I'm still working my way through Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when I'm not immersing myself in the most murder-filled Japanese media I can find. Here are some notes on season three, from 'Lovers Walk' to 'Consequences'.
'Lovers Walk': Spike drunkenly pouring his heart out to Willow is great.
As with Angel, Spike is way less cool than I expected before I started watching this show. I love that all the brooding vampires are just huge losers.
'Amends' is full of top-quality Angel suffering and I love it. Weird sexual tension between him and his former victim as she tells him how worthless he is: also great!
I'm sad that Buffy didn't get her nice Christmas Eve with her mother and Faith, though.
'Helpless': Giles, you could have gone for a nice pseudo-father-daughter ice show with Buffy, instead of ruining her week!
I think Cordelia is probably my favourite character after Giles. I didn't know she existed before I started watching Buffy in earnest; she was such a fun surprise!
'The Zeppo': I would not have expected Xander/Faith, but, to be honest, Faith using Xander as a sex toy is sort of great.
And then Buffy and Faith are extremely girlfriends in the next episode.
Faith accidentally murdering a guy is fucked up and fascinating. I'm glad this show went back to explore that concept a little more, after the cop-out of 'Ted'.
The Faith/Xander scene in 'Consequences' was extremely fucked up and I was into it. Also pretty into the suggestion that Faith's gained a taste for murder.
I feel the entire second half of that episode was someone indulging the hell out of their kinks. Faith sexually threatening and attempting to strangle Xander. Faith in shackles. Angel being beaten and wrapped in a net. Buffy being dragged around by a ribbon around her throat. I haven't had such a strong 'wow, you really just put your fantasies right there on the screen, didn't you?' suspicion since the 'stripped, chained, used as a footstool and eaten alive' scene in Umineko.
Angel lurking in the background of every scene and looking serious is very funny.
'Lovers Walk': Spike drunkenly pouring his heart out to Willow is great.
As with Angel, Spike is way less cool than I expected before I started watching this show. I love that all the brooding vampires are just huge losers.
'Amends' is full of top-quality Angel suffering and I love it. Weird sexual tension between him and his former victim as she tells him how worthless he is: also great!
I'm sad that Buffy didn't get her nice Christmas Eve with her mother and Faith, though.
'Helpless': Giles, you could have gone for a nice pseudo-father-daughter ice show with Buffy, instead of ruining her week!
I think Cordelia is probably my favourite character after Giles. I didn't know she existed before I started watching Buffy in earnest; she was such a fun surprise!
'The Zeppo': I would not have expected Xander/Faith, but, to be honest, Faith using Xander as a sex toy is sort of great.
And then Buffy and Faith are extremely girlfriends in the next episode.
Faith accidentally murdering a guy is fucked up and fascinating. I'm glad this show went back to explore that concept a little more, after the cop-out of 'Ted'.
The Faith/Xander scene in 'Consequences' was extremely fucked up and I was into it. Also pretty into the suggestion that Faith's gained a taste for murder.
I feel the entire second half of that episode was someone indulging the hell out of their kinks. Faith sexually threatening and attempting to strangle Xander. Faith in shackles. Angel being beaten and wrapped in a net. Buffy being dragged around by a ribbon around her throat. I haven't had such a strong 'wow, you really just put your fantasies right there on the screen, didn't you?' suspicion since the 'stripped, chained, used as a footstool and eaten alive' scene in Umineko.
Angel lurking in the background of every scene and looking serious is very funny.
