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Hello, and welcome to Buff and the art

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of story season 7. A pie that recap

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1 episode of Buff the vampire slayer at

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a time, focusing on its story elements.

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Today,

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I'm looking at season 7,

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episode 9 never leave me where Buff Inter

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spike, Za and On play good cop, bad

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cop with Andrew,

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and the truth about the big evil is

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finally

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discover.

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I am Lisa M Lily author of the

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awakening supernatural

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thriller series and the Qc Davis crime novels,

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as well as the writing as a second

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career books for writers,

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along with the recap of never leave me.

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Today, I'll talk about the challenges of using

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a group as a protagonist,

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setting out the rules in a supernatural

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story, filling in a lack of plot developments

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with fun and humor and building to a

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key

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revelation. As always,

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there will be no spoilers except in the

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foreshadowing

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section at the end, but I'll give you

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plenty of warning. Okay. Let's dive into the

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hell mouth. Never leave me aired the first

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time on 11/26/2002.

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It was written by Drew Goddard and directed

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by David Solomon.

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It's 1 of the shortest

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episodes of buff at 39 minutes.

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Most episodes run about 42

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or 43 minutes. I think the longest was

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44.

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It starts with some opening conflict,

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Willow on and Dawn are cleaning up the

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living room as Xander repairs the windows.

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This is from the destruction back in conversations

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with dead people, so not much time passes

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during the 3 episodes,

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conversations with dead people where

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Dawn, saw joyce and some sort of spirit

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or demon or evil forced destroyed a lot

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of the house

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and Willow and Buff also had encounters, then

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the following episode sleeper

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where Buff followed spike and discovered he was

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killing and brought him home.

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Don now says to Willow, so the basement

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was filled with bodies

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referring to the climactic scene in sleeper and

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Willow says apparently

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Now John comments that Spike could have fired

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lots, more vampires and buried them all over

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town. So what

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are they waiting for for spike to do

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something crazy? On asks, shouldn't they stab him

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through the chest? Isn't that what they do

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in this type of

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situation?

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Referring to selfless where Buff did stab on

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yet after she's slaughtered all those f boys.

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Will insist though that Buff knows what she's

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doing and Sander declines to join the debate

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though On wants him to weigh. And since

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he was always skeptical of spike. On tells

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them they need to prepare for the possibility

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that William, the bloody is back. A nice

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transition to the neck scene,

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we see boots and the hem of what

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looks like, spikes,

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trademark leather does as he stocks down the

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street, but when the camera pans up, it's

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in a leather trench coat and what looks

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like Warren

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tells him what he needs to do next.

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Andrew wants to know why he has to

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do all the wet work. And here is

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where we get the rules that this evil

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plays by, and it's literally signaled by

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warren saying, hey, you know the rules. I

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can't take corp

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form. Here, feel.

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He stops and Andrew passes his hand

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right through warren chest and back back and

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This, I'll call the ghost of warren says

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pretty bitch. Right? I'm like Obi wan, and

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responds or Patrick W, Warren then explains that

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he can't do any of this

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himself

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because of that, but Andrew says he doesn't

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wanna kill anyone else. Warren morph into Jonathan.

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And reassure Andrew, basically that it's okay

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that he killed Jonathan that it wasn't that

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bad and then he became 1 with light

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and hope. Jonathan also reassure Andrew that it's

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not andrew's fault. The ritual didn't work. Jonathan

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is little He doesn't have as much blood

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as other people, and he should probably have

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told someone he was anemic, but don't worry

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they'll fix it. Both Warren and Jonathan

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speak and act very much like

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themselves. So you can see why Andrew thinks

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he is talking to their ghosts.

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Jonathan also says they can work around Andrew

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not killing anyone else. This is about 2

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minutes 39 seconds, so very early in the

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episode. Usually by 10 percent through, we see

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the story spark or inc incident that gets

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the main plot rolling.

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I see

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this

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scene with Warren Andrew Jonathan

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as the story spark because what drives

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the main plot in this action is that

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this evil wants to open

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the seal of Damp will learn what it's

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called later in the episode, and needs blood

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to do it. Now in a way, this

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was all set in motion long before this

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episode started

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in the previous

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showed back when Andrew

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killed Jonathan.

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That was the first attempt that we know

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of to open the seal. But for the

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purposes, up today's story. This sets it off.

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The scene cuts to a bedroom in the

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summer's home. Buff is tightening ropes on spike.

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He's tied to a chair, and she tells

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him they'll get to the bottom of what's

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happening. Spike tells her to make the ropes

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tighter. If he gets free, someone will die

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and we go to credits. So it's a

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pretty good hook for the credits. On return,

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principal wood, lectures 2 students in his office

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about damaging

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school property and he tells them it can

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be settled 1 of 2 ways. You can

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rep repay the walls or I can suspend

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you and report this little incident on your

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permanent.

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And 1 of the students says fine. Do

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that. And Robin Woods says, okay. I was

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bluff. I hadn't really thought that through. Listen

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this whole permanent everything thing is such a

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myth anyway, colleges never asked for anything past

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your Sat scores, and it's not like employers

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are gonna be calling up to check to

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see how many days you missed back in

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high school. So listen, I could suspend you,

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but that would mean calling your parents, alerting

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your teachers, filling out paperwork and quite possibly

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having to talk to the school board,

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all of which sounds positively

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exhausting to me. No. No. I think it

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would be much easier if I just called

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the police. Let them deal with it. Oh,

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and in case you're wondering, this is the

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part where I'm not bluff.

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And the other student says will rep repent

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it. This is the first use of a

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that

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is entirely filler. It doesn't move anything in

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the plot of this episode, but it does

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have some humor. I enjoy principal wood, fuss

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up about the permanent. Record thing we get

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some character

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development

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for him, and we will see similar use

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of humor later with Za and An,

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which does a little bit of character development

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less for them as people, more for them

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as a former couple, it moves their

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relationship. However, they're quite a few scenes

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that are like that in this episode, which

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made me on first watch,

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not enjoy it that much because not much

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happens

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in comparison to most buff

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episodes But I enjoy it more on re

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rewatch because I know the whole season arc,

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and I can just have fun with the

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humor of it, and what we see of

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our characters. And the good thing with this

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wood scene, it does have conflict.

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So it isn't just hey let me tell

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you about these characters or let's have some

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funny jokes. There's conflict. And now there's a

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little bit more minor conflict because Don knocks

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on the door and interrupt. She tells Robin

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wood that Buff is sick and won't be

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in that day. And Dawn says last night

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she was vomiting, and this morning she was

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vomiting some more. And then just as we

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thought she is done. She started vomiting again,

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and wood very dead pants says, yeah. We

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got that stomach flu thing going around. Dawn

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adds, her exact words were I've got stuff

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coming out of both ends. Principal wood it's

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hilarious here. He says, thank you. That's very

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helpful.

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Done Brightly says, sure. No problem. Hey, guys.

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How's it going.

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So more humor, ultimately, it really doesn't matter.

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That Buff doesn't go to work today. This

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story could as easily have happened on a

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Saturday or a Sunday when she wasn't do

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at work. It is a nice way though

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to weave in Buff regular life, which is

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something

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in a story that you want to do

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if you want your audience to remember, hey.

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Yeah. Buff has a job as a high

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school counselor and doing it with a little

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bit of conflict and a little bit of

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humor

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and covering it quickly is a nice way

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to do that. Dawn tells him that Buff

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will be back. She just needed to get

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some things out of her system and the

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scene cut to Buff on the phone

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with Quentin t from the watchers council. She

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tells him she needs to find gil who

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is not answering any of his number. So

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this builds on that moment last week when

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we saw gil with an x swinging at

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his head and another watcher

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killed. Quentin towels, Buff the council doesn't keep

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track of laugh employees

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and Ever since str abandoned his post in

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Sunny dale, the council hasn't seen him. And

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this got me thinking about

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the council

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presumably doesn't know that Buff ever died because

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there was the Buff bot.

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Gil probably wouldn't have told them. So did

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they stop paying him because it looked like

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he just walked off his post, which which

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he did.

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So I guess he's a lapse employee, and

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and they didn't try probably knowing Buff did

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not try to send another watcher out there.

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Beau tells Quentin not to get, quote, all

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British and Dodgy and, quote, she knows his

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ways of finding gil, and he tells her

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he'll look into it. When he hangs up,

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the camera pans, and we see there are

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a ton of watchers sitting around a giant

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conference table. There's all these books shelves around

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them. It's just what I would think the

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watchers council looks like, and Quentin tells them

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the girl knows nothing. Then he walks in

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front of a map of the whole world

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with

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rectangles drawn around sections and says they need

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to find gil as soon as possible. The

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scene cuts to spike still tight in that

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chair. He's breathing very hard,

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struggling

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to keep it together. Buff asks if she

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can do something. He starts to tell her

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to leave and then he va out and

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we cut to a commercial. On return, we

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get a shot of the summer's house and

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then Willow and Buff talking in the upstairs

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hallway.

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Buff says he's been feast on humans for

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weeks. He's been having some pretty bad withdrawals,

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I think we need to get him some

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blood. And Willow says, do you want me

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to kill On? Buff looks a little tempted

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but says, no. They should probably try to

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wan him off humans

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they need animal blood and Willow agrees to

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go to the butcher, but first she asks

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how Buff do

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and Buff says she'll be okay. In the

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next scene, we're in the school basement,

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warren

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tells Andrew, she won't feel a thing just

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do it fast. They near the seal and

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Warren trying to get Andrew to kill a

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pig lid. Andrew talks about babe too pick

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in the city being really underrated and Warren

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says don't think about babe. He all so

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tries to coach him telling him he's Conan.

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He's the destroyer. It's Andrew against nature. He's

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a primal hunter.

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And goes on your Andrew, everyone knows you.

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You play by your own roles. It's killer

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be killed. Andrew inspired gives a whoop and

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chases the pig with a knife. He lunges

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at it and it sq and runs away,

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and Warren says that's the worst attempt a

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pig's lettering I've ever seen. Andrew says he's

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not very good at stabbing. Isn't there some

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other way to get blood and we cut

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to the butcher shop. This is a nice

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way to get Willow and Andrew

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into the same

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place. For this same reason.

