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timepiececlock) wrote2003-02-27 01:02 am
timepiececlock) wrote2003-02-27 01:02 am
You know what I love?
I love it when you leave a review for a fic writer, and they send you and email response. And then you respond to that. And a few days later, they out of the blue send you a new email, striking up new conversations about the lack of Spuffy in BTVS crossovers, and wanting to know, as a fellow fan, your opinion on Spike's attitude post-soul, and what you think of season seven, and how the series should end.
And suddenly, you find yourself with a whole new email buddy.
And I think back, and I say "Yeah, this is why I write reviews."
Rewatching it this afternoon, I had some confusion about the meaning behind a verbal exchange in the Storytellers episode, between Buffy and Spike.
Did anyone else trip up on this part?
They're fighting in the school, and Spike is punching this kid, and Buffy says "Spike! Don't kill him; these are students." And Spike only says "They'll live."
What was that? It seemed an odd exchange to me, for Buffy and Spike. It could be that it was only used for the audience's benefit, to clarify that the students were under something's mind control, but I thought that was pretty obvious already at that point.
So why that exchange?
Spike's told Buffy before that he abhors the thought of willfully kiling humans now. And Buffy has told Spike before the that she believes in that conviction, and in fact her belief that his soul will guide him is the entire reason she had the chip taken out in the first place. Is it that Buffy is honestly so self-involved that she thinks Spike will kill humans now, because she told him she wanted him to be mean and violent again? That would be kind of stupid, and I give Buffy's character more credit than that, and so again---I wonder why she said it.
Or maybe Spike just didn't realize, because he hadn't been at the school earlier that day, that the students rioters were only posessed students, not minions of evil? Though it's the most plausible explanation within the episode context, that seems kind of stupid to me too, because Spike would know a human when he saw/smelled/heard/fought one. And it wouldn't be hard for him to guess from the riot scene and everything they'd learned from Andrew and Spike himself that the people on the Hellmouth can be under mind-control, and that normal students wouldn't riot like that.
So, again, a little confused.
And suddenly, you find yourself with a whole new email buddy.
And I think back, and I say "Yeah, this is why I write reviews."
Rewatching it this afternoon, I had some confusion about the meaning behind a verbal exchange in the Storytellers episode, between Buffy and Spike.
Did anyone else trip up on this part?
They're fighting in the school, and Spike is punching this kid, and Buffy says "Spike! Don't kill him; these are students." And Spike only says "They'll live."
What was that? It seemed an odd exchange to me, for Buffy and Spike. It could be that it was only used for the audience's benefit, to clarify that the students were under something's mind control, but I thought that was pretty obvious already at that point.
So why that exchange?
Spike's told Buffy before that he abhors the thought of willfully kiling humans now. And Buffy has told Spike before the that she believes in that conviction, and in fact her belief that his soul will guide him is the entire reason she had the chip taken out in the first place. Is it that Buffy is honestly so self-involved that she thinks Spike will kill humans now, because she told him she wanted him to be mean and violent again? That would be kind of stupid, and I give Buffy's character more credit than that, and so again---I wonder why she said it.
Or maybe Spike just didn't realize, because he hadn't been at the school earlier that day, that the students rioters were only posessed students, not minions of evil? Though it's the most plausible explanation within the episode context, that seems kind of stupid to me too, because Spike would know a human when he saw/smelled/heard/fought one. And it wouldn't be hard for him to guess from the riot scene and everything they'd learned from Andrew and Spike himself that the people on the Hellmouth can be under mind-control, and that normal students wouldn't riot like that.
So, again, a little confused.
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About Buffy's comment- that struck me as really weird and out of place, too. I'm looking forward to reading the shooting script from this episode. I guess it could be a character inconsistancy but I'd like to think there's a better reason.
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I just took the "they'll live" exchange as a shout-out to Terminator 2 and thought it was funny :)
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I don't really remember that line in the movie, but then I haven't seen it in a while. But you could be right, and it could be just a terminator shout-out. I don't really know.
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And by the way, your icon is fabulous! I loved that scene in GID.
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I loved it too; a genuinely creepy scene. I found it scarier than Dawn's scene in CwDP, actually, because it happened much faster.
I got the icon from