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||> Summary
Willow comes back to Sunnydale, if not completely fixed, then at least ready to help on the side of the white hats. Unfortunately, they keep missing each other as if they are in the same place, but slightly different realities. Anya and Spike try to help each of the players as they try to locate each other and a demon that skins people alive. Buffy battles with whether or not Willow did the skinning, but when she finds out that it’s a demon, they all race to kill it while it goes after Willow.
||> Review
This whole episode is very Buffy. It is cute and sweet and incredibly creepy all at the same time. I noticed how all the scenes with Willow in them still seem soft and bright and dreamlike. And she’s still like she was earlier this season and in the series overall. Her conversations with Anya were also incredibly cute. Emma is also doing a bang-up job as Anya this season and has cracked me up more in two episodes than half of last season combined. And Michelle Tratchenberg has come into it as Dawn. Dawn never really annoyed me too much, but she is much cuter and a lot less annoying which I find I like. It is appreciably notable as a good thing.
On the other hand, that Gnare demon really offset all the cute with extreme creepy. He was like a cross between the Gentlemen and Gollum. I kept waiting for it to say “my precious.” The whole scene with Willow made me cringe. Even as I was laughing at Dawn, I was wanting to make sure that Willow would be all right. Then of course, after she was rescued, it was all sweetness and goodness with the Scoobies, which was nice. I really felt like they were friends again. When Willow made that speech, I went all gooey and the scene where Buffy lent Willow her strength to heal herself was another great, fulfilling ending by Joss and company. While I know there’s a lot of loose ends, I’m happy that Willow’s integrated back into the group.
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