Buffy 5x18 Intervention
Sat, Jul. 10th, 2004 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterGoing to the Asian Art Museum tomorrow to see the exhibit on geisha ^_^. Yay!
Turned in the keys to the old place today, and experienced more nostalgia... *sniff* the first place I had a real Christmas tree =(. It's still hard to believe that I've been living in CA for a year now.
Watched Intervention yesterday. I am now firmly in the territory of Buffy nostalgia for me, since these are some of the very first episodes I watched when I was first getting hooked two years ago (yes, I know, I am a terrible newbie in that respect). I think Intervention may actually have been the third Buffy episode I ever watched (the first two being FFL and OMWF). I hadn't ever realized just how sad the first few scenes are, since I watched them out of context. Now, I've just been through watching The Body and Forever, and knowing Buffy must be thinking of Dawn's accusations in Forever while she's telling Giles she thinks she can't love anymore is horribly painful. I'd never realized just how close this episode was to her mother's death. So yeah, there I was sitting on the sofa, prepared for a good funny ep, and finding myself sniffling in the opening scenes.
Buffybot, luckily, is still hysterical ("We're very pretty," she confides in Buffy). I'm still vaguely amused by the fact that I'm wobbling between the Spike obsession I had when I first watched these eps and my general desire to hug Buffy all the time now. It makes watching the Spike and Buffy moments very interesting. The scenes with the Buffybot are a lot more cringeworthy now that Buffy is my POV character. But I still dearly love Spike in the Glory scenes and afterwards. It's sort of funny thinking about the redemptionista/evilista arguments now... both sides are pretty cut and dried. Because Spike has changed. I think the Spike of Yoko Factor would have told Glory about the Key with no qualms at all (except the possible demand of money or some such thing). And yet, he's still horribly monster-ish and has no clue as to any sort of morality really (hello Buffybot!). I find this strange limbo state of his the most interesting, probably because of the wild card factor. You can't tell yet if he is going to be a white hat or not (unlike S7), so he's unpredictable in the same way morally grey Wesley is.
Turned in the keys to the old place today, and experienced more nostalgia... *sniff* the first place I had a real Christmas tree =(. It's still hard to believe that I've been living in CA for a year now.
Watched Intervention yesterday. I am now firmly in the territory of Buffy nostalgia for me, since these are some of the very first episodes I watched when I was first getting hooked two years ago (yes, I know, I am a terrible newbie in that respect). I think Intervention may actually have been the third Buffy episode I ever watched (the first two being FFL and OMWF). I hadn't ever realized just how sad the first few scenes are, since I watched them out of context. Now, I've just been through watching The Body and Forever, and knowing Buffy must be thinking of Dawn's accusations in Forever while she's telling Giles she thinks she can't love anymore is horribly painful. I'd never realized just how close this episode was to her mother's death. So yeah, there I was sitting on the sofa, prepared for a good funny ep, and finding myself sniffling in the opening scenes.
Buffybot, luckily, is still hysterical ("We're very pretty," she confides in Buffy). I'm still vaguely amused by the fact that I'm wobbling between the Spike obsession I had when I first watched these eps and my general desire to hug Buffy all the time now. It makes watching the Spike and Buffy moments very interesting. The scenes with the Buffybot are a lot more cringeworthy now that Buffy is my POV character. But I still dearly love Spike in the Glory scenes and afterwards. It's sort of funny thinking about the redemptionista/evilista arguments now... both sides are pretty cut and dried. Because Spike has changed. I think the Spike of Yoko Factor would have told Glory about the Key with no qualms at all (except the possible demand of money or some such thing). And yet, he's still horribly monster-ish and has no clue as to any sort of morality really (hello Buffybot!). I find this strange limbo state of his the most interesting, probably because of the wild card factor. You can't tell yet if he is going to be a white hat or not (unlike S7), so he's unpredictable in the same way morally grey Wesley is.
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