Re: 'Villians' Thoughts *Spoilers for Ep*

["blinviz" <debvii@xxxxxxxxx>]

Raven hair and ruby lips, sparks fly from her fingertips

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Coupla more remarks before I turn in.


> Aly was very good most of the time.

The more i watch this, the more I appreciate Aly's performance. The 
"dead" voice took some getting used to, until I realised she was going 
in and out of it -- rather deftly, I'd say -- to indicate Will's 
emotional state.

> She's a vengeance demon: she's in tune to those painful, anger-
> tinged vibes, ya know?

Another thing that struck me was the contrast between Will and Anya. 
There's Anya, and actual living, breathing DEMON, and she's like all 
coiffed and beautiful and sad for her friend; vs. said friend Willow, 
the human being. Dayum. Notice that the axing scene, which strongly 
recalled the Hallie sword scene, took place right after the Anya-
revelation scene. Sad. 

> And can I just say that the sofa scene really underwhelmed me.

OTOH, this occurred to me: Xander is the one who is most disconnected 
from Willow in this ep. He, IMO, was the one who lost her on the 
highway during the B/W/X talk. Buffy had gotten Will to stand still 
and listen, and Willow seemed to be genuinely touched somewhat, then 
Xand started in with the "off-the-wagon" thing. Falling off the wagon 
was sooo not what Willow cared about at that point, and Buffy knew that 
sort of talk wouldn't reach her. When Xander brought up the Addiction 
Metaphor from Hell again during the sofa scene, Buffy again responded 
by talking about Willow's spiritual and emotional state. I'm not 
dinging Xander here, but it was nice to pick up on the distinction 
between B and X's concerns, and to see that Buffy had some care left in 
those curls. (cuz that "I can't understand what you're going thru" 
crap didn't win her any points, that's for sure.)

Speaking of minced metaphors, did anyone notice that Rack tonight was 
like an arms dealer?

last thing: It was weird starting off with Buffy not being the 
protagonist and then suddenly taking over in like Act III. The show 
sort of ground to a halt and almost didn't make it around the hairpin 
turn.