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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Well, why not? (I will not actually pay any attention to the multiple good reasons why not.) In no particular order, some impressions. "Teacher's Pet" A big Musetta Vander shaped mantis is totally going to eat some virgins, dude! is the pitch. What kind of chair has legs that just easily snap off into sharpened sticks, is the first thing I wonder. I guess I should excuse dream sequences. Then, Xander should totally start playing the show's theme song in his big guitar moment, but he doesn't. This teacher seems reasonable and friendly, which puts him in a vanishingly small minority in Sunnydale. Though a high school biology teacher who wears a lab coat while lecturing seems more than a little pretentious. Anyway he is, of course, brutally murdered by an unexpected big green arm. I think monsters must concentrate on eating only competant and trustworthy authority figures. Though I guess that doesn't explain Principal Flutie. I wrote down in my notes how I was not convinced by the guitar miming skillz of this guy who is supposed to be rocking out in the Bronze (for real this time), but maybe this is one of the real bands they have from time to time? Then he has time to smirk at Xander? (I should note, though, that at the only rock concert I've been to I was totally terrified of looking like a big nerd in front of my rock idols.) I think I am just repeating myself by this point, but Xander and Willow seem to go out a lot for alleged nerds. Angel says Buffy looks cold. She's in a rock club full of teenagers jumping around in Southern California. It is just an excuse for him to show off his biceps. "Be very afraid of this one vampire with a claw hand!" is Angel's important message of the week. I like it when characters look pleased with their own jokes. Dopey synth music cue to introduce the sexy substitute (and, spoiler: secret giant mantis). She proceeds to charm all the boys with sexy talk of insect mating habits. It seems to me that a dead body found in the kitchen would be serious bad news, from a hygenic point of view. Buffy's fight with the clawed vampire is interupted by. . . the police? Like, some guy was eviscerated and they think that maybe it is a good idea to step up patrols? Whoa, crazy! Really, the whole school should probably be shut down for counseling. Or maybe, I don't know, some sort of investigation? Just theorizing here. Now she is seducing boys with sexy test answers. Now she is rotating her head all the way around in clear view of everyone in class, though no one notices. She is not really concerned with keeping up her disguise. Guitar solo! Insects on a sandwich, but what really puts me off is the combination of mayonaisse and crickets. "Poor old Carlyle, before he went mad. . ." I bet Giles has to insert the latter half of that phrase into many of his conversations. What's this? Buffy thinks someone is a big monster? I better totally disregard her advice. And then there is this Greek food joke that I don't get. I realize that her whole plan revolves around rape and murder, but serving alcohol to her underage students is just kind of creepy. Is she a mantis demon, then? I mean, what's the taxonomic lowdown? Like, she's afraid of bat sonar, apparently. There are a lot of flashbacks to earlier in the episode. I think her whole plan would run more smoothly if she waited until later in it to switch from lady form to mantis form. Then, the end. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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