Tonight's Buffy gets four stars!!
POSTED BY: Hjermsted
UPDATED: Monday, November 18, 2002 21:06
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Originally posted by bobknaptor:
So here is my question about the episode:
Joyce... Was she morphy, and the monster attacking her was there to win Dawnie's trust?
Or was she really Joyce and the monster attacking her was a minion of the morph-o-monster?
Either option works... First one works to make Dawn mistrust Buffy, and we've found that for whatever reason, Joss & Co. like to split the team up before they bring them back together to fight the big bad (Yoko Factor, anyone?). Option 2 works if Buffy will be manipulated by morphy into hurting Dawn and Joyce somehow sees that and wants to warn her.
Maybe Morphy takes the form of Dawn, and Buffy has to guess which one is the real Dawn... Buffy gueses wrong.
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I thought it was pretty obvious that 'Joyce' was actually Morphy.
Warrick: You didn't have to wound that man.
Mal: Yeah, I know. It was just funny.
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I don't know. Joyce could have been the Beast... but I don't know. It's kinda an elaborate hoax then, having an evil demon there blocking her. For the Beast to have assumed that DAWN of all people, would cast the demon out to talk to her mother....
I think the ghost was Joyce, and the Beast just sent a minor demon to play interference. It's a maybe...
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yeahbut....if Joyce knew this big thing was coming, and it's possible for her to communicate with the living, why would she appear to Dawn of all people? Why wouldn't she appear to her *real* daughter, so Buffy can actually better prepare to fight? Maybe she will, I dunno. Also, what she was saying to Dawn was in character for Morphy, the whole playing on insecurities bit. The Beast is messing with them hardcore, trying to drive them apart from each other and themselves. I'm totally unspoiled, so I have no idea if I'm right, but that's my official theory for now. I just don't think that was Joyce.
Warrick: You didn't have to wound that man.
Mal: Yeah, I know. It was just funny.
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OK, I think this needs to be clarified:
THE BEAST - is the monster on Angel.
MORPHY - is the monster on Buffy.
MORPHY is not THE BEAST. Two seperate things.
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I definately think that Morphy was playing with the forms of Joyce, Cassie and Warren, trying to set up something: getting Willow out of commission, making Dawn doubt Buffy, and getting Andrew to kill Johnathan (who I'm sure we haven't seen the last of).
I had a flash of Anya being visited as well by some form but her brushing off the evil saying, "Oh brother...I'm terribly busy. You go now."
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One thing I've always wondered about...
What do Buffy's neighbors think about all this?
I grew up in the 'burbs and there's no way my house could have gotten rocked, ruined and visited by questionable types over and over without the neighbors noticing.
I guess this question falls under the same heading as "where are the police in this town!?"
mattro
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To all the questions like that: police? neighbors? do all the paramedics know Buffy? etc. I chalk it up to the unspoken fact that everyone in SD knows something scary is about, they just hide and ignore and explain it away. This is a big theme on Buffy for me, that no one admits there's something terribly wrong, they just try to work around it, hoping it will go away!
So human of them...
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I like to call it "Sunnydale Denial Syndrome." It's the same reason Fred was attacked by a giant tenticale monster in front of prominant scientists, and it didn't make the front page.
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