From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V2 #38 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Friday, February 18 2000 Volume 02 : Number 038 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: b/goodbyeiowa [Micole Sudberg ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 08:19:15 -0500 From: Micole Sudberg Subject: Re: b/goodbyeiowa At 11:20 PM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote: >[THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] > > > > > > > > > > > > > >...which, by the way, is a publishing production joke; they actually >print that in proofs on blank pages, just to make sure that they >haven't dropped a page (something I once did!) > >I'm doing this not only for Meredith, hi Meredith, but for those >West Coasters who may well be online, but as of now are =just= >turning on to see the episode. > >All you who had a bad feeling about the vitamins, pat yourselves on >the back. > >I patted myself on the back, the scene before it became obvious, for >noticing Something Odd about Riley scratching his hand (though it >may well have been because they used the same trope to indicate >Something Odd with Buffy in "Earshot"). But the second time through >(yes, I've already watched it twice...) Riley is already scratching >his hand, a little, in the first scene he shows up at Giles' place. >Insidious s.o.b.s, those writers. > >(Is it obvious already I really enjoyed this episode?) > >Kudos to Marc Blucas, whom I've doubted in the past; they handed him >a whopping lot to do in this episode, and he brought it all off >splendidly. The Buffy/Riley scenes were all good (of =course= he'd A minor note: he does that sweaty feverish agony thing *much* more convincingly than David Boreanz. Life is hard for a Buffy-boy. >I thought for a minute that the wizened corpse in the tomb (the >Demon Prince?) was going to rise. Just to make things more >complicated. Me too. And it would have tied in nicely with some of the things from "A New Man"; or was that a different crypt? >Interesting subplot with Spike and the demons. Where's =that= going? I'm more interested in: Where did it come from? We've seen demons savage and kill other demons in the past. Attacking Spike for hanging with the Slayer and being a race-traitor I can believe; but where did the Code of Honor among Thieves ("Demons don't kill other demons") come from? >And =what= is up with Tara sabotaging the spell??? My two theories: (1) [mentioned by others] Tara's some kind of demon, or half-demon. Which we know from Doyle, and Anya, and many developments on Angel, doesn't necessarily mean she's evil. We also know humans can become demons, cf. Anya and the offer made to Willow in "Something Blue". So that offers some interesting possibilities for Tara's background as well. (2) Her mother, whom she's called "very powerful", is the Goddess Thespia, and Tara doesn't want to attract her attention just now. Which would raise interesting possibilities for *Willow*, since Tara thinks she's very powerful. >A good giggle with the sushi pajamas riff. And also the dumb-blonde >attack. I liked the dumb-blonde line better, because I didn't see it coming. >(Why =is= the episode called "Goodby Iowa," anyway? They =aren't= going to >kill of Riley, too, are they??) It's goodbye safety, family, security, and surety. The way "Becoming II" is "Goodbye Sunnydale" for Buffy. Though Sunnydale wasn't exactly a haven of calm and peace, of course. >...since they have other fish to fry. Namely Faith. I can hardly >express how hard it's going to be to wait until next week. What a >shot of adrenaline Faith'll give the show. (As if things aren't >hopping now!) You do know it's another two-parter, right? - --m. - -- "It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting 'Cathy' and banging your head against a tree."--Helen Fielding, =Bridget Jones's Diary= ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V2 #38 ****************************