Drop Dead Diva is Back!

I was so disappointed when I found out that Drop Dead Diva had been canceled at the end of its fourth season. Not only did I love the show and want it to continue, but season four ended with such a big cliffhanger that I was even more disappointed. So, I was so excited when I found out that the series would be back for a fifth season.

The first episode of season five premiered last week on Lifetime, and I'm so glad that it's back. It's like welcoming good friends back into my living room. And the episode did not disappoint; it even ended with a scene that I've been waiting for since the series debuted in 2009.

For the next 13 weeks, Sundays will be my Diva days.

Welcome back, Jane!

So You Think You Can Dance is Back!

Oh yes!

Favorite Doctor Who Episodes: The Christmas Invasion

It's David Tennant's first episode as the Doctor. And he starts out with a bang. I remember the first time I saw this episode. I was still sad that Christopher Eccleston left the series, and I didn't know who David Tennant was. I felt he had a lot to prove. This episode was a great introduction to Tennant's Doctor. By the time it was over, I was more than willing to give him a chance and keep watching Doctor Who. And, six or seven years later, I'm still glad I did.

The 10th Doctor is asleep through much of his first episode (he's in the middle of regenerating), but once he wakes up and is ready to take on the Sycorax - watch out!

The Sycorax is a great alien monster. They are able to control much of the population of Earth through some kind of mind control, and if the leaders of Earth don't give them what they want, then they will force the one's in their control to jump of high-rise buildings. And still, the Doctor sleeps.

I love seeing Harriet Jones in this episode, and I love how she introduces herself to everyone as "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister," and everyone replies, "I know who you are." It's such a funny running gag.

It's a great moment when the TARDIS starts translating what the Sycorax is saying. The reactions from Rose, Harriet, Mickey and Alex are great. And then we finally see the person everyone (including ourselves) has been waiting to see, open the TARDIS doors. It's a great moment. Aside: I think this is one of the few times that you see anyone open both doors of the TARDIS. End of aside.

I love what makes the Doctor wake up. Nice cup of tea. Well, maybe not exactly a cup. But it's exactly what he needed.

The great thing about the regeneration of the Doctor, is that he is a totally new person - a new personality. I love how the Doctor is trying to figure out who he is - what kind of a man he is. And he starts to learn as he deals with the Sycorax.

I love it when the Doctor talks about human beings and starts to quote "The Circle of Life" from The Lion King. He makes it sound like such a grandiose speech, and it's just Elton John.

Poor Harriet Jones, Prime Minister. She learns the hard way that you don't go against the Doctor.

Quotes:

Doctor: Here we are, then. London, Earth, the solar system, isn't it?

Doctor: Merry Christmas!

Mickey: Who is he? where's the Doctor?
Rose: That's him. Right in front of you. That's the Doctor.
Jackie: What do you mean, that's the Doctor? Doctor who?

Rose: I keep forgetting his not human.

Mickey: You can rely on me. I don't go changing my face.

Mickey: I can't even go shopping with you, we get attacked by a brass band.

Jackie: I'm gonna get killed by a Christmas tree!

Doctor: My head! I'm having a neural implosion. I need...
Jackie: What do you need?
Doctor: I need...
Jackie: Just say. Tell me. Tell me. Painkillers? Aspirin?
Doctor: I need...
Jackie: Codeine? Paracetamol? Oh, I don't know. Pepto-Bismol?
Doctor: I need...
Jackie: Liquid paraffin. Vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E!
Doctor: I need...
Jackie: Is it food? Something simple. Bowl of soup? Nice bowl of soup? Soup and a sandwich? Oh, soup and a little ham sandwich?
Doctor: I need you to shut up!
Jackie: Oh, he hasn't changed that much.

Doctor: Something is coming.

Harriet: Harriet Jones, Prime Minister.
Llewelyn: Well, yes, I know who you are.

Harriet: Alex is my right-hand man. I'm not used to having a right-hand man. I quite like it, though.
Alex: I quite like it myself.

Llewelyn: You seem to be talking about aliens as a matter of fact.
Harriet: There's an Act of Parliament banning my autobiography.

Harriet: I don't think we've been introduced. Harriet Jones, Prime Minister.
Miss Jacobs: Yes, I know who you are.

Major Blake: I'm getting demands from Washington, ma'am. The President's insisting that he takes control of the situation.
Harriet: You can tell the President, and please use these exact words, he's not my boss and he's certainly not turning this into a war.

Harriet: What about Torchwood. I know I'm not supposed to know about that, I realize that. Not even the United Nations knows. But if ever there was a need for Torchwood, it's now.
Major: I can't take responsibility.
Harriet: I can.

Alex (translating the Sycorax message): "Sycorax strong. Sycorax mighty. Sycorax rock." As in the modern sense, they rock.

Rose: The Doctor wouldn't do this. The old Doctor, the proper Doctor, he's wake up.

Harriet: Did we ask about the royal family? Oh. They're on the roof.

Harriet (telecasting an address to the world): Help us. Please, Doctor, help us.

Rose: I've traveled with him and I've seen all that stuff, but when I'm stuck at home, I'm useless.

Alex (translating the Sycorax message): "Come aboard."
Harriet: Well, how do I do that?
Llewelyn: What's happening?
Harriet: I would imagine it's called a teleport.

Llewelyn: It's a helmet. They might be like us. (the Sycorax removed his helmet) Or not.

Harriet: Harriet Jones. Prime Minister.
Alex (translating for the Sycorax): "Yes, we know who you are."

Mickey: No chance you can fly this thing.
Rose: Not anymore, no.
Mickey: Well, you did it before.
Rose: I know, but it's sort of been wiped out of my head, like it's forbidden. If I try again, I think the universe rips in half.
Mickey: Ah. Better not, then.
Rose: Maybe not.

Jackie: Right. Here we go. Nice cup of tea.
Rose: The solution to everything.

Mickey: Tea. Like we're having a picnic while the world comes to an end. It's very British.

Rose: Someone's got to be the Doctor.
Harriet: They'll kill you.
Rose: It never stopped him.

Rose: I, um... I address the Sycorax... um, according to Article 15 of the Shadow Proclamation. I command you to leave this world with all the authority of... the Slitheen Parliament of Rexicoricophalvitorius and, um...the Gelth Confederacy... as, uh, sanctioned by the Mighty Jagrafess and... Oh! The Daleks. Now leave this planet in peace! In peace...

Alex: Hold on. That's English.
Harriet: He's talking English.
Rose: You're talking English.
Sycorax: I would ever dirty my tongue with your primitive bile!
Rose: That's English. Can you hear English?
Mickey: Yea, that's English.
Alex: Definitely English.

Doctor: Did you miss me?

Doctor: You can have someone's eye out with that.

