From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V2 #211 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Friday, November 10 2000 Volume 02 : Number 211 Today's Subjects: ----------------- b/family [meredith ] Re: b/family ["David S. Bratman" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:14:13 -0500 From: meredith Subject: b/family Hi! Spoiler space!!! Well, that was somewhat of a disappointment. Though I think no matter what they did, the way things were set up I would have been disappointed. So Tara's not a demon, she just *thought* she was. And YET, if Tara *had* turned out to be a demon, I would've been upset -- how could they do that to Willow again?! However, I am glad to note that Tara appears to have been brought into the fold. The whole thing with the confrontation in the magic shop was rather abrupt (if I were Buffy I would've stayed pissed at her for a LONG time), but very cool. The bookend scenes with Tara & Willow were big on the factor. They really are cute together. By far my favorite scene was Spike's fantasy. The minute it started I *knew* Spike was dreaming again, and by the end of it I was positively HOWLING with laughter. The choreography (and it was that, too) was brilliantly hilarious. And Anya! How do I love thee, Anya? Let me count the ways. "SOME of us even turn out to be productive members of society!" "No. I just want to do the money stuff." And of course, the priceless whisper to Xander: "Thank you for your patronage." Did anyone notice Dawn's birthday gift to Tara? One wonders how long it's going to be before Buffy lets Riley in on her little secret. And now that Riley is hanging out at the demon bar, what does that mean for him? +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 02:06:06 -0500 (EST) From: "David S. Bratman" Subject: Re: b/family Berni said, "We watch 'Buffy' and 'Angel', not the election returns," and I have to say that some good acting was highly preferable to what turned out to be hours of meaningless blither from Messrs. Rather, Brokaw, et al. I handled my political interest by keeping my web browser on, tuned to MSNBC's updatable electoral vote map, and dashing into my room to reload it and check the new results during commercials. Of course nothing much happened on the state level here until after "Angel" was over. Wesley's attempt to pass as Angel was so exquisitly embarrassing I spent most of the episode wincing, but it was pretty funny anyway. I liked the swami: too bad what turned out had to turn out. He would have made an even better continuing character than the empathetic karaoke-bar demon. As for Tara: imho the final scene was a little too neat and clean and heavy on the "awww" factor (not between Tara and Willow, but between Tara and the whole gang). Emotionally satisfying on a couple levels, yes; but while her family were pretty dreadful, I didn't really understand why everybody leapt quite so vehemently to her defense, especially as they didn't yet know what kind of demon she'd become. It could have been a really nasty one, but I suppose in that case they were confident they could subdue or defeat anything that came up. Her family must have been really pathological control freaks to have made up something like this. One wonders what prompted this, and how they kept the lie going, and what really did happen to her mother. I agree that Anya was a particular delight this week, especially the "useful and productive members of society" line. It's so amusing watching her get a kick out of being good for a change. And I like that she now has a regular relationship - of a new kind for this show - with Giles, and is out of the rut of being merely Xander's girlfriend. Giles seemed to stutter less this week. For a little while there I was afraid that ASH was channeling Hugh Grant, an actor I can live without. Well, now that Tara's problem is solved, it's a no-brainer to predict that the gang's next personnel problem is Riley, again: and that the Dawn situation will be the major stumbling point. Watch out also for Dawn rebelling against Buffy's protective instincts, and for that hospital guy. (My predictions are no match for Gayle's, but I do my humble best.) ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V2 #211 *****************************