Also the part where you don't recruit a spy without the spy's consent. It's too intellectually and emotionally demanding a job to be done unconsenting, and anyway, the spy could just embezzle money and flee to Kuala Lumpur.
? This is simply untrue - a spy (as opposed to an agent) is just as likely to be under duress as a willing participant. Read any Le Carre book - I can't think of one Joe who volunteered (I still think the Joe/handler relationship is the best analogy for Watcher/Slayer, and I think I wrote a mini-fic on the subject once.)
In unrelated news, I
just this morning
realized that Scott Hope is the "hope" in "Faith, Hope, and Trick." Where have I been all these years?
t /dopey
Jim, I don't know as how I'd take Le Carre's word for it anyway. I mean, he's in the business of romanticizing secret agentdom, and it's very hard to make a bureaucracy romantic unless you bring in all sorts of artificial angst.
(I did intend spy and agent to mean the same thing, especially as regards a slayer, because she's a doer. Okay, I don't actually understand the difference between the two as regards international skulduggery.)
And usually, requiring someone to do something dangerous and secret without getting their okay first leads to violence and the de-secreting of secrets. Just out of spite, resentment, and ineptitude, aside from the whole "his heart's not in his work" problem.
In unrelated news, I just this morning realized that Scott Hope is the "hope" in "Faith, Hope, and Trick." Where have I been all these years? </dopey>
Mah sistah in dopiness. I watched it on FOX last night, and the same thing occured to be. I'd always gotten the Faith and Trick puns, but...duh.
In unrelated news, I just this morning realized that Scott Hope is the "hope" in "Faith, Hope, and Trick." Where have I been all these years?
Jesse and Cindy - I was just coming in to post this very thing. Whoo hoo sistahs in dopeyness!!
I'd always gotten the Faith and Trick puns, but...duh.
yup.
I had been thinking about the title just before the episode came on (because our cable menu either mentioned the title, or the plot, which I know is FH&T). I knew it was the one where nekkid Angel falls from the sky at the end, and was thinking, "that must be the hope." As soon as Willow said, "Scott Hope at 11 o'clock," I dope slapped myself.
I wonder just how many times I've seen this episode? It might have been my very first BtVS episode, actually.
I wonder just how many times I've seen this episode?
Not just that - but how many times I have actually carefully considered that title.
This says the girl who took about two years to finally get "To Shanshu in L.A."
This says the girl who took about two years to finally get "To Shanshu in L.A."
I feel ya'. I remember reading here somewhere that it was such a great title, one of the best, blah, blah. And I was, like, huh? (To be fair, I hadn't seen the episode ... I did know what it was about, though). Then I saw it on DVD ... oh THAT'S why it's so great.. Yeah, OK. And, sadly, my Fox affiliate didn't show Buffy at the regular time on Saturday, so I missed FH&T. Bummer.
On the other hand, the WB showed Rocky. Hee, hee! Rocky! It's been years and years. Gotta love Rocky. I had so much fun!
I was about to comment on the freakiness of Boreanaz' lookalike starring in the film To Live and Die in L.A. before realizing I was getting it confused with That Was Then, This Is Now.
