Frakking wow. It's a mutiny. And I was worried that the final episodes would be an anticlimax. Silly me.
Battlestar Galactica: The Oath
Frakking wow. It's a mutiny. And I was worried that the final episodes would be an anticlimax. Silly me.
Supernatural: After School Special
Ah, yes. High school as hell. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, how I miss you.
Heroes: The Recruit #5: The Truth Within
Angela frees Rachel from her restraints and concedes that she's lost the battle. She commends her on being a fighter, much like herself, prompting Rachel to insist that they're nothing alike. Outside a car is waiting to take her to freedom.
Heroes: The Recruit #4: Day of Reckoning
Angela asks Rachel about her relationship with her mother, only to be told that Leona killed herself. Angela admits to knowing Leona and confesses to being there the day she discovered her abilities. She criticises Leona for being weak and abandoning Rachel. She also tells her that Leona killed herself because she couldn't live with the fact she was different. She urges Rachel to claim her power and accept who she is.
Smallville: Power
Lana: "I am moving on."Chloe: "Really? Because it seems to me that you're not just playing with fire, you're stepping into a raging inferno."
And now Lana is a superhero. Lana Lang. Is a superhero.
Lost: Jughead
Juliet: "Others 101. Gotta learn Latin. Language of the enlightened."
Sawyer: "Enlightened, my ass."
So Charles Widmore is an Other. That loud click you just heard was another Lost puzzle piece snapping into place.
Fringe: The No-Brainer
Do you remember those really bad X-Files episodes? You know the ones I mean—they usually revolved around computer programs that suddenly were able to turn light switches off and on, on-screen images of the humanoid inner selves of the hardware causing so much trouble, and the Lone Gunmen explaining the impossibility of a 5 megabyte-per-second internet connection. Maybe this episode of Fringe will look that dated in a few years. But, for right now, it isn’t so bad.
Battlestar Galactica: The Disquiet That Follows My Soul
Adama went back to life as usual. He put his grief and despair in its place and moved on to the important business of saving the human race. But the rest of the fleet wasn't ready to move on with him. To them, allying with the Cylons is still sleeping with the enemy. And not telling the fleet who the final Cylon was? Big mistake. Huge. Everyone is going to rush to fill in the blank.
Being Human
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Season 5 |
Related Links | Cast |
Being Human (2008-2013) was a British television comedy/drama/horror series about three twenty-something characters who shared a house and tried to live a normal social life, despite being a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire.
Season One
1.0 The Monsters Within (Pilot) (not reviewed)
1.1 Flotsam and Jetsam
1.2 Tully
1.3 Ghost Town
1.4 Another Fine Mess
1.5 Where the Wild Things Are
1.6 Bad Moon Rising
Season Two
2.1 Cure and Contagion
2.2 Serve God, Love Me and Mend
2.3 Long Live the King
2.4 Educating Creature
2.5 The Looking Glass
2.6 In the Morning
2.7 Damage
2.8 All God's Children
Season Three
3.1 Lia
3.2 Adam's Family
3.3 Type 4
3.4 The Pack
3.5 The Longest Day
3.6 Daddy Ghoul
3.7 Though The Heavens Fall
3.8 The Wolf-Shaped Bullet
Season Four
4.1 Eve of the War
4.2 Being Human 1955
4.3 The Graveyard Shift
4.4 A Spectre Calls
4.5 Hold the Front Page
4.6 Puppy Love
4.7 Making History
4.8 The War Child
Season Five
5.1 The Trinity
5.2 Sticks and Ropes
5.3 Pie and Prejudice
5.4 The Greater Good
5.5 No Care, All Responsibility
5.6 The Last Broadcast
Related Links
Being Human (Syfy) Reviews by Billie Doux
Holiday Gift Guide: Being Human by Morgan India
Cast
Lenora Crichlow (Annie)
Russell Tovey (George)
Aiden Turner (Mitchell)
Sinead Keenan (Nina)
Michael Socha (Tom)
Damien Molony (Hal)
Jason Watkins (Herrick)
Heroes: The Recruit #3: Do What We Have to Do
At a undisclosed facility in Tappen, NJ, Angela Petrelli continues her interrogation of Rachel Mills. She wants to know why Rachel killed Sullivan. We flashback to the laboratory at Pinehearst, where Sullivan is in the process of being changed by the serum. Hanover tries to shoot him, but he escapes at super speed. Rachel urges Hanover to put the gun down but he refuses so she tries to disarm him with a piece of scrap metal. Floored, he manages to stand again and is just about to shoot Mills when Sullivan attacks him and drags him to the ground. Mills stands and is also attacked by Sullivan, but manages to teleport across the room to safety. She picks up a pair of large scissors and Sullivan attacks again, only to be skewered and killed by the scissors.
