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butterflyWow, everyone's so beautiful. Except the two who shouldn't be (Anya and Wills), who both look tired, Wills moreso. Which is marvelous. Pretty Buffy. Pretty Xander. Mmm.
Dawn: "But he's new. He doesn't know his strength. He might not know all those fancy martial arts skills they seem to inevitably pick up."
Buffy: "You're a little girl."
Dawn: "Woman."
Buffy: "Little woman."
Dawn: "I'm taller than you."
Buffy: "He's a vampire, okay. Demon? Preternaturally strong, skilled, with powers no human could possibly ever..."
Vampire: "Excuse me, I think I'm stuck."
Buffy: "You're stuck?"
Vampire: "My foot's caught on a root or something. I don't even know how I got down there. If you girls could just give me a hand?"
Buffy: "It's real. It's the only lesson, Dawn. It's always real."
Dawn: "Plus, I had a plan the whole time."
Buffy: "Really?"
Dawn: "I planned to get killed, come back as a vampire, and bite you."
Buffy: "My first time out, I missed the heart too."
Dawn: "No way."
Buffy: "Just the once."
You know, oddly, I didn't consider the ominous talk to be misleading. That is how they view the school. And they should.
Giles! Horse! Gah! Sexiness!
For anyone wondering, the actor of Robin Wood is named W.B. Woodside. Hee. They're just doing that on purpose.
Willow: "Is there anything you don't know everything about?"
Giles: "Synchronized swimming. Complete mystery to me."
Willow: "The coven is... They're the most amazing women I've ever met. But there's this look they get. Like I'm going to turn them all into bangers and mash, or something. Which I'm not even really sure what that is."
Giles: "This isn't a hobby or an addiction. It's inside you now, this magic. You're responsible for it."
Willow: "Instead, you go all Dumbledore on me."
Giles: "Do you want to be punished?"
Willow: "I wanna be Willow."
Suit!Xander! Squee!
Buffy: "Dawn! Xander's here!"
Buffy: "You're unconscionably spiffy."
Xander: "Client meeting. How exactly do you make cereal?"
Buffy: "Ah. You put the box near the milk. I saw it on the Food Channel. You want something?"
Xander: "I ate. I'm good. How about you?"
Buffy: "My sister is about to go to the same high school that tried to kill me for three years. I can't change districts. I can't afford private school. And I can't begin to prepare her for what could possibly come out of there. So, peachy, with a side of keen, that's me."
Xander: "Well, here's a little something for what ails you."
Xander's meeting clients! For his job! Gah! Could! Die! About the private school thing: my brother is in his Junior year of College and we still haven't paid off the private school he went to. Which means that he doesn't have a copy of his diploma. Doesn't get it 'til the school has all the money. Mom's hoping that he'll get it before he graduates from college.
Dawn: "Hey, check out double-oh-Xander."
Buffy: "Go. Talk with your mouth full."
The Buffy/Dawn interaction rocks this year.
Okay, Xander's crew is only working in two areas, the science building and the gym. Neither of which was near the fallen area. Coolness. He didn't actually miss anything where he was.
Dawn: "So, the principal's evil?"
Buffy: "Or in a boatload of danger."
Xander: "Well, the last two principals were eaten, who'd even apply for that job?"
Buffy! Checks! Xander's watch! Xander's! They are so married. Without the kissing. Again, I mention the need for the kissing to happen this year. But still. So married!
Xander: "Did you give her the..."
Buffy: "Oh! I was saving it."
So married! Gah!
Buffy: "I'm going to take her to class, have a look around."
Xander: "I'm going to be on-site here all day, so if you have any needs..."
Buffy: "Thanks."
Buffy: "Or if you see anyone that's invisible..."
Dawn: "Hey, Buffy. I think it's pretty safe to say that I'm not going to see anyone that's invisible."
Buffy: "You know, you can still drop out. Only nerds finish high school."
Dawn: "You know, I don't think that it's really fair of you to try to scare me on my first day of high school. Cause it is so redundant."
Buffy: "This place is evil."
New Principal, will be referred to as Wood: "Tough to let 'em go, huh?"
