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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I thought I did this one before, but I can't find it if I did, so: "I Robot. . .You Jane" There's this demon, right, and he gets stuck in a book (a magic book!) until he is scanned into a computer, years before Google Print, and takes over the internet. That done, he romances Willow and has himself built a robot body. I was pretty sure I didn't like this episode at all, because it is heavy on the "what will the internet do to society??" angle, making it like watching a debate about the crazy potential of the saddle. But it also turns out to be fun. We start with the first of many historical flashbacks. A demon! Let's bind it using the Circle of Kayless! Which sounds just like the Klingon, you see. Well, anyway, that's what they do. Moloch, the demon, seems pretty easy to deal with, though, all things consider. Some monks just stand around in a circle and read from a book. They aren't even near Moloch. They might not be in the same building. And I wonder why they can't just destroy the book once he is inside? More on that later. Ms. Calendar! She was a dancer for Prince, you know, and these days is very keen on Jesus. Also she is very pretty. "If you're not jacked in, you're not alive." Who is this guy? It turns out he is Fritz, which should have been their first warning. He continues to talk like an extremely creepy Shadowrun fan for the rest of the episode. I like how Willow is all "Hey Xander, let's hang out" and he doesn't and then: "Hey Buffy, wait up!" Because: foreshadowing! "Oh Buffy, I didn't see you." That's because she was behind you. Willow has a picture of herself and Giles in her locker? That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Nobody on the west coast says "on line" to mean in line. Freeze frame facts: Buffy's birthdate here is October 24, 1980, though don't they change it later? Sunnydale High has a dodgeball team. And there's the folder where this week's script is kept, apparently. "I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in." Again with this kid. And now he's a cutter too. Buffy is wearing a huge ring. Who says everything they type outloud as they type it? And then "I have to sign off now," but she just turns the monitor off. The chat session is still running. Her internet boyfriend probably missed his bus because of her. The internet is new and strange! I'm certain I've made this exact comment before: "A powerful demon with horns is walking around Sunnydale and nobody noticed?" Of course not. And oh man, this sequence. The attempted murder by electrocution in the shower sequence. I present, without any further comment, two lines: "Hey Buffy, Willow was looking for you. She said she'd be in the girl's locker room." "Will? Are you taking a shower?" Anyway, from the thickness of Buffy's shoes, I don't think she's in much danger. Now Dave is dead. I haven't mentioned Dave. He is the other kid who knows computers and is therefore susceptible to internet demons, but Dave is not nearly as annoying as Fritz, so the demon has to kill him. (Also he saves Buffy from the trap earlier.) And shouldn't someone call some emergency service about his body hanging in the computer lab? "Techno-Pagan." Uh, sure. Robot! Pratfall! What kind of security system comes with knock-out gas, I wonder? Ah, the old tricked into punching a box full of dangerous wires and getting electrocuted trick. Now Moloch is dead, since the Circle of Kayless thing trapped him in his robot body this time. But then they smash up the robot, and apparently that's that. So why not just burn the book five hundred years ago, monks? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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