buffy6

Bargaining pt 1 & 2

Five years, one recap. Nice work
Ouch! If I were Angel I would be offended by the fact that I equaled about 2 seconds in Buffy's life ("I love you" "Um...bye")
A beginner’s guide to BtVS. But if you haven’t seen the last five seasons, where have you been?
Six o’clock from whose perspective? They’ll be having “No, your other left” issues soon.
They haven't had freaky carnival death yet have they? It'll give them something to do in season six. They did rip Riley's heart out next to a carousel, but that was more of a metaphorical thing
"Big fast and dumb, just the way I like them" Oh, please, I don't even have the energy to make a joke about that, it's just too easy, I would feel cheap
Fire is an underused way of killing vampires. All you have to do is learn archery and have a lighter and whoopf! No more vamps.
Given Giles’ drink predilection, it’s more like “Whisky, whisky, almost got shagged, whisky.”
Is it just me or is Spike's character slowly seeping back in? Well it was a very cool scene for him. One can live and hope
Punning is a very important skill. You cannot rate it too highly.
Ooh, they've got the sexy thing with Spike's shoulders on the titles
"Special Guest Star"? Nooo!!! (He's getting his own show, he's getting his own show, repeat after me, he's getting his own show, he's coming back then he's getting his own show...)
Quite useful to someone to make all those sandwiches, Buffybot would probably be very popular at the WI. SMG would probably increase the turnout too. Shame she gets destroyed really, with the need for money later they could have used her to start one of those lunch trolleys that visit office blocks at midday
Do you have to go to parent-teacher day? Luckily my Mum is a teacher, so she was always working on parent/teacher night and I never had to go through this. I always managed to loose the letter before I got home…
I have no such excuse, my bossiness is just inherent (although the above comment about my Mum being a teacher might explain where I inherited some of it from)
Oh good luck. No kid is going to rate learning over lunch. No teacher will, either. Particularly not with staff like lunch lady Doris
I’m guessing that Anya was dusting a fertility idol of some kind, otherwise ugh.
Love the slapping fight between Giles and Anya. Very adult.
Sneaking suspicion that Spike went to my school, he seems to understand it well enough. Well, it's either mindless automatons or us, take your pick. I would kill for a class of mindless automatons. Pray tell why? They're mindless and thus pretty useless (unless they're sexy automatons!)
Vampire, minion of evil, you can tell by the Hanson T-shirt.
That I do love, "She impressed all the teachers?" "And they still thought she was Buffy?" Nice one Xander
Xander, hoist on his own petard
Oh, this is Sunnydale, you know something is going to go wrong.
Really? I thought she was killed by the 50 foot drop
I'm going to use the phrase 'hoist on his own petard' for the second time in three remarks, this time about Spike, and how often does a girl get to do that? Spike, hoist on his own petard
Of course he wasn't the perfect watcher, Wesley was the perfect watcher and look how that turned out
If the relationship ends with the watcher getting whacked then there really is something up
They must be evil, they’re bikers. It’s part of the evil look, like the side parting or the cigarette.
Sunlight, calm, tranquil pool, you just know something bad is going to happen
There's a mallard swimming on that pond, the world's most ubiquitous duck. There are pools of molten lava in hell with two or three mallard swimming round on them
She killed Bambi!!! The first of many sledgehammer hints that Willow isn’t playing with a full deck anymore
Am I the only one who felt that the scene with Willow and the fawn was cut too quickly? I think we should have seen more. No, you're right, it's a really strange cut. I think Sky probably whipped out the bloody part. Ha ha ha ha ha, I've seen the uncut version- it's actually very sinister, one minute she's petting it then she's getting a little slice happy. Oh yes, Sky are now doing what has commonly become know as the Channel 4 edit
That's because Willow didn't go to the black market, she went to the source and could have supplied the black market if she'd wanted to
Looking at cash has a calming effect on me too, especially if it's mine
Giles must have been packed for weeks, and how much of his stuff has he shipped out to England already?
And we're saying it again, he's coming back, then he's getting his own show... He just can't leave, apart from anything else, he's the last guy left on 'Buffy' that I fancy, I'll be so lost for somewhere to direct my hormones I'll end up fancying Spike
I used to have a monster like that!
Sunnydale has an airport now? It has grown since the first season, where there wasn’t much town for them to show Buffy. It now has an airport, docks, several schools, a university, bus and train stations, a castle and of course a preponderance of cemeteries.
Willow tempts fate, in this case by saying that "nothing can go wrong tonight"
Can she not light her candle off Xander's? Unless his wick is just ornamental
This is way cool, the lumps under her skin look like the scarab beetles from 'The Mummy'. Or Ma'chello's little beasties from 'Legacy'
Oh they're never gonna show that on the BBC (that goes for both the re-animated corpse and Willow vomiting snakes). Well they cut the Sky version down a teeny bit too!
Oh look, the evil demons are looting, vandalising and the ultimate evil, littering. It’s like Mac going through the stop sign to prove he’s gone to the Dark Side.
"Or you'll electrocute us" you know, she might
I think the Scooby gang are confused by the phrase "brought back from the grave". Due to them not having dug the body up they actually brought Buffy back to the grave. Subtle but important difference
What are the odds that Buffy didn't even break a nail getting out of that coffin?
If they had buried her in a cardboard coffin it would have been easier for her to get out, and far more easily biodegradable.
Why dig Buffy dig herself out of her grave, turn and look at a headstone on a different grave, and find it to be hers?
I saw this caring, protective side of Spike way back in 'School Hard', when everyone else was reveling in his efficient bad guy brilliance. I thought he was real sweet, with a backbone
My god, what the hell did they bury her in? That dress is awful, not to mention the shoes. I think I'd rather be interred in jeans and a t-shirt. Normally funeral clothes are slit up the back and you're usually buried barefoot unless you specify otherwise. Those shoes are very impractical for a Slayer, even a dead one. Ugg, hate 80's-throwback Buffy. If I were Buffy I’d be hunting my burial stylist and pulling their limbs off
Hair does not grow after death, but they have made some concession to reality and not dyed her hair again. Does this also explain why she appears to need a bottle of Frizz-Ease? Or was that the portal - it did have lots of frizz-creating energy
I have a friend who shall remain nameless who once, in a very dramatic and romantic manner, tried to wish on a falling star that turned out to be a ‘plane landing at Cardiff airport.
It's will-o'-the-wisp, and they need to watch out for televisions
I was right, she didn't break a nail, although she has got bloody knuckles
I got Xander's NORAD reference, probably too much Tom Clancy in my diet. I also got the NORAD reference and although I also read Tom Clancy (rather than ingest it) it's because I watched 'War Games' at a young age. Faith also referred to the DefCon system but that probably won't help Xander, especially if he wants to find male friends. I too got the Defcon metaphor.
Now having the mental image of Giles with wings, like Alan Rickman in 'Dogma'.
Always wanted to try that fire-breathing thing, but I'm understandably concerned about blow-back and having to replace the furniture. And more importantly your trachea
Where exactly were they expecting her to come back to life? Six feet over the ground rather than six feet under it?
Having to dig her way out of her own grave would probably give her a better idea of who and where she is. Especially since her name's stamped on the tombstone and I'm fairly sure Buffy can read
Are the demons looking for a real massacre, or one of ours? Because I really don’t think they’re up to the challenge at all.
"Anatomical incompatibilities" that will never make it to the BBC
Does the Buffybot have bigger breasts than the real Buffy or is it just that t-shirt?
That bike and helmet – I don’t know if they were trying to look cool but it just looked like Spike was riding around on a moped. Spike's slipped down to critical on the coolmeter
Spike didn’t put the kick-stand of the bike down.
Willow attacks the big demon with what looks like a Blu-Tack spell.
Nobody thought to pull down the huge monstrosity that the unqualified, crazy people built? No, the tower was built by trained professionals who were not paid in full. People have probably been nicking bits off the bottom of it for the past few months, no use letting all that good material go to waste
I suppose Hell is other people, but now isn’t the time for a discussion of existentialist philosophy, Buffy…
Ooh rope burn
Ooh that's poorly superimposed

