Dirty Girls

[sisabet]

Oh...



Xander...?

Xander is gonna be okay, right?

I mean, he can still see - he just won't have depth perception. I don't have depth perception and I'm okay.

He already has the eye-patch from the pirate costume. He could get a harmonica and a leather jacket and start acting like Patch from Days of Our Lives. It could be his thing. His new thing...::cries::

Where was Anya?

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[kitkatbyte.livejournal.com]

::shields eyes from spoilers::

Do you have the episode? I was trying to get it from Lum on DC, but her slots were full, and now she signed off..

The one word I did see in your post was "Xander". Gee, I hope he doesn't die.. that would be sad.

[luminosity]

The ep's not going anywhere, and I see 2 people who have less than an hour to go. OTOH, please read my rant. heh

Yeah, Xander. Both of his bits in last night's ep put me into tears. For him to give such a fantastic speech about Buffy, for her to hear it and know that it came from his heart *sob* and then for Caleb to say, "so you're the one who *sees*..." and then... and then... OHGOD. I was a mess for a couple of hours last night.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Wendy got the ep from me (eventually) - Dawn had to leave the house as soon as she got here ...being on call on Tuesday sucks so I watched alone - I was okay. I was kind of expecting this b/c of what I read on that board I was lurking on in vivid fascination. I thought that it wasn't a spoiler, just a joke (was not labeled as a spoiler or anything) but when I asked, half-kidding, "Dawn, does Xander get his eyes gouged out?" Dawn got all upset, "Who told you that?" and so on. Then she waved it off and said she didn't think so, there is so much going on, yada, yada, yada. If that had been her primary reaction I would have believed her - but it wasn't. Poor Xander. Look - my avatar is now of his missing eye. Sniff.

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[luminosity]

Thanks for covering Wendy.

You had to watch yet another heartwrenching episode alone?!

I think NF makes an awesome villain, don't you?

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[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I was freaking out about Cap'n Mal!!!

I am so used to seeing him as the all-american (all-space?) boy - even w/ Mal's edge, he is so clearly defined as the"good man" that evil psycho preacher really was effective. That and he likes the teachings of Paul. If anybody on BtVS or AtS says, "Road to Damascus, my ass" I am so calling a shoutout.

I was okay alone - thankfully Xander's speech kind of prepared me - as soon as I heard it and saw Buffy hear it, I knew something really bad was going to happen to Xander. Since he only lost one eye and I was expecting something even worse, I almost was relieved. Crying, but relieved. Poor Xander. I hope he doesn't die.

I can't decide if I should be spoiled if Xander dies or not. It did make the Lilah thing easier to take (expecting it) but I don't know if I need to know.

Did you notice that Dawn did not touch anything last night. Am I paranoid now?

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[luminosity]

The eyeball scene was the other scene that made me cry. It was, like, R-rated gory. AAMOF, all of last night's ep was "envelope-pushy." IMO of course.

NF makes an adorable, psychopathic, supernaturally powerful villain, IMO. I wanted to hear the necks snap, though. I mean, there's realism, and then there's realism.

As far as paranoid, well... you have good reason to be.

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

...he is so clearly defined as the "good man" that evil psycho preacher really was effective.

I agree. Especially because of the dialect--when I first heard him I got all nostalgic for Firefly. (And the Potential in the car with him reminded me vaguely of Inara, too.) And then I was like, "Whoops... definitely not Mal."

I'm also with you on the Xander concern... though as Myrtle pointed out to me, if that's the greatest sacrifice he has to make, I suppose we Xander fans got off easy. Still... :whimper: Xander!

Incidentally, we watched Farscape's "Deadalus Demands" and "Icarus Abides" after Buffy last night. Um... yeah. Rough night for Brynn.

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[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, we watched Farscape's "Deadalus Demands" and "Icarus Abides" after Buffy last night.

Dear God!! Why would Myrtle do that to you right after "Dirty Girls"? If ever a night required repeated viewings of "Meltdown" and ignoring the fate of Black T-Shirt Crichton, it would be last night.

How are you? Can I bring you a beverage or a blanket?

I am still fearful for Xander. As Myrtle pointed out, that was not the greatest sacrifice he could make.

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

Can I bring you a beverage or a blanket?

Hee. I'm pretty much OK, actually. I was prepared... for one thing, I'd been expecting it for awhile. As soon as they split off, I knew that one had to go eventually, and as soon as he started having all the good stuff happen to him, I knew it had to be him. For another thing, Myrtle plunked a big box of Kleenex next to me before we started watching. So I knew something big was coming. Plus, I am somewhat distracted by the many ways in which the Deadalus/Icarus metaphor worked for those two eps... I'm a sucker for a multi-layered metaphor. I was actually doing quite well right up until the point where Aeryn climbed under the blanket with him... then I lost it. Sigh. But I'm comforted by knowing that he's not altogether gone (I'm being vague here in case anyone stumbles across this who doesn't want to be spoiled, as I'm a total spoiler-phobe). Nothing compared to "Self-Inflicted Wounds." I wept like a small child the first time, then watched it again later (it was so well-done!) and bawled even more.

Still... "Meltdown" would've been nice. :) "Bad mist... naughty mist." Hee!

As for Xander... I hope he is relatively safe now, because I don't think they'd disfigure him and then kill him on top of it. I don't think even ME is that cruel. Plus, from a storytelling standpoint, it kind of diminishes the impact of the disfigurement if he's killed a few eps later. At least that's what I keep telling myself.