Buffy – s3:e5 – Homecoming

BtVS succeeds yet again in digging through the hidden cabinet of my favorite tropes and spinning gold from the wonders within! I’ve already covered how much I enjoyed what Marti Noxon did with my treasured parasitic possession/replacement fixation (à la Invasion of the Bodysnatchers) in Bad Eggs, and now with David Greenwalt’s Homecoming, they’ve struck my personal paydirt once more, this time with “the world’s most dangerous game”: hunting humans for sport!

Buffy – s3:e3 – Faith, Hope & Trick

Season Three is following the same pattern as s2 – when Whedon used the initial ep to shore up the events of the finale while accounting for the intervening summer. Unlike many fans, I found s2’s When She Was Bad quite satisfactory in this regard. Whedon dallied another week