Re: Lessons

[Tater <tater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well since it was a hit the first time, I'll just repeat the pointless
comment before the boosted spoiler space. :)

At 10:12 PM 9/25/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Yes,
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>I 
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>find 
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>your 
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>intentionally 
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>uncreative 
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>opening
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>sentence
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>strangely creative,
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>tater.
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>Okay, so I'm weird....
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>
>Oh, I remembered Buffy having seen it--I just didn't think **all** of
>the pennies were dropping when she said "talisman". Perhaps I'm not
>crediting her acuity enough (might have something to do with her taste
>in men, given my prejudices--I dunno).

She does have a bit of a taste problem doesn't she. Hers is worse than
mine, and I once dated a guy I referred to as the Lobby Lizard, even while I
was dating him. Some of us just do so much better if we date our own
gender. Buffy should try it.


>And say, wouldn't Buffy in previous seasons have informed Xander what
>was up as she was heading after Dawn? And wouldn't Xander have
>followed? Of course then they couldn't string us along with Buffy
>hiding Spike (which won't be anything like her hiding Angel in Season 3,
>right), so Xander has to stay out of the action.

But Xander was at work. His work site for the day just happened to be the
high school. Buffy had already embarrassed Dawn by barging in while she was
in class, that might have made her hesitant to interrupt Xander at work.


>OTOH, as contrived as Spike's help was in this ep, I could actually get
>into seeing him as some sort of DementedGiles for Shiny McSlayer (my
>hatred for that concept and the (s)Crappy Gang aside). Dawnie has a
>problem, Spike gibbers insanely, Dawnie shakes him to semi-lucidity and
>finally Spike gives up the info. Could be fun, at least for a few
>times.

Personally, I think that would be fun maybe once. And isn't that
practically the same relationship Spike had with Dru? On second thought, it
might be fun seeing Spike in the same position that Dru was in before.

As for Dawn and the (s)Crappy Gang, I have the perfect solution. They go to
investigate something in the basement and run into Spike, who, in a fit of
delusion, mistakes them for demons and slaughters them all. The chip
doesn't activate because the batteries have finally died. Buffy finds him
finishing the last of them off and stakes him immediately. She then turns
to her old gang in her grief, reaffirming the bonds of friendship and
discovering real love with Willow.


tater (Vegetables of the world unite!)