Annoyances in today's Buffy

[avram]

OK, it’s a bridge episode, intended to give us a few more details and set up the Cool Stuff. Not great like some of the recent ones have been, but OK. Still, some gripes...

• What’s with the drowning Spike scene? Will the writers ever make up their minds about whether vampires need to breathe?
• Did it ever occur to Buffy to say, in the presence of the other characters, “Hey, stakes don’t work on this one, but it’s still afraid of sunlight”? I guess we can assume that she’ll be telling them between episodes.
• And why exactly did that little Slayerette run off like that? Could we maybe have spent some time establishing a motivation for the character to do something stupid that’ll get her killed?
• Oh, and nice job killing off the gay one again. Are they farming the scripting out to Fred Phelps?

Comments

[avram]

I thought the last speech was a bit overdone. Nice to see them getting proactive, if they do indeed do that.

And one thing they seem to be forgetting: It may not be possible to fight the First Evil itself, but the minions are (or were, till the neandervamp showed up) probably quite killable. The Bottom Feeder can't do squat without people to do his bidding.

I kept wondering if they were going to phone up Riley and the Initiative and ask to borrow some heavy ordnance. Worked real well on the Judge back in Season 2.