At a point in previous seasons where the plot has built up speed like an express train, this week gives me a sense of going nowhere fast.
Stan Lee used to write that the trick in serial comic storytelling was to provide “the illusion of change.” Make it *seem* that the situation was changing, but in fact most everything was remaining the same.
So let’s see what happened tonight:
The situation in Sunnydale is deteriorating. We knew that. Caleb is real real strong. We knew that. Xander’s eye is gone. We knew that. Faith knows how to party. We knew that. Cops are looking for Faith. We knew that. The place where Buffy and Co. attacked last week should be attacked. We knew that. Caleb and the First are in cahoots. We knew that. Buffy believes she is better than everyone else, but also has an inferiority complex. We knew that. Buffy, who has planned countless strategies in seven years, seems to have lost all her leadership skills. Unfortunately, we knew that too.
We learned exactly two things tonight: There’s a vague inscription in a church that annoyed Caleb, and–most importantly–how to make that brilliant onion flower thing that Spike fancies. That was the one moment in the entire episode I said, “Well, THAT was interesting.”
We learn nothing new and we’re three eps away from the end. At this point, the only thing we have a clear idea about is that the First is doing something nasty with the Hellmouth. Okay. Except we’ve seen the Hellmouth opened three times already in the series history. Once it took a season to get there, but the season was only twelve episodes. The other two times, it took exactly one episode to get there. Hëll, in one of those episodes, opening the Hellmouth was the “B” plot, taking second fiddle to Xander’s getting laid and hanging out with zombies. The seventh season is taking 22 dámņëd episodes, two dozen slayers, Xander’s eye, and endless angst to get to something going on with the šøddìņg Hellmouth.
I’ve been trying to tell myself a large part of the problem is the less-than-generous airing schedule. That “Angel” is playing so much better because the WB is running the show consecutively as opposed to the one new, two reruns, two new, two reruns, etc., that we’re seeing for “Buffy.” That perhaps this season will play better where aired nonstop on FX, which, frankly, I have to admit season 6 has. But nothing can overcome the fact that tonight’s episode gave us nothing substantive until the last act, and what was there was–frankly–horrendous. The troops revolt against Buffy. I could almost handle that. Almost.
So does Buffy say, “You don’t like it? Fine. Get the @*$# out of my house.” No. She slinks away…AT THE ORDER OF HER SISTER. Oh my GOD. I don’t care if she DOES have an inferiority complex. It’s HER SØÐÐÍNG HOUSE. They don’t like how she’s calling the shots? Let them move in to Xander or Willow’s place. And I’m sorry, there’s NO WAY Dawn orders her out. No way. Furthermore, she’s still a Slayer with formidable skills. Giles once said, “Our plan? Buffy IS the plan.” At a time when the Apocalypse is nigh, Giles lets one of their most potent weapons evaporate because she’s got management issues? The Bringer might as well have cut his head off, because he’s not putting the thing to any use. Mortimer Snerd could manage a military campaign better than this.
It’s almost as if they tried to paint this as a tough love intervention situation. “Buffy, your behavior is unacceptable. Get out.” No. They’re in a situation where they may be facing 10,000 Ubervamps, the only strategy they’ve got is, “Okay, Buffy, take the 5000 on the right, Faith, the 5000 on the left,” and they just cut their resources in half. Unless Willow is planning to crank up the Witch-o-Meter a few hundred decibles and put paid to Caleb singlehandedly (which, let’s face it, she probably could), then let us quote Xander from season two: “Hi, for those of you who just tuned in: Everyone here is a crazy person.”
It didn’t help that poor Gellar obviously was battling laryngitis during filming. Couldn’t they have looped it? One could try and rationalize it that Buffy got her throat injured by Caleb and was battling raspiness. But the First was sounding hoarse too.
This season was supposed to go back to the beginning. Instead it’s been fits and starts, with short arcs that begin and then taper off. Spike is being tortured by the First and going nuts except, okay, he gets cured of that. Giles isn’t touching anyone and might actually be the First except, wait, no, it was just some bad writing to hose viewers. Andrew killed his friend and then admits he did it, and that pretty much goes nowhere. Someone’s going all over the world to kill Slayers and Caleb blows up the Watchers, except now that the Slayers are all together, no one’s blowing them up, for some reason, not sure why, rapidly not caring. Xander and Anya might be getting back together except, no, they’re not. It’s like watching a finely tuned race car that keeps stalling out every three laps. A season that started promisingly, and has had a few standout episodes, is suffering from inertia and soggy storytelling. And since comparisons to “Angel” are inevitable, it’s almost painful.
