a request
Does anyone have a VHS/DVD copy of the "Bring on the Night" episode of season 7 of Buffy that they'd be willing to let me borrow briefly? I'd take care of your shipping costs and also chip in a shiny trinket or two.
Here's why I'm asking: Last semester I did an in-class exercise with my Comm 100 students where we compared how language choices indicate dozens of neat things about the language user. Since I teach in a nifty "enhanced" classroom, which means that I can display websites and play video/DVD/CD, I used Branagh's Henry V St. Crispin's Day speech and Buffy's version of same from the aforementioned episode. Only, I never found a copy of the Buffy speech and had to draft two poor souls to read it in front of the class. This semester, it'd be nice to be able to play it and, so, the request.
In case you are as lousy at episode titles as I am, the speech goes thusly:
"I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. I'm standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me. We're not ready? They're not ready. They think we're gonna wait for the end to come, like we always do. I'm done waiting. They want an apocalypse? Oh, we'll give 'em one. Anyone else who wants to run, do it now. 'Cause we just became an army. We just declared war. From now on, we won't just face our worst fears, we will seek them out. We will find them, and cut out their hearts one by one, until The First shows itself for what it really is. And I'll kill it myself. There is only one thing on this earth more powerful than evil, and that's us. Any questions?"
If you have it and can share, gimme a shout.

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