Doctor: You! Just wait. I'm busy. Mickey, hello! And Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. Blimey, it's like This is Your Life. Tea! That's all I needed. A good cup of tea. Super-heated infusion of free radical and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses. Now, first things first. How do I look?
Rose: Um... Different.
Doctor: Good different or bad different?
Rose: Just different.
Doctor: Am I... ginger?
Rose: No, you're just sort of brown.
Doctor: Oh, I wanted to be ginger. I've never been ginger. And you, Rose Tyler, fat lot of good you were. You gave up on me. Oh, that's rude. Is that the sort of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger.

Sycorax: If I might interrupt.
Doctor: Yes, sorry. Hello, big fella.
Syrorax: Who exactly are you?
Doctor: Well, that's the question.
Sycorax: I demand to know who you are!
Doctor (imitates the alien): I don't know! See, that's the thing. I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy? A right old misery? Life and soul? Right-handed, left-handed, a gambler, a fighter, a coward, a traitor, a liar, a nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob*.

Doctor: Blood control. Ah, blood control! I haven't seen blood control for years.

Doctor: Look at these people. These human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet, and, blinking, step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen, more to do than... No, hold on. Sorry, that's The Lion King. But the point still stands.

Sycorax: You stand as this world's champion.
Doctor: Thank you. I've no idea who I am, but you've just summed me up.

Rose: Look out!
Doctor: Oh, yea, that helps. I wouldn't have thought of that otherwise. Thanks.

Doctor: You but my hand off!
Sycorax (celebrating): Sycorax!
Doctor: And now I know what kind of man I am. I'm lucky, 'cause quite by chance, I'm still within the first 15 hours of my regeneration cycle. Which I've got just enough residual cellular energy to do this.
[His hand regenerated]
Sycorax: Witchcraft.
Doctor: Time Lord.

Rose: Doctor!
[She throws the Doctor a sword]
Doctor: So, I'm still the Doctor, then.
Rose: No arguments from me.

Doctor (to the Sycorax): You want to know the best bit? This new hand... it's a fighting hand!

Doctor: Not bad for a man in his jimjams. Very Arthur Dent. Now, there was a nice man.

Doctor: Doesn't that sum up Christmas. You go through all those presents and right at the end, tucked away at the bottom, there's always once stupid old satsuma.

Doctor: No second chances. I'm that sort of a man.

Doctor: When you talk of the Earth, then make sure you tell them this. It is defended.

Harriet: My Doctor.
Doctor: Prime Minister.
Harriet: Definitely the same man.

Jackie: Rose!
Rose: Mum!
Doctor: Oh, talking of trouble.

Rose: It was the tea. It fixed his head.
Doctor: That's all I needed. Cup of tea.
Jackie: I said so.

Doctor: Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones, because I'm a completely new man.

Jackie: It's like you're looking for trouble.
Doctor: Trouble's just the bits in between. It's all waiting out there, Jackie. And it's brand new to me. All those planets, creatures and horizons, haven't seen them yet. Not with these eyes. And it is going to be... fantastic.

*Gob - mouth

Smash: Final Recaps

I have to confess that it's been hard for me to get motivated to write the posts for the final two episodes of Smash. I am really bummed that the series was canceled, so it's been hard for me to write about "The Nominations" and "The Tonys" (even though I loved the episodes for the most part).

However, if you, my readers, would like to hear my thoughts about the episodes, and read the quotes that I liked, then please comment on this post and let me know. I would be happy to take the time to write about them if I knew that you would enjoy reading the posts. That would definitely be a great motivation for me.

Thanks for reading!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: season 3, ep. 12, Quippy Quotes

In "Helpless," Buffy is looking forward to spending her birthday with her father at the Ice Show, but instead, she finds out that her father can't make their yearly Ice Show tradition, she loses her slayer abilities, and she is forced to fight one of the worst vampires she's ever had to face - one that's not only the living dead, but criminally insane. But the worst blow of all is when Buffy learns how she lost her abilities, and by whose hand. Happy birthday, Buffy.

Quotes:

Buffy: Actually, I do have a thing.
Angel: A thing? A date?
Buffy: Nice attempt at casual. Actually, I do have a date. Older man. Very handsome. Likes it when I call him "Daddy."
Angel: Your father. It is your father, right?

Buffy: How do you know when one's aura is dirty? Somebody come by with a finger and write "wash me" on it?

Vampire: I'll kill you for that.
Buffy: For that? What were you trying to kill me for before?

Buffy: I'm way off my game. My game's left the country. It's in Cuernavaca.

Xander: An ice show. A show performed on ice. And how old are we again?

Oz: Ice is cool. It's water, but it's not.

Xander: We're still talking party, right? I mean, some of us still love to relish celebrating in the birth of the Buff.

Buffy: I think it might be time to put a moratorium on parties in my honor. They tend to go badly. Monsters crash. People die.
Willow: But 18 is a big one, Buffy. You can vote now. You can be drafted. You can vote not to be drafted.

Buffy: I think I'll choose to celebrate this one with quiet reflection.
Xander: Where is it written that quiet reflection can't combined with cake and funny hats?

Buffy: You know, it's not just cartoon characters. They do pieces from operas and ballets. Brian Boitano doing Carmen is a life changer.

Buffy: I just got swatted down by some no-neck and rescued by Cordelia.

Buffy: I have no strength. I have no coordination. I throw knives like...
Giles: A girl?
Buffy: Like I'm not the slayer.

Xander: Maybe we're on the wrong track with the whole spell, curse, and whammy thing. Maybe what we should be looking for is something like, um... slayer kryptonite.
Oz: Faulty metaphor. Kryptonite kills.
Xander: You're assuming I meant the green kryptonite. I was referring, of course, to the red kryptonite, which drains Superman of his powers.
Oz: Wrong. The gold kryptoite's the power-sucker. The red kryptonite mutates Superman into some sort of weird--
Buffy: Guys. Reality.

Buffy: Before I was the slayer, I was... Well, I don't want to say shallow, but let's say a certain person, who will remain nameless - we'll just call her Spordelia - looked like a classical philosopher next to me.

Angel: I saw you before you became the slayer.
Buffy: What?
Angel: I watched you and I saw you called. It was a bright afternoon out in front of your school. You walked down the steps, and... and I loved you.
Buffy: Why?
Angel: 'Cause I could see your heart. You held it before you for everyone to see. And I worried that it would be bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life I wanted to keep it safe, to warm it with my own.
Buffy: That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Angel: I was just thinking that too.

Buffy: Hummers. Big turn off. I like guys that can remember the lyrics.

Buffy: If you touch me, I'll kill you.

Cordelia: Is the world ending? I have to research a paper on Bosnia for tomorrow, but if the world's ending, I'm not going to bother.

Cordelia: Did something take her memory? He's Giles. Giles. He hangs out here a lot.

Buffy: Cordelia, could you drive me home?
Cordelia: Of course. But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.

