Buffy Challenge Post 64: Season 7: Episodes 9 – 10

Never Leave Me

Welcome back to another instalment of the Buffy Challenge, we are nearing the finish line in this epic 7 season journey….

Previously, the nerds are back and Jonathon gets knifed for his trouble…. Dawn see’s a  premonition of Joyce and she warns her not to trust Buffy. Willow is giving Buffy an ominous warning about what is to come, and it’s not looking good. Spike is talking about the murders around the world and he is some how two people one evil, one wossie. Giles gets attacked right at the end of the last episode and the cliff hanger is where they leave us!

The gang is cleaning up the house, while Ghost Warren is ready to move to the next phase of the plan. Stabbing is a skill that takes years to learn.

Buffy ties up Spike for his own good, I’m not sure that it will help as even Spike is afraid of what might become….

Principal Wood is flexing his Muscles, however the bluff was called by the kids, I’m not sure the nice guy routine works too well with teenagers. Buffy is calling in a Sick day as she tries to find the whereabouts of Giles, however the council are not so helpful and it seems they know what is going on….

Evil Spike is back, good thing he is tied up, I’m not sure if Willow was kidding about killing Anya! Buffy is holding up strong.

The two nerds are about to kill a pig, Andrew had no problem knifing his friend but a little piglet….. a little too difficult. Second option, go to the butcher. Not the best time to drop the bag with blood when Willow is standing there.

Andrew is struggling to justify his existence and Willow has had enough and gives him the what for! Andrew has been captured and is being interrogated by the gang. This is going to be good! Anya makes an AWESOME bad cop! This is all a plan to get him to talk. Unfortunately not much is coming out of Spike in his evil state, but good Spike won’t SHUT UP!

Xander with the good cop routine…. I wouldn’t be bringing up the whole Spike  and Anya hooking up right now. Great build up to scare Andrew, Anya takes it a step further and gets a slap in on Xander for good measure.

Evil Spike returns to torment good Spike. The switch happens and Spike breaks free and bites Andrew. If only it was another musical. Good thing Xander is there to figure it out for me and explain it to me. A trigger you say….

Back to school and Principal Wood takes a trip to the basement to discover Jonathan’s body, he doesn’t seem so surprised to see it. Spike by the way thinks the best way to solve this issue he is having is for Buffy to kill him. Just what this episode needed, NINJA’S!

unfortunately they are just mad monks not ninjas….  Monks with Ninja skills. Dawn hesitated and it nearly cost her life, good thing Xander was there to help. With all the commotion happening, Spike is gone. Buffy has figured it out, but I’m still confused.

Melbourne ….. WOOO!!! The Council are working overtime and now we find out the villain of the piece is THE FIRST EVIL! We’re at WAR PEOPLE!

Spike’s fate is being revealed as he is being torched by his evil self. who morphs into Buffy. Spike’s blood opens up a portal of some sort and we have the return of…… The MASTER I think ….. CRAP!

5/10

Bring On The Night

Previously …. People are getting killed all over the place, Jonathan is murdered and found by the Principal who casually buries him. Andrew is captured, Spike gets kidnapped and his blood raises the Big Bad for the season…..

Xander’s lot in life is to fix the windows of the Summer’s house. Anya’s not so impressed about the stories of the First…. Nice hit Dawn, just having a little too much fun whacking Andrew around…

Buffy see’s her mother and doesn’t believe her eyes, it was all a dream. To Spike and we are witnessing a ritual of mass evil, we see the evil transform to Drusilla as she torments Spike even more. Nice fade to black into the title sequence. The girls are trying to wake up Andrew and no Dawn, hot water is not a good idea! Lex is an evil name! Andrew takes them back to the scene of Jonathan's murder. I am really confused by all of this. Wonder Woman issue #299!

The gang runs into the Principal who is acting mighty weird, “never trust a principal with a shovel” Whoa, Willow has gone CRAZY!!!! Magic won’t help. Good thing Giles has returned, but where has he been. So there was a reason for the girls around the world getting murdered, they were potential slayers. The Council was destroyed in the last episode and it was so quick even I missed it. ANYA IS AWESOME!!!!  Shut up Andrew! The first seems to be working in a way that is difficult to articulate. It can change forms and is hunting the Slayers line to take over the world.

Time to build up an army to fight the first evil! Back to Spike and  Drusilla is tormenting him. Andrew still doesn’t get this whole Slayer deal, Hey Willow it seems you have an admirer.

Buffy finds the entrance to the cave by falling into it. Which leads to a fist fight between the Slayer and the Super Vampire, who can’t be killed by a stake…..

one thing this show does really well is the fighting choreography. The next day and after escaping Giles gives us the lowdown on what she was fighting. It was a super vampire as I said working for the First.

Nice cover Buffy! Evil Movies indeed! I really don’t trust this Principal, teachers on this show have either been EVIL or get killed quickly.

Spike has a nice shiner as the Drusilla “evil” keeps up the torment and tries to recruit Spike to the dark side to no effect. Buffy is really banged up and now she is hallucinating again in the middle of a therapy session, poor Roger!

Xander is really handy with the woodwork. The newbie's are not ready if you ask me. No one asked your opinion Andrew! I love the Riddler! As this is happening the snobby new girls runs off and gets killed for her trouble by Super Vamp. Buffy is going to struggle here against this seemingly unstoppable force. Does crushing it work? Apparently not! This fight is awesome, unfortunately Buffy is on the wrong end of the brick wall.

This looks like it’s impossible for Buffy and the gang to win this fight, after everything she has gone through, they have really raised the stakes for the finale. The battle lines have been drawn and General Buffy is firing the first shot!