Re: A Second Look: BTVS S6D6

> BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
> Season Six, Episode 19: "Villains"
> Writer: Marti Noxon
> Director: David Solomon
> 
> "Villains" is almost one of the all-time classics.  Hannigan's
> monotone take on "running on pure fury" used to bother me more, but as
> part of a three-episode cycle, I enjoy the look at the different
> facets of darkness in Willow.  This episode is the one that
> efficiently moves us from Willow as a scary x-factor to Willow as a
> villain, without ever taking a step that doesn't seem like her.  Plus,
> revenge is fun, and I love the look at Warren as things start to not
> go his way and he gets to die painfully in full awareness of how
> pathetic he is.  But you know how some episodes just teem with

i have a problem in that some years later
willow doesnt feel any guilt for warren

she killed out of anger and frustration just like her victim
there wasnt anything nobler about her motives

> Season Six, Episode 20: "Two To Go"
> Writer: Douglas Petrie
> Director: Bill Norton

> enjoy watching it.  Why is evil so much fun?  But let's not forget
> Buffy, our actual star.  She becomes as a champion of life and non-

she gets a little excessive bwahahaitis
channeling some bad bond villians

> Season Six, Episode 21: "Grave"
> Writer: David Fury
> Director: James A. Contner

> Sadly it brings back all my issues about Giles abandoning her, reduced
> to a brief brushed-off apology, like the show's letting him off the
> hook - granted, it's the season finale, we don't have time to sort

reality sometimes intrudes
like the beginning of the season it seems they did nothing all summer
and then crowd all the angst into the first few weeks of fall

which coincidentally follows the filming schedule for the series

> Sarah Michelle then-Gellar makes her only featurette appearance in the
> retrospective about the show; it must've been something that was
> originally for TV.  Interesting that it gets into parts of the pitch/

you can actually date it because sara is in her wedding hair
early season seven

there must be some archaelogy term for dating a culture by hair styles

arf meow arf  -  everything thing i know i learned
from the collective unconscience of odd bodkins
nobody could do that much decoupage
without calling on the powers of darkness