BtVS season 1: The Harvest
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shapinglightTrawled through my enormous cache of icons looking for suitable ones for posts about BtVS season 1 and this was the best I could come up with. Very nice, though, isn't it?
Anyway, tomorrow I'm off back to work. No more episodes of The Wire in the afternoons. I'm stalled at episode 6, which was - of course - brilliant. :Sigh: I didn't get to watch one today either, as once K left to catch the train, there wasn't time. I did have time to watch another episode of BtVS season 1, though. Thoughts on The Harvest behind cut.
Hmm, Buffy gets out of her Luke-induced tight-spot rather easily, doesn't she? It was a bit of a One Leap and Buffy Was Free Moment. Apart from that, while she's down in the sewers with Xander, she seems a lot less take-charge than she does by the end of the episode, and I have to say the fight scenes made me smile. Wee little SMG-P, with her chubby cheeks and her tiny little fists raised in a defensive posture. However, her beheading of the minion with the cymbal is still a cool moment as is her under the brows stare at the remaining vampires at the end.
Quite a few important mythology bits in this episode, including Giles's Revised History of the World talk in the library, his vehement insistence to Xander that Jesse is not his friend 'but the thing that killed him', a view certain fans refuse to move on from, no matter how later events contradict it. Also, since I'm always sticking in descriptions in my fics of vampires as having eyes that glow in the dark like a cat's or a wolf's, was very pleased to see the vampire glowing eyes in the sewer scene (even if we never see them again). See - canon!
The Master, along with Luke, is still a crashing bore in this episode, except in the scene where he pokes the unfortunate Colin's eye out. Awful lot of Colins in the Master's family, aren't there?
Luke, Darla and Jesse all standing gaping at the Master while he pontificates is very silly. I'm fanwanking to myself that Darla's really thinking, "What did I do to end up with this bunch of losers?" while she's standing there, but sadly, I don't think she is.
Angel's cryptic act really annoyed me this time, even though he still looked very pretty (see icon). In view of later events, I ended up thinking, did he decide he wasn't going to back Buffy until he knew she could win? That's not how it came across in Becoming 1, though in fact I think I prefer that interpretation to what did happen in Becoming 1.
Xander still annoyed me too, though I suppose I have to expect that, seeing as he made such a poor first impression. I kept having to remind myself that Jesse was his friend and that's why he felt impelled to go after Buffy, but he still came across as whingy and sorry for himself to me when he was complaining about being useless. The Cordy/Harmony/Willow scene in the IT lesson was quite amusing. Cordy gets most of the best lines.
Best line of all, however, belongs to Giles, who looks utterly, utterly gorgeous in his cardy, with his 'The Earth is doomed' line at the end. His glee about all the nasties Buffy may have to face in the future is also very funny. However, I had to grit my teeth at his Techno Amish moment. Of course, in the late 1990s, we Brits were still sending each other messages by post-chaise, or even carrier pigeons, and had never heard of computers. :Rolls eyes:
Finally, Joyce's attempts to be stern mum with Buffy suggest that she's not really done it before, which is odd in view of Buffy's less than stellar academic record, and doesn't mesh that well with the relationship they seem to have. Poor Joyce! Doomed to be a feckless parent because her getting a clue would mean the end of the story. Also, I really like Principal Flutie. Wish he'd lasted a teeny bit longer before being eaten.
All-in-all, fun but the cheese factor is too high for comfort.
Anyway, tomorrow I'm off back to work. No more episodes of The Wire in the afternoons. I'm stalled at episode 6, which was - of course - brilliant. :Sigh: I didn't get to watch one today either, as once K left to catch the train, there wasn't time. I did have time to watch another episode of BtVS season 1, though. Thoughts on The Harvest behind cut.
Hmm, Buffy gets out of her Luke-induced tight-spot rather easily, doesn't she? It was a bit of a One Leap and Buffy Was Free Moment. Apart from that, while she's down in the sewers with Xander, she seems a lot less take-charge than she does by the end of the episode, and I have to say the fight scenes made me smile. Wee little SMG-P, with her chubby cheeks and her tiny little fists raised in a defensive posture. However, her beheading of the minion with the cymbal is still a cool moment as is her under the brows stare at the remaining vampires at the end.
