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by Red
I'm starting to sense a *real* relationship developing between Buffy and Spike (they can 'feel' each other's presence now. Ok, he's a vamp, but still ... shows a certain depth to things, growing slowly, albeit unwanted by Buffy).

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Real maybe, but still unhealthy and just plain wrong. This was brought home to me in the scene in the Bronze, where he plays on the distance Buffy feels from her friends, and encourages it. Not nice at all.

Still, a toss-up with OMWF for my favourite ep of the season.

This was a pretty dark episode,what with evil Warren putting the whammy on his ex-girlfriend Katrina,killing her then making Buffy believe she did it.
IMO somewhat reminiscent of "Consequences".
LOL at Xander and Anya dancing at The Bronze.
Good to see Willow talking to Tara without it being too awkward.
Felt sorry for Buffy crying on Tara's shoulder like that.
A good episode.

I liked this episode...the bits with Willow/xander and Anya dancing were very funny.
It was quite dark, i had to stop my sister from watching it. Can't wait to see how the Buffy/Spike thing develops.
"Are we having a conversation?" LOL...Didn't like the bit in the bronze with Buffy and Spike...

can't wait for next week

Still watching without being particularly engaged or enthralled. Actually I was doing other stuff as well, unthinkable during seasons 1-4! Need a proper villian, I think, but then you get the problem of who's harder than a God?

I'm with most people I think, to me this was a very dark episode and Im with Dan on the Bronze scene with Spike and Buffy.
It still had homour but I think that was just so out weighed by the emotion being felt by Buffy thinking that she must have come back wrong or else why is she letting Spike do what he does to her.
I'm still not sure how I feel about this series so far, the jurys still out.

I liked this episode, but again, I didn't like the bit in the Bronze with Spike telling Buffy that she didn't belong with her friends anymore

I thought that it was really nice that they found a way to bring Tara back into the show. We are really starting to see her value as a character I'm getting into this season now... Its nice to know that Buffy hasn't come back wrong...now all we hve to work out is what is going on with her an Spike !

I really don't like this season at all. I wish they'd just left Buffy dead and finished it there. This season is more like a cheap imitation Buffy than real Buffy.

I quite liked this episode, it was a big improvment on last weeks anyway!

Yes, things are getting a trifle steamy with the duo at the moment. I'm not entirely sure where the whole 'Spike can hurt Buffy' thing is going, but it is going somewhere in my opinion..

I liked the episode; some defining moments I felt, especially the trio realising - to various reactions - that supervillainy actually involves being bad people.

Spike still not really understanding Buffy - but hey, what guy does understand women? Aside from the bit in the club (where I think he's _right_ about her growing away from the gang, but _wrong_ about what she should do about it), there's also the fact that he just can't grasp, however good his intentions, why she can't let the accidental death of an innocent slide.

Mind you, he wasn't actually there for the whole Faith business, which is what it really comes down to. Whatever the morality, it's pretty obvious that what Buffy can't handle is the idea of turning into Faith.

Oh. But does anyone else have trouble with Spike being able to sense Buffy through three feet of granite, but being unable to tell the difference between a fresh corpse and one that's a day dead?

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by The Prophet
But does anyone else have trouble with Spike being able to sense Buffy through three feet of granite, but being unable to tell the difference between a fresh corpse and one that's a day dead?

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interesting point..thinking about everything we've been led to believe about vampires in buffyverse would suggest he should be able to tell the difference. They could also smell blood and i'm sure there was soemthing about an old body or blood and angel knwoing that it...but it's possible that i'm hallucinating

At least things were back to normal after last week's dire ep. I like how things are developing between Buffy and Spike. One moment it seems quite touching. And then another moment, like the one in the Bronze, that appears very dark and unnerving.

And I agree with what people have said about Warren, Andrew and Jonathan. The writers have cleverly introduced them as bungling idiots but now things have turned nasty very quickly. Okay, Warren has stamped his 'leadership' on the trio but their unpredictability makes them genuinely scary now.

And I like Buffy's hair as it is now

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by Whistler
And I like Buffy's hair as it is now

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Yeah, so do I.