While I certainly hate Dawn, I thought that the stuff with Joyce was just fucking creepy.

I thought so too. I said to Brent "this is actually quite scary".

The episode was a little slow for me. I wanted Buffy to just stake that guy and get home to help Dawn, which is weird since I usually want Dawn to just die and put us out of our misery.

Xander wasn't in the episode at all Elena.

Oh, the creepy dead girl talking to Willow and then turning itself inside out was kinda gross too.

Angel wasn't that good, other than the last 3 minutes. I was wishing for a hallway to watch from.

oh, and dead Jonathon just sucks! He's been on the show so long and deserved better than a cheesy death. Though dead on Buffy doesn't always mean All Dead.

And when did that pentagram appear under the school? During construction?

Andrew: It eats you starting with your bottom.

I wonder if they originally planned to have Tara talk to Willow?

From what I've read, they'd planned to have AB in the episode until the last minute, when negotiations with her agent fell through. (She and Joss had verbally okayed a guest appearance, but Fox and her agent couldn't make it work. Stupid bureaucracy.)

I found Buffy really quite scary. And I'm so sad for poor Jonathan. I found Warren really creepy. Were they having his image hovering? It didn't look like he was really there. Brrr. Nora and I kept yelling to Dawn "Call Xander!" I wonder why he wasn't in it.

I'm glad they brought Azura Skye back to do the talking to Willow. I'm sure it would have been really different with Tara. It would have been more distressing when she went bad, but I liked the edge of slyness that Azura gave the role.

I enjoyed Angel a lot, but having snarky Cordy back for a while just made me sadder to have mild-voiced Cordy at the end. Sigh. It was fun to see Wesley with his new image acting like he used to. Heh.

I found Buffy really quite scary.

So did I! I'm glad I had a Brent to hug when the show became mildly Freddie Krugeresque.

It was interesting that none of the main characters were in scenes together. In fact, the only characters that had interacted together before were Dawn and Joyce and the trio.

Do you think it's really Spike killing and vamping those people? I'm inclined to think it's a trick by the big bad, but I could be convinced otherwise ...

Ouise, I think it's Spike really vamping people (sorry, sireing) but it's probably because of all of the big bad wackiness.

Dawn should have called Xander. Wonder where NB was?

It was a scary ep. I warned Betsy about it. I thought that the Joyce stuff would be disturbing.

And Buffy really should have killed the vamp sooner.

Also (shallow) didn't her hair look really dark?

Yeah, those dark roots were really showing.