Date: 2009-04-15 10:45 pm (UTC)
I'm still annoyed that LJ ate that long post I wrote on one of your other entries. I can't reconstruct that. nm. Onto the next ep:

Buffy goes to university. She's a big girl now.

That has a lot to do with her insecurity. New place, new rules, new attitudes, new everything, and an overwhelming quantity of things, events, people, courses. I always thought it's a nice representation of how disorienting it is to be new at a University. And there's the breakup of the old familiar domains - home, watcher and group of friends. It takes time for people to regain the balance. That's a touch of reality that keeps cropping up in the show.

Buffy: I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?

Not to mention academics are not her strong suit.


In general, this is not a season I like, and I don't like the new characters introduced. Riley is a prime - hugely boring - example. And I generally resent the way Giles was treated by the writers. That said, there are good moments, scenes and eps.


18. Giles has a girlfriend visiting! Yes! And she calls him Ripper. Luckiest woman on the show yet.

I love that scene, I love its implications, I love the music in the background (early David; we so rarely get a glimpse of Giles' musical collection), I love Rupert telling Buffy off his private life. I don't particularly love Olivia herself, but I really have nothing against her.

19. And Giles wants Buffy to be self-reliant. Is this making her take the consequences of dropping Wesley? Giles didn't like Wesley either.

On the meta-level, this is to cut her off that line of support too. Everyone has their own lives and has moved on. She can't keep falling back on old faithfuls.
From Giles' POV, I think this is part of the consequences of her own demand for independence and self-reliance built into the break from the council. Partly, it's about this new beginning, since he will not be on campus to help and they can't keep running back and forth, so she has to learn to deal in situ. But its also partly to get her to go and stay off his private life.


Do student vampires not wander into town? I thought Buffy dealt with all vampires anywhere in Sunnydale all along. I wouldn't have thought her presence on campus would mean all that much to most vampires...

Again parts: a. Note Willow's quote: "Yeah, it's like, five miles away. It's uncharted territory."
b. She doesn't seem to know the layout of the campus, so chances are she didn't hang out there much.
c. Even if she did occasionally get there, if she's a student and living on campus, she'd be there much more and be much more aware and dangerous to campus after-life.

26. Xander says "nothing says thank you like dollars in the waistband." If he doesn't want to talk about his stripping experience, why does he keep mentioning it?

It's still exciting to him and fresh in his mind, and while he doesn't want to detail the story, he isn't good at keeping his thoughts out of his mouth.

33. And it ends with mysterious vampire-hunters who are not Buffy and company. Hmm.

I knwo this is a major thing in this season, but *yawn!*
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