Dru felt off to me too. When Spike made the comment that the real Dru was crazier, I thought "that's it!" So I'm fanwanking that the reason Juliet's performance felt "off" to me is that it wasn't really Dru she was portraying, but someone pretending to be Dru.

I'm reaching...

Oh and did I mention that I'm losing my sense of smell and taste? I couldn't taste my dinner last night.

NO!!!! I just knocked on several (wooden) desks for you. Get to the doctor!

I enjoyed the ep, but was really annoyed by the Spike drowning thing. Maybe he just doesn't like getting water up his nose? Very careless of them. I also felt like a scene had been left out - there was no explanation of why Annabelle would run out. She and Molly were v.v. irritating, but I liked Kennedy, the American one.

I really like how Principal Wood is being presented. He's sinister, but I still have no idea if he's good or bad. Yay!

I also found the end of the episode really confusing. I thought Buffy was giving up and then suddenly she wasn't. I didn't liike the heroic music in the background during her up-and-at-them speech, either. Towards the end of it, Joanne said "And now the house explodes," which made me laugh - it was very reminiscent of Quentin Travers' annoying speech.

Towards the end of it, Joanne said "And now the house explodes,"

Bwaaaa!

Oh no! Call that ENT post-haste!!!

I'm going on Friday so I'll monitor my progress/decline until then.

I liked Molly's T-shirt.

Sue, I don't think Giles is bad, I think he's a good ghost.

Sue, I don't think Giles is bad, I think he's a good ghost.

Guess whose brain just went to Giles/Phantom Dennis slash?

I'm not convinced Giles is dead. Certainly, ME wants us to think that he's dead. Which means he isn't, because that's what they want us to think. But maybe they know we'll think that they want us to think that so we'll think that he's not dead. Which means that he is. Dead. damn

My line of thought about Giles is similar to Jon's. But I'm seriously in denial, so it ends with him being not dead.

I also have a similar line of thought about Principal Hottie being evil.

But I'm seriously in denial, so it ends with him being not dead.

Mine does too, but the sentence structure to convey that was too confusing.

Ditto on Principal Hottie.

And what was with the goody-two-shoes proto-slayer running off? It felt like they cut out a scene or something.

Maybe she saw something funky, like a manifestation of her watcher?

The drowning just bewildered me. Particularly with "such fun dolls, hard to kill" tagging it. I mean, I'd get the line if poles had been driven repeatedly through his liver, or something, but drowning is only torture if it's cutting off a resource that you actually require. I'm kind of disappointed that Marti wasn't able to drum up something more gruesome after what she managed for Warren.

Maybe she saw something funky, like a manifestation of her watcher?

Like I said, it's as though they cut a scene. Maybe they'll explain it later, but I tend to doubt it.