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liptonrm_backupI bought Buffy season two during an after-Christmas sale and have just gotten around to rewatching it. This is the first time I've seen a lot of these episodes since they first aired so it's an interesting blast from the past.
'When She Was Bad' - Written & Directed by Joss Whedon
Huh. A fairly good re-intro to Sunnydale and all it entails. Buffy's reappearance is good. I am fond of the way they deal with her PTSD in this episode, that they don't forget that she was pretty well traumatized at the end of last season and a summer spent brooding is never good for anyone's psyche. I like that she's being a bitch to everyone, though the dance with Xander is particularly difficult to watch.
Wow, look at Hank Summers be a good dad. They really demonize him later on cause real fathers aren't allowed to be good in Joss's worlds.
I'd forgotten how much I liked the character interplays. The things going on under the surface between them all is fun. Xander really is Buffy's best lieutenant, they get each other on a pretty fundamental level that makes inter-battle communication particularly easy for them.
Poor Buffy, smashing the Master's bones. Makes me want to wrap her up and give her a cookie, a not uncommon reaction.
'Some Assembly Required - Written by Ty King, Directed by Bruce Seth Green
Yawn. Not a very entertaining episode. I wish they'd made some reference somewhere to Frankenstein in the dialogue because the way that no one seems to make that particularly easy connection makes them seem not terribly bright. Some sort of quippy, throw away line would've been enough.
I did like Giles and Jenny at the football game and the look on Giles' face when Xander and Willow crashed their party. Very adorable. And Giles and Xander digging up the empty grave made me giggle and expect the Winchesters to appear. Though hearing Buffy and Willow talk about Angel was particularly aggravating. The whole high school-ness of that mess is appropriate and pretty dang annoying. I didn't like high school romance when I was in high school, let alone over a decade later. Blah blitty blah.
'School Hard' - Teleplay by David Greenwalt. Story by Greenwalt & Whedon. Directed by John T. Kretchmer
Hello Spike and Dru! And the 'Welcome to Sunnydale' sign is knocked over for the first time. Wow, you two were so much cooler back in the day. Loving the Sid & Nancy-ness now that I can recognize it. You two rock.
Man do I like Principal Snyder. Not in a 'I want to be just like him' way but in a 'You're a very entertaining, slimy little character' sort of way. Armin Shimmerman is the greatest.
Yay Joyce! No wonder your daughter is the Slayer.
I have always enjoyed the way Spike did away with the Anointed One. Kid vampires are stupid anyway.
'Inca Mummy Girl' - Written by Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer. Directed by Ellen S. Pressman
This might mark the first appearance of 'Death is your gift.' The parallels between Ampada and Buffy were nicely played without being shoved in our faces.
They're all such ... teenagers. See, this is why I won't watch Friday Night Lights, I didn't like adolescence when I was one and watching them on my television screen just makes me want to slap lots and lots of people. There's a particular kind of stupidity associated with that age that drives me up the wall.
That sort of idiocy is also why I tend to steer away from a lot of romance novels and chick flicks.
Oz!!!! Hi Oz!!! You're so cool! Yay, Oz!!!
Also, spanish names that end in -a are generally female so the fact that Ampada was originally a boy feels like shoddy research to me. I know they wanted to use a fairly androgynous name so that the mummy could kill him and take his place but there are others that would work better (Juan de Maria comes to mind, as does Angel, which is funny).
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Fandom, you have failed. Christopher Wiehl, the actor who played Owen, one of Buffy's few non-vampiric boyfriends, is now on Jericho. This is information I should have learned from you. It's your job to keep me up-to-date on such esoteric matters. tsktsk
The Big Lug just called to inform me that as it's the first warm, spring-like day of the year the hippies are holding drum circles on street corners in Ann Arbor. This makes me smile. Oh Ann Arbor, I hope you and your $15 fine for marijuna possession never change.
Now I will outline and hope I get enough done to go and see Bridge to Terabithia this evening. And I should go outside at some point before sunset because it looks delightfully warm and sunny.
ETA: Hey, did you all know that John Popper was pulled over this week with a bunch of guns and pot in his SUV? My first reaction was to yell at the TV, "OMG, he's a hunter!" Real life continues to amuse and Vortex-ify.
