Janes (a True Stan) and Nerdy Spice (a New Fan) are watching all of Buffy together and comparing notes. Warning: May contain spoilers for later episodes.

Episode 16 “Hell’s Bells”

Anya and Xander are finally getting married, which means lots of time-honored wedding traditions, with demonic twists. Willow and Buffy have to wear hilariously ugly, iridescent bridesmaid dresses (because they refused to wear the “traditional larvae and burlap sack”), and Anya and Xander are super stressed about hosting their respective families–cruel alcoholics on Xander’s side, literal demons on Anya’s. Like many couples, they get crappy wedding gifts, but in this case some of them are wriggly tentacled things that are trying to break out of the gift box.

Despite being a 1000-year-old ex-demon, Anya is clearly determined to be a traditional bride. Her vows are as delightfully inappropriate as you would expect–“I pledge to be your wife, confidante, and sex poodle” is one of many gems–but she’s wearing a white dress, and she’s so excited, it’s heartbreaking. “I get to be with my best friend forever!” she exclaims. (You would think her “best friend” would be nicer to her, but whatever.) 

Meanwhile, Xander is surrounded by reminders that he comes from a long line of misery and dysfunction. His father sexually harasses the poor caterer, and then Buffy, until the latter threatens him with bodily harm. Then he gets drunk and gives a toast to Xander’s mother: “What would I do without you, beautiful? Well, I probably wouldn’t need to drink so much. But marriage probably saved me from a nasty case of the clap.”

Amid the chaos, an old guy appears out of thin air and urgently tells Xander he can’t get married. “I’m you, from the future,” he says. At first, Xander calls him a “nutball,” but then he takes out a little crystal ball that looks exactly like the Orb of Thesulah (maybe it’s the same prop?). He shows Xander a hellish vision of the future: Xander and Anya are full of resentments, and he’s become a mean drunk like his father. They have two kids, one of whom is visibly part-demon because Anya had an affair. He and Anya have an ugly fight about how much their relationship has deteriorated, how Xander neglected her emotionally and sexually, and she wishes he had left so she wouldn’t have had to “hate [herself] for the last 30 years.” Then he attacks her with a frying pan! It’s very disturbing. 

Xander is horrified that he could be capable of that, and decides he can’t marry Anya. So he just–walks out of the church. He can’t even tell her to her face?

Willow and Buffy discover Xander missing and try to delay the wedding until they can find him. All of the attendees on both sides assume that Anya is the one who got cold feet and ran off, when she’s completely ready and committed. “Before I knew you I was a completely different person,” she says in the final version of her vows. “I’d seen what love could do to people, hurt and sadness, then suddenly there was you.” Oh, it’s so sad.

Anya finally finds out that Xander is missing, from Dawn of all people, who blurts it out because she’s flirting with a demon boy who’s sort of cute underneath the horns (wedding goggles, another time-honored tradition). Anya freaks out, and the families start fighting and get into a drunken brawl. Xander’s cousin tells Anya that Xander was talking to the old man, so Anya confronts him. He gives her a withering look and says she’s “vindictive as ever,” and we think it’s future-Xander, but instead he turns into a demon! It turns out he was one of the cheating men she punished, so he wanted to ruin her life. He delights in telling her that he just showed him “a couple of phony visions,” it wasn’t even that hard to scare Xander off (seriously). She starts to cry. Poor Anya. 

The demon attacks and tries to kill her, but Buffy saves her. Xander comes back in the nick of time and kills the demon with a pillar. Anya is so relieved, and assumes that since Xander figured out that it was a demon, they’ll still get married as planned. But he says he’s not ready. He knows the visions weren’t real, but he’s scared because “they could be.” While he says this, he’s looking at his mother and father, screaming at each other. This is awful, but his decision not to get married is pretty sympathetic. “If it’s a mistake, it’s forever,” he says. 

He takes off again, leaving a heartbroken Anya to walk up the aisle, weeping, so she can tell everyone that the wedding is off. It’s such a horrible image. Xander’s friends are a little heartbroken too–after everything they’ve gone through, they needed some happiness in their lives. “They were supposed to be my light at the end of the tunnel,” Buffy says. “I guess they were a train.”

In the end, Anya is approached by old boss, D’Hoffryn. He says that back when she was a vengeance demon, she crushed men like Xander, and it’s time for her to “get back to what [she] does best.” She looks at him, and it cuts to black–we don’t know what she says! Except we totally do.