Afterlife

I'd have thought she wanted more than just a wipe down with a damp cloth and I never knew Dawn was a trained hairdresser…where did those highlights come from?
Strangely, I do this every time I go home, walk through each and every room and complain because they didn't tell me they'd bought a new washing-up bowl. Coming home after being away is always bizarre – they’ve always moved something around. In my brother’s recent case, we’d actually moved house.
Nice conversational skills Spike, chit chat about escaping from graves, lovely
I was really getting caught up in the whole Buffy/Dawn/Spike scene and the intrusion of the other Scoobies actually felt like an intrusion. This is the first time I was really annoyed at the Scoobies (except Xander who does this to me all the time). They were just selfish and irritating
I don’t know what the correct dress code is when you’ve been forcibly risen from the grave, but that tailored white shirt just seemed too contained for Buffy. I think you should be dressed in comfortable loose things. It just seems right.
Oh god, what the f*** are they going to say to Giles!?
The weight of expectation...
Willow’s concept of Buffy being “normal” is just as bad as Dawn's “okay” – must be a side effect of living in Sunnydale
Well, it only took Angel three and a half weeks and a bit of tai-chi
Personally, I think that Willow is perfectly capable of doing that.
Xander struggled to say “existence” there instead of “life” to Spike.
Ooh, Spike kept the motorbike. Vroom!
I never thought I’d say this, but give Buffy a chance! She’s just risen from the grave, she’s bound to be a bit slow. After all, she wasn’t particularly fast when she was alive the last time.
All the photos are season six shots and hairdos – did Warner Brothers not let them have the old photos or what? Cos Buffy was dead before Willow go those highlights
Xander has remarkably good hair again. Thank God. Also, in the bedroom scene he looked bizarrely attractive and I’m sorry but my psyche isn’t ready to fancy Xander
Grrr, Sky cut loads of “Scary Anya”, but then they did dress her like a clown for her next scene which should have petrified Xander
That Anya-possession thing was freaky.
“Rolling in puppies”? Euw.
"I miss Giles" Mmm, me too
"Have plans" well, some of them do, others just wander aimlessly back and forth. He's not wandering he's having a damn good pace. In which case he needs a bigger crypt...to apparently have a total hysterical breakdown in
Spike’s got some nasty furniture in that crypt.
Okay, own up, anyone else feel like blubbing with the whole “every night I save you” bit? Yup
Bad Scoobies, bad demon-making Scoobies!
They made a bear in season four, they’ve made a demon in season six. They’re getting better at this. Better?!
Out of phase? "Then how come I don't fall through the floor?" (sorry, 'Stargate' joke)
That's a super effect for the spooky demon
How does a snail's shell make it go faster? Because without it, it'd be kind of sluggish... (sorry, sorry, sorry, but I heard that on 'Call My Bluff' last week and I never thought I'd get to use it)
‘It’s ok. Willow and Tara are doing a spell.’ Oh. Right. Cos that worked so well the first time
That’s a really clumsy 'explaining the plot' thing they do here. Twice
It's surprising what you can find under the bed when you haven't dusted in a while
The demon does have quite the moral high ground here. They were stupid irresponsible kids. You feel that on some basic ‘she’s-actually-right level’ she shouldn’t be killed
Ugghh, Buffy has apparently left her dress sense in the hereafter and has taken to raiding Joyce’s wardrobe and I’m saying nothing about Willow’s “I skinned Elmo” top
Ye Gods, is Willow wearing a doormat that’s been dyed red? It’s truly hideous.
"I can be alone with you here" that's not very flattering
“I think I was in heaven”: Can anyone else say “oops!”? If you guys ever pull me out of heaven, please don’t think I’d be that restrained.

Flooded

Oh, that plumbing looked expensive. The very thought of future plumbing crises makes me want to stay at home all the more. Okay, decorating, light carpentry, even a bit of wiring, they can all be done by amateurs. Plumbing must be left to, and only to, plumbers. Although, you can actually repipe almost entirely with plastic now, which isn't nearly as expensive as copper, so the pro is taking them for a ride
Oh, the money talk
Here’s an idea: charge the two students, who sucked you out of heaven without asking and are now freeloading off you, some rent
No Buffy, "fire bad, tree pretty" remember?
OK, I’ve now got a strange mix of bureaucracy and apocalypse in my head – the Four Bureaucratic Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Red Tape, Triplicate Form, Automated Telephone Response Line and Lost File. Subject to work commitments, of course. Don’t forget Overpowered Officious Little Troll, their faithful dog
I’m glad they’ve finally done something sensible to Xander’s hair. I hate that seventies “haven’t cut it for three months” look he’s been sporting recently. I think I preferred it long (gosh, there's a surprise)
Angel charges people to save them (well, Cordelia does, but the principle's the same)
Xander can fly now? Flying buttresses don't fly, otherwise cathedrals would float
Judging by Buffy’s distinct lack of academic prowess in school, she really shouldn’t be trying to give her old report cards to the loan officer.
Willow’s statement just made a lot of Angel/Willow people very happy. Just as long as she didn’t make him too happy, of course.
It’s the first time we’ve seen Will be the Season 1, 2 & 3 Willow since, well Season 1, 2 & 3. She’s been way more self assured ever since. It’s nice. I missed her
Why can't Anya just tell them herself? Apart from the pleasure she gets by nagging Xander till he does it
Men should be made to appreciate this point. We hate nagging and having to nag as much as they hate having to listen to it. If only they just did as they were told from the word go. Well said Anya
They were doing the demon thing when they were 15 (just)
Yay! Although, actually, he's been in 'VR-5' on Sci-Fi twice a day for the past week, so the withdrawal symptoms haven't been too bad. B/G shippers must have had a feast at the reunion scene. I wiped a tear or two away myself
I'm developing a certain selective deafness whenever Giles says words like 'Bath', liking someone from Bath is too much trauma. I feel like a bogeyman with the covers over its head
Both Giles and Wesley are now sporting the “Casual Watcher” look from the Council’s new Spring catalogue.
Whose playing the Goldeneye game in the background? Also, I’d have assumed that with all that lovely new money they would have got the new Playstation 2, not the outdated Nintendo 64. Or do Nerds have a special reason for preferring it that the rest of humanity doesn’t? Is it cos they have natural defences against corporate advertising?
It’s the Legion of Nerdy Doom! I love those evil laughs.
I’m sorry, but I just love the idea of flying monkeys at the school play – “Run, Juliet, run!”
The nerds are very very camp. Well Andrew is. That whole screen wipe thing? I mean, what was that?
Why just Sunnydale? This mission statement is usually the world. Either way, traditionally that means killing people
Well, that's how I've coped for the past three years. Although, could she not hit up the Council for some cash?
She’s not a guy, for a start.
Can you be a professional witch? Aren’t all witches amateur by definition that there isn’t a professional qualification? Unless Willow is maintaining her amateur status to enter the Witch Olympics, of course. You don’t need a qualification, you just need someone to pay you
Giles completely fails to be threatened by Willow there. Yeah, but that’s a crushing telling off, especially the ‘You rank arrogant amateur!’
Only Spike is old enough to think of Giles as a boy.
Spike's back to 'Yes Ma'am's again, and I thought they were actually going to use him this season Oh no, this is pre-bonking bonding which will lead to the horrors that await us the rest of the season
Good God! He’s back 5 minutes and he’s already knocked unconscious!
Why doesn't she just let the demon trash the place then claim on the contents insurance for lots of things she doesn't own? Cos the insurance company would only refuse to pay or any of it. It’s what insurance companies do. They’re bastards
I get the feeling that there's dramatic impetus here that we're missing because 'Angel' is running two weeks behind

Life Serial

Giles mildly freaked out by the lesbians there.
Having some admin problems here, if they pretended Buffy was still alive, then who did they arrange to bury? You can't just stick bodies in the ground and expect no-one to notice. Not when you give them a headstone anyway
The Legion Of Nerdy Doom are starting to irritate me already. Also, they have to be very careful, there are too many audience members out there who are actually like that (I say cautiously, knowing that the nerd thing hovers dangerously on my own horizon)
That’s very good artwork for a little spray thing like that.
How rude is Tara? She keeps wandering off while Buffy is talking to her! Or while she is apparently frozen. Either way, to quote Willow, 'Rudo!'
That top is ridiculously dressy for college surely?
That sociology lesson that Willow takes Buffy to is just a rehash of the basic stuff you learn in the first year of your A-level. It sounds incredibly pretentious, that’s all. I can’t believe that’s what passes as a degree course.
Surely such ridiculous hair is some sort of health and safety hazard on a construction site?
It’s Construction!Xander I keep waiting for the policeman, the Native American and the leather-clad biker to pass by.
Suddenly all the tough building guys feel strangely inadequate...
If she was at 4 o'clock from the front of the van, then surely she would be at 1 o'clock from the side of the van? (See what I mean about the nerd thing? I also got the numbers game on 'Countdown' twice last week when Carol Vorderman didn't. I think I'm a lost cause)
I think the main difference between the Legion of Nerdy Doom and us is that they’re handicapped by that y chromosome and we’re not.
"Time of the month?" What!? How dare you! (minor over-reaction there, but I'm not far from that time myself, and just a little bit touchy)
Okay, slash places even I'm not going to go
I don’t think that we would light a fire in a completely enclosed space though. (Lizard’s adventures with the grill pan notwithstanding.)
Yeah, it’s never worth joking with the customers. Or even listening to them in the vast majority of cases.
Yep, I've seen both of those. The X-File was actually quite good. Also the episode of 'Stargate' which was way better than both of them, and much better than this. The fact that I can add to the nerds list of sci-fi shows with this plot is not a good thing. It has to be said in Data's defence, they didn't really know they were in a time loop, while Mulder, Jack and Teal'c, and Buffy were all aware of their problem (Oooh, and don't forget, Xena did this as well. I think it's a requirement of sci-fi/fantasy show that you include an episode like this at some point) Jack and Teal'c only took that long to get out of the loop because they were pratting about
I did like how they didn't put us through the complete repeat every time, otherwise my paddy would have rivalled Buffy's
Buffy killed Thing! I really like that mummy hand. It’s sweet, especially when it wrestles the tongs from Buffy and baits her with them.
I just love, love the idea of kitten poker
Hear. Hear! On 'Moonraker'
I liked Timothy Dalton, he actually seemed dangerous. Prefer Brosnan though ('Goldeneye' is actually my favourite, but only because it had Sean Bean in it). I'm with Andrew, right down to the Academy homicide (I had a thing for Timothy Dalton. For about 5 years. Help?). Besides, Roger Moore?! Jonathan, please!
This is the scene where I knew that the Nerds of Doom are the greatest works of comic genius I'll ever encounter. I actually laughed out loud till I couldn't breathe. (This may be because they embody some of the ridiculous earnestness the fringedwellers have over their subjects, right down to the daft but deadly serious arguments)
Buffy's a lightweight, but for those of you who want to know, the way to avoid the hangover is one aspirin and a large glass of water before you start drinking, then a big glass of milk just before you go to bed
Giles is too good for her. Way, way. But not for me. I'll take him. Please? I don't even mind the Bath thing!
"In this scenario I am your mother?" Sweet yet kinda creepy

