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December December 28, 1999 Rerun December 21, 1999 Rerun December 14, 1999 Whew. What a dramatic episode. I don't think that the silence thing was played out as well as it could have been, yet some moments were highlighted by the silence. The episode begins with Buffy dreaming about kissing Riley. She wakes up in Professor Finn's class, and as class is dismissed, she walks with Riley. The two talk and are about to kiss when they say good-bye. Later on, Willow goes to a Wicca Club meeting. All of the girls there talk about girl power, but she wants to do some spells. Another girl almost defends Willow but doesn't. Also that day, Anya and Xander get in a fight. Anya is unsure of her status with Xander and believes that he is only using her. He doesn't know how to define their relationship, but the two can't continue their romance for a few days because Spike will be spending some time at Xander's. Apparently, Giles has a lady friend coming over. That night Giles's lady friend arrives and the two have sex. We then switch to a scene where this weird looking demon/man opens a box. Then we see this weird smoke coming from the mouths of different random people who are asleep. All of the smoke ends up in the box, and the weird demon closes the box. The next morning Buffy goes to the bathroom and brushes her teeth, she returns to her room and starts talking to Willow only she has no voice, neither does Willow neither does anyone in Sunnydale. The whole town has been quarantined in a mass case of laryngitis. Giles goes on the case, and we discover in this cool scene where Giles communicates through a projector that these men known as the Seven Gentleman first take the voices of all of the people in a town and then they kill seven people and take their hearts. This will enable the Seven Gentleman to rule the world or something along those lines. The only way these men can be defeated is through a human's voice (but not a CD player or anything). The silence has mysterious effects. First, Anya is napping on a couch. Spike enters the room and drinks a mug filled with blood. He then kneels beside the bed to look for something on the ground. Xander comes in and sees blood on Spike and a motionless Anya and attacks Spike. Anya wakes up and sees this fight...she realizes Xander's love for her. Second, Buffy is walking through town when she bumps into Riley who has just broken up a fight...the two cling to each other and kiss. Third, the wicca club girl who almost defended Willow is being chased by some of the Seven Gentleman. Willow and the girl hide in a room together. They try to move a vending machine in front of the door, but can't, so Willow tries to use magic. She can't until she holds hands with this girl. The two have magihc together. Anyway, Buffy is on the trail of these men and is fighting them in their lair when Riley arrives. He is also fighting the men. The two battle together, and Riley breaks open the box which gives everyone back their voices. Buffy screams, and the heads of the Seven Gentlemen explode. The next day, Willow and the wicca club girl talk. The girl's mother was a witch and the girl is sort of a witch. The girl predicts that Willow has great powers. A friendship has formed. Anyway, Giles and his lady friend have a talk. She only knew about the supernatural through Giles. She didn't believe him, but now does. As for Buffy and Riley, Riley comes to talk with Buffy. He sits down on a bed opposite from her in Buffy's dorm room. Silence. He says "We have to talk." She says "Yes, you're right." Silence. Who will reveal their secret first? To be continued...who knows when? QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: I happen to be very bitable, man. I'm moist and delicious. --Xander, explaining why he needs to tie up Spike NEXT WEEK: rerun? December 7, 1999 Rerun of season premiere. November November 30, 1999 Buffy and Riley go out on their first date and have a really nice time. Willow is depressed because she learns that Oz is gone for good (sorry to all of you Seth Green fans). She then goes to the majik shop. She has to get a certain root to do a spell on Spike. Instead of using the root for this spell, Willow uses the root to do a "will" spell which makes come true everything that Willow wills. She tries to change Amy the rat (remember her from last or two seasons ago when Buffy, Willow, and Amy were being burnt at the stake and Amy turned herself into a rat to escape death) back to a human but fails. Then as she talks to Buffy she does turn Amy into a human and then back into a rat without ever knowing it. As Willow gets pressured to do this spell for Spike, she curse Giles and wishes him blind. His blindness is gradual, and no one picks up on the connection. While talking to Anya and Xander later on, she wills Buffy and Spike to get married (she says this because Buffy deserted Willow to go catch Spike. Willow reasons if Spike is so important to Buffy that she might as well marry him). Willow then says that love sucks. She says even Xander's love life sucks...he is a demon-magnet. There is Anya now as well as Faith and some other sketchy beings from his past. Willow then leaves. Pretty soon, Buffy and Spike plan to get married. Xander gets attacked by demons. Giles is blind. Xander goes to see Giles where Buffy, Spike, and Giles all are. They