Spoilers for future eps....If you believe in Murphy's laws, then you know what's coming.....

["Rod" <myself03@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,


Has anyone heard that saying "Smile and the world will smile with you...."?Well, i just came up with a new variation...."Feel depressed and drag everyone else with you...."....What , it's a good saying...Very fitting too.Just scroll down the nice little spoiler space and you'll see why.....Here are some spoilers for the future eps ....Plus, some speculation....









Still here ? Feeling brave , are you ? Well, of curiosity, how easy it is for you to get a prescription for prozac ? Cause maybe you better get yourself one before you continue....I'm giving you some more time.....















Okay, that's enough....Just remember, don't kill the mesenger....These spoilers were taken from vidiot's site ( http://mrvideo.vidiot.com/Buffy/quickref6.html ) If you're asking how true they are....I dunno, but i'd go for very true, since these are network descriptions of the ep....Read and weep....And if you feel like it, read the rant at the end, courtesy of yours truly....


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107 11/06/01 [unknown] 6ABB07 Once More, With Feeling 
A demon summoned to Sunnydale forces Buffy and the Scooby Gang to sing their most private - and sometimes shocking -- secrets to one another. 
The musical features all-original songs and lyrics written by Joss Whedon for this special episode. All numbers are sung and danced by the cast members themselves. Choreography was designed by Adam Shankman.
Sweet: Hinton Battle. Marti Noxon: Marti Noxon. David Fury: David Fury. 
[Note: This episode will be repeated on 11/16/01 at 8pm ET/PT. The episode is being presented in letterbox format.] 

     
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108 11/13/01 [unknown] 6ABB08 Tabula Rasa 
Buffy and Spike deal with their sleeping together. Tara splits up with Willow. Giles leaves Sunnydale for good.

     
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109 11/20/01 [unknown] 6ABB09 TBD 
A demon casts a spell on Buffy making her, and the audience, questionwhat is real.

     
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110 11/27/01 [unknown] 6ABB10 TBD 
Buffy asks Willow to leave the house due to her obsession with magic.
     

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On another note, Amy will be back, and she'll be sharing Willow's new vision on witchcraft, so don't expect much on that front.... Still, i just read an spoiler for a nice scene with these too....Bad in a moral way , but seems really funny.... 

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Can't say i didn't warn you....Gosh....will you look at the spoiler for ep 10.... I mean, it's not that i expected this to be a fun filled year for those too, after all, i SAW the first few eps, Buffy is in the mood for a little Willow bashing, but this is taking it to a limit....I just know that this will be a true test of self-respect for me...If they screw their relationship even more after this ep and I still keep on watching i will know for sure that my life is just f***** up enough that watching something like this is still, despite it all, gonna make me feel better.....I mean, this is so unfair....I won't even have the time to celebrate the T/W break up....Notthat there will be a lot to celebrate, since by them we'll also have the consumation of the B/S crap...I mean, it's quite ironic really, Buffy startssleeping with the vamp and right after she kicks Will out....

Although, i admit, i'm a lot more concerned with what this will do to the communitty than with the show itself....It's pretty clear that Willow's character development this year won't be a positive one....And no, so far i don't think she really did anything bad, but the thing is, people are already treating her as if she had....Her big crime so far was bringing Buffy back....hummm, after these spoilers and all, I think i'll start blaming her forthat.....I'm sad to say that i really wish they had ended the series afterlast season, at least i wouldn't watch my fav characters become what they are now.....Here's a small view on each :

Spike: Angel wannabe....And the sad part is , he is a copy of what Angel was on Buffy , not of the character he is nowadays on Angel....He has become someone completly different, a little puppy....Sure, the people were in need of a male lead for the Slayer to hook up with, and bringing a new one hadn't worked so well, so they decided to use one that was already there, thatpeople already liked....That's low....I know that there are lots of peopleout there that love Spike, he has become a fav for many, but for me Spike will always be that guy from eps like School hard, Lover's walk and even The Yoko factor....not this pathetic loser he seems to be now....I liked thatguy, i once considered him of of Buffy's finest villains, now i just thinkof him as a nielsens product....

