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Date Posted: 20:50:20 06/19/11 Sun
Author: AW
Author Host/IP: c-71-201-144-231.hsd1.il.comcast.net / 71.201.144.231
Subject: BTVS Rewatch Blood Ties

Dawn is tired of the secrets, so she gets Spike to take her to the magic shop so she can read some of his books. She's angry when she finds out the truth, but then there's the 'Summers blood, we're the same' scene.

I do like Willow making Glory reappear up in the sky so she goes falling.

And I believe we first see Ben become Glory in this ep, although the block thing got to anyone in the show who saw her.

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[> Re: BTVS Rewatch Blood Ties -- Lewis H., 18:10:06 06/20/11 Mon (adsl-98-85-62-131.mco.bellsouth.net/98.85.62.131)

Cell phones would have been nice. Buffy could have just texted Glory to come get her stupid, whiny key and then the Scooby's could go out for pizza. Less brains get eaten, dragons probably don't get stranded. Worst case scenario the earth gets destroyed. Probably not a bad thing in the long run.

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[> Re: BTVS Rewatch Blood Ties -- chuckit25, 13:00:12 06/23/11 Thu (cpe-76-84-141-68.neb.res.rr.com/76.84.141.68)

Well, this one is Steven DeKnight so expect buckets and sprays of ketchup and raspberry ripple. Glory doesn't disappoint and she most certainly IS a spoiled BRAT. I am not quite as quick as Angel Watcher watching all this rewatch. I got years of catch up AND raspberry ripple. Or is it Annie Green Springs? ha!

Glory had two hellgod pals that rules over this hell dimension. First. We never got the names--Giles is good with throwing around names of one codex or another, but never quite knows more than a brush that would fit a brush with the table of contents. Ever notice that? Of course, it could be that he forgot more than anyone could have ever learned. (I suppose it could be liking knowing things, but not which thing is in play. I look forward to season 9 that Giles was Ripper and probably a "Cliff notes" kinda student except for conjuring sex, drugs and rock n roll--he seemed to "understand" demons. Their emotional needs of "want" and probably the addictive "need" Joss strums like a harp.

. And do you really think these hell gods were actually HER DOTING PARENTS and she was ACTUALLY sent to her room for Bad Behavior? (I see the sr. partners the same way. it is why they can't beat every "power that was/be out there.") I am guessing Glory must of shared an ice cream cone with a hell dog or something as "heinous," since the child makes the demands that keep parents dancing, so the power is always reversed. (Ha!) I actually do see Glory as an overindulged child, who is smart and that does make her "dangerous" if she doesn't get what she wants--she could "embarrass" a parent or is unaware that there are powers even parents have to heed, even if Joss is really talking about things a CHILD needs to cope with being DENIED what it wants. Glory is dangerous, but just mostly mirrors exponentially Buffy to Dawn to Glory. Remember we are having a birthday party that shows us "change and growth" in Buffy herself; Glory is acting out--like Dawn herself and Dawn IS Buffy, thus the "mother" reference to the child and 'made of her'--the wound of her making from her side (the test that determined Christ on a wooden cross (roads) was dead, as blood separated from water--life force v female principle- when pierced with a spear, by a Roman soldier, no less. These metaphors have much older symbols and meaning than the judeo-christian "scene" depicts in the story of man/god transformations. It is why Buffy and Angel's stories are so "compatible" in the fit of their "opposition" of these older metaphors/myths.

Xander was his usual fine form of quip: "The fun keeps on leaving"--a line said by Giles to Angel after Angelus torture and killing of Jenny when his soul was returned: and "the funny comes on coming." Blood ties, indeed. Xander's affection for Dawn is sincere and unafraid to be physical and playful. (Giles does do that "tea is the cure for anything." You do know there HAS to be some drug reference for "altered consciousness" somewhere, or the reality wouldn't be "Joss."

Something about Sunnydale's citizens. They must have some kind of taxes in putting their money where their mouths are; they really did have quite a bit of concern and care for their citizens. Mental health/drug rehab along with their museum, college, hospital, municipal buildings and justice, a sewer system fit for a highway system if the graveyards take up too much land. Guess that is something the "not humans" noticed, too.

Interesting complaint of Buffy's to Giles: You always think harder is better. Buffy said she should carry a load of bricks and use a stake made of butter. Metaphor thinky time. I actually admire her notice of efficiency and learning--before she gets dumbed down, as the Scoob gang grows with one murderer after another.

Considering Xander is the builder, the bricks idea was interesting. Slang in 'thick as a brick," yet he is a positive influence on Dawn, despite the "showing" of Spike's proximity to her "infractions." And for butter. It's the wealth of the biological world: fat, the "extra" and it is "soft"--compared to Buffy's harsh reality. however, Buffy's fundamental power is her love. No secret that Dawn and Buffy are fairy tale representations of the same person. In short, Xander ending up with Dawn/Buffy in season 8 is right here.

Also the high school is hell theme is repeated as Buffy would have remembered, the big square building (square also means not cool) filled with boredom and despair.--It has its bit of literary symmetry and poetry.