—Janes

Notes from a New Fan:

• Ew, Xander made Willow his best man? That’s a little weird, considering they used to hook up.
• Why is Buffy the one getting Xander dressed if Willow’s the best man?
• I love that Willow and Tara take the opportunity to flirt behind Anya’s back while fastening her buttons. 
• The scene where Xander’s gross uncle forcibly kidnaps a cater waiter to be his date and everyone else is just like, “Huh, awkward” is… awkward.
• This whole episode is people telling Xander they care about him and I’m so bored.
• Xander’s family would definitely be Trump voters. They make some gross remark about “bow to the East-y” cults. Um… OK.
• Buffy’s face falls about twenty feet when Dawn says Spike brought a date. I remain astonished that no one has figured out what is going on. Do they not have eyes?!
• But I do really enjoy the scene where Buffy tells Spike that even though his maneuvers make her jealous she stands by the breakup.
• “I promise to have sex with you whenever I want” is Anya’s vow to Xander. I love it!
• Oop, had almost gotten over hating Dawn when she revealed to Anya by accident that Xander had run out. Although they really should’ve told her. Why do TV characters lie about this stuff? Do they WANT their friends to marry men who ran off on the wedding day? Like do they really think their friends are better off being chained for life—including possibly having kids, or a mortgage—with someone who isn’t actually all in?
• I love how this episode turns the trope upside down—where the stereotypical visions of their future are just Xander’s internalized, sexist nightmares about marriage and turn out not to be based on reality at all. (And it makes Xander look at least as bad as Anya.)
• Why does Anya seem to age so much more than Xander in these horror visions? I guess it reflects whatever gross ideas Xander has about aging for men and women.
• Why is Halfrek sitting in the audience if she’s dressed as a bridesmaid?
• Ugh, on the one hand I really have sympathy for Xander. I mean he started to make a commitment then realized he really couldn’t, and he had the guts to admit it before it was too late. But, like, WHY PROPOSE IN THE FIRST PLACE?! And then he says “Maybe we just went too fast.” Um, she didn’t propose to you, Xander.
• Also he doesn’t even have the guts to make the announcement. He lets Anya do it.
• Emma Caulfield is amazing in this episode. Also, I feel like in a lot of shows where the wedding gets called off, they soften it by having both characters have second thoughts. But Anya is just so tremulously, genuinely, girlishly happy throughout the whole episode. She has no second thoughts. It makes the breakup so much more brutal.

Notes from a True Stan:

• A few more gems from Anya’s vows: “I promise to have sex with you whenever… I want,” and refusing to make the traditional promise to “obey” him because it’s “anachronistic and misogynistic and who do you think you are, like a sea captain or something?” 
• Cousin Carol: “The Harrises are very broad-minded. We’re Episcopalians!” LOL, this is so much funnier as an adult.
• The scene where Buffy and Spike shyly say hi to each other for the first time after their breakup is really sweet. At first, Buffy is a total jerk about his date–“She seems like a very nice attempt at making me jealous”–but then makes up for it by admitting that she’s sad about it. “It doesn’t change anything, but it hurts,” she says, and Spike instinctively says “sorry” then immediately amends it to, “I mean, good!” Aw.
• Side note: why was Spike even invited to the wedding? Xander despises him.
• On rewatch, it struck me how much Future Xander and Future Anya fight about Buffy, and how central she is to the demise of their marriage. I know it’s fake, but it’s clearly based on Xander’s fears and anxieties. It’s up for interpretation, but I always felt that he never completely got over his feelings for Buffy–he just stopped actively pining.
• “It’s a good thing I realized I was gay,” Willow says to Xander, “otherwise you and me in formalwear?” It’s been just long enough since season three that this callback is cute and not cringey. 
• Willow says Xander is “all grown up,” but he’s like 21 here! 
• Cousin Carol is so much funnier than I remembered. When the wedding is delayed and her daughter says she’s bored, Carol deadpans, “It’s a wedding honey, we’re all bored,” and then immediately starts crying as Buffy walks down the aisle. 
• Buffy’s eye roll as the families start fighting is hilarious.
• I was unusually sympathetic to Xander during the breakup scene, until this chickenshit line: “Maybe we just went too fast.” Um, who proposed? Who told everyone instead of backing out when the world didn’t end? He’s such a child.
• It’s definitely the right thing for Xander and Anya not to get married (Anya deserves so much better), but is it the right thing for the show? I’m a big Season 6 defender, and I do think the bleakness serves a purpose, but I also understand why many fans feel that there wasn’t enough balance between light and dark. With both Buffy and Willow reaching their lowest points this season, would it have killed them to let one character find happiness?