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Doctor: 'Rosita? Good name. Hello, Rosita.'Christmas is traditionally a time where Nu-Who goes mental with the special effects. Christmas episodes are not your average episode: they're bigger, brasher, littered with innuendo and for the most part, incredibly entertaining. True, some people are turned off by the over the top production (which does occasionally have a nasty habit of getting in the way of the story), but only a fool would deny that they're a stonkingly good romp.
Lost: The Lie
This episode was worth it for the Ana Lucia surprise ghost cameo alone. And I loved everyone carrying Sayid around, sort of like the Lost version of Weekend at Bernie's. Even Jack carried Sayid. And Jack discovered that waking Sayid is something you do very carefully.
Supernatural: Criss Angel is a Douche Bag
Dean: "What?"
Sam: "Die before we get old?"
Dean: "Haven't we both already?"
I wasn't that wild about last week's. And unfortunately, I wasn't that wild about this one, either. But it did have some good bits. And it actually took us somewhere.
Smallville: Bulletproof
"Rain check on girls' night?"No, Clark! Don't go back to Lana! We just got rid of her after seven long years! DON'T GO BACK TO LANA, CLARK!
*sigh*
Fringe: Bound
Lost: Because You Left
[I'm doing the two parts separately. This is a review of part one only.]
Did absence make the heart grow fonder, or was this episode a hoot and a half? I was bouncing around and laughing, I was so delighted. It was like a gift to the fans tied up with a great big bow. (Yes, new viewers would have been totally Lost, but tough. Rent the first four seasons, new viewers.)
Heroes: The Recruit #2: It Was Nothing
At an undisclosed facility in Tappen, NJ, Rachel Mills is interrogated by Carlos. Like Angela, he wants to know the whereabouts of the serum. He informs her that a drug is neutralising her abilities. She tells him that she doesn't have any abilities and that she's not special.
Battlestar Galactica: Sometimes a Great Notion
Cheese and crackers. Can you say intense?
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy #10
Aboard raptor 718, everyone's dead bar Gaeta. He injects himself with a syringe of morpha and prepares to administer a second, fatal dose. He starts to sing when suddenly the ship's interior is illuminated from outside and Hoshi's voice comes through on the com. Finally help has arrived.
Battlestar Galactica: Sometimes a Great Notion
Some thoughts from Jess Lynde ...There is a great article over on the Chicago Tribune about last night's BSG. I didn't find it spoilery, but read at your own risk, as it does address that final reveal. It is quite lengthy, but includes an interview with Ron Moore and thoughts from the episode's writers and directors. Here's the link:
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/01/final-fifth-cylon-ellen-tigh-battlestar-galactica-dualla-dee-.html
Some good stuff from Ron in the interview, especially regarding the final reveal of the episode. But I think my favorite part of the article is this bit from David Weddle about his inspiration for the title and the theme of the episode:
"The day the staff finished putting the cards up on the board with Ron, and the day before we began writing, I flashed on my favorite American novel, Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. It is a much underappreciated and towering work. Anyone interested in fine literature and great story telling should read Kesey's masterpiece.
"The book opens with a childish rhyme that enunciates the theme of the book and what to me was the theme of our show. `Sometimes I live in the country. Sometimes I live in the town. Sometimes I get a great notion. To jump in the river and drown.'
