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Dan
The good thing about this episode is that Giles takes the potentials on a field trip. Fortunately, this happens off-screen so we are saved, for one week only, from dodgy accents and confusion about who is who. Unfortunately, we are left with Kennedy and Willow getting all mushy. Not that I�m against such things, but it�s handled in such a way it's as if the Dawson�s Creek writers are visiting on an exchange programme. Mind you we wouldn�t mind demons invading that particular show and culling the cast. As long as they left Pacey and Jack for me...
But I digress � The Killer in Me has a good plot struggling to get out. Willow changing into Warren should have created a classic episode, but all too soon the Scoobies realise what is going on. And then there�s the whole Giles 'not being all that he seems' subplot, which is just thrown away as if the writers didn�t know what to do with it.
James
Rubbish. Making Alyson Hannigan cry is not the same as Moving Character Drama. Take this away, and don't bring it back until it's better.
What dross this episode is - lazy, witless, and full of empty, pointless scenes. This season started out as a beefed-up remix of season one, and now we're back to the kind of self-obsessed mush that rammed last year off the rails.
A typical sign of a lame Buffy is the wasted return of an old character. And oh look, here's Amy - with a daft revenge plan.
What is her scheme exactly? Or her motivation? Is she in league with the First? Or, indeed, evil? Or is she just, kind of, hanging around in the episode until her bus turns up?
Ann
Before I get into my main argument with this one, just let me say - I did like it!
This is a great idea, brought to life by excellent editing and Adam Busch's superb performance as mysogynistic, creepy Warren. The change from Willow to Warren, especially, was great, mirroring his nasty, violating ways.
Trouble is, the story's fatally marred by a certain view of female sexuality the Buffy writers all seem to share. A very soppy, very sentimental and cloyingly sweet one. They seem to be so keen to be fair to lesbians that they've turned them into Hallmark paragons of all that's lovey and dovey about sex. As such, all ickle Willow has to do to destroy the emotionally very powerful spectre of her murder victim is rediscover her own sexuality.
It's silly, soppy, and ends up defining Willow solely in terms of who she sleeps with. Surely this ghettoisation isn't what the writers had in mind?
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