Buffy Speak

welcome to season 7 everyone!! the lessons WE learn this week are you can always go back to high school, especially if the weird principal knows everything about you, and that our last season is gonna be a blast. 

"i'm sick of willow's bullshit" - caroline sears, 2018

meghan griffin (@megggriffin) joins us for one last go around the depressing season 6 track. xander sucks! dawn and buffy are the best! GILES IS BACK!!! what a rollercoaster we've been on, friends. we can't wait to never watch season 6 ever again. onwards and upwards!

hellLLLLOOOOOO dark willow! does warren deserve to die? who knows! but he sure doesn't have his skin anymore, we can tell you that for free.

karis ford (@KarisFord1) joins us to talk about.... stuff.www.autostraddle.com/all-65-dead-lesbian-and-bisexual-characters-on-tv-and-how-they-died-312315/amp/https://www.stuffmomnevertoldyou.com/podcasts/bury-your-gays.htm

should willow and tara have gotten back together? how low can xander stoop? these are important questions, but none so important as why caroline never goes to waffle house.

linnea thunselle (@linnea1928) joins us for... an episode. yep, this sure is an episode of buffy the vampire slayer, helmed by joss whedon, starring sarah michelle geller and others. yep. this episode sure does exist. mhm.

this week we're joined by mae copeland (twitter: @zaddymae, instagram: @buffythestyleslayer) to contemplate just what in the world the writers were hoping to accomplish by breaking xander and anya up. WHAT'S THE POINT? WHAT IS TO BE GAINED??????

in continuing the tradition of our opinion of buffy's love interests being in a total state of flux, we actually really like riley in this episode!! WHO ARE WE?????????

julie marostica (@jojomarostica on instagram) joins us to talk about the last ever buffy birthday episode, and what an episode it is! we've got all your favorite characters: richard, sophie, clem (okay but clem is actually the best). we also cover the buffy reboot, which......... yikes.

madeline devillers (@radddeline on instagram) joins us to talk about a TRULY BLEAK episode of buffy. while we try to distract ourselves from the darkness that threatens to encroach at any given moment, we talk about the pros and cons of buffy/spike and.... not much else, honestly.

wow! caroline gives this episode our very first 11/10! and since there's no recording of it there's no way to prove that i'm lying!

In Which They Take The Metaphor A Little Too Far

similar to season 6 itself, this episode of buffy speak gets A LIL DARKER than we intended, but it's okay because... slaps?

SPIKE: hewwo buffy BUFFY: ...what SPIKE: i'm in wuv wif you BUFFY: What Is Going On

whitney and lindsey nelsen (from historical hotties @historicallyhot) join us to GAB about WILLOW'S BAD DECISIONS, STARDEW VALLEY and SPIKE (that last one is mostly on beth's part)

IT'S HERE!!! IT'S REALLY, FINALLY HERE!! if you can stand beth singing every reference to every song, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU!

there is bookoodles and bookoodles of foreshadowing in this episode that beth did not remember and cannot talk about with caroline, so if you're coming here for that, TOUGH COOKIES.

this show has vampires and demons figuring on a regular basis, but the least realistic part is the part in this episode where every student in a college classroom want to volunteer information when prompted. absolutely untenable.

here we are, armed with an overwrought metaphor for adulthood and an EXCELLENT scene between willow and giles.