by "One Bit Shy" <OBS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jan 25, 2008 at 06:12 PM
"Apteryx" <apteryx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsmtsm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> A certain highly influential poster has suggested viewing this episode
>> Zeppo-style, thinking of it as being filtered through Buffy's
>> emotional viewpoint rather than as literally true in all the details.
>
> OBS?
Am I influencing you?
> I'd agree to the extent that I think here (and in The Zeppo) things are
> presented in an exaggerated fa****on in order to assist the viewer to
feel
> feelings that might be experienced by Buffy/Xander in those situations.
> Not
> that either of them is a literal seen-from-the-perspective-of story.
I agree with that. There are times in both - especially The Zeppo as I
recall - when Buffy/Xander aren't even witnesses to the exaggerated
events.
OBS