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Andrew's number is called, and he orders a

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bunch of items, 12 pork chops, some other

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meat, 8 quarts of pig's blood, toothpaste,

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spoof the type of scene where someone goes

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in, when I was young, it was going

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into buy condoms and being embarrassed to get

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just that. So getting a bunch of other

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things. The butcher gives Andrew a look and

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says he doesn't sell toothpaste. At 10 minutes

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1 second, Andrew

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turns away from the counter holding his brown

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bag and bumps right into Willow. All his

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items spill onto the ground, and we cut

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to commercial. On return, Willow runs after Andrew,

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who has dart outside, and she corners him

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and he says don't kill me.

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Willis says I'm not gonna kill you, and

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he responds don't torture me and send me

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to an eternal pain dimension. He also tells

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her warren killed terra. I didn't do it

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and he was aiming for Buff anyway.

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Understandably, Willow looks an and an as Andrew

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Makes excuses,

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and she says not making it better. Then

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he tells her she got her revenge. She

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killed his best friend and they're even

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Willow is even more angry and says even

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you think I get satisfaction from what I

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did and he responds maybe not, but let

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me keep my skin. Okay? I'm not bad.

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I'm not bad anymore. I'm good. I do

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good things now.

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Andrew seems

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sincere here,

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and some of his conversation with Jonathan

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suggests he might think that he's doing something

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good. He thinks when Warren appears to him

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and Jonathan appears to him that it really

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is his friends

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And his plan with Jonathan was we're going

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to get

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information to help the slayer and join her

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gang. So he may

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still think that it's not entirely clear because

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we don't know what other conversations he had

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with Warren. Willow asked him if he's so

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good why does he need lots and lots

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of blood, and then he

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switches to say that he's bad, he's evil,

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he's protected by powerful forces

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and goes on forces you can't even begin

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to imagine little girl. He calls her as

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she witch and tells her to stand down,

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Willow pushes him against the wall and says

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shut your mouth, I am a she witch,

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a very powerful

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she witch, or which at is more accurate.

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I am not to be tri with.

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He says, but I and Willow tells him

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stop talking don't interrupt me and significant man.

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I am willing.

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I am deaf. If you dare define me,

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I will call down my fury exact fresh

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vengeance and make your worse fears come true.

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Okay?

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This is a nice job, and I did

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not do it justice of Willow

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drawing on

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the feelings of power and

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assertiveness

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that she had as dark willow, the confidence,

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the clarity, the ability to push back and

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scare someone. Obviously, she went way over the

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edges dark willow, but she draws on that

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without going there completely,

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but then there's a little of the old

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willow when she says, okay? And it is

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enough

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to

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scare andrew,

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scare,

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control, and intimidate. It's enough for willow to

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take charge. And I like that she had

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been able

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to carry over some of that, so the

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willow who felt like everyone pushed her around,

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Willow doesn't feel that way anymore. Willow brings

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warren to the summer's house and tells the

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other about his suspicious behavior. That's about 11

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minutes 51 seconds, which is past the quarter

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mark in the episode And I think it

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is the first major plot turn that should

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come from outside the protagonist,

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spin the story in a new direction and

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raise the stakes. It doesn't spin in an

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entirely new direction because we will still have

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Buff trying to get the truth from spikes

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and we'll still have this evil trying to

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get blood in in the background unknown to

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Buff,

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but Andrew

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will also be question and a good part

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of the episode will be taken up by

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that. So it is something of a earn

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in this story,

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and it is a big deal to bring

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Andrew 1 of the geek Trio

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into the summers. Home. This also raises the

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question

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who is the protagonist here. I said it

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comes from outside the protagonist.

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A protagonist should be the character actively pursuing

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a goal throughout the story who has the

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most at stake and is the main point

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of view character.

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Throughout the episode, Buff is trying to learn

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more about the evil that's threatening them by

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questioning spike by as she said last episode

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staying close to spike because the evil has

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been messing with him, he probably knows it

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best even if he does consciously. So Buff

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has an active goal. Za and Anu also

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will be helping with that when they question

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Andrew, but that's only for part of the

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episode, and Willow is helping as well. So

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all of them are fairly active, but Buff

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is the 1 who is

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throughout, who has the most at stake? Will,

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they all have

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their lives at stake as is often true,

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probably buff more than the others because everything

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is on her shoulders as the slayer. So

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the first too lean toward Buff, the last

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1 main point of view is where it

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gets tricky and is part of why this

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episode feels a little un focused

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or like it, lacks enough story because we

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we don't have that much more fees point

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of view than anyone else's, We shift around.

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We get Andrew's point of view. We get

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some spike. We get buff. We get a

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lot of on and Xander separately, and together,

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we will occasionally get Joins point of view.

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So there isn't

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a

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clear,

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okay. Here's the protagonist.

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And that's why I think in this episode,

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it really is the group,

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and friends

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as the protagonist. And this shows the episode

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shows why that can be a little difficult

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because it spreads the energy of the story

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around, and you should as this episode does,

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have someone who is most often being the

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a spokesperson for the group or the actor

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for the group. So here that would be

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Buff, but it it it isn't really ideal.

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I do think that has more to do

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with... They're not quite being enough story here.

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So we do fill a lot of time

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with other things. Oh, and we get a

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little of Robin point of view, but clearly,

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he's not the protagonist he's hardly in the

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episode. The other issue with Buff as protagonist

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is yes, she's actively

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pursuing a goal

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but she's not as active as usual and

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a lot of her actions are reacting

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to spike, and that rob the story of

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a little of it its power as well.

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The sub

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with the evil force trying to open the

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seal has a more active feel to it.

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Even though the force can't act directly because

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it speaks through warren through Jonathan,

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it gets Andrew to take actions. It speaks

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to spike as we'll see. Prompts him to

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do things, and we will see in the

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end. It acting through its minions.

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And it is pushing

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against Buff and friends a whole lot of

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ways,

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even though at least in this episode its

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primary goal doesn't seem to be to push

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against them. In this moment, its goal is

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to open this seal.

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Since we are talking about supernatural

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stories and setting out the rules. I want

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to share with you that first book in

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my awakening supernatural

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thriller series. The awakening, in case it might

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interest you.

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Tara mysterious pregnancy turns her life upside down,

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her boyfriend breaks up with her convinced she's

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cheated on him, Her plans for medical school

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are derailed, and even her parents and closest

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friend doubt her story. Only a stranger claims

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to believe that Tara is still a virgin,

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but the religious cult belongs to turns on

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her. Certain she'll trigger an apocalypse when prenatal

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testing reveals a disturbing truth. As the forces

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aligned against your clothes in, terrified fights for

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her life in a safe place to give

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birth, but are she and her child meant

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to save the world or destroy it? The

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awakening is book 1 in a 4 book

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Willow tells the others about Andrew's

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suspicious behavior, including the blood. He comments on

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her hair not even being black anymore, and

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then he says he won't talk. This is

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where Xander in An

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become very active. They tie Andrew to a

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chair in a separate room from Spy. He

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tells and be careful with the coat. It

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was expensive, and on throws it on the

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floor and stamps on it. So this is

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00:23:03,529 --> 00:23:05,549
the beginning of their

540
00:23:06,009 --> 00:23:08,809
interrogation of Andrew and both of them having

541
00:23:08,809 --> 00:23:11,137
a lot of fun with it. Andrew claims

542
00:23:11,137 --> 00:23:13,201
he knows nothing, and he did nothing wrong,

543
00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:15,344
and he makes up a goofy story about

544
00:23:15,344 --> 00:23:18,281
getting the blood for a pretty vampire. He

545
00:23:18,281 --> 00:23:21,497
met in My c, when Xander questions him

546
00:23:21,633 --> 00:23:24,731
on lunges at Andrew and slaps him and

547
00:23:24,891 --> 00:23:27,374
Xander Drags him out. In the other room

548
00:23:27,454 --> 00:23:30,730
Buff feed spike some of Andrew's animal. Blood.

549
00:23:30,970 --> 00:23:33,128
We cut back to Xander and An. They're

550
00:23:33,128 --> 00:23:35,765
in the hall and they're super excited about

551
00:23:35,765 --> 00:23:38,577
their good cop bad cat performance. They are

552
00:23:38,577 --> 00:23:41,853
really having fun together, and they're sure He'll

553
00:23:41,853 --> 00:23:44,910
talk in no time. And I do enjoy

554
00:23:45,143 --> 00:23:46,674
seeing the 2 of them

555
00:23:47,048 --> 00:23:50,063
working together so well. It adds to what

556
00:23:50,063 --> 00:23:51,968
we saw last week where there was a

557
00:23:51,968 --> 00:23:54,443
little bit of banter, at least Sanders part,

558
00:23:54,602 --> 00:23:57,461
and now they are clearly having fun together.

559
00:23:58,017 --> 00:24:00,796
Buff asks spike if he feels better and

560
00:24:00,796 --> 00:24:03,593
he does but he still remembers very little

561
00:24:03,593 --> 00:24:04,627
about the killings,

562
00:24:05,105 --> 00:24:06,162
just flashes.

563
00:24:06,616 --> 00:24:09,098
It's like he's watching someone else. And he

564
00:24:09,098 --> 00:24:10,931
tells her he's been losing time for a

565
00:24:10,931 --> 00:24:13,642
while. And also that he didn't know his

566
00:24:13,642 --> 00:24:14,939
chip stopped working

567
00:24:15,634 --> 00:24:16,591
until now,

568
00:24:17,243 --> 00:24:19,710
He says time has been wonky ever since

569
00:24:19,710 --> 00:24:21,540
he got his soul, but it's so long

570
00:24:21,540 --> 00:24:24,325
since he had 1 that he figured that's

571
00:24:24,325 --> 00:24:26,807
what it was like, and she asked how

572
00:24:26,807 --> 00:24:29,670
he got it back. This cutting back and

573
00:24:29,670 --> 00:24:32,932
forth to Buff questioning spike, Xander and An

574
00:24:32,932 --> 00:24:34,162
question Andrew

575
00:24:34,693 --> 00:24:36,994
is a way to try to keep the

576
00:24:36,994 --> 00:24:39,771
story engaging, and the writers keep the threat

577
00:24:39,771 --> 00:24:43,756
level up by showing spike damp out early

578
00:24:43,756 --> 00:24:45,900
on. So we know that he may get

579
00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:48,679
out of that chair. All the same, the

580
00:24:48,679 --> 00:24:51,873
repeated warnings by spike, more than ones he'll

581
00:24:51,873 --> 00:24:54,338
talk about how dangerous he is, Buff should

582
00:24:54,338 --> 00:24:56,326
kill him, and it will turn out. He

583
00:24:56,326 --> 00:24:57,916
is still really dangerous.