They’ve got, what, three weeks to pull it together? I’m still hoping the resolution is that the First is planning to open up Hellmouths all over the world, Buffy thwarts it by sacrificing the primal power of the Slayer, that’s the end of the Slayer line, and the Hellmouth is gone forever. Which would be pretty major and a considerable payoff. But getting there has been all fits and starts; we keep waiting for it to start and have fits when it doesn’t.
PAD
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Hmmm. I don’t want to spend alot of time commenting on what other people have said. No point, they will believe what they believe.
The episode was average at best, but purposeless, certainly not.
I’m pretty sure this episode was about “driving it home.” No, not the same kind of driving it home that next week’s episode seems to be about.
This week was about beating Buffy down, physically and emotionally. It was about adding an exclamation mark to all of the points made earlier in the season.
At the beginning of the season we are told that Buffy thinks she is superior yet has an inferority complex.
That’s great and all, but what purpose is telling us these things if we do not see it, and it doesn’t come to a boiling point. Peter David certainly knows that one of the main rules of writing is to ‘show not tell.’ Showing gives it more importance, it makes it real.
As the seasons have gone by, we have seen Buffy get more and more isolated. Me, Me, Me. My power, blah blah. Her power and her perception of it has driven rifts between the scoobies. Now that the evil and threat is greater, her self-loathing and sense of superiority is greater, causing her to make poor decisions.
Buffy is forgetting that although she might be the slayer, it is her friends (and this has been brought up in the show through the years, by Angel, Adam, Spike, the Mayor, and Glory) that have kept her living and fighting longer than the slayers that have come before her, because unlike her, those past slayers fought alone (ex. Wood’s mom.) The fact that the W. Council (even Giles for a time) found it repehensible in the first three years of the show that anyone other than a Watcher would be allowed to know a Slayer’s purpose just solidifies the ‘Slayer works alone, but dies quickly’ school of thought.
Buffy has now come to believe that it’s her fight, everyone else is there just to get in line. She has forsaken the Scoobies. When the fight became her primary concern and she began to look at her loved ones (and those poor kids) as soldiers and not people, it was st that moment we should have known Buffy was going to take a fall. (This being the culmination of her increasing loneliness, and her inferority\superiority issues.(Once again pounded into our heads last night)
The fact that Buffy is their friend and loved by the Scoobies is actually what has allowed them to let her screw up this far.
After the thing at the vineyard, they just aren’t going to let her single-mindedness destroy them anymore. If that means ousting her so she learns a hard lesson (tough love) then so be it.
This all came to a boiling point in last nights episode.
Last season, Buffy finally accepted her power and her role as slayer. The acceptance of this responsibility has made her believe she is to carry the burden of it alone. (another point reiterated since the end of last season, and in last night’s episode.)
This season,(between now and the finale) Buffy will realize that even though she came to terms with her power and accepted responsibility, she will need to learn to share that burden again, as she did before (w\Giles, Xander, Willow – yet another play on going back to the beginning)
Taking the burden together again is the only way for them to defeat Caleb and The First. In doing all of this Buffy will have come full circle.
Purposeless…yeesh.
Someone has to say it bluntly:
Buffy is a moron.
When it comes down to it, the most novel solutions to taking out a bad guy have always belonged to the support group. Anya came up with the hammer and Dagon Sphere, Xander with the wrecking ball. It was Giles and Willow who did the spell to unite everyone and give Buffy the power of the first slayer. Xander pitched the rocket launcher. Willow restored Angel’s soul. Xander reasoned that only love could stop Willow.
Buffy’s ideas usually revolve around: “I will hit it until it dies.”
Outside-the-box thinking is the only thing that will win the day here, and Buffy can’t do it. Faith can. Like others have mentioned, Buffy wouldn’t think to take a gun off those cops and put a bullet through Caleb’s head. Nor would she get a bunch of grenades, pop the pins, and roll them down the steps of that vineyard before she went in to fight. This is what makes Faith right for the current job.
Marc
Someone has to say it bluntly:
Buffy is a moron.
Well, no.
Brains are not her strong point, and she’s said as much (repeatedly, during season two). But: She came up with the idea of tricking a vampire into drinking holy water (“Helpless”). She figured out that Caleb’s power source is in the vineyard (last night). She can do the brains thing, if need be. Brawn is just so much easier. And more fun.
–Daniel M.
I thought the episode was intreasting. Not great but intreasting. As the one girl put it “ding dong the withc is dead.”
