Buffy, Willow, Xander and Anya are out hunting vampires and kill one of a pair. They track the other to a nest and decide to call in the big guns and visit... Jonathan.

An other alternative world episode with using one of the semi regular character as a central character (and re-do the score) … not a bad idea but then again all that to have to advance the plot (to find the weak point of adam) even if there are some good scenes (apart for jonathan helping buffy/riley back together): spike/jonathan, “jonathan” singing, buffy vs spike (just wonder why he commented that buffy was not supposed to slam him against the wall to make him talk), buffy re-discovering her power, jonathan/buffy talk, graham commenting about it was time to bring the big gun and jonathan arrived and he is two head lower than the marines, xander fire spell and giles “don’t speak latin in front of the book, ……..



Just not sure what to do of buffy suddenly wondering about perfect jonathan and thinking about alternative reality just by discussing the matter with anya. Is it me or isn’t she a little too fast with the conclusion that something is wrong.


Adam is appearing just to confirm what every buffy fans knew from the credit: something wrong is going on and it will end in chaos … chaos meaning: just an ugly demon in that case.was that just to remind us that there is a big bad in season four ?



We can also see that maybe tara think willow is a strong witch but she can defend herself with magic (a spell I doubt willow would have been able to cast, imo).


It was a good idea to have that kind of episode following two fantastic faith episodes.

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Is that one of your old reviews by any chance? I say that as it is quoted?

no, just copy/paste from word :shrug:

What's not to love about this one?

Kind of surprising that Giles doesn't nobble Jonathan for his standard 'magic very dangerous, don't mess again' talk, but perhaps he was still to confused at his own memories of the swimsuit calander :shrug:

I must admit I have just watched it and I found it dull, dull, dull. It did not put a smile on my face or make me laugh once.

I will be the first to admit that up to Superstar Jonathon was a supremely effective victim of the week. Earshot showed a great deal of psychological reality in saying constant humiliation can result in a severe desire to self-harm. I wish the brilliant Earshot had been the last word.

Somehow I think Jane Espenson must have thought Jonathon was a vehicle to deliver ironical laughs but the whole thing feels like a damp squib to me. The vaguely James Bond music was irritating and it lacked the razor sharpness necessary to deliver a real sense of fun.

The one interesting thing was the phenomenon of 'subordinated Buffy' ie what I am thinking of, roughly, is the Marxist idea that once a person is dominant[Jonathon] other people around them will tend to be 'pushed down'[subordinated] and so will not become fully realised individuals. This is precisely the predicament Buffy is in where she is effectively merely a scooby and Jonathon is Buffy. The evidence I have in mind is Buffy's lame put downs and also the low esteem in which she held by Willow and the others.

Marx argues under communism that everyone can become who they truly are ie it will be a paradise. sk

it seem everyone was starting to lose the memory of the spell (even jonathan was starting to forget stuff he said) and yet a few episodes later, buffy remember about jonathan finding about adam weak point :unsure: