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Post by Spuffy on Aug 6, 2005 17:16:59 GMT -5
First aired: 3/12/2002
Writer: Diego Gutierrez
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Guest star: Dean Butler (Hank Summers), Michael Warren (Doctor), Sarah Scivier (Nurse), Rodney Charles (Orderly), April Dion (Kissing Girl), Kirsten Nelson (Lorraine Ross)
After being poisoned by a demon, Buffy comes to believe that she is confined to a mental hospital, her mother is alive and her parents are still together and that her life as a Slayer was all an hallucination for the past six years. Deciding that she prefers this 'normal' life with her parents a whole lot more, Buffy attempts to kill the things that tether her to the 'fantasy' life of the Slayer: the Scoobies.
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Post by Spuffy on Aug 9, 2005 14:12:59 GMT -5
I just felt we should start some talking about other episodes  This is one of the episodes I've seen again more recently (by recently I mean like a month ago ) It always manages to get me to question which of the realities is real. The one where Buffy is the slayer or the one where she's in the asylum place. |
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Post by JamesMFan on Aug 9, 2005 14:25:18 GMT -5
She hits Xander with a frying pan, and that's alright by me.
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Post by Spuffy on Aug 9, 2005 14:25:49 GMT -5
Frying pans are fun. Are they not?
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Post by JamesMFan on Aug 9, 2005 14:33:42 GMT -5
I remember in Eastenders when Pauline battered Arthur with a frying pan...
No, but it was like Karma. Considering in "Hell's Bells" Xander saw the "future" and he was about to thwack Anya with a frying pan.
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Post by Spuffy on Aug 9, 2005 14:36:06 GMT -5
haha... I never noticed that! I didn't even connect the two things. hehe... interesting...
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Post by JamesMFan on Aug 9, 2005 14:44:07 GMT -5
Hmm. The commentary to this episode was very interesting. And I can't remember any of it.
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Post by Spuffy on Aug 9, 2005 14:46:01 GMT -5
I wish I could see it. Sadly I don't have that season....  |
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Post by ScoobyGroupie on Aug 10, 2005 1:05:51 GMT -5
I was hoping for some sort of closure on which reality was real when I listened to the commentary. Sadly, I was left hanging. Good ep though. *thumbs up* I've cried a few times when Buffy tells her mom good-bye. WHHHYYYY??!!!  |
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Post by Spuffy on Aug 10, 2005 1:26:19 GMT -5
I just wish I knew which one was real! haha. It bothers me whenever I watch it! There's reasons for wanting one or the other to be real, but you never really know which one it is! eeeh. hahaha
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Post by ScoobyGroupie on Aug 10, 2005 1:30:21 GMT -5
You know.. if the reality where Buffy was in the hospital was real then vamps still existed in that reality. Becuase the reason Buffy was in there was because she saw a vamp, according to other-world her. Then again, she could have imagined the vamp and she really was crazy. *gasps*
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Post by Spuffy on Aug 10, 2005 1:34:34 GMT -5
I'd say that the alternate Buffy just like... thought the person was a vampire, then went all crazy and started the whole Slayerverse thing in her mind. hehe. Or maybe in that alternate reality, she wasn't originally sent to the asylum from seeing a vampire. Could be she was just there for some other reason then she started thinking of the whole Slayer type thing in her head and convinced herself she was there because she saw a vampire, then went into imagining herself getting out of the asylum and yada yada yada, only to find out that the Slayer stuff wasn't real when a "demon" poisoned her in her own little universe... hehehehe
Fun stuff thinking is... and Poor Buffy's mind... hahaha
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Post by ScoobyGroupie on Aug 10, 2005 1:59:17 GMT -5
Whoa, I should not have just read that right now. *rubs eyes and brain*
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Post by Spuffy on Aug 10, 2005 10:31:41 GMT -5
hehehe.... I think to hard sometimes. ;D
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Post by JamesMFan on Aug 10, 2005 10:50:13 GMT -5
Or not at all, at other times.
I think it would have leant more credence to the asylum reality being the real one if we had seen maybe Willow and Xander as orderlies that were Buffy's favourite nurses, and Spike could be the skeezy janitor that was always trying it on with her. Angel could have been the head of the asylum who Buffy had secretly loved, and he had moved away to another asylum...
Imagine the possibilites!
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