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Well all good things have to come to an end as we start up the final season of Buffy!
Previously on Buffy ….. Tara gets shot…. Willow gets mad….. Buffy promise change …… and Spike gets what he wants in a soul!
ISTAMBUL …. got to love the middle eastern music! and we are at an international girl running for her life open to start the season. PARCORE….. Exteme…… What is it with mad monks and their knifes?
Buffy is giving Dawn Slayer training as we see the most incompetent vampire ever in the history of the show!!!! Buffy frees our friend and sicks her on Dawn, not a bad effort for a newbie… however Buffy needed to clean up the mess.
Buffy is forshadowing something horrible returning and she was right with the reopening of the school!
New credit sequence and we open up to cowboy Giles (wearing an Australian dry bone jacket!) who is comforting Willow after her loss from last season. Willow makes the first Harry Potter reference as Giles drops some serious words of knowledge….
Xander in a suit, Buffy makes cereal as it seems that Xander is in charge of building the new school and it seems the principles office is over the hell mouth…… Arn’t all principles evil? Nice call back to the first season with the hyena people!
“Robin Wood” the new principle worst teacher name EVER! Buffy takes a look around the new school and I must say it is very nice! Beware the creepy kid with the basketball….. you know there must be something wrong with the basement as it had the creepy music when it passed the sign….
Buffy is freaking out in the bathroom looking at her hair, then seeing the past failures, Just what Dawn needs to establish her popularity by having her sister barge into her room screaming it’s not safe!
Anya is looking like Angela from the Office and Anya is not living up to her reputation as a vengeance demon. Buffy passes her concerns to Xander as Dawn now is seeing things, not the best start to a new school!
Well this confirms it, the female bathroom is the source of ALL EVIL! as it seems that Dawn and Buffy are not the only ones who have seen things at the school. Principle Woods is letting Buffy know he has a good idea of her activities at school. Dawn and her new friend get sucked into the floor in a really cool scene.
Switch to Willow’s magical detox and there seems to be a link with the things she sees and what has just happen in the school. It seems like it’s attack of the Zombies as Buffy tries to get Dawn suspended as we move to the age of mobile phones with Dawn calling for backup!
Revenge of the dead as the zombies try to stop Buffy from getting to the door….. Spike? he is behind this? or a prisoner? The suttle changes in his character amazing! So they are not ghosts or zombies but manifested spirits to get revenge. I think I like soulless Spike better.
What better way to fight Evil than with bricks in a bag! which doesn’t work too well! being a teacher I know what it is like never to leave school. Good thing Buffy arrives and shows Dawn how to swing a brick bag! Xander finds the talismen and breaks the spell! Yay Xander the unsung hero, again!
It seems we have the makings of the junior scooby gang! So Principle Woods is offering Buffy a job at the school, well what a great way to keep the season contained in the school. Spike is hallucinating seeing all of the major villains that Buffy as fought throughout the years……. the final speech was very intriguing, and the punch line makes me wonder about Buffy’s role at the school.
Well not a bad start to the season where it seems that things are going to wrap up to where we began all those years ago…… I quiet enjoyed this episode as a set up for things to come, it wasn’t brilliant but it was serviceable…
6/10
Beneath You
Previously …. Buff y plays with Spike’s emotions and dumps him ….. we get the whole bit about the Xander and Anya wedding that went wrong…… Spike tries to rape Buffy and that spells the end of their relationship and Warren shoots Buffy and kills Tara in the process. Which causes Willow to go mad! Spike gets his soul back as Giles takes Willow to the farm to detox as Anya and her demon friend warn about an upcoming threat…… Oh and they reopen the school, where Buffy gets a job at and finds Spike in a delusional state living under the school ….. Fhew that was a lot…… nothing on the zombies from last episode though!
Franfurt and we get another international girl running for her life scene to some techno music! I wonder if that is her natural hair colour as she is getting beat up and killed by a mad monk! It was all a DREAM…….. “from beneath you it devours!” EARTHQUAKE or Giant Earth worm? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
I hate rats, a sentiment not shared with delusional Spike, the Earthquake is playing havoc with him. Cut to Dawn and she is just as thrilled to have Buffy and Xander at school with her. Xander is in a real slump in the relationship area.
Buffy is shown the ropes by Principle Wood, not a good thing to bring up the whole Principle getting eaten thing. Evil Basement time and Buffy is down to check up on Mr. Spike.
Back to England where it seems that Willow is ready to go home according to Giles, however she is not as confident. I am in awe at how great these two are on screen together!
Woman walking dog, dog gets sucked into the ground, woman freaks out and some how ends up with Buffy, Dawn and Xander comforting her when Spike comes in awake and with his famous hair cut!
Nancy stop trying to hit on Spike, Xander still does not like Spike and Dawn is not too happy about the whole situation either. “Something’s coming…..” Spike offers his help to the situation as Xander clumsly explains to Nancy that Buffy is just a friend who happens to be a girl. Dawn threatens to light Spike on fire.
Spike and Buffy go off to investigate the scene of the dog napping, Buffy is still having nightmares of the attempted rape, Spike only response is that he has changed, will he reveal the fact that he is now in possession of his soul? maybe not.
Nancy and Xander have an awkward moment where she makes it clear that she is interested in the big X, only to be interrupted by a giant sand worm type creature (the CGI is not bad considering.) Every girl seems to have a psycho ex boyfriend on this show….. nice segway to Anya trying to get her vengeance demon on!
Only to be interrupted by Anya and it seems that she is responsible for the sand worm who is the ex of Nancy who is confused about who is who and wonders who hasn’t slept with who, with a priceless shot of Spike and Xander looking at each other! (I had to pause here to get back to some semblance of nomalicy.)
Anya sees spike for what he really is and his response is slapping Anya who fights back! Buffy jumps into the action when Nancy runs off hating the fact that she is surrounded by freaks and demons. Bad move with the worm going on the attack! Anya refuses to reverse the spell due to the heart break of the dumping at the alter.
Buffy swings in to save the day when Spike attacks the worm only to stab when the spell is reversed, the old Spike wouldn’t bat an eyelid, but the soul inside burns due to the carnage he caused…… “From beneath he devours” So much is happening and at the same time we are going nowhere.
Spike has lost his mind, he doesn’t know what he is anymore. Is this the moment that Buffy finds out what Spike has done, what will be her reaction to this drastic step taken by Spike?
WHAT A SCENE, great effect to end this one off.
this is such a difficult episode to rate, was it better than the first one? not really, but it wasn’t worse either …….
6/10
