New Updates! Tuesday. Well Frasier was a repeat, but Less than Perfect was very cute but the highlight was a new episode of Buffy. The Potentials it was called. While it was not a spectacular ep, there was a whole lot of humor and tear eyed ness going round so overall a solid ep. I’ll do it by character round up.
Giles. I’m still wondering if he’s an agent of the first. We never saw him escape from the Bringers in Bring on the Night he just showed up with slayer wannabees in tow.
Anya. Very practical. Willing to ahem give it up for the cause if you know what I mean. Too bad he didn’t want her as a human. I found her idea that Buffy should have stayed dead interesting. Thinking that this is the last season makes me Ill. Frankly, I don’t want to see Buffy die AGAIN. It’s too much; let her lose her powers, live happily ever after with Spike, principal hottie (if he turns out not to be evil), whatever. Just my god, don’t kill her again. Wait, oops I was talking about Anya. Well I’m still holding out for the Giles/Anya ‘ship. They’re still hanging out and friendly. Both actors want off the show whether or not it goes on for another season so why not have them leave for England together, sigh.
Dawn. Poor Dawn. Fist she was special, the Key, now she’s just a regular girl. So then, she was a slayer in waiting. Then just a regular girl. But why oh why do the writers have her doing stupid things time and time again. Dawn is walking around Sunnydale, at night, alone and unarmed. Did the past three years teach her nothing??!?!!!?!?!
Andrew oh Andrew. I kind of resent that the writers are treating him as comic relief. HE MURDERED JONATHAN! I mean what the hell? They treated Spike, Anya, and even freaking Angel worse than this. Seriously, it’s as if Jonathan wasn’t important enough for them to feel bad about. Well I grieved. I may have even cried. I loved Jonathan. Sniff. Also as a side note, my BF's brother was watching with me and he doesn't watch the show and has never seen Andrew. His first comment when watching him for a few minutes was "God he is so gay!" I snickered. Although I can't help but think about Jodyorjen's future fic Head Games, which I totally want to read. Or is the fic that dare not speak its name?
Principal hottie I mean Wood. What’s his deal? Evil? Good? He’s a mystery, like he likes.
Willow. She rather annoyed me this episode. I thought she was very hard on Dawn. Just because she wants power doesn’t mean everyone else is craving it too.
Spike/Buffy. Woohoo. Total Spuffiness! Their interaction at the beginning was sweet and sexy and even the Slayers in Training noticed. Buffy’s conversation with future SIT Amanda was telling as well about her relationship with Spike. Sigh.
And finally Xander. I take back every mean thing I said. This is the Xander I used to love. Scarily the speech he gave Dawn about being the not so special one was not only heartbreaking but the same damn speech he gives in about 20 million fan fiction pieces I’ve read. Are the writers secretly reading fan fiction on the net? The last little bit lifted this ep into excellence.
Boy this season has been one hell of a ride. I sincerely hope it’s not the last but if it is, please let us have a happy ending.
Libby