From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V3 #22 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Wednesday, February 14 2001 Volume 03 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- B/Warning [Todd Huff ] b/crush! ["Donald G. Keller" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:23:59 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Huff Subject: B/Warning TV Guide has a major, major, MAJOR spoiler for the 2/28 episode. Avoid at all costs. Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 01:10:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: b/crush! (please do not write spoilers in above space) Another really good episode, I thought; typical =Buffy= in the fact that it's basically a comedy, =despite= bystanders dying like flies and main characters being tied up and jeopardized... What I liked about was its emotional verisimilitude: the characters seemed to me to act exactly the way they should under the circumstances: - -=Of course= Dawn would get a crush on Spike, given how he's treated her (as she was quick to point out) - -=Of course= Xander would laugh hysterically at the thought of Spike in love with Buffy...and get bent out of shape by Dawn having a crush on Spike instead of him. - -=Of course= Spike would get bent out of shape observing Buffy chatting up Ben (and what a problem-causing plot development =that= could be, eh?) - -=Of course= Spike would have lost interest in Harmony, and she would be pouting. (Where's Harmony been, anyway?) - -=Of course= Spike would, given the opening, persuade Harmony the Moron to playact as the Slayer for a sex game (the funniest moment of the episode). - -=Of course= Drusilla would turn up at the right moment and give Spike's head a spin (and take him on a killing spree to boot!) - -=Of course= Harmony would show up again to monkeywrench the situation. - -=Of course= Drusilla, Harmony, =and= Buffy walk out on him at the end. - -=Of course= (despite the way the previews seemed to slant towards Buffy throwing Spike a crumb, as he put it) Buffy stuck to her guns, a.k.a. her complete revulsion towards Spike. As I suspected. The only false note to me was Buffy's seeming consternation at Spike's confession; she didn't =know=? After he started to kiss her in =Fool for Love=?? Sure, she was in denial about it, but she couldn't have been =that= unaware. I'm guessing Drusilla was only around for that one episode. (Darla is on Angel next week.) Good episode of =Angel=, too, by the way. Glad to see Kate back on; also another appearance from Anne. Got another tape with glitches in it. I think it's my VCR; it tends to "catch" a little for a second at a time, and I have two scenes somewhat damaged by it. What was it that Xander said about Spike? It was a memorable line, and I've lost it. Notice that Anya had =one line=? Too bad. Would have loved to have heard =her= opinion of the whole routine... Good riff with Willow having headaches from the spell. And more Spike next week! (Though =TV Guide= reveals there's a plot to get in the way.) Incidentally, I'm of the school that Dawn =doesn't= remember Ben turning into Glory (why, I'm not sure; so she doesn't know it's a Bad Idea for Buffy and Ben to get together?); she was under serious stress, and it just seems unlikely to me that she was thinking clearly enough to have a "plot" to hide something from Buffy. But we'll see, as always. ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V3 #22 ****************************