Buffy needed a talking down to for awhile now. Now I wish they’d just give Kennedy one (ok, I don’t like the character, and I don’t like how they do her and willow). Buffy has this attitude that she is the one and she knows everything. Giles has taught her everything (including betrayal but that’s nothing new, look at s3) and she doesn’t need to listen to his or her friends opinions. I agree with what some are saying on here. Buffy has a tendency to hit first and think things through later.
Buffy got exactly what she deserved and what has apprently been building for awhile. There was a time that she would ask Giles, Xander and Willow their opinion, not force feed hers to everyone.
As for Faith…She is a slayer. Buffy may hate her, the others may have issues with her but in the end she is a Slayer. More importantly she’s THE Slayer at the moment. I’d love to see Faith go through the Shadow Play’s gateway and get the power or whatever that the First Council (do they have an official name?) offered Buffy. She thought she needed the power to fight was behind the seal, my guess is she needed it to fight Caleb.
Yep!
I was saying “What the Frell!” this morning at work when watching Buffy on tape.
She lets herself get overruled, and then exiled and thrown out of her own frelling house? By DAWN of all people?
Talk about betrayal most foul. She’s bailed them all out countless times and now she’s not good enough to lead them?
Who do they the Potentials think they are, a college basketball team? They don’t like how the coach is running things so they revolt?
And for the Scooby Gang to betray her is just too much in my book.
When the show is over, and Buffy has saved the day, as they all gather to congratulate her, she should tell them to pìšš øff and then just leave town.
Screw em all.
She figured out that Caleb’s power source is in the vineyard (last night).
Uh, no. Maybe I’m wrong here (wouldn’t be the first time) but I don’t think there’s anything special about the vineyard. Its just as Giles said, a windmill. Buffy is just totally confused and emotional at this point and truly has no idea what she’s doing.
Caleb, it seems pretty obvious to me, is a Male Slayer. The clues are too apparent. His comment “I have something of yours Buffy” and the inscription on the monestary wall “Its to be wielded by HER alone”–>all seem to support the idea that slayer-essence (that demon that we saw in this year’s 1st Slayer Episode) has somehow been given to Caleb.
I just wonder if the male-slayerness will be passed on like the female one has been. Can you say “WOOD THE VAMPIRE SLAYER?”
Chris
The potentials were quite right to rebel, as there’s a bit more at stake than a basketball game. Let’s see, last time out the plan was “Everyone but Willow goes and attacks the vineyard”. Result of plan; we learn that Caleb is stronger physically than either Slayer, two potentials are killed, and Xander loses an eye.
So, now Buffy proposes her next plan; “Let’s all go back to the vineyard, same as before! But this time without Spike, since he’s not here!” No modifications, no knowledge other than a hunch that Caleb’s power is there, no knowledge that there’s a clock ticking and like it or not they have to do something *now*.
Any sane person: “Um, why should we think the result’s going to be any different this time if we do the same thing we did last time? I’m willing to die to defeat the First/Caleb, but I’m not willing to die as cannon fodder for no reason.”
Right. Dawn? Dawn?!? What was she thinking?
“Gee, sis. I know you killed yourself to save me before. Literally. Lept into death for me. But now that you’re annoying, could you get out of the house? Yeah. Cause you’re a bad leader. Leave.”
Say what?
Since someone asked:
Best season?
I’d rank Season 3 at the top, with Season 2 in a firm second place. Then, splice together a superb season out of the best episodes of seasons 1, 4, 5, and 6 (precious few, there) and call it third place.
Season 4 could have been wonderful–the first episode is flawless–but they quickly botched all of the good themes therein, and caught the bad-pacing bug that’s plauged them to a greater or lesser degree ever since.
Hmmm. Season 4. First time Joss began dividing his attention with other large projects….go figure….
Fourth Season comment
I would like to have seen how it was originally supposed to be. From what I’ve heard Adam was made the big bad late in the season. The true big bad for that season was supposed to be Maggie Walsh.
That would’ve ben an intresting ender!
**Secondly-
This episode was BORING and uneventful (as PAD mentions).**
Just…point of information. I said neither. A lot *happened.* It’s just that it didn’t do much to advance the plot, and it didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. The only “advancement” was that Buffy was thrown out of her own house…and that was handled so piss-poorly that I’d hardly call that something you want to hang an episode on.
But I didn’t say boring or uneventful.
