Questions Post #11

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I have another batch of random questions.


General
Do you think Spike ever turned anybody?
Do you think Drusilla ever turned anyone except Spike?
Do you think Darla or Angel ever killed any Slayers?
Where did Gunn live in S2 of AtS?
Can anyone really explain why Buffy dying in "The Gift" made sense? Other than thematically, I mean.
What kind of music does Buffy like?
Doesn't Spike's duster look . . . too big on him, sometimes?
How come Angel's demon form can go out in the sunlight in Pylea? Wesley's explanation for Angel's human form withstanding sunlight is that the human aspects, like seeing his reflection etc are stronger, but then in demon form, shouldn't they be demon-y?
Is Pylea an alternate reality, like a world without shrimp? Or is it an alternate dimension? Is there a difference? Is there anything meta-cle about these terms and what they signify in Jossverse?

Season 6 of BtVS
Do Willow or Tara ever get a job?
Do Anya or Xander (or Willow or Tara) ever think to contribute anything to Buffy's money problems? I mean Willow (and Tara, before she moves out) is living in Buffy's house.
Did the Scoobies really not realize Buffy would come back to life in her grave?
Does anyone think the way they wrote Giles off the show was in character or well done?
Is it just me or do random references to Angel seem to increase in this season?
How does JM do that thing where he looks at SMG like he worships her with everything in him, without looking like a complete boob? Most people look like boobs when they do that. And not the good kind of boobs.
Why doesn't Giles reveal to the council that Buffy died? Isn't he aware that sooner or later everyone will find out? What does he seek to gain by hiding it? (I'm only asking about Giles because presumably you could say the Scoobies kept up the deception of the Buffybot because they thought they were bringing Buffy back anyway).
How come Amber Benson sings so well?
Why can't Spike decide how to fix his hair? Why can't Anya decide how to fix her hair?

Random
Who raised Bruce Wayne (after his parents died)? If it was Alfred, how did Alfred get custody?
Did you guys know Anthony Head is in the new Woody Allen movie (Scoop. I've seen two Woody Allen movies now. The first I despised and this one was really good! I loved Woody Allen in it; he was so endearing!)? Head has 2 lines, but Giles! OMG big-screen Giles!
Why do ants bear away their dead brethren?

Comments

[rahirah]

1. Of course. We saw him turn his mother, and a dozen people in S7, under the influence of the First. (I think he turned Sheila in S2, though I admit that's wankable.) I would not be at all surprised if he turned random minions over the years. Given his experience with his mother, I think he'd be very unlikely to turn someone he cared about, lest it go boom.
2. We saw her turn Darla, and if Spike didn't turn Sheila, then Dru probably did. I'm sure she, too, turned various toys and minions over the years.
3. No. (Though granted, there must be lots of vampires who've killed one Slayer.) One of my pet peeves is fic that gives Angelus a higher Slayer-kill total than Spike.
4. In the hood, man! You know! THE HOOD!
5. Buffy's death subbing in for Dawn's is based on the principles of sympathetic magic. Unfortunately, they failed to explain the principles of sympathetic magic on the show. http://www.bartleby.com/196/5.html for an overview.
6. Often. But SO WHAT?!?!?!?!
7. Possibly, but then they'd have to use those yucky blue filters.
8. Since Pylea has two suns, I think it's another planet in another solar system rather than an alternate version of Earth. It might also be in an alternate dimension.

[rahirah]

Oh, and Spike TOTALLY turned Ford, because he said he would, and Spike generally keeps the letter of his promises. And he didn't need Dru's permission, either. So there!

[rahirah]

Oh, and Buffy's music is mostly-harmless grrl-power pop.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, to Ford and potentially Shelia, the bunch of vampires that Buffy had to kill that Spike turned and then buried in the dirt basement of that house, and of course the dude from "Conversations with Dead People" (Holden? or was that his Ats character name?).

[tkp.livejournal.com]

1. How could I forget his mother? D'oh!
3. Me too. But I also hate it in fic when Angel is all, "Ooooh, Spike killed two Slayers, ooooh, that's so impressive, ooooh, I should respect him more, ooooh, he's such a powerful vampire and I want to be his minion now." Um, no?
5. That's an interesting book. But I think it confused me more. What I'm getting from it is that Buffy and Dawn are connected by contagious magic, which seems to say that if Buffy dies, Dawn should too.
7. Yucky blue fibers? Huh?

[jgracio.livejournal.com]

3. Me too. But I also hate it in fic when Angel is all, "Ooooh, Spike killed two Slayers, ooooh, that's so impressive, ooooh, I should respect him more, ooooh, he's such a powerful vampire and I want to be his minion now." Um, no?

Especially since by the time Spike killed his first Slayer, Angel was already aboard the soul train and didn't really see killing people as something to be proud about. He tried to, but couldn't see it.

Angelus wouldn't care, what besting them in a fight, no horror, no torture, nothing? How pedestrian... :)

[(Anonymous)]

Plus, Liam had his brawls-he-couldn't-be-sure-to-win in real life, as a brash, irritable young idiot. What would be new in trying to best the slayer, one possibly boring girl in all the world whose only purpose was to fight back and kill him (and might succeed) and wouldn't care about his new-found wonderfulness as a torture-obsessed, skillfully sadistic scourge who was not dependent on brute force any more? William was a shy, repressed sissy, of course to him fighting THE big fish in the pond (and with luck able to do so) would be the new exiting thing.