the second law of thermodynamics
a review of buffy the vampire slayer episode, "Entropy"
original Philippine TV premiere, april 21, 2003
xander loved anya. xander asked anya to marry him.(episode:
"the gift") xander got cold feet. xander did not show up in his
own wedding. (episode: "hell's bells")
anya thought xander loved her. anya thought it was a good
idea to say yes to xander's proposal.
(xander's proposal. which, ironically, took place during the
season five ender... when everything else was such a mess, and there was
this 95% possibility that the world was ending... well, buffy died, the
world continued existing. anyway.)
anya thought it was just the demon's fault when xander didn't
show up in their own wedding.
well, that was until she realized everything was a mistake.
okay, so maybe xander had a point. maybe he really couldn't
give anya and their family a decent future. so maybe he was right.
so that automatically leaves us poor anya, so excited, got
her heart torn into bits and pieces when everything that shouldn't have
happened, did.
so here comes spike. fresh of course from a break-up with
our angsty and confused slayer, buffy.
now, now... sure, buffy's a bitch, especially when she started
doing it with spike... jesuschrist, who would've thought? (but then again,
i'd do it with spike anytime, but well... sorry, my bias.)
but then again, the girl died for crying out loud. and then
she was resurrected. my, that's such a transition, and we should understand,
getting pulled out of heaven isn't something anybody could get over that
quickly... anyway.
so maybe everything else could be justified by that not-so-simple
event... and perhaps, we could understand then why buffy had to do it with
spike. well... i know i do.
oh i digress.
so here comes spike, equally broken, chances upon anya in
the magic box, and they go for a drink. of course.
one broken evil creature plus another broken evil creature
is equal to a very evil... um, thing. (yes, anya said, it was just a "thing")
so there. spike and anya on top of the table. and as if that
wasn't kinky enough, the room was bugged. as in, with a spy camera.
good ol' willow *sigh* computer genius extraordinaire, hacked
into the spy camera. and then, bam. live show on her laptop.
xander looked. buffy looked. my god. it was there in their
eyes... jealousy and rage. tsk tsk bad emotions.
xander took out buffy's axe. xander took off to kill spike.
as if spike could be any deader than he already is.
buffy went out the lawn. buffy had a conversation with dawn.
(omg, i'm starting to rhyme. preparation for CW120??) dawn told buffy she
should've told her about spike.
well, i don't know about her, but i wouldn't dare tell my
sister about my sexcapades... but then again, they're virtually on their
own anyway, so no parent worries...
and i digress again.
buffy followed xander, stopped him from making a doublemeat
hamburger special out of spike.
anya tried to reason that it was just sex. (a "thing")
xander was out of his mind, didn't listen, beat spike up til
buffy broke them apart.
xander to anya: (something like...) you disgust me... because
you slept with spike.
i watched with combined amusement and pity the look on buffy's
face.
xander catches it in time as well. deserted the place, disgusted
with both anya and buffy.
anya walked back into the shop (which had been left in her
custody since giles left during previous episode, tabula rasa), and then
tara's monologue begins in the background.
i know that by heart:
"things fall apart, they fall apart so hard... you
can never put them back the way they were... sorry, it's just... you know,
it takes time. you can't just have coffee and expect... there's just so
much to work through. trust has to be built again, on both sides... you
have to know if.. if we're even the same people we were... if we could fit
in each other's lives. it's a long and important process, and... and can
we just skip it? can you just be kissing me now?"
probably one of the more powerful lines i've ever heard.
tara's standing by the doorway... and willow's on the bed,
surprised to see her ex-girlfriend in her room. their former room.
and then tara rants about how things just fall apart, how things just change,
and how people change, change so drastically that they don't fit in with
other people anymore... she rants about how people have to know if they
could still fit even after the change... she rants about how important the
whole process is...
then she rants about how they should skip it. and how willow
should just be kissing her now.
definitely one of the best lines i'll never forget.
studio23 cut the kiss (oh yes, there was a kiss), taking away
more or less 7 seconds of on-screen kissage, reducing it to merely 2-3 seconds.
so, willow and tara finally back together, after breaking
up in tabula rasa over willow's magic overuse. willow tries to withdraw
from her addiction (god, some people can?!) and then she's finally magic
free, and then, the kiss at the end of this episode, entropy, eventually
leads to...
let me just say, i'm not happy they're back together. simply
because tara's dying during next week's episode, Seeing Red. it would've
been less painful if they just hadn't...
anyway. i'm curious as to how studio 23 would cut the opening
scenes of Seeing Red... considering it involves two women in a bed together,
naked, wrapped in red sheets and kissing like there's no tomorrow (though,
considering the spoilers, yeah, there was no tomorrow...)
and as if that isn't complicated enough, some crucial dialogue
in between kisses. hmm. i wonder, really.
and not to mention, the kissing scenes all over the ep itself.
i sure would like to see the filipino censors shocked. worse than sarah
michelle gellar and selma blair, worse than maui taylor and rica peralejo
even. hmmm.
and then, right after a kiss, a bullet pierces through tara's
heart, and the words that come tumbling out of her mouth are... "your
shirt." referring to, of course, willow's. it's haunting, and it's
very very depressing.
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