Post-colonial angst: Pangs

[gillo]

We're now reaching a run of some of the strongest episodes, not just of the season but of the whole show. When people complain about S4, they perhaps need to remember this.

Comments

[readerjane]

Love this episode so much. You've already called out all my favorite lines. I wish my whole family loved BtVS so we could make this part of our Thanksgiving weekend every year, but alas, it's just me and the kids.

[gillo]

The Village People were using stereotypes in order to fight off labels of their own, I suppose. They'd never get away with it now, but would they need to? Interesting that they have a Native American as well as a construction worker - and Buffy wears a cowboy hat!

[snogged]

I agree that this episode is well written and quite funny.
I appreciated your thoughts.

[gillo]

Thanks.

[cornerofmadness]

For a one-off character Doyle's wife fascinated me. I always wanted to do more with her fan fic wise

As for the Thanksgiving one, Spike cracked me up the whole episode.

[gillo]

It really was Marsters in fine comic form, wasn't it?

[cornerofmadness]

It was

[trepkos]

I love the scene where Spike looks in on the happy vamps eating someone, and I feel sorry for him, whether I should or not, because "we know him"! I also feel sorry for Hus. We COULD make amends/restitution to living representatives of repressed societies, but we're not going to - or our governments aren't. Look at the poor Chagos Islanders. But there's not much Buffy can do in this situation, apart from what she does. Her Thanksgiving obsession does seem a bit ... obsessive ... superstitious.

[gillo]

It's also an echo of what Spike and Angel finally confront much later in Damage. If an ancestor, or a "different you" do terrible things, how do you deal with it?