All The Way

Xander's having far, far too much fun, although I don't think he's in leather trousers, just black tights
I wouldn’t want to be on Pirate!Xander’s boat, isn’t Katmandu halfway up a mountain? In a country with no coastline?
Our Charlie’s Angels costumes were better, we had water guns.
Buffy’s mind very obviously in a scary visual place there.
Giles does have a point, they are calamity-ridden.
Buffy cracked the secret code.
Willow's missing the point. Half the fun of decorating is the climbing up unreliable ladders to hang things and bickering over where the furry squirrel should go
She's getting some serious self-justification going on as well
As Dawn proceeds to roam the streets
Ah, this is Dawn’s stupid act of mindless teenage rebellion. I’m still owed a few of those.
Ooh, he's walking-cliché-American-poster-boy handsome. Euugghh. Also apparently vampire, but the looks get an euugghh first
Is Giles actually trying to talk Xander out of this marriage thing or is it just that his encouragement really sucks? Giles is just playing with Xander here and enjoying every second of it.
Saying "more hands" in that tone makes me think he already has a jar full
Okay, never rely on parents not to call, get yourself a third party friend who can imitate a parent and give both sets of your parents their number. This is why I never rebelled as a teenager, it just wasn't a challenge
Just? Shifting into alternate dimensions isn't a just kind of thing I wish I could shift people into alternate dimensions, or alternately make them shut up just like that. I think you’ll find this is a prelude to some serious Willow naughtiness otherwise known as 'portents of evil' and you don’t really want… Look who I’m talking to. The woman with several short evil people inside her. Never mind. I said nothing
Will really has no clue where she’s going wrong here has she? I think that’s the scariest part
That's not mist it's spooky fog, proper Lincolnshire fenland spooky fog
Giles is a little too prescient for his own good there.
"Those choices again?" well, I think 'duck' and 'cover' were two of them
Even if vamps take the night off, surely they still have to eat?
Spike's crossbow has denim safety now
I don’t know about Sunnydale, but there were no such strippers in the Aberystwyth area. I know, I tried to book one for Bitca’s 21^st birthday party.
Giles is having a good week quip-wise, it's as if someone's actually writing dialogue for him
I was about to say I'd be so pissed if someone did that forgetting thing to me, but then I wouldn't know they'd done it, so I wouldn't be would I? Bitca had a wonderful moment like that. She saw somebody with amnesia on TV find out who they were by looking in their address book/diary thing. “Right,” thinks our resident genius, “If I ever have amnesia I’ve got to remember to remind myself to do that…” Actually, it was an amnesiac who gets to rediscover all her pleasures in life cos she’s got no pre-conceptions about her tastes, and I thought ‘That’s a positive upside to a bad situation, I must try to remember...' Yeah. It’s still a stupid thought though

Once More With Feeling

Ooh, crikey, widescreen! On Sky! Wonder how long that'll last...
Love the 50’s titles.
Okay, before we get too far into this episode, I need to point out that for three years THIS WAS MY LIFE!! Breaking into song at any given moment, or because of a misplaced word, making tea to 'Food Glorious Food', people's return from lectures, ("now I'm back") prompting a sudden ensemble version of 'I Will Survive', synchronised dancing to 'Beyond The Sea' (and the realisation that it's very, very hard to tango up stairs). Trust me, this episode is nothing.
I loved the little 'Grr, we're creatures of the night' dance moves
I’ve been singing these songs for so long, thanks to Somn, that it’s weird seeing somebody else do them.
Notice the Riley look-alike that Buffy casually dismisses?
Would anyone wear that shirt in public? How much was that rescuee hoping to bump into himself in a reflective surface? 'Just call me Narcissus'
Nice shot of Buffy through the vampire dust.
I love the synchronized dry cleaning dance.
Willow and Tara look like they've fallen out of the Mediaeval section of 'Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure'
'They're totally checking you out' Nope, they are just marveling at totally inappropriate outfit
Are the Beeb going to cut out the whole last verse of Tara's song? Cos… someone needs to open a window
Mind you, Tara just looks strained as she levitates, not really all that joyous
"His penis got diseases" I'm fascinated as to how the BBC will cut that line out without ruining the rhythm
How like Xander to have his song focus on sex more than anyone's but for it to be Tara (i.e. someone else) who actually gets some
The dancing and combusting is nowhere near as terrifying as the singing (well, if you know my friends anyway). Witness Willow….
I like the headline on that newspaper!
Xander has horrible pyjamas. If he has to be clothed, why does Anya dance around in her underwear? They are really hideous pyjamas, and a sorely missed tick on the naked table
Very near miss with that tree
Would a witness aria be accepted in court?
He's not immune, he's just too sloshed to hold a tune (God, now my fringedwellings are starting to scan...)
I don’t know why, but Spike looks wrong somehow in the scene in the crypt before he sings. Different, anyway.
Lizard is just going to be a total, boneless heap on the floor when she sees this...
Who the hell are they burying at that time of night?
Who gets buried at night?
Thank God Dawn’s mournful “look at me, I’m a kleptomaniac attention-seeker” song was mercifully brief.
I love the stuff going on in the background as everyone else in Sunnydale randomly bursts into song and dance.
"Training montage", back to 'The Cutting Edge' again
Excellent bit of focus pulling on Giles' outstretched hand
Giles has tried this whole “I’ll leave Buffy alone and let her get on with things” before in season four and it didn’t work then.
Giles’ singing voice is so sexy.
That on the other hand was very badly cut. Did Sky clip a bit out when the demon chucked Spike across the Magic Box? And if so why?
Buffy obviously not in a great hurry to save her only remaining family member.
Occasional flaws in Spike's logic here
Buffy now apparently lacking opposable thumbs.
Actually, if he's killing her then that's death
"Needs backup" I do love, love that
For once Buffy is actually allowed to be pissy with her friends. It doesn't take much for you people to finally give her a break - she only had to die and be torn out of heaven before she can get annoyed with her friends. All you people had to do to me was wake me in the AM
No way was that dancing SMG. Notice once it gets frenetic you can't see her face
Hah! Always satisfying when Buffy's own patronising advice comes back to bite her on the arse
Bloody hell, he’s chewing her face off.
No, no, no, no, no, that is NOT happening (yeah, I know in about three episodes time they're getting their rocks off, but give me a few moments of denial)
The Grrr Argh monster sang!

Tabula Rasa

"We have to talk." Anyone else feel like Spike is the girl in this relationship? (Apart from the rising bit)
That white wool coat thing isn’t very practical for rolling around in the mud. Or slaying.
So he would be a loan shark then? Nice, a loan shark! Although, how does it breathe?
This episode is just shit. From the totally wooden acting all round, the lame attempts at humour, and the piéce de resistance, that crappy loan shark shark. In fact the level of wit and effort put in to that gag should be a metaphor for what they did throughout the whole episode. I'm sorry I bothered
What are the rules of kitten poker? Are there denominations by colour? Are two tabbies equivalent to a tortoiseshell? Could you see someone's Burmese and raise them a Rex, then have them call with a ginger tom?
If keeping Spike alive is a problem then just bloody stake him woman.
Love that rationalization, Xander.
There is no good way to leave a couple alone to argue.
Tara's taking that whole 'having your mind screwed with by the one you love' thing very well, or at least with a lot less physical violence than I would probably employ
Why is Tara still with Willow? I would have left as soon as I found out THE PERSON I LOVED HAD RAPED MY BRAIN. If she’s that disgusted she should leave, not have a wussy one week ban on magic.
God. When I read the summary of this ep I assumed Will couldn't stay away from magic but she never even tries. What she tells Tara is a straight out lie
Actually, I’m with Buffy on this one. Giles is really picking the worst possible moment to leave her. She gets a lot of crap from the men in her life - her dad, Giles, Angel. All have now abandoned her at the wrong time. OK, so she didn’t love Captain Cardboard as much as he loved her, but the last time I checked that wasn’t illegal. I’m sorry, usually I think that Buffy is a whiney cow that should get over herself, but today I’m changing my opinion slightly. I feel I have to defend Giles slightly here (although mostly out of habit), but there was no reason for him to stay other than to baby sit Dawn and write cheques so Buffy doesn't have to work. That would be great for Buffy, but very unfulfilling for Giles. When would be a better time for him to have left? Notice though, Riley waited until her life crisis was over before leaving (or before telling her he was leaving and then hanging around for three weeks just to rub it in)
I have to admit though, my mornings would be a lot less frantic if I could do that
Basically means 'blank slate' btw
Is that a working chimney in sunny California? Does that seem wrong to anyone else?
Surely you 'cut' to the chase?
Fire safety people, never leave without putting the guard up
Ew, did Giles drool in his sleep?
Oh I've done that, and I had a dressing table next to my bed when I did it. With very sharp corners
Spike screams like a watcher.
Willow quickly checks she is female; yup, one two, the girls are both present and accounted for.
Yes, but so is Elton John, and you wouldn’t want to be mixed up with him.
Love Spike's 'British' check, "knickers, bollocks, oh God..."
Joan - damning with faint praise there. Although going through your life being known as Buffy is no picnic either.
'Maybe we're sisters!' This is so contrived. I thought I'd had my 'it's all crap' rant but God, it so is
Nice to see our heroes acting like we would - panicking, screaming and running like headless chickens.
You’ve got to love the Angel dig.
The first ever Buffy/Father Ted crossover. And probably their last.
It occurred to me while watching Buffy kick that post box, that my dad almost got sued while living in Atlanta for backing into one with his car, and it then occurred to me that in a litigious place like America, hell, like California, and with Buffy's destructive propensities, it’s a minor miracle that she hasn't been sued for every penny she has and several she hasn't
Somebody was a big Jason and the Argonauts fan.
Um, okay, losing the ability to breathe, as I think, is Anya
How can someone as witty as Xander actually laugh at 'King Ralph'? How can anyone who hasn't had a lobotomy?
The question has to be asked, what kind of idiot would give Spike credit in the first place?
These bloody musical montage things AGAIN!! Especially irritating if you're like me and hate most of the terminally depressing acoustic indie-rock rubbish they play on this show
Own show, own show, own show, own show
I hate Buffy/Spike. Just thought I’d let you know.

