Choices
The Good;
Buffy does a heist movie. Some clever foreshadowing of events to come and some good strategising on the part of the gang, taking the offensive for once. The Faith and Willow showdown and Oz shows his love in a suitably taciturn manner. Love the diagram Willow makes of Oz and Xander, distinguishable by stick-figure Oz having a guitar.
The Bad;
The creatures in the box look a bit ropey, Buffy takes 'inspiration' from Aliens not for the first time and not for the last.
Best line;
Willow; "Sounds like your mom's in a state of denial"
Buffy; "More like a continent"
Wheldon Cliches;
Character death;
Faith kills another human/demon? SDH loses another staff member, this time one of the security guards.
Shot;
No but Faith kills the courier with her bow from Bad Girls.
Tied up;
Buffy get's tangled in the wires, Willow gets captured but not tied up.
Knocked out;
Women good/men bad;
Cordy seems unnecessarily snarky about Willows acceptence from the universties but we'll understand more about that later.
Jeez!;
Poor old security guard, what a way to go! Was I the only one who took a few seconds to comprehend what Faith meant by her 'cut through bone ' remark?
Kinky dinky;
Calling Captain Subtext;
The Faith/Willow showdown has a lot of the elements of two jealous lovers fighting over their shared object of desire. The Buffy and Willow rolling around on the ground at the end telling one another they love them is a slashficcer's dream.
Guantanamo Bay;
Buffy beats up and interrogates the Mayor's limo driver before 'introducing him to Mr Pointy'. A tough call with the trade for Willow, if they had not gone through with it, Larry, Snyder, the Professor Faith kills, Harmony etc might never have died.
Scoobies to the ER;
Where's Dawn?
How does she feel about Buffy going away to university? Happy to have more time to herself in the bathroom or will she miss not having her big sis around the place?
What the fanficcers though?
Instead of fighting Buffy seduces The Mayor into giving up evil; Birthdate Verification Page
Questions and observations;
Good ep, carrying the central storyline forwards whilst also accepting that life goes on outside the Hellmouth. The first time that most of the Scooby gang actually meet the Mayor. Cordy working in the shop is a shocker and no mistake. Joyce calls Buffy's Aunt Arlene, is she Joyce's sister or Hanks? Is she the mother of cousin Celia from 'Killed by Death'? The Mayor's comments on Buffy and Angel are true and Joyce will say pretty much the same in the next episode. First appearance of Faith's knife which looks like something the Klingons would use on Star Trek.
Marks out of 10; 6/10
The Good;
Buffy does a heist movie. Some clever foreshadowing of events to come and some good strategising on the part of the gang, taking the offensive for once. The Faith and Willow showdown and Oz shows his love in a suitably taciturn manner. Love the diagram Willow makes of Oz and Xander, distinguishable by stick-figure Oz having a guitar.
The Bad;
The creatures in the box look a bit ropey, Buffy takes 'inspiration' from Aliens not for the first time and not for the last.
Best line;
Willow; "Sounds like your mom's in a state of denial"
Buffy; "More like a continent"
Wheldon Cliches;
Character death;
Faith kills another human/demon? SDH loses another staff member, this time one of the security guards.
Shot;
No but Faith kills the courier with her bow from Bad Girls.
Tied up;
Buffy get's tangled in the wires, Willow gets captured but not tied up.
Knocked out;
Women good/men bad;
Cordy seems unnecessarily snarky about Willows acceptence from the universties but we'll understand more about that later.
Jeez!;
Poor old security guard, what a way to go! Was I the only one who took a few seconds to comprehend what Faith meant by her 'cut through bone ' remark?
Kinky dinky;
Calling Captain Subtext;
The Faith/Willow showdown has a lot of the elements of two jealous lovers fighting over their shared object of desire. The Buffy and Willow rolling around on the ground at the end telling one another they love them is a slashficcer's dream.
Guantanamo Bay;
Buffy beats up and interrogates the Mayor's limo driver before 'introducing him to Mr Pointy'. A tough call with the trade for Willow, if they had not gone through with it, Larry, Snyder, the Professor Faith kills, Harmony etc might never have died.
Scoobies to the ER;
Where's Dawn?
How does she feel about Buffy going away to university? Happy to have more time to herself in the bathroom or will she miss not having her big sis around the place?
What the fanficcers though?
Instead of fighting Buffy seduces The Mayor into giving up evil; Birthdate Verification Page
Questions and observations;
Good ep, carrying the central storyline forwards whilst also accepting that life goes on outside the Hellmouth. The first time that most of the Scooby gang actually meet the Mayor. Cordy working in the shop is a shocker and no mistake. Joyce calls Buffy's Aunt Arlene, is she Joyce's sister or Hanks? Is she the mother of cousin Celia from 'Killed by Death'? The Mayor's comments on Buffy and Angel are true and Joyce will say pretty much the same in the next episode. First appearance of Faith's knife which looks like something the Klingons would use on Star Trek.
Marks out of 10; 6/10