584
00:24:58,409 --> 00:25:01,439
But it feels repetitive, and now Spike is

585
00:25:01,439 --> 00:25:03,193
gonna tell us some things we already know.

586
00:25:03,432 --> 00:25:06,303
Which happened in the last episode. Even on

587
00:25:06,303 --> 00:25:07,101
first watch,

588
00:25:07,513 --> 00:25:09,521
it felt slow because essentially,

589
00:25:09,974 --> 00:25:11,902
the scenes with Buff and spike

590
00:25:12,275 --> 00:25:14,124
until we get to when he breaks free

591
00:25:14,180 --> 00:25:15,632
are just 2 people

592
00:25:16,179 --> 00:25:19,527
talking. And yes, there's conflict, but it feels

593
00:25:19,527 --> 00:25:22,238
like ground they have been through before.

594
00:25:22,876 --> 00:25:27,204
I really think lack episode, sleeper, this episode,

595
00:25:27,444 --> 00:25:29,605
and next episode bring on the night. If

596
00:25:29,605 --> 00:25:30,884
you look at them all together,

597
00:25:31,365 --> 00:25:34,570
have enough story for 2 episodes, and they

598
00:25:34,570 --> 00:25:38,496
were stretched in my opinion into 3, probably

599
00:25:38,714 --> 00:25:41,755
because that's what you need to fit the

600
00:25:41,755 --> 00:25:43,926
network schedule of 22

601
00:25:44,142 --> 00:25:47,539
episodes. I suspect that is why we get

602
00:25:47,898 --> 00:25:49,833
a lot of repeating

603
00:25:50,289 --> 00:25:52,681
exposition, cutting back and forth, Buff gives spike

604
00:25:52,681 --> 00:25:54,992
a little more blood, Spike looks a little

605
00:25:54,992 --> 00:25:55,391
threatening.

606
00:25:56,123 --> 00:25:58,112
Here, she... After she asked how he got

607
00:25:58,112 --> 00:26:00,101
his soul back, he says, saw man about

608
00:26:00,101 --> 00:26:02,329
a girl. I went to seek a legend

609
00:26:02,329 --> 00:26:04,178
out. Travel to the other side of the

610
00:26:04,178 --> 00:26:06,256
world made a deal with a demon, which

611
00:26:06,256 --> 00:26:08,814
of course, we already know. And Buff says

612
00:26:08,814 --> 00:26:11,371
just like that, and he says no, not

613
00:26:11,371 --> 00:26:13,545
just like that. There was a price. There

614
00:26:13,545 --> 00:26:16,744
were trials, torture, pain and suffering of sorts.

615
00:26:17,224 --> 00:26:19,945
When Buff says of sorts, he says it's

616
00:26:19,945 --> 00:26:20,765
all relative,

617
00:26:21,065 --> 00:26:23,153
she asked him what he means. He says

618
00:26:23,153 --> 00:26:25,534
meaning I have come to redefine the words

619
00:26:25,534 --> 00:26:27,756
pain and suffering since I fell in love

620
00:26:27,756 --> 00:26:28,391
with you,

621
00:26:28,947 --> 00:26:30,795
and she says how can you say that?

622
00:26:31,035 --> 00:26:33,355
And he says, apparently, I just slaughtered half

623
00:26:33,355 --> 00:26:35,914
of Sunny pat. I'm not really worried about

624
00:26:35,914 --> 00:26:39,946
being polite anymore? So there is some conflict

625
00:26:40,558 --> 00:26:43,259
there. Buff now tells him he's feeling sorry

626
00:26:43,259 --> 00:26:45,643
for himself, and he claims he's being honest.

627
00:26:46,214 --> 00:26:48,598
And then he says that Buff used him

628
00:26:48,598 --> 00:26:51,857
which he acknowledges she told him. She was

629
00:26:51,857 --> 00:26:54,718
doing, and he claims he didn't understand it

630
00:26:54,718 --> 00:26:56,829
until now but he gets that she hated

631
00:26:56,970 --> 00:26:59,049
herself and took it out on him. She

632
00:26:59,049 --> 00:27:01,529
seems to agree, but then he says Soul

633
00:27:01,529 --> 00:27:04,144
is about self loa which he gets now

634
00:27:04,264 --> 00:27:07,617
he understands the violence inside her, Buff sc

635
00:27:07,617 --> 00:27:10,410
that William the bloody now his insight into

636
00:27:10,410 --> 00:27:12,645
violence, but spike claims it's not the same.

637
00:27:13,139 --> 00:27:15,855
He never hated himself back then as evil

638
00:27:15,855 --> 00:27:18,672
as he was, not that he hates himself

639
00:27:18,731 --> 00:27:21,221
now. And I just continue to have a

640
00:27:21,221 --> 00:27:23,077
lot of trouble with the idea that Buff

641
00:27:23,136 --> 00:27:24,891
hated herself last season.

642
00:27:25,450 --> 00:27:28,755
I read her as depressed feeling numb

643
00:27:29,131 --> 00:27:33,193
as feeling wrong about sleeping with spike, but

644
00:27:33,273 --> 00:27:34,945
I saw the c sensation the other way.

645
00:27:35,184 --> 00:27:38,081
She has sex with spike to feel something,

646
00:27:38,532 --> 00:27:39,746
and then she feels

647
00:27:40,117 --> 00:27:42,733
really conflicted and guilty about that because it's

648
00:27:42,733 --> 00:27:45,130
something that doesn't fit with her view of

649
00:27:45,130 --> 00:27:47,514
what she should be doing in her life.

650
00:27:47,832 --> 00:27:49,740
Of course, it is spiked telling us this,

651
00:27:49,978 --> 00:27:52,378
so we don't have to that spikes view,

652
00:27:52,776 --> 00:27:55,559
but to some extent, Buff seems to agree.

653
00:27:55,798 --> 00:27:57,865
Later, she is gonna disagree with him, though,

654
00:27:58,024 --> 00:28:00,502
which I like at this same time that's

655
00:28:00,502 --> 00:28:03,856
another example of re tread ground in the

656
00:28:04,307 --> 00:28:06,924
conversation and just breaking it up with these

657
00:28:06,924 --> 00:28:08,074
other scenes

658
00:28:08,611 --> 00:28:11,244
and stretching it out. Because now we go

659
00:28:11,244 --> 00:28:14,569
back to Xander. It's 17 minutes 26

660
00:28:14,689 --> 00:28:16,991
and he's playing good cop. He brings Andrew

661
00:28:17,150 --> 00:28:21,039
Water, and apologize for Ami, hitting Andrew, and

662
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,151
Andrew says that chick. Psycho. Xander says you

663
00:28:24,151 --> 00:28:25,739
don't know the half of it. She's a

664
00:28:25,739 --> 00:28:28,358
vengeance steam and you know, conveniently leaving out

665
00:28:28,358 --> 00:28:30,756
that on is not a vengeance steam and

666
00:28:30,756 --> 00:28:33,061
anymore. Andrew says this 1 time I saw

667
00:28:33,061 --> 00:28:36,082
her having sex with spike. Xander counters was

668
00:28:36,082 --> 00:28:38,013
she's killed more men than small packs

669
00:28:38,324 --> 00:28:41,281
Andrew asks if small plaques still kills people,

670
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,678
and Xander says she's killed a lot of

671
00:28:43,678 --> 00:28:46,395
men. She torture them. Anyone who incur her

672
00:28:46,395 --> 00:28:49,751
wrath. 1 time, she... And then he trails

673
00:28:49,751 --> 00:28:52,215
off. Andrew prompts him to finish, and he

674
00:28:52,215 --> 00:28:54,520
says, well, there was this 1 guy. There

675
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,031
was this 1 guy. He

676
00:28:56,443 --> 00:28:58,349
he heard her real bad, so she paid

677
00:28:58,349 --> 00:29:00,017
him back. She killed him, and she did

678
00:29:00,017 --> 00:29:02,320
it real slow. See first, she stopped his

679
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,021
heart. Then she replaced it with darkness, then

680
00:29:05,021 --> 00:29:06,942
she made him live his life like that.

681
00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:08,768
But he still had to go do his

682
00:29:08,768 --> 00:29:10,516
job and see his friends and wake up

683
00:29:10,516 --> 00:29:11,945
in the morning and go to bed at

684
00:29:11,945 --> 00:29:13,693
night, but he had to do it all

685
00:29:13,693 --> 00:29:13,852
empty.

686
00:29:14,503 --> 00:29:17,129
Without anything to look forward to ever.

687
00:29:17,686 --> 00:29:20,972
It definitely seems like Xander is talking about

688
00:29:21,029 --> 00:29:23,837
himself, so we are getting character development

689
00:29:24,149 --> 00:29:27,047
here, it throws me because

690
00:29:27,426 --> 00:29:31,262
it doesn't quite fit. I understand that Xander,

691
00:29:31,502 --> 00:29:33,875
though he was the 1 who left On

692
00:29:34,074 --> 00:29:37,930
the alter, no doubt felt empty. Felt terrible,

693
00:29:38,469 --> 00:29:38,969
probably

694
00:29:39,668 --> 00:29:42,145
had trouble getting through the days.

695
00:29:42,638 --> 00:29:45,346
But framing it as An did that to

696
00:29:45,346 --> 00:29:46,165
him as

697
00:29:46,620 --> 00:29:47,019
revenge.

698
00:29:47,815 --> 00:29:50,704
Since it is linked to Andrew

699
00:29:51,414 --> 00:29:54,215
saying, I saw her having sex with spike

700
00:29:54,215 --> 00:29:56,055
or at least it comes soon after that.

701
00:29:56,455 --> 00:29:59,742
Maybe were to take that that Xander feels

702
00:29:59,742 --> 00:30:01,810
that was On vengeance, which he said at

703
00:30:01,810 --> 00:30:03,822
the time. She told him it was not

704
00:30:03,878 --> 00:30:06,675
about that, but it it kind of bugs

705
00:30:06,675 --> 00:30:09,535
me. I, in a way like that they're

706
00:30:09,535 --> 00:30:12,076
using this for Xander to talk about his

707
00:30:12,076 --> 00:30:12,576
feelings,

708
00:30:12,950 --> 00:30:14,697
but I don't feel sorry for him.