realize what is going on. Anya shares that Willow is probably talking with D'Hoffryn. D'Hoffryn is a demon that turned Anya into a vengeance demon and will now turn Willow into a vengeance demon. Willow IS speaking with D'Hoffryn, but she turns down his offer and then undoes her will spell. All is now peaceful in Sunnydale. She will apologize to her friends. One extra thing: while in love with Spike, Buffy sees a wedding dress she loves. She is staring at it when Riley walks by. She tells Riley that she is getting married. He seems upset. After the spell is over, Buffy tells Riley that she wasn't going to marry Spike...she made him up because she thought that Riley freaked out when he saw her looking at a wedding dress. He says OK. One other thing: Spike and Buffy were out walking, and Spike claims to have seen the spot where he escaped from...he says that there is a door in the ground, but can't find the door. Who knows if this will be developed? QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: Baking eases about thirty percent of my guilt, but only seven percent of my inner turmoil. --Willow as she apologizes to friends with cookies SPIKE'S FAVORITE SOAP OPERA: Passions FAVORITE CHARACTER: Timmy NEXT WEEK: Rerun November 23, 1999 The crossover was really half-assed here. Construction work begins on a new anthropology center. Xander is on the construction crew. He begins to dig and falls into an underground, ancient room. After he is rescued from the room, a spirit is released. The spirit is a Shumash (a particular, Indian nation) warrior who wants to avenge the deaths of his people. He kills some people and then fights Buffy. Xander comes down with small pox, syphilis, and measles...diseases which the Indian gave Xander to avenge the deaths of Indians who died from European diseases. In the background is Angel who has come to Sunnydale to protect Buffy after Doyle has a vision which said Buffy was in danger. Giles, Willow, and Xander all know about Angel, but Buffy doesn't. Anyway, eventually the Indian comes after Buffy, and he conjures up a whole slew of Indians to do battle with her and the gang. Fighting ensues and even Angel joins the fight. But Angel fights from the outside so that Buffy doesn't discover him. Buffy realizes that the only way she can kill the Indian is with his own knife which she does and then kills him...yeah the end. Anyway, in the background of this episode was Thanksgiving and the big fight took place just before Thanksgiving dinner...a dinner which Buffy cooked. All she wanted was a nice, warm Thanksgiving with the gang...Giles, Willow, Xander, and Anya (the former love- demon who has been dating Xander). And everyone sits down to eat, including Spike who showed up to beg for help. Remember that he can't hurt humans, so he comes to tell Buffy about the underground laboratory where he was held captive. Anyway, because Spike is there someone says that it seems just like old times. A disease-free Xander adds, "Yeah, even Angel was here." The end of the episode. QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: Two seconds with an indigenous person, and I become violent. --Willow on the "white man" as seen through her naturally victimizing Indians FLAW OF THE EPISODE: Willow objects to the mistreating of Indians by European settlers, yet the dress and talk of the Indians on this episode were highly wrong. The Indians spoke English and wore European clothing...what kind of pure, Indian culture is this? NEXT WEEK: Buffy and Spike in love? and getting married! November 16, 1999 This was a phenomenal episode, and my words will not be eloquent enough to express the beauty that lied within this show, but I suppose that all I can do is type. Spike awakens in a white room with a full length glass window facing into a larger room, but no windows to the outside world. Spike presses his head against the window and gets electrocuted. He can't touch the glass, but he can see that this entire room is filled with people just like him. After some pacing, a packet of blood comes from the ceiling. Spike goes to open the blood, but another vampire tells Spike not to drink the blood. He shares that once a vampire drinks the blood that that vampire is taken away and never returns. Spike then blames his being here on the slayer as does this other vampire. Spike thinks that Buffy is behind all of this. Later on, we see that Spike has passed out on the floor. Some scientists come by and open his "cage," and put him on a bed. It turns out that Spike did not pass out. Instead, he attacks these scientists and escapes from the facility which he's at. He then returns to Harmony, that flaky girl he dated a few weeks back. Back in Sunnydale, Willow is upset when she learns that Oz is no longer enrolled as a student at UC Sunnydale. She learns this from Prof. Walsh who discusses how she kicks kids out of her class after they don't show up for two classes. Walsh is very nasty to Willow so Buffy says to Walsh, "You know, for someone who teaches human behavior, you might want to show some." Buffy leaves, and then Walsh tells her TA that she likes Buffy. Nonetheless, Willow is now completely depressed. Adding to her depression is the fact that Riley Finn (the TA from Professor Walsh's class) is asking Willow how he can ask out Buffy. Riley's friends, Forrest and Graham, convinced Riley that he likes Buffy. Anyway, Willow