BtVS: There's a lot of talking in this episode but there's a lot to talk about and the dialogue is done well so it works for me.
I love both the similarities and the differences between 17-year-old Buffy's response to Angel wanting to kill himself compared to 21-year-old Buffy's response to Spike.
Angel: Am I a thing worth saving?
Younger Buffy couldn't answer that question. Her response had to do with how much she needed him and loved him.
Four years later, Buffy doesn't hesitate: “You are. You may not see it, but I do. I believe in you, Spike.”
I love that Willow still can't ACT bad, but one mention of Tara reminds us what's under the surface.
Buffy recently said that “Their opinions don't matter.” I wonder if that includes Angel who wanted to die rather than risk hurting her? Or Spike who suffered torture to get his soul back for her? Plus, Buffy has tried to kill Willow, Xander and Dawn and was willing to kill Anya and they're all upstairs putting her house back together. Maybe she's at least a little deserving of the power she has if she elicits that kind of commitment from those around her.
AtS: Cordelia is probably either 21 or 22 at this point having graduated at the end of BtVS season 3.
Bruce Trogdon
2024-09-15 05:05:24 +0000 UTC
Suraj is so handsome. Are these guys on IG 🤣
Mykhel Anghelo
2024-09-13 09:20:37 +0000 UTC
Re: Buffy 7x9 -- the episode title, "Never Leave Me" is part of the lyrics of Spike's trigger song, "Early One Morning", an old British Isles folk song -- Early one morning, just as the sun was rising
I heard a maid sing in the valley below
"Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me,
How could you use a poor maiden so?"
RUTH C
2024-09-12 22:31:45 +0000 UTC
Re: Buffy 7x9 -- the First Evil was the villain in Buffy 3x10 (Amends). They brought Angel back from the hell dimension and appeared to him as some of his past victims to try to get him to kill Buffy. The robed assassins also appeared in that episode.
RUTH C
2024-09-12 22:26:42 +0000 UTC
Fun Fact about Zatara he debuted in Action Comics #1, in 1938 in the same issue Superman debuted, but in a separate story