'Tabula Rasa'

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BATMARLOWE

Monday, December 5, 2005 2:57 AM

I like this episode a lot as well. I think it's the second-best one of the season. But (IMHO) the loan shark keeps it from being better. I can only speculate as to why they thought the loan shark was funny. Overconfidence is my guess. Either that or they just genuinely thought it was funny.

WHEDONFANUK

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 1:15 PM

I still love the song by Michelle Branch at the end....

Tis very Shiny....

:: WhedonFanUk ::

BATMARLOWE

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 6:12 PM

It's a very moving song that works quite well for the sequence it plays over.

Reading your name without the F and the UK capitalized made it read like Whedon Fanook. I think "Fanook" is an insult you'd hear in like, New York; as in: "Hey, ya fanook--shaddup." Either that, or it just sounds like one.

WHEDONFANUK

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 11:41 AM

lol

:: WhedonFanUk ::

SHINYTALENT

Monday, December 12, 2005 7:20 AM

I loved Tabula Rasa too, but I don't know what it means. Apparently it's Afrikaans but then someone told me it was mexican for amnesia or something- does anyone know?

The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.

FRUNK

Monday, December 12, 2005 1:03 PM

It's actually from latin, "scraped tablet" or more commonly "blank slate". Originally it was used to characterize humans at birth, shaped by their environment but still having their own individual nature. There have been many other interpretations since.

ALIMAEMIA

Monday, January 2, 2006 4:11 AM

This was my favourite episode I think. Of the whole series, I loved it so much.

I don't understand why everyone loves the musical soooooo much, like, ya, it was creative genious, but they act like it's SO much better than every other episode.

Tara leaving made me really really sad.

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

XENOPROBE

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:13 PM

A bit about the land shark...

Sometimes we just need an antagonist to show up and get the proverbial ball rolling. The fact that, in this episode, it was a land shark was actually a wee nod to continuity in the Buffy-verse IMHO.

Way back at the end of season 4, during Xander's dream sequence in Restless there is an exchange... as follows:

XANDER: You gotta have something. (Looks at Buffy) Gotta be with movin' forward.
BUFFY: Like a shark.
XANDER: Like a shark with feet and ... much less fins.
SPIKE: And on land!
GILES: Very good!

Perhaps the Land Shark character is a bookend to this conversation?

As for Tabula Rasa... this was a very complete episode... I love how the writers take you to a painful place, bank hard and take you into high-end humour, then drop you off back in the pain pit at the end.

And who doesn't love it when Willow gets to say "I think I'm kinda gay!"

~*~*~*~*~

Ching-wah TSAO duh liou mahng. Shiny.

KIDCONGOPOWERS

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:27 PM

Brilliant episode. Both extremely funny and, at the end, heartbreaking. Spike's "Hey, I'm a superhero too!" still has me rolling on the floor every time I see it. Priceless!

The loan shark is more than a little cheesy, but still pretty funny in my book.

About Michelle Branch, I think Joss commented that he actually went to see one of her shows, loved the song, and instantly knew he wanted it for the show. However, he didn't much care for the studio version ("over-produced") so he had them record a live version while on tour and that's the one you can hear in "Tabula Rasa". I must say I agree with Joss, that version sounds a lot better than the original.

BLADEACHILLES

Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:24 PM

Quick question: Was the suit 'Randy' wore the same one Spike wore in Xander's dream from the 4th season episode Restless? That was the same scene where DreamGiles tells Xander that DreamSpike was "like a son to me." If so, that would be a nice bit of continuity.

"If I was creating the world, I wouldn't have wasted my time with daffodills and butterflies! I would've started with lasers. 8 o'clock. Day One." -Evil Incarnate

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