Drabble

[beer_good_foamy]

For open_on_sunday's Song Title challenge:

Avant Gardener
Title from "Avant Gardener" by Courtney Barnett

"Sunnydale Plants & Garden, Tim speaking, how may I help you?"

(...)

"Weeding? Sure, we've got tools for that."

(...)

"Our most popular pruning shears are 8 inches."

(...)

"Not really. We have hedge clippers, but – "

(...)

"Poison? You mean herbicides? Sure…"

(...)

"…That quickly? No."

(...)

"What?"

(...)

"No, we do not carry flamethrowers. What on – "

(...)

"Um… sure. Thanks for calling."

(.)

Buffy hung up and turned to Giles. "Right, no help there. You're sure stakes won't work? Because - "

"Plants don't have hearts, Buffy."

They looked out at the triffids surrounding the Magic Box. "That's the last time I let Willow help Dawn with a science project."

Comments

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just hope she finds a better way of killing them than they did in the movie...

[gillo]

The book is better. If I had seen the film first I would never have opened it. Like many of Wyndham's novels, though, the ending is unsatisfactory - it just kinda stops.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I read the book ages ago, and frankly only remember being slightly less angry with the ending. The movie (IIRC) is so good up until the ending, and then - salt water and churches. Seriously?

[gillo]

Wyndham just seems to get bored. He quite literally leaves his characters hanging in mid-air in The Chrysalids.