Welcome to Less Confusing Waffles, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we accelerate our descent into Willow’s dark heart with “Two to Go.”
In this episode, we have a few points:
Bill Norton, Plot and Firsts (1:40)
Initial Thoughts (18:00)
The Plot Demands We Talk About the Plot Demands (23:30)
More about Buffy’s “line” — Beyond vengeance (31:30)
Buffy’s lame attempt convincing Willow that “there’s so much to live for” (38:50)
Willow’s psyche — bullying, “addictive personality” (43:30)
Anya’s weird (56:40)
Was Dawn in danger of returning to a ball of energy? (58:30)
Buffy v. Willow (1:04:30)
Yelling (1:10:00)
Watches (1:31:20)
Rankings (1:35:30)
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Rankings
Willow Hacks/Talk the Net/Something Wicca This Way Comes👩💻🧙♀️ – 6
Life is the Big Bad 🧬 – 10
Dawn Needs An Adult👩👧– 6
Monster of the Week 🤡 – 6
Relationship Goodness or Badness 👍 👎 – 2
Episode Specific: The one where you lie to your friends when you're not trying to kill them? And you screw a vampire just to feel? And insane asylums are the comfy alternative? This world? Buffy, it's me. I know you were happier when you were in the ground. The only time you were ever at peace in your whole life is when you were dead. Until Willow brought you back. You know, with magic 🪄 – 8
Total ⌰ – 38 points
87 — out of — 121 episodes
#21 of 137 (combined with “Grave”)
References
6.21 – "Two to Go"