Episode 17 “Normal Again”

So this episode takes… A Turn. Buffy is patrolling and gets into a fight with a random demon, and then suddenly when he stings her on the arm, she starts hallucinating (OR IS SHE?) that she actually lives in an asylum and her Slayer life is just a delusion.

For the rest of the episode we cut between her “normal” life, the one we’ve been following for five and a half seasons, and her asylum life, where everyone is trying to convince her that her Slayer life is a psychosis.

In the “normal” timeline, Xander goes missing for a bit but then shows up looking for Anya, who’s already left town; and as he deals with the fallout of dumping Anya, Buffy deals with the fallout of dumping Spike. Willow manages to figure out that the demon who scratched Buffy contains the antidote to its own poison. 

In the asylum timeline, Buffy is told that she’s actually been in the asylum for six years, and that her Slayer-ness is a hallucination. And? MRS. BUFFY IS ALIVE. Back in real life, Buffy confesses that when she saw her first vampire she was sent to an asylum. But she pretended to stop seeing them and her parents “just forgot.” She’s afraid she actually never left the clinic.

The two themes converge in a strange and ethereally terrible way when (in the “normal” timeline) Spike stops by just as Willow is giving Buffy what she hopes will be an antidote. He tells her to stop trying to be a hero and just let herself live, and accuses her of being on a “hero trip.” She suddenly pours out the antidote—and you have to wonder if it’s because she honestly believes the asylum life is the real one, or if she just can’t face the real one. Whatever the reason though, Spike is not exactly in his usual selfless romantic mode here. He’s pretty terrible.

After she pours out the antidote, Buffy pretends to be cured of her delusions of being in an asylum. Once everyone lets their guards down, she kidnaps Xander and Willow and even Dawn in the basement because her doctor convinced her they were crutches keeping her from being healthy—and then she lets the demon off of its chains, presumably so that it will eat all of her friends. Uh-oh! Luckily, Tara, who I guess wasn’t important enough to bother tying up in the basement, shows up and uses magic to help Willow and Xander out. Buffy, wiped out by resisting the urge to help her friends, moans and cowers in her asylum life and in her “regular” life. Finally, though, Mrs. Buffy tells her to believe in herself (“I know the world feels like a hard place sometimes, but you have people who love you”)—and Buffy says good-bye and goes back to her life as a hero, while her asylum life ends with her basically catatonic. It certainly seems as if it’s almost a real alternate universe where Buffy keeps existing in this zonked-out state. In the “real” one, Buffy takes out the demon easily with a slimy punch to the gut and apologizes to everyone.

In a side plot, Willow almost asks Tara out, only to become incensed for no reason in that horribly clichéd TV way where she sees Tara kiss a pretty girl’s cheek and makes all kinds of assumptions that no normal human would make.

—Nerdy Spice

Notes from a New Fan:

• Oh, I’ve heard about this episode! Where Buffy is in an insane asylum, and the whole show is called into question and (according to Janes, if I remember this conversation correctly from years ago) we never hear anything more about it afterwards. I’m very curious about it! (ETA after finishing: This must have been so confusing to watch in real time if it just never comes back? The end really makes it seem like the “real” Buffy is zonked out in an asylum somewhere. It’s one of the things that makes this show cool though, its willingness to experiment.)
• “I don’t know how things got so messed up,” Xander says. Um, maybe it was when you proposed to Anya, twice, even though you weren’t ready to get married. Just a guess. (I would have more sympathy for this mistake if it weren’t Xander. We have no sympathy for Xander.)
• Buffy runs into Spike in the graveyard and expects him to listen to her random feelings about Xander and Anya, which is kind of oblivious; then she basically disowns him when her friends catch them together. Tough to blame the guy for being mad.
• On Buffy’s head is a mushroom-colored concoction with a rolled brim and a little tube poking up from the middle. It looks exactly like a felt condom. (In contrast, Willow has an absolutely adorable rust-colored bucket hat with contrast trim.)
  
