BUFFY: What Happens Next!!

s p o i l e r s!

We’ve got our first, very confident look at the
first eight UPN episodes of the best television
show in production, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
Here’s the big news:

* Buffy and Spike become more than friends before Thanksgiving.

* The increasingly powerful telekinetic redhead
Willow is going to go from Marvel Girl to Dark
Phoenix. Look for her to emerge as the season’s
Big Bad.

* A midseason wedding is planned for Xander and Anya,
but when an anxious Xander gets cold feet on wedding
day, Anya turns back into a vengeance demon and seeks
out the boy who stood her up. But even in demon-mode
Anya realizes she can’t hurt her little butt-monkey --
and reverts back to human.

* There will be a recurring “little bad” this season
as a trio of bored twentysomethings begin using dark
magic to conjure demons. Nerdy Jonathan, last seen in “Superstar,” will be one of the more harmless
members of the troika. Here’s a rough breakdown of
the episodes through November sweeps:

Buffy 6.1/6.2 (Oct. 9)
Buffy is dead and buried. Giles, with no slayer to
watch, heads back to England. Anya has taken over the
Magic Box. Willow and Tara are acting as Dawn’s guardians. And Willow has reprogrammed the Buffybot: it not only
slays Sunnydale’s demons, it goes to college and attends PTA meetings so Dawn’s dad remains unaware of Buffy’s death. Willow uses her growing powers to revive Buffy,
but the spell is slow-acting and the gang misses the slayer’s emergence from the grave. When Buffy does get
back above ground, she is not herself and wanders back
to the scene of her own death. A demon motorcycle gang
rides into Sunnydale to challenge the Buffybot.
The demons damage the Buffybot badly but it stays
“alive” long enough to tell Dawn of Buffy’s return.
Dawn finds Buffy at the tower, where Buffy defeats
the demon gang and, at episode’s end, reunites with
the Scoobies.

Buffy 6.3 (Oct. 16)
As the Scoobs contend with a demon ghost, Buffy realizes she was happier with the peace of the afterlife. She finds a sympathetic ear in someone else who knows something about an afterlife: Spike.

Buffy 6.4 (Oct. 23)
With Joyce gone, Buffy finds herself trying to contend
with burst pipes and home-improvement loans. She seeks
out the advice of a just-returnd Giles and indulges an
off-camera meeting with Angel (which makes Spike very jealous). Buffy’s ongoing frustration is bad news for
the demon dispatched – by a trio of bored, twenty-
something would-be sorcerers – to the slayer’s home.
Buffy begs the demon not to break anything, and winds
up drowning him in a pool of water formed by her
plumbing leak.

Buffy 6.5 (Oct. 30)
When Dawn lies to Buffy and spends Halloween night
joyriding and partying with boys, Buffy finds herself having to assume the role of parent/disciplinarian.
Meanwhile, after Willow and Tara have a fight about Willow’s abuse of magic, Willow casts a spell on Tara
to make her forget the fight.

Buffy 6.6 (Nov. 6)
Panicky about his impending marriage to Anya, Xander accidentally concocts a “truth spell” that causes
everyone in Sunnydale to reveal all of their innermost thoughts and feelings in song. When Buffy and Spike
learn of their true feelings for each other, they
share their first real kiss. Willow reveals in song
that she cast a spell to make Tara forget their fight,
and Tara decides to break up with Willow as a result.
Finally, Giles decides to return to England for good.
The episode’s original score and lyrics were written by “Buffy” creator Joss Whedon.

Buffy 6.7 (Nov. 13)
Giles says his good-byes as he finalizes preparations
for his return to the U.K.

Buffy 6.8 (Nov. 20)
When a demon invades Buffy, making it impossible for
her to determine what is and isn’t real, she winds up
in a mental hospital.

I guess we'll just have to play the waiting game
and see if all this actually comes to pass...

[Edited by highdef on 07-05-01 at 05:39 AM]

So is the actor who plays Giles leaving the show or will he make another appearnce?

Well, I'm only posting what I've read and it
sounds to me like Giles is leaving the show.
Who really knows if all this info is actually true?
We'll have to sit tight and see.

Anthony Head isn't leaving the show permanently, but he'll no longer be one of the regulars, only a recurring character. He asked Joss to scale down his involvement with the show, so he could move back to the UK.

Joss is in talks with the BBC about creating a limited-run spinoff show focusing on Giles. This would be in addition to his occasional "Buffy" work. It would be a cerebral/non-action show, Joss says, more in the BBC tradition, if it happens...

willow turn bad..... Ooooooh me like

"this one time in witches camp..."

Seriously, 8 episodes and she's already gone insane? It'll probably be solved within the 9th episode, but isn't it a little early in a season for someone to go insane? Oh well...we can only wait and see.

That's really a shame that Anthony Head wants a smaller part in the series. With his actions in the season finale he was finally fleshing out as a character with more than one dimension.

8 episodes might actually make sense for Willow turning fully evil. Isn't that somewhat close to sweeps?

She'd have a 5-10 episode run as the Big Bad, then we'd find out there's somebody else manipulating her, and the last few episodes deal with the Real Villain.

It'd be fun, at least.

I can't decide if AICN's removal of their season premiere transcript does, in fact, make the spoilers more credible (Possibly legality issues if the transcript was true, etc.)

I hope so. I'm a Jonathan fan.

The BBC has now officially announced that "The Watcher" *IS* going to happen, BTW... Hopefully it'll be shown in the US at the same time...