709
00:30:15,347 --> 00:30:18,043
Andrew says it sounds bad, but he doesn't

710
00:30:18,043 --> 00:30:20,367
sound super impressed. So Xander now

711
00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:22,801
switches to well, then she tore out his

712
00:30:22,801 --> 00:30:24,734
test and rubbed it in his face and

713
00:30:24,734 --> 00:30:26,734
took pictures of it, and Andrew says, oh,

714
00:30:26,815 --> 00:30:29,934
god. He also tells Andrew that bad things

715
00:30:29,934 --> 00:30:32,256
have been happening lately and the girls are

716
00:30:32,256 --> 00:30:35,114
looking for someone to blame. Andrew says I

717
00:30:35,114 --> 00:30:36,170
didn't do anything.

718
00:30:37,258 --> 00:30:40,212
Continuing his denials and on your from the

719
00:30:40,212 --> 00:30:42,677
hallway yells you lying son of a bitch,

720
00:30:42,995 --> 00:30:45,801
and she storms into the room and toward

721
00:30:46,017 --> 00:30:46,517
Andrew.

722
00:30:46,971 --> 00:30:48,759
Tanya grabs Andrew,

723
00:30:49,136 --> 00:30:52,482
Sandra pulls her away, and she accidentally slap

724
00:30:52,642 --> 00:30:53,598
Sander in the mouth,

725
00:30:54,395 --> 00:30:56,401
accidentally in the sense that she gets so

726
00:30:56,401 --> 00:30:59,423
into it. Then she mouth Sorry and turns

727
00:30:59,423 --> 00:31:01,810
back toward Andrew Lunges again. She gets him

728
00:31:01,810 --> 00:31:04,529
on the floor and he screams, buff leaves

729
00:31:04,529 --> 00:31:06,518
spike to see what's happening.

730
00:31:06,995 --> 00:31:08,109
While she's gone,

731
00:31:08,586 --> 00:31:09,643
the other

732
00:31:10,272 --> 00:31:12,980
appears and lectures real spike, and then he

733
00:31:12,980 --> 00:31:15,607
starts to sing. He also tells spike they

734
00:31:15,607 --> 00:31:19,446
have a problem. Buff sees on over Andrew

735
00:31:19,446 --> 00:31:21,440
who's on his back, An got her arm

736
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,833
drawn back, but Sandra and An tell her

737
00:31:23,833 --> 00:31:26,705
everything's fine. Buff returns to the hall and

738
00:31:26,705 --> 00:31:29,851
through the door here spike coming, talking

739
00:31:30,308 --> 00:31:35,112
and singing. Oh, don't deceive me. Oh, never

740
00:31:35,330 --> 00:31:36,366
leave me.

741
00:31:37,099 --> 00:31:40,460
From early 1 morning from last week. But

742
00:31:40,619 --> 00:31:43,039
Spike is alone when she goes in and

743
00:31:43,179 --> 00:31:45,579
quiet, and she asks who he was talking

744
00:31:45,579 --> 00:31:48,309
to. He's says he was talking to himself

745
00:31:48,309 --> 00:31:50,941
and he's fine. In the other room, On

746
00:31:50,941 --> 00:31:53,254
tells Andrew she loved to keep hitting him.

747
00:31:53,813 --> 00:31:57,015
Spike asks Buff for more blood and she

748
00:31:57,015 --> 00:32:00,029
watches him as she moves toward the blood

749
00:32:00,029 --> 00:32:01,061
moving slowly,

750
00:32:01,457 --> 00:32:03,934
but the second that she reaches for it,

751
00:32:04,174 --> 00:32:07,054
gl away for a moment, spike va out

752
00:32:07,054 --> 00:32:08,674
breaks his ropes

753
00:32:08,974 --> 00:32:11,054
and lunges out of the chair. So this

754
00:32:11,054 --> 00:32:14,667
is 21 minutes 15 seconds. That past the

755
00:32:14,667 --> 00:32:17,242
middle of the episode. Remember it's a short

756
00:32:17,460 --> 00:32:20,355
episode, but this is a pretty big midpoint

757
00:32:20,574 --> 00:32:24,578
reversal that spike gets free because not only

758
00:32:24,578 --> 00:32:26,891
does he get free. He shove buff aside,

759
00:32:27,289 --> 00:32:29,544
we get a quick cut to the next

760
00:32:29,602 --> 00:32:32,328
room, Andrew starts to talk about the deal

761
00:32:32,328 --> 00:32:35,536
of damp are. So all of that questioning,

762
00:32:35,991 --> 00:32:38,620
Santa and On, with Andrew, it was funny.

763
00:32:38,779 --> 00:32:40,474
There was a point where they

764
00:32:41,104 --> 00:32:44,717
start using kind of film noir ish language,

765
00:32:45,415 --> 00:32:47,570
on something like the we is ready to

766
00:32:47,570 --> 00:32:49,645
sing when they talked to Buff about it.

767
00:32:50,219 --> 00:32:53,266
But all of it doesn't get any

768
00:32:53,721 --> 00:32:54,039
information,

769
00:32:54,676 --> 00:32:56,984
except this brief mention of the seal of

770
00:32:56,984 --> 00:32:57,484
damp

771
00:32:58,193 --> 00:33:01,377
and at that moment, spike punches right through

772
00:33:01,377 --> 00:33:04,163
the wall between the 2 rooms, grabs Andrew

773
00:33:04,163 --> 00:33:07,384
with both hands and bites him, Andrew screams

774
00:33:07,442 --> 00:33:10,071
and we cut to a commercial. And this

775
00:33:10,071 --> 00:33:12,381
is what I mean by not much happening.

776
00:33:12,620 --> 00:33:15,343
We're halfway through and Buff has fed's spiked,

777
00:33:15,423 --> 00:33:17,809
some animal blood. There's been some humor with

778
00:33:17,809 --> 00:33:20,910
sander and On, 1 tiny piece of information

779
00:33:20,910 --> 00:33:23,216
came out. We did get to the house.

780
00:33:23,709 --> 00:33:27,006
So that was pretty big, but that's it

781
00:33:27,065 --> 00:33:28,924
for our main characters.

782
00:33:29,623 --> 00:33:30,123
Buff

783
00:33:30,581 --> 00:33:33,390
saves Andrew. She kicks spike in the head

784
00:33:33,390 --> 00:33:36,737
knocking him out. In the living room, our

785
00:33:36,737 --> 00:33:40,059
friend's talk, buff tells him about hearing spikes

786
00:33:40,259 --> 00:33:43,210
singing and talking. On says maybe it's another

787
00:33:43,210 --> 00:33:45,762
musical, a bad 1. And Buff ads that

788
00:33:45,922 --> 00:33:48,953
Spike mentioned something about Pas song when they

789
00:33:48,953 --> 00:33:51,435
were in the cellar. And she says that

790
00:33:51,435 --> 00:33:54,612
he changed their too and says, quote, I

791
00:33:54,612 --> 00:33:58,425
mean, instantly became another person and, quote, and

792
00:33:58,584 --> 00:34:02,174
Xander says trigger. On says the horse. Za

793
00:34:02,174 --> 00:34:04,161
responds know in his head. It's a trigger.

794
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,260
It's a brainwashing term. It it's how the

795
00:34:07,260 --> 00:34:10,303
military makes sleeper agents. A nice reference to

796
00:34:10,303 --> 00:34:12,699
the title of the last episode sleeper. And

797
00:34:12,699 --> 00:34:15,176
he goes on the brain operatives and condition

798
00:34:15,176 --> 00:34:17,425
them with a specific trigger like a song

799
00:34:17,425 --> 00:34:19,817
that makes him drastically change at a moment

800
00:34:19,817 --> 00:34:22,766
notice. Willow asks if this is left from

801
00:34:22,766 --> 00:34:25,193
his army days, a callback to Halloween,

802
00:34:25,646 --> 00:34:27,869
and Xander says no. This is left over

803
00:34:27,869 --> 00:34:30,649
from every army movie I've ever seen.

804
00:34:31,204 --> 00:34:33,880
I really enjoy that because the show has

805
00:34:33,998 --> 00:34:34,714
had Xander,

806
00:34:35,350 --> 00:34:37,815
draw on that experience of being turned into

807
00:34:37,815 --> 00:34:39,803
a soldier so many times. So I like

808
00:34:39,803 --> 00:34:42,268
that this time. It's the movies. I also

809
00:34:42,268 --> 00:34:45,168
like the way callbacks are handled in this

810
00:34:45,622 --> 00:34:48,349
episode. I had mentioned in some previous

811
00:34:48,724 --> 00:34:51,746
episodes that it felt too heavy handed, and

812
00:34:51,746 --> 00:34:53,984
they felt more like rehash than callbacks.

813
00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:57,080
These are nice callbacks where if you're a

814
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,938
fan and you remember the episodes well. You

815
00:34:59,938 --> 00:35:01,543
know what I'm just talking about when she

816
00:35:01,543 --> 00:35:03,697
says, don't we stab people through the heart

817
00:35:03,697 --> 00:35:06,249
in these situations or the quick reference to

818
00:35:06,249 --> 00:35:08,562
your time as a soldier. We don't replay

819
00:35:08,562 --> 00:35:10,715
a story where Xander becomes a soldier.

820
00:35:11,209 --> 00:35:13,437
Or where everyone's turned into their costumes, we

821
00:35:13,437 --> 00:35:16,381
just have the characters reference these things, the

822
00:35:16,381 --> 00:35:19,030
way you would reference stuff that happened

823
00:35:19,485 --> 00:35:21,093
between you and someone else.

824
00:35:21,731 --> 00:35:24,364
Sand argues it makes sense, they've had these

825
00:35:24,364 --> 00:35:27,257
ghosts haunting them and what if spikes ghosts

826
00:35:27,316 --> 00:35:29,979
figured out a way to control him. Buff

827
00:35:30,273 --> 00:35:33,634
says, this trigger, how do we h safety

828
00:35:33,849 --> 00:35:35,757
or I don't know guns. How do we

829
00:35:35,757 --> 00:35:36,393
make it stop?

