Buffy Challenge Post 63: Season 7: Episodes 7 - 8

Conversations with Dead People

Previously….. We are seeing everyone who died Tara, Warren, and Cathy oh and Spike still crazy!

Interesting starting with the episode title November 2002, way to depress us early! everyone is looking sad….. Hey cheer up Buffy it’s time to go to work.

Finally we are catching up with our favourite nerds from season 6, why would they be coming back? I want to learn Mexicanian.

While the Cat’s away….. Dawn is running a muck in the house.

To the library and Willow runs into a ghost who has a message from Tara. Back to Dawn and she is watching an old (and public domain) movie. The storm is brewing and I hate it when you try to unplug the TV and it doesn’t turn off, um hacking it with an axe is going a little overboard.

Buffy is catching up with an old college who is a vampire right now. Should Buffy be giving tips to new Vampires?

Rumours of what Buffy was like at school…. just what we all need Buffy being analysed by a vampire….  Dawn is going crazy and this is skirting too close to a horror movie for my liking.

Gotta love the nerds doing their best (or worst) Tom Cruise impersonation. Great plan boys, just one issue, I’m not sure Buffy would want to be buddies. WARREN??? he was Skinned…. “THE MASTER PLAN!” So Warren is now OBI WAN KINOBI? LOVE THE STAR WARS REFERENCES! So because Willow killed, she can’t see Tara (it’s more the fact that the actress playing Tara couldn’t fit the episode in her schedule.)

Another Spinoff that didn’t work back then but with the whole Vampire craze right now might work, “Vampire Psycho-Annalist!” it’s kind of like a mixture of “True blood and Frasier”

“I was afraid to talk to you at high school, now we’re mortal enemies!” Does Buffy have a superiority complex? or is she really just suffering from clinical depression?

For a second there I thought Buffy was going to be bitten.

Back to Dawn and I’m not enjoying this story thread at all. I’m so having nightmares tonight! To the nerds…. and they are at the hell mouth?

This is a great battle between Buffy and a Vampire who is getting really into Buffy’s head. Some great moments. Back to Willow and her chat with “Not Tara” A warning from the beyond….

Back to the nerds and they are reminiscing old times. Poor Jonathon, but I love his attitude though. Dawn and magic, not a good mix. Who are you fooling Buffy, we all want to be loved.

An inferiority complex about her superiority complex, ok our time is up now it’s time to kill! Nope, this guy knows Spike so the story continues. Dawn’s little horror run is over and we see a returning Joyce.

Willow is dealing with some real issues, I don’t trust this girl, and it’s because she wants Willow to kill herself. Spike is back to his biting ways, and Joyce is planting a seed of doubt in Dawns head. Jonathan gets stabbed, and Willow has seen the face of evil as it seems we are setting up for the big bang to end this season…..

I enjoyed 3 out of the 4 story lines…… so many questions…..

6/10

Sleeper

Previously …. Something is coming…. Spike moves in with Xander….. murders around the world…… Dawn gets a warning…. So does Willow and Spike kills again…..

good to see Xander and it looks like this episode has began right where the last one left off as Buffy is looking for Spike. It seems that he is trying to bury the evidence of his last kill. It doesn’t make sense, what happen to the chip in his head? or the whole soul thing?

London England, and we see another international murder or two. Willow is first to find Dawn and the disaster that is the Summers house. Willow tries to let Dawn know that what she see’s is not all right.

Xander has never been Spike’s biggest fan, well this is awkward…. Spike comes it and is surprised to see Buffy there. It’s great to see Anya again, and that was a low blow Xander! Famous last words “your going to be fine!” Dawn is filling Buffy into what has been going on. The enemy is striking at their heart. Back to Anya and she is freaking out!!! I’m not sure snooping around Spike’s room while he is napping is the best of ideas.

Nice save Anya, is Spike a little shell shocked? Um Anya, your meant to be keeping Spike home? or not? Crowded place and Spike still has the moves!!! He is bad alright! Don’t you hate it when your Ex interrupts your feeding. Why would Buffy just stand there and let him kill her? Is there another Spike running around?

What is going on? Back to the library and the gang is trying to find evidence of Spike’s biting. Xander is the new Giles always getting punched, interesting though the chip kicked in. Spike is doing some back tracking, why am I not surprised that no one at the bar remembers. Spike is being picked up by a vampire which leads a great fight!

“Billy Idol wannabe!”

Buffy get’s a step closer to what is going on. “I hate playing vampire towns” how many vampire towns are there?

2 spikes? what’s up with that? We finally see who Spike has been talking to and it seems to be himself. This is a mystery that is getting weirder and weirder, as Spike turns and rises the army of the undead. Blood of the slayer has done something to jog his memory, which gives Buffy a fighting chance.

The Soul is playing havoc with Spike or is it the place? He wants to die, and sometimes living is a fate worse than death. There is a deeper mystery involved in this season and it’s not showing it’s hand yet.

Giles comes in to tie up the London murder. “BEHIND YOU!”

what bizarre 2 episodes it has be intrigued for what is about to come!

7/10

Well that end’s another challenge …. and remember kids, if your evil self tells you to do something, try to ignore it!