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hazelkI’m sorry Joss. I promise to buy the trade paperbacks but there was a link and it was all clicky and everything.
This felt really short, possibly because most of it had been covered in the advance publicity. Yes, RomeBuffy was a decoy, Xander’s in Scotland, Dawn had sex and got eight miles high. Amy’s back with a new boyfriend and working with the government (or a major cosmetics company). We don’t know who the boyfriend is, my guess is a resurrected (and still skinless hence the general revulsion) Warren. He died from mystical causes, he’d definitely want access to a weapons lab and he’d be totally down with killing Buffy/Willow.
It’s an opening episode, or not even that, an opening teaser. The post-Chosen set up is a pretty standard Slayer.org scenario but the voices are instantly recognisable. Buffy’s inner voice is Buffy from the tautological first two sentences about changing the world meaning everything’s different to her final admission that she misses her mom. The Buffy/Xander conversation had exactly that S7 sibling vibe, the one with her actual sibling was more fractious but I loved the way Buffy moved around her giantness. When there were interviews about Dawn going through big changes it sounded horribly like an evil pregnancy story but the literal interpretation is a better and simply hilarious metaphor for the self-consciousness that results from your first time. Speaking of literal, it was great to see Buffy still improvising, unexpectedly using a symbolic weapon as an actual one and I also loved hearing her paying attention to how the new recruits would need to get past the sight of their first victims. They may not call her by her given name but I bet she remembers theirs.
This felt really short, possibly because most of it had been covered in the advance publicity. Yes, RomeBuffy was a decoy, Xander’s in Scotland, Dawn had sex and got eight miles high. Amy’s back with a new boyfriend and working with the government (or a major cosmetics company). We don’t know who the boyfriend is, my guess is a resurrected (and still skinless hence the general revulsion) Warren. He died from mystical causes, he’d definitely want access to a weapons lab and he’d be totally down with killing Buffy/Willow.
It’s an opening episode, or not even that, an opening teaser. The post-Chosen set up is a pretty standard Slayer.org scenario but the voices are instantly recognisable. Buffy’s inner voice is Buffy from the tautological first two sentences about changing the world meaning everything’s different to her final admission that she misses her mom. The Buffy/Xander conversation had exactly that S7 sibling vibe, the one with her actual sibling was more fractious but I loved the way Buffy moved around her giantness. When there were interviews about Dawn going through big changes it sounded horribly like an evil pregnancy story but the literal interpretation is a better and simply hilarious metaphor for the self-consciousness that results from your first time. Speaking of literal, it was great to see Buffy still improvising, unexpectedly using a symbolic weapon as an actual one and I also loved hearing her paying attention to how the new recruits would need to get past the sight of their first victims. They may not call her by her given name but I bet she remembers theirs.
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Date: 2007-03-13 05:37 pm (UTC)