Buffy "Hush"

When I was younger, I used to watch Buffy every week it came on. Now, I don't remember much about the series, but The Gentlemen I do remember. I was so scarred by this episode when I was 8-ish that to this day, whenever I open my door at night I'm terrified that two bald men are going to be standing there, waiting for my heart. Every time I go to sleep and have a nightmare, one constant is that I can't scream when I need to. It's safe to say that I've been waiting for the day when I could watch the episode again and relieve my fear so that the many wounds this episode caused me when I was younger can heal. Plus, I forgot that The Gentlemen's head explode at the end, so I guess that's enough closure.



When it comes to the actual episode itself, I noticed two things. One, after everybody had lost their voices and the whole town was in "panic mode," Riley and Buffy set out (separately) to ward off evil. At this point, they don't know each other's motive for being out at night, so when they run into each other, they kiss -- which is what they'd been putting off beforehand because both were too "shy." I think that this scene proves that when people know that they don't have that much time left on Earth, they try to make up for what they didn't do yet. Buffy and Riley knew that the end might be coming, so they finally told--or really, showed-- each other how they felt. The old saying "you never know what you got till it's gone" comes to mind because all of us humans really think that time will go on forever when really, we have no idea when time will end.

The second thing that I noticed wasn't much, just something that I found interesting. The citizens of Sunnydale lose their voices and start to freak out because they don't know what to do. Yet when The Gentlemen congregate and conspire, they don't talk either. They've never talked, yet the know exactly what they need to do. Does anybody have any thoughts on this?