Buffy: "You didn't really think that she's my... It's my hair. I have mom-hair."
Wood: "I gotta get back to work. Gotta start deadening young minds."
Buffy: "That was suspicious."
Dawn: "I know! You never know what's coming. The stake is not the power. To Serve Man is a cookbook. I love you. Go away!"
Buffy: "It's not mom hair."
Dawn: "I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out. So mostly her fingerpainting and macaroni art. Very underrated. Favorite activities include not ever having to do this again, and uh..."
Buffy: "Dawn!"
Dawn: "What?"
Buffy: "We have to go. It's not safe."
Dawn: "But..."
Buffy: "We, um... I mean, I saw..."
Teacher: "Can I help you?"
Buffy: "No. I, uh... Dawn, I just thought you were in danger... of smoking. I'll be around."
Dawn: "I also have a sister."
Halfrek: "They're calling you 'Miss Softserve.'"
Ha! *much giggling*
Halfrek: "Waitress downtown, wished her husband was a frog... You made him French."
Anya: "Well. He's smelly. And with a little mustache!"
Halfrek: "This is a bad time to be a good guy."
Anya: "What is this, an intervention? Shouldn't all my demon friends be here?"
Halfrek: "Sweetie... they are."
Manly nodding as Xander discharges the keeping of the Boss!desk into someone else's hands! Hee!
Xander: "No damage though?"
Buffy: "I think I may have destroyed Dawn's social life in all of about thirty seconds, but apart that, no."
Xander: "Well, being popular isn't all that great. Or so I've read in books."
Dawn: "There was a bee. It flew in my eye. I'm... I'm very allergic."
Willow's saying 'Goddess' now. Hmm.
Willow: "I felt the earth. It's all connected, it is, but it's not all good and pure and rootsy. There's deep black. I saw the earth, Giles. I saw its teeth."
Wood: "Kind of a checkered past."
Buffy: "More like a plaid. Kind of a Clan tartan of badness, really."
Kit: "It's not real."
Dawn: "Lesson One: It's always real."
Wood: "Well, it's clear your sister looks up to you, which I think is great."
Buffy: "No, she's much, much worse than me. Troublemaker. I think expulsion is really the only way to go. You know, Or, you could expel her for 30 years..."
Wood: "Well, how 'bout we should give her a chance first. Just as long as she keeps her grades up..."
*Buffy's cell rings*
Buffy: "Boy, that's loud."
Wood: "That's part of why we don't allow cell phones in..."
Buffy: "Excuse me. Yeah?"
*pause*
Buffy: "Uh, sorry, my dog. Dog... walker. They're really dead?"
Wood: "Oh, my god."
Buffy: "No. I'll be right there."
Wood: "Your dogs are dead?"
Dawn: "And Buffy? Isn't this reception amazing? I'm in the frickin' basement. Okay."
Buffy: "Sorry about that. I, I have to..."
Wood: "Yeah. No... of course. And good luck with that... dog tragedy."
Buffy: "Come on, what are you after? Fear? Revenge? Tasty brains?"
Dead Guy: "I think I'd like Dawn to be my girlfriend."
Buffy: "Again, wrong sister. I'm the one who dates dead guys. And no offense, but they were hotties. I mean, I'm sure you had a great personality."
Buffy: "Hello! Not making myself clear. I don't care how you died. I'm sorry for your loss. But where is my sister?"
Buffy: "If at first you don't succeed..."
*leaps over dead dudes*
Buffy: "Cheat."
Spike's hair just kills me. Hee! So funny.
Spike: "Buffy... duck."
Buffy: "What? Duck? There's a duck?"
*Buffy gets bashed on the head*
Aw. He was trying to help. He just sucked at it. Note to Buffy: Learn to duck.
Buffy: "He'll probably show up in a sec."
Spike: "Nobody comes in here. It's just the three of us."
Ooo. Now Spike's ranting means something else. He's talking to the shapeshifter insanity thing! And Buffy doesn't get it, like Fraser talking to his dead dad on due South. Again, I like Insane!Spike.
Buffy: "What did you do?"
Spike: "I tried... I tried to cut it out."
