I watched "Buffy vs. Dracula" and "Real Me" last night.
Somehow, I never noticed that Dracula says the same thing (or something very similar?) to Buffy that Tara/the messenger said in Restless. The "You think you know... what's to come..." bit. It was at least very similar.
I wish that they had played Dracula up a bit more. I liked that he brought out some of Buffy's scary inner-slayer, the stuff she tackled in the ends of Season Four and Five with all the first-slayer stuff. I wish they had been willing to increase that, decrease the camp some.
Also, I really REALLY wish that it wasn't the first episode I ever watched. Because seriously? The HSQ of the end was so lost on me, and I'll never get it now.
I wish that they had played Dracula up a bit more.
I wish they'd lost the sweater vest before filming started.
Also, that they'd let Xander stick to his "no more butt monkey" vow a little.
I'd like to point out that the hellmouth in Cleveland may be opening.
After watching Amends for the first time since original airing, S7 is still a big ball of confusion to me. Maybe second watching will clear all that up.
First time around, I missed the "explanation" for Angel's return. If I'm following correctly now, Angel was either brought back by the first evil to kill buffy (or himself), or he was brought back by the magical christmas snow fairies.
He was brought back by the magic of handwavium.
magical christmas snow fairies
Pretty much this.
IIRC, the conversation in the writers' room was something along the lines of "Okay, we need to bring Angel back, how do we do it? I mean, it's not like we can have him just drop out of the sky..."
I thought that quote came from us.
In honor of the first day of classes, a classic:
One day the campus is completely bare and empty. The next, there are children everywhere. Like locusts. Crawling around, mindlessly bent on feeding and mating. Destroying everything in sight in their relentless, pointless desire to exist.
