Prophecy Girl

Mark here...Laurel and I are here sitting down for another night of blogging and dinner.  Tonight I made us some steaks with bearnaise again.  This time to spice it up a bit I made a homemade demi-glace and added it to the bearnaise.  Laurel made us a kale salad to go along, which was a nice side to balance out all the fat!

We're on to the last episode of Season One of Buffy, "Prophecy Girl".  We had a few false starts trying to watch this episode, I think because the beginning is so slow.  Basically the episode starts with Xander confessing his love for Buffy, which doesn't turn out as he had hoped.  The big prophecy of the title is then revealed, via Giles, that Buffy will face the Master and die.  This is accidentally overheard by Buffy and she gives a  big "I don't want to die speech" that only an entertainment writer could love.

In any case, we find out prophecy's are tricky things.  Buffy herself allows the Master to go free and he kills her by leaving her to drown.  But Xander and Angel arrive in time to give her CPR.  It's a nice twist that sets up future things to come.  One of the shows main rules is that to each generation one slayer is born and the next one is called when that one dies.  Buffy effectively "dies' in this episode but is revived.  When she comes back she is revitalized and proceeds to take down the Master, who is killed at the end.

One other thing to note, Jenny Calendar is around and still annoying and out of place...like a resident of Melrose Place who's randomly in Sunnydale.  Every line from her sounds extremely awkward.

Laurel here..I agree.  The only thing to add is that this episode was awesomely 90s.  It's funny to see the producers/art department doing the best with what they had, and they really stretch it out here.   I'm proud of them for making a good looking (for the time) season finale with obviously limited resources.  Also I'm not sure how prom fits into all of this but Buffy ends up "dying" in her prom dress (a super boring white empire waist dress) which totally adds to the teenagerness of the whole situation.