Buffy Challenge Post 52: Season 6: Episodes 5 – 6

Life Serial

Previously on Buffy…….. Buffy finds her Mum dead……Buffy is broke……. The nerds are revenging…..Buffy confines in Spike….Buffy to Angel

Buffy comes home with Chicken, too bad dinner has been served. They are all curious about how Angel is going….. I guess I’m the only one who doesn’t care? So Buffy wants to go back to school, shouldn’t she get the job?

The nerds are trying to figure out how to get to buffy…. Now that is a van! I love the DEATH STAR ON THE VAN!! DON’T PAINT OVER IT!!!!

Social construction of reality with Mike! This class is going way too fast….. Buffy is feeling lost and confused like we all are…. I want to do introduction to pies….. for evil nerds they still wave really dorky….. ‘m surprised no one at the campus is concerned about the black van parked on canvas….. What is going on with Buffy? is she hearing things? and seeing things? Whoa time is flying. That effect is SO COOL!!!! Buffy has found the bug that was planted on her that made time fly….. Round one to Buffy!

So Buffy gets a job working with Xander, this can’t be good for Xander. The boys are not happy that ‘Gidget’ has joined the crew.  But shows the boys that her super strength has some advantages and disadvantages…. like finishing the work quickly.

Next up on the nerd battles, pan flute demons, who get their plastic butts handed to them. I SO WANT A STAR WARS HORN!!! Unfortunately the demons  have cost her the jobs. Xander figures out there is something going on and also fires Buffy. Round two to the nerds (because she got fired!)

Buffy is now going to work for Anya at the magic box. I have no idea how they got the camera in the skull but they did and after a magic spell that smokes up the van we are onto round 3. Buffy is selling away (essence of slug can be romantic!) Buffy verses a hand.It’s groundhog day! Lets see if Buffy can sell the hand properly this time? No, lets try again, not this time,  a more agressive approach maybe? Buffy figures it out and the nerds are not happy with the result, and Buffy quits!

What to do when things are going wrong? Go drinking with Spike! Buffy can really hold her liquor, Spike gets to play poker with the demons to gather intel and make a buck on the side, or are they playing for kittens?

Final jeopardy time for the nerds and Spike out cheats the other demons. Buffy lets the kittens go and she rattles off her problems and can only be around a neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker. The nerds are debating James Bond and while that happens Buffy picks out the van. “Grab your magic bone!” That is the lamest demon they have ever had on that show with the worst exit ever! It’s just hte smallest nerd after a changing spell. It seems they are just collecting data for future battles.

Buffy is hung over and Giles reassures her that she was being tested by someone and she is surviving. Giles hands Buffy a check to help her out with her financial issues in a touching scene.

What a fun episode! So much fun with really great gags that made me laugh out loud!

8/10

All the way

Previously on Buffy….. Xander and Anya are figthing about announcing the engagement….. dawn wants to do research……. Buffy has to be Dawns guardian…… Willow is worried about Buffy and Spike knows Buffy doesn’t love him but just wants respect

It’s haloween time at the magic box and Xander is a gay pirate, Anya is a Charlie’s Angel ….. Willow is trying to defend witches everywhere…. Buffy is running errands for Anya where she runs into Spike who was about to steal supplies. Spike wonders if Buffy wants to patrol and I think she got that last one wrong!

We follow a creepy old man who is singing pop goes the weasel, checking out the kids walking past holding a knife…… this can’t be good!

Anya is on a high from the profits made on haloween. If only we got to see Willow’s Fantasia! The dance of capitalist superiority is awesome! Xander and Anya announce their engagement finally. Anya is showing off her fancy big ring as they celebrate with a decorating spell. Terra is concerned that Willow is over magician. Buffy still doesn’t know her own strength. Like all 15 year olds Dawn wants a tattoo, and like all older siblings Buffy said NO!

Dawn and her friend do the whole, they think their staying at each others house as they crash at a park and egg houses, flatten tiers and other petty crimes. Giles gives Xander some advice about getting married as the teen hooligens are checking out the creepy old mans house and Dawn is going to destroy a pumpkin when the old man lets them in to the house, bad move.

This man is creepy and pop goes the weasel is just disturbing…… I didn’t see that coming! Nice swerve, with the teen being a Vampire, Dawn is going to be way over her head. Meanwhile Anya is rattling off all things she wants in a wedding without breathing. Xander is worried about the wedding but Buffy reassures him. She finally decides to go off on patrol.

Dawn is being seduced by the vampire boys as Giles finds out that Dawn is not where she is. Bye bye Dawn’s friend. Dawn is in some serious trouble as the vampire just wants a taste. Dawn has her first kiss and if she isn’t saved it will be her last!

Terra and Willow are on the hunt and Terra is disturbed that Willow is going straight to magic. Willow is getting really nasty. Back to Dawn and the vampire are still going at it! Where his real face is shown. Buffy goes looking for Spike for patrol where he lets her know that Dawn has disappeared. Giles runs into Dawns friend and takes on the teenage vampire and gets the home made stake in.

Dawn was about to fall for the vampires charm when Giles saves the day momentarily, when he is surrounded by heaps of teenage vampires, good thing Spike and Buffy showed up, Um Buffy the issue is he is a Vampire not that he was making out with your sister. Big brawl happens, love Spike with the crossbow. Dawn gets the last laugh with the stake in the heart.

Buffy leaves Giles to talk to Dawn as Terra is still upset with Willow, so of course Willow wipes Terra’s memory.

good episode, not as enjoyable at the last one (there were more star wars references in Life Serial)

7/10

Well folks the next one is the BIG ONE, the episode that changed the way TV is done……. Until then, just remember to charge for shipping when selling mummy hands or you’ll have it deducted from your wage.