Smashed

Okay, I am SO pissed off, Tony Head was in 'Manchild' on Tuesday, not only looking generally gorgeous but WEARING LEATHER TROUSERS! Not a reason by itself to be pissed I admit, but remember, I have been waiting 9 ****ing seasons for this possibility, I have made, designed and completed a totally comprehensive table just in case, and then the guy I'm most interested in goes and wears leather in a show where I can't put a tick in my Naked Angel Chart to prove it!!! This is so, so not fair. Yes I could put in a additional line or something, but I would feel I was compromising the integrity of the Naked Angel table by altering it just to make me feel better.
The idea of Spike as Jessica Fletcher both horrifies and amuses me.
'And to that an extreme see you later.' So, not a no then?
Once? Buffy may be strong, but her basic maths could use some work
Where does the Legion of Nerdy Doom get their Mission Impossible-style equipment from? I know they could pay for it, what with the bank heist and all, I just want to know the name of the shop.
Actually, that was cool. Sorry. Part of me will forever be a member of the Legion of Nerdy Doom.
No, that story won’t wash, nobody can be threatened by a mime. Oh, come on Tobin, you can - well, you react with extreme horror at the mention of them, so if someone is actually menacing you with one…
What happens if security guy gets knocked over while he's frozen? Because when you do that to bananas they shatter (we had a physics lecture entitled "Fun With Liquid Nitrogen", learnt a lot)
Fancy having your school blow up and not being the right species to appreciate it.
That’s an awfully grand museum for Sunnydale.
Ah the eternal torment of short people in crowds. This is why we're so pushy. That or you pretend to be twelve and then people take pity on you and let you to the front.
Have they tried a little luke-warm water?
Eeww!!!!
The question there is "Yeah? And what the **** are you?"
Proof that the chip does not equal conscience because he tries to eat somebody straight away.
If he is a killer and he knows it, then why is he such an emasculated wuss?
Nice to see that they haven't left Tara out in the cold for leaving the person who robbed out the inside of her brain
“Things got in the way”, yeah, like brain-rape.
I want that facility on my laptop. I wish my internet connection would work like that.
It's a huge diamond, isn't that enough?
I think someone could do that to me by threatening my copy of 'Obscured By Clouds'. Although I would probably just kick him in the groin and take it back. Will everyone just laugh if I admit that for me it's my teddy? Or possibly my cable connection. I never even considered the possibility of someone threatening my cable, that's just far too scary
Actually Willow was out most nights in high school, but she was fighting evil in a library instead of dancing at the Bronze.
You know, I think Spike is probably a fan of 'Red Dwarf'
Spike has a wonderful “If there’s nothing wrong with me, there must be something wrong with the universe” moment. God bless Beverly Crusher. She articulated the spirit of the fringedweller movement back in the days when we couldn't
Are they old enough for those martinis?
Those guys in the cages had the exact same expression I have when I go out dancing with my girlfriends and realise that, no, we're not going for a drink and a rest after this song either
Okay, magic bad, but that was really cool
The purple's a new look for Spike, and spangly new jewellery as well Why is Spike wearing such ugly jewellery? Very low-necked t-shirt too
Why’s he panting?
Good thing she's small and he's super strong cos otherwise they'd fall over and do themselves a damage
Oh ick, there was no need to torture me with Buffy/Spike sex scenes.
Can nobody in America build? Our shed wouldn't fall down that easily, in fact when we tried to demolish it, it didn't and they had to pick it up on a forklift and carry it away whole

Wrecked

If Tara had really slept all night like that then she would have such a painful neck the next day. I’ve slumped off to sleep over my desk a few times and it aches like anything the next day.
Given the average state of my bedroom, you couldn’t tell if I had spent the night there or not. It’s always a mess. Although, in situations like this, does nobody ever think “Oh, Buffy got up early and made her bed?”
Shouldn't someone have to come to investigate the building falling down, or did the fire service arrive, go "ewww!" and back away quickly?
I can’t believe how they got Spike to persuade Buffy to stay! It’s before the watershed people! Not that I’m disgusted, just shocked
Slut.
My, he’s just completely naked, isn’t he?
Spike hasn't shaved his armpits this time, and he really is buck fucking naked, although, joy, because I still don't care! (I'm terrified that now Giles has gone, and Riley and Wesley are long vanished I'm going to end up fancying Spike out of desperation due to a total lack of anywhere else to direct my hormones. Luckily, I'm burning a few of them off to 'Manchild' on Tuesdays, that should see me through till Riley gets back for 'As You Were', then, well then I'm just relying on the Super12s (and the NRL) on a Saturday morning and have to hope that waking up to 30 muscular Australians running will be enough. I want my librarian back)
Okay, SMG being very careful exactly how she landed there, because that could have been nasty
I suppose at least now she's had Angel, Riley and Spike she's got every heterosexual female viewer in a fit of spitting jealousy at least once
Lava, still better than pink tulle
No, he’ll be doing that during all the years of marriage.
Oh, could the drug metaphor be a little more obvious and heavy-handed please, some of us aren't quite getting it...
Subtext overtaking the text to romp home with a comfortable lead.
So what happens if you just want to take a short cut down that alley? Does everybody end up in the magic-pusher’s den?
Oh, this metaphor isn’t going to be laboured no, not at all.
Yeah, but when you have to sit for the “Charlotte Grey” trailer for the sixth week running you soon get sick of them.
This is why I never leave the house without a book
Jesus, they really are making up the nudity deficit for the previous nine episodes, James Marsters stepping heroically into the Naked Angel breech once again. And still the only thing I want to do to him is sit him down and give him a decent meal
Spike’s got really wimpy legs.
A grip on what exactly?
‘Short hairs’, ‘Rocks back’ – God, the imagery keeps taking me places I don’t want to go to
Random 'Highlander' quote - I should hope she felt something. From the state of Spike afterwards, I would imagine she felt quite a bit
Nice kick, Dawn.
It’s because she’s an addict, Buffy! Even you should be able to recognise this metaphor.
It seems to me Will was super bright, if anyone was going to have a ‘all my friends are special except me’ it would be Xander. Mind you, at least he got some in high school. See, Oz knew her when she was a geek in high school and still wanted her. If he’d stayed none of this would have happened
I’ve got to know what spell requires yak cheese in the bra. Sorry.
What’s Buffy going to do with all that garlic, throw it at Spike? How do vampires react to it, anyway? “Aargh! Not a bulbous, strong tasting vegetable!” Thinking about it, any trysts with Angel had better come before the garlic bread.

Gone

Dawn likes the fertility statue? Now, there’s an indicator for future problems that will put the kleptomania in perspective.
How did the ray from the invisibility gun not hit Jonathan?
Isn't this just a bit Ming The Merciless? An invisibility ray?
“You gotta eat breakfast”. I think that Buffy could benefit from her own advice there.
Dawn looks very well groomed for a person that only has one working arm.
His cool recovery time is very impressive, like my cat when it's fallen off the windowsill
That looks like a wig on SMG’s head – not unlike her ‘I’m recently resurrected’ coiffure
‘Pet’ is what he called the last one
Deep sympathy with Buffy's day follies, you're reading the comments of someone who just before Christmas lost an entire week
She’d probably make a better impression if she weren’t in a see through top
As much as I don’t like the social security woman, after everything she saw she had a valid reason to get out of there as soon as possible.
While he gets the lighter he’s in direct sunlight – come on guys, at least try and pretend you’re trying
Bra strap! It’s been a while.
She’s better be sure that there’s a good hairdresser around if she’s just going to hack at her hair like that.
Some days nothing would surprise you
Poor Xander – he got so close there to actually groping her
No, we’re not revisiting an old plot and trying to fool our viewers into not associating this with the Marcie episode. Not at all.
If she “Didn’t see nothin’” then she must have seen something. Double negatives can be tricky bastards.
Wow, Xander channeling Giles there.
Anya has scary, unnatural hair.
How many pee breaks must Willow have had after chugging back all that water?
‘Blinvisble’ doesn’t rhyme with invisible, it’s just invisible with Bl in front of it
No, Willow is only conveniently blamed when she’s conveniently cocked up.
Oh, I’ve wanted to do that to people! Yeah, I can see that being invisible could be fun.
What use would that milk float thing be to a policeman, unless the criminals were trying to get away really really slowly
My stuff moves around like that all the time, I never actually see it move btw, but I do have a talent for putting something down, turning round then turning back to find that it has vanished completely. Remotes are particularly good for that. Comes along with my hereditary inability to find any given piece of paper/ticket/passport/birth certificate when I need it, even though I only saw it the day before
Shouldn't Buffy have checked on Doris' mental stability before encouraging her to "kill, kill, kill"? Because, stressed social worker? I can so see that backfiring
Yahtzee? As in the dice game?
Did anyone else have shades of Michael Jackson when Buffy ripped open Spike’s shirt?
Why do they keep calling the cone a pylon? Pylons are much taller and have electric cable strung from them
How dumb did James Masters feel during the naked sex scene?
That earlobe jumping around was very disturbing
"Hey that's cheating" said very calmly and dispassionately for someone who's being, erm cheated on
The invisible showdown must have been very easy to film. This was just a fancy budget saving episode, instead of annoying us with flashbacks they saved the money spent on stunt, make up and costume teams by getting rid of what they work on
They have the nemesis folly in Mystery Men. The plural is nemeses. Surely nemesis is a Greek word, so it would be nemesi. Like hippopotami. I know that the plural of nemisis should be nemesi, but according to all my books it isn't. (And believe me, I checked!) It's like syllabus; technically the correct form for plural is syllabi, but syllabuses is used instead. It's all to do with using an Anglicised plural on a word with Greek etymology. Given that we aren't speaking Greek, it is deemed correct to bastardise the word with an English plural suffix. That's the way our language works
‘I don’t want to die’ Again. And again. As a story line, I put it to you that it’s getting old