tells Riley that they're going to a party. The party, as it turns out, is at Riley's dorm. Riley is about to ask Buffy to dance when Xander comes storming in. Now I'll go back and explain Xander. He was patrolling with Giles when he spotted Harmony burning some stuff. Xander approached her and started to fight her, but both of them fought like sissies and decided they may as well not fight. Xander asked Harmony why she was burning her stuff. She replies that the stuff belongs to Spike, and that Spike asked her to do this. Xander learns of this and goes to tell Buffy that Spike is back in town. Just as Xander and Buffy leave, Forrest and Graham tell Riley that they have to talk. Forrest, Graham, and Riley go downstairs where their eyes are scanned in front of a mirror. They then take an elevator into an underground laboratory. As it turns out, Riley is an agent of some sort, and he is working for Professor Walsh. They are the ones who captured Spike and have been running around in the army get-up. Walsh tells Riley and Co. to find Spike. Riley is now on the lookout for Spike. BUT Buffy is also looking for Spike. Buffy is sitting on a bench when Riley sees her. He thinks that she is in danger so he puts back on civilian clothing and tells her to leave. She gets offended by his assumption that she can't protect herself. Then they both hear a scream. They both run off to the scream, but they go separately, because neither one wants the other one to understand what he/she is really up to. Spike hacks into the school's computer system to find where Buffy and Willow lives. He finds out and then goes to visit the room. Willow is sitting there alone. Spike tells Willow that she has two options: the first is to die, the second is to become a vampire. Willow screams, Spike attacks Willow, and we cut to commercial. When the show returns, Spike and Willow are lying on Willow's bed. He is discussing how he is basically "vampire impotent" and is incapable of attacking anyone. Then the lights in the building go out and all of the doors lock. Riley and co. arrive with their night vision and try to catch Spike. They catch him, and then decide to take Willow because she is a witness. Then Buffy arrives and shoots a flair gun in the sky which temporarily blinds all of the armymen. Buffy starts fighting the "armymen," and Spike escapes. Two of the three go after Spike. Buffy stays and fights Riley (who is in disguise). The two are fighting when Riley gets some image of light, and he sees a figure- we don't know if he can recognize Buffy- and then Riley commands everyone to abort mission. The next day, Riley explains everything to Walsh, and he says he can't explain anything, except that Spike is now incapable of sucking blood without suffering extreme neurological pain. Apparently, this is why Walsh was capturing vampires. Later in the day, Riley and Buffy bump into each other, and both apologize for their quick departure from the previous night. No love connection yet, however. JOKE OF THE WEEK: What's the difference between a freshman girl and a toilet seat? A toilet seat doesn't follow you around after you use it. --Parker QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: If you'll excuse me, I need to find something slutty to wear tonight. --Buffy on partying NEXT WEEK: An Angel-Buffy crossover in which old love may be renewed, if only for two hours. Expect me to cover both episodes if the crossover is true to crossovers. November 9, 1999 What an action-packed episode. The whole show starts with Buffy fighting a vampire. She complains that the is way too easy to defeat and asks the Fates if they can send something more complicated? The camera then zooms up, and we see Spike standing there saying that Buffy had better be more careful about what she asks for. No sooner does he discuss his desire to rule the world than this electrical volt goes through him and those mystery men that we've been seeing all season long come and take Spike away. The next scene is at The Bronze, and Oz is gazing at Veruca as she plays a set. Willow is, of course, jealous. Next scene: Professor Walsh (the psych prof) tells Buffy that Buffy wrote such a wonderful paper that she should lead a discussion section. That night Oz locks himself up for the full moon. But he escapes. The next scene: Prof. Walsh is walking home at night and a werewolf attacks her. She runs, but unfortunately runs into a second werewolf. The werewolves then fight. Next Scene: Oz and Veruca wake up in each other's arms. She admits her attraction for him, but he won't say that he feels the same way. Later that day Buffy is talking to Prof Walsh and learns of the two werewolves (although Walsh doesn't know that these "wild dogs who look like guerrillas" are really werewolves). Buffy asks Oz about the second werewolf and he says that he doesn't know who the second one is, but he does admit to having escaped the night before. Also that day, Willow tries to put the moves on Oz, but he turns her down, explaining that he's tired. That night, Oz forces Veruca into the cage with him even though she feels that the cage traps him. Oz says that he chooses to lock himself up so he doesn't hurt anyone. It's his decision, and no one else's. The two then lock themselves up. Next scene: Willow arrives at the cage to welcome Oz back, and she finds Oz naked on the floor with Veruca in his arms. She's