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Date Posted: 10:43:55 05/21/03 Wed
Author: Quills
Author Host/IP: 64.254.192.243
Subject: Some good points, but I liked it
In reply to: BadPenguin 's message, "Missed Opportunities (spoilers for Chosen) (long)" on 01:03:22 05/21/03 Wed

Let me just start by seeing that there really is a lot I liked about Chosen. In fact, in a post below, I listed 20 things that I specifically liked about it.

That said, I think you make some good points BadPenguin. I feel a bit ungrateful about acknowledging some of these things, but nonetheless, I do think it could have been a bit stronger in a few areas:

* Buffy's "mortal" wound? It really wasn't mortal, I guess? Just the First trying to scare her?

* Lack of Gravitas part I:
More gravitas, please: I guess I wanted to see the Scoobies feeling more scared . . . feeling more in general. I didn't mind their light-hearted conversation before they parted in the high school about shopping and such, but I guess I wanted to see that their attempt at a light-hearted conversation was just that — an attempt. Through their jokes about going to the mall, I wanted to feel, in their voices, in the looks on their faces, that they were really scared and loved each other very much. Instead, it felt a bit glib to me, like a scene from Seinfeld, or something (and I love Seinfeld, but I don't think the tone from that show necessarily works on BtVS).

Similarly, when they parted, I didn't like the way they just left Giles standing there. I realize it was supposed to be an homage to their high school days when Buffy & Xander & Willow would walk away talking about something superficial and Giles would roll his eyes and say the world was doomed, but it didn't work for me. Would someone hug this guy already? And, I know that things have been tense between Buffy and Giles, but wouldn't they have made up, at least a little bit? Things between these two remained cold, cold, cold all the way through the end, and that saddens me.

Buffy did show a little special warmth with Xander when the two of them briefly held hands before parting, but, from what I recall, there wasn't a special moment between Buffy and Willow either.

* Lack of Gravitas part II:
After they all survive (except Anya and Amanda and a few other SITs?), it all seemed a bit too breezy and light, again, to me in tone. Wasn't anyone else sad about Anya's death? Or Amanda's? Or anyone else's? And, as you mention BadPenguin, had the entire town evacuated? If not, wouldn't there be some sadness at the potentially extreme loss of human life? I choose to believe that the town had been evacuated, but I wish we had been explicitly told.

These rumblings aside, I did like the episode quite well. The feelings I mentioned above are what make it a B+ for me rather than an A.

Still, I'm happy that it was a good episode . . . there was a lot of pressure on this one, and I think it would have been easy, under the pressure, to buckle and write an episode that . . . wasn't so good.


P.S. I had no problem with the amulet — thought it was kind of nifty — but I can see your point about how it might have been nice if it had been mentionedon AtVS before.

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