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6.11 Gone Xander: "You know, kidding aside, Spike, you really should get a girlfriend." Definitely Buffy Lite. The title was certainly appropriate: first, several inches of Buffy's hair disappeared, then Buffy herself disappeared... and then her determination to resist Spike seemed to disappear, too. At least momentarily. I loved what Buffy did to the social worker. Good for Buffy. Okay, an unemployed vampire slayer with supernatural problematic friends probably isn't the best guardian for a teenager with problems, but Dawn isn't exactly a normal teenager anyway. And being yanked away from the only remaining person in her family would undoubtedly make her worse, right? This couldn't have been an easy episode for the effects department. James Marsters did manage to pull off doing love scenes all by himself, though. I noticed he was wearing "real" clothes for a change, probably so that invisible Buffy could tear off his shirt. He's also started wearing jewelry in the past few episodes, probably so that when he's naked, he's at least wearing something. Am I talking too much about Spike and his lack of clothing, perhaps? Is Xander totally dense? Not long after catching Spike touching Buffy in the kitchen, he goes to Spike's crypt to tell Spike that Buffy is now invisible, sees Spike naked in bed doing (*ahem*) what he was doing, and doesn't make the connection? Willow now knows where the Lair is, and Buffy knows who the Nerds of Doom are. At least the Scoobies won't have to keep researching frost monsters and exploding lint now. Bits and quotes: -- I noticed Buffy's wig right away, but it was still a good one. Would I have noticed it if I hadn't heard about Sarah Michelle Gellar getting her hair cut? Probably not. -- Speaking of hair, Anya's looked almost normal again. -- Willow, valiantly resisting her addiction, was very much herself again throughout this entire episode. It made me realize how much I miss the old Willow. -- Was the parking cop guy the same one that was in the musical? -- The season one episode about an invisible girl was mentioned. Quotes: Buffy: "Dawn, it's magic clearance. Everything must go." Dawn: "But they're just candles!" Buffy: "Well, yeah, you know, to you and me they're just candles, but to witches they're like... bongs." Andrew: "I pictured something cooler. More ILM, less Ed Wood." Willow: "Okay, I deserve the wrath of Dawn, but why is she taking it out on you?" Spike: "Ah-ah-ah! This flapjack's not ready to be flipped." Xander: "Well, come on, Will. Some of the spells you've done have caused some weird stuff to happen to each of us at one time or another. And let's not forget the recent forgetting." Buffy: "So you three have, what, banded together to be pains in my ass?" Warren: "We're your arch-nemesises ... ses." Dan didn't like this episode very much. Okay, I'll grant that it was lame after the intensity of the last few, but I giggled a lot -- probably because Buffy had so much fun, and she was really in desperate need of some. Two out of four stakes, Billie |
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