"In Kesey's book, the hero---Hank Stamper, an Oregon logger---does constant battle with the river that runs past his home, a river that has claimed the lives of pets and loved ones and comes to symbolize the vast and indifferent power of the universe that both gives life and cruelly snatches it away again. In his notes to himself as he was writing the book, Kesey scribbled something that has become one of the shorthand phrases Brad and I use while writing scripts. Kesey wrote: "Try to make Hank quit." By that he meant: take this strong, heroic character and pile one misfortune on his back after another until he finally falls. What happens in that moment? Does he despair? Does he get up and go on? For me, there is no more defining moment for a character.
"We tried to do this with almost all the characters in this episode: Adama, Laura, Kara, Lee. We ripped everything out from under them then sat back to see what they would do. What were their individual breaking points? And if they did break, would they stay broken or grope toward a recovery?"
***
Interesting stuff. I like the dark place to which they took this episode. Dee's suicide was heartbreaking, but made absolute sense. When you've lost everything and all hope is stripped away, someone is bound to break. Dee was a powerful choice, given that she's always been the quiet, calm center, refusing to give up and providing strength to others. If Dee can't continue, where does that leave everyone else?
There were a number of great scenes and shocking moments in this episode, but I think my favorite scene was when Adama, Laura, and Lee returned to Galactica and faced with all the hopeful faces of the crew, Laura simply couldn't say anything. Powerful stuff. My second favorite scene was when Leoben freaked out after finding Starbuck's body and admitted he was wrong about Earth. Even crazy, faith-driven Leoben doesn't know what to make of Kara. Whoa!
I've got tons of questions about the 13th colony, the timing of its destruction, and the final five. And, of course, what the heck is Kara? I'm looking forward to where it goes from here.
Jess Lynde is a highly engaged television viewer. Probably a bit too engaged.
Supernatural: Family Remains
Dean: "It's not just a girl. It's psycho Nell. I'm telling ya, man. Humans."
If anything, this episode proved that Supernatural doesn't need supernatural elements to be scary.
Smallville: Legion
Garth: "Where's your cape?"Smallville used to be about a young alien – one alien – trying to fit in on planet Earth, and about his personal journey toward his destiny as the world's greatest hero. Now it's superhero central. And how convenient that three alien superheroes from the future showed up with exactly the right powers that were needed to turn Brainiac into a big silver bocce ball.
Buffy Season Eight
Buffy season eight is in comic book form and sanctioned by Joss Whedon, which makes it canon. I've reviewed it and included synopses. At this time, I am not planning to cover Buffy Season Nine, Angel Season Six, or any other Buffy-related comics. This is it for me.However, if you were interested in reviewing Buffy and/or Angel comics for Doux Reviews, that could be a thing. Here's how to apply.
8.1 The Long Way Home, Part 1
8.2 The Long Way Home, Part 2
8.3 The Long Way Home, Part 3
8.4 The Long Way Home, Part 4
8.5 The Chain
8.6 No Future for You, Part 1
8.7 No Future for You, Part 2
8.8 No Future for You, Part 3
8.9 No Future for You, Part 4
8.10 Anywhere But Here
8.11 A Beautiful Sunset
8.12 Wolves at the Gate, Part 1
8.13 Wolves at the Gate, Part 2
8.14 Wolves at the Gate, Part 3
8.15 Wolves at the Gate, Part 4
8.16 Time of Your Life, Part 1
8.17 Time of Your Life, Part 2
8.18 Time of Your Life, Part 3
8.19 Time of Your Life, Part 4
8.20 After These Messages, We'll Be Right Back
8.21 Harmonic Divergence
8.22 Swell
8.23 Predators and Prey
8.24 Safe
8.25 Living Doll
8.26 Retreat, Part 1
8.27 Retreat, Part 2
8.28 Retreat, Part 3
8.29 Retreat, Part 4
8.30 Retreat, Part 5
8.31 Turbulence
8.32 Twilight, Part 1
8.33 Twilight, Part 2
8.34 Twilight, Part 3
8.35 Twilight, Part 4
8.36 Last Gleaming, Part 1
8.37 Last Gleaming, Part 2
8.38 Last Gleaming, Part 3
8.39 Last Gleaming, Part 4
8.40 Last Gleaming, Part 5
The Oceanic Six: A Conspiracy of Lies
As of this writing, the next new episode of Lost is only 14,531 minutes away. Yes, I’m desperate for more. Yes, I’ve been re-watching old episodes (I recommend the end of Season 3: knowing what we do about what happens, Ben’s dismay and confusion over Locke’s coup is even more powerful). Yes, I’ve been dissecting the new promos and trailers. But no, it isn’t working.So in a pathetic attempt to satiate my Lost cravings, I’ve been indulging in commentaries, easter eggs, and special features galore. I’m always disappointed by the Lost DVD special features: I want more! I want the drama, heartache, philosophy, and confusion of…okay, I really just want new Lost episodes. But since the impossible is, well, impossible, I recommend for your viewing pleasure The Oceanic Six: A Conspiracy of Lies from the Season 4 DVDs.
