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All Anya, all the time.
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What we have here is an Anya episode. It focuses on her origin and what she's doing now. And I loved it. It's written by a newcomer, Drew Goddard, and this is his first episode on this show. He did, I think, an amazing job of capturing Whedon's tone and the essence of these characters.
We get Anya in the here and now committing horrible acts of vengeance, then we get flashbacks to her mortal life a millenium ago, her life with Olaf, and her first encounter with D'hoffryn.
Intercut with all of this is the gang finding out that Anya has done something terrible, Buffy deciding that she has to kill Anya, and Xander trying to save her. It's great stuff for an Anya fan like me. Of particular note is the song that she gets to sing, and they do the "Whedon" signature of cutting out of the highest, happiest moment of the song to her body, impaled on a sword and stuck to the wall.
Suffice it to say that Anya doesn't die, but she does cause the death of Halfreck. Good good stuff, I love it. Also, great Buffy ending of Xander and Anya sort of coming to terms and speaking to each other again after so long, then walking in their separate directions. It gets me a little choked up, and it's been a while since that's happened on this show.
Rating: 9/10
3 comments:
Oh Aud. Good episode. I liked the callback to Xander telling Buff in season 2 that willow wanted her to "kick Angel's ass". Which of course Willow never said. Buffy's a badass in this one, with the sword and all. I like when Anya tells Xander "my whole life I just clung to whatever came along"...I can relate. Goddard writes some awesome stuff in the season 8 comic too. Surprising since it's a whole different medium...but his pacing is perfect.
Goddard works on the comic?!
Hey, by the way, I can't remember what Willow's message even was in season 2. What was Xander supposed to tell Buffy?
Willow told Xander to tell Buffy that she was gonna try to do the restoration spell again,(from the hospital) so just to try to hold off killing Angel. xander of course tells Buffy that Willow said "kick his ass".One of my most hated Xander moments. Glad he got called on it this episode. And yeah, goddard does a really good funny arc with a cool season 5 character. There's alot of good writers on the comic.
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