Thoughts on tonight's Buffy...
Mar. 25th, 2003 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularOkay. Here's what we know.
The First hasn't been able to do much physically, except through its Bringers, but it has proven exceptionally good at the mind games. Buffy got a visitation from Joyce, who may or may not have been the First in disguise; Spike's been used as the First's puppet.
And before we forget, who was it who helped Robin Wood make the connection re: Spike in the first place?
The Enemy is trying to break the Scoobies, folks, and divide-and-conquer has got to be older than Machiavelli, but it's still pretty damned effective.
And how much do you want to bet that one of the First's backup plans for Spike was to get him killed in a way that would have shattered the trust between Buffy and Wood? Throwing Giles into the mix was probably just gravy, but imagine Buffy's reaction if Wood had succeeded, and cue the Last Trumpet while you're at it...
Oh, and as for non-spoiler stuff? UPN's promo department kinda bites. Because that next-week thing was made to look as though it's a new episode. And not-quite-savvy viewers are gonna be cheesed off when they realize it's a repeat.
Close entry.
The First hasn't been able to do much physically, except through its Bringers, but it has proven exceptionally good at the mind games. Buffy got a visitation from Joyce, who may or may not have been the First in disguise; Spike's been used as the First's puppet.
And before we forget, who was it who helped Robin Wood make the connection re: Spike in the first place?
The Enemy is trying to break the Scoobies, folks, and divide-and-conquer has got to be older than Machiavelli, but it's still pretty damned effective.
And how much do you want to bet that one of the First's backup plans for Spike was to get him killed in a way that would have shattered the trust between Buffy and Wood? Throwing Giles into the mix was probably just gravy, but imagine Buffy's reaction if Wood had succeeded, and cue the Last Trumpet while you're at it...
Oh, and as for non-spoiler stuff? UPN's promo department kinda bites. Because that next-week thing was made to look as though it's a new episode. And not-quite-savvy viewers are gonna be cheesed off when they realize it's a repeat.
Close entry.
