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6.3 After Life Buffy: "You guys gave me the world. I can’t tell you what it means to me." I’m going to have to rein myself in; I could write a novella about this episode. To start off, I had a hard time choosing an appropriate quote; there were so many applicable ones in this episode. Like: Anya: "I think we screwed it up. She’s broken." Dawn: "She’s been through a lot with the ... death, but I think she’s okay." Buffy: "I’m tired.” Anya: “Yeah, jet lag from Hell has got to be, you know, jet lag from Hell." Tara: "Assume crash positions." and especially: Spike: "The thing about magic. There’s always consequences. Always." This episode takes up where the last one left off and even on the same day. It’s a darned good thing they did, because they needed another whole episode for just Spike’s reaction to Buffy’s resurrection -- and Buffy’s reaction as well. This whole Buffy/Spike thing just blows me away. It’s like something you really wish would happen to your two favorite characters in your favorite show, but usually they don’t give it to you. Spike and Buffy now have a heavy-duty connection -- an actual death, as opposed to near death, experience. He’s the only one who had any insight into what Buffy was feeling, and the only one she could talk to. She actually sought him out not once, but twice. "How long was I gone?" "One hundred forty seven days yesterday. One hundred forty eight today." "Every night I save you." James Marsters was amazing; the anger and tears, the way he attacked Xander, the way he kept just looking at Buffy, the compassionate way he was treating her... How can he not have a soul? Isn’t he earning one? On to Willow. Willow had to know that (1) Buffy might not come back right, and (2) there would be consequences. And she brought Buffy back anyway. She pulled Buffy right out of Heaven. Was Willow really convinced that Buffy was in Hell, or did she just use it as an excuse? If there actually is a traditional Heaven and Hell in the Buffyverse, a hero giving her life for another would definitely go to Heaven, right? This whole situation has the potential to split the Scoobies. Tara is being loyal to Willow and not really thinking about this, but Xander is already crediting Spike’s opinion and questioning Willow’s decision. What is Giles going to think? Bits and pieces (yes, all of this and I’m not done yet): -- I think Michelle Tractenberg made the scariest possessed-by-a-demon. I also liked her telling the Scoobies to back off and leave Buffy alone. -- They called Giles. Why didn’t they call Angel? I mean, geez, it isn’t even an overseas call. -- Buffy: "I miss Giles." Billie: "Me, too." -- The demon’s voice sounded like Anya’s when she was a demon. Quotes: Tara: "How did he take it?" Willow: "Um, I'm not sure. I mean, glad, but kinda weirded out, which I get, you know? Lots of 'dear lords'. And I think I actually heard him cleaning his glasses." Willow: "Okay, what in the frilly heck is going on?" Anya: "I found one of those 24-hour places for coffee. Remember that bookstore? Well they became one of those books-and-coffee places, and now they're just coffee. It's like evolution, only without the getting-better part." Spike: "Willow's getting pretty strong, isn't she? Bringing you back. It's hard to get a good night's death around here." Willow: "Think of it like, the world doesn't like you getting something for free, and we asked for this huge gift. Buffy. And so the world said, 'fine, but if you have that, you have to take this too.' And it made the demon." Anya: "Well, technically, that's not a price. That's a gift with purchase." Buffy: "You know what they say. Those of us who fail history? Doomed to repeat it in summer school." Buffy: "That's okay. I can be alone with you here." Spike: "Thanks ever so." Excellent. Four out of four stakes, Billie |
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