Category Archives: Buffy Season 5

Blood Ties (Steven S. DeKnight) This is the best episode of the season so far. It has a jolly exciting climax in the hospital: Spike gets put in his place (and there’s more of that soon), the witches get to … Continue reading →

Checkpoint (Jane Espenson and Douglas Petrie) Episodes like this leave me a bit stuck for words: the Watchers’ Council has that effect. The bizarre “Englishness” of the characters doesn’t help (maybe Joss as an Old Wykehamist hasn’t actually met any … Continue reading →

Triangle (Jane Espenson) I like Jane Espenson. Some of the funniest episodes, scenes and lines have been written by her. However, based on Pangs and Triangle, she seems to really dislike Willow. Willow is just an utter cow in this … Continue reading →

Into the Woods (Marti Noxon) Alas not the musical or the children’s book but a Marti Noxon blood boiling special. I apologise in advance for getting so cross. Riley is the fourth major male character who gets to leave Sunnydale … Continue reading →

Listening to Fear (Rebecca Rand Kirshner) I enjoyed the Scoobies fighting at the beginning. It contrasts with the opening of Bargaining I when Willow is showing off with the magic and the telepathy while in this she goes all wobbly … Continue reading →

Shadow (David Fury) A gloomy, gloomy episode. Dreg (Kevin Weisman, Marshall Flinkman in Alias – Alias two seasons of fun, fun, fun and then wtf?) fawning over Glory is amusing. “No! No, no, your terrifically smooth one, it is the … Continue reading →

Fool For Love (Doug Petrie) There is a thread on TWOP called I love Kennedy!: Unpopular Opinions about Buffy in which, well, people voice unpopular opinions of a controversial nature such as Dawn wasn’t that annoying, Beer Bad and Where … Continue reading →

Family (Joss Whedon) A Tara episode. I should be delighted but unfortunately this more Amends than Doppelgangland. And it is also signals the end of any interest the programme makers had in Tara as a character for the rest of … Continue reading →

No Place Like Home (Doug Petrie) No Giles, you can’t hide from it: they are wearing those outfits. I try not to use words like hate (sorry for being so unsuccessful) but I hate what they are doing to Riley … Continue reading →

Out of My Mind (Rebecca Rand Kirshner) Uh oh, a sign that Tara won’t be one of the dynamic characters in the future: “I just keep thinking how cool it would be, if we got a real psychic to sit … Continue reading →