What I like about it: Spike tacking Buffy and the rocket launcher, Spike and Xander's plan being to just grab the jacket and run, and basically any scene with the girls in love with R.J were pretty fun. It was a nice change of pace to have a more light-hearted episode to break things up a bit
What I don't like about it: I wasn't a big fan of the first half of this episode, it felt a bit slow-moving when it was focused on Dawn's crush and her humiliating herself at school
Favorite line: Anya: "I looked into him and I saw his soul". Willow: "He was walking away, so unless his soul was in his ass..."
Best performance: It's hard to single out any one actor here, it was a good chance for the entire ensemble to have fun with their comedic timing
A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me: I guess it's interesting how the show decided to handle a love spell for *all* women to fall in love with whoever was wearing a particular jacket, even though they'd been very clear on Willow labelling herself as a lesbian by then and absolutely not interested in men. Willow deciding that she would turn R.J into a girl was a pretty clumsy (but funny!) way of handling that particular idea, but it really doesn't make a lot of sense for gay women to fall for the effect of the jacket on a man
Something I would have changed to make the episode better: Having Dawn decide to kill herself, and that being what it took to snap Buffy out of the spell, was a rather jarring change in tone. It didn't make a lot of sense either when you compare it to how powerful love spells were said to be in BBAB, that it absolutely consumed a person and made them act completely out of character (i.e Willow attempting to kill Xander with an ax), yet somehow the sisterly bond would be enough to break a powerful spell like that? That felt a bit forced and on the cheesy side to me
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Date: 2017-02-06 05:47 pm (UTC)What I don't like about it: I wasn't a big fan of the first half of this episode, it felt a bit slow-moving when it was focused on Dawn's crush and her humiliating herself at school
Favorite line: Anya: "I looked into him and I saw his soul". Willow: "He was walking away, so unless his soul was in his ass..."
Best performance: It's hard to single out any one actor here, it was a good chance for the entire ensemble to have fun with their comedic timing
A scene/idea from it that's particularly interesting to me: I guess it's interesting how the show decided to handle a love spell for *all* women to fall in love with whoever was wearing a particular jacket, even though they'd been very clear on Willow labelling herself as a lesbian by then and absolutely not interested in men. Willow deciding that she would turn R.J into a girl was a pretty clumsy (but funny!) way of handling that particular idea, but it really doesn't make a lot of sense for gay women to fall for the effect of the jacket on a man
Something I would have changed to make the episode better: Having Dawn decide to kill herself, and that being what it took to snap Buffy out of the spell, was a rather jarring change in tone. It didn't make a lot of sense either when you compare it to how powerful love spells were said to be in BBAB, that it absolutely consumed a person and made them act completely out of character (i.e Willow attempting to kill Xander with an ax), yet somehow the sisterly bond would be enough to break a powerful spell like that? That felt a bit forced and on the cheesy side to me