From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V3 #117 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Tuesday, July 10 2001 Volume 03 : Number 117 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: b/the replacement [Hilary Hertzoff ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 08:50:55 -0400 From: Hilary Hertzoff Subject: Re: b/the replacement On Sun, 08 Jul 2001, you wrote: > Hi, > > Okay, I know I said the third post would be it for today, but I just > stumbled upon a rerun of "The Replacement" on the WB this evening and a > couple things jumped out at me. Foreshadowing for season's end, perhaps? They haven't been publicizing it, but the New York WB station has been running two episodes of Buffy a week. The Sunday episodes seem to be going chronologically through the season. Also FX showed the BtVS movie with "Buffy Bites", short interviews with cast members and behind the scenes people. Nothing really new...I saw bits with Charisma Carpenter and one of the CGI guys (discussing the vampires to dust effects). I was labelling some videocassettes and had selected it as the least offensive thing to have on while I was fastforwarding or rewinding. I _liked_ the movie when it first came out (before we had the show...), but I found it almost unwatchable this time around. Among the tapes I was going through was the one with "The Gift" on it, so I watched it again (what a difference from the movie). I think it worked for me emotionally but not logically, but I'm reserving judgement. I suspect/hope that when they bring Buffy back in the fall we'll find out more about why it worked and what happened to Buffy. I also watched the commercial tapes from the Buffy season 3 set and I realized two things: 1. The episode selection didn't work too well. I understand following the Faith arc, but they skipped some episodes with important plot developments. 2. "The Gift" is actually the third time Buffy has "died" in the season finale (counting two-parters as one adventure). In the first season she's bitten and killed by the Master, in the third season she's bitten and drained of blood by Angel. > > -- When silly-Xander goes to Willow's to convince her that he's the real > Xander, he wonders, "It's a robot! An evil robot constructed from evil > parts that look like me and are designed to do evil!" > But the Buffybot wasn't evil... > -- Later, in the Magic Box, when Giles figures out what's going on he > explains what the Toth-demon was trying to do: > > GILES > > But the two halves can't exist without the other. > Kill the weaker Buffy half and the Slayer half dies. > > BUFFY > So, same thing for the Xanders, right? > Both of them need to stay alive or they both die. > > ... and the same goes for Glory and Ben. > Or perhaps Buffy and Dawn. When I was reading this, it reminded me of Buffy whining to Riley and everyone else towards the beginning of the season about how Dawn got to be safe and protected, while there was no one protecting Buffy. What if Dawn is the personification of Buffy's innocence??? Hilary - -- Hilary Hertzoff hhertzof@panix.com Mamaroneck, NY hilaryh@dm.net Miss Bettany had told them to read the classics and see how little slang was used there,and to try to model their own speech rather more on them than on that of cheap magazines filled with Americanese and language which might be suitable for boys, but was not allowable for girls. - Jo of the Chalet School ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V3 #117 *****************************