Doublemeat Palace

Giles! – however brief, but – Giles!
Yes! Respect the narrative!
Are there enough people watching 'Enterprise' to get that joke?
I’ve sat through training videos like that. They were designed to tell us how to spot shoplifters, but could have been used as a how-to guide instead. I think this is my aim in life, to never again have a job that requires an instructional video, or 'communications training' (three hours on how to answer a phone, luckily I was in the grasp of a fairly vicious bout of flu, so I was mentally absent for the majority of it. No one seemed to notice)
When the video talked about the merging of beef and chicken did anyone else have a bizarre image of a hybrid cow/chicken?
I think that Diminuendo could handle a minced Tom Hanks, given her PPGSS. And Meg Ryan, don't forget the joy of mincing Meg Ryan too
Oh hell! Why do American Corporations do this? They’re paying you. It’s enough. You don’t have to love the place as well
I’ve been served by these people – who wouldn’t know a joke if it slapped them – now I know why
"10 years from now" and again, my life of fill-in jobs, temping and six-month contracts gains a certain appeal
No Buffy, there were only three buttons pressed. So, so stupid.
How did she get an engraved name badge so quickly? You usually have to wait for weeks for your own name. I know someone who had to wear a badge with “Jason” on it for months. In the end he just responded to that instead of his real name.
Does this episode have any resonance for Liz?
So what are theories 1-4? Although, considering this is a girl who couldn’t recognize three a few minutes ago may be this is actually theory 1.
Don’t they notice when you hand out free food?
Why isn’t Buffy wearing a hairnet or pulling her hair back in a ponytail?
Did they have a pot of grease in make up with which to lather the grill guy?
I’ve just noticed the tools on the wall of Xander’s flat. That’s a nice touch from the old basement.
I had to have eye drops a few weeks ago for an eye examination and my pupils were so wide that I looked just like Willow when she’s high on magic.
That is such a rubber finger, especially in comparison to the incredibly convincing brain in the rather wonderful 'π' which I saw last night
"Except for the chicken", I always thought people was a white meat, so surely they would be the chicken, not the beef? I know Buffy's a cow, but that shouldn't make any difference
It’s soylent green!
Buffy spends so much time trying to protect Dawn from researching demons and seeing her slay things, then goes and shows her a severed finger.
What do humans taste like? Kind of like chicken…
Surely they should have some sort of safety cover for the swirley knife thing?
Why is she still carrying the severed foot? I would have quickly put down the severed foot
At least Willow's analysis actually involves test tubes and a microscope, although where she gets the chemicals from is an interesting question. Although slightly ironic that, the first time we see someone performing an actual analysis, they find out something that they could have discovered just using a microscope
Shades of Jurassic Park in the kitchen. 'Jurassic Park' nothing, that beastie isn't just a rip off from 'Alien', it's an exact copy
Quite phallic, the demon
Considering Amy never wears the same outfit twice, I'm surprised she needs detergent
Ooh, it's the young Mrs Landingham
Making unwitting vegetarians out of the general public

Dead Things

Isn't she a little young for New Kids On The Block? I'm too young for New Kids On The Block, and she's meant to be a year or two younger than I am. My sister however, named her cat after one of them
The bed is a fairly large target, you’d think they’d be able to hit it at some point.
Ok. We got it. They are having lots of loud obnoxious sex. There’s no need to hammer it home. So to speak
Walking after decent nookie can be hazardous. I should know. I fell down some stairs once.
Okay, I do not need to be seeing this EVER!
SMG is so boney. And if he was any thinner they'd be washing him in a jug.
They have 'Frampton Comes Alive'!
Notice that to get women the Legion of Nerdy Doom have to dampen their cerebrums. Maybe that's how Spike's doing it
Why do they insist on making Tara stutter? It should be painfully clear by now that Amber Benson can’t pull it off
Spike’s head won’t explode. Only men that I fancy have to worry about their heads exploding.
Warren's looking moderately slick here
Can men not just say 'breasts'?
When you think about it, Warren actually has made his own mistakes.
That's the overly heavy mascara
Can Janice's mum not walk up the driveway and knock? Does she have to disturb the whole neighbourhood?
Real tortillas as opposed to rubber ones.
No, Willow will figure it out and Buffy will just stand around and be blonde.
Just give up on the dignity Willow, it’s easier in the long run.
Jazz at in the Bronze? And not in a twisted fantasy world? It's amazing how the Bronze is growing up with them so they can still use the set, they should have left it for the teenagers long before now, like the end of 'St Elmo's Fire'
Not tied up as much as restrained, technically speaking.
Spike needs to redo his roots
Love Xander’s slow limp off into the background.
Bloody music montage again, although, is this James Marsters singing on this one? This is a stupid montage. If this had not music – can you picture how daft Spike would look, getting all hot and heavy with a solid door. Please! Just open it!
Okay, he really is campaigning for a naked award, 'For Honourable And Continued Service In Maintaining The High Level Of Male Nudity On Buffy Since Angel's Departure', still running second to Marc Blucas though, in both quantity and quality
I wonder if James Marsters waxes his chest. It’s very smooth.
Wouldn't Spike know that that's not a fresh body?
Okay, serious insightful moment here. This is mostly brought on because I've been watching loads of 'Highlander' episodes this week, and a lot of season four ones at that, but it's just occurred to me how often they totally cop out of the moral dilemmas with Buffy. They would have had an interesting idea here if Buffy had killed someone, but she hadn't, the same with 'Ted', where because he was a robot they just brushed the rest under the carpet. A 'Highlander' episode would have started here, this would have been the entire theme of the show, and they would have dealt with it. When this show does get a moral issue, or an interesting idea, they shove it out of the way, Willow's magic addiction is practically cured after about two weeks, both Buffy and Angel got over their death in about three. Even when they have a character with a moral dichotomy, like Spike or Faith (and to a lesser extent Lindsey), they never seem to show it. Can you imagine Mac faced with someone like Spike? The question of whether or not he deserved to die for his past crimes, even if he can't commit any more would be an entire episode on its own, (in fact, I think the writers of 'Highlander' would realise Spike was cool, and he'd probably get a double), and yes, in the end Mac would whack him, because not being able to kill anyone wouldn't and shouldn't prevent him from wanting to. Instead, because he's now 'harmless', Buffy doesn't even think about doing it. The reason this irritates me (getting to the point soon) is because both shows like to pretend they've got a moral aspect and that they deal with these issues, when really, they never, ever do. All the bad people are distinguished by their pointy hats or whatever they say at the end of 'Lie To Me'. Buffy doesn't deal with Ford at the end of 'Lie To Me', and the closest Angel's come to dealing with actual, evil humans with no supernatural influence (not W&H, who are demon-based if not demonic themselves) was in 'I Got You Under My Skin' and 'This Old Gang Of Mine', when a giant green cockroach dealt with one and social services dealt with the other. If you're not going to really go into this, then go the 'Stargate' route, admit you're just an action/adventure show and leave the whole thing alone. Or by all means have flawed heroes, it's far more interesting, but then don't pretend that they're perfect. Okaaay, I think I've been saving that up for a while, see what happens when I repress?
Nice to see them reinforce the whole “Dawn is an innocent” theme by plonking a teddy bear into shot with her when she’s sleeping. How many fifteen year olds actually still sleep with their teddy bears?
Spontaneous declarations of love are always cause for panic
Best laid plans of mice and vampires... Be fair, Spike usually makes corpses, not disposes of them.
I know the police are serially incompetent in Sunnydale, but wouldn't Katrina's body be loaded with evidence to link it with Warren? She would have his blood under her fingernails for a start. That is if Spike hasn't obliterated it all by chucking her in the river. You want incompetent? There’s a man getting the shit kicked out of him outside their station and they haven’t got a clue
So they’re flashback demons. Someone tell Mac, he’s been haunted by them for years.
Now Giles is gone they’re using Tara for exposition purposes. Yup. She’s got a personality. For a Buffyverse love interest it means she either turns evil or she dies – in Angel’s case, both.

