If there's one thing Space Camp and Buffy have taught me, it's to never make a wish you don't really mean.
Space Camp:
The little kid makes a wish to be in space, and then Jinx the sentient robot decides to grant his wish and sends them into space where they almost die. Luckily, Lea Thompson is a master space-ship pilot and gets them home.
Buffy:
You never know when there's a vengeance demon around.
Cordelia makes a wish that Buffy never came to Sunnydale, which is granted (by a vengeance demon) and plunges the world into a bizarro-world alternate reality, much worse off than the normal bizarro reality - except that it has sexy vampire Willow. Luckily, Cordelia lives long enough to tell Giles the scoop, and he's "the man" enough to fix things.
Then Dawn wishes that everyone would "never leave" and everyone gets trapped in their house and almost gets killed by an evil warpy demon. Luckily, they trick the vengeance demon into getting trapped by her own spell, so she releases it.
And what have we learned? Ne-ver make a wish you don't actually want granted. There may be some superhuman force around just waiting to grant it.
Sunday, June 9, 2002
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