Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Buffy S3E9 The Swish

In which Cordelia gets all It’s a Wonderful Life up in this bitch.

I very much enjoyed the tentacle/dong faced Predator/Cthullu knock off demon from the cold opening. Also his ferocious mouth was sideways which reminded me of a vagina with teeth. Yikes, now that’s scary!

Another better-than-the-usual rubber-suited-demon then grants Cordelia’s wish that Buffy never existed. Cordealya is still all bitter about getting impaled and attacked weekly by monsters and very rightly blames that asshole Booffy. However, the world without Buffy is a dark, bleak dystopia where the bad guys won and terror reigns, not unlike the Sentinel dominated Days of Future Past from the classic Uncanny X-Men storyline from Byrne and Claremont.

Heres a few points about this so-called terrible Buffyless Buffyverse:
1) The Bronze actually plays decent music. Well, better music anyway. Kind of a Ministry rip off, but still way better than Seth Green’s awful ass band.
2) Willow is a vampire, but, more importantly, a slutty, leather clad BDSM dominatrix vampire. So an awesome vampire.
3) There’s way less quips in Sunnydamned sans Buffy.
4) Basically everything about the show is better in this alternate universe. Except for hardass alternate universe Buffy wearing pants. If you can’t do miniskirts than at least some Tomb Raider style short shorts.

Oh right, so even though it’s a a world where Buffy never existed, Buffy still shows up and saves the day (ok well, Giles does). That’s because technically Cordelia just wished for Buffy to never have come to Sunnydave, not that she never be born. OK FINE SO IT ALL MAKES SENSE. And it gives the characters another excuse to reverse type just for fun. Like the fruitcake vampire “Master” from the horrible first season who invents and uses a mechanical human auto-blood drainer 4000. Later the Master Doofus Vampire kills alterna Buffy right after alterna Buffy kills all her alterna teen detective dork squad friends who’ve turned vampire.

I don’t know if this is going to be a game changer episodes but it’s easily the most entertaining one yet. I kinda hope so, but on the other hand it’s a lot tougher to make dick and fart jokes about a really good show, so maybe some episodes can still suck ass.

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