Thirty Days of TV: Day Twenty

Day 20 - Favorite kiss

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Graduation Day II: after they fought and put each other in comas, and some Slayer dream sharing, Buffy wakes up, marches straight to Faith's bed, kisses the still comatose Faith on the forehead and then announces her strategy to defeat the season's big bad. Why is this my favourite kiss? Because it expresses Buffy's hopelessly muddled feelings about Faith better than any words possibly could. Not to mention it bookends the part of the third season where the girls had been open enemies which started when Faith was tricked into revealing her intentions and fled the scene after, you guessed it, kissing Buffy on the forehead. Buffy kissing Faith after having done her best to kill her (and vice versa) also is never spelled out to mean one thing or the other, it's left to the audience's interpretation, and I've seen people call it anything from giving absolution to a Judas kiss to a plea for forgiveness to a simple acknowledgment of their shared Slayerness. It could be all of this, or just one, an that's why I love it so much.

(Incidentally, this is also the first time in the show we see Faith without any make-up, and you suddenly realise that ELiza Duskhku is in fact younger than the actors who played the Scoobies; Faith in her normal get up never looks it, but in this state she does.)


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Fifteen Characters Meme

It's been a while since I've done this one, and I "met" many new characters since then. From astrogirl, the 15 characters meme:

1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.

2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"

3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.