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Date Posted: 04:53:29 03/11/02 Mon
Author: Rufus
Subject: Short Summary from the Kitten Board
In reply to: Rufus 's message, "The short version of the Spikefeed from Dori at Tabula Rasa" on 03:10:11 03/11/02 Mon

Kitten Board

Hey, someone that i know saw the episode and send me that: a little review

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Buffy C Band Spoilers for March 11, 2002

This episode is kinda hard to write spoilers for, being that it jumps around between realities a lot. I'm going to do this a little differently, let you know what happens, not necessarily in order.

The beginning of the ep starts out with Buffy looking for the nerd herd. She actually finds their house and is snooping around when the nerds sick a demon on her. She fights with the demon, she's not getting the better of the battle, a needle like thing comes out of the demon's arm and it stabs Buffy with it in the arm. The instant that happens, Buffy is transported to an alternate reality where she is in a mental institution. The thing the demon stabbed her with in the other reality is a syringe that a doctor has just stuck in her arm. She is fighting violently and needs to be restrained. As whatever drug she has been injected with takes effect, Buffy goes back to the Sunnydale world to find the demon gone.

The Buffy reality parts-

In the reality where Buffy is in a mental institution her mother is still alive and is still married to her father. Buffy has been institutionalized for six years. She has been catatonic for over a year without a lucid break. Her parents and her doctor are trying to coax her out of Sunnydale. They are trying to convince her that Sunnydale is a reality she created in her own head to cope. They try to convince her to let go of the structure that is keeping her in Sunnydale, namely her friends and Dawn.

As Buffy switches between the institution reality and the Sunnydale reality she starts to believe that the institution reality is the real world.

Back in the Sunnydale world, Xander returns, looking for Anya. He professes that he's still in love with her, that his life is empty without her and he made the biggest mistake of his life leaving her at the altar. Anya is not there. Xander went home to find her suitcase and some of her clothes missing, and the magic shop closed. Buffy and Willow explain that Anya was pretty destroyed by what had happened and that she had left a couple of days ago. They thought that Xander wanted to break up with Anya, which he does not, he says he just freaked out. So Xander still wants Anya, we'll see if she feels the same way.

Buffy is out demon hunting, she comes across Spike. They have a nasty little exchange, Spike asks Buffy if she cried at the wedding. Buffy comes back and they sit down and have a very civil conversation where Buffy explains about Xander leaving Anya at the altar. Spike says he didn't see that coming either. Just as they're talking, Willow and Xander show up. Spike tries to pick a fight with Xander over Anya, Buffy slips back into the institution world. Xander and Spike start to brawl. The fight breaks up when Willow and Xander end up helping Buffy home.

Willow discovers what the demon is and that she needs the demon to make an antidote. Xander and Spike team up and go track the demon. They catch it with some trouble, and chain it in Buffy's basement. Willow makes the antidote, without magic, so it takes a long time and there are two explosions along the way.

So slowly as people start to fight, Buffy realizes how depressing Sunnydale is and starts to desire the institution world. Several times in the Sunnydale world, both from Spike and Xander the other Scoobies should be getting a big time hint about Buffy and Spike sleeping together. Willow hands Buffy the antidote and tells her to drink it all. Just then Spike and Buffy have a little spat. Spike tells her if she doesn't tell her friends about them, he will. That sends Buffy over the edge. She decides the other reality is better and pours the antidote in the trash. Returns to the institution reality and tells her mother and father and the doctors that she wants to get healthy.

So Buffy goes all nuts trying to get rid of her Sunnydale world. She ties up Willow, Xander and Dawn in the basement and sets the demon lose on them. She hides under the stairs as her friends try to fight off the demon. In the institution world, her mother tries to hold her to that reality, encouraging her to destroy her Sunnydale world. Just then, Tara happens by. She hears the commotion and comes to the basement. She starts using magic to free the three tied up Scoobies and to fight the demon. Buffy reaches out from under the stairs and trips Tara. Tara falls down the stairs. In the institution world, Joyce is telling Buffy to believe in herself. Buffy is having a very hard time watching her friends try to fight off the demon. Eventually she can't take it anymore. She bids good bye to the institution world and comes back into the Sunnydale world, killing the demon. She apologizes to the Scoobies and tells Willow to make her more antidote. In the institution world, Buffy has gone back to catatonic. The doctor tells her parents that she's gone.

Extra details-

Willow sees Tara get kissed by another girl, storms off jealous.

Buffy repeats what Joyce has told her to say in the institution world, that she does not have a sister. In the Sunnydale world, Dawn hears this, and is heartbroken.

In the institution world, the doctor says that Buffy came out of her catatonic state for a while last summer but was pulled back in by her friends. I believe this alludes to Buffy's death, and where she really went when she died.

When Buffy is talking about how unhappy she is in Sunnydale she asks Dawn why then "Am I sleeping with a vampire that I hate?" Strong words, I wonder if she means them.

The show actually ends with a shot of the institution reality, of her parents mourning that she's slipped back out of their world. There is no real explanation to whether it was real or not.

In Summary-

There you have it. I had no idea how to get this all down while I was watching it. A lot of jumping, could have taken ten pages to describe if it had been done in order. I thought I wasn't going to like this episode but I did really enjoy it. What I wish there would have been in this ep was some Anya. I hate it when they make us wait to see what's going to happen in that situation. I have to admit, I was sorta happy when Spike was picking on Xander. Call it Anya sympathy, I thought Xander deserved it a bit. A little payback.
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TARA IS KISSED BY SOMEONE ELSE!!!!!
What is that?

Ange.

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