Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:20 am Post subject: randomonium in sunnydale
I sometimes want to say stuff about buffy that doesn't really fit anywhere else, and isn't worthy of its own thread.
So I thought a randomonium thread might do the trick.
The other night I was at a party and I saw a postcard on somebodys fridge. It was one of those old school postcards with a pulp book cover, and slogan on it, and some scantily clad betty from ages ago.
Anyway the title of the book was "when she was bad" and the catch phrase was exactly describing the BTvS episode of the same name. sorry for the lack of verbatim, but, uh I had fun at the party! _________________ mmm
My husband and kids watched the last few episodes of season 7 with me and I'm so happy about it! My husband, who has been totally against Buffy until now, said "time for bed kids, yo", just like Faith said to Robin, "it is what is, yo!" _________________ "Don't warn the tadpoles!" Willow, What's My Line (Part 1)
Cool! My husband is less forgiving when it comes to Buffy references. He was messing with my head tonight. Everytime I see an actor or actress that was on Buffy, I have to tell my husband. He's been joking around that it's getting old, so I've tried to not point out Buffy-related people as often. Tonight we were watching House and it was the episode where Michelle Trachtenburg guest starred. I saw her and looked at my husband to get his reaction. (Nothing.) The conversation went like this:
Me: "I'm not going to say it."
Him: "She looks familiar.... Was she on Buffy?...."
Me: "Yes! She was Dawn! You know, Buffy's sister?"
Him: "No way. Buffy had a sister? When was that?"
Me: "Only ALL of seasons 5-7! You never saw her when Gabe and I would watch?"
Him: (laughing) "I'm just kidding! Of course I know who that is. It's DAWN for crying out loud. Come on!"
He's evil sometimes. _________________ Occasionally I am callous and strange.
Yesterday I watched Tabula Rasa again. And it's soooo funny! I mean, how many times we heard someone called Xander as Alex?!?!! :D And the whole Randy and Joan line. There are so many quotes in this piece that I just can't decide which one is the funniest...
And that's so cute, when they scream when they first see the vampies. The acting was hilarious in this one...
Anyway, the whole episode is just cute. Except of course the begining and the ending... :( _________________ "You two are the two who are the two. I'm the other one."
And two days ago I watched Two to go as well. And I seen it like five or six time before this time, but there was a part, when it hitted me: jesus, how far we came from the start?!?!!
I mean, there was that cute speech from Jonathan in the car about "just Willow", but that scene not made me realize. But nearly at the end of the episode, when Buffy and Willow are going to fight and Buffy asks Willow: "Are we really gonna do this?!" That was it. I was like: "good god, this can't be true. Just take a look at Willow in any season 1-3, she was a real sidekick, okay, but never even came close to be as powerful or big as Buffy. And they were friends from the begining, never EVER hurt each other in any way. And in this episode they are enemies. They hurt each other. Good god, Willow even tried to kill Buffy.
Okay, my whole post doesn't really have any sense or point, just thinking, posting and saying what's everyone thinking. :) I know that the I don't discover anything new or something. As I said, it just hit me at that point. The whole Buffy-Willow history rolled down before my eyes and it was pretty shocking... :) _________________ "You two are the two who are the two. I'm the other one."
I can't talk about Buffy in front of my sister anymore because according to her I'm so obsessed with it that it's put her off :-( But meh, I still do tend to ramble...
Also, I was at my cousin's last night and went online to check the forum and when he saw the title (Buffy and Angel Trivia Guide) he was like "you SAD SAD LOSER!" and my sister basically agreed by calling me a pathetic git. I responded with "hey, at least I didn't make a RONALDO video going on about HOW MUCH I LOVE HIM! Watching Buffy makes me happy, it's something that I really love so go on all you like, I really don't care. Get it up ye!"
Negative Buffy references, not fun. _________________ "Your father was captain of a Starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives - I dare you to do better."
Yesterday I realised that my obsession is going on like two years now. And my best friend was always so negative about my whole Buffyness. She thought that this is just a kindling, nothing serious. But now, she starting to accept it and she sometimes even laugh on my Buffy-jokes and tells some references her own (because she used to like the show, until season 6, when - according to her - it all became too complex and Dawsony...). So I think she finally realised that this is not a kindling or anything like that... :) _________________ "You two are the two who are the two. I'm the other one."
what a great thing that we all have this site to make us normal again.
speaking of which... I watched season 6 disc 5 the other day and i had this really profound moment about what an awesome disc it is...
hells bells
normal again
entropy
seeing red
allen ginsberg (buddy of keroac) wrote this great book, with an even better title "reality sandwiches"... and i kinda named this disc after it.
hells bells, so surreal that anya suddenly has this whole network of demon-american friends and family, and that she suddenly chooses hideous green dresses when her keen prada eye promised us so much in her early days... and that vision of the future that wreaked such havoc in xanders mind. reality?
normal again: well like it or hate it, it still throws up the idea that perhaps none of it is real at all, and asks us to ponder the potential for the human mind to take comfort from pain in creating and subverting realities
entropy: where the awful culmination of spike and buffys intense connection, her walking away after him yearning for her so long, and him after all being a monster... he tried to give her everything but in the end he hurt her worse than any creature of evil could...
and then the gun-- since when do people get killed by guns on buffy?
seeing red: willows darkness, like a bubble, eventually rises to the surface. its an extreme situation that brings this forth, but whats done is done, and willow as we knew her is irrevocably lost. _________________ mmm
Cardboardy - what excellent insights you have made, although it pains me to think of these episodes. I have watched these episodes the least (even though I love season 6) because they all make me too sad, too pained. But they are "reality sandwiches" so maybe that's why they bother me.
Also, side note, something that drives me crazy in the ep my family watched last night "Chosen", after Buffy finds the scythe, Giles says to her "do you feel anything when you hold it" and she says "not much" and then "but it's strong"...HOW can that be? It's a complete contradiction and drives me crazy!!! Can someone please explain how she doesn't feel much but it's strong? _________________ "Don't warn the tadpoles!" Willow, What's My Line (Part 1)
The thing that annoys me the most is the fact that she found the sycthe in the second to last episode. Seems like an easy way out. If they had found it early on in the season then i would have been happier.
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