Another of Buffy's birthdays, and we know it's never good, Even when a beau isn't around--Ben is Glory and brain sucking energy for the means to "maintain" the psychic AND material connection to this world also happens to be between male and female; the healer and the destroyer.

Hank gets a mention (!) and in a postive connection (!!)--San Diego as in "South" of LA (closer to hell); and Buffy gets a dress, which usually means a date that ends in fighty and killy. But THIS time there is 'radio silence' from all her ex's--even Spike can't speak of his obsession with her, not even a Hallmark card, (to send the very best) which is the hall mark, this will not be Buffy's best year, and yet SHE will become the message and the Gift before this whole arc is over.

I suppose we see the play on Blood Ties as literal blood, thicker than water blood of family in DNA and family forged by blood spilled and shared in battle and this blood tie is the key for Buffy to Dawn in "Summer's Blood" that is the same, which gives Buffy the KEY and yet also the connection to ALL mankind for whom she is the sacrifice--the means to turn the lock and "save the world." (LOVE is the tie that binds).

Spike continues with his obsession with Buffy, in pathetic overture, frustration in his freakish condition of not being a good scooby or an "expressed" vampire, including his gift of intoxication of a bent box of chocolates (to nourish her with the dark, caffeinated AND sweet danger) he can't manage to give her; and he sleeps in a COFFIN (!)--every bad schmoopy stereotype of vamp/human is in play.

Dawn insists she is badder than Spike--I think we are reading a pain meter, actually--and plans on theft in the magic shop. Being sneaky is exactly how the child does learn things parents haven't "packaged" in some context, and can be endangered and shocked. She learns about the key that she is and doubts she is anything human, despite all evidence. (ahhh). The (necromanced) dog and serpent can find her. Dogs are pack animals, yet also show protection/loyalty WITHOUT moral differentiation; and serpents mean wisdom. It's why they have to tempt you to look where things are hidden, etc.

Starting to see how Dawn IS Buffy and why Angel would really need' this slayer? After all, he was around for many of them to live and die, even with his soul. Anya's reference to the goddess Ishtar "fits" these Byzantium Knights and is, essentially, Isis. You saw her "repeated" as the black faced Jasmine of the Egyptian myth of "potential," and Ben would represent Osiris--who actually in goddess lore is merely aspect of her. TERRIBLE cruelty that Dawn said "you aren't my mother" to Joyce, brain wash and rinse, or not. It is amazing the weapons on a child's tongue.

Amazing how Dawn knows her sister is the slayer, yet doesn't seem to enjoy the spoiling she actually gets in being protected from serious death; nor doesn't put it together that magic makes BAD stuff happen, not to mention, the fact a god is impossible to kill, and Spike is a vampire who has KILLED two slayers, but she sure gets that bleeding red is the "human connection" that makes her not a key to a lock Buffy works VERY hard to avoid turning--but then i don't look at Buffy as pouty, annoying and whiny: I can't blame Buffy. i am not sure if this story is a look at adoption or the sudden appearance of sibilings when parents remarry.

Willow is already beginning her super powered magic, even if its control is wonky--I don't know if it has something connected to her love life, or not. That you will have to decide, as she is pretty clearly in love with Tara and that isn't something controllable in all moments, but sure can be a focus!

Over all, everyone is pretty irritating in this episode, yet the dysfunctional is functional overall--they each are a freak for one reason or another. As for a "sticking like (bloody) glue" between Buffy and Dawn? Good thing Dawn admitted how scared she is and to see "the love" is real, all said.

Be well!
chuckit25

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[> [> Re: Sunnydale's Citizens -- Lewis H., 10:15:14 06/24/11 Fri (proxy2d.external.lmco.com/192.91.172.42)

The mayor was presumably keeping things going from behind the scenes for several decades until he decided to become a public figure. He wanted his citizens happy and willing to stick around until he was ready to eat them all. Luckily a weapons depot got added somewhere along the line. In the end though it all got sucked down the abyss.
A metaphor for all human achievement I suppose. "Dust in the Wind" yada, yada, yada.

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[> [> [> Re: Sunnydale's Citizens -- chuckit25, 11:25:32 06/24/11 Fri (cpe-76-84-141-68.neb.res.rr.com/76.84.141.68)

Makes a person wonder if the mayor was behind the fat and dumb citizenry, I guess the quake and (the magic contained within the church) trapping the Master created the citizenry (fearing not much) to put the Armory there for protecting said citizenry aka "rounded up sheep;" not to mention the "sekrit Innitiative," torturing the demons (see Inquisition) to make them docile OR supersoldiers on behalf of "the great good." (Even if I see guns as a great equalizer between men and women).

Turns out that hole "saved the world" with the "reaper's" jaw bone aka "the scythe"; and provided both a * flying * hairy anus and a vagina, in the end of magic dust.

Dust interesting to say is star stuff is us. It makes water stick,makes things like snowflakes, enough so that "this womb of eventually" did end up "walking" stars and water aka us. SMILE!

Be well!
chuckit25

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[> Flying what? Can you elaborate on that? NT -- AW *Confused*, 21:29:38 06/26/11 Sun (c-71-201-144-231.hsd1.il.comcast.net/71.201.144.231)


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