Older And Far Away

Okay, just so you know, I've cracked, I've been driven to it. All this overly skinny, starving naked Spike, my grandmotherly urge to actually feed the boy has become too strong to resist. I've bought a food mixer and I'm feeding him up by proxy by harassing my fellow fringedwellers with hot lemon biscuits and chocolate brownies
That's a stupid wig on the demon
I'm thinking there's been more observant slayers, "ooh, shiny"
For "great" read "awkward"
Shoplifting is okay because she has abandonment issues?
Wrong!
I don't like that guidance counselor
You know, I was so pleased when all the regulars got old enough that they didn't have to do the teenage angst crap. Although all the eight year olds whose parents complained about season one being too violent are probably just about the right age by now...
"Friends from outside their tight little circle" cue nervous shuffling and eye-contact avoiding between the fringedwellers
Is it a funeral? Why are they all wearing black?
I just realized why dating a lesbian would be hell. It’s an unassailable fact that women dress and preen for other women. Men never notice a thing. You could dye your hair green and they would just say “Hmm. Is there something different about you?” What’s more, they don’t care! Women, however, notice everything. If you have a tash, if you haven’t plucked your eyebrows in a couple of days, if your nail varnish is chipped – you get the picture. Can you imagine the pressure of dating another woman? I’m breaking out in hives just thinking about it
Spike's not even menacing enough to glower properly
I'm sorry, I was busy typing and just caught the word "battery operated" there. I loved Spike’s sexy lift of the eyebrow
Love the box, but last time she had a box like that there was an arm in it
The masculine wiles are not going to work on Tara, Spike's on a bit of a loser there
You know, since she dumped the red-head, Tara's really blossomed. I wonder if this is episode after they decided to kill her off?
Monopoly on her birthday? How wild
Notice how Tara is playing poker with the guys when all the girls are playing monopoly? And Richard is playing Monopoly
Willow, foot, mouth...
Being stuck in a house with my older sister and a bunch of her friends would be like my worst nightmare
If she doesn't want to be treated like a child she shouldn't act like one
Get some friends of your own for god's sake
Why is Spike waiting to run into the sunlight?
Yeah, lets move the guy with the obvious internal injuries up a flight of stairs
Has anyone thought to check on Dawn?
Actually forget that last comment, Dawn can go and get killed if she's going to have that attitude
Switching sides to Dawn - how the hell was she supposed to know the guidance counselor was a vengeance demon?
No one bothered to check if they could get out of the house before they moved the injured guy?
There must still have been a lot of effort put in to getting that leather jacket
What about poor skin-condition guy! He hasn't done anything

As You Were

It’s that episode Di! Make the most of it!. Okay, Buffy, supper, beer, fringedwellings. This is usually when things go horribly wrong and I end up taping 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' by mistake
Considering how close she's keeping her enemies, this advice is kind of wasted on Buffy
This Doublemeat Palace storyline has completely put me off my fast food obsession. I can’t even look at it anymore. This is a good thing mind
Ugh, what is she scraping off that grill thing?
She’s got the song stuck in there because there’s not a lot else floating around.
That wasn’t the heart, surely.
Why ask “Rough night?” when she looks remarkably unruffled? 4 5
I have to admit I look forward to the day I marry Mr. Right with shiny eyed enthusiasm but watching Xander and Anya I myself feel a ‘Nyaha!’ coming on. (Besides, I’d take the sensible approach and let them seat themselves. That way everyone would end up next to someone they want to talk to. See, it’s so simple when you learn to say ‘Oh. Sod it.’ And pass the buck.)
He wants gardenias? He's having a bouquet?
I don’t know why she’s bothering to try and clean that stain out. It’s not like she ever wears anything twice
Like she couldn’t have thrown those bags into the rubbish truck. Hell, I could have thrown them in and I’m an awful shot.
Fwaaaaah!
Oh yes, God I forget just how gorgeous he is. And tall
Riley's really trying to remember just what he saw in her. "My hat has a cow."
Then they’re not really extinct then are they, if they’re breeding and all.
Nice Trek reference
Okay, so either HRGiger's their new designer or James Cameron had a car boot sale during the season break. How many more 'Aliens' rip offs can they have?
Not the most realistic cover story ever.
Kevlar, right. And all because the lady loves...
‘There’s not a lot of people I’d ask to risk their life for me.’ Aaah, I’m touched. Next time, keep it to yourself. She shouldn’t feel flattered
I'd elope, but the crap I'd get from parents, Grandparents and assorted family for not inviting them would be more traumatic that the actual arranged wedding
Oh god, Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, 'A Farewell to Arms'... If you've seen it, you know exactly what I'm talking about, if you haven't, go, watch it immediately. Only Riley doesn't have a hat in the other hand. Lucky, lucky Buffy. Carry me! Carry me!
Sunnydale has a dam now. Apparently.
Just so we’re clear - we hate her, right? Oh we loathe her on both and sight and general principle. I really like his wife, but can anyone say rebound?
Four months? He’s only been gone a year! It took him 8 months to get over his ‘she’s the one’ and marry someone else? Can you say fickle? Can you say rebound!
That actress really hates the hairdo they gave her – she keeps fiddling self-consciously with it. She's just had it cut and the front bits won't tie back anymore. This is why I'm resisting the urge to chop mine off, because of that awful week or so afterwards where you walk around holding your hair back so you can actually see out.
She's got some touching issues with Marc Blucas as well, unsurprisingly she can't keep her hands off him
Look - they acknowledge the horrifically obvious metaphor!
A year to get over Buffy, but only eight months to get married? Yep, rebound
Second ‘Fwaaah!’ of the evening – Spike in that shirt
"Baked a cake," considering last weeks splurge on the food processor, strangely ironic
Some very professional moral high-ground taking from Riley there
One tiny little shove from Riley and Spike goes flying backwards across the crypt...
It’s a little disturbing that Sam calls her husband “Finn”.
Are they yeti hunting?
Okay, how come the woman's in the skin tight lycra and Riley isn't?
That’s a cool exit. I want one of those. Definitely less of the ones where I trip over a doorstep at least
Very cold comfort
Buffy’s quite the necrophiliac isn’t she?
And Buffy finally comes to her senses.
Oh, symbolic sunlight much?
You know, I thing this has backfired, instead of burning those hormones off, I think Riley's reappearance has fired them all up again, and apart from the Llanelli match, I've got no distractions 'til season end! Three words, Australian Rules Football

Hell's Bells

I love the mock-horror start to this episode.
Those dresses might be OK if they lose the sleeves, and the flounces, and the flowers…actually nothing would make those dresses look good.
This is the first time they've seen the dresses? Admittedly I was on the sidelines of the only wedding I've attended, but I was there for the selection of the bridesmaids dresses, and the discussions, and the many hours of fittings and fabric selections. How does Anya even know if they'll fit?
I really can’t stand Mr.Harris.
That was a doom laden remark, Xander. It’s prophetic rain as well.
On the Hellmouth that Xander pregnancy might actually be an option. Well, stranger things have happened
Why is Willow (the best man) with the bride, and Buffy (the bridesmaid) with the groom? Apart from the flirting opportunities
'How come it won't fit now?' Must be all those bags of chips consumed under stress
Tara, you liar! That dress is hideous! The flurry bits at the bottom? What is that?
Anya’s like the masked Bridal Avenger.
How can someone that thin still look like she's been squeezed into that dress?
Nice to see Spike dressed up for the wedding...
It's a close resemblance, but Xander appears to have shrunk considerably as he's gotten older. Except for his nose, which grew. You’d think that they’d just stick Nicholas Brendon in makeup for a few hours.
Oh look, a magic paperweight.
Why are future Xander and Anya living in a 1950s kitchen, right down to the appliances? Is that Xander's vision of married hell? I'd think it was Anya's, cos - no dishwashers!
Actually, what right does Spike have to be there?
No, it's only that Romano-Celtic/Norman mixed y chromosome that looks good in a tux (there's a term for the British genetic mix, but I can't for the life of me think what it is)
Those fighting evil juggling skills coming in handy again.
Crushed by a polystyrene prop, still an awful way to go
So he's going to hurt her this way instead. He couldn’t have said all that before she wiggled into the horrible dress?
How come Anya's the one who has to deal with all the wedding guest crap? Xander's the one who called it off, he's the one who should have to go explain to the parents and cancel the caterers whilst Anya just sits in her room and sobs for a while
I love the factually inaccurate T-shirt that Buffy’s wearing.
Shouldn’t someone be looking for Xander? After all, Willow is best man and all.

