SPIKE: I am.
(Everyone looks at Spike in surprise.)
SPIKE: I know I'm not the first choice for heroics ... (drops his cigarette and grinds it out with his foot) and Buffy's tried to kill me more than once. And, I don't fancy a single one of you at all. But... (pauses) Actually, all that sounds pretty convincing. (Frowns, shakes his head and walks away.) I wonder if Danger Mouse is on.
- Giles singing and playing the guitar in the Espresso bar. Nice. :-))
For a summary click here.
Considering that this episode deals mostly with sex I'm surprised it was aired at all. :-) Plotwise not an impressive episode, it nevertheless has some great character interaction.
- Buffy/Riley
Nice to see they have made up again. :-)
Liked the look they give one another before the credits start rolling.
- Anya/Xander
Anya is just so worried their relationship will end, because they haven't had sex twice. Heh.
ANYA: I don't understand. I'm pretty, I'm young... I mean... (stands up, walks closer) Why didn't you take advantage of me? Is something wrong with your body?
XANDER: (getting mad) There's nothing wrong with my body.
ANYA: Well, there must be. I saw that wrinkled man on TV talking about erectile dysfunction-
XANDER: Whoa! Hey. (Chuckles nervously) All systems go here. (Gesturing at his crotch) No function problem, okay?
(Anya looks skeptical)
XANDER: (claps his hands, starts unbuttoning his shirt) You want sex? Let's have sex. Right here. Hot, sweaty, big sex.
(Camera angle changes so we see into the truck from the perspective of the customer window in the side of the truck. Xander's hands stop moving. His and Anya's heads turn together.)
(Shot of a group of kids and parents staring up at them.)
Their row in the middle of the party made me smile. You just can't take them seriously when they yell at one another from this enormous distance.
XANDER: (yells across the room) I'm having fun already!
ANYA: (yells) Me too! (Unhappy face) Woo hoo! (Turns and stalks off)
Liked it that they fight side by side in the end and that Anya rescues Xander from drowning.
- Funny comment:
WILLOW: So ... what brought these two [demons and vampires] together?
RILEY: Not what. Who.
GILES: (realizing) Adam. (Pulls off his glasses)
BUFFY: Think about it. Who better to bring together a bunch of ... demon types than someone who's made out of a ... bunch of demon types?
TARA: So he's, um, bridging the gap between the races.
WILLOW: Huh, like Martin Luther King.
- How did they get a way with this scene? Apparently the guys from censurship have no clue about naughty double meanings...
RILEY: Buffy, hey, look at the time. Don't you, uh, have a class?
BUFFY: Yeah, in about 20 minutes.
RILEY: Yeah, but ... I have that ... thing... (Buffy gets it)
BUFFY: Right, that ... thing, we could ... squeeze in ... before.
RILEY: Yeah.
- Loved all interaction between Spike and Anya. My favorite is when they form the selfhelp group. :-)
ANYA VOICEOVER: Boy, I miss those powers.
(Cut to Anya and Spike sitting on a couch at the Bronze, holding beers and looking morose. Spike has his arm along the top of the couch, almost touching her.)
SPIKE: Yeah, tell me about it.
ANYA: A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. (Sighs) Things used to be so much simpler.
SPIKE: (wistfully) You know ... you take the killing for granted. (Anya nods nostalgically.) And then it's gone, and you're like, "I wish I'd appreciated it more." Stopped and smelled the corpses, you know?
ANYA: Yeah. Now everything's complicated.
SPIKE: It's a terrible thing, love is. I been there myself. (Pause) It ended badly.
ANYA: Of course it did. It always does. Seen a thousand relationships. First there's the love, and sex, and then there's nothing left but the vengeance. That's how it works.
(Spike smiles, leans in really close.)
SPIKE: You and I ... should just go do the vengeance. Both of us! You eviscerate Xander, and I'll stake Dru. Like a project.
(Anya looks tempted.)
ANYA: I don't know. I just can't. (Sighs)
(Spike looks resigned. He takes his arm down.)
ANYA: (encouraging) You can go do Dru though.
SPIKE: (nods) Yeah. I will. (Sits still for a moment) Maybe later.
(Anya smiles. They sit together quietly.)
- So Willow has discovered she wants more from Tara than just friendship. Hmmm. Tara's hostile reaction is most certainly triggered by the feelings she picks up from the poltergeist. After all these children have been taught to see sex as something disgusting.
- Spike *not* helping cracked me up. Scoobies, what did you expect? He made it abundantly clear he hates you.
XANDER: [...] Now who's with me?
(Willow and Tara hesitate.)
SPIKE: I am.
(Everyone looks at Spike in surprise.)
SPIKE: I know I'm not the first choice for heroics ... (drops his cigarette and grinds it out with his foot) and Buffy's tried to kill me more than once. And, I don't fancy a single one of you at all. But... (pauses) Actually, all that sounds pretty convincing. (Frowns, shakes his head and walks away.) I wonder if Danger Mouse is on.
- Giles singing and playing the guitar in the Espresso bar. Nice. :-))
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Date: 2005-11-27 08:57 pm (UTC)Spike & Anya definitely have the best parts of this ep -- I particularly love Spike leaving.
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Date: 2005-11-30 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-07 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-12 10:11 am (UTC)Not so much because of the title, but whenever I checked it out there was this blonde chick fighting fake looking monsters. (One of the bits I saw was e.g. the monster from Double Meat Palace. *g*) Add to this a not very impressive synchronisation to German; the German titles sound ultra cheesy, too. The show was also aired in the afternoon - when I was mostly at university or at work.
Am very glad
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Date: 2006-03-13 02:09 am (UTC)Joss' work is shiny, isn't it?
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Date: 2006-03-19 09:18 am (UTC)And even the very mediocre episodes you listed have some delightful moments, e.g. the cheerleader scenes in The Witch.