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(Sorry just doing Buffy cause I don't know AtS quite well enough yet to be able to pull these out of my head 🙂)
Okay, so on Buffy there have been some pretty amazing entrances. The best of course are the unexpected ones that make you drop your jaw in shock, scratch your head with confusion and even cheer or laugh. So which do you consider to be the best one of all and why? I've rounded out what (I hope) is a pretty complete list of 12. I know it'll be hard choosing only one so I'll make it a multiple choice poll but try to limit yourself to 3 🙂
(in no particular order)
Giles in Two to Go:
WILLOW: And there's no one in the world with the power to stop me now.
(Suddenly a huge blast of green magic energy hits Willow from the side. She goes flying a huge distance across the room, lands on the floor and slides some more. She comes to a stop and lifts her head. Her nose is bleeding. She looks surprised, looks up in the direction the magic came from. Reveal Giles standing in the doorway, wearing a long black coat and no glasses.)
GILES: I'd like to test that theory.
Faith in Faith, Hope, & Trick:
(this whole exchange takes place while Faith is kicking some serious vampire ass, Buffy thinks she's just a girl in peril and walks up with the gang )
FAITH: It's okay, I got it. You're, uh, Buffy, right?
(more fighting...)
OZ: (to Willow) I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there's a new Slayer in town.
(Faith reaches over to Buffy for the stake and jerks it from her hand)
FAITH: Can I borrow that?
(Faith stakes him and Buffy stared confused)
FAITH: Thanks, B. Couldn't have done it without you.
(She just continues walking past them all. Buffy turns to stare after her, unsure how to react.
Faith in Dirty Girls:
(Shannon falls out of the pick-up truck and rolls across the pavement. A car driving toward her slams on its breaks. The driver, Willow, steps out and runs to the girl's side. The passenger steps out of the car and saunters toward Shannon.)
WILLOW: (to Shannon) Are you OK? Can you hear me? (rolls Shannon over) Can you talk? (to her passenger) This girl's bleeding badly. We have to get her to the hospital.
(As Willow's passenger walks forward into the light, show it's Faith standing there.)
FAITH: (unfazed) Yep. Guess I'm back in Sunnydale.
Spike & Dru in School Hard:
VAMP#1: When I kill her, it'll be the greatest event since the crucifixion. And I should know. I was there.
SPIKE: (appears behind them) *You* were *there*? (chuckles) Oh, please! If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
VAMP#1: I oughta rip your throat out.
SPIKE: (turns his back to him and strolls away) I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
(Vamp#1 rushes him from behind, and Spike swings his fist up without even looking, hitting him in the face and knocking him down and out.
SPIKE: So. Who do you kill for fun around here?
Spike in Lover's Walk:
CORDELIA: Well, I mean that in a positive way. Get out of Sunnydale. That's a good thing. What kind of moron would ever wanna come back here?
(Cut to a small park and playground that night. A classic 1958 Dodge Desoto FireFlite crashes through the 'Welcome to Sunnydale' sign and screeches to a halt. The door opens and a nearly empty liquor bottle falls out and smashes to pieces on the pavement. Spike slides off of his seat and hits the street flat on his back on top of the broken glass, drunk out of his mind. He lifts his head unsteadily and tries to raise
himself to his elbows.)
SPIKE: Home, sweet... (chuckles) home.
(He passes out and collapses back to the pavement.)
Glory in No Place Like Home:
(Suddenly, a deep boom reverberates through the factory and he looks up fearfully at the tempered steel door. The massive portal shudders as it's struck by some titanic force from outside.)
MONK: The Beast!
(The pounding continues and the steel buckles inward with each blow. The door suddenly flies into the room, taking a good portion of the surrounding wall with it. When the dust settles, GLORY, an attractive blond woman in a form-fitting red dress stands incongruously amid the rubble. She strides into the room and smiles manically at the monk who cringes in
fear.)
GLORY: There you are. I have been looking all over for you.
Angel in Faith, Hope, & Trick:
BUFFY: (quietly) Goodbye.