The Oceanic Six: A Conspiracy of Lies is allegedly from an “anonymous source,” and purports to investigate the plausibility of the Oceanic Six’s story. The mockumentary uses real-life experts to support its final conclusions that: the crash was staged; the Oceanic Six (and possibly a pregnant woman, to give birth to Aaron) were hidden in a remote location for 108 days; and the entire thing is the work of the U.S. government, the United Nations, or a sinister corporation with nefarious and ambiguous motives.
The mockumentary has the trust-me-I’m-serious narrator, blurry videos, and extremely cheap graphics we’ve come to expect from similar works on the Kennedy assassination, alligators in the sewers, and other completely erroneous, completely earnest documentaries. It’s structured as an investigative narrative, proposing and discarding theories (like cannibalism) as new evidence comes to light.
Occasionally, bold-fonted words pop up over the on-screen images: “Truth?” or “Lying” or simply, “?”. The best one, of course, is the narrator’s final assertion that the Oceanic Six, instead of being lured by money, must in fact be living in fear. On-screen graphic: “Of What?” and “Of Whom?” How can you not trust a conspiracy theorist who knows his objective case?
Of course, this mockumentary assumes that we’re familiar with the travails of the Oceanic Six as their story was told to the general public. Whether or not such notoriety will prove an important plot point for our plucky band of heroes remains to be seen. But it’s also pretty cool to see a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the Lost Power that Be of the impossibility of the little things: grooming, changes of clothes, lack of sunburns and weight loss. And there’s something neat about the sense of being included in a gigantic in-joke.
Does The Oceanic Six: A Conspiracy of Lies make the waiting any easier? Not really. But, at about 25 minutes in length, it helps pass the time. All 14,531 minutes of it.
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy #9
Aboard raptor 718, Sweet Eight confesses to Gaeta her treacherous past. At first Gaeta refuses to believe it. He remembers seeing people from the list alive on New Caprica. Sweet Eight admits to saving some, but only enough to fool him into trusting her. She accuses him of being seduced by hope.
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy #8
Aboard raptor 1029, Racetrack and Hoshi continue their search. Hoshi is convinced that Gaeta would never give up on him and wants to keep searching. Racetrack reasons that even Gaeta would give up if the situation became hopeless. She reassures him that Gaeta would understand. Reluctantly, Hoshi agrees to return home.
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy #7
Aboard raptor 1029, Racetrack and Hoshi are discussing Gaeta. Hoshi tells her of Gaeta's penchant for doing the right thing. Racetrack compliments him on his strong moral core, but points out that such convictions often lead to death. She apologises for her faux pas, but Hoshi tells her it's okay and they continue their search.
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy #6
Racetrack and Hoshi continue their search for the missing crew. Their first FTL jump brings up nothing on DRADIS... so they jump again.
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy #5
Pilot Eight's body is jettisoned into space. Sweet Eight observes the ceremony, her face contorted with grief. Later, whilst everyone's sleeping, Gaeta, clearly in pain, injects himself with morpha. Beside him, Sweet Eight watches silently, before closing her eyes and pretending to sleep.
