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4.17 Superstar

Buffy: "I'm just saying it doesn't make any sense. He starred in the Matrix but he never left town. And how'd he graduate from med school? He's only eighteen years old."

Definitely a cute and well-written episode, but it didn't thrill me. I think that I was too interested in what was going on with the Initiative and Riley and Spike's alienation from demon society, and this episode just came out of left field. I might have liked it better if it had been done earlier in the season.

The young man who plays Jonathan, Danny Strong, was very good, and I really enjoyed all the little Jonathan touches -- the Johnny-Os cereal, Wonder Jonathan and his battle kittens, the picture of Jonathan instead of the balls poster on the back of Riley's door, and especially the swimsuit calendar. The James Bond music and the tuxes were fun, too. The end was predictable.

One thing I enjoyed that they might have done more with was the discussions with Anya about alternate universes. "Oh ok. Umm. Say you really like shrimp a lot. Or we could say you don't like shrimp at all. Blah, blah, I wish there weren't any shrimp, you would say to yourself."

Bits and pieces:

-- I really did like the scene in the Bronze, and the wonderful serenade in blue. What a marvelous voice the person who dubbed Jonathan has. (Turns out it was the bad guy with the hellhounds from "The Prom.")

Quotes:

Willow: "I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin."

Jonathan: "What are you doing here?"
Spike: "I live here. I wasn't exactly pining for a noisy visit from Wonder Jonathan and his Fluffy Battle Kittens."

Riley: "I'm a lot stronger. I'm no Jonathan, but I'm doing okay."
Buffy: "Are you? I mean, you're not..."
Riley: "What?"
Buffy: "Eating the Initiatives' technicolor food of strongness?"

Anya: "Oh! buck up, you. You kill the best. Go you. Kill, kill."
Buffy: "Actually not needing validation right now, but thank you."

Anya: "Say you really like shrimp a lot. Or we could say you don't like shrimp at all. Blah, blah, I wish there weren't any shrimp, you would say to yourself."
Buffy: "Stop, you're saying it wrong. I think that Jonathan may be doing something so that he's manipulating the world and we're all like his pawns."
Anya: "Or prawns."

Giles: "Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books."

One out of four stakes,

Billie





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