Things the Initiative need to learn: by Hydragon

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Things the Initiative need to learn:

POSTED BY: HYDRAGON
UPDATED: Sunday, November 27, 2005 16:26
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Friday, November 25, 2005 4:12 PM

I've been re-watching Buffy from the beginning, and I'm currently in the middle of Season 4, and I'm once again freshly reminded of how much I hate the Initiative. Here's a couple ground rules that they need to learn.

1. Magic > Science

2. Military < Slayer

3. Pointy Stick > Cutting-Edge Technology

4. Not all Demons = Bad

5. Never, EVER kidnap a Big Bad.

5b. Especially not Spike or Angel.

Can you think of anything else?

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Friday, November 25, 2005 4:41 PM

PERIDIDDLE

6. While running around with the black outfits and sooper!sneaky guns MIGHT work at night...they just make you painfully obvious in broad daylight.

"Bwaa...it's kind of a warrior...strikes fear into the hearts of..."

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Saturday, November 26, 2005 7:40 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

2b. Listen to the Slayer. She knows Big Bads.

Grrrrr. Arrrgghh.

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Sunday, November 27, 2005 8:07 AM

MER

Never mess with Demons. They can't be controlled like humans can't.

Oh and Science can't solve ALL of the nasties in Hellmouth.

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Sunday, November 27, 2005 10:32 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST

Hello Hydragon :)

I'm also currently in the middle of season four. Funnily enough I've come to realise that while I too dislike the innitiative, this is however the season I tend to rewatch the most, as all in all it's more humourous and lighter than the other seasons. I still prefer season 3 for drama and pulling out the maximum from the Buffy mythos, but anyway....

Unfortunately there are sooo many holes as regards the innitiative that it becomes clearly pointless to point them out - you just sorta have to go with it, but for the sake of the this thread :) here goes.

Innititative :
Never let a Slayer into your domain.

Never examine a 'Hostile' without security back-up. remember those two scientists who try to put Spike on the guerney - heck they were puny!!!!

While I'm no military expert I'm pretty sure the idea of one of the soldiers girlfriends tagging along is pretty much non-military procedure too...

er... that's about it...

On a side not anybody ever notice on the episode Goodbye Iowa there's a scene where Buffy goes to examine the murder scene with the little boy, and Riley joins her - well there's this curious camera thing that happens over Rileys POV of Buffy, it basically looks like the lens is masked by a circular rim... It's just in two shots but very strange, I'd have thought the editors would have picked up on it, it makes the whole scene very odd.

The
Somnambulist

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Sunday, November 27, 2005 4:26 PM

HYDRAGON

7: Werewolf transformations ARE based on the Lunar Cycle.

And of course, there's number 8, AKA the Key Message of Angel: Demons are people too.

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