upset and yells at Oz. Not only for his relationship with Veruca which he says probably didn't happen, but also because he lied about not knowing who the second werewolf was. The next day comes, and Oz tries to help Buffy find Veruca. In the mean time, Willow is so mad about Oz and Veruca that she almost casts a hate spell on Oz. Buffy and Oz are in the forest searching for Veruca when they realize that she's probably going after Willow. Next scene: Veruca comes to see Willow. She is ready to attack Willow as Oz shows up. Oz and Veruca get into a verbal fight in which she says that the two of them have to duke it out. The two become werewolves, and werewolf-Oz kills Veruca. He then goes to attack Willow, but Buffy comes in and shoots Oz with a tranquilizer gun. Next scene: Oz and Willow are talking the next morning. Oz tells Willow that he needs to find himself, and so he is going away. We don't know when he'll be back (but TV Guide informs me that it won't be for at least six episodes). Willow asks if she has any say in the matter, but apparently she doesn't. The end. No word about Spike. BEST SEX COMPARISON: Wild-monkey love or touchy, Sarah McLachlan love? --Xander QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: The world is inside of me all the time, and I don't know where the line is anymore, between me and it. --Oz NEXT WEEK: Spike is back again, but we're not quite sure of his allegiance? What happened to Spike after those men took him? Maybe he's with Buffy, but then why would he attack Willow? November 2, 1999 Let's discuss this episode in terms of the show as a whole. This episode proves that Buffy has lost some of its magical touch. The show tries to be deep and show not only how similar the modern world is to the past, but that even as primitives, man or woman knows right from wrong. The show sucked actually. Xander gets a job at the college pub and one night Buffy visits him. She talks for a while and is about to leave when these four guys come over to talk to her. The five of them then get drunk. The next day Buffy starts acting really weird. That night she goes back to the bar to meet her four guy friends, and they all get drunk. Xander sends her home, but the four guys stay and get drunker. All of a sudden the guys begin to speak in monotone, and one of them rips off his shirt. One of the guys goes to the bathroom and comes out looking like a caveman, before we know it all of the guys are cavemen. They go a little crazy and then leave the bar. Xander goes to his boss to explain what has just happened. The boss knew. His cousin is a warlock and told him how to make this potion to make the kids primitive. Apparently, the boss is fed up with being looked down upon by college students. Fortunately, the effect of the potion will go away in a day or two. Xander then gets Giles and the two go to find Buffy. In the meantime, Willow has gone to see Parker to get him to explain his mistreatment of Buffy (that is, the one night stand). Parker acts very sensitive and explains his life philosophy and Willow totally sees through his act and gets all "oh come on!" Then the four guys enter the room where Willow and Parker are and act crazy until they start a fire. Buffy somehow ends up here and saves the guys and Willow even though she is primitive Buffy. Then Parker comes to Buffy for help. She knocks him out with a club and leaves him to burn. But then she saves him anyway. Even primitive Buffy has feelings. Anyway, the other thing this episode involves Oz and Willow. They're at the bronze one night when this girl starts to sing...her name is Veruca and Oz seems a little fascinated by her. Also this week, sexual sparks continue to fly between Buffy and her psychology TA Riley. DEEP THOUGHTS BY ME: Where's Faith? Dead or alive? Attempted themes: the Id/pleasure principle and fire QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Nothing can defeat the penis. --Xander QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: Good. Evil. These are moral absolutes that predate malts and hops. --Some frat guy NEXT WEEK: Willow and Oz seem meant for each other. She even deals with his wolf-like disposition. But now, Veruca has entered the picture. October October 26, 1999 A very disappointing episode especially since the premise seemed so promising. Before I get specific let me do some important side bars. #1 - Buffy is trying to avoid Parker after her one night stand with him. #2 - Buffy seems to make a connection with the her TA from the psychology class while at the same time she is doing poorly in that class. #3 - These weird men with ski masks over their faces and machine guns in their hands are still lurking about (we first saw them on the season premier?) Now for the action of the episode. Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Oz decide to go to a frat party for Halloween. Oz helps the guys at the frat party set up their party. We see the frat guys draw this ancient symbol on the floor of the dance room and then when Oz is splicing a wire to set up the sound system, Oz cuts himself and some of his blood falls onto this symbol. The TV viewer then sees this spider on the insignia come to life. Anyway, in the meantime Anya tries to get back together with Xander, so he invites her to the frat party. She says she'll meet him there. Well, the original gang of four show up at the party, and the terror begins. As they enter the house, the door disappears and windows and staircases disappear. Then Willow and Buffy get into a fight, and then Buffy and Xander separate from Oz and Willow. Very soon, Oz turns into a werewolf and runs away and then Willow starts using witchcraft to find the other party members and her magic starts attacking her. Later, Buffy and Xander are talking and all of a sudden Xander disappears. Only, he hasn't really disappeared, he's just become invisible. Then Buffy tries to find a way to the party goers and ends up in this weird basement. All four are now separated and freaking out. In the meantime, Anya arrives at the party and sees that there is no door and gets scared and then sees a girl and a window disappear. She realizes something is afoul so she goes to find Giles. She tells Giles what's happening. Anyway, all four of our characters are so scared that they end up in the same room and are freaking out and they realize what's going on. All of a sudden, Giles and Anya enter the room. Giles starts reading from this book in the room that there are two ways to end this haunting from this scary demon that feeds on people's fears and will appear if enough people become scared. Giles says that "destroying the insignia that was constructed to call it forward..." (the insignia that was drawn early on in the episode). Buffy punches her hand through the symbol just as Giles finishes his sentence, "...is not one of the ways to destroy him, but will bring him forth." Buffy says sorry, and we see the ground shaking and all of a sudden this demon comes through the ground. The demon is about 6 inches tall. How does Buffy kill him...she steps on him. QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: Halloween isn't about thrills, chills, and funny costumes. It's about getting laid. --some random frat guy NEXT WEEK: What happens when Buffy returns to her primitive instincts? October 19, 1999 What a great episode...lots of sex...lots of jokes....lots of action. The premise: Spike is back and he's looking for a ring called the Gem of Amarra. He gets it, and he becomes invincible and we're all "Go, Spike" and then Buffy takes the ring from his finger. She decides to give the ring to Angel ..this is done quite easily as Oz is headed to LA...NOTE: the departure of OZ. As for surrounding events. This girl that everyone knew from high school, Harmony (a Cordelia-like girl) is back, and she is now a vampire. She was dating Spike until he left for LA (see Angel summary). Harmony is still in Harmony, but we must wonder...how does Harmony remember her friends? Vampires are supposed to forget their former lives. Anyway, Buffy continues to date this guy Parker and they finally have sex, and then he ditches her. What a creepy guy. (I guess that now we have two, single girls!) Also, Anya is back. She was the guy hater who went to prom with Xander last year. Anyway, Anya wants Xander bad, so she seduces him and has sex with him to get him out of her system. But now it seems like she's more addicted to him. I like the two of them..we can only hope that it works out. QUOTE OF THE EPISODE 1: Don't you just hate guys who are I'm dark and brooding so give me love? --Parker to Buffy who is still thinking about Angel QUOTE OF THE EPISODE 2: Harmony's a vampire? She must be mad without a mirror. --Buffy on vain vampire QUOTE OF THE EPISODE 3: Can we get a doctor so I can take a stethoscope and hear my heart not beat? --Harmony NEXT WEEK: A halloween special...a frat party accidentally releases a ghost that traps everyone inside the party house. The catch: everyone's worst fears are realized (sort of like on that nightmare-come-true episode from two seasons ago wher Xaner os naked in class and Buffy's Dad tells her that he doesn't love her). Xander becomes invisible, Willow can't control her magic. Oz becomes a werewolf. Buffy faces the people she couldn't save. October 12, 1999 It was an amusing episode, but Buffy is still a little too weak of a character this season. She's lost her girl power. Basically, Buffy and Kathy (her roommate aren't getting along that well). One night Buffy tells Kathy that she's getting some coffee when Buffy really plans on patrolling. Kathy tags along and the two are attacked by a demon, but Kathy is thrown aside of the fighting and misses the action. Kathy and Buffy end up really hating each other, but they both share this nightmare where a demon sucks the blood from them. It turns out that this is really the soul. In the meantime, Buffy and Kathy get along less and less. In the end, Buffy tells Willow that Kathy is a demon and she plans on killing her roommate. Willow gets nervous so Oz and Xander tie Buffy up. Buffy manages to escape and goes to her roommate. The two get in a physical fight and Buffy claws at Kathy's face and her face comes off. Kathy IS a demon!! In the midst of the fight, Kathy's demon's dad shows up and forces Kathy home. (this is the demon that had previously attacked Buffy and Kathy) Kathy protests, "I'm 3000 years old; stop treating me like I'm 900!" But the dad forces Kathy home. Willow moves in as Buffy's new roommate. QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Did we not put the "grrr" in girl?" --Willow, emphasizing girl power. NEXT WEEK: A Buffy-Angel crossover that "begins at sunset and goes into daylight." We are promised an appearance by Spike.