True. ``I'm sixteen years old. I don't want to die''.
Exactly. Though once she's back from the dead, she's remarkably chipper. Not like that other time...
True. I suppose not actually having visited the afterlife makes a bit of a difference. Which brings up the question of how dead she was. Clearly dead enough to cause a new Slayer to be created, but not dead enough for Heaven? Or Heaven in Buffy is an alternate dimension, simply, not an afterlife. Hmmm.
But I think the main appeal for me in that episode is Giles. His reaction to the possibility of her death is wonderful. Cliché, perhaps, but wonderful.
I'm not surprised somehow. 
But yes, Giles is great early on. Later on it kind of becomes hit and miss with him... at times he's still great (Band Candy is priceless, or his song in Restless, and of course "I'd like to test that theory", but at times he annoys me too.
But yes, Giles is great early on. Later on it kind of becomes hit and miss with him... at times he's still great (Band Candy is priceless, or his song in Restless, and of course "I'd like to test that theory", but at times he annoys me too. Yes. I agree.
But it is so clearly a cheap nonsense trick. It is like Rowling's non-Harry povs. Yes, they serve a purpose; yes, they could not be replaced with something more appropriate without it involving much more work -- but that is just the point. And that is why it is annoying.
I dunno, I don't find it cheap nonsense that they make vampires unable to do CPR. Dead creatures don't give the kiss of life, makes perfect sense to me. Obviously real consistency would require that vampires were never seen breathing or heard panting (the speaking part you can explain with some mystical thing easily enough, let's not exaggerate with the science 
or you'd have to go to town on the mirrors thing and the spontaneous combustion in sunlight), but since that's way too hard to do on a TV show with limited budget for special effects, I can live with how they did it. Except for the scene that I seem to recall in which Angel (or Spike?) is held under water and seems to be drowning. That's just ridiculous, considering that vampires' lack of breathing is depicted as one of their strenghts elsewhere on the show (in some fight I saw recently, so most likely Angel S5 or late S4).
or you'd have to go to town on the mirrors thing and the spontaneous combustion in sunlight), but since that's way too hard to do on a TV show with limited budget for special effects, I can live with how they did it. Except for the scene that I seem to recall in which Angel (or Spike?) is held under water and seems to be drowning. That's just ridiculous, considering that vampires' lack of breathing is depicted as one of their strenghts elsewhere on the show (in some fight I saw recently, so most likely Angel S5 or late S4). But we know kiss of life is not a magic kiss of life, it is restarting the lungs. Buffy is not far enough gone into fantasy land for it to be anything else. Drawing on myths is one thing, I cannot help feeling that this is something else.
Angel uses his lack of breath as a strength in the very first season of Buffy as well, when Giles, Xander and Willow are trapped in the room with the gas (the episode with the invisible girl).
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There is one thing that really, really annoys me.
- 08/09/2010 09:26:23 PM
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Don't watch vampire programmes?
- 08/09/2010 09:42:33 PM
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This --> (But without the question mark.) Re: Don't watch vampire programmes?
- 09/09/2010 05:57:49 PM
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Because TV shows about vampires are usually not concerned about science? *NM*
- 08/09/2010 10:07:53 PM
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*NM*
- 08/09/2010 10:07:53 PM
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"I may be dead, but I'm still pretty!"
- 08/09/2010 10:18:43 PM
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Indeed.
- 08/09/2010 10:20:58 PM
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Re: Indeed.
- 08/09/2010 10:30:32 PM
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Re: Indeed.
- 08/09/2010 10:36:19 PM
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Also
- 08/09/2010 10:46:35 PM
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Yes.
- 08/09/2010 10:51:31 PM
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Re: Yes.
- 08/09/2010 10:57:34 PM
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She's mostly okay when she's actually herself.
- 08/09/2010 11:10:33 PM
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Re: She's mostly okay when she's actually herself.
- 08/09/2010 11:13:59 PM
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- 08/09/2010 11:13:59 PM
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The lack of body heat is another trait I find annoying.
- 09/09/2010 12:12:15 AM
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Oh, Robert. For whom the cock throbs? It throbs for thee. 
- 10/09/2010 02:31:16 AM
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- 10/09/2010 02:31:16 AM
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- 10/09/2010 04:48:14 AM
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TV and the movies tend to treat scfi and fantasy like this all the time
- 09/09/2010 06:30:42 PM
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