Re: Entropy character review (SPOILERS)

[Jason Rune <winter_herald@xxxxxxxxx>]

Piggybacking my own spoiler space.

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> > THE TROIKA were not as funny or as good as I
> expected
> > them to be.
> 
> There was something kinda weird about their mood. 
> Warren mumbled. I 
> felt like i had missed a scene or an important bit
> of dialogue.

Smelled like filler from here.

> > But leaving without talking to Buffy
> > about Spike OR to Xander about Anya? Just to wait
> for
> > Tara smoochies? Tsk.
> 
> She didn't leave; she stayed at home. THAT was the
> problem. However, 
> she wasn't waiting for Tara (she was surprised when
> Tara showed up), 
> the writers were waiting for Tara, so they held
> Willow at Revello. 
> feh.

Left, stayed... the important thing was that she
wasn't with Buffy!

> > And wanting
> > immediate smoochies after leaving Willow for over
> a
> > month and not helping her get through major
> withdrawl
> > symptoms?
> 
> Honey, is your calendar missing some pages? Tara
> left in mid-November 
> and didn't stop hanging up til after "Older" in
> mid-February.

Oops. I didn't mean left, I meant didn't talk to at
all... specifically I was flashing back to Willow's
"No spells for 32 days!" in Dead Things, when she
bumped into Tara on the street (that moment wasn't
awkward, oh no.) My brain is acting stragely tonight,
probably from all the differential equations. It's a
little known fact that they act as a central nervous
system depressant ;) Of course Tara has been on the
lam for a lot longer...

Anyway, that's also where my comment about abruptness
came from: when Willow said 32 days I went "what 32
days?"

Let's see: Gone appears to take off almost right after
Wrecked; I don't see Buffy waiting too long to remove
the magick gimmicks. DMP must start out pretty soon
after the end of Gone, because they're just then
telling Xanya about what happened in Gone. So unless
there's some weird time warping going on, a
*conservative* estimate of more than three weeks of
Willow's recovery was just assumed. Though she was
showing significant improvement in DMP, so maybe
that's okay. Tara still wasn't there for any of it :/

> Dan nailed this, tho: Major whiplash in
> characterisation for Tara. ME 
> futzed around and wasted what little availability AB
> had, then... 
> WHAMMO! "can't we just be kissing now? simper,
> simper?"

Mmm hmm. Shy Tara, not-so-shy Tara, leaving Tara,
motherly know-it-all Tara, coming-back-expecting
smoochies Tara.

> > ANYA is Anya is Anya. Her attempts to get
> everyone to
> > wish bad things about Xander were hilarious. 
> > Particularly trying to convince Will and Tara that
> > they hated men... and Buffy's quick correction
> about
> > the number of men she's been with ("Four... no,
> > three!") So she doesn't mind counting Parker, but
> is
> > still in denial about her behavior with Spike ;)
> 
> That was funny and it actually made me count right
> there during the 
> scene. But I didn't see her as "in denial" as much
> as still hiding 
> the truth from *others*. IOW, if Anya had started
> counting like I 
> did, she might have wondered who #4 was.

I don't know if she ever found out about Parker
anyway. I mean, somebody *probably* told her at
*some* time, but who knows :)

> > First the
> > switch from scorned demons to everyone, now the
> > necklace thing.
> 
> Typo? Freud would be smug. ;->

Right. She was trying to switch *to* scorned demons.

> > BUFFY/WILLOW was sadly lacking. Not much to say
> :( 
> > They do seem to be almost deliberately keeping
> apart.
> 
> Eh, this time around it seemed like plain old
> plot-over-character bad 
> writing. Will needed to be at home for when Tara
> dropped by, and it 
> wouldn't have been as dramatic if Willow were
> present for the "parting 
> ways" scene at the Magic Box. (shades of 'Harsh
> Light of Day' there; 
> Contner oughta patent it.)

Whaddaya know, HLoD was just on FX.

Harmony : I don't know why I let you be so mean to me.
Spike: Love hurts baby.

Season 6 is flashback season as far as I'm concerned:

Dead Things: Faith and Allan Finch
B/S overall: Harsh Light of Day
Spike/Anya in Entropy: Where the Wild Things Are
Halfrek: Redoing the Wish *badly*.

Thanks Dan for pointing out the name of that last one.
I'd forgotten. There are probably a few others as
well.


Jason Rune

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