Friday - Review Time Again
May. 9th, 2003 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanyTwo very watchable episodes.
Lies My Parents Told Me
Quite why Wood, a non-slayer, thought he could take out the vampire that had killed his slayer-mother with fairly minimal preparation and equipment is beyond me. I am not sure where our sympathies were supposed to lie, but mine were with Giles and Wood. Buffy let Spike walk around free, despite knowing that the trigger was still active. Spike was pressing her to make that choice - had he killed someone in triggered state he would therefore have been responsible. This episode highlighted Buffy's own, increasingly cold stance (eg. she would have let Dawn die next time around) and irrationalities (ie. the freed Spike).
Also - Spike was lying about Wood's mother and his own (although possibly because he hasn't accepted the truth himself). After all a slayer can't "quit". As the flashback conversation showed, Spike had gone to some effort to find Nikki Wood. She had to take him out or spend the rest of her life running, knowing that she or Robin could be killed at any moment. That is not the same as choosing the calling over her son. Also, as Angel points out (or, rather, doesn't point out) in Dopplegangland, the vampire and the person they were are not different. It is only the presence or absence of the soul. Consequently what Spike's mother said to him was "true" on some level - namely that she did think his poetry bad and his reliance on her as heavy, but loved him enough (as a human) not to mind those things.
Players
Finally - Cordelia has been rumbled. I was very, very pleased. I really enjoyed this episode. The much-sidelined Gunn got to play James Bond rather well (although, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bateleur pointed out, Gunn comes across more as a college boy and less as an ex-street urchin these days) and the developing romance between him and Gwen was a nice touch (although I would have expected him to have some thoughts of Fred).
Connor finally started to put two and two together (although I still predict he's going to be unaccepting of the Cordelia Is The Big Bad revelation). Whilst Angel and the others returned to trying to crack the main plot. I did guess the ending, but only moments before the gang actually appeared.
Just one more set of episodes, then I'll have to remind myself of how the video works all over again...
Lies My Parents Told Me
Quite why Wood, a non-slayer, thought he could take out the vampire that had killed his slayer-mother with fairly minimal preparation and equipment is beyond me. I am not sure where our sympathies were supposed to lie, but mine were with Giles and Wood. Buffy let Spike walk around free, despite knowing that the trigger was still active. Spike was pressing her to make that choice - had he killed someone in triggered state he would therefore have been responsible. This episode highlighted Buffy's own, increasingly cold stance (eg. she would have let Dawn die next time around) and irrationalities (ie. the freed Spike).
Also - Spike was lying about Wood's mother and his own (although possibly because he hasn't accepted the truth himself). After all a slayer can't "quit". As the flashback conversation showed, Spike had gone to some effort to find Nikki Wood. She had to take him out or spend the rest of her life running, knowing that she or Robin could be killed at any moment. That is not the same as choosing the calling over her son. Also, as Angel points out (or, rather, doesn't point out) in Dopplegangland, the vampire and the person they were are not different. It is only the presence or absence of the soul. Consequently what Spike's mother said to him was "true" on some level - namely that she did think his poetry bad and his reliance on her as heavy, but loved him enough (as a human) not to mind those things.
Players
Finally - Cordelia has been rumbled. I was very, very pleased. I really enjoyed this episode. The much-sidelined Gunn got to play James Bond rather well (although, as
bateleur pointed out, Gunn comes across more as a college boy and less as an ex-street urchin these days) and the developing romance between him and Gwen was a nice touch (although I would have expected him to have some thoughts of Fred). Connor finally started to put two and two together (although I still predict he's going to be unaccepting of the Cordelia Is The Big Bad revelation). Whilst Angel and the others returned to trying to crack the main plot. I did guess the ending, but only moments before the gang actually appeared.
Just one more set of episodes, then I'll have to remind myself of how the video works all over again...
