This episode that has a story by Joss Whedon and was written by David Greenwalt starts off with a bang. Buffy is walking through the Masters lair and he moves in for the kill when Buffy wakes up. Joyce sends her off to school but assures her that her father is going to come see her this weekend. Buffy tells Willow that her parents got divorced last year but were separated a while before that. It doesn't really fit with the comics but that means they messed up since this came first.
We learn very quickly that Xander only pays attention to what girls wear and not what they say, even if the girl in question is his teacher. Buffy spots a little boy hanging out outside the classroom and moments later a kids book is over come with spiders. They swarm all over him. Buffy keeps having nightmares, waking up screaming throughout the night. Buffy keeps worrying that her father isn't going to come for her but Joyce keeps telling her that she will show. Giles was lost in the back of the library. He seemed shaken. The Scooby's go to talk to the guy who was over run with spiders and he tells them how he loves spiders, until he was set off to camp and his brother let them all die and ever since he has had nightmares about spiders overrunning him. He blames himself for getting them all killed. Cordy tells Buffy there is a history test and Buffy follows her. She isn't ready for it, Cordy seems unusually cheerful towards her. It is nice to see them getting along again. If only for a bit. Buffy goes to write her name on the test and her pencil breaks. Time seems to just be flying by. Her history teacher is a guy but in the pilot wasn't it a woman? She talked about the fun part of the black plague was. . . I think that was a mistake but it could just be part of the nightmares. A girl goes down stairs to have a smoke break and the creepy little boy tells her that she shouldn't go down there. A monster attacks her beats her up, ironically there is a sign that says smoking kills. Buffy and Giles go to visit the girl who was beat up and she tells them that the only thing she heard was lucky 19. It turns out that she is the second victim. The first is the little boy who Buffy keeps seeing around the school and he is in a coma. People around the school start having their worst fears come true. Xander and Willow walk into class and suddenly his clothes are gone. Giles can't read, he can normally read 5 languages. Buffy thinks the coma kid might be astral projecting. They are trying to figure it out when Hank Summers, Buffy's dad shows up and asks to talk to her. They go outside and he says that it is time to tell her the truth. He tells her that they broke up because of Buffy. Her being there was too much for them to handle. They couldn't deal with it. She ruined their lives because she was rude and not as smart as she should have been. He also tells her that she is being immature by crying about it. He also tells her that he doesn't want to do these weekend visits anymore, they don't do anything for him so he leaves. She sees the coma boy. Xander and Willow head to the library to find Giles and Buffy. They only find Buffy, she is still elsewhere. Willow puts together that it is everyone's nightmares coming true. Giles said that dreams would be a wacky musical version of this. . . can you say Once More With Feelings!!! Giles and Willow put together that it must be Billy, the coma kid. They need to stop him fast because he just turned Cordy, my love, into a nerd with bad hair and that can not stand! Buffy goes to talk to Billy. He is so sad, poor kid. He is lucky 19, or at least that is what the monster calls him. Buffy tries to get the information out of him but the monster shows up and starts attacking the slayer. He is a lot stronger than she is, forcing Buffy to run. The Scooby's split up to find Buffy. Willow spots Cordy being dragged kicking and screaming into the chess club. That poor poor girl I should go save her. Some grabs Willow and she screams as we jump over to Xander finding a blocked off part of the school and a trail of candy bars leading him down a path he should not follow. Look I love candy but even I'm not that stupid. Come on Xander!! Buffy and Billy end up at the baseball field where the kid tells Buffy how he messed up the game. He should have won it for them. Buffy points out that there were other kids playing and it wasn't all his fault. The monster has found them again! They run off! Leading them to a cemetery. Willow is thrown on stage to sing an opera, something she doesn't know how to do!! She is scared out of her mind of being in front of people as we learned last episode with the dramatic reading. Xander is attacked by a killer clown, something that he has been afraid of since he was 6. Buffy and Billy are attacked by the Master who throws her in a coffin and buries her alive, something that I has always been scared of, and something that will come back to hunt her in a few years. Willow and Giles find Xander as the killer clown chases them down, until Xander mans up and knocks the clown out. It makes him feel a lot better. No one else seems to be facing their fears the way he is. Willow spots that the graveyard is across the street and it is night there. They find Buffy's gravestone. Giles is devastated. Buffy digs her way out of her grave, something she will do again years later. Giles and the others freak out for a moment when they see that she is a vampire. He tells her that they can fix this. She just has to keep it together till then. The Scooby gang goes to Billy's room and see his astral form telling him that he is too scared to wake up. The monster attacks. Buffy goes to face him. Vampire slayer verses the monster, it is a lot closer fight this time. Buffy knocks him out. She tells Billy to come finish it himself. He does it and the nightmares all go away as Billy wakes up. Just then the coach shows up and calls the boy his lucky 19. Buffy tells him he is awake and the coach doesn't seem happy. The boy calls him out on it and he tries to run off but Xander and Giles catch him. The coach gets arrested and Buffy's dad, her real dad comes to pick her up, thus ending this episode. I like this episode a lot because it shows us that sometimes the most evil of monsters are really humans. We are the most evil thing in this world and this episode shines a light on it. Jonathan, Law and Devaughn come together to talk about all the stuff you expect form the Uncanny Fans.
