Ringer 1.1-1.3

[meganbmoore]

This is a bad show, guys.  A very very bad show with some absurd drama that completely embraces it's ridiculousness and challenges itself to top the existing cheese factor every 5 minutes.
 

I love it.  And find it oddly soothing and live to see what absurd new twist and/or complication it will come up with next, and how it will show us that Buffy can still bebadass when she isn't Buffy and has to wing it.  And cackle with evil glee every every time there's pretentious overuse of mirrors.
 

Buffy plays twins!  One of whom is a recovering alcoholic, ex-stripper, and prostitute!  The other is a rich soceity wife with a fraught marriage and SECRETS!  (I call them Rich Buffy and Stripper Buffy.)  One commits suicide!  Or maybe not!  No one knows one has a twin!  Or maybe they do!  One takes advantage of a bad situation and takes over the other's life!  But maybe it was an evil plot and she was supposed to!  One may be pregnant, but it may not be the one it's supposed to be!  There are assassins and corpses keep disappearing!  I frequently worry that there will be sleeping with your dead-or-is-she-maybe-she-is-did-you-see-the-body? twin sister's husband while he thinks you're your sister.  I really hope we don't have that.  And am giving the show an extremely hard sideeye with what it's doing with it's sole POC so far.  CW, why can't you have a show that does well on this front?

Also, I am programmed to find it completely unbelievable that Sarah Michelle Gellar can be tossed around by a mere human male just because he's about a head taller than her and probably outweighs her by a few dozen pounds.  I'm all Buffy, did Giles slip you those depowering drugs again?"  Not that Stripper Buffy isn't doing a pretty decent job of taking care of herself without superpowers.  And I can't wait to know more about Rich Buffy, and the sisters' history.

One thing I had some HUGE issues with was that in the pilot, two characters were introduced by commenting on how incredibly thin one of the Buffys was.  One was rather snide and hateful about it (and I still haven't forgiven him even though he's probably going to end up the nicest and most decent character on the show) and the other said "You're so thin!  You look anorexic!"  (slight paraphrasing, as I didn't feel like tracking down the exact scene for an exact quote) with the implication that telling someone they look anorexic is flattering.  TBH, I suspect the intent was to let us know that one of the Buffys is a little thinner than the other, even though, as they're twins played by the same actress, they obviously look like they're the same weight to viewers, but the comments made me extremely uncomfortable. But that was only in the first episode, and weight/size hasn't been mentioned since then.

Comments

[royalarchivist]

said "You're so thin! You look anorexic!"...with the implication that telling someone they look anorexic is flattering

Ew. That is unfortunate. I hope it's not revisited later. :\

[meganbmoore]

I'm pretty sure it was meant to point out that Stripper Buffy is (understandably) thinner than Rich Buffy, so I'm hopeful it'll never be mentioned again.

[coffeeandink]

I think it's probably also supposed to be a hint at Siobhan's pregnancy.

[meganbmoore]

I keep starting to think along those lines, then I get distracted wondering how long Siobahn has been planning this. I mean, she set up a secret account so she was apparently planning to run away at some point, but she also went to the doctor even though that's something that might show up in the autopsy. (And then I start fretting that Bridgt is going to try to get pregnant to keep her cover and while Bridget/Andrew appears to be the eventual Official OTP of the show, I'm not ready for them to have sex without his knowing who she is.)

[lea_hazel]

I hope this does not lead to a recurrence of the SMG-related fake worry she's-so-thin shame-fest. It was a very unfortunate aspect of Buffy fandom.

[meganbmoore]

I NEVER understand those. I mean, as far as I know, her weight doesn't affect her health, and she doesn't talk about how awful being above a size 4 is in interviews, so I see no particular reason to care, and her weight isn't my business anyways. I mean, yeah, at times I notice and will comment on a drastic weight loss or gain, but it doesn't really need more than a passing observation.