From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V3 #23 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Thursday, February 15 2001 Volume 03 : Number 023 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: b/crush! ["David S. Bratman" ] VCR problems ["Hilary L. Hertzoff" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:48:07 -0800 From: "David S. Bratman" Subject: Re: b/crush! Bouquets to David Fury, who wrote this one. Once again, BTVS has taken an idea they'd already done to death (Spike-and-Buffy) and revitalized it in one of their best episodes. I spent most of it just marveling at the sheer quality of the writing. I think this exchange was the point at which I started bouncing up and down in glee: BUFFY: _Angel_ had a _soul_! DAWN: And Spike has a chip. Same diff'. The opening scene in the Bronze is as good as anything I can recall in perfectly summarizing the distinctive style of this show. It's one I'd really like to try out on curious newbies. At first it could be any teenage romance show, then gradually the fact that Spike is not just unwanted but a vampire begins to be obvious to the untutored observer. But vampirism aside, the other fictional couple that Buffy and Spike most remind me of are Luann and Gunther from the comic strip. Tara seems to be settling into a stable role, I notice: a full member of the gang, though secondary in dramatic importance; while in academic matters, she and Willow are the leads, while Buffy is distinctly the follower. (Notice the physical placement of the three in the schoolwork-discussion scene.) Don wrote: >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. She must have remembered, or semi-remembered, something, because she hesitated and stumbled when speaking about this. This could be because she was not quite sure how much she wanted to say about what she saw (my theory, and it's not necessary to have a plot to hide something to decide to hold it back for now); or because she was so bewildered by the weird transformation that her mind couldn't process it (the best alternative, I think). The "why" you provide is the writerly why: what will be the plot function of this. Another question is the secondary-universe why, or more precisely how it is that she doesn't remember, if she doesn't. Given that assumption, I'd hold to bewilderment, which would be an entirely straight interpretation of her actual words. Other possibilities, less likely, are supernatural intervention (Glory's own, or somebody's spell), or something related to her being the Key. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:20:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Hilary L. Hertzoff" Subject: VCR problems You'll like this one. I was taping the episodes that I had promised Kathleen and I noticed white streaks running vertically across the screen as Blood Ties was taping. After all of the comments about problems with taping this episode I first thought that it must be something with the feed (although I hadn't noticed it when I first watched the episode). However I decided to clean the vcr I was playing the tape on anyway. The vcr cleaner picked up some bunny fur that had gotten into the vcr. One of the hazards of having a shedding rabbit around the house, I guess. Kathleen, I'm going to retape Blood Ties and send it off tomorrow morning. Sorry about the delay. I shall scold Marble severely. Hilary Hilary L. Hertzoff From here to there, Mamaroneck Public Library a bunny goes where a bunny must. Mamaroneck, NY hhertzof@wls.lib.ny.us Little Bunny on the Move hhertzof@panix.com by Peter McCarty ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V3 #23 ****************************