Bad Girls
Faith in animal print trousers
Count of three isn't a plan, its sesame street
But again, too much beast, not enough brains.
The Mayor is wearing a ring on his right little finger that looks very much like the one Giles wears on his left. Which, okay, common type of ring, looks like one out the Argos catalog, but this being TV everything is deliberate. Wonder if similarity is deliberate. This being the season of make the Watchers creepy.
Oz has black hair again
B: Now there's nothing standing between you and a brilliant future.
Oz: Well, if I may suggest, graduate.
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
with ys
in the subtitles today
I always forget what a complete and utter prat he was back then. I kind of want to watch through my fingers. Seems unfair to look at him being all... what's a nasty way of saying shiny? Like new boots. The kind that make you wish you hadn't worn them.
He is acting like an utter prat, but he found the information in El Eliminati very quickly, with minimal information and no cooperation. Actually very efficient. Would count as good at his job, except for the thing he does next. If books and the real world disagree, it is important to remember which is authoritative... which he learns, by the end of the ep.
Wesley has no rings. Which I note partly because he doesn't wear one like Giles (so it isn't a Watcher thing) and partly because, like, everyone else wears rings. Buffy, Faith, last episode Xander did. Lots of rings.
Is funny when Giles and Wes both take their glasses off to clean but Giles notices and pretends he didn't.
er, is difficult to write it funny, but is a funny moment.
That bit of sewer looks really familiar. Recycled from the bit in Band Candy I think. Similar basic shapes. Don't know how repetitive real sewers are but I suspect very, so that works.
Also, Faith is an idiot. And really needs a Watcher. I wonder what is more usual, Buffy type Slayers, Faith type, Kendra type?
drowning again, and again with the rush afterwards
Buffy really seems to get a charge off almost being killed
Wes has worse social skills than I do.
I bet he is doing exactly like he has been trained to.
Not exactly anything wrong, just everything.
However could people get the wrong idea about B and Faith - F says 'hey girlfriend' and draws a heart, and B runs off with her. In front of the whole chemistry class. Hmmmm.
Seems a bit of a turn around from earlier in the very same episode. When Buffy was worried about this test. And annoyed at Faith. What, nearly getting killed and Faith being rather useless completely changes her mind?
... and suddenly I've got a whole bunch of missing scene in my head. I mean Buffy said she had to shower a lot, and Faith has a shower, and... I really shouldn't go there if I want to actually think today...
Then the dancing
Buffy and her 'you're not afraid of little me' and jumping on Angel - out of order. Not of the good. really rather bitchy.
See I can understand her going all anti-authority after Giles did the bad thing, and Wesley isn't selling himself very well, but it still seems rather abrupt.
She's being more 'When she was bad'. Drowning trauma flashbacks?
*shrugs*
Now Buffy is sitting on an animal print cushiony thingy (maybe animal, gold and black, but the opposite sofa looks more patterny)
Angel gets up and goes to sit distant from her. Not happy with her draped all over him.
Wesley keeping the amulet in his pocket
Buffy not really telling Wes stuff. Not helpful.
There's a CJ Cherryh book that hinges on finding out that the chain of command within a group actually flows quite different from how their official titles would suggest.
In Buffy's little group, right from the start, Buffy is the one giving orders. Giles asks her for orders, asks what to do, right in the first episodes. So when Wesley arrives, he is nominally replacing Giles, but in trying to step in to a Watcher's traditional role he is actually trying to replace *Buffy*, who of course is having none of it. If Wes had kept himself as book guy and not tried orders he might have had a chance of being accepted, but Buffy is alpha and staying that way.
"Want. Take. Have."
Buffy might be getting it, but I'm not actually buying it. I mean Faith hasn't done anything impressive, but Buffy is suddenly acting all impressed.
Thought - Faith is conveniently absent some episodes, sometimes so absent Buffy et al cannot contact her. Reckon this is her first time using Slayer powers for personal gain? considering that she has been living independently with no visible source of income...
Getting arrested.
Faith doesn't take guns seriously. stupid girl.
her little "we're the Slayers" comment is potentially unhelpful in the long term. I mean they then go and splat the police, so they're likely to report all the details. So now that there are actual gangs of Slayers post Chosen, really unhelpful to have some police thinking they're bad.
Buffy has been arrested once and wanted for murder once and now she splats some police and they don't figure it was her?
I guess Sunnydale police have to be extra stupid to suit the mayor.
El Eliminati, crippled by 'honour', forms, outdated rules. Old school, like Watcher Wesley.
Faith too much in the opposite direction.
Now Buffy trying to get Willow to stay home too. must be the split up the team time of year.
That death really was a total accident. To an extent where it makes it sort of... like they've built a cheap get out clause in when they make it about them being 'bad girls'. I mean even a well behaved Kendra type Slayer could have screwed that one up. But it only happens when they start misbehaving. Kind of the easy out.
If they had left out the criminal behaviour and just had Faith make that mistake, then try and cover it up, would the fallout be any different?
Wesley, being a coward. Giving up something important due to fear = coward.
Practically the first thing he does is attempt to betray Angel.
Except for the bit where he is still in his less than competent phase and doesn't know enough to do so.
Giles attempts suicidal bravery again.
And he gets to kick ass with a sword.
Is amazing how much more cool he gets now there's someone else to be Patriarchy and the Council.
Angel gets to be heroic again too. Last week off screen, this week on screen. Helping Giles both times.
Nicest thing we can say about Wesley is that even after all this he doesn't quit. Considering how scared he looked that is doing quite well really. Sort of. A bit.
That thing in Dead Man's Party, about 'when the scary things get scared, not a good sign'. This ep uses it to set up the Mayor as extra scary. He's worse than the big bad demon cult.
Mayor? Not a coward. Completely *nuts* and no longer human and filled with icky goop, but not flinching when testing the new invincibility.
I like how his list goes
call temp agency
become invincible
meeting with pta
haircut
given that his test involved getting his head cut in half that haircut was very good planning...
one hundred days to ascension
"gosh I'm feeling chipper. Who's for a root beer?"
#doh2#
he is just a really unique kind of creepy, isn't he?
Faith took the body, weighted it and dumped it. Thought went into that. Not good thought, but the first bit of planning she showed all day.
Which bit of what Faith did was wrong?
killed someone by accident
covered it up
said she didn't care
kind of all wrong, kind of none wrong. I mean it was an accident, if people found out the Slayer wouldn't be able to protect the world, and if the other two bits were okay then the not caring follows. But also, dead guy, trying to avoid consequences, not of the good.
Faith is being all Slayer privilege (private law)
Buffy is eventually trying to be about proper channels and being judged by people that understand
Watchers being proper authorities in this?
how?
I mean if they aren't proper to give orders and they do bad things, not so much proper authorities.
Giles apparently is different. Because he is her friend and crossed said authorities for her and got fired and kicked out of his life work and is therefore an objective judge.
kind of problems all round there.
next up, Consequences.
