Dream in "Dead Man's Party"

[Ethan Reigns]

Dreams are always seen as a connection between the people in the dreams. Even in "Restless", three of the dreamers dream about the cheese man, indicating that their consciousnesses have merged most likely due to their combined force spell from "Primeval", the episode before "Restless". A dream of Angel is obvious when she had killed him and sent him to hell in the previous episode and never expected to see him again.

 

[maskedgeekgirl]

Angelus causes the isolation when he puts Buffy in a situation where she has to kill Angel. Her grief over what she had to do isolates her, not Angel.

Personally, I think Joyce is the one most at fault for Buffy leaving and isolating herself. Not just because of ‘You walk out of this house...’, but because of how she treated Buffy when Buffy tried to tell her about being a Vampire Slayer for the first time:

‘Back when I saw my first vampires... I got so scared. I told my parents about it. And they freaked out. Figured there was something seriously wrong with me. They sent me to a clinic.’ (6.17 Normal Again)

So many of Buffy’s issues with trust and opening up to the people closest to her can be traced back to this event. Buffy is scared and needs support, but instead of helping her parents not only don’t believe her they also make her feel like there was something wrong with her. Why wouldn’t Buffy be scared that other people in her life would react the same way when her parents, the people who are supposed to care about her the most, treated her that way.

 

[Buffy Summers]

I thought that dream was about the First coming later in the season, but I never really studied the season for meaning either 🙂

 

[Grace]

His line-delivery is similar here too: quite distant, emotionless and ambiguous.

I just rewatched both the Innocence and Dead Man's Party dreams and I agree that his delivery is similar. He's kinda smirky in both. So I guess Message Dream Angel is just like that. Whereas in Anne and Faith, Hope and Trick, he's more Guilt Dream Angel, holding her and being romantic and then bringing up the you-killed-me thing.