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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Well, if any high powered media executives are reading this and want to hire me, I guess they can send me an e-mail. Talent or no, I skipped past the bad spots on the DVD. Therefore: "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" Somebody is attacking people friendly to Cordelia, and it turns out to be a girl so unpopular she turned invisible. And mean. Unpopular in the no-one-notices-her sense, not in the everyone-dislikes-her sense, by the way. Buffy should definitely not carry a mace around in her backpack, at school, while everyone is between classes. Then, there is some continuity reference, only I only wrote down "continuity!" so I'm not sure what it was. Some Shakespeare is thrown in to class things up a bit. This is a TV school convention I suppose, but I've never had an instructor who tried to introduce new information to the class just a minute or two before the end of the period. By ten minutes to go, everyone usually had their stuff packed already. When Cordelia goes to talk to her teacher I think it's the first scene she's been in that wasn't for comic relief and/or body-discovering. Willow is really, really amused by this anecdote. And again with the novelty juices. I forget what this one was called, but I remember the commercials. Squeeze-its or something. And Buffy was a May Queen, only they didn't call it that, but since when do freshmen get elected in these sorts of popularity contests? Snyder: "Dead? Of course not. Dead; what are you, ghouls? There are no dead students here. This week." Then Buffy tells him some fake story about retrieving the beaten kid's comb, but Snyder was standing right there when she told Xander and Willow she was going to go investigate. There are probably fingerprints on that bat. And the lockers. Shouldn't the police be handling this? This is where my copy began to flip out. Have you noticed how these posts of mine are basically just a list of incongruous things followed by rhetorical questions? Flashback! The grainy effect, and the lighting, is a lot like what gets used much later in a Firefly flashback. Am I the only one who feels some sympathy for Snyder? I mean, he's got a high school literally filled with monsters, and students and teachers dying every other week. There's an invisible girl who lives in the ceiling over the band rom. Which is odd. It would be great if she played the Lady in the Radiator song later. "This girl's sort of petty for a god." Wait, Cordelia and her friends are messing around with Cordelia's fancy dress [i]at[/i] school? After hours? Angel comes in, not particularly caring about the details of this episode. Luckily the Watcher's book that went missing five hundred years ago made it to Southern California. And, re invisible girls: "It's not really my area of expertise." Get used to that sort of thing. I like how Cordelia keeps up her speech throughout this entire exposition scene. It's her episode and she isn't giving ground up to anyone. What about this invisible girl's family? She's not willing to stab Buffy, but she is willing to suffocate Cordelia's teacher. But then Cordelia comes in and surprisingly doesn't just stand there and freak out. It's like a whole new world for her this episode. I like that Cordelia has realized on her own that Buffy is some sort of secret detective. Sort of. "I was kind of hoping you were in a gang." I bet they named the invisible girl Marcie Ross just so that she'd be right next to Willow (Rosenberg) in the yearbook. The dance that the May Queen thing is attached to is being held at The Bronze, and I was going to say that I thought it was odd that a school would hold an official function in a rock club, but on further reflection, not growing up near any rock clubs, I guess I'm not sure of how this might work. Our senior prom was held at a grange building, way out in the middle of nowhere. (I didn't go, but it's the same building that representatives from some commercial or governmental agency take in grape samples and report back to you the sugar levels, and I have been to that.) No one in Sunnydale ever seems particularly surprised when confronted by the truth about vampires or invisible girls. Marcie Ross can lift Cordelia through a hole in the ceiling like that? And she can drag two unconscious girls clear across town to The Bronze in a reasonable amount of time without anyone noticing? Well, maybe she borrowed Cordelia's car. It's being played like she's really strong, at least, because even with the advantage of surprise I'm not sure she should be able to knock Buffy around like that. And then: slow motion ninja concentration powers! The FBI showing up to take Marcie into custody is one odd plot twist. I guess we can pretend that they're actually with the Initiative. But a whole class full of invisible kids? Maybe the others are all from Cleveland. Step one in becoming an invisible assassin apparently involves listening to the white album. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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