(Gently she places the ring on the floor.... When she's gone, the camera cuts to the ring. The picture fades to black. A moment later a bright beam of light illuminates the ring on the floor. It gets more and more intense, and the ring begins to vibrate, clinking madly against the marble. Suddenly the room is awash with a blindingly bright white light emanating from a dimensional portal opening above the ring. A body falls through and hits the stone floor hard. The light fades as the portal closes, and a naked man is left lying there. He is unsteady as he tries to get up, but he is too weak to do more than lift his face. It is Angel, looking very dazed. His breathing is shallow and labored, and he shivers violently as he looks up at the room around him.)
Angel in Bad Girls:
BALTHAZAR: You will tell us everything!
WESLEY: Yes! Sir.
BALTHAZAR: What is this friend's name?
WESLEY: (at a loss) I didn't actually catch it.
GILES: (tries to fake him out) Look, um, tell you what, let Captain Courageous here go, and I'll tell you what you need to know. How's that deal?
BALTHAZAR: THERE IS ONE DEAL! YOU WILL DIE QUICKLY, OR YOU WILL DIE SLOWLY! THE MAN WHO HAS MY AMULET! WHAT IS HIS NAAAME?!
ANGEL: (appears from offscreen) His name is Angel. (proceeds to kick butt)
Oz in New Moon Rising:
GILES: Now, I have a great deal of experience in these matters...
(We hear the door open. Buffy and Riley look toward it. Giles keeps talking)
GILES: ...and if I say there is a matter of some import brewing, I-I-
(Giles notices everyone looking behind him. He turns.)
Shot of Tara looking confused.
Shot of Willow looking shocked.
Shot of Oz in the doorway, hands in jacket pockets.
OZ: Hey.
Opening credits.
Drusilla in Crush:
SPIKE: Who's there?
A voice comes from the shadows behind him. He turns.
VOICE: A happy memory, pretty Spike.
(Drusilla walks out from the shadows, holding a red rose.)
DRUSILLA: Look who's come to make everything right again.
(Spike stares at her, astonished. She puts the rosebud against her cheek and draws it down across her face.)
Blackout.
Dawn in Buffy vs. Dracula:
BUFFY: I'm outta here. (Joyce comes onscreen, in the bedroom. Buffy moves offscreen but keeps talking) Riley and I are going to the movies.
JOYCE: Okay. Have a good time.
(Buffy goes into another room and sees the back of a girl with long brown hair.)
BUFFY: What are you *doing* here?
(The girl turns around, looks surprised, then gives Buffy a sour look. Buffy doesn't look too pleased either. Cut back to Joyce in her room, calling out.)
JOYCE: Buffy? If you're going out, why don't you take your sister?
(Cut back to the bedroom. Both girls turn to look at the doorway, looking annoyed.)
Buffy and Dawn (in unison): Mom!
Angel in End of Days
CALEB: I was kind of hoping it'd go this way. (rears back with the scythe as he stares at Buffy)
MAN (O.S.) Hey! (punches Caleb, knocking him down)
(Buffy looks up to see that it's Angel standing there having knocked Caleb down. Angel helps her to her feet.)
ANGEL: I was never much for preachers.
BUFFY: Angel.
ANGEL: You look good.
BUFFY: You look timely. And also good. (smiles)
ANGEL: Heard maybe you needed a hand.
Caleb gets to his feet. Angel starts to go help finish him off, but Buffy stops him.
ANGEL: Ah, one of those things you have to finish yourself.
BUFFY: Really kinda is.
(Angel backs toward a pillar so he can be out of the way but still see the show. Caleb walks toward Buffy.)
ANGEL: (crosses his arms, licks his lips) You are so gonna lose.
(Buffy and Caleb fight.)
ANGEL: God, I missed watching this.
(Buffy swings the scythe at Caleb, slicing his stomach. He stumbles back, laughs heartily, wags his finger at her, and falls to the floor.)
BUFFY: See? Under control.
ANGEL: Well...at least you could tell me you're glad to see me. (walks toward Buffy)
(Buffy drops the scythe to the floor and walks up to Angel, pressing herself against his body and kisses him deeply on the lips. Pan over to show Spike is in the tomb as well, hiding behind the pillar, watching them. Buffy/First is beside him, whispering in his ear.)
