After a lull yesterday, we are back in full force with bigger and badder Buffynicities than ever before.
First of all, the setups:
Before I went to run I went into a huge daydream where I thought about Peter Dinklage remaking “My Favorite Year”. I thought his character would be slightly different from Peter O’Toole’s in the original, that he would know jiujitsu.
I was reminiscing about acting and actors, and for a moment I was also very specifically thinking about feeling guilty because I had never seen “Waiting For Godot”.
I went online to look at guests for C2E2, and I found out that the autograph booths only take cash.
Then I went to run and watch Buffy, not expecting much because yesterday was a bit slow. I did, however, develop a greater interest in Eliza Dukshu and I look forward to watching “Dollhouse”. I followed her on Twitter.
But then there were some interesting things. Alt-Willow came back from the Matrix universe and was using Jiujitsu on a vampire in the street outside of Bronze. That was kind of minor.
Then she was inside Bronze and she walked over to a girl at a table and right then a cop car out on the street beside me (the health club has huge windows all around) began flashing its blue lights and drove by. I thought of “Blue Light”, the song by David Gilmour that I’ve always associated with Sandra, my angel of Saturn. I thought that might be important and then Willow asked the girl what her name was and she said “Sandy”.
So that was pretty profound, a very fun Buffynicity because of the sudden overwhelming surprise of the flashing blue lights going off like a bomb. Later in the second episode I watched, when the figure all in black (like Khan from Star Trek II or perhaps even an angel of Saturn) zapped away Angel’s soul with blue lights I thought that was also relevant.
This was actually very deep for me, the split-second timing of this and the brightness of the light were showing me that I am going through the looking glass with this. As much as I’d like to stay detached from these events, I’m still going to report them in detail.
Buffynicity #3 was more minor. Today I was looking at my first membership magazine for the Chicago Art Institute. They are having “Whistler’s Mother” back through may. Anya was in the episode tonight, and so was another demon who resembled “Whistler”, the demon who talks to Angel. That’s not a very deep one, admittedly, but still a resonance.