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Bingin' Buffy - Season 2 thus far (up to 2x11)
Hello, friends and neighbors! I've been making my way through season two of Buffy and wanted to share my thoughts.
Overall, I think this season has been much more consistent in its writing. There's less strictly "silly" episodes, and the dramatic ones are definitely an improvement. The characters are more realized, have settled into their roles, and are starting to develop.
I was initially going to post this after the two-parter, as that seemed like an appropriate place chronologically and dramatically, but something about the Amazon Prime description of "Buffy's mother dates a computer salesman" was just irresistible so I added 2x11 - "Ted" too.
The two big newcomers this season, Spike and Drusilla, didn't grow on me until the two-parter where they really got some screen time and development. Drusilla especially was really obnoxious with her breathy voice and oh-so-mad Ophelia bit, but I like the turn her character took and the realization that she's sort of putting on an act for Spike's sake and is more lucid than she seems. The role reversal between the two hinted at in the end of 2x10 - "What's My Line?: Part 2" is intriguing as well.
"Ted" is easily my least favorite Buffy episode so far. It was just awful, and the robot reveal ruined what could've been a perfectly good concept - a misogynistic "man" (maybe a ghost?) who's repeating the mistakes of his past life by taking it out on innocent women and "domesticating" them as his perfect 50s housewife. Or as![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
celesmaic suggested, make it a drama about a perfectly human but abusive man who Buffy can't in good conscience hurt because he's "normal." Bleh.
Overall, I think this season has been much more consistent in its writing. There's less strictly "silly" episodes, and the dramatic ones are definitely an improvement. The characters are more realized, have settled into their roles, and are starting to develop.
I was initially going to post this after the two-parter, as that seemed like an appropriate place chronologically and dramatically, but something about the Amazon Prime description of "Buffy's mother dates a computer salesman" was just irresistible so I added 2x11 - "Ted" too.
The two big newcomers this season, Spike and Drusilla, didn't grow on me until the two-parter where they really got some screen time and development. Drusilla especially was really obnoxious with her breathy voice and oh-so-mad Ophelia bit, but I like the turn her character took and the realization that she's sort of putting on an act for Spike's sake and is more lucid than she seems. The role reversal between the two hinted at in the end of 2x10 - "What's My Line?: Part 2" is intriguing as well.
"Ted" is easily my least favorite Buffy episode so far. It was just awful, and the robot reveal ruined what could've been a perfectly good concept - a misogynistic "man" (maybe a ghost?) who's repeating the mistakes of his past life by taking it out on innocent women and "domesticating" them as his perfect 50s housewife. Or as
celesmaic suggested, make it a drama about a perfectly human but abusive man who Buffy can't in good conscience hurt because he's "normal." Bleh.
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I remember being really freaked out by how awful Ted was and how nobody believed Buffy, then just going "oh" when it turned out he was a robot drugging people. It was like the writers didn't think they could "go that far" and decided to soften the concept by introducing supernatural elements.
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