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
About half-way through The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines, I checked my watch. And again about 30 minutes later. By then, our hero was engaged in a crisis of conscience: should he save the world, or gain the power to alter the space-time continuum and thereby reacquaint himself with his father? My own dilemma was just as pressing: would I continue, or call it a day and start the new Jhumpa Lahiri book of short stories?2009 Guest Book
Yes, this is my blog, not an actual guest book. But if you want to post feedback for me or for my guest writers, anonymously if you like, without having to send me an email -- this is the place.
So please feel free to post any comment you like. I always read every comment posted on my blog, and try to answer any questions.
Happy 2009!
Fringe
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Season 5 | Articles |
Related Links | Cast |
Mix one part X-Files, half a cup of Alias, and a smidgen of every conspiracy movie ever made. Overbake the pseudo-science and under-do the mythology and character development. Wait 42 minutes, and you have Fringe (2008-2013). Was it good? Not at first--but by Season Three it was fascinating, and it couldn't have ended in a better way.
Season One
1.1 Pilot
1.2 The Same Old Story
1.3 The Ghost Network
1.4 The Arrival
1.5 Power Hungry
1.6 The Cure
1.7 In Which We Meet Mr. Jones
1.8 The Equation
1.9 The Dreamscape
1.10 Safe
1.11 Bound
1.12 The No-Brainer
1.13 The Transformation
1.14 Ability
1.15 Inner Child
1.16 Unleashed
1.17 Bad Dreams
1.18 Midnight
1.19 The Road Not Taken
1.20 There's More Than One of Everything
Season Two
2.1 A New Day in an Old Town
2.2 Night of Desirable Objects
2.3 Fracture
2.4 Momentum Deferred
2.5 Dream Logic
2.6 Earthling
2.7 Of Human Action
2.8 August
2.9 Snakehead
2.10 Grey Matters
2.11 Unearthed
2.12 Johari Window
2.13 What Lies Below
2.14 The Bishop Revival
2.15 Jacksonville
2.16 Peter
2.17 Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.
2.18 White Tulip
2.19 The Man from the Other Side
2.20 Brown Betty
2.21 Northwest Passage
2.22 Over There, Part 1
2.23 Over There, Part 2
Season Three
3.1 Olivia
3.2 The Box
3.3 The Plateau
3.4 Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?
3.5 Amber 31422
3.6 6995 KHz
3.7 The Abducted
3.8 Entrada
3.9 Marionette
3.10 The Firefly
3.11 Reciprocity
3.12 Concentrate and Ask Again
3.13 Immortality
3.14 6B
3.15 Subject 13
3.16 Os
3.17 Stowaway
3.18 Bloodline
3.19 Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
3.20 6:02 AM EST
3.21 The Last Sam Weiss
3.22 The Day We Died
Season Four
4.1 Neither Here Nor There
4.2 One Night in October
4.3 Alone in the World
4.4 Subject 9
4.5 Novation
4.6 And Those We've Left Behind
4.7 Wallflower
4.8 Back to Where You've Never Been
4.9 Enemy of My Enemy
4.10 Forced Perspective
4.11 Making Angels
4.12 Welcome to Westfield
4.13 A Better Human Being
4.14 The End of All Things
4.15 A Short Story About Love
4.16 Nothing Is As It Seems
4.17 Everything In Its Right Place
4.18 The Consultant
4.19 Letters of Transit
4.20 Worlds Apart
4.21 Brave New World, Part 1
4.22 Brave New World, Part 2
Season Five
5.1 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11
5.2 In Absentia
5.3 The Recordist
5.4 The Bullet that Saved the World
5.5 An Origin Story
5.6 Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There
5.7 Five-Twenty-Ten
5.8 The Human Kind
5.9 Black Blotter
5.10 Anomaly XB-6783746
5.11 The Boy Must Live
5.12 Liberty
5.13 An Enemy of Fate
Articles
Doux Top Twenty! Number 20: Fringe
Five TV Characters Who Vanished Without a Trace by Mark Greig
Holiday Gift Guide: Fringe by Josie Kafka
Review of "The Same Old Story" by Billie Doux
Review of the Fringe pilot episode by Billie Doux
Related Links
Alias reviews
The X-Files reviews
Cast
Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham)
Joshua Jackson (Peter Bishop)
Lance Reddick (Philip Broyles)
Blair Brown (Nina Sharp)
Jasika Nicole (Astrid Farnsworth)
John Noble (Walter Bishop)
Seth Gabel (Lincoln Lee)
Buffy Season Eight: Time of Your Life, Part 1
Willow: "She's never been in New York."Buffy: "I'm the King Kong of the Worrrrld!"