Normal Again

Actually, if you're laying low, you really want to be upstairs, so you can see who's coming, or on the ground floor for a speedy getaway
Oh please no, not the magic didgeridoo… More like a didgeridont.
'You didn't see a couple of nerds didya?' As always, Buffy grasping the important points
Tara and another girl? I feel a tortuous misunderstanding coming on...
It's not drugs, I'm all spacey like that every once in a while, like when we went to the cinema last week and... oh, hang about, that was drugs
Has she told Giles that she's effectively closed down his business?
'She was kind of broken' With friends like these who needs supportive people?
You left her at the altar! He does not deserve forgiveness! He did a shitty thing!
Spike's a very environmentally aware vampire, he always has his shopping in paper bags, not plastic
"Great pelting showers of rice" the most nutritious of the Ten Plagues Of Egypt
A very pointed remark from Spike, there.
They must have some seriously uneven ground there, Spike looks taller than Xander
Oh, if Spike ever gets that chip out, Xander is so dead
Xander really shooting himself in the foot with that argument there.
"She's the central figure" So typical - self absorbed in any reality
Jumping to the other side of the fence, it's not like she picked a comforting reality. It's filled with misery and woe. Exactly, parent's divorce, death (twice), Angel, nothing to cheer the heart is it?
I love the way that Joss Whedon is poking fun at his own creation in that doctor’s speech.
The worrying thing about this is that I really wouldn't put it past Joss Whedon to make the whole past six years a dream sequence. Screwing up the 'Angel' chronology is probably the only reason not too. Buffy’s right to be worried, in a show like this anything could happen.
Did it never occur to Warren et al to pack their stuff up and go to take over some town that didn't have a Slayer?
That was an 'Ocean’s Eleven' joke, right?
"Detached" Jesus Christ of course she's detached, she died, that's pretty much a scarring for life kind of thing, she's not going to be back to normal in a few months
So why, when Joyce found out about vampires, didn't we get, "so you're back on that again" or "we knew you weren't well" instead of the denial? Because I don't care how good you are at blocking things out, you don't forget that you had your daughter committed
"Bloody self centred if you ask me" Spike as always puts his finger on the crux of the matter
Good try, Dawn.
Well, she didn’t have a sister two seasons ago.
Ideal reality?! Locked up in a mental institution with schizophrenia?
Crap demon make up. It looked like a pull on mask
That looked gross. Couldn’t she have tipped it down the loo? Does she know those bin liners usually have holes in them?
You see, I wouldn’t mind if she tied Dawn up like that. I dislike Dawn.
I’m pretty sure Janice was lying to you, Dawn.
"Sleeps with a vampire she hates" no, we can't believe it either
“You’re not thinking!” - well, duh.
I bet that was clean laundry he died all over. Not on the clean laundry!

Entropy

Those dirt bikes look like fun.
Is it the rustic French Slayer look today?
Spike's missing his buttered toasteses
Based on what evidence does Buffy think Xander will love and understand her? When was the last time he was understanding about her private undead life?
Oh, so we're dumping the montage in at the beginning this week, for one more time, montages are like song-fic, if you have no interest in the music they don't work. Welcome to Xander’s pity party. He brought it all on himself, you know.
I think Dawn’s missing the point. She never should have taken them in the first place, getting caught is of secondary importance. Suddenly Dawn's kleptomania is the basis of sister bonding hilarity?
That’s a very big shopping area for little old Sunnydale.
Why would you highlight a 'Babylon 5' novel? Although I understand Jonathan’s anger.
"Love you so much..." that I left you at the altar in front of every single one of your family and friends and didn't even bother to tell you why?
I’m with Anya here. Xander is in the wrong.
Ooh! Demon face!
It occurred to me while watching this that Anya is pretty lucky there are no vengeance demons for bridesmaids in naff hideous dresses or her entrails would be all over the place
Has she considered asking Spike? Because he's usually quite good for a bit of pointless vitriol
No, only two of them did. With Riley and Spike it's more the other way round
Where did the gnome come from? Oh, it’s a plot point.
Yeah, but the camera wouldn’t have hurt her so Spike could have put it there. Although why they thought of him and not the Legion of Nerdy Doom I’ll never know. Exactly, if they were looking for somebody with the technological ability and inclination to install and maintain a remotely operated web camera and the computer it was transmitting too, you would have thought they'd have gone for the techno-nerds first. Besides, if Spike was going to spy on her, the camera would be behind her headboard, not concealed in a garden gnome in her yard
Horrible shirt again for Spike. Has this season's wardrobe budget dried up? I swear Spike and Anya are wearing cast offs of Ethan Rayne and Glory!
That is one of Bitca’s plans that Anya’s trying to channel there.
There you go... And only fifteen minutes after the rest of us thought of it!
I don’t see Giles drinking that, sorry. That's never Giles'. Although, if he had any decent whisky he probably wouldn't have left it behind
She didn't ask him to propose either, actually
Oh, I think there is a sexy dance.
Anya love, it's not your fault
So she's in the black lace bra and he hasn't even taken his duster off? Lizard's going to be pissed about that
I think what they’re seeing is very clear. It's like coming across free cable porn!!
See! Told you Andrew was gay!
She has absolutely nothing to apologise for. Their relationship was effectively terminated the second he left her at the altar. Anya should be able to screw whoever the hell she wants to, even if it is Spike. Now would be the time for an indignant "You were spying on me?!" And a really hard slap in the face. She should NOT feel bad about this. Also, she had no intention of telling Xander about Spike, and no way of knowing that he'd see her, so how could she be doing it to make him feel bad? That's just bullshit and she should tell him that. As descriptively as possible. They weren't even on a break - they were totally broken up
Insert standard montage rant, I really can't be arsed typing it again. David E. Kelly should be shot - it's all his fault these totally crap montages to heartbreak are pervading our televisions! Just cos he's too lazy to write a couple of lines of extra dialogue!
Whoa, whoa, what the FUCK is going on here? Xander leaves a woman at the altar and Anya's the one who gets it in the teeth, Tara comes crawling back to the woman who raped her brain, even Dawn's shoplifting is treated as a running joke. Are the scoobies under some strange little protection thing that we don't know about, because not a one of them actually seems to be reaping the consequences of their actions, other than you know, feeling bad about it, which frankly isn't nearly enough
Are you starting to sense a slight air of discontent in these fringedwellings?

Seeing Red

Further to last weeks air of discontent. This season must be getting bad, because whilst doing Ben's fringedwellings for season three, not only did I watch 'Amends' instead of skimming through it on ffwd, I actually thought it seemed like a well-plotted piece of dramatic television... Do you think they're trying to push us over the edge, make all the Buffy fans suicidal so they kill themselves and then don't notice how crap it's getting? Unless it's a cunning ploy by the WB to bankrupt UPN by selling them their best show for a huge amount of money and then making it suck so nobody watches it? Also, I'm beginning to like that Skittle more and more. Yeah, and in any other year that would have driven us mad
“When did morning happen?” Oh yeah, felt that feeing before now.
"Promised her I wouldn't..." and so you're telling Willow now because..? Pillow talk really is dangerous, isn’t it? Just because they’re with each other again Tara had no right to tell Willow one of Buffy’s secrets.
Again, she could have just gotten up early and made her bed.
Yes poor Xander, just because he dumped the woman on her wedding day and she decided to deal with it and move on. How he must be hurting... Poor Xander my arse.
Go on Buffy, snap that horrid figurine. I can’t stand them.
Not impressed, they had to do that in 'Knightmare', and with a big helmet on so they couldn't see
Well, the jacket didn’t actually cost Dawn anything. Doesn’t Buffy feel bad about wearing a jacket that her sister shoplifted for her?
Tara made the credits but is wearing another hideous top. From Medieval to Samurai - Tara has it covered from East to West
Spike never was part of the team, there was a time when he was actually their enemy.
Perhaps he slept with her because you’re a bony blonde bimbo bitch.
Maybe the fat, ugly sister had oh, a personality... On behalf of the fat ugly sister may I just say she totally deserves it
"How could you do that to her?" Because she basically told him to piss off and die, he's free to do whatever, or whoever, he wants. He wasn’t doing anything to Buffy, he was trying to do something for himself. Why pick on him anyway? Buffy has spent most of her time telling him she doesn’t love him so why get arsey when he shags someone else? After all, it’s not as if she loves him or anything.
She's not really answerable to you, Xander
Oh, I know there’s a montage rant coming. I don't even feel I need to do them anymore, you can just fill it in for yourself
Oh, I'm such an idiot, of course they've got to bring Tara back into the scoobies regardless of character or narrative so they can wring the last little bit of emotion out of whacking her in about twenty minutes time
I'm amazed she's still listening to the explanation
Did Sky cut some of that scene?
Troi?! The bastard! Troi? That’s nasty. But I guess that makes Andrew Riker, so he really hasn’t got much to be proud of.
As a girl, I want to say that I can hit pretty hard.
Love the fact that one nerd (I can't remember his name, (major series villain, don't know his name... Can you say symptomatic?)) still has his cocktail
Why is Spike friendly with the flappy-skin demon? He seems too nice to be friends with Spike.
A 'Knightrider' marathon? Oooh! You guys have those? Please, no Knight Rider marathon for Bitca, it’ll just bring back all those long-repressed David Hasslehoff fantasies. I was young. Six in point of fact and I ended up dropping him like a hot potato for a far better man. Sort of. (See first ep of Stargate.) Anyway, I was six years old and that's all the defence I need. (God help me, it's all the defence I *have*!). Naturally the Stargate reference will make more sense when I've written it.
Actually she’s not fighting a real man, she’s fighting Warren.
Clem turns into a saggier version of the Host
Oh irony. Buffy embracing the Bonny and Clyde look to save the bank
I was gonna say "kick him in the orbs" then, but I don't think it'll be taken in the spirit it was meant. Probably be just as effective
Yay Jonathan!
Jet packs?! For once, Buffy's expression says it all
At the risk of repeating myself - See, told you he was gay!
"Things are gonna change..." oh, please god I hope so
Does Spike ever feel daft giving these ominous speeches to no-one at all?
“How did we get here?” Well, left at the living room and follow the passage to the kitchen… You turned left at Greenland, Xander. That was an 'A Hard Day's Night' joke wasn't it? That was unexpected
See, Warren's got the idea, and he only had a moderately-sized gun
Confused ballistics note, how the hell did a bullet, traveling at the angle that it would have needed to get through the upstairs window, manage to hit Tara at exactly the same level as it went through the window glass? Even if it had reached the top of its trajectory and was traveling horizontally, then there's no way it would have had the momentum to go through the window, into Tara and out through her ribcage.

