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More random Buffy thoughts - 'Out Of My Mind'.
Watched ‘Out Of My Mind’ last night while wonderful Mr. Darcy put the girls to bed. He came downstairs about halfway through, looked at the screen (Riley playing basketball with his chums) and said:
"Why are you watching a crappy Riley episode?"...[beat] "Or does it have naked Spike in it too?"
Sometimes he knows me far too well...
Having read a few analysis of this episode fairly recently, I'm going to skip all the stuff that people normally focus on, and just write about the few things that stood out for me.
First point I *have* to mention is the B/R sex scene! No! Come back! Please keep reading!
Buffy and Riley lying in bed, all snuggled up in sheets.
RILEY: Yeah.
BUFFY: Mm, that was relaxing.
Me (thinking ahead more than a season):
BUFFY: (panting) Uh ... we missed the bed again.
SPIKE: (looks toward the bed) Lucky for the bed.
(Suppresses urge to point at screen and say rude things about poor Riley)
Anyway, what I noticed most about this episode (and it’s about a year and a half since I last saw it, so there was loads off stuff I’d forgotten) was all the parallels between Buffy and Spike. The way they think alike and how utterly frustrated and angry they both are with each other - so, so many sparks!
Of course there’s also Riley behaving like an overexcited puppy the entire time - I almost expected Buffy to put him on a lead, because he was so hyper. He so very obviously want to be ‘super-boy’ because he thinks that's what Buffy wants, but I really don’t think she’s that bothered. Quite frankly, if anything she might like a Riley that’s mature!
Also his macho act really isn’t helping. He spends the entire episode saying how fine he is, and how he doesn’t need any attention, and at the end (after just having had heart surgery) Buffy leaves him to be with her mother, because obviously he’s going to be fine! He’s a bit thick sometime. Kudos to MB for the acting though.
Ok, I noticed this tiny little thing. So tiny in fact that I’m not sure why I’m mentioning it, but I'm just feeling in a sharing mood I guess. Towards the end of Buffy’s and Willow’s lecture conversation, Buffy mentions how much she has to do and how tiring it is. Willow says: “Aw. Poor Buffy's brain.” and does this funny, gentle little tapping thing on Buffy’s head with her fingertips. And it suddenly reminded me of how Dru tippy-taps her fingertips all around Spike’s head in ‘Crush’. I doubt that this was in any way deliberate, but it just jumped out at me. So that’s my brain for you - overanalysing everything!
Well, onto Spike again. *This* line:
SPIKE: Oh, dear, is the enormous hall monitor sick? Tell me, is he gonna die?
made Mr Darcy laugh too! And I just love the way JM delivers it! Hee! :)
Now there is the looooong and tearful B/R scene in the Initiative caves, but what I noticed was Riley hitting the wall:
BUFFY: Your hand is bleeding.
RILEY: (looks at her) Don't feel a thing.
In ‘Afterlife’ Spike punches the wall and gets hurt just like Buffy:
BUFFY: Your hand is hurt.
SPIKE: Hmm. (nods toward her hands) Same with you.
Not sure if any of that means anything, except that Riley tries to be who he thinks Buffy wants - Spike tries to be Buffy. Any thoughts welcome.
But onto Tearful!Buffy:
BUFFY: No! No. Do you think that I spent the last year with you because you had super powers? If that's what I wanted, then I'd be dating Spike.
Me: “Such nice foreshadowing.”
Darcy: “Pffft. Yeah right!”
Me (chanting in my head): “Don’t say anything, don’t say anything, don’t say anything!”
He quite simply refuses to see that the show might think more than 3 eps into the future! Grrr. Anyway, will come back to the foreshadowing later
Oh, and this exchange just kills me:
BUFFY: (firmly) You are *not* going to die.
RILEY: Bet you say that to all the boys.
Ouch!
The whole scene with Spike’s operation is hilarious and I sadly don’t have time to go into it. But now we also come to the point where the most obvious lines are being drawn between Buffy and Spike:
BUFFY: No. There is one peroxided pest whose number is up. When I get my hands on Spike, I'm gonna rip his head off, I'm gonna...
SPIKE: ...bathe in the slayer's blood. Gonna dive in it. Swim in it.
Such strong emotions! It’s so beautifully cut and it’s so clear what we’re being shown!
Also, Buffy knows straight away that Spike would not have stayed at the hospital:
BUFFY: No, uh-uh, he wouldn't do it here. It's too risky. We'll split up. Graham, get on the horn, or the ... pipe, or whatever you guys get on, I-I want you to check animal hospitals, doctors' offices...
She understands how *Spike* thinks, but fails to see how lost and disconnected Riley’s feeling.
(Afterwards, running through the cemetery, the gravestone Spike picks up and throws says: Mama. 1881.
Hmmmm.)
And then onto the dream... and how we all love the dream! I noticed something that’s probably *very, very* obvious, but just never struck me before:
BUFFY: Spike ... I want you.
SPIKE: Buffy, I love you.
She *wants* him, he *loves* her. It isn’t just foreshadowing, it’s a huge, enormous flashing neon sign! Those few words are pretty much at the centre of Season 6!
Now I have spent my whole morning writing silly musings, when I should have been doing sensible things. *sigh*
"Why are you watching a crappy Riley episode?"...[beat] "Or does it have naked Spike in it too?"
Sometimes he knows me far too well...
Having read a few analysis of this episode fairly recently, I'm going to skip all the stuff that people normally focus on, and just write about the few things that stood out for me.
First point I *have* to mention is the B/R sex scene! No! Come back! Please keep reading!
Buffy and Riley lying in bed, all snuggled up in sheets.
RILEY: Yeah.
BUFFY: Mm, that was relaxing.
