An amused note: the shooting script lists the Principal's name as "Mr. Miller"!
Is it just me, or does anyone else think they changed it to "Snyder" for that slight Germanic touch? Interestingly, both names are old occupational names, defining someone by their profession - one who grinds, one who cuts. That's something-ism, right?
Sid evokes the image of the long line of Slayers preceding Buffy, when he mentions that he knew one back in the 30's. Lest we brush past that random mention, he follows that up. "Don't worry about me, sweetheart, I've lived a lot longer than most demon hunters." Then he trenchantly adds, "or Slayers for that matter." We've known Buffy comes from a line of Slayers, and we vaguely know that they have short life spans. Neither Buffy or Giles have really spent much time thinking of it. In fact, Giles only recently thought to look at the previous Watchers' diaries when researching Angelus. So, it's a bit of a sobering reminder of Buffy's poor prognosis.
I find the scene where Buffy and Sid discuss death to be the best thing about this episode - it's the first time the show really addresses both that Slayers are supposed to come with a very short expiration date, that sometimes death isn't the worst thing that can happen, and that Buffy knows this (at least on a left-brain level, which of course is just that; statistics, probabilities, but not REAL yet).
Buffy, Willow and Xander end the show doing a piece from Oedipus Rex, the play about a man who cannot escape his destiny.
And they can't stick to the age-old script.
Buffy seems to fear the dummy to an unusual degree.
Of course she does. Sid is what old demon hunters become (and what Buffy herself is close to becoming at the end of s5). Buffy's role in the big story is to cut her own strings.
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Date: 2010-09-20 08:40 am (UTC)An amused note: the shooting script lists the Principal's name as "Mr. Miller"!
Is it just me, or does anyone else think they changed it to "Snyder" for that slight Germanic touch? Interestingly, both names are old occupational names, defining someone by their profession - one who grinds, one who cuts. That's something-ism, right?
Sid evokes the image of the long line of Slayers preceding Buffy, when he mentions that he knew one back in the 30's. Lest we brush past that random mention, he follows that up. "Don't worry about me, sweetheart, I've lived a lot longer than most demon hunters." Then he trenchantly adds, "or Slayers for that matter." We've known Buffy comes from a line of Slayers, and we vaguely know that they have short life spans. Neither Buffy or Giles have really spent much time thinking of it. In fact, Giles only recently thought to look at the previous Watchers' diaries when researching Angelus. So, it's a bit of a sobering reminder of Buffy's poor prognosis.
I find the scene where Buffy and Sid discuss death to be the best thing about this episode - it's the first time the show really addresses both that Slayers are supposed to come with a very short expiration date, that sometimes death isn't the worst thing that can happen, and that Buffy knows this (at least on a left-brain level, which of course is just that; statistics, probabilities, but not REAL yet).
Buffy, Willow and Xander end the show doing a piece from Oedipus Rex, the play about a man who cannot escape his destiny.
And they can't stick to the age-old script.
Buffy seems to fear the dummy to an unusual degree.
Of course she does. Sid is what old demon hunters become (and what Buffy herself is close to becoming at the end of s5). Buffy's role in the big story is to cut her own strings.