830
00:35:37,122 --> 00:35:40,137
Za responds well, usually the operative completes his

831
00:35:40,137 --> 00:35:41,883
task and either blows his head off or

832
00:35:41,883 --> 00:35:44,597
steals a submarine, An honest recap of a

833
00:35:44,597 --> 00:35:46,902
lot of movies, but not helpful.

834
00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:48,595
Buff says they need

835
00:35:48,970 --> 00:35:51,037
information. Spike is like a bomb, so how

836
00:35:51,037 --> 00:35:53,342
do they diffuse him and she tells the

837
00:35:53,342 --> 00:35:55,821
others to look for anything that could haunt

838
00:35:55,821 --> 00:35:58,363
or control spike this way. They need to

839
00:35:58,363 --> 00:36:00,588
know exactly what they're dealing with. This is

840
00:36:00,588 --> 00:36:03,629
a nice transition to the next scene because

841
00:36:03,629 --> 00:36:04,766
principal would

842
00:36:05,143 --> 00:36:07,454
walks through the school at night, and we

843
00:36:07,454 --> 00:36:10,003
do not know what we're dealing with as

844
00:36:10,003 --> 00:36:10,481
to him.

845
00:36:11,054 --> 00:36:14,881
The audience is as uncertain as Buff is

846
00:36:14,881 --> 00:36:17,432
about him, and we also don't know here

847
00:36:17,432 --> 00:36:20,318
if something is controlling him because he goes

848
00:36:20,318 --> 00:36:21,618
down into the basement

849
00:36:22,236 --> 00:36:25,512
and sees Jonathan dead body sp out on

850
00:36:25,512 --> 00:36:27,605
top of the seal. The scene cut back

851
00:36:27,605 --> 00:36:29,925
to Buff. Spike is now chained to a

852
00:36:29,925 --> 00:36:31,625
brick wall in the basement.

853
00:36:32,325 --> 00:36:35,125
There's lots of basement scenes in this episode

854
00:36:35,125 --> 00:36:37,696
and the last 1 we had those bodies

855
00:36:37,696 --> 00:36:40,166
in the basement. We've seen the seal in

856
00:36:40,166 --> 00:36:43,114
the basement multiple times. And now spike gets

857
00:36:43,114 --> 00:36:44,070
chained in the basement.

858
00:36:44,724 --> 00:36:47,681
All fitting with that from beneath you, it

859
00:36:47,681 --> 00:36:48,181
devour,

860
00:36:48,559 --> 00:36:51,217
the line that I don't love, but it

861
00:36:51,277 --> 00:36:52,875
automatically fits together.

862
00:36:53,528 --> 00:36:55,201
And it links a bit to the end

863
00:36:55,201 --> 00:36:58,626
of season 6 where Buff had to crawl

864
00:36:58,626 --> 00:36:59,843
out from

865
00:37:00,458 --> 00:37:02,862
underground where she and Dawn were stuck and

866
00:37:02,862 --> 00:37:03,998
fighting those monsters,

867
00:37:04,531 --> 00:37:06,914
and she crawls out much like crawling out

868
00:37:06,914 --> 00:37:09,798
of her own grave. Buff cleans

869
00:37:10,189 --> 00:37:12,267
the blood from the wound on spikes mouth.

870
00:37:12,746 --> 00:37:14,025
I think from where she kicked him.

871
00:37:14,744 --> 00:37:17,382
Spike asks if he heard anyone, and she

872
00:37:17,382 --> 00:37:19,320
says he took a bite out of Andrew

873
00:37:19,380 --> 00:37:22,292
and bike responds, who, she tells him tucker

874
00:37:22,591 --> 00:37:25,868
brother. This running joke, they did this earlier

875
00:37:25,868 --> 00:37:28,905
too where Dawn asked who about Andrew.

876
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,599
Spike doesn't know why he attacked Andrew. Buff

877
00:37:32,599 --> 00:37:34,920
tells him that they think they know that

878
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,559
something's figured out how to control him. He

879
00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:39,748
tells her to kill him. So this is

880
00:37:39,805 --> 00:37:42,910
a repeat of what he said earlier with

881
00:37:42,910 --> 00:37:44,900
more urgency given that he just tried to

882
00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:45,537
kill Andrew.

883
00:37:46,189 --> 00:37:48,820
She argues with him and he asks if

884
00:37:48,820 --> 00:37:50,836
she has any idea of what he's capable

885
00:37:50,974 --> 00:37:51,372
of.

886
00:37:52,090 --> 00:37:53,605
She says she was in the cellar with

887
00:37:53,605 --> 00:37:56,252
him. She knows, but he's not talking about

888
00:37:56,252 --> 00:37:58,965
the bodies in the cellar. They got off

889
00:37:58,965 --> 00:38:02,317
easy, so did Buff. Buff never met the

890
00:38:02,317 --> 00:38:03,216
real him

891
00:38:03,530 --> 00:38:05,289
Does she know how much blood you can

892
00:38:05,289 --> 00:38:07,690
drink from a girl before? She dies.

893
00:38:08,090 --> 00:38:10,510
He knows because he knows how to drink

894
00:38:10,570 --> 00:38:14,101
exactly enough so that the girl will still

895
00:38:14,101 --> 00:38:17,297
cry, and it's not worth torturing if the

896
00:38:17,297 --> 00:38:20,422
girls don't cry. Buff tells him it's not

897
00:38:20,422 --> 00:38:22,570
his fault, and he's not the 1 doing

898
00:38:22,570 --> 00:38:24,956
this and Spike says I already did it.

899
00:38:25,115 --> 00:38:27,844
It's ready done. You wanna know what I've

900
00:38:27,844 --> 00:38:30,005
done to girls Don's age. This is me,

901
00:38:30,164 --> 00:38:32,485
Buff. You've gotta kill me before I get

902
00:38:32,485 --> 00:38:35,295
out. Buff says, we can keep you locked

903
00:38:35,295 --> 00:38:37,210
up. We'll keep you here and we'll figure

904
00:38:37,210 --> 00:38:39,465
out. And spike questions,

905
00:38:40,001 --> 00:38:42,634
why she is keeping him alive after everything

906
00:38:42,634 --> 00:38:44,723
he's done, and he says it not love.

907
00:38:45,043 --> 00:38:47,517
We both know that. And Buff says you

908
00:38:47,517 --> 00:38:49,833
fought by my side. You've saved lives you've

909
00:38:49,833 --> 00:38:52,627
helped. He tells her don't do that. Don't

910
00:38:52,627 --> 00:38:55,909
rationalize this into some noble act because we

911
00:38:55,909 --> 00:38:58,137
both know the truth of it you like

912
00:38:58,137 --> 00:39:01,082
men who hurt you. Buff says no.

913
00:39:01,654 --> 00:39:03,802
But he argues she needs the pain they

914
00:39:03,802 --> 00:39:04,120
cause.

915
00:39:04,677 --> 00:39:06,984
She needs the hate to do her job

916
00:39:06,984 --> 00:39:09,370
as the slayer and Buff says no. I

917
00:39:09,370 --> 00:39:11,933
don't hate like that. Not you or myself,

918
00:39:12,252 --> 00:39:15,518
not anymore. So this is why I say

919
00:39:15,518 --> 00:39:16,257
the writers

920
00:39:16,714 --> 00:39:20,060
are telling us that Buff did hate herself.

921
00:39:20,473 --> 00:39:22,222
I guess last season.

922
00:39:22,699 --> 00:39:24,606
Now she sc at the idea that he

923
00:39:24,606 --> 00:39:27,229
has insight into her because his soul is

924
00:39:27,229 --> 00:39:29,216
drenched in blood. She tells him he doesn't

925
00:39:29,216 --> 00:39:29,510
know

926
00:39:30,027 --> 00:39:32,811
he doesn't even know himself, and he's not

927
00:39:32,811 --> 00:39:34,879
alive because of hate or pain.

928
00:39:35,277 --> 00:39:37,754
She's keeping him alive because she saw him

929
00:39:37,754 --> 00:39:41,006
change. She saw his pen. He insists it

930
00:39:41,006 --> 00:39:43,306
was window dressing, but she tells him that

931
00:39:43,306 --> 00:39:45,149
would be easier if it was an act,

932
00:39:45,469 --> 00:39:48,265
but it's not. He faced the monster inside

933
00:39:48,265 --> 00:39:51,301
him and fought back, he risked everything to

934
00:39:51,301 --> 00:39:53,394
be a better man He may not see

935
00:39:53,394 --> 00:39:55,635
it, but she does and she ends with

936
00:39:55,875 --> 00:39:57,494
I believe in you

937
00:39:57,795 --> 00:39:58,114
spike.

938
00:39:58,914 --> 00:40:00,868
This part of the dialogue

939
00:40:01,403 --> 00:40:04,927
does move. The story, this is an important

940
00:40:05,382 --> 00:40:07,133
moment for the 2 of them. I guess

941
00:40:07,213 --> 00:40:09,143
I should say it moves the season arc.

942
00:40:09,383 --> 00:40:11,161
It doesn't move this particular

943
00:40:11,620 --> 00:40:14,737
story or change the plot developments in this

944
00:40:14,737 --> 00:40:17,806
story, but it is really important that buff

945
00:40:18,735 --> 00:40:19,235
identifies

946
00:40:19,609 --> 00:40:22,786
why she keeps protecting spike because she believes

947
00:40:22,786 --> 00:40:24,771
in him as she told Xander last time,

948
00:40:25,184 --> 00:40:26,854
he changed. He is different.

949
00:40:27,252 --> 00:40:28,945
And this time she has

950
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,945
conviction and we as the audience believe her.

951
00:40:32,264 --> 00:40:33,559
But because something

952
00:40:34,109 --> 00:40:37,089
Good has happened this genuine moment of

953
00:40:37,389 --> 00:40:40,690
connection. This statement of faith by Buff in

954
00:40:40,750 --> 00:40:42,684
spike something terrible happens.

955
00:40:49,097 --> 00:40:52,045
Just a reminder that you can find all

956
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the Buff in the art of story books

957
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958
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959
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Lilly at your local library.