Kralik: I have a problem with mothers. I'm aware of that.

Buffy: If I was at full slayer powers, I'd be punning right about now.

Buffy: I think you better leave town before I get my strength back.

Buffy: The important thing is that I kept up my special birthday tradition of gut-renching misery and horror.
Oz: Bright side to everything.

Xander: Admit it. Sometimes you just need a big strong man. Uh, Wil, give me a hand with that?

Pic of the Week: The Louvre

Grimm: Goodnight, Sweet Grimm

"Goodnight, Sweet Grimm" is the season finale of Grimm, and in true Grimm fashion, it left us hanging - on a gigantic cliff (so to speak). This was a really good episode, and I'm glad that the show is ending with such momentum after the way it just plodded along with the "Juliette not remembering Nick" plot line. I just hope that they don't take longer than one episode to resolve Nick's "condition" at the end of this episode. They need to learn from this season and keep the story moving.

Observations:

Eric is a horrible, horrible person.

Finally. Juliette tells Nick that she loves him.

And... the zombies have been let loose onto Portland.

That's a way to knock out a "zombie." Throw him against a brick wall.

It was very convenient of Hank to show up when he did so he could help Nick get the knocked-out zombie into his car.

I love that we finally get a scene with Eric and Sean together. I really like both of these actors, and their scene is really great.

I would like to know what happened to Renard's mother. Is she still alive? And if not, how did she die?

Why does Eric want Renard to go back to Europe? What is his agenda?

This is different for Nick. Juliette asked him how his day is, and he realizes he can actually tell her the truth.

Stephania has seven boys, and it looks like they're all just their mother's little gophers. They need to grow up, move out, and get a life. *wink*

Stephania needs the heart of a Hexenbiest in order to restore Adalind's powers, and the Hexenbiest has to be alive when they get it. Ewww! Poor Frau Pech, it looks like she doesn't stand a chance.

How did Adalind and Stephania know that Frau Pech was going to change her appearance to look like Adalind? There's no way they could have known. Of course it's an interesting twist, but very implausible. Well, so is the fact that Frau Pech actually changed her appearance. *wink*

I realize that they want Juliette to be more involved in Nick's life so that she's more than just the "girlfriend," but why would Nick really let her go with them? Nick knows what those "zombies" can do. It's pretty dangerous, even for a veterinarian. *wink*

Why isn't Eric afraid of the zombies? I don't think they are very picky about who they'll attack. I doubt they would attach the Cracher-Mortel, but I think anyone else would be fair game.

I was really hoping that we would see Nick's mother again in this season finale. I want to know what happened to her. You can't have a character leave with the question of "what is she really up to," without resolving it - even if it's just one episode. Please, bring Nick's Mama back!

Are we going to meet any other members of the royal family - not just the Renard family, but members of other royal families?

Is the "Scooby Gang" going to have to go to Europe to help save Nick? I hope that the show isn't going to move away from Portland, because I really like the Portland setting.

Last year's "To Be Continued," notice when they just said, "Sorry," was funny. This year's notice was just a bit too much. What are they going to come up with next year? Do they think they're going to have to top this finale next year?

Quotes:

I would love to see you do what you do. Would you show me?
Why not.

Juliette: I now know why you couldn't tell me everything.
Nick: I wanted to tell you. I just didn't know how. I was afraid fro you to see a world that I didn't fully understand.

Juliette: At least I know I'm okay. I haven't lost my mind.

Rosalee: Did that make any sense?
Monroe: In a sort of circuitous and charming way, yes.

Juliette: I don't suppose you could get the day off.
Nick: I could... if people stopped killing each other.

Nick (to Juliette): Let's just take it one Wesen at a time.

Nick (to Renard): Is this a "shut the door" kind of conversation?

Renard: You should know that his mother tried to murder my mother... and me.
Eric: That would make for an awkward Christmas.

Eric: I'm having a hearty northwestern breakfast and I feel robust already.

Eric: I can't wait to see you, brother.
Renard: Me either. Brother. (hangs up phone, then to Nick) We're not exactly close.

Nick: Sounds like somebody's upstairs.
Wu: Sounds like it. (pause) No. Not sure what that sounds like.

Monroe: He looks dead.
Nick: I know he looks dead. Probably was for a little while, but he's not now.

Monroe: You're telling me this guy is gonna wake up.
Nick: Yep.
Hank: And not in a very good mood.

Rosalee: It is not a pleasant experience.

Monroe: And the morning started so well.

Monroe: I don't want to have to hurt you, but if you hurt me...

Stephania (on the phone): We have found a way to deal with Frau Pech.
Frau Pech (as Adalind): I can't wait to hear how.

Nick: How's the leg?
Wu: About as bad as my arm.
Hank: What's wrong with your arm?
Wu: That's where I got a tetanus shot for the lady who sunk her teeth into me.

Eric's henchman: I'm going to need to check you for weapons?
Renard:  What you need and what you're going to get are two separate things.

Eric: What a shame. My own brother doesn't feel safe with me.

Eric: How long has it been since we've been breathing the same air?
Renard: Well, let me see. I believe I was 13, when my mother pulled me out of French literature class in Geneva and whisked us out of the country to keep us from being murdered... by your mother.
Eric: Yes. That was any exciting day, wasn't it?
Renard: Not so much for me.

Eric: That's all blood under the bridge.

Renard: Let's just get down to business.
Eric: How very American.

Eric (re: Adalind): It's a shame about her losing her powers like that. At least she carries a grudge.

Wu: It looks like somebody's planning a party. Not a party I'd want to be invited to.

Juliette: Just a normal day at the office?

Juliette: I'm going too.
Nick: Juliette, I'm on a case.
Juliette: Is it Wesen?
Nick: Yea.
Juliette: I'm not staying home alone anymore. I've a lot to learn. Please don't lock me out again.

Adalind: Ding dong, the witch is dead. And another one's coming back.

Rosalee: Juliette?
Juliette: Learning curve.
Rosalee: Works for me.

Juliette: What kind of Wesen are you?
Monroe (whispers to Juliette): He's not Wesen.
Juliette (whispers): What is he?
Monroe: Just a regular guy.

Rosalee: Why is this guy doing this here in Portland?
Monroe: I know. I mean, we have food and donuts, but that's kind of the extent of it.

Monroe: A member of the royal family came. That sounds kind of revolutionary.

Eric: Good night, Sweet Grimm, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Doctor Who: The Name of the Doctor

 

The mystery is solved. Now we know the answer.

This was a great episode. I'm so glad that this season ended with such a strong episode. The second half of this season has been a bit iffy for me. On the whole I've liked it, but there have been things that I haven't been that happy with in most of the episodes. But "The Name of the Doctor" was very satisfying. And thank you, Stephen Moffat, for answering a question we've had ever since we met Clara (or Oswin, to be exact). And I'm glad the answer wasn't obvious. I read many theories about Clara, and no one guessed the truth.

