Little stuff that bugged you.

[CourtneyDax]

I just watched "Two to Go" and the scene where Willow sucks Rack's magic out of him. It bugs me that when she lifts him up, you can see him walking up the little stairs out of the camera focus. It just looks so fake.

[hellmouth]

I just finished my podcast for the episode "I Robot, You Jane". In the episode, Fritz kills Dave and hangs him in the CS Lab. Buffy finds him but she and the group just kind of blow it off. "Dave's dead" let's go, nobody bothers to get him down, they just leave it for the janitor to deal with.

I think it would have been nice to have this at least mentioned in the closing scenes of the episode.

[Miss. Rogueh]

in OMWF it annoys me when dawn says her "the hardest thing to do in this world, is to live in it" at the end of Buffys "Give me Something To Sing About" Just the way she says it is so.... fustrating....

[liveevil]

Just one little idea i had when Spike was able to punch Buffy after her resurection. I was actually sure that she came back "wrong" like Spike said, but wrong in good meaning. After being in heaven she is littlebit different, she did bring littlebit heaven with her. And they say heaven is place where angels live so i think she is littlebit angel after being in heaven. I realy thinked so if i first time watched it, but in series it was explained diferently but i still think so.

[Skytteflickan88]

Nov 21, 2009 18:54:17 GMT -5 said:

I was watching Bring on the night. And it occured to me, why are they drowning Spike ... he doesn't breathe!

That got me too. Then I found out/figured out that it must be holy water. It did have crosses in it.

-EDIT

Nevermind, I think I remember Spike struggling and then relaxing, as if he was drowning. But his face wasn't burnt.

I guess we can fanwank it and blame it on the mental torture. Spike was still half crazy, I guess, and he couldn't calm himself. Okay, that's a stretch.

[buffyfan21]

Nov 21, 2009 18:58:32 GMT -5 Skytteflickan88 said:

Nov 21, 2009 18:54:17 GMT -5 said:

I was watching Bring on the night. And it occured to me, why are they drowning Spike ... he doesn't breathe!

That got me too. Then I found out/figured out that it must be holy water. It did have crosses in it.

-EDIT

Nevermind, I think I remember Spike struggling and then relaxing, as if he was drowning. But his face wasn't burnt.

I guess we can fanwank it and blame it on the mental torture. Spike was still half crazy, I guess, and he couldn't calm himself. Okay, that's a stretch.

This kinda thing always bugs me, too. I just try to ignore it. lol.

[Miss. Rogueh]

It bugs me that no one seems to know what five by five means... it is explained the first time Faith says it... Living outside the box...

[gumgnome]

The whole 'five by five' thing is hardly Faith's invention either. Farrow in "Aliens" says it as she's guiding the drop-ship down to LV-426; but then I never understood what the hell she was talking about then either....

Back to Buffy....I'm always bugged by the poster on Riley's door in S4. Balls?! Jeez, the set decorator's just weren't even trying that day, huh?

[Mush]

Just noticded the sire error in What's my line prt2 from School Hard. That is one huge mistake.

[buffyfan21]

Nov 24, 2009 4:59:34 GMT -5 gumgnome said:

Back to Buffy....I'm always bugged by the poster on Riley's door in S4. Balls?! Jeez, the set decorator's just weren't even trying that day, huh?

Gotta agree with you there. That poster is pretty cheesy. Looks like something that belongs in a little boy's room, not a college dorm room.

[Xander-Shaped Friend]

Isn't the one on Buffy's door of chocolate?

[gumgnome]

Nov 26, 2009 9:12:55 GMT -5 Xander-Shaped Friend said:

Isn't the one on Buffy's door of chocolate?

It is, but at least it's aesthetically quite pleasing, rather than the kind of chart you'd look at if you wanted to study and memorise the various types of chocolate available.

[tkts]

Nov 24, 2009 9:08:16 GMT -5 Mush said:

Just noticded the sire error in What's my line prt2 from School Hard. That is one huge mistake.

You could argue that Spike doesn't mean it literally. Maybe although Drusilla sired him literally, he saw Angelus as a mentor.

[Skytteflickan88]

Nov 29, 2009 19:18:47 GMT -5 tkts said:

Nov 24, 2009 9:08:16 GMT -5 Mush said:

Just noticded the sire error in What's my line prt2 from School Hard. That is one huge mistake.

You could argue that Spike doesn't mean it literally. Maybe although Drusilla sired him literally, he saw Angelus as a mentor.

Joss explained it by saying that eevery vampir above you in your bloodline could be called 'sire', or something to that effect.

[wenxina]

Jun 18, 2009 5:42:35 GMT -5 gumgnome said:

It's a fair point I guess. I still think she could have tried to minimise casualties or shown some apprehension over killing people.