Me (thinking ahead more than a season):
BUFFY: (panting) Uh ... we missed the bed again.
SPIKE: (looks toward the bed) Lucky for the bed.
(Suppresses urge to point at screen and say rude things about poor Riley)
Anyway, what I noticed most about this episode (and it’s about a year and a half since I last saw it, so there was loads off stuff I’d forgotten) was all the parallels between Buffy and Spike. The way they think alike and how utterly frustrated and angry they both are with each other - so, so many sparks!
Of course there’s also Riley behaving like an overexcited puppy the entire time - I almost expected Buffy to put him on a lead, because he was so hyper. He so very obviously want to be ‘super-boy’ because he thinks that's what Buffy wants, but I really don’t think she’s that bothered. Quite frankly, if anything she might like a Riley that’s mature!
Also his macho act really isn’t helping. He spends the entire episode saying how fine he is, and how he doesn’t need any attention, and at the end (after just having had heart surgery) Buffy leaves him to be with her mother, because obviously he’s going to be fine! He’s a bit thick sometime. Kudos to MB for the acting though.
Ok, I noticed this tiny little thing. So tiny in fact that I’m not sure why I’m mentioning it, but I'm just feeling in a sharing mood I guess. Towards the end of Buffy’s and Willow’s lecture conversation, Buffy mentions how much she has to do and how tiring it is. Willow says: “Aw. Poor Buffy's brain.” and does this funny, gentle little tapping thing on Buffy’s head with her fingertips. And it suddenly reminded me of how Dru tippy-taps her fingertips all around Spike’s head in ‘Crush’. I doubt that this was in any way deliberate, but it just jumped out at me. So that’s my brain for you - overanalysing everything!
Well, onto Spike again. *This* line:
SPIKE: Oh, dear, is the enormous hall monitor sick? Tell me, is he gonna die?
made Mr Darcy laugh too! And I just love the way JM delivers it! Hee! :)
Now there is the looooong and tearful B/R scene in the Initiative caves, but what I noticed was Riley hitting the wall:
BUFFY: Your hand is bleeding.
RILEY: (looks at her) Don't feel a thing.
In ‘Afterlife’ Spike punches the wall and gets hurt just like Buffy:
BUFFY: Your hand is hurt.
SPIKE: Hmm. (nods toward her hands) Same with you.
Not sure if any of that means anything, except that Riley tries to be who he thinks Buffy wants - Spike tries to be Buffy. Any thoughts welcome.
But onto Tearful!Buffy:
BUFFY: No! No. Do you think that I spent the last year with you because you had super powers? If that's what I wanted, then I'd be dating Spike.
Me: “Such nice foreshadowing.”
Darcy: “Pffft. Yeah right!”
Me (chanting in my head): “Don’t say anything, don’t say anything, don’t say anything!”
He quite simply refuses to see that the show might think more than 3 eps into the future! Grrr. Anyway, will come back to the foreshadowing later
Oh, and this exchange just kills me:
BUFFY: (firmly) You are *not* going to die.
RILEY: Bet you say that to all the boys.
Ouch!
The whole scene with Spike’s operation is hilarious and I sadly don’t have time to go into it. But now we also come to the point where the most obvious lines are being drawn between Buffy and Spike:
BUFFY: No. There is one peroxided pest whose number is up. When I get my hands on Spike, I'm gonna rip his head off, I'm gonna...
SPIKE: ...bathe in the slayer's blood. Gonna dive in it. Swim in it.
Such strong emotions! It’s so beautifully cut and it’s so clear what we’re being shown!
Also, Buffy knows straight away that Spike would not have stayed at the hospital:
BUFFY: No, uh-uh, he wouldn't do it here. It's too risky. We'll split up. Graham, get on the horn, or the ... pipe, or whatever you guys get on, I-I want you to check animal hospitals, doctors' offices...
She understands how *Spike* thinks, but fails to see how lost and disconnected Riley’s feeling.
(Afterwards, running through the cemetery, the gravestone Spike picks up and throws says: Mama. 1881.
Hmmmm.)
And then onto the dream... and how we all love the dream! I noticed something that’s probably *very, very* obvious, but just never struck me before:
BUFFY: Spike ... I want you.
SPIKE: Buffy, I love you.
She *wants* him, he *loves* her. It isn’t just foreshadowing, it’s a huge, enormous flashing neon sign! Those few words are pretty much at the centre of Season 6!
Now I have spent my whole morning writing silly musings, when I should have been doing sensible things. *sigh*
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I actually got the idea for that from this post by
And you should also read Spring Summers' analysis of this episode (go to the Soulful Spike Society - it's on ly links-list) and click on 'Spikecentricity') - she's the one who alerted me to the gravestone. And has some more thoughts on it than me...
And I've watched that scene a good few times too without ever noticing - funny how something familiar can suddenly become interesting.
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And I just love Spring Summer's analyses! I stumbled on them a couple months back but I haven't gotten through all of them yet. Still on the tail end of S4...So many things that I never realized until she points them out. And some of the things she parallels scenes to are just so mindnumbing. I still can't get over the parallel she made in 'Pangs' of the image of Spike riddled with arrows mirroring a picture of a saint whose fate was so similar as Spike's. It's things like that that I just wish we could corner the writers in a room and ask them if they were really planned out. Because if not, that's just freaky...
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I still can't get over the parallel she made in 'Pangs' of the image of Spike riddled with arrows mirroring a picture of a saint whose fate was so similar as Spike's.
Oh, I remember that one too! The mind boggles. I'm mid-season 5 now, and in 'Triangle' she points out re. Willow making the cash register disappear and re-appear, that it comes back 'wrong', but that the money inside is fine! Just incredible. And her thoughts on 'The Replacement' in particular just blew me away.