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Buffy Episodes
Finally older son’s obsession with learning the entire electronic TV guide schedule for weeks in advance by heart pays off.
“Mummy, Buffy’s on five!”
I guess they must have bought the rights from the BBC
I was reading a review of Gone comparing it with various previous episodes so this is my two p’worth.
Gone and Band Candy are both essentially screwball episodes in which a spell releases characters from social constraints allowing them to act irresponsibly and wackiness to ensue. Trouble is, while in Band Candy this concept is the source of some fast paced comedy gold, Gone just isn’t very funny. Buffy’s invisible adventures include only one (in)decent joke (Xander catching Spike exercising) and the whole section is paced like the ‘funny’ interludes in a 1930’s musical when comic timing seemed to involve waiting 5 minutes for the more challenged members of the audience to work out the punchline.
Another problem is that SMG just isn’t a great radio actress, at least on the evidence of this outing. I’ve heard her do voiceover work in one other context, a kids film called Small Soldiers, where she plays an army of souped up Barbie dolls applying lethal force to Kirsten Dunst and there wasn’t really a lot of difference.
Still there are good points to the episode. Spike is horribly cute in the opening scenes, more of Warren’s essential sociopathy is subtly revealed and there’s a nifty tracking shot circling round Spike when Buffy first invades his crypt, which gets effective use in lots of vids.
“Mummy, Buffy’s on five!”
I guess they must have bought the rights from the BBC
I was reading a review of Gone comparing it with various previous episodes so this is my two p’worth.
Gone and Band Candy are both essentially screwball episodes in which a spell releases characters from social constraints allowing them to act irresponsibly and wackiness to ensue. Trouble is, while in Band Candy this concept is the source of some fast paced comedy gold, Gone just isn’t very funny. Buffy’s invisible adventures include only one (in)decent joke (Xander catching Spike exercising) and the whole section is paced like the ‘funny’ interludes in a 1930’s musical when comic timing seemed to involve waiting 5 minutes for the more challenged members of the audience to work out the punchline.
Another problem is that SMG just isn’t a great radio actress, at least on the evidence of this outing. I’ve heard her do voiceover work in one other context, a kids film called Small Soldiers, where she plays an army of souped up Barbie dolls applying lethal force to Kirsten Dunst and there wasn’t really a lot of difference.
Still there are good points to the episode. Spike is horribly cute in the opening scenes, more of Warren’s essential sociopathy is subtly revealed and there’s a nifty tracking shot circling round Spike when Buffy first invades his crypt, which gets effective use in lots of vids.