• Ooh, bringing back Mrs. Buffy! That’s a low blow. (But great for us. I love when Mrs. Buffy shows up!)
• Wait so Buffy told her mom she thought she was a vampire slayer and got herself sent to a clinic before she moved to Sunnydale? I’m so confused. How was her mom not asking about the vampire thing when all the shit in Sunnydale started happening? Wasn’t there one point where she literally got bitten and believed she’d been stabbed by a barbeque fork even though she doesn’t own one?
• Is it just me or does the doctor sigh when he summarizes Dawn as “the magical key.” I like to think that even Buffy’s doctors are annoyed by Dawn just from hearing about her.
• Dawn gets all mad that Buffy’s horrible flashbacks of being in a mental institution involve not having a sister. Oh my God, Dawn. Way to make everything about you. And then she even packs a bag to go to Janice’s under the theory that Buffy doesn’t want her around. Dawn, get over yourself!
• “It’s your ideal reality, and I’m not even a part of it,” Dawn says. What part of being in a mental institution for six years, exactly, does Dawn think is Buffy’s ideal reality? What a pill!
• Spike threatens Buffy that if she doesn’t tell people about them—even though they’re already broken up!–he will. On the one hand, not cool. On the other hand, it is kind of a terrible feeling to be someone’s dirty little secret, and a better person than Spike would probably have trouble responding maturely to that.
• Spike accuses Buffy of wanting to stay miserable, not because she’s dark but beause she just wants to be unhappy. “Stop with the bloody hero trip,” he says. He means only that she should stop pretending to be too good to sleep with him, but it resonates with her asylum life, where her hero-ness is actually just a trip. In fact, this encounter motivates Buffy to dump out the antidote tea and try to “get better” in her asylum life, to escape ever having to go back to her season-6 life. I mean, fair. I wouldn’t want to go back to Doublemeat Palace either.
• Buffy seems to see this insanity theory as yet another answer to her Spike problem. (“A girl who sleeps with a vampire she hates? Yeah, that makes sense!” she says. Interesting how even then Dawn doesn’t realize she’s involved with Spike…) If this is all a hallucination, it makes sense she slept with a monster! It occurs to me, not for the first time, that a lot of Buffy’s problems would go away if she would just accept that casual sex is not a grave sin.
• I love how this episode plays into the whole theme of season 6. The world is hard, even if you have a superpower—so is it more comforting to believe that your superpower is the delusion, or that the workaday life where you aren’t a superhero is a delusion? Either way, things are shitty. Your mom is dead, or your sister never existed. You’re messed up because you think you’re a hero when you’re not, or you’re messed up because despite being a hero you slept with a vampire.
  

Notes from a True Stan:

• I’m glad that Willow and Buffy don’t completely let Xander off the hook for what he did to Anya. They’re gentle with him, which makes sense, but when he gets all self-pitying and says he screwed up, Buffy just says, “We all screw up.” As in, yeah, you did, but we still love you. That’s fair.
• When Xander and Spike get into a dumb fight, Willow implores them to step back and “release this very manly thing the other way.” LOL.
• “You think this isn’t real just because of the vampires and demons and the sister that used to be a giant ball of energy?” Heh.
• I love that everything the doctor says is meta-commentary on season 6–Buffy’s friends aren’t as comforting as they once were, the villains are just a bunch of nerds, everything is sort of falling apart. He even explains that when she died, she was there in the hospital, but her friends pulled her back, which is interesting, because she didn’t remember anything about heaven except that she was safe, loved, and “finished.”
• Joyce’s presence does so much work here. She’s so comforting–you almost want Buffy to go with them and be taken care of for a change.
• I laughed so hard when Buffy hit Xander in the face with a frying pan! I don’t know why, it was so funny!
• “What’s more real–a sick girl in an institution or some kind of supergirl, chosen to fight demons and save the world? That’s ridiculous.” LOL. 
• Poor Tara. Buffy didn’t care enough about her to kill her on purpose, but she almost died just because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
• So that ending! I’ve had many a debate with Buffy fans about this. I used to insist that the ending confirms Sunnydale is a delusion, because she takes the antidote and then we still see her in the hospital. However, a friend pointed out to me that we hadn’t actually seen her take the antidote yet, so technically the hospital might be the hallucination. I’ve also seen theories that it’s a parallel universe, but ultimately, I think it’s meant to be an Inception-type thing–the ambiguity is the point.
• Some fans hate this episode for even implying that Sunnydale is a delusion, because it falls into the “it was all a dream” trope and ruins the stakes. But I’ve always loved it–the idea that Buffy chooses to stay in this world without 100% knowing if it’s real is so compelling to me. It can be interpreted as a metaphor for the power of fiction and storytelling–this world is real to her, so it necessarily has stakes and emotional truth. Anyway, let us know your interpretation in the comments!