Villains

Love the mock-ER music trying to make you feel that there’s an emergency. It’s Buffy, people! Of course she’s going to live.
Tara didn’t bleed much, for a gunshot victim.
Xander called the ambulance, they got there and Will is still faffing about
So she happily calls on the great lord Osiris for help, but it doesn't occur to her to ask the nice paramedics standing in the backyard?
That's it, piss off the giant being who holds the only possible key to your lover's resurrection. That'll help
Has Willow just left Tara's body lying there? That's going to be a shock when Dawn comes home
That was a Fringedweller segue if ever I heard one.
Besides, lifetime in jail with all those guys in the shower, not exactly Andrew’s nightmare
Is Warren auditioning for the Rat Pack?
Does Warren know that if you kill one Slayer then another one pops up?
That would have been a neat trick at university. No need to use the computers that lied to you telling you books were there when they obviously weren’t. You’d have to remember to tell people to duck though.
Hey! Why could I never do that for exams? That would have been cool too. No need to read the books that you’ve magically summoned to you.
See, told you
It’s Ray from Reef Radio again.
“Which witch?” The wicked witch... Sorry. I’ll try to stop doing that.
“Stop that bleeding!” “Where?” Well doctor, I imagine it’s from the gaping hole in her chest.
Willow takes time out from vengeance seeking to change into a more suitably 'evil' outfit - now that's what I call power dressing
AH pulls off sweet a hell of a lot better than she plays angry and determined
Being an all powerful witch is one thing, but fixing that car's suspension is going to be another matter entirely. Brings a whole new meaning to backseat driving!
Those are very purposeful strides for Willow.
There was no need for that, if she'd just stood there, the driver would have braked anyway. Why waste the power?
Did they cut something?
Dawn was obviously 'born' in a barn
I know Dawn is in shock and everything, but didn’t she try to cover the body or call for an ambulance?
What's the wreath hanging on their door? Is it actually a holiday, or have they just not taken it down since Christmas?
I like that Buffy manages to fit getting a perm into her busy schedule, despite being fatally wounded
Sure it does. Call yourself 00Buffy and go at them my girl. 0032A, I can just see it now.
Can you feel safe in Sunnydale?
If they want a babysitter then they should send Dawn to LA to Lorne. He’s not busy now.
Is Clem watching the end of 'Meet John Doe'? He is! Very, very nice choice. I wonder if they're making some point about self-sacrifice, or if they've just got a set designer with a Capra kick?
Clem is so sweet!
Clem has a video club membership? Sunnydale Rentals must be a lot more relaxed in their application requirements than Blockbuster
Oh, that's a convincing Africa, one half grown acacia and some mud huts, (and if you thinking, "Well, at least she knew it was Africa," I only know that because that's where it said he was going in the spoilers). How did Spike get there so fast? I thought vamps couldn’t fly cos of sunlight? Shouldn’t that thing be speaking Swahili, or Yoruba, or some African language that isn’t English? And Diminuendo is right, they didn’t exactly go all-out to convince us of the African setting.
Love Spike's little bristle at the word "castrated"
Why do I get the feeling that Spike is getting set up for a fall here?
It’s a cuboid ‘snitch’! That was so stolen from Harry Potter.
Warren isn’t the brightest bulb in the box is he? Now is the time he should be kissing her butt. I think he's pretty much fucked anyway, the least he can do is go out with some attitude
I was looking forward to Warren's painful and gory death, but all we got was some admittedly scary 'Monkey Man' chest hair, euuurrrrggghhh. Is Warren feral? That chest hair! Good Lord, Warren is a gorilla!
Liking the "Bored now..." repetition
What did she do?? They cut and we didn't see! Cut that scene then. Not entirely unexpected. For those who were wondering she rips his skin off. UK satellite viewers, repeat after me, "Sky One is the *real* big bad" - snip snippity snip

Two To Go

"What happened this year..." and the fact they can sum it all up in less than two minutes isn't really a problem at all, is it? Why the annoying previously clips? If you haven't been watching, you'll never get it anyway. Besides, the dialogue, covers it from A-Z
Nice bit of maths from Anya, "Ah but where I come from is a far more interesting place..." (Sorry, esoteric 'Babylon 5' quote)
Nice handy, poorly mortared window for Willow to smash through, but why not use the door? Willow is really into doing things the hard way. If you can incapacitate the policemen, just walk in already!
How does Buffy know her way around so well in that jail? Granted she's been wanted by the police a few times, she's even been arrested. But that I recall, she's never got as far as the police station and certainly never as far as the cells
Dawn uses the 'Supply Teacher' defence. "But teacher always lets us do it this way miss!"
I want to know the opinion of the East German judge
Why not let Jonathan help? It's pretty obvious that he knows what he's doing with the magic, at least a damn sight more than either Buffy or Xander would
I thought killing Warren was crossing the line? Was that a different line, or is Buffy moving it so Willow's always on the right side?
Being an ex energy ball makes you a whiney female Luke Skywalker?
She's crying all the time because she's a sappy little wimp, please, please, make her go away!
Oooh! Good impression Willow!
Nobody except Willow and Dawn seem to be upset with Tara being dead. The rest seem to be pretty cool about it
Has Anya ever considered going to another vengeance demon and asking them to do it? She can't be the only one specialising in wronged women
‘Let me guess? You’ll propose?’ Ooh! Good one!
Okay, talking about herself in the third person now, never a good sign
Okay, both Willow and Tara have some serious self-esteem issues
Yep, Willow's got a point there.
That'll teach him, always get a written copy of the test first, along with the rules, and possibly a paper number to tape to your back
"Won't keep you alive," seems to be doing okay so far
"Before somebody gets hurt" that is, apart from the guy who she shredded
Okay, I know this is a long shot, but has anyone tried just smacking Willow over the back of the head and telling her to get the hell over it? Or possibly point out that her complete inability to say, call an ambulance, may well have actually been more fatal than the gunshot? Just a few suggestions that might be more effective than the touchy-feely bullshit
Where the hell is the guy who wrote the score? What little there is is crap. It didn’t make me sad during Will’s ‘only thing I’m good for’ speech and it sure as hell didn’t make me scared or even a little apprehensive. It could be the intro to the news, it’s so bland. I miss Christophe Beck
I also miss Jeff Pruit. That fight scene looked exactly what it was - two pretty weedy girls pretending to hit each other while in another shot a trained professional throws herself at walls
Anyway, Willow made herself strong; so what? It took Buffy years of training to fight like that. She’d kick her arse
Ooh - Jonathan can be pretty suave
Wow. SMG could have pretended to be a little woozy when she got up
Yay!! GILES ROCKS! Oh. And: Fwaaaaah! What a lunchable entrance!

Grave

Enough with the fluffy crap! Blow the bitch out of the water and have done with it
"Still relevant here," well, it's pretty much fallen apart without him...
I knew that “rank arrogant amateur” had to rankle!
I colour my hair too!!!!
Anya desperately (and not unreasonably) fishing for a hug
But he went back to Bath & North East Somerset (see, I know my new official counties) and where in Devon? I never had Newton Abbot down as a hotbed of occult activity
He laughs? I’d gag. Okay, this is called nervous hysteria. That or one of them totally screwed a line up and they couldn't keep a straight face for the rest of the scene
I can’t bloody forgive him and no, he should never have left. Finally! Someone notices! We've been saying that all season
Someone couldn't have taken her place, her successor's locked up on account of being a psycho murdering mental case
She's going to be saved by yokels! (I live in Devon (nearly), I can say that)
Well blurted Xander
As Buffy proceeds at a slow jog to the rescue
Poor guy. flew 10,000 miles just to get knocked on the head! Again!
Ok. Now Willow is evil. Killing Buffy or Dawn, even Xander - understandable. We’ve all wanted to once or twice. But Giles?! I’d say she deserves her own fiery box in hell a la Billy
Interesting Nativity allusion
“I forgot what I was saying” Don’t worry honey, it was boring anyway
Oh my God. It’s 30 mins into the show and Giles is still conscious! (Albeit barely)
"Connected to everything!" Yet still able to spout exposition at length
NO YOU'RE NOT.
Very dramatic scene mostly ruined by the sound of a jingle ball being played with in the hallway
What sort of crap slayer can’t get herself out of a hole?
Close to Warren was she?
That was poorly CGI-ed. Cool. I’d be less lazy about going to church if I could make one pop up wherever I was. Oh no. Wait. It’s too boring. I wouldn’t
It means hit her over the back of the head with a two-by-four and you're away. I think I've been saying this for about a fortnight. Not having to use magic should be a relief for them by now, not a problem
WHAT?! They bring him back to kill him? Um, not dead right? Own show, remember, own show...
Oh, no, wait. There he goes. I spoke too soon. That is officially the 17th time in the whole series that Giles has been knocked unconscious
Nice job Dawn. What is Dawn on about? I watch Buffy all the time but if I try one of those spinny kicks I land flat on my arse. Believe me, I know
He's sure you won't. You haven't yet
It has to be said, it’s a pretty feeble master plan
This would be lot more affecting if any had any kind of sympathy left for any of these characters. So that’s what evil people need. A damn good cry. Phew! If only someone had told Hitler that
Phew! Thank god for Giles’ weeble gene. "Holy smokes my friend, I'm so pleased you're not dead!"
I just thought: when did Giles get contacts?
See, a Giles makes everything better
Oh no, don't you dare go slinking back to that arrogant little shit just because he saved the world
I was beginning to wonder if they were going to spend the whole summer in that hole
And what are they ending with? A montage! Just kill me n... well not now because I want to see the Angel finale, but kill me now (metaphorically)! Someone shoot whoever chooses the score these days. They deserve no less
Oh Spike, you really, really should be more specific about these things

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