My social life and Buffy fit together nicely tonight.

[shadowscast]

I just watched "The Harvest" and "Once More, With Feeling" with two friends. They came over to my place, K-the-boy brought leftover Chinese food, K-the-girl petted my cat, and I made salad. It was wonderful.

New things I noticed in "The Harvest" this time:

Hee, Xander was a wannabe skaterboy! Anyway, he was riding a skateboard (badly) in "Welcome to the Hellmouth," and he had the wallet chain. His clothes had a skater look, too - the big pants, the camo shirt. I guess it was just a phase.

It's very possible that Jesse, for the brief time he was a vampire, was actually part of Spike and Angel's extended family. Odds are good he was sired by the Master or Darla, or possibly by one of the Master's other get.

Xander kicks a garbage can when Jesse dies; Xander punches a wall when Joyce dies. He expresses grief by hitting inanimate objects. Not a terribly surprising thing, but interesting to see the long-term character continuity.

Willow was a hacker before she ever started dabbling in the Dark Arts. Okay, okay, I did know this - but watching "The Harvest" really drove it home. She was doing illegal things for fun because she liked feeling smart and powerful. Her character arc starts right there.

Comments

[that_mireille]

There's the hacking, and there's the bit (and right now I can't remember if it's in WttH/Harvest, or a slightly later S1 episode; I remember character bits as bits, and not as part of an episode--which is much as I remember events in my life, as random bits) where she tells Cordy and Harmony that the next thing to do with their computer assignment is to "Deliver" it (by pressing that key marked DEL). Not that it wasn't earned, but still, it's doing something not-nice because she has knowledge/power someone else doesn't.

Dark!Willow should not have surprised anyone.

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

The "Deliver" thing is in "the Harvest," yeah. Is that the first time we ever see Harmony, btw? I can't remember if she was in "Welcome to the Hellmouth" or not.

Hm, I'd never thought of that scene as an abuse of power thing - more as a funny and nerdy act of petty revenge on a bully. But, hm, I guess extending that thought it's not too different from when Jonathan goes bad...which itself is not so different from Willow's arc.

[that_mireille]

As an isolated incident, yeah, it's no big deal. But when you look at her character arc, it's just another small indicator that Dark!Willow didn't come out of nowhere.