PAD
Brains are not her strong point, and she’s said as much (repeatedly, during season two). But: She came up with the idea of tricking a vampire into drinking holy water (“Helpless”). She figured out that Caleb’s power source is in the vineyard (last night). She can do the brains thing, if need be.
And, hey…organized and carried off entire climactic campaign against the mayor in “Graduation Day.” It was better than attacking the mayor with hummus.
PAD
Once again, I thought the allusions to the resident-in-thief were obvious: nothing makes (him) so special, just an accident of birth, etc.
I think the final group scene, including Dawn’s part in it, is defensible.
Buffy comes close to having a breakdown when the others raise doubts about her plan, which is grounded primarily on her intuitions about what Caleb is up to. She immediately becomes peremptory, tries to squash dissent by the force of her personality, and just arrogantly assumes that she’s leader by right. She accuses Faith of “pal-ing around” and getting the slayerettes drunk (an earlier scene shows Faith actually taking alcohol *away* from Amanda) so as to “take everything away from” Buffy.
In fact, Faith knows something Buffy doesn’t — that leadership comes from bonding and shared experiences and risks as well as from force of will. Faith knows all the slayerettes’ names, which Buffy clearly doesn’t.
And it is Buffy herself who (unwittingly) raises the issue of whether she should stay.
Buffy: “I can’t watch you just throw away everything. I know I’m right about this. I just need a little …. I can’t stay here and just watch her lead you into some disaster.”
(Pause.)
Dawn gets up (she was sitting next to Xander) and goes over to her sister.
Dawn (very quietly, but with resolve): “Then you can’t stay here.”
Buffy looks at her in shock.
Dawn: “Buffy, I love you. You were right — we have to be together on this…. [So] You can’t be a part of it. So I need you to leave. I’m sorry. But this is my house too.”
It is visibly costing Dawn a lot to say this.
Buffy looks around the room. She sees no support. She grabs her coat and quickly walks out the door.
Rona: “Ding dong the witch is dead.”
Dawn (quickly but deliberately, angrily, through gritted teeth): “Shut your mouth!”
So, Dawn doesn’t kick Buffy out — she actually makes an argument to Buffy about what she (Dawn) needs, and Buffy accepts it and agrees to leave. This is an argument and a struggle she has lost, and she realizes it.
PAD says “**Secondly-
This episode was BORING and uneventful (as PAD mentions).**
Just…point of information. I said neither….
But I didn’t say boring or uneventful.
PAD “
Apologies… I sort of unintentially misquoted and misinterpreted your comments.
B
ummmmm There is one possibility that might explain why everyone is turning buffy away……ummmmm the first / hellmouth caused police to be just down right evil in this episode, what stops it from corrupting the scooby gang, and chastising buffy? Isn’t this a possibility of what might have happend? I am not saying that the writing is great this season, but I hope that is what happend.
And, hey…organized and carried off entire climactic campaign against the mayor in “Graduation Day.” It was better than attacking the mayor with hummus.
PAD
Is memory deceiving me? I thought that Giles was the one who came up with the idea of recreating the volcano after he and Xander found the picture of what the Mayor was going to turn into.
On the other hand, battering Harry Groener with hummus would have been just plain wrong. Talented guy, deserves better than chick peas. 🙂
Marc
Harry Groener has aged well since his appearance ages ago on ST:TNG…
My wife and I finally got around to finishing re-watching the 3rd season DVD’s Sunday, then later that day I was flipping channels and there he was on a TNG rerun on TNN a few hours later…
Can you say “WOOD THE VAMPIRE SLAYER?”
Oh, God…I hope not. I just don’t care for him much. I was hoping Spike would have twisted his neck when he attacked Spike. Ah well…maybe next week while riding faith she will see a vision of the first right in front of Wood (who is on the bed) and try to stab her and, of course, stabbing Wood in the process. You see, Faith hasn’t seen the FIRST yet and does not know she is coporal.
Of course – it is entirely possible that I am to physically worn out (just finished last the last week the semester in college and a long one for this 30 year old who went to see Godsmack last night and didn’t get home until 2)and I haven’t found much use in his character on the show — sure his Mom was a slayer and Spike killed her — ok — said and done and you tried your revenge..move on. I will probably catch some slack over this one…just don’t call me a racist, because that has nothing to do with anything.
And while I am on my rant — I am glad Giles finally stood up to someone, even it was only Andrew (who is too much of a friggin’ idiot for me to start on or I will never finish what was suppose to be a small, quick comment.)– I wonder if after he set “poooor Andrew” straight if he said to himself, “You know, that felt great! Where’s Buffy…”
Anyhoo — have one last class to turn in papers and go over a film. The class is “Film and the Great Depression” – then on home to watch Angel from last night – I’ve been dying to read the entry.
