Buffy ep by ep; WRECKED-the morning after the night before....

[saturn5]

WRECKED

The Good;
The waking up scene is a classic. Love the sight of Buffy in her nightie (same one she wore for Dracula?) surrounded by crosses and garlic trying to ward off Spike's advances.

The Bad;
The anti-addiction metaphor is laid on a little thick

Best line;
Amy (proffering bag of grass like substance) "It's not what you think, it's sage"
Buffy "That was what I thought it was"

Women good/men bad;

Jeez!;
The drug stuff is nasty as is poor Dawn getting beaten up by the demon.

Kinky dinky;
The magic interchange between Rack, Amy and Willow has obvious erotic undertones. Spike says that having sex with a Slayer is even better than killing one (because THAT's what every girl wants to hear in the morning). Spike seems actually quite pleased with Buffys description of their sex as the most 'peverse, degrading experience of my life'. Buffy says only one vamp ever got her hot, assuming she means Angel what about Dracula?
15 year old Dawn says that her burger was like a "Meat-party in her mouth"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Joss is right he really does just write porn. Here Spike does force the kiss on a struggling Buffy and she succumbs, Victorian heroine style. Spike says he's done being Buffy's whipping boy, he might just be using that expression or is he talking literally? Her him or him her? Spike steals Buffy's panties for the second time. Love Amy's revealing strapless top. Spike says someone should teach Buffy to use candles in foreplay. Willow wears cheese in her bra which would probably work for Marge Simpson.

Captain Subtext;

Guantanamo Bay;
Buffy threatens Amy

Scoobies to the ER;
Dawn breaks her arm

Missing scenes;

Apocalypses; 6

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
Xander; 1
Dawn; 3

Scoobies knocked out: Willow in the crash
Buffy: 17
Giles: 12
Cordy: 6
Xander: 11
Will: 7
Jenny: 2
Angel: 6
Oz: 3
Faith: 1
Joyce: 3
Wes: 1
Anya;3
Dawn; 2

Kills: 1 demon Willow
Buffy: 103 vamps, 41 demons, 6 monsters, 3 humans, 1 werewolf, 1 spirit warrior & a robot
Giles: 8 vamps, 2 demon, 1 human, 1 god.
Cordy: 3 vamps, ½ a demon
Will: 6 vamps + 2 demon +1 fawn.
Angel: 3 vamps, 1 demon, 1 human
Oz: 3 vamps, 1 zombie
Faith: 16 vamps, 5 demons, 3 humans
Xander: 6 vamps, 2 zombies, 1½ a demon,
Anya: 1 vamp and 1½ a demon
Riley; 18 vamps + 7 demons
Spike; 8 vamps and 2 demon
Buffybot; 2 vamps
Tara; 1 demon
Dawn; 1 vamp

Scoobies go evil:
Giles: 1
Cordy: 1
Will: 2
Jenny: 1
Angel: 1
Oz: 1
Joyce: 1
Xander: 4
Anya; 1
Dawn; 1

Alternate scoobies:
Buffy: 7
Giles: 4
Cordy: 1
Will: 3
Jenny: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 2
Joyce: 2
Xander: 4
Tara; 1
Dawn;1
Spike; 1

Recurring characters killed: 10
Jesse, Flutie, Jenny, Kendra, Larry, Snyder, Professor Walsh, Forrest, McNamara, Joyce

Sunnydale deaths;
93

Total number of scoobies:
Xander, Willow, Buffy, Anya, Spike,

Xander demon magnet: 5(6?)
Preying Mantis Lady, Inca Mummy Girl, Drusilla, VampWillow, Anya (arguably Buffy & Faith with their demon essences?), Dracula?

Scoobies shot:
Giles: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 4
Riley; 1

Notches on Scooby bedpost: It's possible you could count the interchange between Rack and Willow as sex but it's not explicit so no
Giles: 2; Joyce & Olivia, possibly Jenny and 3xDraccy babes?
Cordy: 1?
Buffy: 4 confirmed; Angel, Parker, Riley, Spike. 1 possible, Dracula(?)
Angel: 1;Buffy
Joyce: 1;Giles, 2 possible, Ted and Dracula(?)
Oz: 3; Groupie, Willow & Verucca
Faith:2 ;Xander, Riley
Xander: 2; Faith, Anya
Willow: 2;Oz and Tara
Riley; 3; Buffy, Sandy and unnamed vampwhore
Spike; 1 Buffy

Spike; good or bad?
Spike gloats at Buffy's discomfort and shows no remorse for his killing of the previous Slayers. But he does go to rescue Dawn (again!)