Observations:

**Spoilers**

The beginning of this episode was so cool. I haven't seen many classic Doctor Who episodes, but even I was excited to see the first Doctor (William Hartnell) on Gallifrey stealing (or as subsequent Doctors said) "borrowing" the TARDIS with his granddaughter. And to see Clara there was even more cool.

I wonder why Clara knows each Doctor is the "Doctor" prior to the 11th Doctor, but when she meets the 11th Doctor for the first time (in "The Snowmen"), she doesn't know he's the Doctor.

It was interesting that The Impossible Girl is explained at the beginning of the episode instead of waiting until the end. Well, she's not really completely explained, because we don't know how she ended up searching for the Doctor time and space like that. Maybe Moffat just wanted to give us a teaser so that we'd go through the episode wondering how it all happened.

I loved hearing the little Scottish boy's accent. There's only one thing I like better than to hear a child with a Scottish accent, and that's a grown man with a Scottish accent. Scottish accents are cool. *wink*

The conference call with Vastra, Jenny, Strax, Clara, and River Song is pretty interesting. I wonder how that was supposed to be possible. That seems a bit "magical" to me, and Doctor Who isn't about magic. Vastra explains it by saying that time travel is possible in dreams. One sentence to explain it all. However, it met its purpose - the get everyone together to try to figure out what was going on with the Doctor.

I wonder how Vastra got a letter to Clara in the 21st century when she lives in the 19th century. Did she mail the letter in the 19th century with instructions that it not be posted until April 10, 2013? Is that possible to do? So many things unexplained.

It's very funny that Vastra puts the candle in the letter, and then also makes the letter release a "soporific" also just in case Clara doesn't trust lighting the candle. And it's funny how Clara passes out at exactly the right time when reading the letter. I loved how that scene was timed. However, if Vastra already had the soporific agent in the letter, why did she need the candle?

The big question is - how did they get word to River Song that she was needed there? I'm assuming that this is the River Song who is in the database at the Library. How could Vastra contact her there?

The Whispermen are one more of Stephen Moffat's really creepy monsters.

The Doctor can never go to Trenzalore. The only way anyone can get him there is to threaten harm to his friends. And that's what the Whispermen have done.

So, did the Doctor actually see Clara lying on the floor and think she was simply asleep, or did Angie and Artie just tell the Doctor she was asleep? Either way, why would anyone think that she would fall asleep on the floor in her bedroom? Wouldn't someone (even two kids) think that was mighty strange?

I love that the Doctor calls Angie and Artie "the little Daleks."

Aside: As I rewatch this episode, I realize how much I'm going to miss Matt Smith as the Doctor. This is the first time I've watched an episode with Matt Smith since he announced that he's leaving after this year's Christmas special. I like his Doctor so much. He is such a great actor. End of aside.

Watching the Doctor break up when he hears what Clarence said about Trenzalore was so moving. It's not often that you see the Doctor cry.

When the Doctor tells Clara that she "didn't listen... You lot never do," I think that line is also directed to us, as the audience. I think Stephen Moffat is saying that if we really listened to what has been said, we would have discovered the secret of Trenzalore.

I love that the TARDIS doesn't want to take the Doctor and Clara to Trenzalore.

It's so sad to see a crack in one of the windows on the TARDIS. The TARDIS has been damaged before - almost destroyed when the tenth Doctor regenerates into the eleventh Doctor, but this little crack made me sad.

I love that the "bigger on the inside" element of the TARDIS is reserved when the TARDIS becomes the Doctor's gravesite.

Vastra and Strax are inside the TARDIS (the Doctor's tomb). However, if it's "smaller on the inside," why is the TARDIS so large? Wouldn't it one little tiny itty-bitty room?

So, the Great Intelligence can not only travel through time and space, he can take Vastra, Jenny, and Strax with him?

It's interesting when River tells Clara that the Doctor left her "like a book on a shelf. Didn't even say goodbye." He didn't leave her like a book on a shelf. He saved her the only way he could. And he didn't even know her at that point. She was from his future, and he'd never met her before then. (I know, time travel, it's a tricky and confusing thing). He didn't "say goodbye" because he was too shocked and angry that she was dying to save him. 

The effect when the Whispermen come through River Song's image is one of the creepiest and coolest effects in all of Doctor Whodom.

River opened the tomb by saying the Doctor's name, but of course we didn't hear it. I'm so glad that we still don't know his name.

When the Doctor acknowledges River is such a great moment. We know that this is probably the last conversation that the Doctor and River will ever have. Loved it. And hated it at the same time.

I don't quite understand it when Clara says, "I blew into this world on a leaf." Does she mean that's how her parents met and eventually she was born, or was she really in the leaf? Because 21st century Clara is the original Clara - the one who is broken into a million pieces to save the Doctor. At the end, is the Doctor sending her back to her life on the leaf? In that case, is it just a circle that never ends? She's on the leaf the Doctor gives her, and then she grows up and meets the Doctor, then she sacrifices herself to save him, then he saves her and sends her back to life on the leaf?

I don't like the fact that Clara says she was born to save the Doctor. She was born to do a lot of things. Being with the Doctor is one thing she does in her life. That's not her only task. The Doctor doesn't define who she is. She's an important person on her own. Yes, I'm getting a bit existential here. No one's purpose is defined by just one person.

Quotes:

Fabian: What kind of idiot would try to steal a faulty TARDIS?

Clara: Doctor. Doctor.
First Doctor: Yes, what is it? What do you want?
Clara: Sorry, but you're about to make a very big mistake.

Clara: I don't know where I am. It's like I'm breaking into a million pieces and there's only one thing I remember - I have to save the Doctor. He always looks different. I always know it's him.

Clara: I'm Clara Oswald. I'm the impossible girl. I was born to save the Doctor.

Vastra: You have the blood of 14 women on your hands. There are no words that can save your neck.
Clarence: The Doctor.

Clarence: The Doctor has a secret, you know.
Vastra: He has many.
Clarence: There is one he will take to the grave. And it is discovered.

Scot: I'll kill ya, ya filthy wee midget.
Strax: Prepare to die in agony for the glory of the Sontaran Empire.

Strax: What is it, girl? Can't you see I'm trying to crush the brains of this stinking primitive? (to the Scot) Sorry about this.
Scot: Ach. No problem.

Jenny: Oh, I like the new desktop.
Vastra: Mm. I was getting a bit bored of the Taj Mahal.

Vastra: Strax. It's good of you to join us.
Strax: It better be important. I was in the middle of destroying some very pleasant primitives. Who else is coming?
Vastra: The women.

Clara: The souffle isn't the souffle. The souffle is the recipe.

