Buffylicious goodness!
The quote about "Boy, it looks like someone slaughtered a whole catalogue of Abercrombie and Fitch models" (half-remembered paraphrase) really made my night. This was an impressive writing debut for Drew Goddard, who nailed Anya perfectly. The OMWF-love, the wedding dress, the funny cinematography when she's all medieval and Swedish. And poof- D'Hoffryn appears, and she suddenly speaks perfect English. But oh, the subtitles!
Need to download.
Anya with long, wavy dark hair= good.
But okay. SO I want to know from whence comes the bunny-phobia. Did I miss something, or do the memories of bunnies from her life as Aud cause her that much trauma?
Good riddance, Hallie! Sorry, I found her an annoyance ever since she first poofed onto the screen, although I would like to know how she went from bitchy Victorian Cecily to gossipy, obnoxious Halfrek.
I liked the continuity. I liked seeing that after 5 minutes of being lah-di-dah Dork!Willow, she still is grappling with issues. I liked that she uses the brawn of Evil!Willow to order vengeance demons around. I think that she's one of the most interesting characters on the show right now.
I'll freely admit that I haven't been a huge fan of post S2 Spike (you know, chipped, stale joke, object of teenybopper-obsession Spike), but crying all alone in the basement to memories of ashes and fantasies of a sympathetic Buffy? Guh. Wanted to hug him and stroke his overly-gelled hair.
And for the meat of it: the speech. When Angel got his own show, I got over the B/A thing. You love, sometimes you break up, and when that happens, you have to move on, Destiny or not. And while This St. Cordangel thing makes me queasy, I actually welcomed Riley. But it's good to know that Buffy still remembers who Angel is. What he meant to her. I'll admit, the "I'm the Slayer, I'm all alone, you can't understand" thing gets old, but then again, we forget that this is a girl who is secretly in love with her misery. It's become who she is. I thought the speech was powerful, well written. It's a shame the SMG gets more and more emaciated and bleached every season. If she still looked like she did S1 or even S2, I'd have been sniffling. But instead, I think, "For Christ's sake! Eat a cheeseburger!" Do the yellow-blonde eyebrows bother anyone else?
And finally, The Lie (mmhmmm) finally gets a shout out. Do you know how much I've griped and raged about The Lie? Hahaha, Xander Harris. See how much understanding counts when your dearest love's on the line? I managed to be annoyed with and sympathetic to Xander all at once. But I was glad that the hypocrisies came out.
And... I wrote a lot. Fangirl, I am.
Sleep, I need.
The quote about "Boy, it looks like someone slaughtered a whole catalogue of Abercrombie and Fitch models" (half-remembered paraphrase) really made my night. This was an impressive writing debut for Drew Goddard, who nailed Anya perfectly. The OMWF-love, the wedding dress, the funny cinematography when she's all medieval and Swedish. And poof- D'Hoffryn appears, and she suddenly speaks perfect English. But oh, the subtitles!
Need to download.
Anya with long, wavy dark hair= good.
But okay. SO I want to know from whence comes the bunny-phobia. Did I miss something, or do the memories of bunnies from her life as Aud cause her that much trauma?
Good riddance, Hallie! Sorry, I found her an annoyance ever since she first poofed onto the screen, although I would like to know how she went from bitchy Victorian Cecily to gossipy, obnoxious Halfrek.
I liked the continuity. I liked seeing that after 5 minutes of being lah-di-dah Dork!Willow, she still is grappling with issues. I liked that she uses the brawn of Evil!Willow to order vengeance demons around. I think that she's one of the most interesting characters on the show right now.
I'll freely admit that I haven't been a huge fan of post S2 Spike (you know, chipped, stale joke, object of teenybopper-obsession Spike), but crying all alone in the basement to memories of ashes and fantasies of a sympathetic Buffy? Guh. Wanted to hug him and stroke his overly-gelled hair.
And for the meat of it: the speech. When Angel got his own show, I got over the B/A thing. You love, sometimes you break up, and when that happens, you have to move on, Destiny or not. And while This St. Cordangel thing makes me queasy, I actually welcomed Riley. But it's good to know that Buffy still remembers who Angel is. What he meant to her. I'll admit, the "I'm the Slayer, I'm all alone, you can't understand" thing gets old, but then again, we forget that this is a girl who is secretly in love with her misery. It's become who she is. I thought the speech was powerful, well written. It's a shame the SMG gets more and more emaciated and bleached every season. If she still looked like she did S1 or even S2, I'd have been sniffling. But instead, I think, "For Christ's sake! Eat a cheeseburger!" Do the yellow-blonde eyebrows bother anyone else?
And finally, The Lie (mmhmmm) finally gets a shout out. Do you know how much I've griped and raged about The Lie? Hahaha, Xander Harris. See how much understanding counts when your dearest love's on the line? I managed to be annoyed with and sympathetic to Xander all at once. But I was glad that the hypocrisies came out.
And... I wrote a lot. Fangirl, I am.
Sleep, I need.