Buffy ep by ep; WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

The Good;
Nice that with Buffy and Riley ahem, preoccupied the other Scoobs have a chance to shine for a change.
The Bad;
Vines look a little lame but apart from that all good.
Best line;
Giles "Do you really think they're keeping it up? Oh for a different phrasing"
Women good/men bad;
In this case a female villain, the religious zealot 'carer'
Jeez!;
The drowning scenes are horrible, a very primal human fear.
Kinky dinky;
Basically one big marathon sex session between Buffy and Riley (at least they use protection) plus the house sending sexual energy surging through it's inhabitants. Plus Anya and Xander in the ice-cream van. Anya comments that Xander and she both like his penis. Apparently there's only been 2 nights where Xander and Anya haven't had sex, to paraphrase Buffy 'Xander is quite the machine' Xander gets to kiss the lovely Julie. Xander refers to a big bursting poltergasm.
Calling Captain Subtext;
Anya, Tara and Willow seem remarkably keen on Giles playing his guitar (Willow always had a thing for guitarists) again suggesting bi-Willow and even bi-Tara. Her revelation about her crush must have had Gillow fans going into overtime. Tara has a moment of homophobia due to the house's influence. Spike and Anya bond over their past evil. Spike seems to want to be heroic when Xander asks for volunteers to rescue Buffy? Willow seems scared of horses although she seems to have gotten over that by the end of season 5. Tara tells Willow she can come 'Riding with me sometime' Ohhhhh matron! Willow asks Buffy if she still loves her despite having spilt 'something purple' on her peasant blouse (the answer is yes). Spike says that love is a terrible thing just as he does in 'Lover's Walk'. 'Dingoes ate my baby' poster visible for the last time.
Guantanamo Bay;
Scoobies to the ER;
Anya and Xander are pretty cut up by the end but their injuries seem to heal pretty fast, perhaps because they're mystical?
Where's Dawn?
Home with Joyce
Missing scenes;
Apocalypses; 5,
Wheldon Cliches (with kind permission from Boo)

Scoobies in bondage:
Buffy: 8
Giles: 4
Cordy: 5
Will: 3
Jenny: 1
Angel: 4
Oz: 1
Faith: 3
Joyce: 1
Wes: 1

Scoobies knocked out:
Buffy: 15
Giles: 10
Cordy: 6
Xander: 8
Will: 5
Jenny: 2
Angel: 6
Oz: 3
Faith: 1
Joyce: 2
Wes: 1

Kills:
Buffy: 1 demon for Buffy so 79 vamps, 27 demons, 6 monsters, 3 humans, 1 werewolf, 1 spirit warrior & a robot
Giles: 5 vamps, 1 demon
Cordy: 3 vamps, ½ a demon
Will: 4 vamps
Angel: 3 vamps, 1 demon, 1 human
Oz: 3 vamps, 1 zombie
Faith: 16 vamps, 5 demons, 3 humans
Xander: 5 vamps, 2 zombies, ½ a demon, ½ a demon
Anya: ½ a demon
Riley; 1 vamp for Riley so 12 vamps + 6 demons

Scoobies go evil:
Giles: 1
Cordy: 1
Will: 2
Jenny: 1
Angel: 1
Oz: 1
Joyce: 1
Xander: 2

Alternate scoobies:
Buffy: 6
Giles: 3
Cordy: 1
Will: 2
Jenny: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 2
Joyce: 2
Xander: 3

Recurring characters killed: 7
Jesse, Flutie, Jenny, Kendra, Larry, Snyder, Professor Walsh

Total number of scoobies: 6 actually going to reduce this as Spike not officially a Scooby by a long way
Giles, Xander, Willow, Buffy, Anya, Riley,

Xander demon magnet: 5
Preying Mantis Lady, Inca Mummy Girl, Drusilla, VampWillow, Anya (arguably Buffy & Faith with their demon essences?)

Scoobies shot:
Giles: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 4

Notches on Scooby bedpost:
Giles: 2; Joyce & Olivia, possibly Jenny
Cordy: 1?
Buffy: 3; Angel, Parker, Riley
Angel: 1;Buffy
Joyce: 1;Giles, possibly Ted
Oz: 3; Groupie, Willow & Verucca
Faith:2 ;Xander, Riley
Xander: 2; Faith, Anya
Willow: 1;Oz
Questions and observations;
What the heck does Xander mean when he refers to people going 'all Felicity with their hair'? Anya's humanity is still a work in process despite her having a soul. Once more, Buffy goes christian bashing.
Marks out of 10; 7/10 good ep without being brilliant
 
Entertaining enough, i'd give it 7 too. I dont get all the hate people got for this episode.
It was pretty funny(all s4 was quite funny really)
Spike was on form in it, when he tries to rob Anya is hilarious.

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Best line- Spike: ''i know i'm not first choice for heroics, and, the slayers tried to kill me more than once... And i dont fancy a single one of you, but... Actually all that sounds pretty convincing. I wonder i danger mouse is on'' lollol
 
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best line
Haha, I like your comment that Will always had a thing for guitarists 🙂 She's a groopie 🙂

Briley sex marathon, haha. Actually I liked this episode. It had an intersting plot 🙂 Xander and Anya are so funny in the begining 🙂

I'll give it 9/10
 
Good episode. I liked the creepiness in the first scene where Riley hear splashing and go into the bathroom! There isn't too many scenes like that in BtVS which creep me out =P Giles singing was awesome too. Aside of that it's one of the few episodes in season 4 where I laughed at what Anya said, hahaha. When she goes 'WOO HOO' at the party :lmao::lmao:
 
Crazily kinky ep. I thought it was very good. Leave it to Joss to show condoms being used. On TV, you don't get that enough. Also very good that Riley didn't do a whole lot of talking. It might have ruined it otherwise.
The episode freaked me out quite a lot. Everyone is so skittish about sex. Especially old, evangelical ladies. What's with that?
 
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