In this episode written by Dan Lane we see the sliders slide into a world that seems to be going to hell. Cars are crashes on the sides of the streets, couples are making out like crazy in pubic, food is over priced. The sliders soon learn that they slide into a world that only has two days left before an asteroid hits the Earth. Not a problem for people who can jump from Earth to Earth right? Well here is the catch. . . they slide in 3 days time. One day after the Earth dies.
Remy goes right back to his favorite pastime, blaming Quinn for everything that goes wrong in their lives. He storms out, saying he will be back just before the asteroid hits. Wade says that she wants to go see her family, even if it isn't really her family it would help her deal. Quinn goes with her leaving Arturo alone. Arturo goes to see what the big brains have to say and he spots the hippie from Earth Prime who says that Albert Einstein got something wrong when he built his nuke and that is why it didn't work. Arturo hears that the reason it didn't work was that there wasn't enough material on Earth to make the bomb go off and Arturo knew that that wasn't true. He teams up with this kid to try and fix the bomb, as luck would have it the kid has the bomb. The government didn't care if someone took it because it didn't work. Wade's family isn't on this Earth so she goes with Quinn to his house. His family is gone but it is his house. In the basement he finds the sliding machine. The Quinn of this Earth thought it was a time machine but Quinn thinks he can get it up and running again. Wade wants to talk about their feeling but Quinn asks for a half hour to get some work done first. He almost gets it working but it overheats the circuits and knocks out the power. Ruining their last hope. Quinn breaks down. Remy goes to church to try and find some peace there but he just can't seem to come to grips with the world ending. With his own death. He goes from the church to a nearby party where a married woman starts hitting on him and her husband seems to be ok with it. Even wishes them fun. Arturo is trying to get work done on the fatman while the hippie keeps blasting music and talking about everything he is going to do with nuclear power after they save the Earth. Arturo doesn't like what he hears but he accepts it until the hippie says that no one in the world will ever mess with them again. After all the USA would have nukes. When the kid goes to the restroom Arturo takes one piece of the blueprints so that the hippie won't be able to figure it out once Arturo is gone. Remy stumbles into a game of Russian roulette hosted by the husband. He saves the wife who was hitting on him from the room. Quinn tries to be hopeful that they can escape alive but Wade keeps him to reality. The two of them almost kiss but Wade pulls away at the last minute. The two of them have a romantic dinner and talk about everything that has happened. They even dance. They finally kiss!!!! So Arturo picks this moment to come into the house and asks for their help. He tells them he recreated the bomb. It turns out that Einstein messed the bomb up himself. Quinn and Wade go with Arturo to help set up the bomb. The asteroid is so close they can see it. Remy never came back to meet with them. He is helping out at the church. Feeding the needy with the wife he saved. He seems to have found his peace. He takes off to go catch up with the other sliders. He catches up with them just before the bomb sends off. He even makes amends with Quinn. The nuke destroys the asteroid saving the day and the Earth. The sliders now have the extra day they need to slide off of this world. The blueprint that Arturo stole falls out of his pocket and the hippie picks it up. This world is now stuck in the hippies hands. Arturo saved the world today only to doom it tomorrow. Early in the episode a cop tries to give a guy a ticket and he tears it up. Since the world is ending she can't really do anything and just takes off giving him a victory. Once the world is saved she comes back to give him the ticket again. It is little details like that that just make me love this show more and more every episode. Right before the Sliders slide off Arturo learns that he lost the blueprint but it is too late, the vortex is open and he has to go. Another great episode in the Sliders verse! So today I got roped into going back to NLC, not for that bullshit class but in my duties as President. See Andy sent out an email to select students offering them extra credit for showing up today. I was not on that list but an hour before it started I got a panicked call saying that they needed me to come in and host the event. I found it interesting that I was invited to an event that I helped set up but was called on when they needed me to come and save the day.
