Re: Double Meat Palace and Dead Things

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

Cas wrote:

> the whole molecular exchange excuse seemed like a copout

Although I understand ME's point about not wanting there to be a reset
button on Buffy's condition, I still wish something had been done with
the breaking of the urn. (Still like Kirayoshi's fragmented soul
theory, not to mention my own "Willow's got the missing piece"
corollary). 

They made such a big deal of the urn (the last one ever) and the complex
ritual (starts at exactly midnight) and then BuffyBot and the Hellions
disrupting it, that it seems pretty lame to find out that despite all
the chaos and the interrupted ritual and the broken urn, the spell
worked perfectly fine. I guess Xander owes BuffyBot an apology.

P Chazzman wrote (re: B/S):

>they did it all wrong

Not that I'd ever support it, but it would have been a lot more
believable if Buffy had simply made the choice and been all "I'm a big
girl and this is what I want, and Spike knows if he pulls anything he
gets the pointy end of the stake, so back off!" This "Yes/no/I can't
resist/I mustn't but I'm so weak" crap got old quick.

>And it was clear from the get-go it wouldn't last.

Can't agree with that, they sure scared the hell out of me with it.

>so what's the point?

Indeed. Other than Spike having something to brag about, how has this
changed things?

We've blown 17 eps and all we've gotten is "Buffy is depressed, Buffy
has a cheap fling, Buffy realizes she likes her life and her friends."
Yeah, well, we like seeing her with them, we know she enjoys it, we've
seen it for five years. What's so new and brilliant about this?

There better be something coming in the last five, because so far all
we've achieved is to hit the reset button. And it's not like "I was
ripped from heaven" is a situation the audience can relate to.

Buffy's previous depressions, over "I had a near-death experience", "I
had to break up with Angel", and "My mom died and now I have to take
care of my sister" were much easier to empathize with. Not to mention
much shorter.

Dan