Buffy: "Guys? Resentful dead guys?"
She called Xander! For help!
*sees the hole*
Xander: "Whoa! Contracty goodness. Talisman. Talisman."
*dead janitor hold Dawn down*
DJ: "You can thank your sister for this."
*Buffy kicks him off Dawn*
Dawn: "Thanks, sis."
Wood: "Curiouser and curiouser."
Buffy: "What is?"
Wood: "Carlos Trejo and Kit Holburn, right? Possibly the only two students in this school whose files are as thick as yours was."
Buffy: "You really did your homework, didn't you?"
Wood: "Well, I was looking for one or both of them to actually implode in a fearsome way right before midterms, but now you've got them socializin' and hugging, and, if I'm not mistaken, headed to class."
Buffy: "Yeah, well, we shared an... encounter."
Wood: "I know that you were probably more than happy to get out of this place, but I got to tell you, Miss Summers, I think you belong here."
Buffy: "Huhm, new?"
Wood: "Look, I know this school's reputation. What, you think I got this job based on seniority? We've got a lot of troubled students here and just enough money to keep this place from caving in."
Buffy: "Yeah, you might need a little extra there."
Wood: "Well, we do have a community outreach program and the money we could pay you... wouldn't even fold, but it would just be a couple of days a week?"
Buffy: "Are you asking me to be a counselor?"
Wood: "Oh, we have a guidance counselor, but I was thinking that the kids could use someone, you know, closer to their age who still..."
Buffy: "I'm in."
Wood: "What, you serious? You, you did hear the part about the money, right?"
Buffy: "Yeah, I heard. My schedule might be a little funtastic, but, uh, I'll... I'll work it out. I'd like to keep an eye on this place."
Wood: "Well, that's great! Look at that. It's not even noon, and I've already bullied my first family member into helping out. I'm gonna be the best principal ever."
Wow. I love the new Principal. Which makes me think that he's doomed.
Spike: "The thing is... I had a speech. I learned it all. Oh, God, she won't understand. She won't understand."
Warren: "Of course, she won't understand, Sparky. I'm beyond her understanding. She's a girl. Sugar and spice and everything... useless unless you're baking. I'm more than that. More than flesh..."
*morphs into Glory, morphs whenever the name changes*
Glory: "More than blood, I'm... you know, I honestly don't think there's a human word fabulous enough for me. Oh, my name will be on everyone's lips. Assuming their lips haven't been torn off. But not just yet. That's all right, though."
Adam: "I can be patient. Everything is well within parameters. She's exactly where I want her to be. And so are you, number 17. You're right where you belong."
The Mayor: "So, what'd you think, you'd get your soul back and everything would be Jim Dandy? A soul's slipperier than a greased weasel. Why do you think I sold mine? Ha ha ha ha! Well, you probably thought that you'd be your own man. And I respect that. But you..."
Dru: "Never will. You'll always be mine. You'll always be in the dark with me. Singing our little songs. You like our little songs, don't you? You've always liked them, right from the beginning. And that's where we're going..."
The Master: "Right back to the beginning. Not the Bang... not the Word... the true beginning. The next few months are going to be quite a ride, and I think we're all going to learn something about ourselves in the process. You'll learn you're a pathetic schmuck, if it hasn't sunk in already. Look at you. Tried to do what's right. Just like her. But you still don't get it. It's not about right. Not about wrong."
Buffy: "It's about power."
I love how all the morphees are in-character. Maybe the hellmouth itself is talking to him?
Whee!
In every other season, the premiere tells us so much about the coming season. So, very cool. We have a learning Willow. Capable yet still funny Xander. Adorable, empathetic, but not too much Buffy. Cool Dawn. Insane Spike, with Buffy sympathetic but not too much. And the villain(s)... just amazing. And the B/Xness was amazing. So domestic. They truly have built a foundation for future bliss.
Dawn: "But he's new. He doesn't know his strength. He might not know all those fancy martial arts skills they seem to inevitably pick up."
Buffy: "You're a little girl."
Dawn: "Woman."
Buffy: "Little woman."
Dawn: "I'm taller than you."
