I’m impressed. I thought Buffy had run out of good episodes towards the end of last season and I wasn’t looking forward to another season. Yet they keep on coming.

Unlike Willow, whenever people haven’t arrived to pick me up at the airport my first thought is ‘They must have turned invisible and we can no longer see each other.’ This has, however, not yet proved to be the case but now that I know it can happen, I’m going to be extra careful.

The dialogue is this episode was of a better standard than of recent times. Often it just feels like stuff is happening but without any real point, but in this episode everything seemed to fit together better.

Spike, who I disliked intensely all of last season (and the one before too) was amusingly insane. I only hope that when I go insane it will be half as good as that.

It was an odd contrast switching between the horror of Willow being eaten and the comedy Dawn’s posable paralysis. It was unexpectedly disgusting watching Willow’s skin being pulled off. Usually scary monsters don’t come off as scary but this one did. I haven’t felt much empathy towards Willow for a while but her loneliness and the torment of having your skin pulled off, little by little, stuck a chord with me. And then back to Dawn’s funny posable body. Such an odd transition. And back to probably one of the most disgusting monsters in Buffy.

Unfortunately the episode was let down by a lame ending but then everything man touches becomes a mixture of good and evil.

266

This entry was posted by the illustrious Andy Cocker on Sunday, March 2nd, 2003. It concerns such pressing issues as . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.