post Buffy s3

Serious:
Got a load of apparently meaningless numbers, head to the Bible:

Mark 7:30
" And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed."

Her house? Faith's apartment.
The devil? Probably the Mayor who was preparing to become a pure demon.
Gone out? The Mayor's (evil) influence had been purged from Faith (or possibly, Faith could be the devil and her evil soul had left her body (she was in a coma)).
Her daughter? As a Slayer can only be called when the previous Slayer dies you could consider that each Slayer makes the one after by dying. Faith could be considered Buffy's 'daughter' using this sort of metaphor for the passing of Slayer powers (of course she'd actually be her grand-daughter, as Kendra came between them). Faith could also be seen as a figurative dark offspring of Buffy's, being both her junior in years and Slaying experience and embodying the darkness that Buffy could have descended into.

Not so serious:
730 is part of the telephone code for most of the numbers in a town called Sunnyvale, California (coincidence, I don't think so)

 

Erm... Maybe not

730 AM is the radio frequency for WQHS - the University of Pennsylvania's only student run radio station no, Joss didn't go there, he went to Winchester(*boo* hiss*) in England and then Wesleyan in Conneticut. So no prizes for guessing where he got his inspiration for Wesley Wyndam-Price.

730 AM is also the radio frequency for WASO - New Orleans, LA - Hot Talk Info-tainment Radio!

USS Henry M. Jackson SSBN 730, a submarine and a web-page!

 

Other interesting things about 730 (God this feels like Sesame Street)

There is no Route 730 in America.

There's no 7:30 in either Genesis or Revelations

730 is the Dewey Decimal System code for Arts--Sculpture

Chapter 730 in the Illinois Compiled States is the one for Corrections which includes the Secure Residential Youth Care Facility Licensing Act

 

Those other Bible 7:30s in full

Leviticus His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.

Numbers On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:

1 Kings And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.

1 Chronicles The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

Nehemiah The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.

Jeremiah For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

John Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

Acts And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

1 Corinthians And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

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Opinions

Dorit 28/1/00
It was the end of Buffy's third season, and the original plan was to make 5 seasons.

In a year there are 365 days. In two years- 700 days.

Two seasons are spread through 2 years.

Meaning, Buffy was counting down from 7-3-0, she was counting down from the end of the series, or her death (which will probably be in the end of the series).

MonSTeR 21/5/00
I was wondering if 7-3-0 was a police dispatch code?!?! sort of "all units 730 in progress undercovers on scene request backup" etc sort of thing?!?!?!

Or maybe a CB radio thing?

Pestilential Goddess 4/9/00
7:30 maybe? In Restless we had a clock and Tara telling Buffy that the clock was slow.

Stealing a bit of Dorit's post: maybe because of the slow line, the end's been pushed furthur back.

Or maybe it was counting down to an 'ultimate' character who they've been leading up to for a while i.e, Dawn.


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