Blanking on Buffy

[avram]

I was watching Buffy, and a couple times in the episode the cable flickered out on me. Just for a second or two each time, but it was annoying. The first time was while the principal was talking to those two unnamed students in his office; I missed a bit of his dialog, but the overall sense of it was clear. The second time is a minor spoiler....

Council Head: “The girl knows nothing.” —blank— “...as soon as possible.”

What’d I miss? Though given what happened further on, I guess it’s a moot point.

And about that ending — OK, the Master wasn’t the most interesting of Buffy’s enemies, but he is the one who managed to kill her.

Also, I totally forgot to watch Angel on Sunday. Was it a new episode?

Comments

The Master?

[(Anonymous)]

Are you sure that's the Master? Not just another ancient (possibly even more ancient) vampire?
Matt

Re: The Master?

[avram]

Well, Buffy said it was someone she'd fought before. Or whose minions she'd fought before. "The first," she said. And the Master was the first big villain of the series. The Master fits in with this whole back-to-the-beginning theme Joss started off the season with. And the Master was always tied in with the Hellmouth -- he had been trying to open it sixty years before the series starts, and then been trapped in it by an earthquake.

Clearly there's more going on than just the Master, what with the chameleon spirit dude who's been causing trouble.

And I don't know how they're going to get around the fact that Buffy dusted him way back in Season 1.

Re: The Master?

[avram]

Ah, I found a nice page chock full of Mastery badness. Helps refresh my memory of Seasons 1 and 2. I'd forgotten all about that bring-back-the-Master spell (which shouldn't work anyway, since Buffy crushed the bones).

[avram]

Or I could be wrong. annathepiper has some much more useful comments on the episode.

[(Anonymous)]

Mine cut out a couple places too, but different places.

Head (Colin, isn't he?): The girl knows nothing. And we need to find Rupert Giles as soon as possible.

He was talking slow and walking around the room, you just missed a few words there. But where IS Rupert? Surely not dead.

[avram]

Kipnapped is the obvious guess. Maybe they're planning to use him as a hostage to get Buffy off their backs. Or torture him for information.

Of course, by implying that he's been killed, the writers have the opportunity to show us Giles and imply that he's actually the shape-changing Bottom Feeder.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

The "first" refers to the First Evil. Buffy fought her, in the guise of Ms. Calendar. It was the episode where Angel was going to kill himself because the First was driving him insane and showing him how evil and corrupt he was. Then it began to snow, so heavily that the sun couldn't been seen. Anywho, that is what Buffy was refering to. ;)