Episodes in Focus: Hell's Bells/Sleep Tight
Hope you enjoyed the catch-up break! It's time for some new Episodes in Focus. Next week we are looking at Hell's Bells and Sleep Tight. In which choices are made that can't be unmade, and some core characters show themselves in unflattering lights. So from Monday your time, get sharing whatever you have to share on these pivotal new Episodes in Focus.
Episode in Focus: Hell's Bells
It's the wedding of the decade, and thank goodness after all the preparations, things seem to be going smoothly. Especially the cultural clash of Xander's awful family and Anya's sometimes-repulsive demons. But this wedding's not going to go smoothly, this we all know - in an alliance between Anya's demon past and Xander's fear of the future, events conspire to put a great big question mark over the event.
Key quote:
ANYA: (OS) Are you guys even listening? I need feedback, people.
TARA: Sorry. Please continue with the vows. (smiling at Willow)
ANYA: (clears throat) 'I, Anya, promise to ... love you, to cherish you, (Willow kneeling down to work on the dress) ...to honor you, uh, but not to obey you, of course, because that's anachronistic and misogynistic and who do you think you are, like a sea captain or something?'
Tara and Willow grin in amusement and giggle a little, exchanging a look behind Anya's back.
ANYA: 'However, I do entrust you with...' (pauses, hears the others chuckling) What? Is something funny?
TARA: No, n-nothing, sweetie, just, just keep still.
ANYA: Okay. Blah, blah, blah, misogynistic. Blah, blah, 'I do however entrust you ... um, with my heart. Take care of my heart, won't you please? Take care of it because, it's all that I have. And, if you let me, I'll take care of your heart too.'
Willow and Tara exchange another look, less giggly, more moved.
ANYA: 'I'll protect it and tend to it, like a little stray.' Wait, no. 'Like a, a little mangy stray that needs a home.' (Willow and Tara amused again) No, that's not it either.
TARA: Um... (clears throat) I think we're all set here. Let's ... take a look at you.
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Episode in Focus: Sleep Tight
We have a nice monster of the week plot this week, a girl singer being slowly taken over by her demon band members. But what's really going on? Angel's getting very fond of his current batch of pig's blood. Sahjhan and Angel finally meet, and Angel doesn't recognise him. Plus, Wesley and Holtz and Justine are making decisions, with each other and independently, that are going to end this episode in a very different place from where it started. On the ground in a park, bleeding out, say, or in Quortoth… (Where? You're about to find out.)
Key quote:
Holtz: "I don't like it."
Justine: "They'll learn or they'll die."
Holtz: "Oh, not that. They're coming right along. I - I don't like tea in these cotton cups."
Justine: "It's called Styrofoam - and I'll get you some China ones."
Holtz: "Thank you, Justine. Are you ready?"
Justine: "Yes."
Holtz: "What is it you're not sure of - is it me?"
Justine: "No! It's... - these people that work for Angel - we may end up killing a lot of them."
Holtz: "We may end up killing all of them."
Justine: "I'd follow you through the gates of hell to kill vampires, Daniel. You know that."
Holtz: "But people - even evil people who help vampires..."
The Camera pans down Holtz' arm and we see him take out a hidden knife and holding it concealed in his right hand.
Holtz: "...are another kettle of fish."
Justine after a beat: "They chose Angel. That makes them enemy soldiers."
Wes: "So I guess that makes it alright."
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Episode in Focus: Hell's Bells
It's the wedding of the decade, and thank goodness after all the preparations, things seem to be going smoothly. Especially the cultural clash of Xander's awful family and Anya's sometimes-repulsive demons. But this wedding's not going to go smoothly, this we all know - in an alliance between Anya's demon past and Xander's fear of the future, events conspire to put a great big question mark over the event.
Key quote:
ANYA: (OS) Are you guys even listening? I need feedback, people.
TARA: Sorry. Please continue with the vows. (smiling at Willow)
ANYA: (clears throat) 'I, Anya, promise to ... love you, to cherish you, (Willow kneeling down to work on the dress) ...to honor you, uh, but not to obey you, of course, because that's anachronistic and misogynistic and who do you think you are, like a sea captain or something?'
Tara and Willow grin in amusement and giggle a little, exchanging a look behind Anya's back.
ANYA: 'However, I do entrust you with...' (pauses, hears the others chuckling) What? Is something funny?
TARA: No, n-nothing, sweetie, just, just keep still.
ANYA: Okay. Blah, blah, blah, misogynistic. Blah, blah, 'I do however entrust you ... um, with my heart. Take care of my heart, won't you please? Take care of it because, it's all that I have. And, if you let me, I'll take care of your heart too.'
Willow and Tara exchange another look, less giggly, more moved.
ANYA: 'I'll protect it and tend to it, like a little stray.' Wait, no. 'Like a, a little mangy stray that needs a home.' (Willow and Tara amused again) No, that's not it either.
TARA: Um... (clears throat) I think we're all set here. Let's ... take a look at you.
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Episode in Focus: Sleep Tight
We have a nice monster of the week plot this week, a girl singer being slowly taken over by her demon band members. But what's really going on? Angel's getting very fond of his current batch of pig's blood. Sahjhan and Angel finally meet, and Angel doesn't recognise him. Plus, Wesley and Holtz and Justine are making decisions, with each other and independently, that are going to end this episode in a very different place from where it started. On the ground in a park, bleeding out, say, or in Quortoth… (Where? You're about to find out.)
Key quote:
Holtz: "I don't like it."
Justine: "They'll learn or they'll die."
Holtz: "Oh, not that. They're coming right along. I - I don't like tea in these cotton cups."
Justine: "It's called Styrofoam - and I'll get you some China ones."
Holtz: "Thank you, Justine. Are you ready?"
Justine: "Yes."
Holtz: "What is it you're not sure of - is it me?"
Justine: "No! It's... - these people that work for Angel - we may end up killing a lot of them."
Holtz: "We may end up killing all of them."
Justine: "I'd follow you through the gates of hell to kill vampires, Daniel. You know that."
Holtz: "But people - even evil people who help vampires..."
The Camera pans down Holtz' arm and we see him take out a hidden knife and holding it concealed in his right hand.
Holtz: "...are another kettle of fish."
Justine after a beat: "They chose Angel. That makes them enemy soldiers."
Wes: "So I guess that makes it alright."
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