Xander and Anya : They're still pretty much the same....I'll admit, i loved them at the Bargaining ep....The Willow/Xander interaction was fantastic,it reminded me of a time when they were still friends...Still, after his questions to Tara in Afterlife, it became pretty clear that when things start to fall down between B/W he already knows which side he'll take...The B/X/W triangle(and by that, i mean the friendship) could be used in this aspect, lots of angst there, but i think it'll be ignored....I mean, what's the point....If Spike isn't there, Buffy won't care....plus, are they even friends anymore ? Anya is still the same, thank God, and i love her for that....The whole marriage thing may change that, though....

Dawn : Humm, the most important thing in Buffy's life was just put aside.....Move over girl, it's Spike season's now....Amazing, last season Buffy dropped her friends and went for her sister, this season she drops the sister and goes for the vamp....Why those people still want to be around her is beyond me...Still, her Afterlife behavior wasn't the best...I mean, we're talking about the girl that once tried to bring a zombie Joyce back to life ....Oh, and we can't forget, Willow may have showed the book, but Spike was the one who took her there....Now they're all self-righteous...Funny that....Plus, when the whole Willow thing goes down, she'll completely forget thatWill took care of her during the summer her sister was kind of dead....

Giles: The talk with Buffy was fantastic, very fatherly...I mean, he hasn't done much, he IS leaving after all, not much to do except say goodbye, but he still managed to piss me off....Okay, question to everyone watching Bargaining ...did you see that scene from Flooded coming ? Cause i really didn't...Their goodbye in the first two eps was so heartfelt, so touching....She was the last one he hugged, the one with the long goodbye, and still....I expected more of their relationship....I expected more of him....He thought that calling her names would help her in anyway ? Is that it ? Cause he really should know better.....I'm not saying that he wasn't right in his words, but the way he said it....

Tara : Wow, not only are they giving her leather jackets but also a personality...I loved the opening scene with her , Spike and Giles....perfect.....Sadly enough, all these changes are there for one reason alone....Make Willow seem an even worst person after the much waited break up ( it starts showing signs of it in the next ep) .... I can only imagine what is going through her mind.... i mean, she has to have some idea of what is happening....And unlike Buffy , that is happily enjoying the "i'm in love with vamp boy and i hate Willow " fase , she doesn't have anywhere to go....I only have aquestion....will Tara stay in the house after the break up ? Or after Buffy trows Willow out....

Buffy : I hate her....I mean it...I know everyone is going around saying bad things about Willow and all, but she is the one that really pissed me of so far....I mean, she was in heaven, that's good, but not everything was great.....Was i the only one that heard what those demons said they would do to the girls when she arrived ? Was i the only one that saw they destroyingthe town ? Or Buffybot , for that matter ? I mean, the only thing standingbetween Sunnydale and destruction up to that moment was the robot, they all knew that ( cemetery scene , anyone) and now the bot had been destroyed...How well can you be in a situaton like that ....Yeah, she was in heaven, but her friends, her so called family was about to enter hell, and it was her place to take them out of it....That's what heroes do...They put other people's life and happiness before their own, they sacrifice themselves....SHE is the hero, they are the ones that help her, not the other way...SHE hasthe abilities, they only have their hearts...I know that she doesn't have to be happy, but come on....Besides, Willow took her out of hell, that may not have been the place she was in, but that was the place their friends thought she was....When they slept they didn't imagine her in a heavenly kindof place, they didn't imagine her being happy, they pictured her in hell, being tortured by hundreds of demons...And after five years in the mouth ofhell, who wouldn't ? And what's this whole "the only person i can stand tobe around is a neutered vampire "thing ? Why ? Because he wasn't envoloved? Well, neither were Dawn nor Giles ...Because he loves her and all? Well,last i heard, they all did...Because he also died and came back in a coffin ? Well, then i think she should become friends with the entire vamp population of Sunnydale....They all went trhough that, and guess what ? They were dead...The coffin thing , not that scary when you don't need the air, thebeing dead thing ? She spent months dead, he spent hours...Or maybe he wasin heaven too, but we never found out....Maybe that is it...Let's be realistic here...If you want her to boink Spike then let her, but to try to pullthe "oh, because they have so much in common " is just going too far....

