By Shawn Deena – The opening montage credit sequence featured all the leads and a mix of clips from various episodes. Seth Green who became a regular got added to this intro. Eliza Dhusku (Faith) in Season 3 and Emma Caulfield (Anya) in Season 4 never get that treatment. Not to be persnickety, but Marc Blucas (Riley) who comes in ¼ way through Season 4 gets added to the montage but no Anya? And Faith was basically one of the key characters of Season 3. Huh?
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By Shawn Deena – I never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it was first on television. But, thanks to the Netflix, all seven seasons of BTVS are now available for my viewing pleasure. After watching the first two seasons, I’m sharing my thoughts. Go ahead – start the hate mail now.
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By Sabrina Boyer – So Oz is back. But the thing is, Willow’s kinda gay now. She and Tara are even thinking about getting a cat together and naming it Ms. Kitty Fantastico or Trixy. Tara even wants her dorm room to be Willow-friendly. Tara’s even going to the Scoobie meetings. And when she’s there, Oz shows up in the extremely monosyllabic way that he does with “Hey” and things get awkward.
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By Sabrina Boyer – Just so you know this episode isn’t exactly like the children’s book. It’s a story about children who were tortured with religious rhetoric and only hoped they had a fantasy land they could escape to. Christ didn’t allow fantasy lands, or anything else. What’s worse? Riley and the initiative are living in the remnants of angsty tortured past.
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by Sabrina Boyer – That’s right folks. Jonathan is a SUPA-STAH! Okay. I suppose I waited so long to write this review of this episode because, and I don’t know if this is okay with you other Buffy fans, I pretty much despise this episode. It’s my LEAST favorite, hands down. Even more so than Bad Eggs from season two.
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By Sabrina Boyer – This episode is all about Faith. Not the belief, the character, and boy is it good. We finally get to learn who Faith is as a person and her motivation for her bad choices in season three. It really is true; with just a simple twist of fate, Faith could’ve been Buffy, or, any one of us could have been her, bad choices and all.
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By Sabrina Boyer – This episode picks up where “The I in Team” left off; if you recall, good ‘ole Maggie Walsh tried to kill Buffy, who, in turn, was killed by her own creation, Adam. It is not a far leap to suggest that we are to see Maggie as Dr. Frankenstein. A classic example of “just because we can doesn’t mean we should” lesson for us gentle viewers, and a heavy critique in my opinion of Western science and military secrecy.
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By Sabrina Boyer – Did you know that magic at the poker table constitutes cheating? Hey, I say, if you’ve got it, flaunt it.
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By Sabrina Boyer – This is an episode that gets overlooked often. It’s also an episode that spotlights the magnificent acting chops of one Anthony Steward Head. Now I’m not one to go for the older guys, but for Anthony Stewart Head (ASH for short) I’d do it in a red hot minute. He’s the only actor I can think of that could make a demon costume look hot.
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By Sabrina Boyer – I think this episode really starts to mark the beginning of the Scooby gang drifting apart.
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By Sabrina Boyer – If I were going to list my top five Buffy episodes, Hush would definitely be in the list. Of course, this list fluctuates depending on time of year, what’s going on in my life at the time, and a horde of other factors; however, Hush will, I can safely say, always be in that list, somewhere. A seminal episode and nominated for an Emmy (which it didn’t win but should have; it was robbed. It’s clear the Emmys don’t recognize sci-fi/fantasy shows as serious or warrants merit, but that’s another issue. The fact that it was nominated speaks highly of the sheer genius of this episode).
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By Sabrina Boyer – Poor Willow. She’s still blue about Oz leaving. As a viewer, I’m blue too about Oz’s rapid exit. But after the bad show of Angel and Buffy’s relationship, we oughta know that love doesn’t end well in Sunnydale
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By Sabrina Boyer – I don’t usually like “theme” episodes of any series; I especially hate very special Xmas episodes where the audience is taught a very important lesson concerning the spirit of Christmas or some such crap. But here, in this episode, we learn the true meaning of Thanksgiving.
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By Sabrina Boyer – I love that Spike is back in rotation. I love even more how he was tased by the stealthy military guys a.k.a. the Initiative. It looks like the slayer isn’t the only force down with trying to keep the bumpies and crawlies at bay. It’s just their way of doing things that’s not quite….right. But we’ll get to more of that later. Right now, Spike is locked in a very white room. This concerns me. Err, wait. Riley first.
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By Sabrina Boyer – When I first saw this episode, my heart went out to Willow. I have always been Team Willow in this particular episode. Don’t get me wrong; I love me some Oz. However, there is just no excusing what he’s done in this episode, and trust me, I hear you.
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By Lisa Fary – I freely admit (often and loudly) that the majority of remakes are unnecessary. But, does this take the trophy for most unnecessary (and possibly the most idiotic) relaunch attempt EVER?
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By Sabrina Boyer – This isn’t my favorite episode. But it’s the episode where Buffy finally gets over Parker in all of his douchey glory. But he still makes a cameo in her dreams….
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By Sabrina Boyer – Unlike the other Halloween episodes the series does, this one does not have an annoying damsel in distress Buffy. It has awesome costumes, quippy lines, and a frat/Halloween party gone bad. What more could a girl ask for?
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