Marti Noxon wrote some of the most interesting Buffy episodes. Heavy theme of domestic abuse here and it was woven skillfully into the theme of the show with both Oz and Angel's journeys. The opening and closing monologue just give it that extra edge.
When the plot makes soooo little sense that the last scene is, literally, the main cast explaining it to us.
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Also... shouldn't werevolves look slightly like, you know, a wolf? instead of a gorilla demon?
Hey, Universal, you really should’ve made that Wolfman Meets Mr Hyde movie. When Angel comes in, we truly have a real Monster Mash.
"You can't stay lost.. Sooner or later, you have to get back to yourself. Love becomes your master, and you're just its dog"
Catching a random episode streaming right now while the episode title caught my eye (I like anything "Beauty and the Beast" related/inspired), and really like that quote above. I'll likely be coming back to marathon the entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer at a later date.
Shout by LNeroBlockedParent2022-03-28T22:58:16Z— updated 2024-02-06T23:35:53Z
There's a flavor of Season 1 shaky feet with the monster antics, and the dialogue is what I'd call B+, but the violent, gaslighting lover and committed Stockholm syndrome girlfriend/spouse thing was surprisingly effectively implemented, even if it was intermixed with a kind of vague doping/'roid rage element. The school therapist smoking indoors really dates this. It's insane how that was ever normalized or legal, anywhere, and how long it took for a cultural shift to take place.