X
Has anybody considered the fact that Buffy
The only thing I find wrong the last wee’s episode was that everyone turned on Buffy. How could they? Why would they? Well, it’s ovious she isn’t the “best” at her leadership skills RIGHT NOW, but still who has eever been better than Buffy? She saved the world, how many times? Saved all of them, how many times? It was ridiculous, and angering to watch. The fact that they could actually turn on Buffy after everything she has done for them, and, well, THE WORLD! C’mon now can’t they see she is stressed more than anyone, and rightfully so! But to turn her from HER house, and better yet by Dawn, now here’s something just alittle weird although they have come to accept Dawn as Buffy’s real sister, SHE’S NOT! And for her to say it is her house to and to leave, haha, I laugh and think KEY!!! She was they KEY, and also created! Who is she to do that? Everything was built around Buffy and what she’s done, what she’s had to endure but always still making the right decisions, hence; Killing Angel…My God, couldn’t they have cut her some slack, for making one wrong decision. Very very sad, that it’s come to this…The Scooby Gang turning on BUFFY…..sigh
Well can pretty much guess how the season may end, the end of days is coming and the vampire with a soul will need to avert the apocalypse, shanshu and all that, except Angel isn’t the only vamp with a soul now, and the Scroll of Aberjian never did mention Angel by name… Buffy’s the last guardian of the hellmouth, so I guess Spike’s going to do some heroic sacrifice to close the hellmouth for good.
“They’ve got, what, three weeks to pull it together? “
and next week is the we are about to die so let’s have sex eposide.
“Someone above mentioned how Showtime was a prime example of Buffy making a plan and winning and it was. However, it was also an example of everyone working together and coming off victorious. Buffy had the idea and then finetuned it with her lieutenants. Somehow, since then, she’s stopped consulting and listening to other’s opinions.”
course we have also had Giles and Wood betrayl since then. hard to listern to others when they don’t trust you.
“Faith finally got some slayer-respect (why does she always take the second fiddle role?). “
besides buffy beings slightly older and the active slayer? there is the whole faith joined the bad guys aspect.
The question I keep asking myself while watching the last few episodes is: Why doesn’t Giles step up and act like Buffy’s Watcher? I understood why everyone was questioning Buffy’s judgement, based on last ep.’s debacle. Instead of letting Buffy get thrown out, Giles, in private, should have been an adult and put Buffy in her place. Instead, he’s been wimpy and close mouthed, and letting Buffy push him around with an “I don’t love you anymore” attitude.
I thought that Buffy being “voted off the island” made no sense at all. She needed Giles to play “Dad” and help her straighten herself out. Otherwise, what’s the point of Giles even being on the show? “
giles has no authority anymore. buffy served ties with the council in season three. that ended any offical authority they had.she allowed them to be a resource during season five but that was at her choice.Gies watcher authority tied more into the surogate father post he had after that but after the betrayl with spike she made it clear that the last watcher had no more authority. she has now basically graduated form even that.
“My current theory is that Mutant Enemy is trying to make the audience hate Buffy as much as they hate Sarah Michelle Gellar. “
well in my case they are failing miseraly (as is the season)since i am just sympathezing more with her.
“Putting aside the usual plot holes big enough to drive Mayor Wilkins through (why aren’t any of the Scoobies or Slayerettes going Hellmouthy?”
well part of the bìŧçhìņëšš might be as a result. lord knows negative emotions are high
“just why haven’t some ‘Bingers been dispatched to blow up the House o Slayers?”
most likely they need at least one person in the house alive.
“Why has there been no mention of bringing Angel & Co. in?”
because they have their own problems?
“Where the flark is the god-whomping troll’s hammer?”
burried under the collapsed tower?
” Why not bust out the Uber-Slayer spell,since it seems everything’s on the line?”
because of it’s restrictions? don’t want harbrigers attacking while buffy is uber
“Just what are the First’s abilities, again, and why do I care?”
it whispers darness to you
“If the Slayerettes don’t have any superstrength, then just how have they been doing any of the things we’ve seen them do for weeks?”
training, coordination and attacking enmass? plus not fighting any big bads until last week
“1: As lame as the rebellion stuff was, there was one excellent point made that I’ve been waiting for for a bit: Why exactly is Buffy in charge, again?”
one who deserves/should/qualifies to lead more?
two because it is the choices buffy makes that decide things
“On a more positive note, I have a question to ask. Which was the best season of Buffy? I’d always thought that most fans liked season two the best, in spite of its occasional flaws, because of the Spike-Drusilla-Angelus storyline. Lately, though, a lot of people have been saying season three was the best. Maybe it’s because the DVD just came out. (Personally, I have a certain fondness for season five.) Anyway, what’s your pick?