From what I remember, Buffy didn't land any fatal blows during that battle. She wasn't aiming to kill, per se. Just disarming, and defending herself and her own. I forgot what the fatality count was, but I remember it being ridiculously low. Presumably from falling off a speeding vehicle, or being trampled by their comrades' horses. Having said that, I think she showed an immense respect for human life, and did try to minimize casualties.

[gumgnome]

The head Byzantium guy says that 12 of his men died, although we definitely don't see that many attack her. As for landing fatal blows, she throws an axe or a sword (I forget which) at one of them, who then tumbles off the van. If that's not a fatal blow, I don't know what is...

[wenxina]

See, been a while since I watched that ep. And sorry for bringing this back up... I was going through the thread last night, and saw it, so I thought I'd respond. But fine, one potentially fatal blow, if it connected with anything vital. They were warned. They attacked. She defended. And 12 is a ridiculously low number. And it's not like the rest of the Scoobies were sitting about doing nothing either. Anya probably did a guy in with her frying-pan-to-the-cranium antics, and van vs. horses aren't very good odds. For the horses. Sure we don't see any horses being run down, but the possibility remains. Plus, spook a horse, and the rider is kinda screwed anyway.
Thus, I don't see Buffy's attitude here as being irreverent towards human life, as you accused her of. Glory, on the other hand, wiped out the entire army in all of 15 seconds...

[Daina]

Jun 11, 2009 21:06:20 GMT -5 said:

In 'The Initiative' right at the beginning, Forest, Riley and Grant are talking about Buffy.

Whilst they are discussing her, we are shown her being a clumsy Mook, now Buffy is meant to be all balanced and super-strong and with it. And generally not clumsy. The only time she's 'off' is when she's ill. There was nothing wrong with her at this point so I think they really used and abused SMG to prove back-up for Riley's lines....

And anothet things;
Xander's voice over of - Nothing can defeat the penis, bugs me no end!

Well I'd rather have an excellent yet dubbed line like that than not at all.

I just finished Season 7 again...
The blood on the seal when Jonathan dies looks ridiculous.
Buffy's stunt double was so distracting.
Every single potential slayer was annoying in their own unique way.
Faith's dialogue in season 7 is just painful, is it necessary for someone to say "yo" that many times in one day?
I get that Buffy was reckless with the potentials at times, and the coup was justified, but what did Dawn have to do with it? Chiming in saying Buffy couldn't stay in "her" house?

The morality issue troubled me sometimes, Anya killed hundreds (thousands?) of people, and she is accepted by the gang, when the only reason she isn't hurting people anymore is because she can't. But Andrew stabs Jonathon under the influence of Warren/The First and is given so much stick about it.

A major thing that bugged me was Anya's personality change, in season 3 after becoming human, she's just some well adjusted, albeit Cordy-esque teenager, but by season 5 she's amusingly out of touch with human nature and her manner of speaking has changed to align with this. Don't get me wrong, Anya's character was amazing, but I just don't see why it changed so epicly with no explanation.
/rant

[Skytteflickan88]

Daina, I agree that it was weird that Anya was accepted so quickly. She could have killed more people than Spike and Angelus combined! And after she turned human she expressed her wish to turn into a vengeance demon again, and that she missed torturing and killing.

It annoys me fiercly to watch Season 1, 2 & 3 moments when Xander insults Buffy and/Angel for their relationship. I mean, come on! At least Angel was sorry for his killing days, while Anya missed hers.

I see what you mean about her personlity change too, but I think it's more about that we got to know her better, and got to see that she's been a outsider all along.

[gumgnome]

Dec 4, 2009 8:43:14 GMT -5 wenxina said:

See, been a while since I watched that ep. And sorry for bringing this back up... I was going through the thread last night, and saw it, so I thought I'd respond. But fine, one potentially fatal blow, if it connected with anything vital. They were warned. They attacked. She defended. And 12 is a ridiculously low number. And it's not like the rest of the Scoobies were sitting about doing nothing either. Anya probably did a guy in with her frying-pan-to-the-cranium antics, and van vs. horses aren't very good odds. For the horses. Sure we don't see any horses being run down, but the possibility remains. Plus, spook a horse, and the rider is kinda screwed anyway.
Thus, I don't see Buffy's attitude here as being irreverent towards human life, as you accused her of. Glory, on the other hand, wiped out the entire army in all of 15 seconds...

We 're obviously going to disagree here, but considering the sh*t that Faith gets about it in S3, one potentially fatal blow and a measly 12 dead people actually seems like quite a bit to me. It's true that they're attacking her and that she warns them, but the bottom line for me is that she has killed some humans, something we've been told time and time again is outside her remit. But there's absolutely no follow up at all, and as far as we can tell, she doesn't even care!

As for the Anya issue, the thing that bugs me the most is the contrast between her high school student "act" in "The Wish" compared with how she is when she loses her powers. I mean, she was able to give the impression of being a normal high school student when she was a demon, but can't give the impression of being a normal high school student when she's a normal high school student. Huh?