From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V2 #74 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Wednesday, April 5 2000 Volume 02 : Number 074 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Brendon Live! [GHighPine@aol.com] b/superstar ["Donald G. Keller" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:54:29 EDT From: GHighPine@aol.com Subject: Re: Brendon Live! In a message dated 4/3/00 9:32:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 104076.2724@compuserve.com writes: << 2) Seth Green will be returning for an episode or two, but that's it; he's not coming back to the show permanently. >> Does "that's it" mean no more guest shots after an ep or two? Hm. In that case, speculation time... if he's not going to come back even more more guest appearances, good chance he will get killed. So how? Well, there seems to be potential for tying this into the Initiative arc. If the Initiative is responsible for killing him, then that could up the stakes in the Initiative / Scooby conflict. I would guess that they might possibly kill him accidentally -- it's been established that they don't know what werewolves are, so maybe they capture him in werewolf form, and while they are experimenting on him, he turns back into a human, and in human form he is too fragile to survive the experimenting. We know he is (spoiler space? coming back for the Willow/Tara ep, but "an episode or TWO" suggests. well, more than one episode. If we assume "an episode or two" means two episodes, that means that he does not die in the Willow/Tara ep and survives for at least one more ep. My guess is the vagueness of "an episode or two" could mean that either a) SG's second appearance has not yet been filmed but NB has some vague impression that they will be filming with SG, or else b) that SG has little screen time in his second appearance and shares few if any scenes with NB, meaning that they crossed paths little or not at all and leaving NB with a vague impression of how many weeks SG was there. At this point, if there are any eps not yet filmed, it would be the season finale. So if a) is true, that would mean that SG appears in the season finale. This would suggest that my speculation that Oz dies at the hands of the Initiative and ups the stakes that way is wrong. If he dies, then, it might be in a climactic battle. (Possibly this plays a part in the denouement ep.) If b) is true, though, that would strengthen my speculation. SG would need little screen time to die at the hands of the Initiative. Oh, I forgot about Adam (who is IMO very forgettable). He has to do something interesting sometime, and maybe he will have an encounter with a werewolf that will be fatal to the werewolf. All this is speculation, though, since Oz might not be planning to die at all. But we haven't lost any regular or semi-regular characters in quite a while..... Gayle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:36:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: b/superstar Once through the new episode (baseball season is here, and I'm watching the Yankee game from the West Coast), so fairly brief comments for now: Danny Strong was terrific. (But boy is he short! SMG in heels is taller!) And wasn't it a kick to have all those clips of him all through the credits? Laughed a lot at the spy-show music. (And the swing music! Very clever.) But a pretty fluffy episode (a "silly hair" episode). Curious that Anya got hung up on shrimp and =didn't= blurt out the alternate world that actually =did= happen (bet she does remember) So the prediction was right, it was an alternate reality created by Jonathan, but by a spell (which makes more sense in Buffyland). It was really eerie (like "The Wish") in that it was hard to figure out what was a continuation of baseline reality and what was alternate. Good job there. Really odd that Adam knew it was a sham. But some useful information about his nature and what it will take to destroy him. (Nuclear accident?) Not quite enough time spent on the "dark double" aspect...and the Buffy/Riley problem got solved a little easily. I'm getting glimmerings, though, that another time or two through and parallels with other episodes/situations will suggest themselves and more meaningfulness will emerge. I thought that was one of the best =Angel= episodes of the season: real tension between Angel and Rebecca, escalating into a Situation (are we going to get tired of Just Kidding! variations, though?) One I'll watch again. More weeks to wait... ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V2 #74 ****************************