Who Are You
Previously on the Challenge........
(I always wanted to say that!) What a cliff hanger from last episode, I didn't see that coming one bit. I love the whole mind swapping thing and it has breathed new life into this season of Buffy! How is she going to get out of this one? and what kind of mischief will Faith get up to? Well let me hit play and well see.
We start right where we left off with Faith being loaded into the ambulance but it's really Buffy in Faith's body and Faith is now in Buffy's body, confused? yeah me too, it seems the Mayor is playing a big part from beyond the grave.
I'm not sure that Faith will be able to fool Joyce for too long a mother knows their child and it won't be too long before she sees through the charade. Faith is practicing her best Buffy impersonation, while Buffy is being drugged as Faith. Faith is really going to have fun with this one. While Buffy as Faith is being abducted by the council of watchers, things can't get any worse can they.
How much longer will Faith be able to listen to Buffy friends give her the bad word. She has run into Spike and that was just awkward. Faith likes what she sees in Spike, just when the episode was getting good out comes Robo-Demon. I wonder how many rouge slayers have tried the whole "It's not me, someone has switched bodies with me." (I'm sure that's what they all say.)
Oh Faith can see that Terra has a thing for Willow, and has let her know about it in the worst way. Buffy is having no luck what so ever trying to escape from the council, and Faith is going to have some fun with Riley. Terra has got a feeling that things are not right (and there are no Hyenas Willow, that is so first season!) It seems that Faith may of got more than she bargained for, Faith has never been loved and is experiencing it in a real harsh way.
What can be more deadlier than Buffy in Faiths body? well Buffy in Faiths body behind the wheel. Faith is making her away out of the country and Buffy is trying to convince Giles that she is not Faith. I think she has done enough to convince him that she is her. Thanks to Terra they have found a way to get things back to order. Is there still good in Faith? And a Vampire goes to Church. Don't tempt God vamp boy as it will come back to haunt you. Believe it or not Faith is first on the scene. Now that was a cool Vamp kill with the whole spin dust. Oh boy, Buffy Vs Faith but in reverse. The switch worked but it seemed that when Faith was wailing on her body she was really taking out her frustrations of what she has become. Faith is box carting out of Sunnydale with only her thoughts to haunt her.
I have to say this was a brilliant piece of television the Faith Character really works so well in this show as a foil for Buffy, And the acting was brilliant by both the girls.
9/10 (loses one for the Adam stuff! he is just boring as a villain!)
Superstar
Ninja Vampires are cool! Good thing Buffy has back up. This show really doesn't like to start slowly. Who is that? and why is the gang begging for help from him? (I do like the chair though!) Jonathan is taking charge and this is so a dream sequence with the whole James Bond music happening. Didn't know that Vampire slayers were stalked by paparazzi? Oh Jonathan is the nerdy guy that Cordelia kept giving him a hard time.
He is really a big man around town. Sports star, Author, and Chick Magnet! Yeah I know how that feels having everyone wanting a piece of me it can be really annoying at times. Jonathon is taking charge of the Army.
Out comes the man of the hour Jonathan is doing a little bit of couple counseling, is this some alternative world where the nerds rule? Is there a point to this episode? So Jonathan is also a huge recording star? and an aphrodisiac for Anya.
Back to Robo-Demon watching Jonathan, and he is seeing that things are not what it is meant to be. So Jonathan, your new found stardom is just a (sorry distracted by the Swedish twins) what was I saying? Oh yeah, his new found stardom is a work of some sort of magic gone wrong. Also Shaking the camera doesn't hide the really bad monster suit, just makes me dizzy. The mark on the monste is the same as the scare on Jonathan's back.
Anya is AWESOME! I love the way she says exactly what she thinks! (Jonathan has his own comic series! I'd pick that book up!) Jonathan invented the Internet! Get off the shrimp Anya. It seems that Buffy is waking up to the spell that Jonathan has put on the world. (although he is the coach of the woman's soccer team!) Jonathan's swim suit calendar *shudder* and why would Giles have a copy of it? (another DC reference with Kryptonite!)
Xander should not speak Latin full stop. The Jig is up Jonathan athey figured out what has happen with the spell and it seems Jonathan is not going to lose his grip on the world. Once again a really great story is ruined by a really crummy looking monster. Poor Jonathan back to being the dork that he is. It seems that some good however has come out of this as Jonathan has given Buffy some really good advice about her relationship with Riley.
A really good message behind this episode, kind of out of place in the series but I like the fact that we should not strive to be who we are not but be ourselves. Is it me or does there seem to be a light hearted episode thrown in near the end of every season for good measure? This one was not too bad but in the grand scheme of things I think it is just a filler episode that has no real purpose to move the story along.
7/10
Well a bit of a mixed bag here, maybe the second best episode of the season with "Who are you" and a so so comedy based one with Superstar.
Well 5 more episodes to go in the next 2 weeks ....... See ya soon Guys and Girls! Remember to be like Mr. Pointy and stay sharp!
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