Re: A Second Look: BTVS S7D2

> BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
> Season Seven, Episode 5: "Selfless"
> Writer: Drew Goddard
> Director: David Solomon

one of the questions is how could cecily be halfrek
if the crimean war happened before cecilys time

this episode might provide an explanation
it shows the russian revolution in st petersburg in 1905
which is the wrong time

we were also told way back when that if anyankas jewel was destroyed
all her wishes would be undone

that means before -the wish- the crimean war was late 19th century
and the russian revolution was 1905

after -the wish- the world reverted to its current timeline
with the crimean war in early 19th century
and the russian revolution in 1925

> Season Seven, Episode 6: "Him"
> Writer: Drew Z. Greenberg
> Director: Michael Gershman
> 
> What is it that drives a person or people to come up with something
> like Dawn's cheerleading scene?  Is there someone who's actually
> amused by the ritual humiliation of theoretically beloved characters?

i tend to turn down the sound until the bronze scene
with the xander and willow drooling over dawn before they recognize her

> Season Seven, Episode 7: "Conversations With Dead People"
> Writers: Jane Espenson and Drew Goddard
> Director: Nick Marck
> 
> CWDP is an odd one.  It's well known by now how it was slapped
> together and all the collaboration-without-interaction and last-minute
> changes that went into it.  The end result is strangely unified.  I
> still think it's a rather brilliant premise for a concept episode,
> kicked off by a candidate for best teaser on any of Joss's shows (I
> could probably watch just that opening over and over).  "Here we go."
> Not everything works perfectly.  Dawn's segments are loud and
> screamy.  As great as Azura Skye is, I can only read the scripts and

yes but azura does have a really big smile

i initially wondered what spike was doing in the episode
becasue the woman he was conversing with wasnt a dead people
then i remember spike was oh right

> fundamentally different enough that they get treated differently?  Why
> the First implants a trigger in Spike and not anyone else confuses me
> too (along with why exactly it's so interested in him to begin with -
> does it see his potential to become a detergent?), since it suggests
> more (semi)coherent planning than the rest of S7 displays.

being a dead thing may make spike especially vunerable
remember that its previous outing was trying to turn
the other vampire with soul (but he has complete different coloring)

that led to the speculation that there was something particular
about souled vampires to the firsts plot
that was mever revealed to the readers

perhaps it was shanshu thing


also it seems to me that for gellars high school scenes
her hair and makeup was similar to season one
like they were trying to echo that part of early series
as well invisible girl reptile boy etc

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