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The Dark Age (which, as we know is followed by the Middle Age(s) and it's all downhill from there)

Apr 09, 2015 14:11

Not that this episode has anything to do with history (which, as we learned in season 1, is of the then, whereas Buffy is very much of the now). If anything, the theme is, adults are fallible too. Also that the sins of the past will always come back to bite you in the end (which of course is what happens when you treat history as if it was of the ( Read more... )

208 the dark age, rewatch

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shapinglight April 9 2015, 13:51:58 UTC

:Waves:

I'm about to go away for the week to the land of no wifi, so talk nicely among yourselves and I'll see you when I get back.

velvetwhip April 9 2015, 16:56:38 UTC

I want to see the scene where Willow asks Angel to help and it doesn't exist and I feel hollow and cheated. Other than that, though, I have to admit that there's lots to love about this episode. Not the least is the bad Photoshop of Rupert Vicious.

Gabrielle

shapinglight April 19 2015, 16:09:17 UTC

I agree. It's a good episode. As for the scene you mention, I bet it's been fanficced 100 times over.

il_mio_capitano April 9 2015, 20:12:23 UTC

Yes! Giles' claims about the Bay City Rollers is such a whopping lie.

gillo April 13 2015, 21:16:35 UTC

He is grinning as he says Bay City Rollers - and he's way too old for them anyway. Assuming he's ASH's age he'd have been a hard-core Stones, Yes or Moody Blues man in his mid-teens, and probably ready for early punk when he was in London (1975-6?)

il_mio_capitano April 13 2015, 21:56:01 UTC

Agreed. Also, my recollection of the Rollers was that they mainly appealed to screaming teenaged girls. They just aren't a good fit for Ripper.

gillo April 13 2015, 22:08:32 UTC

I was much too old for them, and ASH is a couple of years older than me. Definitely an in-joke for the right generation.

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baphrosia April 10 2015, 18:08:12 UTC

I just rewatched (parts) of this the other day, and my thought was: WHY did Buffy have to pay for the tattoo removal? That makes zero sense. Sort of funny, but... more sad, really.

kikimay April 13 2015, 18:09:12 UTC

I've never thought about that! Giles should give her the money!

gillo April 14 2015, 22:52:19 UTC

Nobody ever seems to think a Slayer has expenses linked to the job. You'd think at least the Council would shell out some petty cash.

shapinglight April 19 2015, 16:11:08 UTC

Yeah, the Watchers' Council really suck.

They're the worst employers ever.

trepkos April 19 2015, 09:02:38 UTC

This is yet another death partly caused by Buffy - they might have heard poor old whateverhisnameis banging on the door, and let him in, if not for her loud music!

I just love seeing the tall and muscular Ethan holding Buffy in front of him to protect himself from the demon - few men would be that realistic!

shapinglight April 19 2015, 16:13:20 UTC

This is yet another death partly caused by Buffy - they might have heard poor old whateverhisnameis banging on the door, and let him in, if not for her loud music!

Aww, that's a bit harsh. How was she to know?

I just love seeing the tall and muscular Ethan holding Buffy in front of him to protect himself from the demon - few men would be that realistic!

So true. Also, I suspect acting like a traditional 'gentleman' is just not something chaos worshippers do.

trepkos April 19 2015, 19:45:26 UTC

how, indeed? But I am now on the lookout for deaths in which Buffy is implicated! I wonder if they slipped any more past me ...

shapinglight April 19 2015, 20:06:54 UTC

There are probably lots, but many of them may be a sort of seven degrees of separation type thing.