Welcome to A Treatise on the Mythology and Methodology of the Vampire Slayer, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we create a latticework of discussion around the great “Normal Again.”
In this episode, we screw up the courage to discuss:
Plot and Firsts (2:00)
Initial Thoughts (8:30)
Ambiguity — Is Sunnydale Real? — Joyce & Hank — Why people don’t like this episode — Todd & Suzanne — realness of the asylum (13:30)
Joss and Marti — Lost — the implications (30:00)
Episode 8?! or 9?! or 22?! (40:00)
Spike (44:45)
Buffy, Spike, and the Antidote (50:00)
Yelling (55:30)
Watches (1:19:00)
Rankings (1:26:30)
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Rankings
Willow Hacks/Talk the Net/Something Wicca This Way Comes👩💻🧙♀️ – 8
Life is the Big Bad 🧬 – 10
Dawn Needs An Adult👩👧– 5
Monster of the Week 🤡 – 7
Relationship Goodness or Badness 👍 👎 – 5
Episode Specific: What’s More Real? Some Sick Girl in an Institution, or Some Type of Supergirl Chosen to Fight Demons and Save the World? That’s Ridiculous 🤒 – 10
Total ⌰ – 45 points
57 — out of — 117 episodes
#24 of 137
References
6.17 – "Normal Again"