Quite a few important mythology bits in this episode, including Giles's Revised History of the World talk in the library, his vehement insistence to Xander that Jesse is not his friend 'but the thing that killed him', a view certain fans refuse to move on from, no matter how later events contradict it. Also, since I'm always sticking in descriptions in my fics of vampires as having eyes that glow in the dark like a cat's or a wolf's, was very pleased to see the vampire glowing eyes in the sewer scene (even if we never see them again). See - canon!
The Master, along with Luke, is still a crashing bore in this episode, except in the scene where he pokes the unfortunate Colin's eye out. Awful lot of Colins in the Master's family, aren't there?
Luke, Darla and Jesse all standing gaping at the Master while he pontificates is very silly. I'm fanwanking to myself that Darla's really thinking, "What did I do to end up with this bunch of losers?" while she's standing there, but sadly, I don't think she is.
Angel's cryptic act really annoyed me this time, even though he still looked very pretty (see icon). In view of later events, I ended up thinking, did he decide he wasn't going to back Buffy until he knew she could win? That's not how it came across in Becoming 1, though in fact I think I prefer that interpretation to what did happen in Becoming 1.
Xander still annoyed me too, though I suppose I have to expect that, seeing as he made such a poor first impression. I kept having to remind myself that Jesse was his friend and that's why he felt impelled to go after Buffy, but he still came across as whingy and sorry for himself to me when he was complaining about being useless. The Cordy/Harmony/Willow scene in the IT lesson was quite amusing. Cordy gets most of the best lines.
Best line of all, however, belongs to Giles, who looks utterly, utterly gorgeous in his cardy, with his 'The Earth is doomed' line at the end. His glee about all the nasties Buffy may have to face in the future is also very funny. However, I had to grit my teeth at his Techno Amish moment. Of course, in the late 1990s, we Brits were still sending each other messages by post-chaise, or even carrier pigeons, and had never heard of computers. :Rolls eyes:
Finally, Joyce's attempts to be stern mum with Buffy suggest that she's not really done it before, which is odd in view of Buffy's less than stellar academic record, and doesn't mesh that well with the relationship they seem to have. Poor Joyce! Doomed to be a feckless parent because her getting a clue would mean the end of the story. Also, I really like Principal Flutie. Wish he'd lasted a teeny bit longer before being eaten.
All-in-all, fun but the cheese factor is too high for comfort.
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Date: 2008-02-04 08:56 pm (UTC)in the current issues of the buffy s8 comics, i have heard rumors having to do with giles, faith perhaps a new facet to their relationship. i would like to be filled in on anything and everything relating to this (for a variety of reasons, but first and foremost because i'm in the middle of a f/g WIP which began last may, and i'm interested in all takes pertaining to them, especially canon takes).
if you don't want to post spoiler stuff, my e-mail is mama_said_riot@yahoo.com and if this comment is too spoiler-y, delete it. i didn't know who else to ask. if you would be willing to do this i'd be so greatful
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Date: 2008-02-05 12:01 pm (UTC)I don't know if you're familiar at all with the story so far, but I can tell what's happened right here and now, if you like. I don't think it counts as spoilery any longer. There was a 4 issue Faith arc in which she'd split up with Robin and what with one thing and another, wanted to stop slaying. Giles then recruited her on one 'final mission,' which was to be the assassination of a 'rogue' Slayer (a very implausibly written English aristocrat). Faith had to learn to speak Brit etc so she could (again, very implausibly) pass herself off as another English aristo to gain the other girl's confidence. She agreed to do it after Giles gave her a sort of pep talk about how they were both compromised already by bad things they'd done in the past and how he could never ask Buffy to do stuff like that. There was a little bonding-type stuff involved but certainly nothing 'shippy.
At the end of the story (Faith didn't kill the girl, though the girl died anyway, and Buffy got the wrong end of the stick and thought Faith was trying to kill her, which she seemed only too willing to believe) Faith decides she should mentor young Slayers with personal problems and Giles goes along as her sort-of Watcher, having had a big, though largely inexplicable, row with Buffy.
As far as I know, there are no spoilers to do with either character in upcoming issues. You don't really get spoilers for comics the way we did with the show. All I can say is, it seems that Faith and Giles have been written out of the story for the time being.
I hope that's helpful and of course if I do find any genuine spoilers about them I'll let you know.