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The Sunnydale High School has finally got a winning sports team! That should be a red flag right there that something isn’t right with them. Is there some fish monster eating people, but leaving their skin, or is it more complex than that?

Directed by: David Semel
Original Air Date: May 5, 1998
Guest Stars:
Wentworth Miller (Gage Petronzi)
Danny Strong (Jonathan)

Trivia:

• Sophia Crawford does most of the real heavy fighting as SMG’s stunt double

Quotes:
Buffy: “Those boys really love their coach”

Xander: “What am I gonna do?”
Cordelia: “You, you, you. What about me? It’s one thing to be dating the lame unpopular guy, but it’s another to be dating the creature from the blue lagoon.”
Xander: “Black lagoon. The creature from the blue lagoon was Brooke Shields.”

Cordelia: “Well, you could go out to the parking lot and practice running like a man.”

Key Events:

• Willow will be finishing out the year as Jenny’s replacement

Rating:

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In Other News:

• A remake of V, the sci-fi mini series from 1983 is due to come out this year. Morena Baccarin (Inara Serra from FireFly/Serenity) will be playing Diana!
  
  
• Laura Vandervoort (Kara/aka Super Girl from Smallville) also stars in the upcoming V reboot

The after school special that Jason randomly mentioned.

 

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The Sadie Hawkins dance is coming up and Buffy is off the dating track… “forever”. There are two love birds that still have some issues to work out, to bad they are both dead. Giles thinks the ghostly activity is Jenny trying to finish up some unresolved issues while the rest of the gang just want to get the deadly incident to stop repeating. Eventually our dead star crossed lovers find the best hosts for their deadly rerun in Buffy and Angelus but not quite the way one might expect.

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Written by: Marti Noxon
Directed by: James Whitmore, Jr.
Original Air Date: April 28, 1998
Guest Stars: John Hawkes (George)
Trivia:

Quotes:
Xander: “I defined something? Accurately? Guess I’m done with the book learning”


Cordillia: “Over identify much?”


Angel: “Incoming, I love when she does this.”


Key Events:

• Spike can walk
• Willow is getting into the magics
• Giles comes to grips with the fact that Jenny is really gone

Rating:

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Kathleen:

Troy:

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In Other News:

• Dollhouse has been renewed

 

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After the flu puts Buffy in the hospital, she helps save sick children from Der Kindestod, a nightmare demon invisible to healthy people. When getting well means losing her ability to fight the demon, Buffy reinfects herself. In saving the other children, she also avenges her young cousin, Celia, and puts her own hospital phobia to rest.

Directed by: Deran Serafian
Original Air Date: March 3, 1998
Guest Stars:

• Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
• Richard Herd as Dr. Stanley Backer
• Willie Garson as Security Guard
• Andrew Ducote as Ryan
• Juanita Jennings as Dr. Wilkinson

Trivia:

• When the gang takes Buffy for a walk around the hospital grounds, she tells them she saw “Death”. Xander advises her to refuse if Death offers to play chess with her. This refers to ‘Max von Sydow’’s epic chess match vs Death’s in Ingmar Bergman’s Det sjunde inseglet (IMDB)
• Joss Whedon designed Der Kindestod himself. He was an amalgam of Freddy Krueger, Nosferatu, and the boogeyman.

Quotes:

Kathleen’s Fave Exchange:
Xander: “Cordy, you should go with Giles.”
Giles: “Why do I have to have…? Good thinking, I could do with a research assistant.”
Cordelia: “Let’s go, Tact-Guy.”

Troy’s Fave Exchange:
“Xander: “She fell.”
Willow: “The flu.”
Cordelia: “She fainted.”
Xander: “The flu, fainted and fell. She’s sick, make it better!”

Jason’s Fave Quote:
Cordelia:“Tact is just not saying true stuff…I’ll pass”

Troy’s Der Kindestod Rendition:

Rating:

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Troy :

Overall Score:

The Watchercast Monster Rating: :

In Other News:

The Watchercast crew will be attending “This American Life Live” where Joss Whedon will be featured.  Stay tuned for their thoughts.

Look forward to guest hosts in future casts.  Listen to other Watchercast listeners take on the Buffyverse.

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Angelus has murder on his mind and Buffy’s friends and family are his targets. Jenny Calendar is still on the outs with the scooby gang but gives Giles a spell book containing a ritual to keep Angelus out of the their homes, all the while she is secretly working on her own “special project”—a computer translation of the ancient Gypsy Ritual of Restoration, the spell which originally gave Angelus his soul back. She succeeds, but Drusilla senses Jenny’s intentions and Angelus pays Jenny a visit to destroy all her work and put an end to her life.  With extra flair, Angelus uses his sick and twisted abilities to torture Giles. Though devastated as well by Jenny’s death, Buffy stops Giles from getting himself killed seeking revenge on Angelus. By the time Jenny is laid to rest, Buffy understands the full consequences of allowing Angelus to continue his reign of terror and finds herself, finally, ready to slay him.

Directed by: Michael E. Gershman
Original Air Date: February 24, 1998

Guest Stars:

• Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
• Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
• Richard Assad as Shopkeeper
• James Marsters as Spike
• Juliet Landau as Drusilla
• Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson

• According to Joss Whedon, Jenny Calendar’s death serves notice to fans, first, that no one is safe, death is scary and real, and second, that Angel is not “just a little evil,” he’s not “grouchy,” he’s truly evil and Buffy needs to address the situation. The series creator also jokes that the episode is a message to the actors: “Be very good, or I’ll kill you.”
• In an interview with the BBC, Anthony Stewart Head says this is his favorite episode, “because it was a beautifully shot episode and a beautifully written one.
• Although Jenny is killed off in this episode, the actress makes two further guest appearances: in the second part of the season finale where Drusilla hypnotizes Giles into thinking she’s Jenny and again in the season 3 episode Amends as a manifestation of the First Evil, intending to turn Angel evil again.

Quotes:
Kathleen’s fave quote: “Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah theory of battle?”–Xander

Troy’s fave quote:(exchange)

Xander: Excuse me, but have you ever heard of knocking?
Jonathon: We’re supposed to get some books. On Stalin.
Xander: Does this look like a Barnes & Noble?
Giles: This is a school library, Xander.
Xander: Since when?

Jason’s fave quote: “I’m sorry, but let’s not forget that I hated Angel long before you guys jumped on the bandwagon. So I think I deserve a little something for not saying I told you so long before now. And if Giles wants to go after the fiend that murdered his girlfriend, I say faster pussycat kill kill.”-Xander

Key Events:

• The death of Jenny Calendar.
• Buffy realizes that she must end Angelus once and for all before he hurts anyone else.

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Overall Score:

In Other News:
Torrance High School showed up as “Coldwell High School” in the NBC show Medium.

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