{"id":1267,"date":"2004-03-06T21:04:58","date_gmt":"2004-03-07T05:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2004-11-07T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T23:40:33","slug":"expecting-the-exotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"expecting the exotic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"107863587285070764\"><\/a>Flipside of the <a href=\".\/?p=1268\">previous<\/a>: at the beginning of the <i>Buffy<\/i> episode &#8220;The Initiative&#8221; (4:7), we see Spike wake up in a strange white room, and he&#8217;s translucent: the lines of the floor can be seen through his black coat.  No, wait, the lines seen &#8220;through&#8221; Spike do not match those around him.  It&#8217;s a reflection of the floor outside his cell.<\/p>\n<p>So I wonder how many viewers, like me, jumped at the exotic interpretation because Spike is a demon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flipside of the previous: at the beginning of the Buffy episode &#8220;The Initiative&#8221; (4:7), we see Spike wake up in a strange white room, and he&#8217;s translucent: the lines of the floor can be seen through his black coat. No, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1267\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-mememe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}