 The Dancing ROSSMAN
Everybody
knows that I love Buffy. Both Buffy Summers and the show, Buffy
the Vampire Slayer. Everybody also knows that I hate musicals.
They're always so insipid. The characters break out into song
for no damn good reason and they're always happy. They might
sing about something scary or bad, but they're always ecstatic
about it. Like the bad guy has the main characters cornered
and is about to kill them, and they burst into song about how
superkalafragilistic the whole experience it. You just want
to punch each of them in the nose. Especially Julie Andrews.
So, what
did I initially think when I heard that Buffy creator Joss Whedon
wanted to do a musical episode? I thought that it would be nice
to inflict some kind of mega pain on the fellow for even thinking of
making my slaying angel test out her pipes on the one show
that makes me want to go on living (without the bloodshed that
I used to endure every Tuesday previous to Buffy's "calling").
What do I
think of it now that "Once More With Feeling" has
finally aired and I've gotten my chance to actually give it
a chance on its own credentials? Well, it wasn't the best Buffy
I'd ever seen, but it was far and away the best musical ever
written. The songs were sarcastic, witty, dark and even depressing.
A few were happy, but their undertones were pretty sad. And
most importantly, there was a pretty good reason as to why everybody
was caroling their lines. Well, a good reason for it in Buffy's
world.
Sweet, a
demon who makes people dance and sing their hearts out (and
makes them spontaneously combust), has been summoned to Sunnydale
and he causes all the melodic madness. Spike confesses that
he's fed up with Buffy not returning his deep feelings. Giles
reveals that he plans on leaving town in order to make Buf grow
up. Anya and Xander sing a duet in which they share their fears
about their upcoming wedding. Oh and Willow and Tara have hot
lesbian witchy sex while Tara belts out a love ballad.
It all tied
together very nicely, and the ending was kind of a downer. All
of the secrets that each member of the Scooby gang was trying
to hide came pouring out and were set to groovy music. And now
Willow feels like shit after finding out that Buffy was yanked
from Heaven when she performed her resurrection spell during
the season opener.
I also kinda
dug the songs. Some were cheesy (Tara's I'm Under Your Spell
comes to mind), some were pretty funny (Anya and Xander's
I'll Never Tell and Anya's Evil Bunnies), and
a few were balls out great (Sweet's Theme, and Walk
Through the Fire took the cake and danced on it like Snoopy).
I actually can't get either of those two out of my head. All
of the voices I hear are now singing them. Honestly, it's better
than the normal chanting that they usually participate in.
What did
I think of Buffy the Musical? Well, I thought
it deserved a good 4 and 1/2 out of 5 Rossman Stars of Musical
Pleasure. The dancing demons in the opening song simply made the show.
Plus this episode seemed to be building up to Tara's leaving
^_^. If that does happen then it deserves a full 5 out of 5.
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The Singing WOLFMAN
Arrroooooooooooooo!!!! That is the sound of me
giving my howl of approval for Buffy the Musical. All
that singing and dancing and evil and demons. Very nice.
It kind of
reminded me of that one time that I summoned the dark lord,
Hecubus, to feast upon the soul of Jimmy Jammer after he drank
my last pint of goat's blood thinking it was Kool Aid. That
rat bastard. Well, instead of eating that diseased cretin's
immortal essence, Hec turned my house into an Alice Cooper concert
complete with fire, brimstone, rock musak and cool lighting.
Alice didn't show up of course, but everybody who was present
head-banged the night away to the rugged sounds. Unfortunately
they all head-banged themselves to death. Most exploded, but
a few just had their melons fall off before morning.
What's even
more unfortunate was that Jimmy Jammer survived the incident
unscathed. That pork fucker! I tried to bring forth Hecubus
one more time but he claimed he had a headache and that he collected
enough souls for the week and he didn't need one more annoying
one. Since then I've switched my allegiance to Sweet, that demon
dude in Buffy. That guy's pretty cool. I liked the way
he just toyed with the Scoobs like they were a crappy boy band
just waiting to get crushed under the unbearable realities of
life. Everytime he's summoned he puts on one hell of a wild
show. But what sucks is that he steals one of my friends back
to Hell with him when he's through with his set. I've only got
like 5 friends left now.
I guess
I'll give this episode 3 Howls of Wolfiness Approval. It was good and fun, but they didn't kill off Tara. that would
have gotten it 4.
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DEV
Sweet is
one of my finest minions. He's always walking around Hell with
a strut in his step and a song on his lips. And none of that
crappy pop stuff that's (for some God-only-knows reason) popular
on the surface world right now. Sweet always has a cool, jazzy
or bluesy tune ready to surface. And they all swing!
He never
sings the same thing twice either. I don't know how he does
it. It's amazing. Sometimes I'll use his power to convince shitloads
of people at once that Hell is for them. I'll make it look like
all we do all day is chill out with the Sweet man and drink
lattes and shiznit. I don't tell them that while they're listening
they might have to mentally drown out the sounds of their own
piercing screams as the evil worms in their brains try to eat
their way out through their eyes. And I always forget to tell
them about the demon birds with two heads and two razor-sharp
beaks that try to peck the worms out of their skulls as they
dig their pointy talons into their exposed and fleshy backs.
Yeah, it's mostly a show for me, but I think that the
shrieks and bellows just add to Sweet's rhythm.
Buffy
sucks. She's always killing my vampire buddies and demon minions.
Just for that I give this episode a 1-1/2 Devil Horns
out of 10. Yeah, it did feature Sweet
singing some nice hits, but they made him look like a pussy.
He normally eats slayers for breakfast. They must have paid
him a lot to embarrass himself like that.
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