End of day wrap-up, The Gift
Jul. 24th, 2005 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenWent to brother's, went to Mom and Dad's, about halfway through the day got sick due to heat, something I ate, leftover stress, or all of the above. Am still feeling a bit wonky so this might be an early night for me.
Rewatched The Gift. You know, I almost hate to say it but that ep does not bear up under repeat viewings. It was a barely held together ep in the first place, but the more you watch it the more you realize how much Joss was really phoning it in. Sure there are good lines and moments, but they're tiny pockets inside of a big muddled mess the likes of which we wouldn't see again until Hole in the World. Perhaps the lesson here is that Joss has a kink for killing off beloved female characters, but he's way too close to actually execute that well. Or, er, them well, as the case may be. Ahem.
Which isn't to say that I'm not a big girl who doesn't tear up every time Spike loses it at the sight of Buffy's body because I am and I do. But so much of that is due to the score, which is amazing, and Marsters selling that moment, which is also amazing, and so very little is due to what's actually going on because yes, continuity of any kind did fly out of the window and keep on flying throughout the ep, and Hole in the World was incredibly sucky on so many levels but at least that plot convienence death made sense in and of itself whereas with this, even years later, you still want to shake Buffy and the Scoobies and demand to know why in all their years of combat not one of them has ever learned about applying pressure and elevating.
At least, you want to do that in the moments you're not wanting to know why, if it had to be blood, the monks didn't save everybody a lot of time and turn the key into a stone, or a teddy bear, or a bagel for that matter.
Still, one has to admit that even watching the dumbness takes on a nostalgic glow. Buffy and Angel may have had some truly sucktacular moments (coughBuffymorethanAngelthankstoMarticough) but their our sucktacular moments, damn it! I mean come on, where else would you get one show torturing a vampire by sticking his head underwater in the exact same year as it being a huge plot point on the other show that vampires could theoretically live at the bottom of the ocean for millenia so long as no cute British boys come to save them? Only on our shows, baby! You gotta love it.
Rewatched The Gift. You know, I almost hate to say it but that ep does not bear up under repeat viewings. It was a barely held together ep in the first place, but the more you watch it the more you realize how much Joss was really phoning it in. Sure there are good lines and moments, but they're tiny pockets inside of a big muddled mess the likes of which we wouldn't see again until Hole in the World. Perhaps the lesson here is that Joss has a kink for killing off beloved female characters, but he's way too close to actually execute that well. Or, er, them well, as the case may be. Ahem.
Which isn't to say that I'm not a big girl who doesn't tear up every time Spike loses it at the sight of Buffy's body because I am and I do. But so much of that is due to the score, which is amazing, and Marsters selling that moment, which is also amazing, and so very little is due to what's actually going on because yes, continuity of any kind did fly out of the window and keep on flying throughout the ep, and Hole in the World was incredibly sucky on so many levels but at least that plot convienence death made sense in and of itself whereas with this, even years later, you still want to shake Buffy and the Scoobies and demand to know why in all their years of combat not one of them has ever learned about applying pressure and elevating.
At least, you want to do that in the moments you're not wanting to know why, if it had to be blood, the monks didn't save everybody a lot of time and turn the key into a stone, or a teddy bear, or a bagel for that matter.
Still, one has to admit that even watching the dumbness takes on a nostalgic glow. Buffy and Angel may have had some truly sucktacular moments (coughBuffymorethanAngelthankstoMarticough) but their our sucktacular moments, damn it! I mean come on, where else would you get one show torturing a vampire by sticking his head underwater in the exact same year as it being a huge plot point on the other show that vampires could theoretically live at the bottom of the ocean for millenia so long as no cute British boys come to save them? Only on our shows, baby! You gotta love it.
