“Buffy vs. Dracula”
This is a terrible episode. It really is. If you want a sexy vampire trying to give Buffy a taste of the darkness behind her slayer power, that is what Spike is for. If your guest actor isn’t as hot as James Marsters, the entire premise fails. The end.
“The Real Me”
Buffy has a younger sister. Her name is Dawn. She is kind of annoying, but what is more annoying is that Joyce tries to push off a lot of parenting responsibilities on Buffy despite her being only 18 and having a full time job of regularly saving the world. It makes me really curious about the retcon considering that Joyce was quite the absent parent during the first 3 seasons of the show. Those monks really went all out altering reality.
“The Replacement”
Double the Xanders! He’s split into successful, no fun Xander, and loser Xander, who’s kind of annoying but more enjoyable. After a bit of struggle, Anya likes them both.
We also get a monologue from Riley about how much he loves Buffy, but how she doesn’t love him back. Despite her saying, repeatedly, that she loves him. That she feels close to him in a way that she hasn’t felt with anyone else. But no. He’s going to feel insecure and tell her how she feels, because he can’t handle that she’s the Slayer.
“Out of My Mind”
Riley gets worse. In the “wah, Buffy doesn’t like me because I’m not a superhero” way and the medical, “the Initiative messed with my insides” way.
Spike tries again to get someone to take his chip out, aided by Harmony, unchipped but bad shot with a crossbow. Doesn’t work. Instead he has a sexy dream and realizes what we already knew, that he’s totally in love with Buffy.
“No Place Like Home”
Time to really set up the season arc. Buffy meets Glory, and finds out about the Key. Not what it does, but that it was so important that mysterious monks sent it to the Slayer for safekeeping, in a form she couldn’t ignore: a little sister.
Joyce’s mysterious headaches are getting worse, and Spike’s interactions with Buffy are now flavored with his newly discovered feelings for her.
“Family”
A very sweet Tara episode. I mean, I already liked Tara, but for the gang, she’s kinda been just Willow’s Girlfriend. But when her family shows up with some nonsense about how she’ll turn into an evil demon on her birthday (even in the Buffyverse, this makes no sense!) they all band together and send her father packing.
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| And Tara's party is the sweetest thing |
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