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I just love how much Faith shakes things up, even in her 'reformed' state, and is such a contrast to Buffy who is extra uptight during these S07 episodes. Also, Caleb is an awesome villain - amazingly portrayed by Nathan Fillion.
I loved the heavy flirtation between Faith and Spike here. Both are very skilled at this kind of sexual banter. And when they're discovered by Buffy, Faith doesn't change her demeanor one bit but Spike noticeably retreats and moves away from her. That was such a Spike move. Even ensouled, Spike is the lady's man.
Another favorite moment is Buffy and Faith agreeing that Spike with a soul is basically the same situation as Angel and Spike being horrified at the idea.
And of course, this is the episode that marks the beginning of Buffy's downfall. Xander pours his heart out about how much Buffy cares about people only to end up suffering a great loss because she did make a pretty heartless and thoughtless move by bringing the potentials to Caleb, a fallen cleric in league with The First Evil and possessing great strength.
Finally, not forgetting Andrew's Faith vs the Vulcans tale, a clear highlight! Andrew clearly heard that Faith had killed a volcanologist and misunderstood.
S07 is a little hit a miss, especially towards the end. But this one is gold for me.
I loved the heavy flirtation between Faith and Spike here. Both are very skilled at this kind of sexual banter. And when they're discovered by Buffy, Faith doesn't change her demeanor one bit but Spike noticeably retreats and moves away from her. That was such a Spike move. Even ensouled, Spike is the lady's man.
Another favorite moment is Buffy and Faith agreeing that Spike with a soul is basically the same situation as Angel and Spike being horrified at the idea.
And of course, this is the episode that marks the beginning of Buffy's downfall. Xander pours his heart out about how much Buffy cares about people only to end up suffering a great loss because she did make a pretty heartless and thoughtless move by bringing the potentials to Caleb, a fallen cleric in league with The First Evil and possessing great strength.
Finally, not forgetting Andrew's Faith vs the Vulcans tale, a clear highlight! Andrew clearly heard that Faith had killed a volcanologist and misunderstood.
S07 is a little hit a miss, especially towards the end. But this one is gold for me.
This film, an adaptation of Renoir's Bete Humaine, reminds me so much of the Renoir Film "Woman on the Beach" from 1947.
In both you have an older man married to a beautiful and much younger woman who would like to leave her husband if she could find a way to do so, a soldier returning from war, and that returned soldier being much more interested in the seemingly unattainable married and somewhat mysterious woman as opposed to the completely attainable chipper all-American girl literally living under his nose.
Broderick Crawford is a railroad worker, Carl Buckley, who gets fired and asks his wife (Gloria Grahame) to go ask a big-wig to get his railroad job back for him. He has to know he is sending her there to have sex but gets angry with her anyway, when she returns, even though she DID get the job back.
Carl then plans a clumsy murder of the big wig in his sleeper car on the train that night, luring him there with a note he makes his wife write. When fellow railroad worker Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford) shows up in the same car, Carl realizes he'll be recognized so he has his wife flirt with Jeff to get him out of the car so he can make his escape. But at the inquest Jeff recognizes Carl's wife as having been there that night, and yet he says nothing because he's not sure what has happened or if there is even a connection between her and the murder. Complications ensue.
It explores the issue of conscience from the view of Jeff Warren. For sure Carl Buckley is a brute beast who abuses his wife, drinks heavily, and now he's a killer. For sure his wife has little agency and would be followed and possibly killed by Carl should she try to leave. This situation has made her manipulative, though, as she tries to get Jeff to kill her husband.
There are lots of shots of railroad yards and trains as they existed in the 1950s, when people still considered the train to be a luxurious and timely enough way to travel. At times it slips into semi-documentary style.
The movie has an abrupt ending, and Eddie Muller said that was done because the filmmakers really didn''t know how to end it. I gave it a six because there is no real mystery going on here - The audience knows what the Buckleys have done, why they did it, and their relationship to one another.
In both you have an older man married to a beautiful and much younger woman who would like to leave her husband if she could find a way to do so, a soldier returning from war, and that returned soldier being much more interested in the seemingly unattainable married and somewhat mysterious woman as opposed to the completely attainable chipper all-American girl literally living under his nose.
Broderick Crawford is a railroad worker, Carl Buckley, who gets fired and asks his wife (Gloria Grahame) to go ask a big-wig to get his railroad job back for him. He has to know he is sending her there to have sex but gets angry with her anyway, when she returns, even though she DID get the job back.
Carl then plans a clumsy murder of the big wig in his sleeper car on the train that night, luring him there with a note he makes his wife write. When fellow railroad worker Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford) shows up in the same car, Carl realizes he'll be recognized so he has his wife flirt with Jeff to get him out of the car so he can make his escape. But at the inquest Jeff recognizes Carl's wife as having been there that night, and yet he says nothing because he's not sure what has happened or if there is even a connection between her and the murder. Complications ensue.
It explores the issue of conscience from the view of Jeff Warren. For sure Carl Buckley is a brute beast who abuses his wife, drinks heavily, and now he's a killer. For sure his wife has little agency and would be followed and possibly killed by Carl should she try to leave. This situation has made her manipulative, though, as she tries to get Jeff to kill her husband.
There are lots of shots of railroad yards and trains as they existed in the 1950s, when people still considered the train to be a luxurious and timely enough way to travel. At times it slips into semi-documentary style.
The movie has an abrupt ending, and Eddie Muller said that was done because the filmmakers really didn''t know how to end it. I gave it a six because there is no real mystery going on here - The audience knows what the Buckleys have done, why they did it, and their relationship to one another.
Giles is disgusted that Buffy is trying out for cheerleading, but she wants to have a life and at least have one normal activity. But try-outs are anything but normal. One girl's hands spontaneously combust, another girl's mouth disappears, while still another girl's eyelids grow over her eyes.
Suspicion begins to fall on Amy, who has become very obsessive about becoming a cheerleader yet only made alternate. The Scoobies suspect witchcraft, and they are very close to the truth in what they've figured out, but there is one twist they did not see coming.
This is the first "non-vampire" episode of Buffy, and just the second episode overall as the first two episodes were actually a two parter shown on just one night. As such, this is a monster-of-the-week episode that actually has character development that has implications into season seven.
Suspicion begins to fall on Amy, who has become very obsessive about becoming a cheerleader yet only made alternate. The Scoobies suspect witchcraft, and they are very close to the truth in what they've figured out, but there is one twist they did not see coming.
This is the first "non-vampire" episode of Buffy, and just the second episode overall as the first two episodes were actually a two parter shown on just one night. As such, this is a monster-of-the-week episode that actually has character development that has implications into season seven.