Same Time, Same Place

<:kris collapses into her comfy chair, guzzles one Diet Coke, and pops open another...>

Okay, gang. I've got 384 pages of technical documentation to read for work before I go to bed tonight, so this is gonna be a quick one... :-)

I really did enjoy tonight's episode. Why, oh WHY couldn't we have had writing like this all last season? Oh well - that's neither here nor there. The idea to have Spike being the only one (at first) who could communicate between Willow and Buffy and Xander was simply ingenious... Was I the only one who was having serious flashbacks to "Fool For Love" when he started walking towards space announcing that "You're glowing..."? Wow...

I also found it very interesting that Willow, in a sense, got a dosage of her own medecine, thanks to the demon-whose-name-I-can't-spell. Having her magic be ineffective against him really gave her a feeling of Warren's last moments, didn't it?

I also liked that Buffy out and out admitted that she tends to think the worst of people... and that she doesn't want to be that kind of a person.

Wow... so many things to like in this ep. I really need to go read Dori's Spikefeed, because I haven't seen it yet, and I didn't quite catch all that Spike was saying... but I was so happy to see Buffy go to him for help, and to see him be able to contribute to the cause. TPTB are really setting us up for a wild ride with Spuffy this season, aren't they?

Couple of quick thoughts:

Not-quite-all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips: Anya's definitely not thinking that the vengeance gig is all that it was cracked up to be anymore, is she? Interesting that she and Willow - the two female characters who really had no use for one another for the longest time - now have so much in common. I was also happy to see that Anya was the one who was able to help Willow the most.

Look-who's-all-grown-up-now: Dawn seems to be vying for a job at my company, with all her talk of creating databases and so on. It's good to see her being able to contribute... although it scared the pants off me when she got slashed by the demon. Hopefully that will mean that she'll start being more cautious... but it probably won't happen. I'll be happy to settle for I-Call-It-Like-I-See-It Dawn instead. <G>

Comments I loved:

"Spike's insane in the basement."

"Who's Blaming Willow?"

And the whole Spike scene in the basement... way cool

Seriously... this was just a good ep. If there were plot holes, I didn't see them... and I was just captivated. I'm sure that there are all kinds of metaphors contained in the storyline, and the fact that Willow is still Powerful!Willow gives us all kinds of storyline fodder for the rest of the season... but I just flat out enjoyed it.

And last, but certainly not least... the line I've *so* been waiting for...

"I'm Insane. What's his excuse?"

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Kris