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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] "The Puppet Show" Are you ready for this? Some murders are committed, possibly by an evil ventriloquist dummy. Then there's a twist. It was the magician all along! I don't have too many notes, though. This is an odd episode. To start things off: singing! Principal Snyder! Ventriloquism! I'd like to know the story behind how Morgan the sad ventriloquist and Sid the dummy met up originally, and how Morgan decided he ought to listen to his talking dummy and go fight a demon. "I will be flesh," says the monster right before the credits. But it doesn't sound like either Sid or the eventual real culprit. "That's the kind of woolly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten." Though it isn't really. There's no blood on the knife allegedly used to slice open the dancing girl who was just sliced open backstage at school, but then a few minutes pass and everyone is fine about it. Sunnydale is tough. Willow: "It could be anyone. It could be me! It's not, though." And Buffy just goes around breaking into lockers at her whim? Snyder confronts her during the locker-breaking, and tells her he's keeping an eye on her, and is sure she's up to something. In light of later revelations about local government in Sunnydale, I wonder just what Snyder knows, at this point. Buffy's mother: "Is there something bothering you?" A horrible murder on campus perhaps? And then she says you shouldn't go to sleep with the window open? Why not? Though I guess it makes perfect sense in Sunnydale. Sid is not very subtle, what with all his talking, and his sneaking into Buffy's room and then just scampering around. Once Sid is, uh, captured (before they know he can walk around and stuff), and listens in to Buffy and Giles and everyone talking about the murder, shouldn't he realize something is up, and that she isn't what he thinks? The dummy gets loose and everyone panics. There's an awful lot of Buffy wandering around backstage in this episode. At least the characters all look suitably unconvinced by Sid's tale of how he used to hunt demons before getting stuck in a dummy. Also, Sid knows about slayers but didn't speculate that the girl with superpowers might possibly not be a demon? I guess Snyder is supposed to be a suspect. Now another dead kid, only hours(?) before the talent show, but it goes ahead anyway. Morgan's brain has been stolen, but it is OK because he was dying of brain cancer. And no one knew but the school nurse. That is pretty sad. Is it the same, evil school nurse from the swim team episode, I wonder? I like when the curtain goes up, and there is a decapitated monster beneath a guillotine, and Buffy is cradling a dummy, and Willow and Xander and Giles stand around awkwardly. And they are terribly afraid of being embarrassed at the talent show, but decide to perform a scene from Oedipus Rex? I highly approve of end credit hijinks, anyway. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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