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I read all the great links that you guys pointed me too. I did it all---and then I watched AS YOU WERE again.
I still hate the thing with a heat of a thousand suns.
moscow_watcher has now convinced me to look at it like a comedy. Anyone want to help?
The episode actually starts as a comedy. Buffy is working at the grease pit, and then goes to fight a vampire who is clearly smelling of death, but thinks she's the stinky one.
Next, after being told she smells by a stinky vampire, she SEES Spike (who smells good, Anya says so) lurking behind a tree. He of course, doesn't say anything about her stink (and never does) but he does want to make out with her. BUffy is afraid that Dawn needs her, but as one of you bright essay makers pointed out, instead of bringing him inside or hiding somewhere, they make out in the front yard, where Dawn could look out the window and be traumatized for life.. Also, Buffy apparently lays on Dawn's hamburger while in the thralls of passion.
This is hilarious stuff, I'm telling you.
Buffy's got stains on her coat, she gets turned down for college, and the garbage man leaves without her garbage. Life is hell.
Buffy goes to work and Riley walks in sporting a dashing scar and dressed in black. OMG, he could be as exciting as Spike, if his hair was blond and he was short--but no, he couldn't because he's still as bland as ever and very very tall, as Buffy points out.. He tells Buffy to come with him, and she leaves her job that she's been working at to make house payments.
Riley tells Buffy that he's chasing after rare nearly extinct demons who multiply rapidly and are breeders. (???) Buffy doesn't notice that this makes no sense, because Riley is tall and she has goo goo eyes.
One of the demons who is a bit green is running around in the streets. Riley screams that it's a wild bear and goes to fight it-- nobody seems to question this.. Buffy is clearly not as great a fighter as Riley, who is spry and agile like a cat. (I'm having a Petrie written Riley scene in the FFL flashback-- OF COURSE, Joss wrote the FFL Spike scenes, it tied in to ATS, he had to---just as James Said Joss rewrote the ending of BENEATH YOU)
In the car, Riley and Buffy talk in short sentences like they are in an old war movie. He tells Buffy he wouldn't ask just ANYBODY to risk their life for him. (I'm sure her heart flutters over this stunner) Riley makes sure that the audience knows HE is a gentleman. (In other words, he would NEVER look when a young lady is changing clothes unlike that evil vampire Spike.. cue the twirly mustache music)
Description from shooting script:
...RILEY FINN. Looking intense, fit, and more handsome than ever in his stylin' lightweight kevlar battle gear (the new scar he's sporting above his right eye don't hurt none). ... Riley stands, dressed like a commando, completely unself-conscious about the line forming behind him as Buffy just stares at him blankly. She's stunned. ... the only one Buffy sees, is handsome Black Ops combat specialist Riley Finn.... Screech! Riley's convertible skids to a stop, kicking up dust in some remote location. Riley and Buffy get out of the car simultaneously. Gone is Buffy's less-than-flattering Doublemeat Palace uniform. Instead, she's wearing form-fitting black-ops battle gear. She looks very, very cool. ...
Enter the Wife, Sam. (otherwise known as Sambot the mary sue) She is perfect in every way and says all the right things. Only a Great man could capture such a wench. Riley has been gone a year, and he's married. Sam talks about how it took Riley a LOOOOOOOOONG time to get over Buffy.
To quote the brilliant Moscow watcher:
Petrie wrote a James Bond story about perfect male hunk Riley, his brave wife and companion Sam and funny sidekick Buffy in a "hat that has a cow". And - oh, yes! - evil international arms dealer Spike who has contacts with foreign military powers even if he doesn't have a phone. And the show turned into self-parody, a mish-mash of Bond, Aliens and Men in Black.
Let's not forget, that Buffy APOLOGIZES to Riley about the mean way she treated him when she caught him letting vampire women suck on him...
Riley ascends toward the white light of heaven with his wife as Buffy and the Scoobies look up.
ROTFLMAO. It's funny bad fic, I'm telling you. and THIS is the freakin' episode that they used to break up Spuffy.. Don't kick the TV...Laugh at it..
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For memories.. ELisi (who IS a great writer) did an essay on Souls and such. I'm saving it.
HERE:
http://elisi.livejournal.com/167739.html
Also, some reviews of Da Marsters:
"James is an extraordinary actor," praises Tom. "He's a great person. He and I get along extremely well, and every time I find out he's coming back to the set, it is always good news. James is probably one of the strongest actors we've ever had on the show. His character can come back in many different forms, but I really want to see a big, high tension situation between Brainiac and Lionel Luthor. From an actor's standpoint, that would be such a high energy conflict. I really hope to see some of that."---TOM WELLING, SMALLVILLE MAGAZINE #15....
http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_9142.html
The Phantom Zone, which trapped Zod in the beginning of the season, has now claimed Clark and is spiraling off into outer space as Earth goes to hell in a hand basket courtesy of Lex's partnership with Milton Fine, otherwise known as Brainiac, Krypton's A.I. gone awry. The addition of Erica Durance to the cast as a regular this season is rivaled in genius only by the casting of James Marsters from "Buffy" and "Angel" fame as Fine, Clark's first college professor and Lex's first sinister ally. Known best for his part of the notorious Spike in Joss Whedon's universe, Marsters perfectly captured the ominous, cold, and calculating character that is one of the best previously untapped Superman villains.