960
00:41:04,348 --> 00:41:05,946
If they don't already have them on the

961
00:41:05,946 --> 00:41:08,512
shelves, they can order them, in paper back,

962
00:41:08,750 --> 00:41:11,471
ebook or for 2 of them audiobook

963
00:41:12,082 --> 00:41:14,645
additions, the 1 you're novel and super simple

964
00:41:15,033 --> 00:41:18,714
story structure. I take extra steps when publishing

965
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to make sure as many of my works

966
00:41:21,474 --> 00:41:24,121
as possible are available to libraries

967
00:41:24,909 --> 00:41:27,614
has that is mainly how I read as

968
00:41:27,614 --> 00:41:29,785
a kid and being at the library

969
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:31,831
with such a joy for me, and I

970
00:41:31,831 --> 00:41:33,875
love that it is a way that books

971
00:41:33,994 --> 00:41:35,052
can be available

972
00:41:35,588 --> 00:41:37,820
regardless of people's budgets.

973
00:41:44,045 --> 00:41:46,688
The lights go out and the windows shatter

974
00:41:46,902 --> 00:41:48,966
upstairs in the house. So this is a

975
00:41:48,966 --> 00:41:52,238
wonderful way to ratchet up tension, you have

976
00:41:52,238 --> 00:41:53,613
these quieter moments

977
00:41:53,988 --> 00:41:57,647
and something good, and then bam, something terrible

978
00:41:57,647 --> 00:42:01,175
happens and it's an action moment. And this

979
00:42:01,175 --> 00:42:04,291
is that last major plot turn. It comes

980
00:42:04,291 --> 00:42:06,641
right around the 3 quarter mark in the

981
00:42:06,778 --> 00:42:10,040
episode, it should grow from the midpoint and

982
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,880
take the story in yet another new direction

983
00:42:13,396 --> 00:42:16,658
Though it's not obvious on first viewing, this

984
00:42:16,658 --> 00:42:19,146
does grow from the midpoint

985
00:42:20,014 --> 00:42:23,378
has, spike failed, will find out later

986
00:42:23,753 --> 00:42:26,139
that he was being triggered so that he

987
00:42:26,139 --> 00:42:28,150
would get and Drew, and I guess taken

988
00:42:28,150 --> 00:42:30,230
back to the seal so that Andrew could

989
00:42:30,230 --> 00:42:33,349
be bled, but he failed. So this is

990
00:42:33,349 --> 00:42:34,329
the response

991
00:42:34,630 --> 00:42:38,071
of the evil. And it raises the stakes

992
00:42:38,071 --> 00:42:40,060
because everyone is in danger,

993
00:42:40,537 --> 00:42:43,518
robe figures who have no eyes

994
00:42:43,891 --> 00:42:46,275
break in to the house and we cut

995
00:42:46,275 --> 00:42:50,326
to commercial. On return, we see Robin again

996
00:42:50,326 --> 00:42:51,144
very briefly

997
00:42:51,533 --> 00:42:52,828
He bur Jonathan

998
00:42:53,442 --> 00:42:56,066
outside, then the scene cuts to the gang,

999
00:42:56,304 --> 00:42:59,246
fighting these robe figures, Buff saves Andrew.

1000
00:42:59,820 --> 00:43:02,860
Donna does pretty well defending herself, but 1

1001
00:43:02,860 --> 00:43:03,760
of the figures

1002
00:43:04,059 --> 00:43:04,559
ultimately

1003
00:43:04,940 --> 00:43:06,619
gets the better of her is about to

1004
00:43:06,619 --> 00:43:08,300
kill her but Sanders saves her.

1005
00:43:08,953 --> 00:43:10,169
Buff is fighting

1006
00:43:10,544 --> 00:43:10,862
everyone.

1007
00:43:11,419 --> 00:43:13,567
Most of the figures end up dead or

1008
00:43:13,567 --> 00:43:16,590
badly injured. Another part of what makes this

1009
00:43:16,590 --> 00:43:17,519
episode feel off

1010
00:43:17,957 --> 00:43:21,239
is all of this feels like the climax

1011
00:43:21,375 --> 00:43:23,146
of the episode, the final

1012
00:43:23,918 --> 00:43:24,418
confrontation

1013
00:43:25,031 --> 00:43:25,531
between

1014
00:43:25,905 --> 00:43:29,502
the protagonist an antagonist, Buff and friends and

1015
00:43:29,502 --> 00:43:33,108
the evil this time acting through these robe

1016
00:43:33,244 --> 00:43:35,449
figures, and it feels kind of off to

1017
00:43:35,568 --> 00:43:37,100
have that happen immediately.

1018
00:43:37,870 --> 00:43:40,648
Usually we get that last major plot that

1019
00:43:40,648 --> 00:43:44,114
then drives the story generally quickly at a

1020
00:43:44,234 --> 00:43:46,858
fast pace toward the climax, but it doesn't

1021
00:43:46,858 --> 00:43:50,436
usually just turn into the climax. I do

1022
00:43:50,436 --> 00:43:53,891
think though that the climax does not happen

1023
00:43:54,026 --> 00:43:56,908
until the very end of the episode and

1024
00:43:56,964 --> 00:44:00,275
will get yet another scene before that, that

1025
00:44:00,393 --> 00:44:03,036
feels like it could be the final

1026
00:44:03,727 --> 00:44:06,505
resolution of the main plot. Once the rope

1027
00:44:06,505 --> 00:44:07,855
figures are defeated,

1028
00:44:08,331 --> 00:44:10,257
Sandra her common that he thought there were

1029
00:44:10,257 --> 00:44:12,891
more of them. Buff says spike and they

1030
00:44:12,891 --> 00:44:15,685
run down to the basement at 33 minutes

1031
00:44:15,685 --> 00:44:19,686
35 seconds. They see spike it's gone and

1032
00:44:19,686 --> 00:44:21,832
realize that he was the goal.

1033
00:44:22,389 --> 00:44:25,489
That's why the figures were so easy to

1034
00:44:25,489 --> 00:44:25,727
defeat.

1035
00:44:26,443 --> 00:44:29,807
Upstairs, Buff looks at 1 of them, lying

1036
00:44:29,807 --> 00:44:32,605
on the floor and says she remembers these

1037
00:44:32,605 --> 00:44:35,242
guys she fought them before. These are the

1038
00:44:35,242 --> 00:44:35,742
harbinger

1039
00:44:36,121 --> 00:44:38,614
of death who work for the first evil.

1040
00:44:39,173 --> 00:44:41,810
This is a reference to a amend where

1041
00:44:41,810 --> 00:44:42,550
the first

1042
00:44:43,009 --> 00:44:43,509
plagued

1043
00:44:43,888 --> 00:44:46,900
angel. It appeared as dead people at that

1044
00:44:47,019 --> 00:44:49,890
time and appeared as Jenny calendar, but also

1045
00:44:49,890 --> 00:44:53,400
many other dead people to hunt angel. Buff

1046
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,495
goes on to say they aren't being haunted

1047
00:44:55,554 --> 00:44:58,916
what they saw spikes ghosts, the from beneath

1048
00:44:58,916 --> 00:45:02,024
you, evil, it's all the first. This is

1049
00:45:02,024 --> 00:45:05,074
a big revelation. We've been building to for

1050
00:45:05,131 --> 00:45:06,667
the whole season

1051
00:45:06,979 --> 00:45:09,391
The audience has had a few more hints

1052
00:45:09,449 --> 00:45:12,637
than buff, but it is a big deal,

1053
00:45:12,796 --> 00:45:14,412
and it is a major

1054
00:45:14,724 --> 00:45:15,224
turn

1055
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,869
because now Buff knows what she is fighting.

1056
00:45:19,267 --> 00:45:21,260
Now we get the scene I mentioned that

1057
00:45:21,260 --> 00:45:24,887
also could look like the climax of the

1058
00:45:25,027 --> 00:45:28,542
episode. Because in England, the watchers are reporting

1059
00:45:28,542 --> 00:45:31,673
to Quentin, they tell him that They lost

1060
00:45:31,673 --> 00:45:35,429
contact with their locations in other countries. Lydia,

1061
00:45:35,588 --> 00:45:38,440
the woman watcher who was in other up

1062
00:45:38,559 --> 00:45:41,771
sew says that the council is crippled Quentin

1063
00:45:41,909 --> 00:45:44,302
reassure her that they're still masters of their

1064
00:45:44,302 --> 00:45:47,173
fate captains of their souls, and he tells

1065
00:45:47,173 --> 00:45:49,575
them that all of their fears are confirmed.

1066
00:45:49,972 --> 00:45:51,186
The first evil

1067
00:45:51,559 --> 00:45:54,335
declared war on the council. Its first volley

1068
00:45:54,335 --> 00:45:57,369
are most effective, but he thinks it's time

1069
00:45:57,369 --> 00:45:59,610
they struck back, and he tells them to

1070
00:45:59,610 --> 00:46:00,110
get

1071
00:46:00,489 --> 00:46:03,210
confirmations on where all the remaining operatives are,

1072
00:46:03,769 --> 00:46:06,103
prepare them to mobilize. He wants to be

1073
00:46:06,103 --> 00:46:08,738
ready to move. They'll be paying a visit

1074
00:46:08,738 --> 00:46:11,133
to the helm mouth, which is a nice

1075
00:46:11,133 --> 00:46:13,528
way to set up what we think will

1076
00:46:13,528 --> 00:46:16,179
be a big change for the season, it

1077
00:46:16,179 --> 00:46:17,559
looks like the council

1078
00:46:17,860 --> 00:46:19,320
is going to Sunny.

1079
00:46:20,019 --> 00:46:23,940
Quentin quotes proverbs, quote 4 by wise counsel,

1080
00:46:24,099 --> 00:46:26,987
you shall make your war and, quote, at

1081
00:46:26,987 --> 00:46:30,596
36 minutes 18 seconds. The scene cuts to

1082
00:46:30,893 --> 00:46:31,292
outside.

1083
00:46:31,850 --> 00:46:34,254
We see the large building that houses the

1084
00:46:34,254 --> 00:46:37,111
council's headquarters and it explodes.

1085
00:46:37,666 --> 00:46:40,230
This looks like the first

1086
00:46:40,603 --> 00:46:41,873
prevailed for the episode.