Buffy: "He's a vampire, okay. Demon? Preternaturally strong, skilled, with powers no human could possibly ever..."
Vampire: "Excuse me, I think I'm stuck."
Buffy: "You're stuck?"
Vampire: "My foot's caught on a root or something. I don't even know how I got down there. If you girls could just give me a hand?"
Buffy: "It's real. It's the only lesson, Dawn. It's always real."
Dawn: "Plus, I had a plan the whole time."
Buffy: "Really?"
Dawn: "I planned to get killed, come back as a vampire, and bite you."
Buffy: "My first time out, I missed the heart too."
Dawn: "No way."
Buffy: "Just the once."
You know, oddly, I didn't consider the ominous talk to be misleading. That is how they view the school. And they should.
Giles! Horse! Gah! Sexiness!
For anyone wondering, the actor of Robin Wood is named W.B. Woodside. Hee. They're just doing that on purpose.
Willow: "Is there anything you don't know everything about?"
Giles: "Synchronized swimming. Complete mystery to me."
Willow: "The coven is... They're the most amazing women I've ever met. But there's this look they get. Like I'm going to turn them all into bangers and mash, or something. Which I'm not even really sure what that is."
Giles: "This isn't a hobby or an addiction. It's inside you now, this magic. You're responsible for it."
Willow: "Instead, you go all Dumbledore on me."
Giles: "Do you want to be punished?"
Willow: "I wanna be Willow."
Suit!Xander! Squee!
Buffy: "Dawn! Xander's here!"
Buffy: "You're unconscionably spiffy."
Xander: "Client meeting. How exactly do you make cereal?"
Buffy: "Ah. You put the box near the milk. I saw it on the Food Channel. You want something?"
Xander: "I ate. I'm good. How about you?"
Buffy: "My sister is about to go to the same high school that tried to kill me for three years. I can't change districts. I can't afford private school. And I can't begin to prepare her for what could possibly come out of there. So, peachy, with a side of keen, that's me."
Xander: "Well, here's a little something for what ails you."
Xander's meeting clients! For his job! Gah! Could! Die! About the private school thing: my brother is in his Junior year of College and we still haven't paid off the private school he went to. Which means that he doesn't have a copy of his diploma. Doesn't get it 'til the school has all the money. Mom's hoping that he'll get it before he graduates from college.
Dawn: "Hey, check out double-oh-Xander."
Buffy: "Go. Talk with your mouth full."
The Buffy/Dawn interaction rocks this year.
Okay, Xander's crew is only working in two areas, the science building and the gym. Neither of which was near the fallen area. Coolness. He didn't actually miss anything where he was.
Dawn: "So, the principal's evil?"
Buffy: "Or in a boatload of danger."
Xander: "Well, the last two principals were eaten, who'd even apply for that job?"
Buffy! Checks! Xander's watch! Xander's! They are so married. Without the kissing. Again, I mention the need for the kissing to happen this year. But still. So married!
Xander: "Did you give her the..."
Buffy: "Oh! I was saving it."
So married! Gah!
Buffy: "I'm going to take her to class, have a look around."
Xander: "I'm going to be on-site here all day, so if you have any needs..."
Buffy: "Thanks."
Buffy: "Or if you see anyone that's invisible..."
Dawn: "Hey, Buffy. I think it's pretty safe to say that I'm not going to see anyone that's invisible."
Buffy: "You know, you can still drop out. Only nerds finish high school."
Dawn: "You know, I don't think that it's really fair of you to try to scare me on my first day of high school. Cause it is so redundant."
Buffy: "This place is evil."
New Principal, will be referred to as Wood: "Tough to let 'em go, huh?"
Buffy: "You didn't really think that she's my... It's my hair. I have mom-hair."
Wood: "I gotta get back to work. Gotta start deadening young minds."
Buffy: "That was suspicious."
Dawn: "I know! You never know what's coming. The stake is not the power. To Serve Man is a cookbook. I love you. Go away!"
Buffy: "It's not mom hair."
Dawn: "I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out. So mostly her fingerpainting and macaroni art. Very underrated. Favorite activities include not ever having to do this again, and uh..."
Buffy: "Dawn!"
