Re: Entropy Thoughts

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--- In buffywantswillow@y..., jeepy91@a... wrote:
> The requires spoiler space first :)

yes. blah blah filling in a new first line, blah blah yeehaw!

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> Ok, well honestly I didn't love the episode but it certainly wasn't
> one of the worst of the season.

Agreed on both counts. Chipper, quippy Buffy was back! That line to 
Dawn about trying to add levity "but, okay, so no!" Loved that!


> It was basically one of those couples episodes. 
> Not so much supernatural stuff going on, just a set up in the teaser
> for next week with the nerds I imagine. 

Yup, more bridging and filling. It's funny how I've finally gotten 
used to and/or given in to the S6 "Buffy's So-Called Life" M.O. I 
can't even be bothered to get upset anymore about the lack of 
SUPERNATURAL ACTION on Buffy the VAMPIRE SLAYER.


> Now of course she did get upset when she saw the Spike/Anya sex
> capades. I don't know exactly what to think of that.

Totally believable reaction to me. I've had it myself. You know you 
really aren't compatible with someone, yet it irks you when that person 
moves on. I'd say the feeling is something like jealousy, but it's not 
exactly that.

> Speaking of the S/A sex. I honestly was really enjoying it.

Okay, I pretty much agree with everything you said, but I have to be 
petty and mean and say that JM's hair was squickin me rightout.

Also, both that sequence and the Anya's On A Mission sequence should 
have moved a lot more quickly. They needed more cuts between the 
locales, I thought. Interestingly, Will was supposed to have a line 
about being the bigger nerd (for cracking the Troika's system), and I 
can't help but wonder why what must have been at least one more beat 
got chopped.

Speaking of Will's nerdliness, I was digging her studding out on the 
Mac. And when she did that tongue thing right before she busted a new 
move on their system? sigh. I could almost overlook the Tara-present 
blouse & pendant travesty.

Contrast that with Buffy's kickin flares with the cuts up the seams and 
Slayer-mama boots! RAWR! Actually, as I let my mind wander, Buff & 
Will could get some action out of the complementary *cough*slits*cough* 
in their legwear.

> And that brings me to Spike's little slip up. He knew damn well what
> he was doing when he blurted it out. He was hitting Xander and Buffy
> below the belt. Buffy looked mightily pissed with him.

Ho ho, but did you see *Anya's* look?? She cut her eyes at Spike! She 
realised she'd been played (ooh, the double-cross), and she looked both 
angry and hurt.

Oh, another petty thing. NB really has got to lose that weight! He 
often sounds like he's having trouble breathing, and he definitely 
doesn't have the pep of the entire rest of the cast.

> So that brings me to Willow and Tara. To tell you the truth, I
> actually thought the last scene was sorta cute. Of course those
> smoochages, whew

I thought the best W/T scene was the very first one at UCS. Willow was 
especially fun.

I don't know what it is, but...eh, AB isn't a very good foil for AH's 
comedy, IMO, and if she has a long chunk of lines she tends to sound 
like she's reciting. The kiss was okay (tho Will's cross to Tara was 
awkward), but it seemed to JUST be getting to good when they cut away. 
And, plus, Ay/S have waaaaaay more chemistry. Kinda sad.

> Shipper wise it pretty much sucked. Our girls didn't have a single
> scene together. :(

Hated that! Of course, as often happens this season, I thought the 
backyard scene should have been B/W instead of Buffy & Dawn. I had a 
momentary flare of burning hatred for MT/Dawn. I still say MT is as 
uneven an actor as there ever was, but I didn't mind her so much this 
outing.

> As for the promo, I'm gonna put spoiler space because I'm going to
> talk about what I know about 'Seeing Red'.
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> If you don't want to be spoiled for next weeks ep, stop right here!
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> Well like I said, I saw most of 'Seeing Red', I downloaded some of
> the clips.

Okay, I haven't d/led clips or anything, but I have read some comments. 
There is one thing I don't get:


> But it was nice how Willow picked up on Buffy's reaction to the 
> Spanya sex. She knows her Slayer, and I'd bet anything she knows
> something is up.

That's EXACTLY what I thought, too. Actually, it seemed like both Dawn 
and Will knew something way back in some kitchen scene or another. 
Can't remember which ep. Anyway, this time it seemed REALLY obvious 
that Will knew something was very wrong: Her reaction was even bigger 
than Dawn's. So what I don't get is this. How is it that in 'Seeing 
Red' Will seems to be completely clueless until Tara tells her? Don't 
get that.


> But combine that with the screwed up wildfeed something just isn't 
> adding up. It's all giving me a big headache LOL

Well, I don't know if there's so much a conspiracy of disinformation as 
someone in the promo dept just plain screwed up. For some reason, a 
number of print outlets didn't even have a blurb for 'Seeing Red' 
until, like, a couple of days ago.

But, yeah, you're right that the VO for the promo is odd. I mean, what 
is it that people are supposed to have heard?? I think the not-online-
but-still-into-gossip type people know that there's supposed to be a 
Big Scooby Death, but not who it is. Well, there IS a BSD, so they're 
not wrong. curious.