1087
00:46:42,443 --> 00:46:44,987
First it prevailed by getting spike, which it

1088
00:46:44,987 --> 00:46:46,282
wanted now

1089
00:46:46,656 --> 00:46:47,156
by

1090
00:46:47,610 --> 00:46:50,789
blowing up the council and pretty much based

1091
00:46:50,789 --> 00:46:53,434
on what Quentin said, everything is gone.

1092
00:46:54,153 --> 00:46:57,345
The first is definitely the antagonist in this

1093
00:46:57,345 --> 00:47:00,231
episode. The antagonist 1 job is to push

1094
00:47:00,231 --> 00:47:01,584
against the protagonist.

1095
00:47:01,982 --> 00:47:05,007
And the first does that throughout the episode

1096
00:47:05,007 --> 00:47:07,396
triggering spike wiping out the council,

1097
00:47:07,890 --> 00:47:08,789
getting Andrew

1098
00:47:09,250 --> 00:47:11,730
to try to open the seal, having the

1099
00:47:11,730 --> 00:47:13,250
bring break into buff.

1100
00:47:13,809 --> 00:47:17,184
And it's interesting because in this, the first

1101
00:47:17,184 --> 00:47:20,305
is not doing it directly to harm buff,

1102
00:47:20,785 --> 00:47:21,925
not right

1103
00:47:22,224 --> 00:47:23,684
now, and that shows

1104
00:47:24,159 --> 00:47:26,097
your antagonist and protagonist

1105
00:47:26,476 --> 00:47:28,174
don't have to be

1106
00:47:28,713 --> 00:47:32,556
specifically striving to defeat or harm 1 another,

1107
00:47:32,794 --> 00:47:35,359
but they do have to have mutually exclusive

1108
00:47:35,574 --> 00:47:38,353
goals. Now Buff doesn't know what the seal

1109
00:47:38,353 --> 00:47:40,418
is or what it does, but it's a

1110
00:47:40,418 --> 00:47:42,896
pretty good, she would not want. It opens

1111
00:47:42,896 --> 00:47:44,963
since the first does want it open, so

1112
00:47:44,963 --> 00:47:48,300
they can't both get what they want, and

1113
00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:51,259
the first is great and antagonist in this

1114
00:47:51,259 --> 00:47:52,454
episode and very active,

1115
00:47:53,012 --> 00:47:55,721
even though it is not directly trying to

1116
00:47:55,721 --> 00:47:58,531
harm buff. The scene cuts to the school

1117
00:47:58,668 --> 00:47:59,168
basement

1118
00:47:59,956 --> 00:48:02,652
The first watch, I saw this scene as

1119
00:48:02,652 --> 00:48:04,952
falling action because we see what happens to

1120
00:48:04,952 --> 00:48:07,197
spike. So it's tying up loose ends

1121
00:48:07,664 --> 00:48:09,659
and we'll see a couple things for the

1122
00:48:09,659 --> 00:48:11,733
future. But for the podcast, the more I

1123
00:48:11,733 --> 00:48:13,750
thought of it, the more I thought this

1124
00:48:13,808 --> 00:48:17,331
is the resolution because throughout, the first has

1125
00:48:17,331 --> 00:48:19,960
been trying to open this seal. Buff has

1126
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,110
been trying to learn more about the evil,

1127
00:48:22,604 --> 00:48:25,481
now in a way in a very small

1128
00:48:25,481 --> 00:48:27,498
way she prevailed because she did

1129
00:48:27,957 --> 00:48:30,055
succeed in finding out

1130
00:48:30,368 --> 00:48:33,630
it's the first, and she succeeded by staying

1131
00:48:33,630 --> 00:48:35,800
close spike. That prompted

1132
00:48:36,414 --> 00:48:38,664
the first to send the bring in and

1133
00:48:38,744 --> 00:48:42,105
Buff recognized the bring. So she prevailed in

1134
00:48:42,105 --> 00:48:42,744
that sense,

1135
00:48:43,224 --> 00:48:46,159
but the first prevailed in getting its

1136
00:48:46,678 --> 00:48:49,310
seal opened as we'll see. And now I'm

1137
00:48:49,310 --> 00:48:51,304
gonna take back what I said and say

1138
00:48:51,304 --> 00:48:54,893
that maybe the watchers council moment and this,

1139
00:48:55,292 --> 00:48:56,031
our falling

1140
00:48:56,504 --> 00:48:58,419
because they are tying up sub plots. We

1141
00:48:58,419 --> 00:49:01,052
saw the the watchers council sub gets tied

1142
00:49:01,052 --> 00:49:02,270
up. The

1143
00:49:02,648 --> 00:49:04,897
first efforts to open seal are tied up,

1144
00:49:05,136 --> 00:49:08,487
but the main plot, Buff trying to find

1145
00:49:08,487 --> 00:49:11,141
out about the evil was resolved

1146
00:49:11,614 --> 00:49:14,014
not in that big fight with bring, but

1147
00:49:14,014 --> 00:49:14,914
when Buff

1148
00:49:15,295 --> 00:49:15,795
realized,

1149
00:49:16,174 --> 00:49:17,454
it was the first.

1150
00:49:18,094 --> 00:49:21,407
And that shows the tricky part of having

1151
00:49:21,704 --> 00:49:22,204
a

1152
00:49:22,739 --> 00:49:24,753
plot that involves gaining

1153
00:49:25,209 --> 00:49:29,214
knowledge or information in the same story as

1154
00:49:29,351 --> 00:49:32,960
action plots because it feels like the action

1155
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,358
plots are the main plot, and and they

1156
00:49:35,358 --> 00:49:38,188
are not, and it makes Buff

1157
00:49:38,563 --> 00:49:42,139
discovery, feel a little less like an actual

1158
00:49:42,139 --> 00:49:45,478
climax of the episode, but I really think

1159
00:49:45,478 --> 00:49:48,674
it is since Buff achieved her goal. It's

1160
00:49:48,674 --> 00:49:50,902
just hard to say she wins, given everything

1161
00:49:50,902 --> 00:49:51,698
else that happens.

1162
00:49:52,175 --> 00:49:54,839
A bring ties spike to this giant

1163
00:49:55,293 --> 00:49:58,634
cross or wheel and cuts symbols into his

1164
00:49:58,634 --> 00:50:01,235
chest while the first appearing as spike

1165
00:50:01,672 --> 00:50:03,502
blames the real spike for all of this.

1166
00:50:03,661 --> 00:50:05,331
He says spike is the 1 who couldn't

1167
00:50:05,331 --> 00:50:07,797
hold his end of the bargain and take

1168
00:50:07,797 --> 00:50:10,128
care of quote, what's his name and, quote,

1169
00:50:10,687 --> 00:50:12,924
continuing that running joke of no 1 remembering,

1170
00:50:13,164 --> 00:50:13,563
Andrew.

1171
00:50:14,043 --> 00:50:16,201
No. Spike had to make breakthroughs and learn

1172
00:50:16,201 --> 00:50:19,163
about himself. The first morph into buff and

1173
00:50:19,163 --> 00:50:22,346
tau spike further as the wheel raises above

1174
00:50:22,346 --> 00:50:24,972
the seal, spike his face down, and the

1175
00:50:24,972 --> 00:50:27,375
blood from his chest start falling on the

1176
00:50:27,375 --> 00:50:30,163
seal. And the first is Buff is happy

1177
00:50:30,163 --> 00:50:31,756
it worked out this way and says I

1178
00:50:31,756 --> 00:50:33,987
was going to bleed Andrew, but you look

1179
00:50:33,987 --> 00:50:36,233
a lot better with your shirt off. And

1180
00:50:36,233 --> 00:50:38,308
also says, I think it's about time we

1181
00:50:38,308 --> 00:50:39,904
brought some authority to our presence.

1182
00:50:40,543 --> 00:50:42,878
Now spike, you wanna see what a real

1183
00:50:42,937 --> 00:50:45,813
vampire looks like. More of spikes blood drips,

1184
00:50:45,971 --> 00:50:49,246
the seal opens with flashes of light and

1185
00:50:49,302 --> 00:50:52,811
the real vampire emerges. It has claude hands.

1186
00:50:53,289 --> 00:50:56,000
It's grow. It's got fangs. It's got pointy

1187
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,072
8 ears and a very monster like face.

1188
00:50:58,232 --> 00:51:00,246
So it is not at all. Human

1189
00:51:00,958 --> 00:51:02,472
and we go to credits.

1190
00:51:03,269 --> 00:51:06,299
Before I shift to foreshadowing a couple more

1191
00:51:06,299 --> 00:51:09,342
things about the rules for the first. We

1192
00:51:09,342 --> 00:51:12,231
learn the rules in this episode. The first

1193
00:51:12,448 --> 00:51:13,425
is not corp.

1194
00:51:13,961 --> 00:51:15,496
It can't touch anything.

1195
00:51:15,951 --> 00:51:19,462
It can't affect things physically, that's why it

1196
00:51:19,462 --> 00:51:21,762
needs Andrew to do things and the bring

1197
00:51:21,762 --> 00:51:23,848
to do things. This immediately

1198
00:51:24,300 --> 00:51:24,800
creates

1199
00:51:25,172 --> 00:51:27,735
inconsistent seas. Because if it was the first

1200
00:51:27,735 --> 00:51:30,682
that plagued Dawn, how did it destroy so

1201
00:51:30,682 --> 00:51:32,355
much of the house? If I'm sure I

1202
00:51:32,355 --> 00:51:34,505
mentioned that, Steven Young, and I mentioned it,

1203
00:51:34,918 --> 00:51:37,385
in conversations with dead people. And I think

1204
00:51:37,464 --> 00:51:39,476
I talked about it last time in spoilers

1205
00:51:39,931 --> 00:51:41,840
that really does not fit.

1206
00:51:42,493 --> 00:51:44,327
Now some of it could be that the

1207
00:51:44,327 --> 00:51:46,023
demon that appeared over

1208
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,633
joyce was really a demon that was there,

1209
00:51:48,793 --> 00:51:50,228
and it did some of the things,

1210
00:51:50,786 --> 00:51:53,273
but we saw an invisible force,

1211
00:51:53,831 --> 00:51:57,020
throw things against the wall. We saw things

1212
00:51:57,020 --> 00:51:59,572
breaking. There was no creature there breaking them.

