FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! EPISODE 21 After Glory’s rousing and emphatic victory to end episode 20, we kick off episode 21 with her minions packing up her stuff. She notes that she doesn’t want to kill them for messing up, but she isn’t sure why not. We off-handedly find out she has been on Earth for 25 years, so… has she been bound … Continue reading A New Challenger Emerges: A BTVS Retrospective, S5 E21-22
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! EPISODE 19 We open episode 19 with Buffy going to one of her college classes, but don’t get too excited… she is just there to drop the class. She is dropping all of her classes, you see, because she has too much responsibility to stay home and care for Dawn now. Her poetry professor is sympathetic to Buffy’s plight, … Continue reading Something Tara-ble Happens: A BTVS Retrospective, S5 E19-20
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! EPISODE 17 With the best episode of the series in our rear-view mirror, it’s time to see if we get back to business or what. While I appreciate a well-crafted episode about the death of one of the show’s worst characters, I also recognize there is precious little time left this season to deal with Glory, who has been … Continue reading Mombie: A BTVS Retrospective, S5 E17-18
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! EPISODE 15 We open up with a furious Buffy hard at training while simultaneously bitching about Spike, who she just keeps leaving alive anyway, so maybe go yell at a mirror, dumbass. We eventually see that she isn’t pounding away at a heavybag, but instead at Xander in a big puffy suit, like what people wear in those sumo … Continue reading Ding Dong: A BTVS Restrospective, S5 E15-16
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! EPISODE 12 We start off our dozenth episode this season with a meeting at Buffy’s house, whereupon she finds a sweater of Riley’s and gets supersad over his leaving. Giles reports in that the Watcher Council is coming to America with their findings on Glory, and Buffy just hates that news and wants to know why they won’t just report … Continue reading Episodes Featuring Sweaters: A BTVS Retrospective, S5 E12 & 14
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! EPISODE 13 Well now that we know what Glory is and isn’t*, let’s see how Buffy gets on the road to defeating her! *SEE NEXT ARTICLE, Episodes 12 & 14 – Episode 13 here ended up running long so I split it out ahead of episode 12. Buffy’s 20th birthday is upcoming, but she does not feel like celebrating! She … Continue reading Dawn Is Breaking: A BTVS Restrospective, S5 E13
For more Young Justice Retrospectives, click HERE! EPISODE 19 After a startling 26 episodes were dedicated to season one, season two is set to end in just 20, making this the penultimate episode of the season! And we have a lot to clear up, so let’s see how it all goes… We kick things off in Santa Prisca, and a meeting between The Reach and … Continue reading Gone In A Kid Flash: A Young Justice Retrospective, S2 E19-20
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! Episode 10 With the entire Buffy gang hanging around the hospital awaiting news of Buffy’s mom’s surgery, the doctor finally approaches post-op. Joyce died on the table and is gone forever! Wait, no, that was just what I was hoping for. Mom is actually completely fine, and the surgery was a total success. Nuts. At the joyous news, Buffy scoops … Continue reading Don’t Troll Me: A BTVS Retrospective, S5 E10-11
For more Young Justice Retrospectives, click HERE! EPISODE 17 Black Beetle is pissed to kick off this episode, as he feels Mongul done screwed everything up. The Reach lost over 67% of their fleet, and the Justice League is guarding WarWorld’s key chamber. But the female leader of The Reach tells him it is fine because they captured Young Justice. Though there is one loose … Continue reading Beetlemania: A Young Justice Retrospective, S2 E17-18
For more Young Justice Retrospectives, click HERE! EPISODE 15 We start off on Rimborr for a thrilling episode of Law & Order: Galactic Intent. Superman is arguing at the Justice League’s trial that they had no control over their attack on the planet, but the tribunal in charge seems disbelieving of this. Suddenly news breaks about The Reach being on Earth, and this causes Vandal … Continue reading Bad Relationship Advice: A Young Justice Retrospective, S2 E15-16
For more Young Justice Retrospectives, click HERE! EPISODE 13 We kick things off with some melancholy inner monologue from Artemis aboard Black Manta’s ship. She regrets the situation that she is in and wishes she was still home with Wally. She is tired of forgetting who she is and playing minion to the baddies. Black Manta introduces her to Psi-Mon and the plan to rebuild … Continue reading Miss Melancholy: A Young Justice Retrospective, S2 E13-14
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! EPISODE 8 After Buffy and Spike had a sentimental evening sitting on her front stoop last episode, we move on now to Mom’s CAT scan. Buffy and Dawn are out in the waiting room while the test is underway. Want to know how old this show is? Giles and the team is happy he put an advertisement IN THE YELLOW … Continue reading Cobra Commander: A BTVS Retrospective, S5 E8-9
For more Young Justice Retrospectives, click HERE! EPISODE 11 Episode 11 starts off in “The Milky Way”, so thanks for really narrowing that one down for me. A three-eyed monster who KIND OF looks like Despero is on its way to Earth to fight a champion to add to its trophy collection! G. Gordon Godfrey lambastes a meeting between Captain Atom and the Ambassador of … Continue reading Too Many Beetles! A Young Justice Retrospective, S2 E11-12
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! The episode kicks off the way so, so many do: With Buffy fighting a vamp. This one is a punk rock inspired monster, and Buffy is taunting him as she dishes out the beating… until he grants her own stake and stabs her in the belly with it! Buffy tries to flee with Punk Vamp bearing down on her, and … Continue reading Bloody Awful Poetry: A Buffy The Vampire Retrospective, S5 E7
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! EPISODE 5 WE start off the episode two months ago in a monastery with some monks running from something. They must protect the key, they cry! As they start their little monk chanting circle, something breaks through their barricaded door. Now: Buffy is fighting a big biker vampire outside of a factory. She pretty easily kills him because he … Continue reading Lois Lane, Reporting Live From SunnyDale: A BTVS Retrospective, S5 E5-6