Dawn: "What?"
Buffy: "We have to go. It's not safe."
Dawn: "But..."
Buffy: "We, um... I mean, I saw..."
Teacher: "Can I help you?"
Buffy: "No. I, uh... Dawn, I just thought you were in danger... of smoking. I'll be around."
Dawn: "I also have a sister."
Halfrek: "They're calling you 'Miss Softserve.'"
Ha! *much giggling*
Halfrek: "Waitress downtown, wished her husband was a frog... You made him French."
Anya: "Well. He's smelly. And with a little mustache!"
Halfrek: "This is a bad time to be a good guy."
Anya: "What is this, an intervention? Shouldn't all my demon friends be here?"
Halfrek: "Sweetie... they are."
Manly nodding as Xander discharges the keeping of the Boss!desk into someone else's hands! Hee!
Xander: "No damage though?"
Buffy: "I think I may have destroyed Dawn's social life in all of about thirty seconds, but apart that, no."
Xander: "Well, being popular isn't all that great. Or so I've read in books."
Dawn: "There was a bee. It flew in my eye. I'm... I'm very allergic."
Willow's saying 'Goddess' now. Hmm.
Willow: "I felt the earth. It's all connected, it is, but it's not all good and pure and rootsy. There's deep black. I saw the earth, Giles. I saw its teeth."
Wood: "Kind of a checkered past."
Buffy: "More like a plaid. Kind of a Clan tartan of badness, really."
Kit: "It's not real."
Dawn: "Lesson One: It's always real."
Wood: "Well, it's clear your sister looks up to you, which I think is great."
Buffy: "No, she's much, much worse than me. Troublemaker. I think expulsion is really the only way to go. You know, Or, you could expel her for 30 years..."
Wood: "Well, how 'bout we should give her a chance first. Just as long as she keeps her grades up..."
*Buffy's cell rings*
Buffy: "Boy, that's loud."
Wood: "That's part of why we don't allow cell phones in..."
Buffy: "Excuse me. Yeah?"
*pause*
Buffy: "Uh, sorry, my dog. Dog... walker. They're really dead?"
Wood: "Oh, my god."
Buffy: "No. I'll be right there."
Wood: "Your dogs are dead?"
Dawn: "And Buffy? Isn't this reception amazing? I'm in the frickin' basement. Okay."
Buffy: "Sorry about that. I, I have to..."
Wood: "Yeah. No... of course. And good luck with that... dog tragedy."
Buffy: "Come on, what are you after? Fear? Revenge? Tasty brains?"
Dead Guy: "I think I'd like Dawn to be my girlfriend."
Buffy: "Again, wrong sister. I'm the one who dates dead guys. And no offense, but they were hotties. I mean, I'm sure you had a great personality."
Buffy: "Hello! Not making myself clear. I don't care how you died. I'm sorry for your loss. But where is my sister?"
Buffy: "If at first you don't succeed..."
*leaps over dead dudes*
Buffy: "Cheat."
Spike's hair just kills me. Hee! So funny.
Spike: "Buffy... duck."
Buffy: "What? Duck? There's a duck?"
*Buffy gets bashed on the head*
Aw. He was trying to help. He just sucked at it. Note to Buffy: Learn to duck.
Buffy: "He'll probably show up in a sec."
Spike: "Nobody comes in here. It's just the three of us."
Ooo. Now Spike's ranting means something else. He's talking to the shapeshifter insanity thing! And Buffy doesn't get it, like Fraser talking to his dead dad on due South. Again, I like Insane!Spike.
Buffy: "What did you do?"
Spike: "I tried... I tried to cut it out."
Buffy: "Guys? Resentful dead guys?"
She called Xander! For help!
*sees the hole*
Xander: "Whoa! Contracty goodness. Talisman. Talisman."
*dead janitor hold Dawn down*
DJ: "You can thank your sister for this."
*Buffy kicks him off Dawn*
Dawn: "Thanks, sis."
Wood: "Curiouser and curiouser."
Buffy: "What is?"
Wood: "Carlos Trejo and Kit Holburn, right? Possibly the only two students in this school whose files are as thick as yours was."
