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Feb. 8th, 2003 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockSo I had the burrito. It was excellent. It was only half a burrito, but these are the large kind packed with big hunks of stuff (meat, green chilis, other stuff I can't name but love anyway), so combined with the beans it's left me full. Maybe I'll have a piece of pizza if I get hungry later.
Professionally made chile verde sauce is the best. This world would not be fit for woman or man to find happiness if we didn't have Mexican food. Seriously, I'd probably die. And honestly-- how could I possibly leave the South West? To live in a far away Eastern or Northern state where the number of good Mexican restaurants per town can be counted on one hand... or be replaced with Tex-Mex. ::shudder:: It'd be hell. Pure culinary hell.
I watched Who Are You on the WB. Love that ep. Faith is such a great character. Of course, there was the classic bronze sex-tease with Spike. Turned the tv on abotu a minute before it started, so got to sit back and watch the whole scene unfold in all its glory. Spike was so hot; Faith's dialogue was so hot. Loved the bottle being thrown into the wall.
I also noticed again how damning the events in this episode were to the B/R relationship. I would argue that it was doomed from the beginning, but Faith's presence signalled the beginning of the end for B/R. In Buffy's mind, even if he didn't mean to, Riley cheated on her. With her her most personal enemy. With her sister. I'll bet she thought back to this when she found him cheating the next year with her other enemies--vampires. On top of that-- he couldn't tell.
This episode was great for all the ways that Faith's behavior allowed us to see into Buffy. When she says "I have to do this. I'm Buffy." When she yells at Riley "Dont' tell me what to do!" and then snaps "I can't use you." [in a fight] because he's being overprotective of her. So telling of B/R's future relationship problems.
Also,I know I recognized it last year, but rewatching it has really reaffirmed how much of a paralell the alley in Dead Things was to this. In both we see 'Buffy' on top, physically assualting her shadow/foil character, using the same words of being "empty", "evil", "killer", "dead inside", in violent act of self-hatred taken out on a person she's very close to.
Pretty strong irony that the first time it wasn't Buffy at all, but the second time, in almost the exact same confrontation, it was. You could even say that Buffy's being brought back to life and finding the world different and unwelcoming was comparable to Faith's coming out of the long coma and finding the world had moved on without her.
Professionally made chile verde sauce is the best. This world would not be fit for woman or man to find happiness if we didn't have Mexican food. Seriously, I'd probably die. And honestly-- how could I possibly leave the South West? To live in a far away Eastern or Northern state where the number of good Mexican restaurants per town can be counted on one hand... or be replaced with Tex-Mex. ::shudder:: It'd be hell. Pure culinary hell.
I watched Who Are You on the WB. Love that ep. Faith is such a great character. Of course, there was the classic bronze sex-tease with Spike. Turned the tv on abotu a minute before it started, so got to sit back and watch the whole scene unfold in all its glory. Spike was so hot; Faith's dialogue was so hot. Loved the bottle being thrown into the wall.
I also noticed again how damning the events in this episode were to the B/R relationship. I would argue that it was doomed from the beginning, but Faith's presence signalled the beginning of the end for B/R. In Buffy's mind, even if he didn't mean to, Riley cheated on her. With her her most personal enemy. With her sister. I'll bet she thought back to this when she found him cheating the next year with her other enemies--vampires. On top of that-- he couldn't tell.
This episode was great for all the ways that Faith's behavior allowed us to see into Buffy. When she says "I have to do this. I'm Buffy." When she yells at Riley "Dont' tell me what to do!" and then snaps "I can't use you." [in a fight] because he's being overprotective of her. So telling of B/R's future relationship problems.
Also,I know I recognized it last year, but rewatching it has really reaffirmed how much of a paralell the alley in Dead Things was to this. In both we see 'Buffy' on top, physically assualting her shadow/foil character, using the same words of being "empty", "evil", "killer", "dead inside", in violent act of self-hatred taken out on a person she's very close to.
Pretty strong irony that the first time it wasn't Buffy at all, but the second time, in almost the exact same confrontation, it was. You could even say that Buffy's being brought back to life and finding the world different and unwelcoming was comparable to Faith's coming out of the long coma and finding the world had moved on without her.