Vastra: We are awaiting only one more participant.
Strax: Oh no. Not the one with the gigantic head.
Jenny: It's hair, Strax.
Strax: Hair.

River: The Doctor might have mentioned me.
Clara: Oh yea. Oh yea, of course he has. Professor Song. Sorry, I just never realized you were a woman.
Strax: Well, neither did I.

Clara: You know his name? He told you?
River: I made him.
Clara: How?
River: It took a while.

Clara: So, who was she? The lady with the funny name and the space hair?
Doctor: An old friend of mine.
Clara: What? Like an ex?
Doctor: Yes, an ex.

Doctor: Give me your hand. Now, the coordinates you saw will still be in your memory. I'm linking you into the TARDIS telepathic circuit. Won't hurt a bit.
Clara: Ow!
Doctor: I lied.

Doctor: When you are a time traveler, there is one place you must never go. One place in all of space and time you must never, ever find yourself.
Clara: Where?
Doctor: You didn't listen, did you? You lot never do, that's the problem. "The Doctor has a secret he will take to the grave. It is discovered." He wasn't talking about my secret. No, no, no. That's not what's been found. He was talking about my grave. Trenzelore is where I'm buried.

Clara: How can you have a grave?
Doctor: 'Cause we all do, somewhere out there in the future, waiting for us. The trouble with time travel is you can actually end up visiting.

Doctor (re: Vastra, Jenny, and Strax): They cared for me, during the dark times. Never questioned me, never judged me. They were just... kind.

Doctor: No point telling me this is too dangerous?
Clara: Not at all. How can we save them.
Doctor: Apparently, by breaking into my own tomb.

Doctor: Okay, so that's where I end up. Always thought maybe I'd retire. Take up watercolors or beekeeping or something. Apparently not.

Clara: So, how do we get down there? Jump?
Doctor: Don't be silly. We fall. She's turned off practically everything except the anti-gravs. Guess what I'm turning off.

Doctor: When a TARDIS is dying, sometimes the dimension dams start breaking down. They used to call it a size leak. All the bigger on the inside starts leaking to the outside. It grows. When I say that's the TARDIS, I don't mean it looks like the TARDIS. I mean it actually is the TARDIS. My TARDIS from the future. What else would they bury me in?

River: If it isn't my gravestone, when what is it?
Clara: What do you think that gravestone really is?
Doctor: The gravestone?
River: Maybe it's a false grave.
Clara: Maybe it's a false grave.
Doctor: Yep, maybe.
River: Maybe it's a secret entrance to the tomb.
Clara: Maybe it's a secret entrance to the tomb.
Doctor: Yes, of course! Makes sense. They's never bury my wife out here.
Clara: Your what?

Vastra: Dr. Simeon. This is not possible.
Simeon: Yet here we are, meeting again. So very far from home.

Simeon: Welcome to the final resting place of the cruel tyrant. Of the slaughterer of the ten billion. And the vessel of the final darkness. Welcome to the tomb of the Doctor!

Clara: Where are we?
Doctor: Catacombs.
Clara: I hate catacombs.

Clara: So, how come I met your dead wife?
Doctor: Oh, well, you know how it is when you lose someone close to you? I sort of made a backup.
River: I died saving him. In return he saved me to a databse in the largest library in the universe. Left me like a book on a shelf. Didn't even say goodbye. He doesn't like endings.

Vastra: The Doctor has been many things, but never blood-soaked.
Simeon: Tell that to the leader of the Sycorax. Or Solomon the Trader. Or the Cybermen, or the Daleks. The Doctor lives his life in darker hues, day upon day. And he will have other names before the end. Storm. The Beast. The Valeyard.

Doctor: Yowza!

Clara: Have we... have we done this before? We have done this before - climbing through the wreaked TARDIS. You said things. Things I'm not supposed to remember.

Simeon: The doors require a key. The key is a word. Word is the Doctor's. 
Doctor: Here I am, late to my own funeral. Glad you could make it. Jenny.

Simeon: Doctor, what is your name?

Simeon: Doctor who?

Doctor: Do you know what's in there?
Simeon: For me, peace at last. For you, pain everlasting.

Vastra: What is the light?
Jenny: It's beautiful.
Strax: Shall I destroy it?

Clara: I'm the impossible girl. And this is why.

Clara: Well, how about that. I'm souffle girl after all.

Clara: Run. Run, you clever boy. And remember me.

Clara: Doctor. Doctor.
First Doctor: Yes, what is it? What do you want?
Clara: Sorry, but you're about to make a very big mistake. Don't steal that one. Steal this one. The navigation system's knackered, but you'll have lots more fun.

Doctor: Clara's got one advantage over the Great Intelligence.
Vastra: Which is?
Doctor: Me.

River: How are you even doing that? I'm not really here.
Doctor: You're always here to me. And I always listen. And I can always see you.
River: Then why didn't you speak to me?
Doctor: Because I thought it would hurt too much.
River: I believe I could have coped.
Doctor: No. I thought it would hurt me. And I was right. (he kisses her) Since nobody else in this room can see you, God knows how that looked. There is a time to live and a time to sleep. You are a echo, River. Like Clara, like all of this. In the end, my fault, I know. But you should have faded by now.
River: It's hard to leave when you haven't said goodbye.
Doctor: Then tell me, because I don't know. How do I say it?
River: There's only one way I would accept. If you ever loved me, say it like you're going to come back.
Doctor: Well then, see you around, Professor River Song.
River: 'Til the next time, Doctor.
Doctor: Don't wait up.

River: Spoilers. Goodbye, Sweetie.

Doctor: He is my secret.
Old Man: What I did. I did without choice.
Doctor: I know.
Old Man: In the name of peace and sanity.
Doctor: But not in the name of the Doctor.

Arrow: Sacrifice

This was a great season finale. So much happened. And something happened that I was not happy about at all. I'm so glad that the show got away from just crossing the bad people off of The List, and focused on one main villain, leading up to this big event. I loved it!

Observations:

**Spoilers**

Oh,  how I despise Malcolm Merlyn, but oh, how I love John Barrowman.

I can't believe that Oliver is able to walk after dropping that hard to the ground like that, let alone fight a bunch of men. I guess that's why he's considered a "super" hero.

It's funny that when Detective Lance is on the phone with the Hood, Lance tells him that he has his "sidekick" right in front of him, and the Hood responds, "I don't have a sidekick. When I need help, I call you." But it's also kind of sad that Oliver doesn't ask Lance who it is he's talking about, because there's a big chance it could be Felicity, which of course it is. I'm sad that Oliver wouldn't be concerned that Detective Lance has taken Felicity down to the police station.

I wish we weren't back to the older, more mature Laurel. I really liked her in last week's episode in the flashback when she was full of life, and fun, and had more of a personality. I know that her life is so much more serious now, but if there were just some glimpses of some enthusiasm or (forgive the word) sparkle I would like her character (or maybe her acting) so much better.

