Re: 'Villians' Thoughts *Spoilers for Ep*

[jeepy91@xxxxxxx]

Gonna borrow your spoiler space and try and hang in there with you Dan:

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<<BTW, the B/W text we both picked up in Anya's initial awareness of
Willow's grief was, I guess, wrong. Her veiny self felt Willow crying
out for Vengeance, so she knew it was all about Tara, not Buffy, all
along.>>

See I think I still might be hanging onto straws here, but I'm not completely 
convinced of that fact.Anya could feel Willow's thirst for vengeance, and she 
knew that something terrible had happened when Willow burst into the box. 
That doesn't neccesarily mean she knew it was Tara that was the reasoning not 
Buffy, at least not at first. She probably saw the thing about Buffy on the 
news or Xander may have even called her. Yeah, she did know about Tara later 
on, but who knows if Willow told her after she had 'powered up'? I'm still 
gonna try and hang onto that one, at least for now.

<<On the first scene after the credits, nice catch in the B/X nature of
Xand's non-reaction to Willow in blood; I was too caught up in Will's
non-reaction to Buffy nearly dying. (Die, Marti!)>>

Well I'm gonna disagree with you a bit on this Dan. I agree that the look on 
Willow's face was way too underwhelmed for seeing her best friend on a 
stretcher all bloody. But it wasn't as cold I don't think as you interpreted 
it. She seemed in a cold furious trance, and I think seeing Buffy like that 
just made it worse. Or maybe she even knew she would go to the hospital and 
save her, so it was a moot point getting upset that Buffy might die. Still 
holding onto those straws I suppose.

<<Warren's "essence" in the robot. Possibly some blood and a spell?
Could have been explained in a line or two, and maybe those lines were
in the shooting script; we'll see.>>

Well the only thing I can think of is that is was one of Rack's tricks that 
Warren paid for. Somehow transferring the essense to the Bot to buy Warren 
time. With a spell or whatever like you said. But alot of the stuff Willow 
did with the magic was left unexplained and we were just supposed to figure 
it out ourselves I guess. From the trance she put the OR docs in, to getting 
the robot to just come right to her.

And BTW, I'm totally with you on the Katrina thing you mentioned in your 
review. Willow knew damn well that Warren killed Katrina, because she was 
right there when Buffy told her she was set up. And that was what, 7 
episodes ago? Marti is making Willow evil and dumb, gotta love her 
::rolleyes emphatically::

<<Don't think Willow was giving Buffy permission to take her out, but it
was nice that she said her "goodbye" directly to Buffy.>>

Maybe not, but that whole scene had a B/W vibe to it. Willow looked at 
Xander twice from my count, it could just as easily been a B/W scene 
altogether. But I wont complain about the Scooby scenes since they've been 
so few and far between. I think it was DEM who said that it seemed Buffy 
might have been getting through to her and then Xander kept piping up. I 
haven't rewatched that scene, so I'm not sure. But Xander seemed to be 
making all about Willow going back on her promise to them about staying off 
the magic pipe. Whereas Buffy seemed more concerned for Willow's wellbeing. 
Of course the line where she said 'we'll get through it together' would have 
come of really nicely if we could believe Buffy. Because she's been so good 
at being there for her friends this year hasn't she?

<<Didn't really get a "family" feeling in the B/D/X scene, possibly
because Xander was rather severely blocked away from the girls>>

Nah me either. Maybe I'm just so into the B/W/D family unit that Xander 
seems like and outsider. But there was just something about it that didn't 
feel right, almost strained at times for some reason. And then it could just 
be I'm completely anti B/X

<<Man, the Clem scene was a waste. Moral objections and the slow pace of
the scene aside, the only purpose it seemed to serve was to let Buffy
know Spike's out of town. >>

Well see, as much as the scene itself annoyed me, I find I can tolerate Clem. 
The problem is, there Buffy is worried that she made him spill his snacks 
when just a few minutes before she's vowing to not let Willow destroy 
herself. How she gonna stop that, by making smalltalk with a demon? The 
thing is, she doesn't know Clem all that well, she has no reason to think 
he'd hurt Dawn, but she doesn't have any reason to think he wouldn't either. 
So instead of leaving her with Janice like you said in your review, she takes 
her to a demon, without a chip that stops him from hurting people. Buffy's 
either completely braindead, or Marti is really starting to write bad. 
Betting it's the latter, but I'm not so sure after this entire season.

Anyway Dan, I couldn't agree more with you take on the very end. I just 
don't know where we go from here :(

Casandra







~~~~~~~
Buffy:"I could wrestle naked in grease for a living and still be cleaner than 
after a shift at the Doublemeat."
Willow:"Plus, I'd visit you at work every single day."
-'Normal Again' Shooting Script










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