Episode 10 - Nightmares
My viewing has leapt a bit ahead of my writing. So I only have some scattered notes from this episode to go on. So it should be fun trying to piece together what I meant when I wrote a few of these things dream journalesque lines.
So bear with as I go.
Nightmares - or - Willow Looks Hot as a Squeaking Geisha
Synopsis: Everyone's nightmares begin to bleed into their life. It takes entirely too long for everyone to catch on to this fact. And when they find out that a little comatose boy is to blame, they help him instead of pulling the plug.
Yeah, took a little too long for the Scooby Squad to clue into the big mystery of this episode. It all begins with a random student of Sunnydale High sneaking into the boiler room to smoke. Sloth from the Goonies comes out of the shadows to beat the ever loving shit out of the poor girl. Obviously her nightmares involve becoming an Irish bride.
Slowly but surely we crank through the nightmare scenarios of the others. Buffy has some major Daddy issues. And perhaps I have a few issues of my own... cause when she was sitting there crying, all vulnerable and sad that daddy doesn't love her... Well, you know. Nobody is a wilder fuck than a little girl trying to get her daddy to notice her. Can you blame me for thinking that what Lil Buffy needed was some contact therapy to work through those issues? Damn. ~fans self~
It is also worth adding that Xander can be lured into certain doom by candy bars. Seriously, candy bars. It's like a Goonies homage. First Sloth, and now Chunk.
The whole thing reminded me of the movie Waxwork. Yes, I have perhaps seen that utterly wonderfully bad piece of horror movie madness. People keep fading in and out of these little nightmares scenarios... and Buffy is falling into a coffin and coming up fanged before it really starts to click as to what is going on. But they do. And they fix it. And nobody has to have an awkward dinner with vampire lord, eating steak tartar.
Moral of the episode: Smokies may not kill you. But it will get you beat the fuck up in Sunnydale.
So bear with as I go.
Nightmares - or - Willow Looks Hot as a Squeaking Geisha
Synopsis: Everyone's nightmares begin to bleed into their life. It takes entirely too long for everyone to catch on to this fact. And when they find out that a little comatose boy is to blame, they help him instead of pulling the plug.
Yeah, took a little too long for the Scooby Squad to clue into the big mystery of this episode. It all begins with a random student of Sunnydale High sneaking into the boiler room to smoke. Sloth from the Goonies comes out of the shadows to beat the ever loving shit out of the poor girl. Obviously her nightmares involve becoming an Irish bride.
Slowly but surely we crank through the nightmare scenarios of the others. Buffy has some major Daddy issues. And perhaps I have a few issues of my own... cause when she was sitting there crying, all vulnerable and sad that daddy doesn't love her... Well, you know. Nobody is a wilder fuck than a little girl trying to get her daddy to notice her. Can you blame me for thinking that what Lil Buffy needed was some contact therapy to work through those issues? Damn. ~fans self~
It is also worth adding that Xander can be lured into certain doom by candy bars. Seriously, candy bars. It's like a Goonies homage. First Sloth, and now Chunk.
The whole thing reminded me of the movie Waxwork. Yes, I have perhaps seen that utterly wonderfully bad piece of horror movie madness. People keep fading in and out of these little nightmares scenarios... and Buffy is falling into a coffin and coming up fanged before it really starts to click as to what is going on. But they do. And they fix it. And nobody has to have an awkward dinner with vampire lord, eating steak tartar.
Moral of the episode: Smokies may not kill you. But it will get you beat the fuck up in Sunnydale.