"Welcome to the Hellmouth" / "Bring on The Night"

[red_satin_doll]

"You're standing at the mouth of Hell. And it's about to open up." *

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"I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared.
I'm standing on the mouth of Hell and it's going to swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me." **

* Joss Whedon
** Marti Noxon & Douglas Petrie

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I love your Anne icon but then I get you confused with norwie! ;)

holy shit, I love the "Bring On The Night" speech.

Oh yes, very much so. (Except maybe for the "any questions?" line at the end, but Buffy has a habit of not knowing when to stop once she gets rolling with a speech, f.ex. "Grave".) I don't look at who wrote the eps generally so I had no idea Marti was one of the writers of this one, so now I have something else to point to when I read people dissing Marti.

I had forgotten the line in WTTH even though I'd rewatched it recently; I didn't catch it until I saw a fanvid on YouTube the other day.

"She did it. I'll be damned." Yes, you will.

Hee. I almost posted a cap of Angel saying that line to her, but then I found myself wanting to snark about Angel (gee, can you vague it up a bit, dude?) when I wanted the focus to be on Buffy. But - watching that scene is so funny in light of what comes later. "You're a lot shorter than I thought you'd be." I know people try to incorporate that into a cogent explanation - that he was lying about having seen her at Hemery, etc - but "the writers changed their mind later" works for me too.

And yet it's nifty that despite what does change, the foundation of what's to come is still there. (I'm watching Bones right now - for the sheer wtfery of it at this point) and it's instructive to compare the two, and see the difference between careful and sloppy (IMO) storytelling.