Willow: Can i just say , i don't have any opinion really formed on her so far....I mean, i didn't really like her final words for Giles during the kitchen scene, but still.....It's pretty clear her character is going to change quite a lot this year, and not in a good way, but I think everyone in here already figured she is going to be one of the big bads this season, if not THE big bad, and i can't help feeling sorry for that....No, i'm not goingto start a discussion about how much better Willow was in the previous seasons mainly because i still think of her as that same character that she was back in the first three seasons (unlike Spike, that i think is another character played by the same actor and with the same name) ...she has changed, not always for the best, but changed nonetheless...But despite all these changes she still managed to retain a smal part of that original Willow, that part that made me fall in love with the character in the first palce....And that's why i'm having a really hard time buying the evil Willow arc....Not only because of what it will do to B/W , not only because of what it will do to the group, but what it will do to the character herself...I know there are lot of people that have already defined Willow as bad after her actions this season, but so far i just don't see it....I mean, she killed Bambi's mother: unless you're a vegetarian, you shouldn't talk....She used a dark spell to bring Buffy back : if you looked at her eyes while she tried to convince Xander you'd see that she REALLY believed that her friend was suffering in hell...She wanted some kind of recognition : she is human, to want some part of recognation on a job well done is part of our nature...Plus, she just saved the soul of that very person that saved her life hundreds of times before, she wanted Buffy to see that, wanted Buffy to see that , given the chance, she would do anything for the slayer too....Her talk with Giles, she needed approval and instead got hurful words, she wanted him to be happy for her gronwt and he goes and says that, so she goes and respondsin kind...Despite of it all , Willow still thought she was doing the rightthing, and a part of her was....But she was not dark....never was, but they're taking her down that path...Not now, but once she realizes that everybody turned their back on her she will...And the thing is, by the end of theday Buffy will be the main responsible for that...It was pretty clear in the training room scene that Buffy was the only one that would have the power to make Willow realize where she is going, and it was also clear that theslayer won't make any effort, at least not until it's too late, i mean, aslong as she can blame someone for her condition right now, she's gonna grab onto that, and Willow is the chosen one this time...Because of that Willow will end up walking down a road that has no way back , at least not an easy one, she'll change everything we ever knew about her character....I mean, being reckless is one thing, being evil is quite another....And by the end end of the day everything will have changed, she may even go back to the good guys, but her character will be tainted forever...


Well, that was it....I'm thinking about writing a post about the subtext sofar in the season ( and despite it all, i saw A LOT of the Willow loves Buffy variety ....such a shame, I always liked the Buffy loves Willow kind better) ....MAinly it's me begging for s6 fics....Denial is a great thing, but you can only do it by yourself for so long, then you NEED the fics....AmI the only one that noticed the lack of s6 B/W fics so far ? I mean, they're screwing them, but they're doing it in such a "please , fix me" way thati thought that there would be tons of fics on it...Mostly angsty , but still...

Well, shutting up now....I'm off to sulk....And maybe look for another series to get addicted to....Does anyone know if this really is Friends last season"? Maybe i should go back to that one ....Start a Rachel loves Ross list....Or maybe Angel, they can be the new Scooby gang....at least they seem more together than the Buffy people...Cordy and Fred or maybe Cordy and Angel or Cordy and Faith....just give me Cordy....

Tchau

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