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Date Posted: 13:34:10 05/20/03 Tue
Author: subliminalpolka *taking the podium*
Author Host/IP: 140.90.236.123
Subject: A few words on...(Chosen Spoilers)

...Anya.

Poor li'l Anya, getting all sucker-stabbed in the back. *sniffle* Watched "Chosen" earlier this morning and was shocked to witness how glory-lacking a death my favorite character endured. Not even a hint of slow-motion, just...*plop*

I realize that her death is overshadowed by the impact of the show's end, but a li'l makeshift tribute of fantasitic Anya quotage never hurt anyone. Got a favorite Anya moment? Quote?

The Illustrious First Line Ever Spoken By Anya
"Nice bag. Prada?"

The Equally-Illustrious First Opinion of Xander
"Xander's an utter loser."

And then some...

Willow: Anya, you're a vengeance demon. Just teleport!
Anya: Well, as it turns out, teleporting isn't a right, it's a privilege. I withdrew a vengeance spell last week, and this is my punishment. I can only teleport for official business. I have to file a flight plan and everything.

Anya: You're going to die if you stay here.
Xander: I guess I might.
Anya: When I think that something could happen to you, it feels bad inside, like I might vomit.
Xander: Welcome to the world of romance.
Anya: It's horrible! No wonder I used to get so much work.

Anya: I have witnessed a millennium of treachery and oppression from the males of the species, and I have nothing but contempt for the whole libidinous lot of them.
Xander: Then why are you talking to me?
Anya: I don't have a date for prom.
Xander: Well, gosh, I wonder why not? It couldn't possibly have anything to do with your sales pitch.
Anya: Men are evil. Will you go with me?

Buffy: It claimed to be the original evil, the one that came before anything else.
Anya: Please, how many times have I heard that line in my demon days? "I'm so rotten, they don't even have a word for it. I'm
bad. Baddy bad bad bad. Does it make you horny?"

Anya: Xander, you haven't been paying any attention to me tonight. Just peddling those processed food bricks. I don't know why.
Xander: Well, let me put it in a way you'll understand. Sell bars, make money. Take Anya nice places, buy pretty things.
Anya: That does make sense.

Anya: Crap. Look at this... Now I'm burdened with a husband and several tiny pink children and more cash than I can reasonably manage.
Xander: That means you're winning.
Anya: Really?
Xander: Yes. Cash equals good.
Anya: Ooooh! I'm so pleased! Can I trade in the children for more cash?

Anya: I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.

Anya: Mm-hmm. Been around since, like, the 1500s. But he wasn't always called Santa. But with, you know, Christmas night, flying reindeer, coming down the chimney, all true.
Dawn: All true?
Anya: Well, he doesn't traditionally bring presents so much as, you know, disemboweled children. But otherwise...

Anya: I know how you talk about me behind my back. "I dislike that Anya. She's newly human, and strangely literal".

Anya: Here's something you should know about vengeance demons. We don't group with the "sorry". We prefer "Oh God, please stop hitting me with my own rib bones!"

Anya: You're not at least gonna like leave me a crossbow or a flame thrower? Something to protect myself?
Xander: We don't want him to know we suspect anything. Besides if he tries to leave, I don't want you confronting him. Call
Buffy and just let her know that he's on the move. You're gonna be fine.
Anya: Better be, because if I get vamped I'm gonna bite your ass.

Anya: Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins, 20 years old, born on the 4th of July, and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, Mister, 'cause there were. "Who's our little patriot?" they'd say, when I was younger, and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.

Xander: Hey, I see sitting where there should be dancing.
Anya: Come share in the joy of our groove thang.

Anya: I don't understand how this all happens, how we go through this, I mean I knew her and then she's, there's just a body, I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead, it's stupid, it's mortal and stupid, Xander's crying and not talking and I was having fruit punch and I thought that Joyce would never have any more fruit punch and she'd neverm have eggs, or yawn, or brush her hair, not ever and no one will explain...

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[> Wonderful tribute from Subbie (birthday girl). Thanks! -- Pixiskater, 13:41:45 05/20/03 Tue (207.30.202.147)

She has always had such terrific dialogue. My favorite is the line in Hush when Giles gives Xander Spike and tells everyone he has a friend coming to visit. And she says "An orgasm friend?" and Giles says that is exactly the worst thing you could have said (or something like that). You just don't often hear the words "Orgasm friend" in normal conversation.


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[> I am, as I have since she appeared, having big lurve for Anya! (very sad, now) -- BadPenguin (Thanks for this thread), 13:51:26 05/20/03 Tue (216.80.57.190)

Willow: You know how it is with a spanking new boyfriend.

Anya: *nods* Yes, we've enjoyed the spanking.

Xander: *loses control of the shuffle, cards fly everywhere*


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[> thanks for this... -- greyfus, 14:46:03 05/20/03 Tue (12.253.46.222)

...appreciation thread for anya. one of my favorites as well. and my major grievance with the finale was the way her death was more or less glossed over. she deserved better than that. actually, she didn't deserve that at all, it should've been andrew that bit it! but this isn't the place for that, so i'd just like to add about every single moment from "entropy" to the list including such classics as:

dawn - "i never use that word anymore."
anya - "coagulate?"
dawn - "w-i-s-h."
anya - "oh, wish? as in i wish xander --"
dawn - "right! that word. there's vengeance demons out there that are still active, remember. any 'i wish' could totally end in horrible grossness."
anya - "gimme a fer-instance."

---

anya - "tell me more about wishing xander's guts and brains would go blooey."
dawn - "i didn't say that."
anya - "yes you did."
dawn - "no i didn't."
anya - "i heard you."
dawn - "i swear, i didn't say that."
anya - "didn't say what?"

----
and of course:

anya - "god! what kind of lesbians are you?! if you love men so much--go love men!"

---

it just ain't fair. :(


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[> Too many to count. -- sassette, 14:46:13 05/20/03 Tue (141.213.136.140)

Re Chex Mix: "They're woven. That's craftsmanship."

Re Willow bringing up "The Cat in the Hat": "You're referencing literature I have no way to be familiar with." (As an English grad student, you do not know how often I feel exactly like that.)

Before she hits Giles on the head with the book in TR: "I feel compelled to take some vegeance on you."

Re Giles letting Dawn help out at the store: "You have a hand. A paid hand. A hand that isn't the hand of illegal child labor."

Buffybot: How is your money?
Anya: It's fine. Thanks for asking.

(I love how excited she is that the Buffybot asked her about it.)

Re the Internet: "I'm eleven hundered years old. I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans."

The Game of Life dialogue, the "orgasm friend" bit, which was mentioned above.


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[> Thanks for this thread! :o) -- StillHisGirl *stifling sniffles*, 17:53:33 05/20/03 Tue (64.83.27.70)

I know I haven't seen it yet, but I wish it could've been more like The Gift-- she was just SO brave when she sobbed "Xander" and pushed him out of the way. It was only ONE moment more and added so much. Couldn't they have had something similar? :o( Just a few seconds would've meant so much...

I'm not one for quotage, but y'all's have been great! :o) Hmm... how about some expressions? I just love her "please hug me" face-- like when they say goodbye to Giles at the airport and she hugs him-- her eyes are so sweet and blinky. And at the end of S6 when Giles is back and hugs Buffy and Anya wants a hug too...


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