BUFFY/FIRST: That bitch.
*Transcripts taken from here.
Okay, so on Buffy there have been some pretty amazing entrances. The best of course are the unexpected ones that make you drop your jaw in shock, scratch your head with confusion and even cheer or laugh. So which do you consider to be the best one of all and why? I've rounded out what (I hope) is a pretty complete list of 12. I know it'll be hard choosing only one so I'll make it a multiple choice poll but try to limit yourself to 3 🙂
(in no particular order)
Giles in Two to Go:
WILLOW: And there's no one in the world with the power to stop me now.
(Suddenly a huge blast of green magic energy hits Willow from the side. She goes flying a huge distance across the room, lands on the floor and slides some more. She comes to a stop and lifts her head. Her nose is bleeding. She looks surprised, looks up in the direction the magic came from. Reveal Giles standing in the doorway, wearing a long black coat and no glasses.)
GILES: I'd like to test that theory.
Faith in Faith, Hope, & Trick:
(this whole exchange takes place while Faith is kicking some serious vampire ass, Buffy thinks she's just a girl in peril and walks up with the gang )
FAITH: It's okay, I got it. You're, uh, Buffy, right?
(more fighting...)
OZ: (to Willow) I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there's a new Slayer in town.
(Faith reaches over to Buffy for the stake and jerks it from her hand)
FAITH: Can I borrow that?
(Faith stakes him and Buffy stared confused)
FAITH: Thanks, B. Couldn't have done it without you.
(She just continues walking past them all. Buffy turns to stare after her, unsure how to react.
Faith in Dirty Girls:
(Shannon falls out of the pick-up truck and rolls across the pavement. A car driving toward her slams on its breaks. The driver, Willow, steps out and runs to the girl's side. The passenger steps out of the car and saunters toward Shannon.)
WILLOW: (to Shannon) Are you OK? Can you hear me? (rolls Shannon over) Can you talk? (to her passenger) This girl's bleeding badly. We have to get her to the hospital.
(As Willow's passenger walks forward into the light, show it's Faith standing there.)
FAITH: (unfazed) Yep. Guess I'm back in Sunnydale.
Spike & Dru in School Hard:
VAMP#1: When I kill her, it'll be the greatest event since the crucifixion. And I should know. I was there.
SPIKE: (appears behind them) *You* were *there*? (chuckles) Oh, please! If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
VAMP#1: I oughta rip your throat out.
SPIKE: (turns his back to him and strolls away) I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
(Vamp#1 rushes him from behind, and Spike swings his fist up without even looking, hitting him in the face and knocking him down and out.
SPIKE: So. Who do you kill for fun around here?
Spike in Lover's Walk:
CORDELIA: Well, I mean that in a positive way. Get out of Sunnydale. That's a good thing. What kind of moron would ever wanna come back here?
(Cut to a small park and playground that night. A classic 1958 Dodge Desoto FireFlite crashes through the 'Welcome to Sunnydale' sign and screeches to a halt. The door opens and a nearly empty liquor bottle falls out and smashes to pieces on the pavement. Spike slides off of his seat and hits the street flat on his back on top of the broken glass, drunk out of his mind. He lifts his head unsteadily and tries to raise
himself to his elbows.)
SPIKE: Home, sweet... (chuckles) home.
(He passes out and collapses back to the pavement.)
Glory in No Place Like Home:
(Suddenly, a deep boom reverberates through the factory and he looks up fearfully at the tempered steel door. The massive portal shudders as it's struck by some titanic force from outside.)
MONK: The Beast!
(The pounding continues and the steel buckles inward with each blow. The door suddenly flies into the room, taking a good portion of the surrounding wall with it. When the dust settles, GLORY, an attractive blond woman in a form-fitting red dress stands incongruously amid the rubble. She strides into the room and smiles manically at the monk who cringes in
fear.)
GLORY: There you are. I have been looking all over for you.
Angel in Faith, Hope, & Trick:
BUFFY: (quietly) Goodbye.
