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

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I may have been able to notice all of these annoyances (actually, the speech I *did* notice at the end as over the top and a bit silly) however I was far too distracted by the AWFUL "English" accents. I was left with an overall disappointed feeling by the whole ep, really. Shame as the previous ones to date this season were excellent with the exception of that crappy one about the jacket.