"That's cheating." Buffy and Spike both tend to prefer fair fights and face-to-face style combat. Dracula" Dracula tries a similar move on Buffy and she says the exact same thing. Once when she does it, he snaps, "Hey, that's cheating!" In "Buffy v. When she and Spike fight, she sometimes "zaps" out and then "pops" back in again behind him. Taking a second to get side tracked here, in season five of "Angel" there is a very cool character name Illyaria who can alter the flow of time. "Ooooh, 'The Count's' gotta have his special dirt and bug eaters." And it makes perfect sense that Spike would have contempt for "gypsy tricks" after his experiences with Angel regaining his soul because of them. Also, I like Spike's jealous muttering about how "Drac" still owes him eleven pounds. His spider snacking and "Dark Master.bator" bits just crack me up. And I love Xander's being Dracula's new Renfield. Anya is preoccupied with whether or not Dracula remembers her, Willow is reminiscing about his commanding presence, Buffy is sighing dreamily. The Scoobies excitement over meeting Dracula is pretty fun. There are some good parts to this episode. Just when you think that the episode is over though, it flashes back to Buffy's house where the Summers' family has an inexplicable new addition. She also decides to explore her Slayer calling and asks Giles to be her Watcher again. Coming out of her enchantment with him, she starts to fight back against his power and, of course, in the end she saves the day. Meanwhile, Buffy confronts Dracula alone and drinks some of his blood. It reminds him of her past with Angel and he and Giles set out to kill Drac before anyone can get hurt. Riley is jealous with Buffy's obvious attraction to Dracula. When he bites Buffy, though, and puts Xander under his thrall, the situation becomes more serious. (Really, his actual plan seems a little vague.) Anyway, the Scoobies are delighted and starstruck by his appearance in their town. Dracula comes to Sunnydale to meet Buffy, and also to turn her into his un-dead bride or something. The last 3 seconds of this episode set up the whole season to come. Dracula" isn't the best episode of the season, but you really can't miss it. Also, it really helps you to follow the story if you watch the episodes in order. ![]() Just about every episode builds into the larger story arc this season, so it's pretty hard to skip any. ![]() It has heroes who end up villains and villains who end up heroes. It has unexpected twists and character driven plot lines. Personally, though, season five is my favorite. And I think that a convincing argument could be made for just about any season being the "best" one the show produced. Every season of BTVS has it's high and low points.
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