(Gently she places the ring on the floor.... When she's gone, the camera cuts to the ring. The picture fades to black. A moment later a bright beam of light illuminates the ring on the floor. It gets more and more intense, and the ring begins to vibrate, clinking madly against the marble. Suddenly the room is awash with a blindingly bright white light emanating from a dimensional portal opening above the ring. A body falls through and hits the stone floor hard. The light fades as the portal closes, and a naked man is left lying there. He is unsteady as he tries to get up, but he is too weak to do more than lift his face. It is Angel, looking very dazed. His breathing is shallow and labored, and he shivers violently as he looks up at the room around him.)
Angel in Bad Girls:
BALTHAZAR: You will tell us everything!
WESLEY: Yes! Sir.
BALTHAZAR: What is this friend's name?
WESLEY: (at a loss) I didn't actually catch it.
GILES: (tries to fake him out) Look, um, tell you what, let Captain Courageous here go, and I'll tell you what you need to know. How's that deal?
BALTHAZAR: THERE IS ONE DEAL! YOU WILL DIE QUICKLY, OR YOU WILL DIE SLOWLY! THE MAN WHO HAS MY AMULET! WHAT IS HIS NAAAME?!
ANGEL: (appears from offscreen) His name is Angel. (proceeds to kick butt)
Oz in New Moon Rising:
GILES: Now, I have a great deal of experience in these matters...
(We hear the door open. Buffy and Riley look toward it. Giles keeps talking)
GILES: ...and if I say there is a matter of some import brewing, I-I-
(Giles notices everyone looking behind him. He turns.)
Shot of Tara looking confused.
Shot of Willow looking shocked.
Shot of Oz in the doorway, hands in jacket pockets.
OZ: Hey.
Opening credits.
Drusilla in Crush:
SPIKE: Who's there?
A voice comes from the shadows behind him. He turns.
VOICE: A happy memory, pretty Spike.
(Drusilla walks out from the shadows, holding a red rose.)
DRUSILLA: Look who's come to make everything right again.
(Spike stares at her, astonished. She puts the rosebud against her cheek and draws it down across her face.)
Blackout.
Dawn in Buffy vs. Dracula:
BUFFY: I'm outta here. (Joyce comes onscreen, in the bedroom. Buffy moves offscreen but keeps talking) Riley and I are going to the movies.
JOYCE: Okay. Have a good time.
(Buffy goes into another room and sees the back of a girl with long brown hair.)
BUFFY: What are you *doing* here?
(The girl turns around, looks surprised, then gives Buffy a sour look. Buffy doesn't look too pleased either. Cut back to Joyce in her room, calling out.)
JOYCE: Buffy? If you're going out, why don't you take your sister?
(Cut back to the bedroom. Both girls turn to look at the doorway, looking annoyed.)
Buffy and Dawn (in unison): Mom!
Angel in End of Days
CALEB: I was kind of hoping it'd go this way. (rears back with the scythe as he stares at Buffy)
MAN (O.S.) Hey! (punches Caleb, knocking him down)
(Buffy looks up to see that it's Angel standing there having knocked Caleb down. Angel helps her to her feet.)
ANGEL: I was never much for preachers.
BUFFY: Angel.
ANGEL: You look good.
BUFFY: You look timely. And also good. (smiles)
ANGEL: Heard maybe you needed a hand.
Caleb gets to his feet. Angel starts to go help finish him off, but Buffy stops him.
ANGEL: Ah, one of those things you have to finish yourself.
BUFFY: Really kinda is.
(Angel backs toward a pillar so he can be out of the way but still see the show. Caleb walks toward Buffy.)
ANGEL: (crosses his arms, licks his lips) You are so gonna lose.
(Buffy and Caleb fight.)
ANGEL: God, I missed watching this.
(Buffy swings the scythe at Caleb, slicing his stomach. He stumbles back, laughs heartily, wags his finger at her, and falls to the floor.)
BUFFY: See? Under control.
ANGEL: Well...at least you could tell me you're glad to see me. (walks toward Buffy)
(Buffy drops the scythe to the floor and walks up to Angel, pressing herself against his body and kisses him deeply on the lips. Pan over to show Spike is in the tomb as well, hiding behind the pillar, watching them. Buffy/First is beside him, whispering in his ear.)
BUFFY/FIRST: That bitch.
*Transcripts taken from here.
