So am I the only one having ugly Bureaucracy flashbacks? Hee.

So much to like here. I'm a sap, but I loved the whole Spike/Buffy interaction. I was really pulling for Buffy to be right, and I loved the way they accomplished it - she was right, the vineyard was it, but it probably wouldn't have worked if she hadn't been on her own. I also don't know that she would have had the mental energy to go at Caleb with such a novel approach without Spike's encouragement. She's been so drained that just going for the straight fight is all she's been able to come up with recently, and that clearly wasn't working.

Loved also that Faith stepped in and laid down the law so quickly. Nice that all Giles has to say to her is "good job" when he's been questioning and picking at Buffy every step of the way.

Was the bringer about to say something untoward, btw? He sure jumped him suddenly.

Kennedy must die die die. Dead. Now. Die.

Ooh, Faith and Wood, yes please, but I was especially pleased that she wasn't treating him any differently the next day and he didn't seem prepared for that.

Are Faith and Buffy in the same room? Is the Axe behind the bomb and Buffy concentrating on the axr, Faith on the bomb? Or am I crazy.

I think it was just the cutting and they're in separate tunnels. I don't recall anything that woud suggest that the vineyard is near the HS - it seems to be pretty out of the way. But for a few minutes there I was thinking they'd run into each other.

I thought the first was going to try to have sex with Caleb when she was talking about being envious

I was totally picturing that.

"Do you have to look like that? It's just a little confusing!" Heh.

I don't recall anything that woud suggest that the vineyard is near the HS

I don't think Faith is at the HS. She's at the outskirts of town, I assumed under the vinyard.

Didn't they go in through the school, though? I thought that was the whole plan. Apparently I missed something.

I though faith was in the Vineyard, too. That Faith was coming from underground and Buffy from above ground.

Huh. I guess I just assumed they headed for the school - wasn't that part of why they ousted Buffy, that she wanted to take them back to the vineyard?

Off to rewatch.

OK, Faith says they were going to the arsenal. Which would be where?

ETA

Bringer!Andrew says something about farthest edge of town, so that must be it. Thank god, because this was really bugging me.

(And I think Andrew actually had a point about the danger to him in Giles suddenly slashing the throat of the bringer.)

I wasn't entirely clear where Buffy and Faith were in relation to each other either. For a while I thought they were looking at the same thing.

I thought the first was going to try to have sex with Caleb when she was talking about being envious

I totally went to that scary place too.

It kind of goes against the whole "The Slayer gets strength through her friends" theme that's been a fundamental premise of the series.

But it supports the season two thing where she still has herself when everything else is lost.

Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends... No hope.

Buffy closes her eyes and steels herself for whatever's coming.

Angelus: Take all that away... and what's left?

He draws the sword back and thrusts it directly at her face. With lightning-fast reflexes she swings up with both arms and catches the blade between the palms of her hands. She opens her eyes and meets his.

Buffy: Me.

I was thinking of that too, Sue, on my way home today.

Chiming in late to say that the Willow/Kennedy sex really disgusted me. And it's not because I hate Willow - it's because I hate Kennedy.

The sex didn't bother me because I believe that this is a sign that Kennedy will DIE!