End of day wrap-up, The Gift

[thebratqueen]

Went 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

Comments

[thebratqueen]

Oh man, where do you even begin? Okay, just grabbing some off the top of my head:

"Use Olaf the troll-god's hammer" except Olaf wasn't a god, he was just a troll. Moreover Xander got hit with the hammer by Olaf and suffered only some mild bruising. So not so much with a formidable weapon against a god there ;)

"The monks made her out of me" Since when?

"The blood flows, the portal opens, the blood stops, the portal closes" Except Dawn's still bleeding at the end of the episode, and Buffy's death was surprisingly bloodless both when she died in the portal itself, and even when her body crashed down to earth to be displayed against rubble in an attractive manner. Heck, her hair wasn't even mussed ;)

"The diagon sphere will stop her" Granted this one is more retroactive bad continuity then a mistake in the ep itself, but if Buffy and the gang wanted to keep Glory away from Dawn and knew since getting the sphere that it repelled Glory, why wasn't the sphere duct taped to Dawn's back the entire time?

"It's always got to be blood" except in earlier eps it was explicitly said that the monks could have made the key into anything. It was a big plot point when Ben slipped up and revealed that he knew the key had been made into a living being. So if it has to be blood and the monks could have made the key into anything... how 'bout making it an actual key? Those don't bleed. ;)

And so on and so forth.

And word to nothing like Angel, and Smile Time, and - and - wah! I miss my dead gay show.

[lerefuge]

Wow, I had no idea about it all :D I just bought it since I knew nothing of this. So it was the first time we heard of the key being made out of Buffy? Wow, wtf big deux ex machina. Did they rush it because they thought it would be the serie finale?

[thebratqueen]

I don't think so, because at the time Joss knew Buffy was going to UPN and therefore had at least one more season to play with. My personal suspicion is that this is what happens when Joss divides his attention over multiple projects and shows and then has to come back at the very end to try to tidy up mistakes that were made because somebody else was in charge of the storyline.

[makd]

Word.