Willow: "Or, apparently, a limo."
Synopsis:
The story begins with Buffy fighting a young woman in mid-air, above a city-scape that looks decidedly science-fiction-like. Buffy doesn't know where she is or whom she is fighting, but both Buffy and her opponent are holding identical Scythes.
Buffy Season Eight: Wolves at the Gate, Part 4
Andrew: "My giant-sized teammate is fighting a mechanized version of herself on the streets of downtown Tokyo. I've been preparing for this day my entire life!"Synopsis:
The battle between Buffy's Slayers and the ninja vamps is in progress. The first few panels show Renee's point of view, mostly of a stunned and bloody Xander, as she realizes that she is dying. Unable to speak as her vision goes white, her last thoughts are, "I never got to tell him. Xander, I'm not ready."
Buffy Season Eight: Wolves at the Gate, Part 3
Dawn: "Hi. Or, I mean... roar?"Synopsis:
We begin in Tokyo, where the ninja vamps have left Aiko the slayer's body spreadeagled on the side of a skyscraper, captioned by the words "Welcome to Tokyo" in Japanese. Buffy and her slayers cut Aiko down and carry her shrouded body to what appears to be local slayer headquarters, where Buffy broods about what to do next... which turns out to be capturing and interrogating one of the enemy. Which is hard when they can turn into fog.
Buffy Season Eight: Wolves at the Gate, Part 2
Dracula: "Manservant, your moor is one snide comment away from a swarm of bees."Xander: "Okay, okay, calm down. Nobody wants a swarm of bees."
Synopsis:
The issue begins with a flashback to "fifteen minutes earlier." Dracula is utterly depressed, bewhiskered and filthy, and looks several hundred years old. Butterfield, Dracula's tiny, purple-faced minion, tries to tempt him with a young victim to hunt, to no avail. But suddenly, Dracula senses something outside and calls for a razor. Xander and Renee arrive and Dracula answers the door, looking like his old, or rather young, self.
Buffy Season Eight: Wolves at the Gate, Part 1
Buffy: "Oh, my god. What happened?"Willow: "I think we're under attack... why are you naked in bed with Satsu?"
Synopsis:
Xander and Renee are on the castle battlements. Even after noticing that there are wolves down below scouting the perimeter, romantic vibes are in the air and Renee gets Xander to ask her out. Cut to Buffy, post-really-good-sex, in bed with... Satsu. Cut to Willow flying with Andrew, who is of course quoting Superman I with himself in the role of Lois Lane. Willow drops Andrew at the castle. A woman, whom we later learn is named Kumiko, attacks Willow from behind -- in mid-air.
Buffy Season Eight: A Beautiful Sunset
Xander: "So the bad guys have a super-powered spokesmodel. Huzzah."Synopsis:
As they watch all of the Slayers (and Giant Dawn, who is drinking entire kegs of beer) party below them, Buffy and Xander talk about Buffy's decision to share her power with the Potentials, to change the world. The discovery that a band of Slayers led by a Slayer named Simone Doffler are committing crimes has made Buffy question her decision. And Buffy and Xander both need a man. Xander for male bonding, Buffy for... other reasons.
Buffy Season Eight: Anywhere But Here
Buffy: "Hey, the demons are after us, the humans are after us, this whole 'Twilight' thing is looking very creepy and hey, Faith tried to kill me again! My grip on reality is not that grippy."Synopsis:
Willow is flying, and carrying Buffy on her back; they're searching for something in particular, which turns out to be a cottage facade concealing the lair of something called Sephrilian. During the flight, Buffy and Willow play a game (I'm assuming it's "Anywhere But Here", given the title of this issue) in order to keep Buffy from freaking out. Buffy spins a beach fantasy starring Daniel Craig and some suntan lotion. Willow's involves being alone with Tina Fey in a cabin in a snowstorm, which sparks a brief Buffy/Willow conversation about Kennedy, who is apparently still Willow's significant other even though we never see her around.