Dawn in peril; 8 and how!

Dawn the bashful virgin; 6 even she knows her 'meat party' metaphor is a bit too kinky

Questions and observations;
Rack is of course played by the same guy who played Kralik in 'Helpless', along with Brian Thompson as Luke and The Judge Buffy continues Xena's tradition of blatantly using the same actor to play completely different characters (Karl Urban plays 4 different characters in the course of 6 seasons, 2 semi-regulars). The scene with Willow hugging Tara's clothes makes me go awwwww every time, right up there with Dawn snuggling the Buffybot or Buffy and Joyce on the couch at the finale of Innocence. Some great acting from Alysson Hannigan.
Dawn says that Buffy always goes to the refrigerator after patrol, bearing out Faith's assertion that slaying makes you hungry and horny.
Marks out of 10; 7/10, good enough ep but hard to watch if you're a Willow fan

 

[PrincessBuffy16]

I never liked that Rack guy. And yeah, it's hard to see Willow in the condition like that. I feel sorry for her. Magic is something she loved, then she turned it into addiction 🙁

6/10

 

[Anya2012]

Not my favourite. 5/10.

 

[Rack]

I never liked that Rack guy.

Ahem I beg your pardon!

But seriously I love the 3-ep addiction trifecta (Smashed/Wrecked/Gone). For anyone who has personally gone--or had family go--through addiction, Joss's treatment of it is sensitive and accurate, though metaphorical. My only issue is that "magic" was used as an analogue for sex/homosexuality in seasons 4 and 5, then it becomes an addiction metaphor is season 6.

 

[white avenger]

WRECKED

The Good;
The waking up scene is a classic. Love the sight of Buffy in her nightie (same one she wore for Dracula?) surrounded by crosses and garlic trying to ward off Spike's advances.

I must've missed something here, Buffy woke up naked under her leather skirt in a torn down house at the beginning of the episode and was sitting fully clothed in bed holding a stake surrounded by garlic and crucifixes at the end of the episode. Where was there a nightie? And Buffy sleeps in pajamas anyhow.

 

[saturn5]

I must've missed something here, Buffy woke up naked under her leather skirt in a torn down house at the beginning of the episode and was sitting fully clothed in bed holding a stake surrounded by garlic and crucifixes at the end of the episode. Where was there a nightie? And Buffy sleeps in pajamas anyhow.

The nightie scene I'm referring to was at the end, I'll rewatch it but I'm sure she wasn't fully clothed. She certainly wears a nightie for Dracula (doing her impression of a Hammer heroine?) but she wears sushi pyjamas at other times (notably Goodbye Iowa)

 

[Kitten Poker]

I have every sympathy for Willow, but I have to agree that the drugs analogy is like being hit over the head with a troll hammer by Captain Obvious (rather like Beer Bad, really). The whole "I can get you something stronger, you'll hit the ceiling and never come down" and the "OOH NO drugs are bad!!" car crash especially.

Obviously Buffy is packed full of analogies that are about growing up (careful who you sleep with girls, he might turn out to be an arse hat after the big deed is done. Drunk people are often stupid. Don't try to hang with the cool kids if it means not being yourself. Shall I go on?). But the whole "Candles are like a bong to a witch" thing? I like Willow hugely and I would have preferred this one being handled in a bit more of a complex way.

Oh, and I don't care if Buffy was wearing anything or not, that was still pretty funny. I guess she felt she couldn't ask Willow to do an uninviting spell?

 

[thevikingsgirl]

The magic/addiction analogy got a bit heavy handed for my tastes too. Accurate as far as real addiction is concerned, just heavy handed.

 

[CrystalW187]

Oh, and I don't care if Buffy was wearing anything or not, that was still pretty funny. I guess she felt she couldn't ask Willow to do an uninviting spell?

OR... she secretly wants Spike to come back at some point. At least, that's what the Spuffy in my head suggests.

 

[saturn5]

OR... she secretly wants Spike to come back at some point. At least, that's what the Spuffy in my head suggests.

Yeah, that's the subtext reading and her actions in Gone would seem to suggest it's correct