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Part 1: Angel prepares a ritual to awaken a demon that will suck the world into hell; Buffy prepares to kill him, but is torn when Willow discovers the ritual that could restore Angel’s soul.

Part 2: Buffy’s life is a mess when her mother discovers her secret life, and she’s expelled from school and forced to make a heart-wrenching decision when both Angel’s and Willow’s rituals succeed.

Directed by: Joss Whedon
Original Air Date: May 12, 1998 / May 19, 1998
Guest Stars: Bianca Lawson (Kendra)
Max Perlich (Whistler)

Trivia:

• Al Franken is mentioned in this set of episodes.
• If angel had been 241 as he stated in previous episodes he would have been born in 1755 or 1756 yet he’s sired by Darla in 1753?
• The Claddagh ring Angel gave Buffy shows up again in these episodes. Claddagh was a small fishing village near Galway, where Angel was sired.

Quotes:
Xander: “And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?”

Spike: “It’s a big rock. I can’t wait to tell my friends. They don’t have a rock this big “

Key Events:

• Buffy reveals her slayerhood to her mother, Joyce
• Angel gets his soul back just in time to be killed (in order to save the world) by Buffy
• Buffy gets expelled from school
• Kendra is killed by Dru and Buffy is implicated in her death
• Willow completes her first MAJOR spell, the gypsy curse that gives Angel his soul back
• Spike takes Dru and leaves town
• Buffy and her Mother fight and Joyce tells Buffy ‘If you walk out that door don’t you even think of coming back.’ and… she doesn’t. Buffy leaves town.

Rating:

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In Other News:

• Thanks to those who watched us record this episode live!
• The Watchercast laptop is fixed and we’re rolling again.

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I did contact Apple Care and spoke with a few people and Apple FedExed me a box to send the MacBook Pro back to them, pre-paid all handled. They would run some tests and if the problem was in coverage of the known Nvidia issue they would fix it no charge. If it wasn’t they would let me know what the issue was and how much it would cost to fix it. Within 48 hours after I had FedEx pick up the box I got an email that my repair was complete. A day or so later the MacBook comes back to me with a new logic board and $0 cost for the fix!

From the Watchercast crew, Thank you Apple.

Now that we have it back we’re going to be recording a double episode. That’s right, The Becoming part I & II all in one super sized episode. We’re going to be recording tomorrow night (Tuesday July 7th), we’re going to start watching the episodes around 7pm EST. As we’re getting setup I’ll twitter and update facebook. We’ll should have everything setup to ‘Live Stream’ the recording session. We may even have open chat at the end of the recording for anyone who wants to gab about season 2 of Buffy.

I don’t want to jinx it but Apple may have really come through for us. Shannan and I were planning to make and sell Watchercast decals to help raise the money to fix ‘Buffy’ (Yes, I named my laptop Buffy). These would NOT be cheap-o bumper stickers but cut vinyl decals made the same way I added this logo to ‘Buffy’.

But a friend of the show offered some advice on contacting Apple Care. We may not have to do the telethon just yet.

This podcast is produced on an Apple MacBook Pro. (15″ 2.2ghz Core 2 Duo, model A1226, manufactured mid 2007 with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics chip to be exact) This father’s day morning I lifted the lid of the MacBook Pro … and saw nothing. The screen was black but the keys were lit and when I tried to raise the volume or brightness I heard the familiar ‘Dwak Dwak’ sounds. But nothing. Plugging in an external monitor also offered no look at what was actually happening on the computer. I know it is running, I even plugged in my backup drive and could see that Time Machine started running it’s backup (So all the data is safe).

Trying not to panic I used my iPod touch to Google around and found this on the Apple site: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377 It looked like Apple was going to make good and this wasn’t going to be a disaster. Everything about my MacBook Pro meets all of the requirements listed on the Apple site. We have an Apple Store over at Easton so I made an appointment and took it in to get fixed.

Now the guy at the Genius Bar had an external drive, plugged it into my MacBook Pro and booted it into target disk mode. Still nothing came up on the screen. He takes the drive off of mine and plugs it into his Mac and brings up a report that simply stated “No eligible graphics chip found”. So even though The Watchercast MacBook Pro matches everything on the site and it’s doing exactly what is described on the site, that it isn’t covered by the no cost repair and since it is no longer covered by a warranty it will cost $310 to have the logic board replaced.

So here is the sad part. With Shannan only weeks away from giving birth to our second son, we just don’t have the money to get the laptop fixed right now. So for now The Watchercast is on hold and the laptop will sit until we have the extra money to get it fixed.

We’re trying to figure out some options to raise the money to have it replaced. Until then we’ll keep you all posted on any progress we make. We appreciate each and every one of you that listen to us and are so engaged in this show with us. Thanks for sticking with us as we try to fix this.