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Wild At Heart, Pangs, Hush. Mini thoughts.
Posting this just to get it out of the way. Nothing deep, just a stray thought about each of the eps. in question.
Wild at Heart
Like most people, I love Willow/Oz. It’s such a sweet pairing, but when Veruca comes along I realised what was missing: Passion. It might be there, but I can’t see it. (It might also be because I don’t find AH hot... this is all about how *I* see it, others are free to disagree!) Because the scene when Oz tries to get Veruca to come into the cage with him - before suddenly grabbing hold of her and pulling her in - that’s hot. Veruca is a total bitch of course, but her scenes with Oz are more intense than any he has with Willow. IMHO anyway...
(We also see a lot of groundwork being laid for Gay!Willow and Dark!Willow in these early episodes - her rant against men generally when talking to Parker, the big Lesbian Alliance banner in ‘Something Blue’ to mention just two things. As for magic then her vengeance spell on Veruca and Oz shows how easily she will turn to vengeance - there’s a reason D’Hoffryn wants to recruit her.)
Pangs
We have the big vampire switcheroo in this ep. Starting with both our vampires out in the cold - v. obvious parallel.
But the first time we see Angel interact with anyone and find out what his deal is, he is in Giles’ apartment - and if not a friend exactly, then Angel a tolerated helper, a part of the inner circle. He moves on to talk to all of the Scoobies - but not Buffy - and at the end leaves completely, after one final look through the window at a world he is no longer part of.
Spike also gets a look in a window, at the vampire world that is now closed to him - even Harmony throws him out. So he seeks out Buffy - asking for her help openly. And gets invited in... At the end of the episode he is sat at the table with the rest of the gang - barely tolerated, but he’s on the inside now. And that’s where he’ll stay, as a part of the group.
Looking at the table, it has Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya and Spike - the six people who’ll be there right until the end.
Hush
No deep thoughts at all. If you want some go read Spring Summers, she's amazing. This time there was one thing that struck me. Of course the ep. is all about communication, but this aspect never struck me before:
Forrest: "This is the burden we bear, brother. We have a gig that would inevitably cause any girl living to think we are cool upon cool. Yet we must Clark Kent our way through the dating scene never to use our unfair advantage."
Because Giles *did* use his 'gig' to make Olivia to think he was cool upon cool - and paid the price:
Olivia: "All the time you used to talk to me about witchcraft and darkness and the like - I just thought you were being pretentious."
Giles: "Oh I was. I was also right."
Olivia: "So everything you told me was true."
Giles: "Well no, um, I wasn't actually one of the original members of Pink Floyd. But the monster stuff, yes."
Olivia: "Scary."
Giles: "Too scary?"
Olivia: "I don't know."
Not sure I have any further thoughts, but I found it interesting.
Wild at Heart
Like most people, I love Willow/Oz. It’s such a sweet pairing, but when Veruca comes along I realised what was missing: Passion. It might be there, but I can’t see it. (It might also be because I don’t find AH hot... this is all about how *I* see it, others are free to disagree!) Because the scene when Oz tries to get Veruca to come into the cage with him - before suddenly grabbing hold of her and pulling her in - that’s hot. Veruca is a total bitch of course, but her scenes with Oz are more intense than any he has with Willow. IMHO anyway...
(We also see a lot of groundwork being laid for Gay!Willow and Dark!Willow in these early episodes - her rant against men generally when talking to Parker, the big Lesbian Alliance banner in ‘Something Blue’ to mention just two things. As for magic then her vengeance spell on Veruca and Oz shows how easily she will turn to vengeance - there’s a reason D’Hoffryn wants to recruit her.)
Pangs
We have the big vampire switcheroo in this ep. Starting with both our vampires out in the cold - v. obvious parallel.
But the first time we see Angel interact with anyone and find out what his deal is, he is in Giles’ apartment - and if not a friend exactly, then Angel a tolerated helper, a part of the inner circle. He moves on to talk to all of the Scoobies - but not Buffy - and at the end leaves completely, after one final look through the window at a world he is no longer part of.
Spike also gets a look in a window, at the vampire world that is now closed to him - even Harmony throws him out. So he seeks out Buffy - asking for her help openly. And gets invited in... At the end of the episode he is sat at the table with the rest of the gang - barely tolerated, but he’s on the inside now. And that’s where he’ll stay, as a part of the group.
Looking at the table, it has Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya and Spike - the six people who’ll be there right until the end.
Hush
No deep thoughts at all. If you want some go read Spring Summers, she's amazing. This time there was one thing that struck me. Of course the ep. is all about communication, but this aspect never struck me before:
Forrest: "This is the burden we bear, brother. We have a gig that would inevitably cause any girl living to think we are cool upon cool. Yet we must Clark Kent our way through the dating scene never to use our unfair advantage."
Because Giles *did* use his 'gig' to make Olivia to think he was cool upon cool - and paid the price:
Olivia: "All the time you used to talk to me about witchcraft and darkness and the like - I just thought you were being pretentious."
Giles: "Oh I was. I was also right."
Olivia: "So everything you told me was true."
Giles: "Well no, um, I wasn't actually one of the original members of Pink Floyd. But the monster stuff, yes."
Olivia: "Scary."
Giles: "Too scary?"
Olivia: "I don't know."
Not sure I have any further thoughts, but I found it interesting.