Re: Dan's"Help" review

[jeepy91@xxxxxxx]

As always, can't help but read your reviews. Always sure for a good laugh 
for sure, among other things. :P

Anyway, just a few of my thoughts to follow:

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OK, I won't lie and say that when I first heard Cassie utter her little 
annoying line to Spike I wasn't seething and throwing a leftover chicken 
nugget from dinner at the tube. I did, and in the process got dish duty 
from my mother because of the flying processed chicken that greased up her 
new 55 inch Sony.

Anyway.,................

Yep, I thought for sure it was going to be those three oh so big words, 'I 
love you, Spikey Wikey'. Ok, more like 5, but in any case, I'm starting to 
agree with what Mike said. The rape has been a point they've brought up a 
couple times, albeitly handled badly, but been brought up nonetheless. So it 
could very easily just be, 'I forgive you Spike' or even 'I trust you Spike'. 
Of course the forgiving bit can be bad too because of Dan's, 'Love. Give. 
Forgive' theory he posted a while back. 

But I don't think it's set in stone. For all we know, the writer's just 
threw the Spuffy's a bone. It was ambiguous enough that it could be 
interpreted a bit differently by each fan group I think.

On the episode itself, I liked it. I didn't love it, I actually can't 
remember really totally enjoying an episode since 'The Gift', and this one 
certainly wasn't even close, but I liked it. It was watchable. Cassie was a 
rather likeable character that you could sympathise with I thought, and 
therefore the Scoobies reactions to her death didn't seem so foreign for 
someone they only knew for less than a week. There's actually a website, the 
same one they showed on the episode, located at cassienewton.com that has 
some of those poems on there. I saw it the night before the ep aired, rather 
interesting seeing it onscreen then.

On one last note, who loved the Doogie Howser FanFic reference? LOL

Casandra
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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