Poor Tommy, having to listen to his mother's last words.

Felicity first says that the Glades is a "geologically stable area," and then she says that there is a fault line running below the Glades. Am I missing something here? Wouldn't a fault line make an area geologically unstable?

Moira has finally gotten the courage to speak out publicly about Malcolm. Very publicly. That's not going to bode well for her. Oh, and she uses Oliver's catch phrase and says she has "failed this city."

In the last scene with Malcolm and Tommy, Malcolm played the tape of Tommy's mother's last voicemail, and then it cut to another scene so we don't know what happened right after Malcolm played the tape. Now, we see them again, and they just happen to have the television on and they hear Moira making her confession and ratting out Malcolm. I wonder what happened between their last scene and this one that made them turn on the television. I know this is a strange and very random observation, but as an actor I think a character's motivation. Why would they suddenly turn on the TV? Did someone tell them to turn it on? Did Tommy say, "I can't deal with this right now, let's watch Jeopardy?" I know why the writers put the scene in. They wanted Malcolm to hear her telling the city about his plan so we could see his reaction and see what he does next. And also to show Tommy that his father really is a bad, bad man. At least we know why Oliver turned the TV on. Thea told him to.

Thea's response when Moira apologized to her and then said, "I love you," was laughable. She immediately said, "I love Roy." There is some good writing in this show and then there's some really bad writing, like this stupid response from Thea.

I understand that Moira called the press in so her confession would be broadcast to everyone, but did she also invite cops to the press conference so they would be there to immediately arrest her?

I love that Oliver asks Detective Lance to help in the dismantling of the device. I really like that Lance's character has changed through the season.

It's raining in the Glades, but it's a clear night above the "good" part of Starling City. Boy, that's some interesting weather.

Why does Oliver tell Tommy to get to safety when he's at Merlyn's office tower. He isn't leveling the good part of the city, he's leveling the Glades.

How did Detective Lance not see that device until he was right on it? It was pretty bright.

Aw. Thea is always there when Roy needs help.

And it's the good old stand-by when trying to disarm a bomb. You cut the wire thinking you've stopped it, but no. It takes four minutes off of the timer. Gotta build that suspense.

Even though some of Laurel's scene bug me, I did like the exchange between her and her father when he calls her after the timer on the device goes down to two minutes. It was very emotional. I like Detective Lance.

Roy is becoming a hero. How long before he becomes a "super" hero.

I really expected them to stop the undertaking. I didn't expect there to be another device. I also expected Oliver to save Laurel, not Tommy. And I definitely didn't expect Tommy to die. Dang it!

So, that's it until the fall. I wonder how Malcolm will be affected by Tommy's death. Will he blame himself, or blame Oliver? Or will he even care? He didn't seem to care about him when he beat him up to keep Tommy from shooting him. Will Malcolm still be the main villain next season, or will there be a new main villain? How long before Roy finds out that Oliver is the Hood, and will Thea learn the truth at the same time? Will Oliver ever tell Laurel his secret? And what's going to happen on the island now that Fyers is dead? I'll definitely be watching to find out.

Quotes:

Malcolm: I hope I didn't hurt you. But least I can properly thank you now for saving my life. If I only knew how you were spending your nights.

Malcolm: Not a day goes by I don't miss your father.
Oliver: You'll see him soon.

Diggle: I take back every joke I made about you sticking a tracking device in your boot.

Detective Lance: Not exactly a hardened criminal, are you?
Felicity: No, I'm not any kind of a criminal.
Lance: What do you call computer hacking?
Felicity: A hobby? That I do not engage in.

Lance: I swore to uphold the law because the law is steady, the law is unchanging, the law needed to be protected. But what are laws, rules, if they don't protect people?

Moira: Everything I have ever said or done has been to protect you and your sister.
Oliver: What about all those people in the Glades?
Moira: I'm not their mother.

Moira: Where are you going?
Oliver: Somebody in this family needs to put an end to this. Whatever the cost.

Oliver: I never told you what happened to me on the island.
Laurel: You didn't have to. I can see that it changed you.
Oliver: That's the thing. Laurel it didn't. Those five years didn't change me, they just... they scraped away all the things that I wasn't and revealed the person I always was, which is the person... That's who you always saw.

Tommy (to Malcolm): He said you wanted to nuke the Glades or something. It's funny, scotch doesn't make it anymore believable.

Oliver (answering Thea's phone call): Now is not a good time.
Thea: Yea. Understate much?
(Side note: Thea must be a Buffy fan. If you're a Buffy fan you'll know what I'm saying.)

Tommy: Is it true? Did you really kill all those people?
Malcolm: I did what I had to do.

Diggle: I thought Merlyn broke your bow.
Oliver: I have another.

Diggle: Oliver, you are not alone. Not since you brought me into this. (looks at Felicity) Us into this. Besides, Army regulations. A soldier never lets a brother go into battle alone.
Oliver: I'm out of bows.
Diggle: I've got my gun.
Felicity: I guess it's up to me to do the dismantling.

Slade: I should have figured you couldn't save the day without making a mess.

Fyers: Amazing. A two year operation undone because a young playboy happened to wash up on the shore. And now here you are - a killer.

Felicity (guiding Lance to disarm the device): Do you see a timer?
Lance: Seven minutes.
Felicity: Well, good news is, this is going to be a paperweight in three.

Roy: Did you come here to rescue me.
Thea: Yea.

Oliver: Thank you for teaching me what I'm fighting for. But my father taught me how.

Oliver: It's over.
Malcolm: If I've learned anything as a successful businessman, it's... redundancy.

Oliver: Open your eyes, Tommy. Open your eyes.

Jimmy and Brad Yodel

This is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

Various Sundry Items

I cannot tell you how much I love this image for the new series, Sleepy Hollow, coming to Fox in the fall. I love the headless horseman. I'm just wondering where his horse is. *wink*

I hope this show lives up to its poster.

*****

It's been announced that the film adaptation of the musical, Into the Woods, will come to cinemas on Christmas day 2014. It seems so far away. I guess it's because it is. 

So far, the following parts have been cast:

Witch: Meryl Streep

Baker: James Cordon

Baker's Wife: Emily Blunt

Cinderella's Prince: Jake Gyllenhaal

Rapunzel's Prince: Chris Pine

Wolf: Johnny Depp

Jack's Mother: Tracy Ullman

Cinderella's Mother: Christine Baranski (rumored)

The cast sounds good so far. I'm not sure if Emily Blunt can sing. I hope she can, because Stephen Sondheim's music is not easy.

*****

I was going to try to stay up-to-date on my blog with the rumors flying around about who will play the 12th Doctor on Doctor Who, but I don't want to post rumors. So, I will blog about the new Doctor when the 12th Doctor is officially announced.

