The speech at the end started something in me that fundamentally changed who I am as a person. "After everything you've done, I forgive you." Someone I loved and trusted betrayed me on a fundamental level once, and the first thing I saw after that happened was a video of that speech. And I decided then and there that I would always be the bigger person and always forgive. Never forget, but always forgive.
I'm going to be 111% honest with you. I came here just for this reaction to this episode, but whoever put those goddamn Gone series books in the background is a fucking Chad. You unlocked a core memory for me.
i remember when this aired when i was in highschool a friend of mine who was also into doctor who made fish fingers and custard because of this episode.
nothing better than a gay guy + lesbian girl duo. agree with that other comment that this video is a work of art. i'm also lesbian so i will check out that second channel
I agree, the double TARDIS I feel diminishes its specialness. Having 2 TARDI does that mean the heart and soul of the TARDIS is now doubled? :/ Anyway....I already saw the 1st season, waiting on season 2.
This was actually the episode that first got me into Buffy, back in the day. I'd managed to avoid catching whole episodes before this, and it was just so well written. I was immediately hooked.
I always say I feel bad for Ampata. Like you said, she's not really evil, but apart from her being in love and wanting a second chance at life, what makes me sad is thinking that she was stuck as a mummy for hundreds of years, aware of everything around her, people living their lives, time passing by, and she couldn't even move or complain. Yikes. At least now she's dust and she doesn't have to suffer
This is generally one of the least liked episodes of the season, but it has Seth Green and the expression on your face when Seth Green notices Willow at the dance... That will always bring people to watch this episode.
In Inca Mummy Girl we get introduced to Oz, definitely the coolest character in The Buffyverse. Nobody does laid back like Oz, his witty one liners and observations are brilliant throughout the whole show. When he says 'you're only interested in a girl who can walk or talk' reply 'she doesn't have to talk', the look on Oz's face. Inca Mummy Girl one of the weaker episodes of S2 Xander showing his complete innocence and gullibility. We all feel for Willow who at this stage in the show is so meek and quiet, always feeling looked over. We all seem to forget what an awful bully and generally horrible vacuous person Cordelia was, totally putting down Willow at every opportunity throughout the early parts of the show, we see that again here. The metaphor of the show saying basically looks aren't everything, and be careful as things are never what they seem. Jonathan gets a lucky escape here along with Xander also. Xander comes through at the end and saves Willow's life. Great foreshadowing again here with Xander's 'taste in women', after his earlier escape from the Preying Mantis teacher.
There was a movie that came out 9 years before Buffy started called My Stepmother is an Alien which starred a young Alyson Hannigan as the step-daughter alongside Dan Ackroyd and Kim Basinger and also co-starred a young Seth Green!
Seth Green's first episode. This wasn't what put him on the map (unless you were a BtVS fan), but it was around that time as Austin Powers was only a couple months after this episode. This episode always felt slow moving to me. Like the difference between watching _Interception_ and _The Whale._ Both are great movies and both deal in heavy exposition, but one moves slower than the other. This BtVS episode always felt like watching _The Whale_ in the sense that there wasn't really anything wrong with the episode, but it moved slower than the episode people enjoyed more. And that's before the disturbing snake demon shows up. Xander is definitely showing he is just a horny teenage boy. After having a crush on Buffy and almost kissing Willow before moving back to staring at Buffy when she arrived back in town, he is going for Ampata. There is nothing wrong with this aspect of growing up, but it proves he doesn't really have romantic emotions beyond horny teenage boy.Truthfully, in my opinion, all the main character kids are just high schoolers who only think they understand what love is. However in terms of their jealousy, Willow handles it better than Xander. This episode tries to makes us feel bad for Empata. I understand the victim as a backstory aspect, but it doesn't make me justify or feel bad for the gaslighting and killing she does once Rodney frees her. The camera being pointed at her during the Scoobies conversation (and thus how she knows Ampata's name and where he will be) lets viewers/fans know she used that information even before Rodney broke the seal. She didn't just fall for Xander and become sympathetic.
Ampata's character was very on the nose as a symbolic "Chosen" a'la Buffy. But the actress sells the pathos well, and the crush with Xander is effectively poignant. It's one of the better "filler" eps of S1 and S2. But one thing about even the worst eps of BTVS is that there is usually some real character or relationship movement, or series Lore, or just a fan fave comedic set piece. This one was a little too complex for its runtime and other than(barely) introducing Seth Green doesn't do much. It seems like a leftover from season 1, where it would have probably stood out better. The series is gathering its feet under it preparing to leap, though...and from pretty much here on out we go into overdrive.
