NLM x 8...or....9....or was it 11?.
Nov. 29th, 2002 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI rewatched Never Leave Me.
Why do I keep doing this? Well, for one thing, I've been kicked out of my room till Sunday, for my aunt. It's the couch for me. But, the couch is in the living room, which is near the big TV.
I rewatched Smashed first though, on teh tail-end of the marathon. You know, in all the gushing over the sex, I'd forgotten how funny it was. Especialy Amy-- her timing was hilariously perfect with the line, "Do you have any...cookies?---Any kind. But no cheese." I was luaghing loudly, because it was so *rat*-like. Very well done. Spike with Mr. Fett was again terribly funny too.
Anyway, I rewatched NLM, and was trying to compare the music at the end of Smashed to the basement scene of Sleeper to the OTHER basement scene of NLM. The Smashed music is unique to that ep, but very pretty, and I wish they'd use it again. In Sleeper and NLM, there's the same music-- a very low, soft score that's slow and haunting--- the kind of background music you have to listen *for* otherwise it'll blend right into your watching of the story and you won't really register it. Which is what it was supposed to do-- just add to background atmosphere when the focus of BOTH those scenes was on the dialogue. So the music score was there, but it was very very subtle.
In the end of the NLM scene ((**sigh**... it was my excuse to rewatch it over and over again))... from the part where Buffy tells Spike he can be a better man, a slightly louder piano starts. Very very pretty, soft score. Unfortunately, it only is able to go about 30 seconds before the harbringers ((damn them!)) interupt, and we get Fight!Music.
I was thinking about the very end too--the Spike torture. The only other person whose blood opened the seal is dead. But as of now Spike's not. Nor do I think he will be. But will this create a link between Spike and the First Vampire? (who was rather corny loooking/standing... they should have adotped "see less, fear more" method.) Will Spike be used in the future to somehow destroy this Vampire, as it was his blood that gave him "life"? Will we be able to learn any more this season about Sires & Children, and will Spike's lingering bond with the FV (if there is one) resemble that other bond in any way? Could ME use the possible bond between Spike & the FV to compare the Childe/Sire bond, so that we learn by the contrast?
Just some unspoiled speculation. I think it'd be neat, though. And it'd go with Spike already beign close to the BB this season.
Why do I keep doing this? Well, for one thing, I've been kicked out of my room till Sunday, for my aunt. It's the couch for me. But, the couch is in the living room, which is near the big TV.
I rewatched Smashed first though, on teh tail-end of the marathon. You know, in all the gushing over the sex, I'd forgotten how funny it was. Especialy Amy-- her timing was hilariously perfect with the line, "Do you have any...cookies?---Any kind. But no cheese." I was luaghing loudly, because it was so *rat*-like. Very well done. Spike with Mr. Fett was again terribly funny too.
Anyway, I rewatched NLM, and was trying to compare the music at the end of Smashed to the basement scene of Sleeper to the OTHER basement scene of NLM. The Smashed music is unique to that ep, but very pretty, and I wish they'd use it again. In Sleeper and NLM, there's the same music-- a very low, soft score that's slow and haunting--- the kind of background music you have to listen *for* otherwise it'll blend right into your watching of the story and you won't really register it. Which is what it was supposed to do-- just add to background atmosphere when the focus of BOTH those scenes was on the dialogue. So the music score was there, but it was very very subtle.
In the end of the NLM scene ((**sigh**... it was my excuse to rewatch it over and over again))... from the part where Buffy tells Spike he can be a better man, a slightly louder piano starts. Very very pretty, soft score. Unfortunately, it only is able to go about 30 seconds before the harbringers ((damn them!)) interupt, and we get Fight!Music.
I was thinking about the very end too--the Spike torture. The only other person whose blood opened the seal is dead. But as of now Spike's not. Nor do I think he will be. But will this create a link between Spike and the First Vampire? (who was rather corny loooking/standing... they should have adotped "see less, fear more" method.) Will Spike be used in the future to somehow destroy this Vampire, as it was his blood that gave him "life"? Will we be able to learn any more this season about Sires & Children, and will Spike's lingering bond with the FV (if there is one) resemble that other bond in any way? Could ME use the possible bond between Spike & the FV to compare the Childe/Sire bond, so that we learn by the contrast?
Just some unspoiled speculation. I think it'd be neat, though. And it'd go with Spike already beign close to the BB this season.
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Date: 2002-11-29 11:26 am (UTC)Hey... Just an anonymous lurker responding to point out that the lovely music from the end of "Smashed" is the same music from the end of "The Wish." It was used again a few times in S6 as B/S music -- like during the dream sequence in "Dead Things" (I think) and during their conversation in "Hell's Bells" (again, I think). I remember paying attention at the time but my memory is failing me now.
And I agree that whichever non-Wanker (heh) scored "Sleeper"/NLM seems to have found B/S their own Theme Song proper. (Just like B/A!) A good bit of foreshadowing in itself for any 'shipper, I'd wager.
Cheers! kk
I'm just adding a note to say that I tried to post this but think that I failed and so I'm trying again. It is my great hope that it doesn't show up, like, 4 times. But I apologise if it does.
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