Buffy Challenge Post 56: Season 6: Episodes 13 – 14

Dead Things

Previously……. Willow is feeling sorry for Buffy …… who is not a demon even though Spike is able to smack her around without a headache……..The nerds are reveled as her nemesis’ for the season….Dawn is angry …… Tara leaves Willow …….. Willow is addicted to Magic ……. Spike and Buffy do the nasty…..

Lots of crashing and moaning, it’s just Buffy and Spike getting down to business. Buffy doesn’t look too disgusted, and she is using Spike who is feeling a little unloved.

The nerds have had to relocate ….. NERD FIGHT! They made a magic ball? Buffy is finishing off at the burger place, Tara and Buffy are catching up and it seems that Buffy is confiding with her. Buffy lets Tara know what Spike can do to her.

I want one of those camera ties ….. what are the nerds up to? Warren meets up with his Ex who is kind of upset with the whole he built a robot to kill her thing from last season! It seems that the boys have made a slave spell! Buffy comes home to more wedding planning, while Dawn is going over for sleepover. I do love mexican food!

The boys toast crime and their new acquisition.  This is really creepy and wrong. Thankfully the spell has worn off just in time, DID I JUST SEE WHAT I SAW? This has gone way too far as Warren KILLS his EX. Warren has gone mad, man I hope he hangs for this one.

Anya and Xander are burning up the dance floor, while Buffy mopes around. Enter Spike to play mind games with the slayer trying to convince her that she doesn’t belong. Willow and Tara run into each other and this is awkward. Willow has been magically sober for 31 days.

Buffy on patrol, cue the depressing music and montage as she descends into Spike’s arms. However before that can happen She falls into a trap being attacked by demons or is she just going crazy? What is going on? Did Warren find a way to solve both of his problems in the one hit? They have convinced Buffy that she murdered the woman. Is it me or is this one of the dirtier episodes in a while?

It looks like Buffy is saying her goodbyes as she wakes Dawn and lets her know what she has perceived has happen.  Not surprisingly Dawn doesn’t take this news too well, Spike tries to stop Buffy from making a mistake. Just as Spike tells Buffy that they won’t find the body, the police find the body. Spike confesses his love which doesn’t go well for him. WHAT A POWERFUL SCENE!!!!

After beating out the snottings out of Spike, Buffy goes to confess a crime she didn’t do, The hearing of the name of the girl she figures out who was behind it.  I can’t figure out teenage girls now Dawn is upset that Buffy is not going. The boys think they have gotten away with murder. Tara lets Buffy know that there is nothing wrong with Buffy. She doesn’t believe her. Finally Buffy lets Tara know what is really going on between her and Spike.

The best thing about this episode is that Tara is the voice of reason.

I think at this point of the season I really didn’t like this episode and the way it was executed. The summary gammed 7 plot points into 40 seconds and it overall the episode tried to do TOO much!!!

4/10

Older and Faraway

Previously on Buffy ….. Dawn is a delinquent kleptomaniac…… Spike is playing cards…….. one of Anya’s girlfriends appear…….. Willow and Tara run into each other……… Buffy is feeling depressed about what is going on.

Buffy is off to work (her night job) and Dawn is putting on a brave face. Buffy vs. a disappearing then reappearing demon. Short fight and she stabs him with his own sword. Cool effect with the monster going into the sword that way. Which leaves Buffy with a cool souvenir.

It’s Buffy’s Birthday and Xander is wondering if Willow would mind if Tara can come. Anya is hoping someone will go shopping with her and she is by herself. Dawn is not happy with the situation that has come about.  TV clique number 27, if you want to let the audience know that the jacket is stolen leave the tag on it and make it HUGE!!! Dawn is so removed from everything, the Guidance councilor has a lot to work with when it comes to this one.

Dawn is not showing any emotions to the situations that have arisen, not really healthy. Xander and Anya are trying to hook Buffy up, to form a relationship and make babies and stuff so that they can have another couple to talk to.

Willow is saying she is fine but she is anything but. Spike who still has a shiner from last episode comes in and brings a guest. Tara thinks the hook up is cute? Anya is treating Dawn as a kid and Spike is trying to get some sugar on the side. Buffy is opening presents and Dawn’s little stolen jacket gets little to no reaction, she loved the chest Xander made and Sophie is just weird, Worst Birthday EVER. This episode is boring me to no end!!!!!

Richard is trying to hook up with Buffy, and Spike give her a hard time and is still trying to get some sugar to no avail. Pants muscle cramps is a real thing. Wow Birthday Monopoly! This is really sad. (Tara has the best lines.) 

  So far we are half way through the episode and NOTHING HAS HAPPEN! “This can’t be good”" you bet.

Dawn is upset that everyone wants to leave and can’t. Xander even a call back to “once more with feeling” can’t save this episode. Is Tara cooking or is she working a magic spell? I should of seen that coming, Richard is wearing a RED shirt and red shirts get killed off by the demon stuck in the sword. Day 2, and I’m still bored.

I am finding this difficult to sit through. Dawn is gelous of Buffy and is feeling alone, (I can relate to that!) Anya is wanting Willow to break out her magic.  Tara stands up for her girl.It’s Willow’s guidance councilor and Dawn is BUSTED!

What a really disappointing series of episodes, Willow is kind of  making grounds on this whole magic thing as the spell is broken finally. Richard is taken to the hospital and we are put out of our misery.

2/10

Lets see, we’ve covered rape, murder, theft, addiction, lust and viloence, and none of it was entertaining ……. here is hoping for some sort of improvement in the future episodes.