Welcome to Magic for Beginners, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we come to work part-time only to be fired again alongside “Dirty Girls.”
In this episode, we sermonize on:
Plot and Firsts (3:00)
Initial Thoughts (14:45)
Running into danger / burden of leadership (18:30)
Did Buffy understand the stakes? / Does Giles? (26:00)
Caleb is a strong boi, or, why is the First the worst? / also, rewriting Caleb is fun (31:45)
A roundabout way to talk about Faith (40:30)
Xander — he’s the heart. listen. he’s the heart. he’s the mom. andrew’s the stepmom. this is science. (47:45)
Xander paying with his eyes instead of his life — the most important moment in all of television history (53:45)
Reasonable or Ridiculous? — No one bothered to tell Faith the Potentials were being hunted? Sunnydale is NOW OF ALL TIMES leaving town in droves? Dawn to dislike Faith despite never meeting her before (MONK ASIDE!)? (1:08:00)
Yelling (1:17:00)
Watches (1:36:30)
Rankings (1:44:00)
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/ Next episode: Buffy, I love you, but you were right. We have to be together on this. You can't be a part of it. So I need you to leave. I'm sorry, but this is my house, too.
Rankings
Willow Hacks/Talk the Net/Something Wicca This Way Comes👩💻🧙♀️ – 5
No One Woman Should Have All That Power 🔋 – 10
Dawn Needs An Adult👩👧– 5
Monster of the Week 🤡 – 10
Relationship Goodness or Badness 👍 👎 – 5
Episode Specific: Are You the Bad Slayer Now? Am I the Good Slayer Now? 🆗 – 10
Total ⌰ – 45 points
77 — out of — 140 episodes
#87 of 137
References
7.18 – "Dirty Girls"