Tag: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Well hey there, Julia! Faith….er “Buffy(?)”…er…”Fluffy(?)”.. hmm.. anyway, Julia is back in this episode to give us the full rundown you were all clamoring for. It’s a long one, but there is a lot to unpack and not everyone at the table agrees on the effectiveness of the episode’s intended emotional plot devices. But hey, what fun would it be if we always agreed? Time to get a little bit weird and pull this show’s second Freaky Friday. Thanks for listening!

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One of those classic “setup episodes” coming at you this week! A whole lot of talking and a whole lot of chilling in Xander’s basement. Joss also took one of his plot device chacters out of cryogenic fugue as Faith punches her way back into our lives. What does this mean for the Scooby gang, and does it have anything to do with The Initiative or Adam? Who knows. Maybe we will find out next week. Thanks for listening!

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Well hey there! Season 4 episode 14 is here and full of “The Initiative” drama, for better or worse. Willow and Xander have kind of taken a back seat for the last couple of weeks while Buffy and Taad (Riley) fell head first into an ocean of plot devices. We meet Adam, our weird pseudo-technabomination monster, and son(?) of the recently murdered Maggie Walsh. Also, Taad is apparently addicted to some buff-dude meds and started abusing all of his friends? Whadda guy. Thanks for listening!

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Hey there lovely listeners! This week we really start to dig into the nitty gritty of The Initiative. Well….Buffy does, and doesn’t exactly include the rest of the Scooby gang until it’s pretty much too late. But we have our own things going on and we don’t need any testosterone fueled arm punches to be happy. At least, that’s what we tell ourselves. Thanks for listening!

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Hey there, listeners! Did you miss us? Because we definitely missed y’all. Thank you again to Kyle and Nile from It Gets Weird for stepping in for our mid-season movie episode and hopefully our episode in their feed was able to tide you over during our break week. We are back with season 4 episode 12, and it’s time to get some dirty deets on Taad (Riley) and his G.I. Joe crew, “The Initiative”. Giles get’s a few cold shoulders and we even get another visit from our old….pal?…enemy?…anyway, it’s Ethan. Thanks for listening!

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Welcome back, listeners! Season 4 episode 11 is in the bag and we all learned a lot. We learned that Spike can beat the crap out of monsters, just not human people. For all of his shortcomings, Spike knows what he likes, and what he likes is hedonistic violence. We also learn that Taad (Riley) and Buffy are an item? I think we learned that. The show doesn’t quite know how to make up its mind on that front. Thanks for listening!

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Season 4 episode 10 is here and it was SO GOOD! The name of the episode is “Hush”, which might ring a bell for those long time Buffy fans out there. When two creepy, suited demons and their legion of straight-jacketed minions curse Sunnydale with muteness, we get to see how Joss holds up with no witty banter. Willow meets a new witch friend and the gang gets some TA Taad (Riley) confirmations. Those confirmations come in the form of a laser gun?! Thanks for listening!

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There is more than one way to heal a broken heart, friends! You could wait it out. You could binge watch The Great British Baking Show. You could unknowingly use dangerous magics to cause pain and chaos, thus attracting the attention of a council of vengeance demons. All valid and reasonable options. This week Willow does one of those things, but I’m not saying which. Thanks for listening!

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It’s Thanksgiving Day for our friends in Sunnydale, so grab your silverware and your culturally insensitive opinions on the celebration of Native American genocide! If we still haven’t gotten it right in 2018 what are the chances we got it right in the year 2000? But bless em, they tried(ish). Producer James and Brian both step in to give voices to Giles and Angel respectively and we thank em for it! It’s a packed episode so thank you for listening.

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Hello and welcome to season 4 episode 7! Oz may have left us, but luckily we get some new boy action in here to fill the gap. Spike and Taad (Riley) both make a pretty big showing this week, both with their own agenda. Taad wants to court our very own Buffy while Spike is more on the “draining Willow of blood” side of things. But hey, that’s just Sunnydale for ya. Thanks for listening!

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