Buffy Season Eight: No Future for You, Part 4
Giles: "Maybe I could be the Steed to your Peel?"Faith: "God, I hope that's not as gross as it sounds."
Synopsis:
We start with the Mayor and Faith and a scene where Faith is wearing that pink dress that he got for her. (Which episode was that?) Faith tells herself that it wasn't her fault that the Mayor led her astray; he made her feel loved. As Roden has with Gigi.
Buffy Season Eight: No Future for You, Part 3
Gigi: "The mighty slayer who's the very fount of all our power is called Buffy. Can you even believe it?"Faith: "No."
Synopsis:
Gigi shows Faith her surveillance footage of Buffy, and confides that she plans to assassinate her in order to set all of the slayers free of servitude to humanity. Roden has told Gigi that her horrendous nightmares will cease when she takes Buffy out, and Gigi believes it. Faith tries unsuccessfully to talk her out of it.
Buffy Season Eight: No Future for You, Part 2
Faith: "Anyway, live and learn. Almost die and learn way more."Synopsis:
The issue begins with a recreation of the Buffy/Faith final fight scene in "Graduation Day", ending with Buffy stabbing Faith.
Buffy Season Eight: No Future for You, Part 1
Faith: "Dr. Seuss never tells you that even with brains in your head and feet in your shoes, you can still end up in Cleveland."Synopsis:
Faith, hanging out at the Cleveland Hellmouth, gets a call from Robin Wood. As assigned, she checks out the house of a single mother who was vamped, and finds six vamped children waiting to eat her. After staking them, understandably bummed, she returns to her Spartan abode to find Giles waiting with an offer she can't refuse -- early retirement and moola, a plane ticket to anywhere she wants -- in exchange for one assignment: taking out a very bad Slayer.
Buffy Season Eight: The Chain
Unknown Slayer: "Did I get the hardest, darkest path to walk 'cause I'm strong, I'm good, I can handle the burden? Or am I weak, expendable, the one that won't be missed?"Synopsis:
Down in the underworld, Yamanh of Hoht proclaims that he has killed Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And it certainly looks as though the body he is holding above his head is Buffy. But it's not; it's one of the two Buffy doubles mentioned in part one of "The Long Way Home."
Buffy Season Eight: The Long Way Home, Part 4
Buffy: "Get your favorite blade and be ready for anything and the mother of anything."Synopsis:
So. Warren explains to Willow, his captive, what really happened to him in season six. Amy had been watching, and was responsible for Warren vanishing right after Willow ripped off his skin. "Her magic is my skin," Warren says, and does his usual meandering chattering thing as he moves an exacto knife to Willow's eye, and asks if she's bored now.
Buffy Season Eight: The Long Way Home, Part 3
Xander: "Ladies and other ladies... the indescribable Rosenberg."Synopsis:
In Buffy's dreamscape, the one who said "my love" is revealed to be Ethan Rayne, who is trying to contact her for reasons we don't yet know. Ethan shows Buffy what is happening in the real world, which is Willow versus Amy. He shows her what is coming: Amy's cage from a rat-sized perspective, the inside of something red and blotchy with a dead demon, and a device like an X-shaped cage.
Buffy Season Eight: The Long Way Home, Part 2
Xander: "Amy. Long time, no desire whatsoever to see."Synopsis:
Giles, somewhere, is drinking tea and lecturing Slayers on backing each other up. Cut to Buffy in Scotland, doing pretty much the same thing. Cut to Andrew, probably in southern Italy, lecturing to a group of Slayers on what was wrong with Return of the Jedi.
Buffy Season Eight: The Long Way Home, Part 1
Buffy: "I miss my home. I miss my mom. I miss the gang. And churros. And sex. Great muppety Odin, I miss that sex."
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