Episode 18 “Entropy”

After the wreckage of Xander and Anya’s wedding, Xander finds Anya waiting for him in their apartment. You might think she wants revenge, especially after that cliffhanger, but tragically, she still wants to get married. (To Xander! Why??) Xander falls all over himself begging for her to take him back, and it seems to be going pretty well, until he apologizes specifically for not “being more self-aware.” Oops. 

He basically tells Anya he wants to date her, which is bold, to say the least. Like I get it, they’re only 21, but he can’t possibly think that will go over well. In response, she changes into her veiny vengeance demon face and says, “I wish you had never been born.”

Are we about to see a world without Xander? No such luck. As Hallie tells her later, she can’t curse him herself, even if she’s the wronged party. There’s a fun montage of Anya trying to get Xander’s friends to make a nasty wish about him, which is predictably fruitless but funny, especially her pitch to Willow and Tara: “You’re lesbians, so the hating of men will come in handy.”

Anya finally realizes she needs to manipulate someone who’s not friends with Xander, and as luck would have it, she sees Spike at the Magic Box. He’s just had a run-in with Buffy, who still refuses to tell her friends about their relationship, and he wants magic ingredients to “ease the pain” (just like in “Lovers Walk”!). She says Giles left supplies that will take the edge off, namely alcohol. Much healthier than an anti-love spell, if you ask me. 

They get drunk and commiserate, and even though these two have barely been in any scenes together, we all know where this is going. (Maybe it’s because they’re both so hot? Or because, as Spike says, he has a thing for “forthright” women like Drusilla.) They flirt, they take more shots, and Anya finally admits that she isn’t really angry, she’s sad. “I can’t sleep at night thinking it must be my fault somehow.” Poor Anya, but I mean, this all seems pretty psychologically healthy? Getting drunk and sleeping with a hot guy that’s totally wrong for you are very normal, human coping behaviors. 

Unfortunately, this hookup becomes infinitely more awkward thanks to the Trio, who have set up cameras everywhere that Buffy frequents, including the Magic Box. When Willow hacks the feed to find them, everyone gets a good look at Spike and Anya going at it on the table, including Buffy and Xander. Xander is devastated, but Buffy is also visibly hurt, which tips off Willow and Dawn that there was something going on between them. While they’re all distracted, Xander takes off with the weapons in Buffy’s chest. So toxic! He’s allowed to be upset, but he has no right to be angry with her–he left her at the altar!

Xander finds Spike outside the Magic Box and attacks him with an axe. It’s not really a fair fight, and yet he still manages to lose the axe. Buffy arrives before either of them can kill each other, and Xander and Anya have it out. He yells at her and shames her, to which she points out, “You left me at the altar, Xander, I don’t owe you anything!” PREACH. Xander continues his slut-shamey diatribe, undeterred: “I look at you, and I feel sick, because you let that evil soulless thing touch you.” Spike finally says, “It was good enough for Buffy,” and now Xander’s having a whole conniption about Buffy having sex with Spike. Okay, if he didn’t have any claim over Anya’s sex life, he really doesn’t have any claim over Buffy’s! He’s so gross.

Xander walks away, and Buffy gives Spike a death glare before going home. Spike tries to “wish” something about Xander, but Anya says, “Don’t.” See? Healthy.

In happier news, Willow and Tara have been flirting heavily for several episodes, and Willow finally asks Tara out to coffee. Later that night, Tara shows up at the house and gives a speech about how coffee isn’t enough, trust needs to be built up slowly over time, “But can we just skip all that? Can you just be kissing me now?” Aw.

