Re: Insta-review of Seeing Red (SPOILERS)

[Jason Rune <winter_herald@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- danspector@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I like your reviews, Dan :) There's a reason they
take longer than my instant, just-add-water ones, ya
know...

Now, since you worked so hard for that spoiler space I
might as well use it.

> Let's 
> 
> try
> 
> This 
> 
> again,
> 
> shall 
> 
> we
> 
> now?
> 
> This
> 
> is
> 
> Spoiler
> 
> Space

> I was actually fairly pleased by the plot movement
> we'd gotten by Act 2,
> but you're right again, the Trio plot should have
> been one notch further
> along. Lose the "Warren beats up the demon" and
> "Willow/Tara dorm
> smooches" scenes, and get Warren to the Bronze much
> quicker. Then
> intercut the rape scene with Warren the Stud, to
> reemphasize the point.

Exactly.

<snip the way it should have been>

I do have another problem with the scene, though. I
know they were trying to make a point, but there's no
way Buffy bruises that easily. Did you see the size
of that thing? If that was normal she would be black
and blue from head to toe every night.

Maybe the shattering gravestones are supposed to be
symbolic of the characters' increased fragility this
season?

Hmph.

> Or perhaps a W/T scene that wasn't just about sex,
> but about how their
> relationship has evolved and how Tara feels about it
> now. This would
> have paid off nicely if Tara had sacrificed herself
> for Willow, rather
> than just being offed for random plot convenience.

<nods> I don't really mind that Tara's gone. (Sorry,
I don't. I like Amber Benson and all, but she didn't
have room to shine here.) But the way they killed
her, it was one of the crappiest things they've ever
done.

Now, getting killed while rushing outdoors to actually
*do* something, that I could see.

(Really, though, this wasn't the best way of doing
things at all. I think that the W/T relationship had
problems, and killing off one of them was not the way
to deal with those on the show. But oh well.)

I also missed AB being in the credits, 'cause they're
usually just the same thing all the time and I don't
watch them. Darn.

> PS?I know Jonathan's trying to do the right thing,
> but anyone whose
> reaction to being arrested is "oh, God?the Big
> House" probably
> deserves to get smacked around a bit in the showers,
> I think.

I wonder how much more we're going to get out of them.
I'd certainly like some followup from Jonathan, if
only to see just how much he's learned from this whole
thing. And Andrew... will he ever learn? I think
they have to end up having more scenes with Warren;
it'll be interesting to see where that ends up.

On a slightly related note, does anybody know how big
Sunnydale really is? They have their own University,
probably at least two high schools (hey, Dawn is going
somewhere, the old high school is still toast, and I
don't remember them mentioning a new one being built.)
Do you suppose they have their own jail (apart from
whatever cells are in the police station,) or are
Jonathan and Andrew being shipped somewhere? Will we
get to see their trial? Will the judge be a demon? 
Inquiring minds want to know.

Yours in Wuffydom, I remain,

Jason Rune

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