ETA2: So, apparently Billy was at ORC with his band 'Beecake' and Orlando and Viggo showed up for a show? And Dom was outside in the parking lot after the gig? Oh, Fellowship, you still fill me with so much love and make me all flappy handed and misty eyed. There's a reason why you broke my RPF barrier. *hearts*
'When She Was Bad' - Written & Directed by Joss Whedon
Huh. A fairly good re-intro to Sunnydale and all it entails. Buffy's reappearance is good. I am fond of the way they deal with her PTSD in this episode, that they don't forget that she was pretty well traumatized at the end of last season and a summer spent brooding is never good for anyone's psyche. I like that she's being a bitch to everyone, though the dance with Xander is particularly difficult to watch.
Wow, look at Hank Summers be a good dad. They really demonize him later on cause real fathers aren't allowed to be good in Joss's worlds.
I'd forgotten how much I liked the character interplays. The things going on under the surface between them all is fun. Xander really is Buffy's best lieutenant, they get each other on a pretty fundamental level that makes inter-battle communication particularly easy for them.
Poor Buffy, smashing the Master's bones. Makes me want to wrap her up and give her a cookie, a not uncommon reaction.
'Some Assembly Required - Written by Ty King, Directed by Bruce Seth Green
Yawn. Not a very entertaining episode. I wish they'd made some reference somewhere to Frankenstein in the dialogue because the way that no one seems to make that particularly easy connection makes them seem not terribly bright. Some sort of quippy, throw away line would've been enough.
I did like Giles and Jenny at the football game and the look on Giles' face when Xander and Willow crashed their party. Very adorable. And Giles and Xander digging up the empty grave made me giggle and expect the Winchesters to appear. Though hearing Buffy and Willow talk about Angel was particularly aggravating. The whole high school-ness of that mess is appropriate and pretty dang annoying. I didn't like high school romance when I was in high school, let alone over a decade later. Blah blitty blah.
'School Hard' - Teleplay by David Greenwalt. Story by Greenwalt & Whedon. Directed by John T. Kretchmer
Hello Spike and Dru! And the 'Welcome to Sunnydale' sign is knocked over for the first time. Wow, you two were so much cooler back in the day. Loving the Sid & Nancy-ness now that I can recognize it. You two rock.
Man do I like Principal Snyder. Not in a 'I want to be just like him' way but in a 'You're a very entertaining, slimy little character' sort of way. Armin Shimmerman is the greatest.
Yay Joyce! No wonder your daughter is the Slayer.
I have always enjoyed the way Spike did away with the Anointed One. Kid vampires are stupid anyway.
'Inca Mummy Girl' - Written by Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer. Directed by Ellen S. Pressman
This might mark the first appearance of 'Death is your gift.' The parallels between Ampada and Buffy were nicely played without being shoved in our faces.
They're all such ... teenagers. See, this is why I won't watch Friday Night Lights, I didn't like adolescence when I was one and watching them on my television screen just makes me want to slap lots and lots of people. There's a particular kind of stupidity associated with that age that drives me up the wall.
That sort of idiocy is also why I tend to steer away from a lot of romance novels and chick flicks.
Oz!!!! Hi Oz!!! You're so cool! Yay, Oz!!!
Also, spanish names that end in -a are generally female so the fact that Ampada was originally a boy feels like shoddy research to me. I know they wanted to use a fairly androgynous name so that the mummy could kill him and take his place but there are others that would work better (Juan de Maria comes to mind, as does Angel, which is funny).
Fandom, you have failed. Christopher Wiehl, the actor who played Owen, one of Buffy's few non-vampiric boyfriends, is now on Jericho. This is information I should have learned from you. It's your job to keep me up-to-date on such esoteric matters. tsktsk
The Big Lug just called to inform me that as it's the first warm, spring-like day of the year the hippies are holding drum circles on street corners in Ann Arbor. This makes me smile. Oh Ann Arbor, I hope you and your $15 fine for marijuna possession never change.
Now I will outline and hope I get enough done to go and see Bridge to Terabithia this evening. And I should go outside at some point before sunset because it looks delightfully warm and sunny.
ETA: Hey, did you all know that John Popper was pulled over this week with a bunch of guns and pot in his SUV? My first reaction was to yell at the TV, "OMG, he's a hunter!" Real life continues to amuse and Vortex-ify.
ETA2: So, apparently Billy was at ORC with his band 'Beecake' and Orlando and Viggo showed up for a show? And Dom was outside in the parking lot after the gig? Oh, Fellowship, you still fill me with so much love and make me all flappy handed and misty eyed. There's a reason why you broke my RPF barrier. *hearts*
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Date: 2007-03-11 12:18 am (UTC)I can see that. Makes me rethink the meaning of "Regarding Steven".
warm fuzzy fellowship.
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Date: 2007-03-15 01:27 am (UTC)Fellowship *happy sigh*