Please let me keep reviewing. I’m so sorry about my previous lax efforts. I don’t know what I’d do without this job. I’ve got 5 kids to feed and a mortgage to pay and my wife’s sick and we’re snowed in for the winter with no food or firewood and there’s wolf outside and I think my mother-in-law’s a zombie…

As for that reviewer last week trying to drop hints and spoilers about the rest of the season; how unprofessional. About Tara (may she stay dead for ever), this site appears to have the shooting scripts for Buffy rather than transcripts of the episodes and it has Tara written in last episode instead of Cassie. I don’t know if it’s significant and frankly I don’t care.

Following last week’s allegedly good episode, we had another strong one this week. There was some witty dialogue (which has always been one of Buffy’s strong points), some classic non-communication between the group and a good demonstration of how much they distrust each other.

I can understand why they don’t trust Spike. He’s still evilish, insane and has a thirst for blood so naturally if they need a likely suspect… In my my opinion Spike hasn’t changed much at all since getting his soul. He might spend a little time brooding over his past wrongs, but his actions still seem to be reformed. The chip gives him more trouble than his soul.

But I’m still surprised at what a well-knit group the rest of them all aren’t. After this many years of evil fighting, I would have thought that they’d all share info and get some real teamwork going. It’s not like they’re on Angel and actively betray each other but neither do they fully trust each other… I realise that without this there’d be a much shorter show each week but it still annoys me.

A better plot device to the keep them busy is this mysterious shapeshifter. The ambiguity over who’s the bad guy is more satisfying than the group’s mistrust, when you know at the end of the episode they’ll just go “Ooh why didn’t I trust you in the first place. We’re such good friends. Let’s not fight again, at least until next episode.”

Another thing that annoys me is Anya. All I’ve got to say about her is this: Why isn’t she dead yet?

Buffy has a deadly aim with that broomstick. A couple of them died as she just wiggled it around in their general direction. I guess the anonymous vampires have a larger kill zone in their chests.

Yay Giles! Yikes Giles!

It’s building up to be a good season. Hopefully it won’t loose the plot like last season after a few good initial episodes.

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