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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] "Witch" Oh, the "which witch?" jokes I finally convinced myself to discard. In this episode: witchcraft and cheerleading are dangerous. Giles: "I make allowances for your youth." Somehow Watchers normally can make teenage girls follow orders. Yet of the three slayers who get any lines, one is rebellious and another is evil and rebellious. So, I don't know. Watchers, go figure. And now inside the witch's layer. Spooky dried flowers! This witch has set up shop in a particularly menacing arts and crafts store. re Giles' disapproval of the cheerleading life: "He totally lost his water." Gross. Buffy: "What's this?" Willow: "What's that?" Only Willow says it all accusatory, see. It is a good line delivery, is what I'm getting at. Willow: "She's on fire!" Cordelia: "Enough with the hyperbole." Oh, I'm afraid not, Cordelia. I bet there is a "figure of speech turns out to be literal description of magical thinger" gag in her very last episode. Now, OK, normally I avoid this sort of thing, because, I don't know, it seems kind of creepy and weird; not so much the reaction, but putting it up on the internet. It's sort of OK now, being in my mid-twenties, but someday soon I will be old, so, internet cache of the future: I totally disavow this statement once it gets weird. Anyway, Sarah Michelle Geller looks nice in a cheerleading uniform. Moving on: discussing the aftermath of a cheerleader catching on fire, Xander seems angry that the monster problem wasn't solved for good last week. Speaking of which, I wonder how much time is supposed to have passed, since everyone seems like the best of friends already, and Xander and Willow are eager to get started solving mysteries. They should do a prequel movie with the two of them running around town as junior detectives who always come up with plausible but wrong solutions. I wish there would have been some scenes in Joyce's art gallery at some point. Or her life in general. What happened to the gallery, anyway? There's probably a problem between the way Buffy, in her show, is a super-nice person who always sympathizes with the put-upon and the unpopular, and her alleged history of being more Cordelia-like prior to becoming a slayer. Like, I'm not sure becoming a sacred warrior automatically makes you more considerate and fair-minded. (Though I have my own, uncharitable, theory, namely that her character is designed to be the cool friend who isn't too cool to hang out with you. "Uncharitable" because, I don't know, sometimes you do not want to see behind the curtain, as it were. You know? Or something.) I think you're supposed to let the water stop boiling before you add the Jello. And the ritualistic totem. (The bubbling vat from the credits. In fact, a lot of credit footage is from this episode.) Yet another attack against the noble and hip yearbook staff! Cordelia's driving instructor really ought to have a brake mounted on his side of the car. I'm not sure why she wouldn't mention not feeling well. It's not like she usually shies away from letting people know how she feels. Is the UPS guy who doesn't even slow down when there is a wreck and a dazed woman in the middle of the street blind too? (Bam! Because, see, I have just laid a smackdown of epic proportions on this guy.) The two experiments being conducted in science class seem to have nothing to do with each other. Dissecting frogs and then something with acid? (Not to mention that frogs != newts, unless those medieval sorcerors were really sloppy with their lab notes.) But we are distracted by a student coming down with a bad case of no-mouth. The true witch is Charlie X! How do you explain away sudden mouth-sealing, anyway? People do catch on fire from time to time, or become blind, or take X and go to cheerleading practice (more on this later), but skin growing over a mouth? And here is an actual problem, I think, as opposed to just some jerk's snark: the solution turns blue, meaning Amy has cast a spell recently. Yet their next clue is that she seems shocked by the girl with the mouth problem. And she was inept at cheerleading just yesterday. But now the big reveal is that Amy and her mother have already switched bodies. Based on later revelations of backstory, Joyce should probably be a lot more concerned when Buffy idly mentions vampires. "Is it me or is Buffy a bit looped?" And here I have written down: "ADR Joke," in the hopes that I would come up with one, but no luck. Zoidberg: "Oh my God, I'm coming down!" Giles: "This is a bloodstone vengeance spell." What is this, Dragonlance? "She needs a sacred space. A pentagram. . . a large pot." "Her home." Or an evil Bed, Bath & Beyond. (I was so proud of myself for that one I chuckled and thought "they will eat this up." I really, really don't like myself.) Now Amy and her mother switched bodies months ago? Well, whatever you say. Sunnydale High has a really small gym. Here there is some magic and a brief fight, for those curious and yet not already aware. Did Amy's mother ("Catherine the Great," proving that whatever else went on in Sunnydale before Buffy got there, teenagers from the sixties were total squares.) intend the "dark place" of her spell to be the trophy cabinet? Really, no one should be surprised that Amy has some problems later in life. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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