Single Most Disgusting MOW ever seen on Buffy... by bobknaptor

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Single Most Disgusting MOW ever seen on Buffy...

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UPDATED: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:06
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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 7:41 AM

Ok, did anybody else think the skin-eating demon was the most gory, disgusting thing they've ever shown on Buffy? EW! It was a great episode, but man... they really really really went overboard on the gross-out factor.

Loved the Spike scene with Willow on the one side and Buffy and Xander on the other.

Jane Espenson is getting to have a much better understanding of the characters.

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That's a great idea - Tie ourselves to the crazy vampire.

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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 9:18 AM

ZICSOFT

The skin-eater strikes me as being closer to a traditional horror monster than most Buffy monsters. Not so many psychological issues, lots of ickiness. But by the standards of, say Clive Barker, rather on the tame side. Which suits me fine.

Somebody did some serious work on designing and implementing that monster. And yet they did the usual Buffy thing of holding him back as long as they could. Which is a good way to build suspense, but most TV shows just throw all their "good stuff" on the screen at the first opportunity.

Best ep of the season, so far. I particularly liked the mutual-invisibility mystery.

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 9:19 AM

ZICSOFT

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Originally posted by Thegn:
If someone was peeling off and eating your skin, I think that you would react with more then wimpering.

Uhm, you did notice that she was paralyzed?

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 11:54 AM

TINYTIMM

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Originally posted by Thegn:
Hannigan didn't do a very good job with that scene though. If someone was peeling off and eating your skin, I think that you would react with more then wimpering.

The monster first poisioned her with a paralyzing compound. Remember Dawn on the couch? Nothing more horrifying than being skinned alive and not even being able to scream.

Jeff
Who is gonna have nightmares, if he ever catches up on sleep.

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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 12:14 PM

ZICSOFT

You mean you wanted to hear her scream!

I'm sure it would have been very sexy. But Willow is a powerful witch, she isn't gonna have a meltdown just because she's getting eaten alive!

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 12:46 PM

ZICSOFT

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Originally posted by Thegn:
And I supposed when she became evil and started skinning people alive and destroying the world and all, she was being calm and collected.

Well, yeah actually.

I don't recall Dark Willow so much as raising her voice in any of those three episodes. That's what made that performance so chilling.

And I think there's still a lot of Dark Willow in the current version of Willow. Not just the magical skills. The sense of detachment. The sometimes scary calmness. I think we've seen the last of the nervous self-effacing geek who was afraid of frogs.

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 1:55 PM

JAYNESGIRLFRIEND

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Originally posted by Thegn:
No. She could scream. Dawn was screaming, and no one was eating her skin. Willow should have been screaming too. It just didn't mesh.

Screaming in a paralyzed kind of way, that is.

It's a small matter though.

Well, we don't know all that much about her new witchy powers yet, but there is the possibility that she was able to dampen the pain by using her abilities. They didn't work against Gnarl, but that wouldn't stop her from using them on herself. I really didn't even see the pain in her eyes or the limited facial expressions. The fear at being helpless and the hurt at being abandoned by her friends was coming through loud and clear though. To me anyway.

"I was gonna get me an ear, too." - Jayne

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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 2:14 PM

ZICSOFT

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The fear at being helpless and the hurt at being abandoned by her friends was coming through loud and clear though.

Which is what the ep was basically about, after all.

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 2:29 PM

LIVINGIMPAIRED

Yeah, OK, she couldn't use magic on the Demon. Were the rocks blocking the cave enchanted too? Will's supposed to be telekinetic. She could have moved the rocks. Hell, while she was moving the rocks out of the way, she could have thrown them at the demon. Or, another possibility, she knows the spell to temporarily give herself Slayer-like strength. Why didn't she cast that on herself?

Edited to add:
In rereading this post, I come off as if I dont' like the episode. Which isn't true. Apart from the unnecessary gore, it was really good.

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"I'm insane. What's his excuse?" —Spike, "Same Time, Same Place"

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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 4:20 PM

MATT1

Speaking from personal experience, whenever I experience tremendous amounts of pain, I do my best to supress it. When I broke my arm in 3 places the most I did was curse really loud and ride my bike home. No use screaming over something unless you can do something about it.
Plus, I'm pretty sure she was kind of numb, considering she started yelping once the paralysis wore off.

"I ate what?"- Socrates

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Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:19 PM

TINYTIMM

Quote:
Originally posted by Thegn:
No. She could scream. Dawn was screaming, and no one was eating her skin. Willow should have been screaming too. It just didn't mesh.

But the monster used much more poison on Willow, and more was deposited each time he sliced her tender flesh.

Jeff
Who is nasueous enough for one night before dinner when he hasn't eaten since Breakfast at 0515, and it's 1820 local!

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Friday, October 11, 2002 9:46 AM

ZICSOFT

Quote:
Originally posted by Thegn:

I still think it should have been more intense. The point was to see her suffer for her past deeds. Being eaten alive right before your eyes is certainly sufficient suffering to cleanse anyone of their bad mojo, but I didn't feel sorry for Willow, because it didn't look like it was all that uncomfortable all things being considered.

I don't think the skin monster was there to punish Willow for her sins. In the Buffyverse, monsters aren't agents of punishment -- they inflict the guilty and innocent alike. Willow's being punished, all right, but by her own conscience.

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