It's just another example of how much bullshit goes on in that school. They go out of their way to make it clear that I am not wanted nor welcome in their hollowed halls unless I can help them save face in front of people they deem professional. It's just more example of the bullshit that is North Lake Collage and how they use and abuse their students. Welcome to episode 8 of the show we all know and love. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This story was written by Ashley Gable & Thomas A. Swyden. While being a great episode it does date the show more than any other episode. Not for any real reason other than the laptops seen in it. They look so ancient. The story itself almost fits in better now than it did then.
It starts off in the 1400's where a demon who gets people to love him before killing them is banished into a book for all time. Or at least till some stupid people from the 90's scan him into the computer and set him free on the internet. Who is responsible for all of this? Well the computer teacher and her students. Now this computer teacher? Yeah she is Jenny Calendar, future girlfriend of Giles and all around cool character whose time was cut far too short. After everyone else leaves for the day Willow stays late and scans the book in question onto the schools computer. Right afterwards a message reads Where am I? The next day Willow tells Buffy that she was up all night talking to some guy, Buffy is all excited for her until she finds out that she met the guy online. That part scares Buffy. Willow gets kind of hurt that Buffy isn't happy for her so Buffy changes gears and becomes the supportive friend. We see students, with the old ancient laptop, papers get replaced with pro-Nazi papers. The demon is on the move. Xander is jealous of Willow and her new online boyfriend. He is jealous of everyone and everything this season. Season one Xander is Mr. Jealousy. If a turtle got a girlfriend he would break down in tears. He starts putting thoughts into Buffy's head and gets her to rethink the relationship as well. Now she is against Willow's new relationship as well. Willow starts coming to school late and blowing off classes. She starts getting into fights with Buffy about it. This new relationship is causing problems in their friendship and her life as a whole. Buffy goes to one of the smart guys in school for help and he gets all weird about it. Buffy thinks for a moment that he is behind it but he swears he isn't. Buffy goes to Giles and he thinks all the people who use computers are crazy like that. He can't do anything to help. Buffy follows the smart kid back to a building runs by scientists. The weirder smart kid gets orders from the computer to kill Buffy. Things are getting bad and fast! Xander tells them that it closed down last year. So the question is who reopened it and why? Buffy says that her spider senses are tingling, a Marvel reference that fits well since the X-Man Kiddy Pryde is one of the inspirations for Buffy Summers herself. Buffy and Xander plan to check it out why Willow talks to her boyfriend who is starting to scare her. Giles and Jenny get into a fight about computers vs books. Giles makes some good points that over the years have been proven to be true. Human interaction is quickly dying. We have started to cut ourselves off from one another and go out of our way to hide in our homes and pretend other people don't exist. It is getting bad! Buffy is told that Willow is looking for her in the locker room where the shower is on. Buffy goes to turn it off and someone throws live wires into it almost killing her if it was for the one smart guy warning her. She lived but only just. The smart guy quits working for the computer demon. Buffy and the others figure out what is going on. Buffy tries to find out more about him but the demon confronts Buffy and Xander says that he can't do anything while stuck in a computer while Buffy and Xander point out all that he can do. While this story is good for when it was made it could be so much more deadly in the modern age where we live our whole lives behind these damn machines. Xander keeps trying to get a hold of Willow. Buffy finds the guy who saved her dead so she sets out with Xander to find and keep Willow safe while Giles tries to find a way to get the demon out of the computer and back into the book. Willow gets home to find a massage from her boyfriend wanting to meet her. She closes it and it turns back on. Someone knocks on the door but there is no one there. She turns around to look and gets kidnapped. Giles starts to tell Jenny about the supernatural but she already knows. Buffy and Xander find Willow's house empty. Where are her parents? They figure that she must be at the building the computer kids rebuilt. Jenny knows the demon Giles is taking about. She is saying that everything he can find in his books she can find online. She is basically a cyber witch. She agrees to help Giles get him back into the book. Willow wakes up to see her boyfriend, a evil demon robot. Adam? No not yet! The first evil robot demon! Jenny puts together a cyber circle to try and trap him again. Willow tells the demon off for lying to her. He tells her that he didn't. He also points how the world needs him. How people are evil and hurt each other every chance they get. He can save people from themselves. All they have to do is give him their love. Giles and Jenny start preforming the spell as Buffy and Xander try to get to Willow who is trapped with the demon. He finally accepts that she doesn't want to be with him. He feels that the only thing left to do is kill her but Giles spell halts him for a minute while Buffy breaks into the room. The spell works, well kind of. He isn't trapped in the book, he is trapped in his robot body. The demon tries to kill the Scooby's, even over powering Buffy. Willow starts hitting him with a fire extinguisher. It gives Buffy the distraction she needs to electrocute him and save the day. Giles goes to see Jenny, giving her an earring and you can see just how much he likes her. Giles says that knowledge gained from computers are fleeting where as the knowledge from books lasts a great deal longer. She also starts flirting with Giles. The Scooby's talk about how none of them have good love lives. They are all doomed to cursed relationships. The second episode to air was written by Ann Powell & Rose Schacht and show have taken place 4th. But again, blame Fox!
