Wow, there is so much awesome in this episode. Funny, heartwrenching, and creepy. And I love how JM manages to convey his entire storyline without any dialogue.
There's so much to discuss, but I'll just mention a few random tidbits.
Holden's line "I'm here to judge you, not to kill you," seems like a reference to Kurtz's line in Apocalypse Now: "You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me."
Their interaction also puts me into the mind of the idea from Ender's Game that "there is no teacher but the enemy."
In I Robot, You Jane, Moloch slips up and reveal's his evil intent to Willow much the same way that CassieTheFirst slips up to Willow here.
The Salsa music Dawn was listening to was the same music Buffy was listening to in Listening to Fear.
Dawn's conversation on the phone about the movie she's watching is easy to miss, but it totally cracks me up:
"Oh, come on. She is so dead. [pause] Well, he's clearly a psychopath. [pause] Is so. [pause] What? [pause] No, that is not Tom Hanks. [pause] Well, what channel are you on?"
LOL.
I don't like the effect of CassieTheFirst turning inside out. Particularly since it looks expensive. It doesn't work for me, and I wish they had spent the money elsewhere in a show where the money is always tight.
Finally, a question. What do y'all think actually caused Hank and Joyce's divorce? Is Buffy right about him cheating? Or did "they just grow apart" as Joyce says in Nightmares? Or is it because of something else?
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