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4.11 Doomed

Giles: "It's the end of the world."
Everybody: "Again?"

Buffy finally came out (as the Slayer) to Riley. And Riley (Marc Blucas) officially joined the cast; I didn't see that coming. I do like Riley, despite his disturbing resemblance to someone I know who didn't turn out to be a good person; it will be interesting to see what they do with him. That scene at the end where Willow and Xander saw through his rather pathetic paintball subterfuge was a lot of fun. I also enjoyed the symbolism, with the reopening of the Hellmouth representing the huge black pit of another romantic mistake. Can Buffy handle another doomed "office romance?"

What I really enjoyed about this one, though, was Spike's suicidal depression and his subsequent discovery of an outlet for his aggression. "For the sake of puppies and Christmas...let's kill something!" I really do adore James Marsters' Spike, and although I've been enjoying what's been happening so far with him this season, I was wondering how the writers would be able to truly integrate him into the cast without changing his character. Well, they did it. I'm impressed.

The nerd/geek discussion was cute. And Percy deserves what he gets if he prefers that insecure bitch to Willow. Not that Willow would stoop to Percy.

Bits and pieces:

-- Was this yet another averted apocalypse?

-- Okay, you astrologers out there. When is Buffy's birthday, if she's a Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius?

-- I really liked Riley's sidekick, Forrest; I hope they do more with him.

-- Did you notice the poster of sports balls on the back of Riley's door? Buffy and Willow have a chocolate poster on the back of their door. Given the recent men/sex and women/food discussion we've been having on STWTTF...

-- Riley has a utility belt. How caped crusader of him.

-- Where did Spike's jeans come from? Major blooper there.

Quotes:

Buffy: "I really thought that you were a nice, normal guy."
Riley: "I am a nice, normal guy."
Buffy: "Maybe by this town's standards, but I'm not grading on a curve."

Willow: "I was in the library during the quake, almost got buried under some nineteenth century literature. And I don't have to tell you how hard it is to dig through some of that stuff."

Giles: "I completely understand your anxiety."
Buffy: "Oh, good. Because I'd hate for my little untimely horrible death concern to be ambiguous."

Riley: "What's a Slayer?"
Forrest: "Slayer? Thrash Band. Anvil-handed guitar band with delusions of Black Sabbath."

Buffy: "Wow. I wasn't sure where the party was, and then I saw the flashing lights and the ambulance, and I was like right, of course. Death, carnage, it's a Buffy party."

Willow: "It was carved into his chest, like a big creepy eye."
Xander: "It's kind of like the CBS logo. Hey, could this be the handiwork of one Mr. Morley Safer?"

Buffy: "I told you. I said end of the world and you're like poo-poo, southern California, poo-poo."
Giles: "I'm so very sorry. My contrition completely dwarfs the impending apocalypse."

Riley: "I'm serious. You have this twisted way of looking at things, this doom and gloom mentality. You keep thinking like that and things will probably turn out just the way you expect."
Buffy: "You know, there is nothing more dangerous than a psych grad student."

Giles: "The Word of Valios is the name of a talisman, not a book. I blame myself entirely. I had it here."
Xander: "You had it here? Okay, first I thought you were being to hard on yourself, but..."
Giles: "I bought it at a sorcerer's estate sale. I really only glanced at it once; I thought it was a knock off."

Spike: "Come on! Vampires! Grrr! Nasty! Let's annihilate them. For justice and for the safety of puppies, and Christmas, right? Let's fight that evil! Let's kill something!"

Let's say three out of four stakes,

Billie





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