—Janes

Notes from a New Fan:

• The Three Nerds have formed a motorcycle gang of some sort. Oh that’s so sad. Even motorcycles don’t make them cool.
• Buffy is no longer afraid of people finding out about her and Spike because they don’t hate her for the thing last week where she tied them all in the basement and sicced a monster on them. It’s so sad that she actually thought they’d hate her, even for a little while.
• Buffy says she won’t sleep with Spike again because she doesn’t love him. It’s so … Seventh Heaven.
• Willow and Tara are still doing that thing where they flirt by stammering and it’s … getting old. (Honestly it was already old.)
• Dawn’s bedazzled spaghetti strap tank is soooo… Delia’s. Also when did Crayola purple go with wine-red velour?
  
• Xander tells Anya that he was an idiot and all he had to do was say something about canceling the wedding earlier. My word was “chickenshit” but OK, fair enough. (Anya’s response is “Congratulations on being honest now, I wonder what the medal will say,” which, she has a point.)
• I kind of judge Anya for not knowing the rules of being a vengeance demon! Hello, wasn’t she a vengeance demon for centuries?
• Also why doesn’t Halfrek just make the wish for vengeance against Xander so Anya can honor it? Why is she trying to get Xander’s friends to make wishes about him?
• Dawn wants to go out patrolling because she’s the age Buffy was when she did this. Buffy says, “Technically you’re one and a half.” Hee!
• Anya says all she dreamed about was this magical wedding day. Really?! She’s been alive for a millennium and she still hasn’t come up with anything more meaningful to dream about, like becoming rich by franchising the Magic Box or something?
• Buffy says she believes Spike’s love is real, but she’s here accusing him of spying on her, so it doesn’t seem like she really does believe him… and then she’s like “Spike, you have to move on,” which is kind of a dick thing to say since she was the one who came to him!
• Anya says she fell for Xander because he was “all bumpy in the right places.” Ew, what?! Where… is he bumpy? What is the right place to be bumpy? I would like to stop thinking about where Xander is bumpy now.
• The three nerds have monitoring on their feeds to detect intruders! Color me impressed, that’s quite an engineering feat. 
• Willow SEES Anya and Spike on the hacked feed!!!! With Buffy in the room! Ahhh, the dangers of technology.
• Me: Xander is the worst!
  Janes: I know!
  Me: He dumped her!
  Janes: Yeah, he has no right!
  Me: Yeah! … I mean, you never have the right to go after your ex-girlfriend with a hatchet. But ESPECIALLY not Xander!
• I love how Dawn is like, “This is the stuff you’ve been protecting me from? You and Spike?” It’s really true. To no one else is this a big deal but Buffy.
• Spike and Anya are also acting weirdly guilty about this. They’re both single. Is it a great idea, no. Is it really that bad? Honestly… even for a non-demon, no. Everyone needs to calm down.
• Even the clothes — Anya is wearing blood-red skirt, shirt, and sweater. Does that say Scarlet Woman or what?
• Hee, I love that Spike is saved by the fact that Xander accidentally embeds an axe in the wall and then can’t get it out because he’s too weak.
• “I hurt you, and you get me back,” Xander says. Um… she didn’t know he was watching. Not everything is about you, Xander.
• “No, the mature solution is for you to spend your whole life telling stupid, pointless jokes so that no one will notice that you are just a scared, insecure little boy!” Anya says. NOICE.
• Then Xander says, “I look at you and I feel sick because you had sex with that,” which… very on the nose.
• No one comes out looking good here except Anya, who may have tried to wreak vengeance on Xander but at least grows out of it by the end of the episode. Everyone else is hypocritical and self-righteous, including Spike, who pettily outs Buffy just because Xander is insulting him, when he could easily have gotten the real upper hand by just laughing behind his sleeve at Xander.

Notes from a True Stan:

• When Spike threatens to tell Buffy’s friends about their relationship, she’s just like, “Go ahead.” She says she tried to kill her friends and her sister last week and they forgave her, so they’ll probably forgive her for sleeping with Spike. I mean, you’d think wouldn’t you? 
• Anya talks about how so many guys have broken Buffy’s heart and left her, and Buffy says there have only been four, and then quickly amends to three to hide Spike. But who was the fourth to begin with, after Angel, Riley, and Spike? I guess she was counting Parker? Or, um, Scott Hope?
• Dawn says she never uses the word “wish” anymore – smart!
• I don’t know why anyone thought for a second that Spike would put cameras on Buffy. If he wanted to spy on her, he would just skulk outside her house like he always does.
• Anya says she loved Xander because he was “bumpy in the right places”–ew?–and “nice to me.” WAS HE??