Re: A Second Look: BTVS S6D5

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>> BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
>> Season Six, Episode 15: "Hell's Bells"
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> While the Xander/Anya break-up is at the center of our
> disagreement about this episode, I don't sense that you
> appreciate the trappings of the episode as much as I do either. 
> We're probably closest on this, though your few pleasant moments
> strike me as the dominating quality of the episode until the
> tragedy takes over.  There's a lot of it.  Personal moments with
> Buffy/Xander, Buffy/Spike, Willow/Xander and Willow/Tara.

BUFFY: but if you're wildly curious, yeah, it hurts.
SPIKE: (softly) I'm sorry. (remembers himself) Or, Good!

I like the way that Spike automatically apologizes, before remembering 
that a vampire isn't SUPPOSED to care about hurting people...

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>> Season Six, Episode 17: "Entropy"
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> I'll limit observations this time to how much Anya's vengeance
> urge blinds her.  So hurt that she doesn't see the love poured
> on her.  So angry and determined for payback that she can't see
> how much pain Xander already is in.

And she also misses a wish that she could actually grant...

Xander:  I wish we could just go back to the way things were before.

-- 
Michael Ikeda    mmikeda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Telling a statistician not to use sampling is like telling an
astronomer they can't say there is a moon and stars"
Lynne Billard, past president American Statistical Association