–Daniel M. “
season three for the buffy angel romance with the gang around
“Someone has to say it bluntly:
Buffy is a moron.
When it comes down to it, the most novel solutions to taking out a bad guy have always belonged to the support group. Anya came up with the hammer and Dagon Sphere, Xander with the wrecking ball. It was Giles and Willow who did the spell to unite everyone and give Buffy the power of the first slayer. Xander pitched the rocket launcher. Willow restored Angel’s soul. Xander reasoned that only love could stop Willow.
Buffy’s ideas usually revolve around: “I will hit it until it dies.”
Outside-the-box thinking is the only thing that will win the day here, and Buffy can’t do it. Faith can. Like others have mentioned, Buffy wouldn’t think to take a gun off those cops and put a bullet through Caleb’s head. Nor would she get a bunch of grenades, pop the pins, and roll them down the steps of that vineyard before she went in to fight. This is what makes Faith right for the current job.”
she isn’t a moron. she just isn’t a miltary trained tatiction.nor was miltary training but of the slayer traing since that way the watcher could control them
“In fact, Faith knows something Buffy doesn’t — that leadership comes from bonding and shared experiences and risks as well as from force of will. Faith knows all the slayerettes’ names, which Buffy clearly doesn’t.”
all of which Buffy has been doing with Giles,Willow and Xander since first season. course buffy is also very busy with everything going around so she doesn’t have as much time to pal around with her sudden larg amount of uninvited house guest unlike faith who is another one
“Buffy comes close to having a breakdown when the others raise doubts about her plan, which is grounded primarily on her intuitions about what Caleb is up to. She immediately becomes peremptory, tries to squash dissent by the force of her personality, and just arrogantly assumes that she’s leader by right. She accuses Faith of “pal-ing around” and getting the slayerettes drunk (an earlier scene shows Faith actually taking alcohol *away* from Amanda) so as to “take everything away from” Buffy.”
course Buffy knows old Faith and Faith did take them to a club to party( and she caught one person drinking and took it). Buffy also realized that faith had had a better chance to bond with the potentials.
season 3 was the best season, as spike was only in it for one episode, the buffy and angel storyline was brilliant, and cordelia and xander were funny. And dawn is the moron not buffy.
Well…I don’t blame the group for kicking Buffy out.
I mean come on. Buffy might has well said: ” Ok, I know lots of people have died and Xander got his eye poked out but we have to go back into the cellar right now!”
Thats her big plan?
I was just sitting there wondering if Buffy was stupid.
I don’t blame the gang for kicking her out.
Will Faith be a better leader? Hmm. I have no idea. This new Faith is still wild but she seems a bit smarter.
I hope Buffy does come back though. And gets her act together.
Sheesh. She should at least wait till Spike & Andrew come back with news until she goes forward with her “plan”.
I was definitly with the ” Buffy you should go play.” I mean come Buff: listen to your people.
IMO, thats the only way she is going to win this. IF she realizes that she has SMART people around her and she needs to use them. Sure someone needs lead, but that leader needs to listen.
I mean come on: Xander & crew warned her last time that she was walking into a trap & she was like: ” I don’t care what you guys say, we’re going in!” and look what happened.
Buffy use to think things through. She use work with the group. Sure, she was the leader, but she had a group that helped her.
Now, she likes: ” I don’t care for any of your opinions. Your opinions do not matter.”
Which is, imo, stupid. You have Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya: these people are not stupid. They’ve been through alot of what Buffy has been through over the seasons.
And if they agree with the new people..then you know something is wrong, Buff.
Sheesh.
Everybody is saying Dawn & co. are morons. Nope. Buff is here.
I can see why they out voted Buffy.
DF2506
Anya: “Who here will not be in this house on the next episode? Buffy Suffers, YOU are the Weakest Link! Bye Bye!”
Sorry, couldn’t resist…
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The one thing that was bothering me about this episode was why some of her best friends turned on Buffy. sure the action in the cellar was a bust but she had no way of knowing that Caleb would be this strong.
After viewing the last couple of episodes again i came to the conclusion that there are quiet a number people with selfish reasons to vote her of the island.
1 Giles – he had betrayed Buffy