Even though I'm not going to post about it yet, it is exciting to read about the actors who people think are front-runners for the part. If you want to keep up with the latest news on the search for the new Doctor, and any other Doctor Who related news, go to my favorite Doctor Who blog, Blogtor Who. 

*****

Coming soon to BBC is a new crime drama, Death Comes to Pemberley. Yes, it's a crime drama based on Pride and Prejudice. Actually, it's a crime drama based on a book (called Death Comes to Pemberley), which is based on Pride and Prejudice. The three episode series takes place after Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage, and one of the supporting characters is murdered.

There will be familiar British actors in the cast. Anna Maxwell Martin (North and South, Bleak House) will play Elizabeth Bennet Darcy, Matthew Rhys (Brothers and Sisters, The Abduction Club) will play Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jenna-Louise Coleman (Doctor Who) will play Lydia Bennet Wickham, Matthew Good (Leap Year, Chasing Liberty) will play Wickham and James Fleet (Little Dorrit, Sense and Sensibility) will play Mr. Bennet. The best news, however, is that Penelope Keith (Good Neighbors, To the Manor Born) will be playing Lady Catherine de Bourgh. I want to see it just to see Penelope play that part. 

*****

Auditions for So You Think You Can Dance are over, and the live performances have begun. Yay! And my favorite host of any reality show is back. She is so personable and fun, and just a great host. Nice to see you Cat! This is your year for the Emmy. 

I wanted to insert one of my favorite SYTYCD routines here, a hip hop number by Twitch and Alex, but youtube wouldn't let me embed the video, so you'll have to go to youtube here to see it. It's amazing and so much fun. 

I'm excited for this season, and I hope it holds many memorable routines that I can add to my favorites.

*****

Did you ever wonder what Star Wars would have sounded like if William Shakespeare had written it instead of George Lucas? Neither had I, but Ian Doescher did. Check out the first few pages of William Shakespeare's Star Wars. It's pretty funny, and pretty impressive.

I wonder how long it took Ian to write this book. If he stayed with iambic pentameter through the whole book, all I can say is - wow! From what I've read so far, Ian keeps pretty close to the iambic pentameter. My favorite lines that follows the pattern is the following:

C-3PO: I'll warrant madness lies within.

R2-D2:                                 -- -- beep beep,

I can't wait to read the entire thing. It would be great if someone produced it someday. I don't know how they would stage it, but it could be very entertaining. *wink*

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: season 3, ep. 11, Quippy Quotes

"Gingerbread" is Joss Whedon's mash up of Hansel and Gretel and The Crucible.

Joyce finds two children while "bonding" with Buffy on a patrol night. The children have symbols are their hands that lead Giles to believe that the deaths were caused by someone involved in the occult. That leads Joyce to believe that the children were killed by a witch, and soon she has all of the adults in Sunnydale on a witch hunt. But it isn't all Joyce's idea. She has some little voices telling her what to do. And soon the whole town has turned against Willow, Buffy, and Amy (remember Amy, the witch?).

Quotes:

Joyce: Is it a vampire?

Buffy: Mom, what are you doing here?

Joyce: I brought you a snack. I thought it was about time or me to come out and watch. You know, the slaying.

Buffy: You know, the slaying is kind of an alone thing.

Joyce: It's, um, you know, something we could share.

Buffy: Actually, it's pretty dull, you know. It's bam, boom, stick... poof.

Joyce: Good, honey. Kill him!

Joyce: It's Mr. Sanderson from the bank. And he's getting away!

Buffy (to Joyce): Stay! (runs after Mr. Sanderson from the bank)

Buffy (to Joyce): I'll take care of everything. I promise. Just try and calm down.

[cut to Buffy and Giles]

Buffy: Don't tell me to calm down!

Buffy: Find me the thing that uses this symbol and point me at it.

Giles: Hmm.

Buffy: Hmm, what? Giles, speak.

Giles: I wonder if you're not letting yourself get a shade, uh, more personal because of your mother's involvement.

Buffy: Oh, it's completely personal.

Xander: So, a burrito?

Oz: This is a burrito.

Xander: Damn straight.

Oz (to Willow): I haven't seen you all day. Where you been?

Xander: Not with me. No sir. Ask anyone. No.

Xander: Why was your mom there?

Buffy: More bad. She picked last night, of all nights, for a surprise bonding visit.

Willow: Your mom would actually take the time to do that with you? That really wasn't the point of the story, was it?

Xander: What a burn. I mean, Buff's mom was just starting to accept the whole slayer thing, and now she's gonna be double freaked out.

Willow: Makes me grateful that my mom's not interested in my extracurricular activities. Or my curricular activities.

Joyce: Are you embarrassed to be hanging out with your mother? I didn't hug you.

Buffy: No, it's just... this hall is about school, and you're about home. Mix them, my world dissolves.

Mrs. Rosenberg: Willow, I didn't know you were going to be here. Oh, hi, Bunny.

Buffy: Hi.

Mrs. Rosenberg: Willow, you cut off your hair. That's a new look.

Willow: Yea, it's just a sudden whim I had... in August.

Joyce: Well, it's, uh, it's been a while.

Giles: Right. Not since, um, not since... not for a while.

Mrs. Rosenberg: There's a rumor going around, Mr. Giles.

Giles: Rumor? About us? About What?

Mrs. Rosenberg: About witches. People calling themselves witches are responsible for this brutal crime.

Giles: Indeed? How strange.

Willow: Ha, ha. Yes. Strange. Witches.

Cordelia: If you're going to hang with them, expect badness. 'Cause that's what you get when you hang with freaks and losers. Believe me, I know. That was a pointed comment about me hanging with you guys.

Buffy: Yea, I got that one.

Buffy: Hey, is Willow around?

Xander: How can I convince you people that it's over? You assume because I'm here, she's here. that I somehow mysteriously know where she is.

Buffy: Those her books?

Xander: Yea. She's in the bathroom.

Xander: Look, I'm getting sick of judgment. The innuendos. Is a man not innocent until proven guilty?

Buffy: You are guilty. You got illicit smoochies. Gonna have to pay the price.

Xander: But I'm talking about future guilt. Look, everyone expects me to mess up again. Like Oz. I see how he is around me. You know, that steely gaze... that pointed silence.

Buffy: 'Cause he's such a chatterbox.

Xander: No, but it's different now. It's more a verbal nonverbal. He speaks volumes with his eyes.

Buffy: What is this?

Willow: A doodle. I do doodle. You too. You do doodle too.

Principal Snyder: This is a glorious day for Principals everywhere. No pathetic whining about students' rights. Just a long row of lockers, and a man with a key.

Cordelia: Hey! Get your grubby custodial hands off that.

Security Officer: Stay back.

Cordelia: That hair spray costs $45, and it's imported.

Giles: They're confiscating my books.

