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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] "The Harvest" In retrospect, I probably shouldn't put so much space between watching an episode and talking about it, because once again my attempt at clever note-taking proves too clever for me to figure out several days later. Buffy, to distract a vampire: "Hey!" She gets quippier as time goes on. Jesse is how it is spelled, according to the captions. In my notes here is another "Boy, I am sure hoping Jesse is OK because I totally buy that he is a core character" bit, but I think we can skip it. "This world is older than any of you know." So, what, six billion years? Seven? Followed by the first pass at a comprehensive metaphysics of vampires and magical things in general. On cops: "They'd only bring guns." Well, I mean, come on, guns are pretty good on their own. Time to harness the power of the "internet" to solve crimes. And then Willow says she has "decrypted the city council's files," which makes me wonder what other mysterious things would (or ought to) be there. Buffy is wearing some pretty stylish sunglasses to go monster-hunting. "That may be how they do things in Britain. They've got that royal family and all kinds of problems." Re the locked gate in the crypt: who locked it, I wonder? I mean, it is locked from the outside, yet all the vampires ought to be on the inside right now. And how did Angel get in there? I mean, it's the middle of the day. Did he just hang around for 12 hours on the off chance she might show up? Later, under the surface, the sewers teem with domesticated rats. (Well, there is one; and it walks over Buffy's feet.) And there are what look like welder's rigs in the background. Now I am distracted by Xander's necklace. Is that a ring hanging from it? It is an odd choice, whatever it is. Plus more vampire backstory, but what I really like is this sort of bizarre and out of nowhere wipe edit. They're sneaking around inside the card catalog. Having high school kids programming computers breaks my suspension of disbelief more than vampires, but it turns out that kids actually do this in modern high schools. At my school we just learned how to type. (I have a series of stories involving myself, a girl I liked a whole lot, some other people, the back room with the only PCs where we all sort of sequestered ourselves during class, and an almost daily routine of adolescent disappointment, but maybe later.) Harmony has a very confused look on her face whenever the subject drifts from how cool Cordelia is. And who is this guy who just pops into the frame eager for details about how Cordelia was assaulted at the Bronze? Anyway, back in the sewers, and I guess they made a choice to not spend much time having the main characters adjust to the situation, because Xander already seems pretty blas� about running around in sewers from vampires. "I've got an idea. You can die." Jesse is pretty new to the whole villainous banter thing. Re the Master's magical blood energy connection: "My soul is your soul." Oh? Giles' explanation of the Hellmouth suggests that it is both unique and previous unknown. "The world will end if you can't go out tonight." Time to literalize those metaphors. Are those communion wafers in Buffy's chest of antivampiric things? She didn't mention them in her earlier list of things they don't like. The song that Cordelia likes is really short, which is either an editing choice or a clever attention span gag. And then, I used to think you were just a loser Jesse, but now that I see that occasionally you are also an aggressive loser I guess I will dance with you. I wonder if there is a website that keeps track of how many hostage situations the Bronze has seen? Luke is allergic to the Master's blood, I guess. (Get it? Because where he drew on him with blood, Luke now has this bumpy welt. See?) Xander, on a head being cut off by a cymbal: "Head's up." He is new to bantering too. Though with the benefit of hindsight it is a pretty obvious gag, I think I fell for this sunrise thing the first time. And for the wrap up: How come no one remembers the vampire attack? Uh, because they forgot! OK. And then some music, and Giles is really excited about all the things they could do if the show gets picked up. "Maybe you could blow something up. They're really strict about that." The solution, apparently, is to blow everything up. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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