The answer to the question "Can we have an episode of Buffy in which nothing happens?" turns out to be "No"

He's going to be so surprised when he sees The Weight of the World.

Surprised?

Or disappointed?

JZ, thank you for linking to that blog, really excellent reading and makes me want to break out my season 5 dvds.

I had to go Googling to remind myself of "The Weight of the World," which doesn't speak well for how memorable it was. Still, a lot of stuff happened; it's just that they had almost no episodes left in the season, so the whole thing was crammed with Things We Forgot We Really Need Before We Head Into The Finale, and it was about as unexciting as any massive infodump usually is.

Except for that moment when Doc's eyes popped open again. I distinctly remember screaming like a thing that screams when that happened.

I dunno, it's certainly been years but I remember there's a lot of "Willow watches Buffy do the same thing over and over in catatonic-ville," which seems more like padding than crammed. At the start of the episode Dawn's been captured and they need to stop Glory. At the end of the episode, Dawn's been captured and they need to stop Glory.

I remember there's a lot of "Willow watches Buffy do the same thing over and over in catatonic-ville,"

I think that's all I remember from that episode....

Wee!Buffy

I remember there's a lot of "Willow watches Buffy do the same thing over and over in catatonic-ville,"

see, I found that to be hypnotic and wonderfully simplistic, coming from someone who is always deep in their own thoughts and if someone were to speculate as to why I started crying or freaked out or made a certain decision, they wouldn't know, because the catalyst was in my head. So I got that.

That really resonated for me.

It also had the whole.

"So you're saying Ben and Glory have some kind of connection?" part that I never find not funny.

Which was the episode that we rewrote? Because I think that was far worse than Weight of the World.

Spiral.