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Date Posted: 11:44:09 03/11/02 Mon
Author: VampRiley
Subject: Herc's Review of tomorrow's Buffy

HERC’s Seen BUFFY!!


Buffy 6.17 FAQ
What’s it called?
“Normal Again.”

Who’s responsible?
Teleplay is credited to longtime Joss Whedon aide Diego Gutierrez.

Does Anya go all vengeance demon?
Anya is wholly absent this week. We are told that the Magic Box is closed and no one has seen her since the non-wedding. Xander, for his part, still seems to love her.

What does TV Guide say?
“A demon doses Buffy with a powerful chemical that causes her to hallucinate, convincing the slayer that her parents are alive and Dawn never existed.”

Uh, did Hank Summers meet an untimely demise at some point?
The TV Guide listing makes it sound that way, but as far as we know, Buffy’s daddy is living and breathing and taking up valuable space in the Buffyverse.

Does the demon invade Buffy?
In a sense. He injects the chemical by poking her. (If you know what I mean.)

What is TV Guide not telling us?
Buffy comes to believe that her real life is actually the delusion of an institutionalized and delusional non-slayer named Buffy Summers. When Buffy decides she likes the non-supernatural, Spike-free universe in which her mom still lives, she feverishly decides to kill those things that tether her to her “fantasy life” as a slayer: the other scoobies.

The big news?
Buffy didn’t get canned at Doublemeat when she went AWOL to help Nick and Nora Fury two episodes ago.

The less-big news?
“Normal Again” is another sub-par episode.

The Nerds of Doom sit it out again?
No. The nerds send the delusion-demon after Buffy when they discover her closing in on their new secret lair.

Any sign of Fantastico?
Nope.

Any Buffy-Spike sex?
Nope.

Anyone learn of the Buffy-Spike sex?
“You either tell your friends about us,” says Spike this week, “or I will.”

What’s the what with Will and Tara?
Status quo. Will freaks out when she spots Tara cheek-kissing a girlfriend, but things get better after Tara turns up to save the day.

Does Will go back on the pipe?
Nope.

What’s great?
The final shot suggests that Buffy’s life of the past six years may be the delusions of a mental patient after all.

What’s not so great?
The concept is way, way, way too similar to the “Deep Space Nine” episode in which Ben Sisko is a 20th century mental patient who imagines himself a starship captain on a space station. This would be perfectly forgivable, of course, if the episode supplied any of the series’ trademark pithy drama or witty dialogue. It really feels like Team Whedon is treading water until those big events – the ones we’ve been talking about since last summer – come to pass in the season’s final episodes.

Herc’s rating for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 6.17?
**1/2
The Hercules T. Strong Rating System:

***** better than we deserve
**** better than most motion pictures
*** actually worth your valuable time
** as horrible as most stuff on TV
* makes you quietly pray for bulletins
I am – Hercules!!


I am not - Hercules!! -- VR

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