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Lovers Walk
Writer: Dan Vebber
Director: David Semel
Air Date: November 24, 1998
Trivia:
- As a child, Charisma Carpenter really was impaled on a rebar. She was playing in the backyard of her house, where they were building a pool. There was no fence around it, and she slipped in and punctured her stomach on a piece of rebar poking out of the concrete.
- After seeing James Marsters's performance in this episode, the writers decided he would become a regular cast member in the next season.
- According to the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign which Spike ran over, the population of Sunnydale is 38,500.
- More Sunnydale area locations: Breakers Woods, which has a clearing in which druidic rituals were performed and which is about a 45-minute drive from Sunnydale High; a pier which Xander and Cordelia went to; and a magic shop in the downtown square, which is different from the magic shop Ms. Calendar patronized in "Passion."
- The Mayor was fully aware of Spike's presence and activities in Sunnydale during the second season.
- After leaving Sunnydale in "Becoming (Part 2)," Spike and Drusilla went to Brazil, which is where she left him.
- Oz's heightened werewolf senses are at least partially in effect when he's in human form.
References:
- "I'm Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel." Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel is an intensely stupid, backwoods hick stereotype guy who pops up as a recurring character on The Simpsons.
Body Count:
- 4 Vampires, Magic Shop Clerk.
Goofs:
- Spike is seen disinfecting his hand burn with alcohol, but this would be unnecessary, as vampires cannot be infected by any natural diseases.
- At 16:43, as Xander walks toward Willow in the chemistry lab, the tip of the boom microphone dips into the frame.
Best Quotes:
- Spike: You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight and you'll shag and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
- Angel: How can... There's gotta be some way we can still see each other.
Buffy: There is: Tell me that you don't love me.
- Buffy: She saw these scores and her head spun around and exploded.
Giles: I-I've been on the Hellmouth too long. That was metaphorical, yes?
- Oz: I can see why you'd be upset. Oh, that was my sarcastic voice.
Xander: You know, it sounds a lot like your regular voice.
Oz: I've been told that.
- Willow: He-he wants me to do a love spell.
Xander: What?
Willow: Drusilla broke up with him.
Xander: Gee, and we had all hoped those crazy kids would make it work.
- Spike: Ahhh, my head. I think I'm soberin' up. It's horrible. Ah, God, I wish I was dead.
Buffy: Well, if you close your eyes and wish realy hard...
- Spike: This should be a kick.
Buffy: I violently dislike you.
- Willow: There will be no "having" of any kind with me.
- Spike: We killed a homeless man on this bench. Me and Dru. Those were good times.
Spike: You know, he begged for mercy, and, you know, that only made her bite harder.
Buffy: I guess you had to be there.
Soundtrack:
- "My Way"
Gary Oldman, James Marsters
The Title:
- The title of the episode has been cited on listings, books and DVD covers and menus variously as "Lovers Walk", "Lover's Walk" and "Lovers' Walk". However, the introduction to Rhonda Wilcox's Why Buffy Matters says, "the script apparently does not carry an apostrophe, by the way--making for a short, sad, declarative sentence for a title."
Angel's book:
- The book Angel is seen reading is La Nausée by Jean-Paul Sartre; its main theme is the nature of existential angst, a quality often associated with Angel. The fact that the cover features the original French title suggests Angel is proficient enough with French to read the book in its original language. La Nausée has a great deal of personal significance for Joss Whedon. In his commentary for the Firefly episode "Objects in Space," Whedon says that when he first began to think about the meaning of life a friend gave him La Nausée, which defined his interpretation of existence.
Continuity
- Buffy's last words to Angel ("Tell me you don't love me") are identical to the script she and Angel were forced to re-enact when possessed by the ghosts of a murder-suicide couple in the episode "I Only Have Eyes for You".
- Cordelia asks "who would ever want to return to Sunnydale". After season three, Cordelia leaves and never returns to Sunnydale.
- Spike's arrival in Sunnydale in the opening is a near-perfect recreation of his arrival in "School Hard" right up until he rams his car into the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign.
Arc Significance
- Spike makes his sole appearance this season before returning as a permanent regular in Season 4. He is still trying to recapture Drusilla's heart and resists the temptation to kill Willow in order to achieve it; he later reveals to Willow the extent of the bloodlust that he felt for her at this point.
- Joyce amiably hosts Spike in her house for the first time. This pattern will repeat several times later in the series.
- Buffy recognizes for the first time that her relationship with Angel is doomed.
- Xander and Willow's indiscretion has a major impact on their respective relationships.
- This episode marks an early example of Willow automatically turning to magic to solve human problems and make her own life easier; as her powers grow stronger, so does her impulse to use magic as a catch-all problem solver and to manipulate human emotions. Eventually (Season Six), it becomes an addiction and has drastic implications for her life.
- This episode marks the first time that Willow uncomfortably tries to comfort a highly distraught Spike. This dynamic will return in the Season Four episode "The Initiative," when Spike tries to attack Willow in her dorm room but is painfully hindered by his newly-implanted chip.
- Oz recognizes Willow's scent. This is also significant in "New Moon Rising" when he smells her scent on Tara.
- Spike's famous "Love's bitch" speech to Buffy and Angel, also can be seen to accurately describe Buffy and Spike's relationship in season six.
- This is the final episode with Xander & Cordelia in a relationship. Their relationship remains strained until the prom.
Source: http://imdb.com
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