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Much Exciting 6.X BUFFY Spoilage!!

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For those just tuning in, Coax has been posting copious season-six “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” spoilers since July 4. To precap the first third of the season:
  • 6.1/6.2 “Bargaining.” (Oct.2 ) Written by Marti Noxon (“Forever”) and David Fury (“Crush”). Giles leaves for England; a demon gang invades slayerless Sunnydale; Willow resurrects Buffy.
  • 6.3 “After Life.” (Oct. 9) Written by Jane Espenson (“Intervention”). Buffy ill-at-ease after spending the summer undergound; a demon ghost (a side-effect of the resurrection) is on the loose.
  • 6.4 “Flooded.” (Oct. 16) Written by Jane Espenson (“After Life”) and Doug Petrie (“The Weight of the World”). Joyce’s hospital bills wiped out her life insurance benefits. Buffy must contend with financial woes AND a demon dispatched by the Jonathan-Warren-Andrew troika. Giles returns. Xander and Anya fight about Xander’s unwillingness to reveal their engagement to the other Scoobs.
  • 6.5 “Life Serial.” (Oct. 23) Written by Rebecca Rand Kirshner (“Tough Love”). Buffy, trying to map out career plans, audits Willow and Tara college classes, hauls beams at Xander’s construction site, and sells mummy hands at Anya’s Magic Box. But she’s also enduring all kinds of strange time distortions as the troika looks on.
  • 6.6 “All The Way.” (Oct. 30) Written by Steve DeKnight (“Spiral”). Dawn proves herself a misbehaver, telling Buffy she’s attending a sleepover with friend Janice, but instead riding around in cars and kissing strange boys. Dawn learns she and her sister share similar taste in men. Tara and Willow fight about Willow using her powerful magic much too casually. Willow uses magic to make Tara forget the fight.
  • 6.7 “Untitled Musical Episode.” (Nov. 6) Written by Joss Whedon (“The Gift”). Xander, increasingly panicky about his coming nuptuals, wishes for “a happy ending” and accidentially sets off a truth spell that forces everyone to reveal their secrets in song. Xander reveals he’s nervous about husbandhood. Giles reveals he’s leaving for good. Willow reveals she put the forget spell on Tara. And Buffy reveals she has feelings for Spike.

Some new details on Buffy 6.3:

* Giles spends the episode in England.

* 6.3 starts only minutes after 6.2 ends. Fearful demon bikers are still roaring out of town. Buffy is still covered with blood and the dirt of her own grave.

* In act one, Spike reunites with Buffy for the first time since Glory’s tower in 5.22 – and is, of course, overcome by a flood of emotion.

* Spike endures a very bad headache when he slams Xander into a tree in the Summers’ front yard.

* Though still not herself by any means, Buffy is back on patrol the very next night. And finally encounters Spike alone.

* Anya, Dawn and Xander are sequentially possessed by the demon.

* The demon is defeated on two fronts: Tara and black-eyed Willow do a spell; Buffy combats the demon in her own bedroom.

* On Buffy’s second day back on earth, she is more herself and finally thanks the scoobs for bringing her back.

* The episode ends with a telling Buffy-Spike conversation.

Some new details on Buffy 6.6:

* Wondering about why Dawn stole Anya’s earrings late last season? A pattern emerges as Dawn steals a shiny coin in The Magic Box. She later confesses to a Justin, an older boy she hooks up with, that she hasn’t paid for lipstick “in like forever.”

* Once the Magic Box completes its very profitable day of Halloween retailing, Xander finally announces his engagement to Anya.

* Now able to talk openly about her impending marriage, Anya speaks of weddings, babies and cars. Xander has difficulty catching his breath.

* Willow is magic-happy. She offers to use the dark arts to tidy the Magic Box, and impulsively makes decorations appear at an impromptu engagement party at Buffy’s house. When Dawn goes missing, she wants to conjure a spell to locate her. Willow invokes a spell that makes everyone in the Bronze quiet. Tara becomes very upset and they argue. “What do you want me to do? Keep my mouth shut?” asks Tara. “That’d be a good start!” retorts Will. “If I didn’t love you so much I would,” cries Tara, storming away.

* Dawn and her friends stumble upon a shady individual who likes butcher knifes and the song “Pop Goes the Weasel.”

* Giles ends up behaving very much as a parent towards Dawn. He also proves himself a hero for the jillionth time when Dawn’s pal Janice’s date won’t respect boundries.

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