{"id":1185,"date":"2001-10-03T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2001-10-03T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2001-10-03T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2001-10-03T13:09:09","slug":"buffy_thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/03\/buffy_thoughts.html","title":{"rendered":"Buffy thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on the season premiere of <i>Buffy<\/i>.  Nothing terribly coherent or systematic or otherwise organized.  Just things I scribbled down on the back of a magazine insert whilst watching.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Buffybot (who I will miss terribly) was doing a nice job taking over the Anya role of strange and inappropriate speech patterns and content.\n<li>So, who says the Key is not good for anything else any more?  And, for that matter, howzcum Dawn is suddenly so well-adjusted over being a construct?<\/p>\n<li>Speaking of the Key, when will the Doc reappear?  I don&#8217;t know Joel Grey&#8217;s schedule, but, remember, <i>we never saw the body.<\/i>  Hell, even if we had, what difference would that make on this show?<\/p>\n<li>Opening credits are a fine montage once again.  Except for one jarring shot where Buffy&#8217;s wearing way-too-vivid lipstick.<\/p>\n<li>UPN&#8217;s choice of shots for promoting the next episode looks like it&#8217;s going to be a constant irritant, since they seem compelled to Give It All Away.  <\/p>\n<li>Margie asks, <i>&#8220;Buffy&#8217;s been dead the entire summer.  Where&#8217;s the replacement Slayer?&#8221;<\/i>  A good question.<\/p>\n<li>Margie also asks, <i>&#8220;Why is Buffy&#8217;s hair so much longer than when she died?&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<li><b>Buffy<\/b> &#8211; Shock and trauma?  Or oxygen deprivation?  Obviously a situation that can&#8217;t stay status quo for long, but I&#8217;m sure the circumstances of her resurrection will have effects for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<li><b>Giles<\/b> &#8211; Probably an appropriate time, plot-wise, to bow out, but, damn, I&#8217;ll miss the guy.  <\/p>\n<li><b>Xander<\/b> &#8211; Y&#8217;know, Xander makes for good comic relief (with occasionally all-the-more-profound-therefore serious guy moments), but I&#8217;d really like to see him do something effective in a fight.  He seems to spend all of his time getting batted around.  We touched on some of the ego effects last season, and we certainly don&#8217;t want to see a Riley repeat, but it&#8217;s gotta &#8220;grate his cheese&#8221; a lot.<\/p>\n<li><b>Anya<\/b> &#8211; She keeps getting better at being human, for good and for ill.  I do worry that she&#8217;s going to get hurt badly by Xander Real Soon Now, given his reluctance to announce their engagement.  And, geez, wonder how a woman who used to be A Demon Of Vengeance For Women Hurt By Men will react to that.<\/p>\n<li><b>Willow<\/b> &#8211; I see at least a full season of plotlines related to Willow.  I mean, this is the gal who, <i>apparently<\/i> without repercussions, went rooting around in a volume titled <i>Darkest Magick<\/i> at the end of last season in order to take out Glory.  And this whole Resurrection Spell thing, and what she did to perform it, has got to reverberate for a while.  Yup, tough times ahead for MegaWitchGirl.<\/p>\n<li><b>Tara<\/b> &#8211; Finally getting to be a solid member of the Scooby Gang.  That&#8217;s good, because she&#8217;s going to need them as Willow works through her problems.<\/p>\n<li><b>Dawn<\/b> &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping the &#8220;Dawn can&#8217;t follow instructions and therefore gets into trouble&#8221; schtick will go away.  Quickly.  Yeah, she&#8217;s younger than the rest, more impulsive, but not necessarily stupid.<\/p>\n<li><b>Spike<\/b> &#8211; He&#8217;s good.  He&#8217;s real good.  In sort of an evil way.  I don&#8217;t know where Joss is going with him, but he&#8217;s doing better at the &#8220;Vampire Working Alongside Good Guys&#8221; bit than anyone, and I include Angel in that evaluation.  He&#8217;s a creature of passions, and right now those passions are directed at Dawn, as a replacement for (different passions for) Buffy.  This should be fun to watch.<\/p>\n<li>Margie observed one of the reasons why she&#8217;s been having problems with <i>Buffy<\/i> over the past few seasons &#8212; because the arcs are so increasingly labored and tangled, and the audience apparently considered so flaky, that every episode has to start with five minutes of &#8220;Previously, on <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>.&#8221;  By the same token, though, <i>Babylon 5<\/i>, which was at least as arc-y, never had any &#8220;previously&#8221; bits &#8212; if you missed last week, you missed last week.  She has a point (though she doesn&#8217;t seem to mind it as much when they do the same thing on <i>Angel<\/i>).  I&#8217;m hoping for a bit more focus this season on <i>Buffy<\/i>.  We&#8217;ll see.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on the season premiere of Buffy. Nothing terribly coherent or systematic or otherwise organized. 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