Three down, nineteen to go...
I don't normally comment on shows I watch on a regular basis but today is different....
What ? You, my loyal non-readers, don't watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer ? You're missing a treat. Of course, if you haven't watched the last few seasons it will seem kind of strange and won't make much sense, so get yourself over to FX where they are currently starting to show Season 2. In fact, one of today's FX episodes was the first Spike episode "Fool for Love". Watch it for a few weeks and the new ones might start to make sense. Maybe.
Anyway....
Three episodes into the seventh season and while it isn't all puppies and fluffy bunnies it at least isn't the drawn out pain fest some parts of season 6 inflicted on its' cultish viewers.
The episode is best described as "What if Willow came home and no one was there to meet her at the airport ? And, what if 'the gang' went to the airport to meet her and she didn't get off the plane ?" And what if both were correct ? For a while there it looked like she got off at the wrong dimension... until she interacted with other characters who COULD see her and we were saved from a retread of an old Star Trek episode.
Elements that raised this above the ordinary...
- References to Season 6's ending almost apocalypse
- The yellow crayon sign Xander had at the airport
- Destruction of the Magic Box
- Dawn with a sword at the cave
- Willow checking for the bullet hole in her room and looking at the pictures.
- The skinned dead person and Willow having to admit it could have been something she could have done.
- Clever (but not too cute) touches
- Dawn being Research Girl
- Willow catching herself when talking to Anya when she almost says "Quick like a bunny"
- Willow not being able to stay in her old room alone while she waits for her friends to show up.
- NOT having all the characters in the same room at the same time when they COULDN'T see each other (Made it clear this wasn't an "invisible" episode.)
- Fully posable Dawn (And her falling over when the monster dies because of the way she was "posed").
- Spike's "I'm crazy, what's his excuse!?" at the cave.
10:53:07 PM 
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