Buffy: Giles, we need those books.

Giles: Believe me, I tried to tell that to the nice man with the big gun.

Buffy: There's something about the symbol that we're missing. Willow said she used it in a protection spell. It's harmless. Not a big bad. So then whey would it turn up in a ritual sacrifice?

Giles: I don't know. Ordinarily, I would say let's widen our research.

Buffy: Using what? A dictionary and My Friend Flicka?

Giles: This is intolerable. Snyder has interfered before, but I won't take this from that twisted little homunculus.

Snyder (entering the library): I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.

Giles: You get out... and take your marauders with you.

Snyder: Oh, my. So fierce.

Snyder: Just how is, um, Blood Rites and Sacrifices appropriate material for a public school library? Chess Club branching out?

Snyder: Just remember, lift a finger against me, and you'll have to answer to MOO.

Buffy: Answer to moo? Did that sentence just make some sense that I'm not in on?

Snyder: Mothers Opposed to the Occult. A powerful new group.

Buffy: And who came up with that lame name?

Snyder: That would be the founder. I believe you call her Mom.

Mrs. Rosenberg: This isn't exactly a surprise.

Willow: Why not?

Mrs. Rosenberg: Oh, well, identification with mythical icons is perfectly typical of your age group. It's a classic adolescent response to the pressure of incipient adulthood.

Willow: Oh, is that what it is?

Mrs. Rosenberg: Of course, I wish you could have identified with something a little less icky, but developmentally speaking --

Willow: Mom, I'm not an age group. I'm me. Willow group.

Willow: Mom, how would you know what I can do? I mean, the last time we had a conversation over three minutes, it was about the patriarchal bias of the Mister Rogers show.

Mrs. Rosenberg: Well, with King Friday lording it over the "lesser" puppets --

Mrs. Rosenberg: You're grounded.

Willow: Grounded? This is the first time ever I've done something you don't like, and I'm grounded? I'm supposed to mess up. I'm a teenager, remember?

Mrs. Rosenberg: You're upset. I hear you.

Willow: No, Ma, hear this. I'm a rebel. I'm having a rebellion.

Willow: I can summon the four elements. Okay, two, but four soon. And I'm dating a musician!

Mrs. Rosenberg: Oh, Willow!"

Mrs. Rosenberg: I don't want you hanging out with those friends of yours. It's clear where this little obsession came from. You will not speak to Bunny Summers again.

[Cut to Buffy and Joyce]

Joyce: I don't want you seeing that Willow anymore.

Buffy: Okay, maybe I don't have a plan. Lord knows I don't have any lapel buttons.

Joyce: Buffy.

Buffy: And maybe next time that the world is getting sucked into hell, I won't be able to stop it because the anti-sucking book isn't on the approved reading list.

Buffy: I have to go. I have to go on one of my pointless patrols and react to some vampires. If that's all right with MOO. And nice acronym, Mom.

Angel: I heard about this. People are talking. People are even talking to me.

Buffy: It's strange. People die in Sunnydale all the time, and I've never seen anything like this.

Angel: They were children. Innocent. It makes a difference.

Buffy: And Mr. Sanderson from the bank had it coming?

Buffy: My mom said some things to me about being the slayer. That it's fruitless. No fruit for Buffy.

Buffy: Okay, so I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. I'm like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.

Angel: Dike. It's another word for dam.

Buffy: Oh. Okay, that story makes a lot more sense now.

Angel: Buffy, you know I'm still figuring things out. There's a lot I don't understand. But I do know it's important to keep fighting. I learned that from you.

Giles (using the computer): Session interrupted? Who said you could interrupt, you stupid useless fad! No, I said fad, and I'll say it again!

Xander (entering with Oz): At that point, I will become frightened.

Oz: Take heart, we found your books.

Xander: You can put  your heart back. We can't get them. They're locked up in City Hall.

Buffy: We need to get some information.

Giles: Yea, well, somebody else do it, this thing's locked me out.

Xander: Well, if you wouldn't yell at it...

Oz: I can look around, but Willow would really know the sites we need.

Buffy: That's great. She can't even come to the phone. The wrath of MOO.

Xander: So, they have names. That's new.

Giles: There is a fringe theory, held by a few folklorists that some regional stories have actual, very literal antecedents.

Buffy: And in some language that's English...

Oz: Fairy tales are real.

Xander: Wait, Hansel and Gretel? Breadcrumbs, ovens, gingerbread house?

Giles: Of course. It makes sense now.

Buffy: Yea, it's all falling into place. Of course that place is nowhere near this place.

Buffy: Hansel and Gretel run home to tell everyone about the mean old witch.

Giles: And then she, and probably dozens of others are persecuted by a righteous mob. It's happened all through history. It happened in Salem, not surprisingly.

Xander: Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm still spinning on this whole "fairy tales are real" thing.

Oz: So, what do we do?

Xander: I don't know about you, but I'm gonna go trade my cow for some beans. No one else is seeing the funny here?

Cordelia: Wake up! 

[slaps Giles]

Giles: Cordelia?

Cordelia: Took you long enough to wake up. My hand hurts.

Giles Pity.

Cordelia: Things are way out of control, Giles. First the thing at school, and then my mom confiscates all my black clothes and scented candles. I came over here to tell Buffy to stop this craziness, and found you all unconscious, again. How many times have you been knocked out, anyway? I swear, one these times you're going to wake up in a coma.

Giles: Wake up in a...? Oh, never mind. We need to save Buffy from Hansel and Gretel.

Cordelia: Now, let's be clear. The brain damage happened before I hit you.

Buffy: Mom, you don't want this.

Joyce: Since when does it matter what I want? I wanted a normal, happy daughter. Instead I got a slayer.

Mrs. Rosenberg: Torch.

Joyce: Thanks. This has been so trying, you've been such a champ.

Mrs. Rosenberg: Oh, you too, Joyce.

Joyce: We should stay close. Have lunch.

Mrs. Rosenberg: Oh, I'd like that. How nice.

Giles: And, uh, drop a toadstone into the mixture.

Cordelia: This? It doesn't look like a toad.

Giles: No reason it should. It's from inside the toad.

Cordelia: I hate you.

Buffy: Cordelia, put out the fire!

Cordelia: Oh, right.

Cordelia: Okay, I think I liked the two little ones more than the one big one.

Demon: Protect us. Kill the bad girls.

Buffy: You know what? Not as convincing in that outfit.

Buffy: Did I get it? Did I get it?

[Xander and Oz fall from the ceiling]

Oz: We're here to save you.

Willow: She's doing that selection thing your mom used to be so good at.

Buffy: She forgot everything?

Willow: No. She remembered the part where I said I was dating a musician. Oz has to come to dinner next week. So, that's sort of like taking an interest.

Buffy (re: Amy): Maybe we could get her one of those wheel thingies.