The sliders land in a world where oil is coming from everywhere. Everyone is rich. People are just handing out money and in Arturo's case, kisses. The Sliders are having the time of their lives. Turns out that Quinn's double just hit a ton of oil. His family are now millionaires. And so of course it is time to slide out of there. Easy come, easy go. On the new world Wade shoots out of the vortex and into the street where she is almost hit by a truck. A man saves her and she gives him a kiss. He asks how she could do that after he tried to save her. We quickly learn they are stuck here for 2 days and we see that the place has people dying left and right. They go for food and have to pass through scanners that make sure they are healthy. One guy is coughing and everyone is watching him like he slapped their mother. They are stuck with food that makes airport food look good. The waitress seems to know Quinn. Remy throws up the food, it must be bad and sees a wanted poster for Quinn. They need to get out of there fast. He is patient zero. They try to leave just as people show up for the guy coughing. He tries to escape but they don't let him. The waitress recognizes Quinn and yells for them to get him. The sliders make it away. For now. Wade starts to get sick. It seems this world doesn't have any meds. At least not what we would call. It seems that penicillin was never invented here. We also meet the hotel clerk that we meet on a great many worlds. Remy tells him that Wade just has a hangover. A fan of the Quinn from this world calls in the cops and they take Quinn. Arturo makes it back to Remy and tells him about the Quinn of this world who made a plague to take out the world. It seems that Arturo is also coming down with the Q. It might be Remy sliding out alone, foreshadowing like nothing else. Two scientists keep running tests on Quinn and find that the Q virus isn't in him at all. It seems that this world's Quinn escaped on the female scientists watch. She hurries to go and examine her himself. Wade is getting worse and worse as Arturo starts to catch up. Wade takes off and Remy and Arturo track her down. She doesn't seem to recognize them. Other people with the Q show up and she seems to know them. This virus is weird. The sliders go with them. The sliders meet this world's Quinn. Arturo tells the infected Quinn who seems to believe them. It seems that Quinn wasn't the one who invented the Q, he was given it and sent into the world. They did it to control people. Arturo starts looking for mold to create some penicillin. He tells Remy that while he works on this he needs to find a way to save their Quinn. This world's Quinn helps Remy get into the CDC to save Quinn. He tells him that the female scientist is his friend and will help him. Right after that scene we see her helping our Quinn get out of there. The cab driver from the other worlds is back and once again helping Remy get around. He gets there just as Quinn is escaping and the female scientist is shot. She dies in his arms and he runs towards Remy and they head back to camp. Why would the camp driver wait for them when people are shooting? I would have sped away. This world's Quinn is amazed at what Arturo is doing. He would never have thought of that. Wade is getting worse and worse. She is seeing things and if Arturo doesn't hurry than all hope is lost. Our Quinn shows up and the two meet face to face before he goes to comfort Wade. Remy tells this world's Quinn that his friend didn't make it. He is heart broken. Arturo finished his penicillin. He tells them how to get it into people to help them. He tests it on himself first, this world's Quinn is mad that he tries it on himself first. He points out that he is trying it out on himself in case it goes wrong. Remy now has the Q as well. If the cure doesn't work they miss the slide. The CDC closes in on their location. Everything is coming down to the wire. Arturo wakes up and proves that it works. They start giving it to people as the CDC comes in. The sliders run, helped by this world's Quinn. The people jump to this world's Quinn's help and he tells the CDC that everyone knows how to make it now. The Q is over once and for all. The Sliders slide, leaving this world behind and hoping for the best. The Sliders are in danger as cannibals move in on them. That's how the episode ends. I love it! Happy Easter Blueroof Nation. Much love from all of us here at the home office. Hope everyone has a good day and remember. . . it's Rabbit season!
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