"Goodbye Iowa"
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| MUAHAHAHAHA |
The gang is now preparing to fight looking for a place to run and hide. They decide on Xander’s basement so that way his mom can bring them Mountain Dew and Cheetos while they play Dungeons and Dragons. Riley busts through the door at Giles place to find out what happened. It’s clear that Riley’s world is falling apart beneath his feet. The woman that he works for and highly respects just tried to kill the woman he loves who happens to be hiding Hostile 17 who he wants to shag has been trying to recapture. Needless to say, shit ain’t going so well for Riley right now.
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| This makes Spike happy. |
Now we cut to Adam, our new cyborg friend that happens to like skewering women and children. I’m going to quote an article I found instead of summarizing it because it’s good stuff. “This episode pays homage to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and its warning about the dangers of scientific progress without adequate ethical safeguards. For example, like Frankenstein's monster, Adam approaches a boy in the woods. The boy is playing with a cyborg soldier action figure in the park, shortly before Adam - a genuine cyborg - kills him. In the scene that follows, Anya, Willow, and Buffy are watching Roadrunner cartoons in Xander's basement. As Wile E. Coyote's Acme technology once again backfires, Buffy complains, "That would never happen." Stevenson claims the irony is it does later happen: the Initiative's embrace of technology unfettered by moral guidance ultimately causes its own destruction.”
Good stuff, right? So we now go to everyone waking up in Xander’s basement and hilarity ensues. Giles is very cranky in the morning due to sleeping on a “beach ball” under a disco ball. So let me get this right… Giles spent the night at Xander’s… with two balls… ANYWAYS, Willow and Anya discuss with Buffy how “her life resists all things average.” I know how she feels. No matter how much you try for a normal, boring relationship, you end up in something crazy (although that is usually the fun part). Oh and-
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“You can’t have Xander” |
Xander turns on the TV where the newscaster is talking about the boy that was skewered and torn apart in the park. Buffy jumps out of bed to give a speech about saving the day, but:
Riley is still wandering aimlessly questioning his existence and everything he has ever believed in. Riley confides in Forest about Walsh trying to kill Buffy. Forest has a fit because he’s jealous that his boyfriend is spending all his time with Buffy and he doesn’t get any action anymore. The boys are interrupted when they are told that Professor Walsh is dead.
DUN DUN DUNNNNN.
Riley is on the right track by thinking the Polgara demon is responsible for Walsh’s murder. He’s got a big pair of brass ones because he goes against what he was told Washington commanded and tells the boys to suit up to go after this thing. Way to start thinking for yourself, Riley!
Well, except now you are kind of a jerk. Riley runs into Buffy at the crime scene and informs her of Professor Walsh’s death and asks if she’s happy now. Bad move, buddy. Buffy gets pissed, tells him she is going to find the Polgara demon to destroy it “And then you can stop asking me how happy all this death makes me.” BURN.
Willow stops by Tara’s to talk about “spells”. She tells Tara how she doesn’t just hang out with her for the “spells”, that she really enjoys Tara’s company. Tara smiles and says that she knows that, but also knows that Willow wants to do a “spell” right now. Then Tara says “I’ve been thinking about that last spell we did together all day”. I’m not making this up people. Sexual innuendos FTW. So, the spell Willow wants to perform will find a demon in a certain radius so that way they’ll know where the Polgara is located.
Buffy shows up at Willy’s bar in order to question him. Riley comes in and looks like a hot mess. He starts accusing Buffy and questioning her intentions. It’s obvious that something is wrong with Riley far beyond his world falling apart. Then OH SNAP.
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Someone’s got a case of the crazies. |
Buffy is able to calm Riley down after he pulls a gun on an innocent woman and takes him to Xander’s. Things are definitely getting worse and it appears that Riley is going though withdrawl symptoms. Riley has scratched his hand to the point where it’s bleeding so Buffy wraps her hairband around it. Aww…
Buffy comes up with a plan for her and Xander to infiltrate the Initiative. Now I’d like to take the opportunity to thank Anya for once again being the voice of reason when Buffy says Xander has “military experience”- “It’s not like he was in the ‘Nam. He was G.I. Joe for one night.” For anyone keeping track, that’s the 142nd reference to Xander’s bullshit military experience. And if you are playing the Buffy drinking game, that’s a shot.
Now Willow and Tara are getting ready to perform a “spell”. Seriously guys, it’s not me putting in the sexual innuendos. Just watch this scene. The way Willow tells Tara about the spell is so seductive that I think a Mormon would want to have sex with her. I know Sarah does. However, while doing the spell, Tara fakes it and instead of blowing the powder on the spell, throws it under the bed. Unfortunately this won’t be explained until next season so too bad for you.
Buffy and Xander head to the Initiative and in order to get in the elevator lady need to perform a rentinal scan. Xander being the dolt he is states “I don’t want to see that!” Mind out of the gutter, Xander. Then of course Xander goes on to ask “Can I have sex with Riley, too?” I guess he was so turned on that he tries to make-out with Buffy to “maintain their cover”. Remember Anya’s warning, buddy!
Back at Xander’s basement, Riley is, I think the technical term is- FREAKING OUT. He pushes Willow over in order to escape and return to the Initiative to find Buffy. At the Initiative, Buffy overhears the doctors discussing the fact that the men have been being drugged through their food and are now going through withdrawls by not having it. Buffy confronts the head doctor about what they are doing to Riley. Riley arrives to find Buffy arguing with the doctor about what was in 314. This is were Riley proceeds to lose his shit about Professor Walsh.
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“SHE’S A NICE LADY!” |
Buffy and him start to struggle when she yells that the answers to what was in 314 are here, they just need to find them. Adam decides to make it very clear what was in 314 and what he plans to do. We get some insight to the “Frankenstein’s Monster” theme where Adam is questioning not just what he is, but WHO he is and how the world works. He tells Riley about how Maggie Walsh has planned out everything for them including “how it ends”. Well that’s awfully ominous now isn’t it?
Riley and Buffy along with other Initiative members try to take on Adam, but have no affect on him whatsoever. He escapes and Riley is taken to a military hospital to be treated for withdrawl from the drugs he was being given by Professor Walsh. Buffy and Willow are discussing the situation with the Initiative and how Adam seems near unstoppable. They move on to how Riley’s whole world has been turned upside down by all of this when Buffy states that Riley has “nothing to hold on to”. That’s when we cut to Riley laying in his hospital bed in one of the sweetest moments in this season.
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Aww… he’s holding on to the memory of Buffy. HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT LOVE RILEY?! |
- Kali!
P.S. Just so you know, when I say "around noon", I really mean I'll be posting an hour and a half after that time. Blame Sarah for distracting me.
Sarah's Notes
In my defense, I distracted Kali for VERY IMPORTANT reasons pertaining to youtube videos she needed to watch. And yes, I very much would like to have sex with Willow. I'm done being classy; I WANT WILLOW TOO MUCH TO BE CLASSY!
I really don't have any notes apart from can you believe how sexy the Willow and Tara scene is?! Whenever I watch these episodes before their relationship, I find it hard to believe that ANYONE didn't see this shit coming.
"Can we have sex now?"
"I'd be offended if we didn't."
Raise your hand if you're jealous of Tara...
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