Hee!

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Saw this linked on my flist today: 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists, all in a nice handy-dandy chart. By my estimation, BtVS used at least 13 of them. :)

I'm plotting my next story right now.... lol.

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[angearia.livejournal.com]

Oh come on! List the ones you thought BtVS did. :D

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Heh, I think mitashade covered a lot of 'em. I'd also add:

Stolen Identity Not Worth It - Faith in "Who Are You?"
Conspiracy Kind of Boring - Adam/the Initiative
Indian Legend Ignored - "Pangs"
Killer Solves Own Crime - Spike in "Sleeper"

[mitashade.livejournal.com]

Ooops I skipped over the Indian Legend one! I actually had it written down, but I accidentally refreshed the page. *facepalm*

And yeah, "Sleeper" is perfect, too.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Hee! This is too fun.

[mitashade.livejournal.com]

The Double Cross - Well, duh.
The Vengeful Immigrant - Inca Mummy Girl
Devil Deal Backfires - Quite a few times...
Government is In on It - The Initiative
House Actually Alien Zoo (kinda) - The Iniative
The Robot Reveal - Ted
Vampires Repel Daylight (kinda) - Harsh Light of Day
It Was a Dream - Restless
It Wasn't a Dream - Nightmares
Dark Lord Reasonable - D'Hoffryn
Swords Replace Feeling - Buffy going out 'hunting', and the whole Buffy/Spike relationship
Toy Actually Magic Wand - I have a feeling this was used somewhere...
Unreliable Narrator - Restless

LOL there are lots used in Buffy. LOVE this list.

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Good ones! For Swords Replace Feelings I immediately thought of "Becoming II," with Buffy and Angel. And Toy Actually Magic Wand, well, not literally, but more than once non-threatening things turn out to be magical items (like Giles using the Orb of Thessula as a paperweight). Also, I would've gone with Andrew in "Storyteller" for the Unreliable Narrator. :)

[mitashade.livejournal.com]

Ooooo yeah didn't think of those! Especially Storyteller... DER!

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

Toy actually magic wand - I think The Puppet Show might actually qualify for this.

The costumes in Halloween, also.

Bad Eggs?

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

God did it - Glory

God did it - Amends snowfall

Petard Hoist - Adam kills Walsh

Vampires Repel Daylight - well that's kind of obvious

Unreliable Narrarator - Watcher's Council becomes suspect

Robot reveal - Riley's implant

Reverse Robot Reveal - Riley's OK after all!

Ancient Alien Pyramid Scheme - End of Days - actual pyramid involved!

God from Machine - not BtVS, but he did it in his X-Men comic

Devil is actually autistic boy - No Place Like Home except the autistic boy is actually a whiney teenage girl

Aw heck. I could do this all day.