Buffy: "You really did your homework, didn't you?"
Wood: "Well, I was looking for one or both of them to actually implode in a fearsome way right before midterms, but now you've got them socializin' and hugging, and, if I'm not mistaken, headed to class."
Buffy: "Yeah, well, we shared an... encounter."
Wood: "I know that you were probably more than happy to get out of this place, but I got to tell you, Miss Summers, I think you belong here."
Buffy: "Huhm, new?"
Wood: "Look, I know this school's reputation. What, you think I got this job based on seniority? We've got a lot of troubled students here and just enough money to keep this place from caving in."
Buffy: "Yeah, you might need a little extra there."
Wood: "Well, we do have a community outreach program and the money we could pay you... wouldn't even fold, but it would just be a couple of days a week?"
Buffy: "Are you asking me to be a counselor?"
Wood: "Oh, we have a guidance counselor, but I was thinking that the kids could use someone, you know, closer to their age who still..."
Buffy: "I'm in."
Wood: "What, you serious? You, you did hear the part about the money, right?"
Buffy: "Yeah, I heard. My schedule might be a little funtastic, but, uh, I'll... I'll work it out. I'd like to keep an eye on this place."
Wood: "Well, that's great! Look at that. It's not even noon, and I've already bullied my first family member into helping out. I'm gonna be the best principal ever."
Wow. I love the new Principal. Which makes me think that he's doomed.
Spike: "The thing is... I had a speech. I learned it all. Oh, God, she won't understand. She won't understand."
Warren: "Of course, she won't understand, Sparky. I'm beyond her understanding. She's a girl. Sugar and spice and everything... useless unless you're baking. I'm more than that. More than flesh..."
*morphs into Glory, morphs whenever the name changes*
Glory: "More than blood, I'm... you know, I honestly don't think there's a human word fabulous enough for me. Oh, my name will be on everyone's lips. Assuming their lips haven't been torn off. But not just yet. That's all right, though."
Adam: "I can be patient. Everything is well within parameters. She's exactly where I want her to be. And so are you, number 17. You're right where you belong."
The Mayor: "So, what'd you think, you'd get your soul back and everything would be Jim Dandy? A soul's slipperier than a greased weasel. Why do you think I sold mine? Ha ha ha ha! Well, you probably thought that you'd be your own man. And I respect that. But you..."
Dru: "Never will. You'll always be mine. You'll always be in the dark with me. Singing our little songs. You like our little songs, don't you? You've always liked them, right from the beginning. And that's where we're going..."
The Master: "Right back to the beginning. Not the Bang... not the Word... the true beginning. The next few months are going to be quite a ride, and I think we're all going to learn something about ourselves in the process. You'll learn you're a pathetic schmuck, if it hasn't sunk in already. Look at you. Tried to do what's right. Just like her. But you still don't get it. It's not about right. Not about wrong."
Buffy: "It's about power."
I love how all the morphees are in-character. Maybe the hellmouth itself is talking to him?
Whee!
In every other season, the premiere tells us so much about the coming season. So, very cool. We have a learning Willow. Capable yet still funny Xander. Adorable, empathetic, but not too much Buffy. Cool Dawn. Insane Spike, with Buffy sympathetic but not too much. And the villain(s)... just amazing. And the B/Xness was amazing. So domestic. They truly have built a foundation for future bliss.
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Date: 2002-09-25 03:51 pm (UTC)At least I tried not to be spoiled this time around. I haven't read the whole thing but I read a few parts before I realized it was the episode I haven't seen. I'm slow but... yeah. Not your fault. I should be more cautious in my readings... ;)
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Date: 2002-09-25 05:02 pm (UTC)Mistakes like this happen all the time ;) I will never hold it against you. And, anyways, when it comes to the Buffy show, we can't help but add the word "cute" somewhere even when it shouldn't go in what we are writing. *g*
I'm getting in a better mood as well so I don't mind as much if at all anymore ;)
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Date: 2002-09-25 05:22 pm (UTC)*hugs*
Glad that you're feeling better.
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Date: 2002-09-25 05:33 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-09-25 06:17 pm (UTC)