From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V5 #4 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Wednesday, January 8 2003 Volume 05 : Number 004 Today's Subjects: ----------------- b/showtime ["Donald G. Keller" ] Re: b/showtime [Todd Huff ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:58:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: b/showtime Here's a novelty: how about some comments about a new episode? In order to begin on some spoiler space, let me say that I was working on information at least a week old in re the scheduling of episodes; I just checked on tvtome.com (my usual source), and the next three episodes are =now= listed for 1/21 ("Potential"), 2/4 ("The Killer in Me"), and 2/11 ("First Date"). (I had seen the new =TV Guide= earlier today and discovered I was wrong about next week.) I had been meaning to comment (when I wasn't commenting) that, naive viewer that I am at times, it never occurred to me that Giles might be a manifestation of the First. Good job all those who noticed stuff like he never touched anything, etc. I wasn't convinced, necessarily, but the evidence certainly was suggestive. We still don't know what the outcome of the axe attack was. Spoiler-free enough? Notice that in this episode Giles took his glasses off. (But he still didn't touch anything else.) Liked the teaser a lot, what with the Slayer-in-waiting's arrival, getting attacked, and Buffy's usual blase attitude about Sunnydale. Very clever ploy, having one of the potential Slayers killed, thus giving the First a way to "sneak" into the house. When Eve (the First) was standing up there at the end, the line that jumped into my mind was "I =hate= that girl!" Which is what The Annointed One (the kid vampire who survived a few episodes into the 2nd season) said standing over the Master's smashed bones at the end of "When She Was Bad" (2nd season premiere). Which reminds me...the other time I was making jokes at the TV was during "Conversations with Dead People," when Cassie visits Willow and Willow asks her why Tara couldn't come herself. "Because negotiations broke down!" I said with a laugh. I =thought= I was joking...but if you go to that German webside with the shooting scripts, you will discover that, in fact, the scene =was= originally written for Tara! The interesting thing is, while most of the scene would have worked better with Tara there (the script was rewritten for Cassie, of course), the very end of it--the suggestion of suicide (which was =not= rewritten) works better with the death-obsessed Cassie saying it. (Wonderful job by Azura Skye, by the way.) A writing staff that makes omelettes of broken eggs. Anybody else get a big thrill from the commercial for the 3rd season DVDs? I've been enjoying SMG as The First as Buffy. She really does some of her best work as Not!Buffy (as a friend of mine designates it). Real nice touch having Spike dreaming of escaping, and then not. Looks to me like Kennedy (quite apart from her inexorable pursuit of Willow) is by far the readiest to be a Slayer. Yeah, it could be that I think so because she's the most like Faith, but she isn't =too= much like Faith. (And note they made a point of showing that she was good with the crossbow.) I wasn't sure I liked the idea that they killed off Jonathan and saved Andrew, but they've made him into fairly amusing comic relief among the Scoobies. Particularly liked his conversation with Dawn (notice her getting scary again?). My favorite exchange of the episode: "You wore pink." "That was entrails." They've teamed Anya and Giles up again. How about the telepathy? They haven't used that, I think, since the 6th season premiere. (So how does Buffy know about it?) I guess that's enough for now. Another new one in =two= weeks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:24:07 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Huff Subject: Re: b/showtime Spoilers, etc... > Very clever ploy, having one of the potential > Slayers killed, thus giving > the First a way to "sneak" into the house. When Eve > (the First) was > standing up there at the end, the line that jumped > into my mind was "I > =hate= that girl!" Which is what The Annointed One > (the kid vampire who > survived a few episodes into the 2nd season) said > standing over the > Master's smashed bones at the end of "When She Was > Bad" (2nd season > premiere). > I was a bit disappointed she didn't say anything, but I loved the look on her face. The way Kennedy was pumping Willow for info early on made me wonder if she was what she seemed. > Anybody else get a big thrill from the commercial > for the 3rd season DVDs? > Picked mine up today. I'd forgotten just how many good/great episodes there were that season. Definitely my favorite overall. > Looks to me like Kennedy (quite apart from her > inexorable pursuit of > Willow) is by far the readiest to be a Slayer. Yeah, > it could be that > I think so because she's the most like Faith, but > she isn't =too= much > like Faith. (And note they made a point of showing > that she was good with > the crossbow.) I'm liking her too. > > I wasn't sure I liked the idea that they killed off > Jonathan and saved > Andrew, but they've made him into fairly amusing > comic relief among the > Scoobies. Particularly liked his conversation with > Dawn (notice her > getting scary again?). > Yes! Having him comment on Buffy's Mad Max quote was a nice touch as well. > How about the telepathy? They haven't used that, I > think, since the 6th > season premiere. (So how does Buffy know about it?) The only time I remember it was the finale of Season Five, when Buffy used it to tell Spike to go save Dawn while she was fighting Glory. What was the other time? This is something they really haven't addressed, have they? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V5 #4 ***************************