I still hate the thing with a heat of a thousand suns.
moscow_watcher has now convinced me to look at it like a comedy. Anyone want to help?
The episode actually starts as a comedy. Buffy is working at the grease pit, and then goes to fight a vampire who is clearly smelling of death, but thinks she's the stinky one.
Next, after being told she smells by a stinky vampire, she SEES Spike (who smells good, Anya says so) lurking behind a tree. He of course, doesn't say anything about her stink (and never does) but he does want to make out with her. BUffy is afraid that Dawn needs her, but as one of you bright essay makers pointed out, instead of bringing him inside or hiding somewhere, they make out in the front yard, where Dawn could look out the window and be traumatized for life.. Also, Buffy apparently lays on Dawn's hamburger while in the thralls of passion.
This is hilarious stuff, I'm telling you.
Buffy's got stains on her coat, she gets turned down for college, and the garbage man leaves without her garbage. Life is hell.
Buffy goes to work and Riley walks in sporting a dashing scar and dressed in black. OMG, he could be as exciting as Spike, if his hair was blond and he was short--but no, he couldn't because he's still as bland as ever and very very tall, as Buffy points out.. He tells Buffy to come with him, and she leaves her job that she's been working at to make house payments.
Riley tells Buffy that he's chasing after rare nearly extinct demons who multiply rapidly and are breeders. (???) Buffy doesn't notice that this makes no sense, because Riley is tall and she has goo goo eyes.
One of the demons who is a bit green is running around in the streets. Riley screams that it's a wild bear and goes to fight it-- nobody seems to question this.. Buffy is clearly not as great a fighter as Riley, who is spry and agile like a cat. (I'm having a Petrie written Riley scene in the FFL flashback-- OF COURSE, Joss wrote the FFL Spike scenes, it tied in to ATS, he had to---just as James Said Joss rewrote the ending of BENEATH YOU)
In the car, Riley and Buffy talk in short sentences like they are in an old war movie. He tells Buffy he wouldn't ask just ANYBODY to risk their life for him. (I'm sure her heart flutters over this stunner) Riley makes sure that the audience knows HE is a gentleman. (In other words, he would NEVER look when a young lady is changing clothes unlike that evil vampire Spike.. cue the twirly mustache music)
Description from shooting script:
...RILEY FINN. Looking intense, fit, and more handsome than ever in his stylin' lightweight kevlar battle gear (the new scar he's sporting above his right eye don't hurt none). ... Riley stands, dressed like a commando, completely unself-conscious about the line forming behind him as Buffy just stares at him blankly. She's stunned. ... the only one Buffy sees, is handsome Black Ops combat specialist Riley Finn.... Screech! Riley's convertible skids to a stop, kicking up dust in some remote location. Riley and Buffy get out of the car simultaneously. Gone is Buffy's less-than-flattering Doublemeat Palace uniform. Instead, she's wearing form-fitting black-ops battle gear. She looks very, very cool. ...
Enter the Wife, Sam. (otherwise known as Sambot the mary sue) She is perfect in every way and says all the right things. Only a Great man could capture such a wench. Riley has been gone a year, and he's married. Sam talks about how it took Riley a LOOOOOOOOONG time to get over Buffy.
To quote the brilliant Moscow watcher:
Petrie wrote a James Bond story about perfect male hunk Riley, his brave wife and companion Sam and funny sidekick Buffy in a "hat that has a cow". And - oh, yes! - evil international arms dealer Spike who has contacts with foreign military powers even if he doesn't have a phone. And the show turned into self-parody, a mish-mash of Bond, Aliens and Men in Black.
Let's not forget, that Buffy APOLOGIZES to Riley about the mean way she treated him when she caught him letting vampire women suck on him...
Riley ascends toward the white light of heaven with his wife as Buffy and the Scoobies look up.
ROTFLMAO. It's funny bad fic, I'm telling you. and THIS is the freakin' episode that they used to break up Spuffy.. Don't kick the TV...Laugh at it..
--------------
For memories.. ELisi (who IS a great writer) did an essay on Souls and such. I'm saving it.
HERE:
http://elisi.livejournal.com/167739.html
Also, some reviews of Da Marsters:
"James is an extraordinary actor," praises Tom. "He's a great person. He and I get along extremely well, and every time I find out he's coming back to the set, it is always good news. James is probably one of the strongest actors we've ever had on the show. His character can come back in many different forms, but I really want to see a big, high tension situation between Brainiac and Lionel Luthor. From an actor's standpoint, that would be such a high energy conflict. I really hope to see some of that."---TOM WELLING, SMALLVILLE MAGAZINE #15....
http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_9142.html
The Phantom Zone, which trapped Zod in the beginning of the season, has now claimed Clark and is spiraling off into outer space as Earth goes to hell in a hand basket courtesy of Lex's partnership with Milton Fine, otherwise known as Brainiac, Krypton's A.I. gone awry. The addition of Erica Durance to the cast as a regular this season is rivaled in genius only by the casting of James Marsters from "Buffy" and "Angel" fame as Fine, Clark's first college professor and Lex's first sinister ally. Known best for his part of the notorious Spike in Joss Whedon's universe, Marsters perfectly captured the ominous, cold, and calculating character that is one of the best previously untapped Superman villains.