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Buffy the Vampire Slayer :: Once More, With Feeling (06x07)
 
Episode Information
  
Title: Once More, With Feeling
Episode #: 06x07
Production Number: 6ABB07
Original Airdate: Tuesday November 06th, 2001
Special Runtime: 68 Minutes
10/10 (9 Votes cast)
Episode Crew
Director: Joss Whedon
Writer: Joss Whedon
 
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Pivotal Episode, Role of Sweet
This pivot episode accomplishes through song what no convolution of dialogue could achieve - the complete unvieling of the characters' hearts. In silver-screen song and dance numbers, time stops during the music and bystanders get to be wholly ignorant of what transpires. In these musical r outines, however, everyone must listen, participate and remember.
The finale, 'Where Do We Go From Here', sums it up: all of the characters save Dawn have exposed a life-altering secret - were, in fact, forced to expose them through the power of the demon Sweet - and now all of the ties that have bound the group together have been show to be lies. The particular lies I won't spoil.
The demon Sweet is responding to a summons, as demons do. In classic demon fashion, he'll take away from the contract as much as he can get - feeding off the life energy of humans along the way. In many ways, Joss Whedon, intimates that Sweet is in some way 'good', or at least 'non-evil'. He was summoned, after all. It's not his fault people can't handle the dance routines of their innermost hearts. Can a mirror be blamed for showing a person his reflection?
But this is where Joss Whedon never trips-up, and why I watched almost everything he's ever produced: when Buffy implores Sweet to 'give me something to sing about', Sweet can only glance around and shrug. He has nothing to give her. Demons consume; they do not produce. And they never can offer up a real solution. In Joss Whedon's world, the only characters capable of saving, are those who love, and are willing to sacrifice to prove it.
Review posted on Sunday, January 6th 2008 8:56 pm
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