From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V5 #71 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Wednesday, April 16 2003 Volume 05 : Number 071 Today's Subjects: ----------------- b/dirty girls ["Donald G. Keller" ] Re: b/dirty girls [allenw ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:04:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: b/dirty girls Time for some of that pesky spoiler space (is it true the episode didn't run in the Northwest tonight?) Later edit: yes. My daughter Deirdre called me up in high dudgeon (kicking me offline in the process): the episode had been pre-empted by a baseball game. Supposedly (according to the other Northwest person I'd heard from) it will be broadcast on Sunday (like the partly-pre-empted =Angel= on the WB. What do the networks have against Faith?) Deirdre was =not= happy, and though I tried to be sympathetic...as she pointed out, =I= got to see the episode. Anyway... "Am I the good Slayer?" Faith and Spike. Tremendous. Faith and Buffy. Quite satisfying. Faith and Giles. As expected. Faith and Dawn. Short but strong. (But no Faith and Xander. And where was Anya?) I realized before the episode that we haven't seen Faith, played by Eliza Dushku--except for two brief moments at the end of "Who Are You"--on =Buffy= since the end of "This Year's Girl." The 72nd episode ever. Tonight's episode was #140. So it's been =half the series=. Very swell. Good writing for Faith, and the other people in the scenes with her. Also a very nice speech from Xander (with =priceless= delivery by Faith immediately after!). That said...a very grim episode. Going to be hard to watch a second time, what with the carnage and all. So who's dead? Molly, and another nameless Potential. Rhona with a broken arm. I =think= Amanda survived, and was in one of the other hospital beds. Interesting that Willow was at Xander's bedside (though Kennedy was only slightly injured, as we saw). My burning question is: who would have played the preacher if =Firefly= hadn't been canceled? I thought Nathan Filion was very good, and makes a really disturbing character. I guess we'll be seeing more of him.... Interesting piece of telegraphing: I thought it was odd that, when the Potential at the beginning tried to turn the wheel while the preacher was driving, he rather easily threw her off and restrained her. Turned out, of course, that he has more than Slayer-level strength. Be interesting to find out just what he is. Two weeks till the next one. Four more weeks of Faith. (And then no more, unless of course the Faith show happens someday after all.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:10:16 -0500 (CDT) From: allenw Subject: Re: b/dirty girls On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Donald G. Keller wrote: > Time for > > some of > > that pesky > > spoiler space > > (is it true > > the episode > > didn't run in > > the Northwest > > tonight?) > In Massachusetts, it was postponed by a baseball game, but was shown at 11 pm. > > Interesting piece of telegraphing: I thought it was odd that, when the > Potential at the beginning tried to turn the wheel while the preacher was > driving, he rather easily threw her off and restrained her. Turned out, of > course, that he has more than Slayer-level strength. Be interesting to > find out just what he is. My guess: "Just human" to start, but with the latent power of all the slain Potentials added in. That being the "something of Buffy's" he has, unless that turns out to be Joyce (the only other "thing" I could think of). Though now that I think of it, it'd be interesting if Hank Summers was somehow involved before the show ends... ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V5 #71 ****************************