Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Episode Discussion: 4x10 Hush

**ashleyt** · 10-20-2009, 04:32 PM

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Hush

Great episode. The Gentlemen are so creepy and the lack of sound makes them even scarier.

We first see Tara here. I did not like her hair in this episode

Best part of the episode: The ending. Buffy and Riley are finally able to talk about their identities being revealed to one another and they have nothing to say.

Wes&FredFan · 10-20-2009, 08:50 PM

That episode was great! It was SO creepy though. Well thought out ... and the acting was excellent! It must've been challenging to act without lines!

at the scene in the classroom, where Giles is trying to fill them in on their mission and he's using the overhead projecter. When he puts the slide:

HOW DO WE KILL THEM?

up on the projecter, Buffy makes a hand movement and everbody looks at her like "Uh ... okay, that looks wrong." She realizes what they're thinking and pulls out a stake.

Great moments in that ep!

**Burning Up A Sun** · 10-20-2009, 09:15 PM

I love that scene where Buffy's trying to show staking and it looks so dirty.

And Xander's "boobies?"

I love that we see Giles' drawings later in S7 with the potentials because they are hilarious.

The Gentlemen were creepy as heck. The way they moved and the way they looked... I wouldn't want to meet them.

I didn't really care for Tara in this episode... her hair wasn't the best, but I loved her scene with Willow where they moved the coke machine.

The final scene with BR was really good too.

sethamgal · 10-21-2009, 06:28 AM

best episode ever does anyone have a link to scene of that episode?

**ashleyt** · 10-21-2009, 09:14 AM

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**Burning Up A Sun** · 10-21-2009, 09:44 AM

I love Olivia's scream when that thing passes the window. If I saw that I would have had a heart attack.

Oh and Anya and her obsession with sex.

**ashleyt** · 10-21-2009, 09:57 AM

Anya turned that sweet moment into something inappropriate as only she knows how

**Burning Up A Sun** · 10-21-2009, 10:13 AM

I know.

It was going so well and then she did that.

And the gang was like WTF?

**ashleyt** · 10-21-2009, 10:20 AM

They should have been used to it by then

Not that it's makes it right but at least they shouldn't be surprised.

Well besides Olivia

**Burning Up A Sun** · 10-21-2009, 12:16 PM

I'm sure Giles told her how Anya was.

How random was she though in that episode? Was there a purpose for her being there aside from getting Spike to stay with Xander?

**ashleyt** · 10-21-2009, 12:25 PM

I think it was to show that Giles couldn't manage romantic romances at the time.

**Burning Up A Sun** · 10-21-2009, 01:02 PM

But he never could. It's sad that he was more comfortable around a vampire and teenagers.

**ashleyt** · 10-21-2009, 01:03 PM

Poor Giles. I wish we'd gotten word about his life in England. Maybe he reconciled with Olivia there?

saturn5 · 12-09-2009, 04:18 AM

Hush

The Good;
Everything, it's all staggeringly brilliant. If I was to name a favourite scene it would be when Forrest and Riley are stuck in the lift about to be gassed, Riley's desperately trying to remember the overide code and Forrest holds up a piece of paper on which he's written 'C'mon! C'mon!', makes me laugh every time (possibly an idea from Alien 4). Also love Gile's slideshow, the final battle and Olivia. The Gentlemen's applause.
The Bad;
Naught. Ok, when Spike get's his mug of blood from the fridge it's full up but then he takes a sip from it and it's almost empty
Best line;
Not the ep for that
Wheldon Cliches;

Character death;
At least 6 people have their hearts gorily cut out
Shot;
Tied up;
Spike to the chair
Knocked out;
Women good/men bad;
When Anya starts to complain about Xander's insensitivity towards her he comments "Boy you really did turn into a girl, didn't you?". Love Buffy's horrified reaction to Giles' drawing of her and her exasperated look as Riley smashes the wrong thing. The scene with the Wicca group, a bunch of 'wanna blessed be's' is hilarious(when the Charmed sisters did this they ended up dancing naked with them around the fire I recall? Shame we don't get that here). .
Jeez!;
The scene where the Gentlemen hold the guy down and slice his heart out, yeeesh! We don't actually see anything but Giles' slideshow doesn't leave much to the imagination. Also Spike's V sign to Xander. Buffy breaks guy's wrists and henchmens neck.
Kinky dinky;
The return of Olivia, Giles' 'orgasm friend'. Unfortunately this seems to be the end for them. Anya's crude hand gesture to Xander at the end, Xander seems to think that the Gentlemen are after 'boobies'. In fairness, everyone seems perplexed by Buffy's hand gesture. Spike says he doesn't want to be tied to a chair whilst Xander and Anya 'shag'.
Calling Captain Subtext;
And here's Tara. Personally I for one thought the subtext between her and Willow was evident right from the beginning, just the look on Willow's face at the end of their final scene together when she calls her 'special'. Xander thinks Spike would bite him as he's 'moist and delicious'. The awesome dream sequence is great, the little girl I think is quite obviously Buffy as a child. All very Nightmare on Elm Street. Remember reading a great fanfic where Buffy and Anya are killed by Freddy Kreuger but in the end he wakes up from his dream screaming, chained to his bed in the mental hospital he's been confined to since the night he got torched. But after the nurse sedates him she walks away and we discover she's actually Buffy.
Spike calls Giles a 'sissy'. Forrest says that he and Riley are 'pretty' and suggests Riley 'get with the kissing'. Giles hugs Willow.
Guantanamo Bay;
The Initiative/Town authorities cover up the Gentlemen's activities by declaring a laryngitis outbreak.
Scoobies to the ER;
Buffy get's stabbed with the scalpel but just seems to shrug it off.
Where's Dawn?
Quietly at home with Joyce
Questions and observations;
Just terrific, one of the Buffy eps that just sets the standard for all others, Joss at his finest. Isn't it a bit much though for Buffy to automatically assume she's the princess? Finally spotted Andy Hallet in the dream sequence, he's sitting two seats behind SMG with a dark haired girl sat in front of him. The little girl declares that you 'Can't call to mom', foretelling Joyce's death? Equally when Riley in the dream turns into a Gentleman is he revealing his hidden side?
Spike is now allowed to roam around loose. The Wicca group refer to the 'wolf at our side' which Oz used to be. Will makes good cookies so why should she be opposed to the bakesale? The clocktower scene is very Tim Burton right down to the music. Tara trips like a true horror heroine. Nice twist with Willow's door. Buffy kills 8 Gentlemen and one henchman. Pink Floyd are a Cambridge group whilst Giles went to Oxford.
Marks out of 10; 10/10