1213
00:51:59,811 --> 00:52:00,264
We saw

1214
00:52:00,782 --> 00:52:02,635
chairs on the table suddenly

1215
00:52:03,091 --> 00:52:05,161
on top of it, and none of that

1216
00:52:05,161 --> 00:52:07,869
fits with what we just learned about the

1217
00:52:07,869 --> 00:52:08,266
first.

1218
00:52:08,999 --> 00:52:11,553
And that is the thing when you create

1219
00:52:11,553 --> 00:52:12,213
a supernatural

1220
00:52:12,670 --> 00:52:14,905
world, you can make the rules whatever you

1221
00:52:14,905 --> 00:52:18,109
want them to be, but they should be

1222
00:52:18,109 --> 00:52:20,657
consistent. Whatever you tell the audience about those

1223
00:52:20,657 --> 00:52:22,965
rules, you need to stick with them. And

1224
00:52:22,965 --> 00:52:25,614
if you can't, you need to have something

1225
00:52:25,671 --> 00:52:28,471
that explains that. These rules do tell us

1226
00:52:28,471 --> 00:52:31,574
that holden for sure, was a vampire Buff

1227
00:52:31,574 --> 00:52:33,723
was not dealing with the first, which we

1228
00:52:33,723 --> 00:52:36,145
kind of got because of all those other

1229
00:52:36,201 --> 00:52:37,391
vampires spikes s,

1230
00:52:37,868 --> 00:52:41,043
but it confirms that. Some rules for the

1231
00:52:41,043 --> 00:52:44,564
first are not clear. It's not clear what

1232
00:52:44,564 --> 00:52:47,357
the first nose and doesn't. For instance, did

1233
00:52:47,357 --> 00:52:49,453
the first not know that Jonathan

1234
00:52:49,831 --> 00:52:51,599
would not have enough blood to open the

1235
00:52:51,599 --> 00:52:54,146
seal. And if Jonathan didn't have enough blood,

1236
00:52:54,464 --> 00:52:57,647
why would killing a pig and having its

1237
00:52:57,647 --> 00:52:59,397
blood be enough to do it?

1238
00:53:00,128 --> 00:53:02,614
The first seems to be saying to spike

1239
00:53:02,987 --> 00:53:05,370
that bleeding Andrew would have worked us well.

1240
00:53:05,767 --> 00:53:07,991
But then, why not just grab any human?

1241
00:53:08,229 --> 00:53:10,151
There's no reason to have to break into

1242
00:53:10,151 --> 00:53:13,172
this layers house to get spike. You could

1243
00:53:13,172 --> 00:53:15,479
just randomly grab a person off the street,

1244
00:53:15,558 --> 00:53:17,944
it would be a lot less trouble and

1245
00:53:17,944 --> 00:53:20,820
more certain of success. So it seems to

1246
00:53:20,820 --> 00:53:24,077
suggest maybe a vampire is better because you

1247
00:53:24,077 --> 00:53:27,015
can keep bleeding the vampire, and they're not

1248
00:53:27,015 --> 00:53:27,492
gonna die.

1249
00:53:28,143 --> 00:53:29,520
I guess that's okay

1250
00:53:29,976 --> 00:53:33,085
because the first doesn't have to tell spike

1251
00:53:33,085 --> 00:53:36,090
its secrets. It could be just messing with

1252
00:53:36,210 --> 00:53:38,707
bike about bleeding Andrew. Maybe there is something

1253
00:53:38,846 --> 00:53:42,122
special about it is spikes blood that will

1254
00:53:42,122 --> 00:53:42,622
open

1255
00:53:43,001 --> 00:53:43,480
the seal.

1256
00:53:44,135 --> 00:53:46,614
I don't believe this is spoilers for what

1257
00:53:46,695 --> 00:53:48,454
I don't know. I don't think that is

1258
00:53:48,454 --> 00:53:50,454
ever answered, but I'll keep an eye out

1259
00:53:50,454 --> 00:53:52,246
for that. And finally,

1260
00:53:52,702 --> 00:53:54,931
going to the rules again, if the first

1261
00:53:54,931 --> 00:53:56,546
has access to the bring,

1262
00:53:57,240 --> 00:54:00,681
why use Andrew at all. I suppose you

1263
00:54:00,681 --> 00:54:03,153
can say Andrew was the 1 who could

1264
00:54:03,153 --> 00:54:06,344
get Jonathan down to the seal, but Jonathan

1265
00:54:06,344 --> 00:54:09,429
blood didn't open the seal anyway. And that

1266
00:54:09,629 --> 00:54:11,941
don't think it's ever answered either. Why does

1267
00:54:11,941 --> 00:54:14,731
the first even bother With them when it

1268
00:54:14,731 --> 00:54:17,442
could just have bring grab someone and and

1269
00:54:17,442 --> 00:54:17,840
tied them up?

1270
00:54:18,655 --> 00:54:21,135
That is my last thought on the episode,

1271
00:54:21,454 --> 00:54:23,855
other than for foreshadowing, which includes spoilers.

1272
00:54:24,414 --> 00:54:26,989
If you're not sticking around for that. Thank

1273
00:54:26,989 --> 00:54:29,786
you so much for listening. Come back in

1274
00:54:29,786 --> 00:54:32,662
2 weeks for season 7, episode 10. Bring

1275
00:54:32,662 --> 00:54:35,710
on the night where Gil appears in Sunny

1276
00:54:35,710 --> 00:54:38,326
deal and the Uber va attacks Buff.

1277
00:54:44,617 --> 00:54:47,973
In this episode, Spike talked about taking just

1278
00:54:47,973 --> 00:54:50,770
enough blood to keep a girl alive.

1279
00:54:51,264 --> 00:54:54,159
And the first seems to follow a similar

1280
00:54:54,218 --> 00:54:57,751
strategy with spike, continuing to torture him

1281
00:54:58,130 --> 00:55:00,698
taking blood, but keeping him a lot. Now

1282
00:55:00,698 --> 00:55:03,169
with a vampire easier to keep them alive.

1283
00:55:03,487 --> 00:55:05,320
But I do wonder if that was on

1284
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:08,442
purpose that we heard that from spike and

1285
00:55:08,442 --> 00:55:11,139
then we see something similar being done to

1286
00:55:11,139 --> 00:55:14,708
him. A fun for foreshadowing, that pig is

1287
00:55:14,708 --> 00:55:17,268
going to appear again in storyteller teller, it's

1288
00:55:17,268 --> 00:55:20,620
still in the basement running around. And overall,

1289
00:55:20,780 --> 00:55:23,595
this episode is a pretty good for foreshadowing

1290
00:55:23,733 --> 00:55:27,254
4 story. That's the episode where we see

1291
00:55:27,254 --> 00:55:30,116
from Andrew's point of view, and he keeps

1292
00:55:30,116 --> 00:55:33,137
telling different stories about how and why he

1293
00:55:33,137 --> 00:55:34,288
killed Jonathan,

1294
00:55:34,902 --> 00:55:37,844
and here, it is set up because keeps

1295
00:55:37,844 --> 00:55:40,071
saying I didn't do anything. And he tells

1296
00:55:40,230 --> 00:55:41,954
Willow, well, I I didn't catch

1297
00:55:42,554 --> 00:55:45,052
Tara warranted and he was aiming for Buff

1298
00:55:45,271 --> 00:55:47,848
anyway, and he's not taking any responsibility.

1299
00:55:48,387 --> 00:55:49,286
And in storyteller,

1300
00:55:49,665 --> 00:55:50,899
finally, Andrew

1301
00:55:51,355 --> 00:55:53,985
Will. In the next episode, Buff is going

1302
00:55:53,985 --> 00:55:56,216
to run into Robin Wood in the basement.

1303
00:55:56,376 --> 00:55:58,943
So the next episode picks up very close

1304
00:55:58,943 --> 00:56:01,421
in time to this 1. Buff goes to

1305
00:56:01,421 --> 00:56:02,060
the school.

1306
00:56:02,539 --> 00:56:05,416
And Robin is suspicious of her. I I

1307
00:56:05,416 --> 00:56:06,989
think they're going to look at this the

1308
00:56:07,188 --> 00:56:09,724
seal. He's suspicious of her because she's supposed

1309
00:56:09,724 --> 00:56:11,467
to be sick and she looks fine,

1310
00:56:11,943 --> 00:56:14,454
and she's suspicious of him because he's carrying

1311
00:56:14,574 --> 00:56:17,126
a shovel around. He just buried Andrew.

1312
00:56:17,525 --> 00:56:19,700
So that is a running

1313
00:56:20,157 --> 00:56:23,188
theme about Robin wood. Who is he... Why

1314
00:56:23,188 --> 00:56:24,146
is he here?

1315
00:56:24,639 --> 00:56:27,273
And it's part of why I stay these

1316
00:56:27,273 --> 00:56:30,226
3 episodes really could be put together. Those

1317
00:56:30,226 --> 00:56:32,061
robin and wood scenes we get in this

1318
00:56:32,061 --> 00:56:33,773
episode. Our are just

1319
00:56:34,151 --> 00:56:34,651
filler

1320
00:56:35,029 --> 00:56:36,945
and could have been in the next episode.

1321
00:56:37,264 --> 00:56:40,137
Buff, I believe in news spike plays a

1322
00:56:40,137 --> 00:56:43,884
key role In future episodes because it's how

1323
00:56:43,884 --> 00:56:44,835
spike resists,

1324
00:56:45,231 --> 00:56:48,345
the first taunting him, he repeats

1325
00:56:48,653 --> 00:56:50,882
she believes in me, she believes in me.

1326
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:54,464
Learning the rules about the first help set

1327
00:56:54,464 --> 00:56:55,283
up gil

1328
00:56:55,738 --> 00:56:56,238
return

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and everyone thinking eventually that he might be

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the first because we won't see him touch

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anything,

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carry anything.

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I think it makes for a lot of

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awkward ness when they do that, but it

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does add to the idea that Gil was

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killed in that other episode, and now it

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is the first, that Uber va will find

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out is called the Tu khan. Buff will

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fight it at the end of the next

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episode, and she will lose

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So it is quite a formidable foe and

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I had forgotten that the first calls it

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a real

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vampire. That's it for this episode. Thank you

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again for listening,

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night, where Gil returns bringing

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potential layers with him and buff faces the

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Tu.

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