Welcome to Rewatching Buffy, the part of the blog where I rewatch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Each Tuesday evening, you’re invited to join me as I attempt to rediscover what made me love this show 21 years ago.

Something Blue

• We open on Willow, still lamenting Oz’s departure and their break-up. She’s in his room in the house where he lived with his band.
• All his stuff is still there, so he’s gotta come back sometime, right?
• Buffy and Riley have a nice exchange… but when she’s talking to Willow, she expresses that she feels like something’s missing.
• Constant misery? Inherent danger? Potential heartbreak?
• Real passion?
• Mid-conversation, Buffy stakes a vampire that tries to surprise the girls. Buffy was not surprised.
• Spike is still being held at Giles’ place. He’s holding back on giving out info on the Initiative because he figures they’ll kill him once he talks.
• Willow stops by Oz’s place again. Not sure why she’s doing this to herself.
• Because this time, his room is empty. His stuff is gone.
• Now Willow is pretty much distraught.
• She interrupts Buffy and Riley’s picnic date. Riley, spotting her misery invites her to sit. Little awkward…
• Later, at The Bronze, Willow seems to be having a blast out on the dance floor.
• Turns out, she’s slightly drunk.
• She doesn’t like feeling this pain. Waiting for time to heal these wounds isn’t good enough for her.
• So she does what any amateur witch would do. She turns to the magic.
• She does some kind of spell that should give her whatever she wants. And it seems to work, judging by the pyrotechnics.
• But when she tries to “will” that her heart be healed, she doesn’t feel better.
• Giles drops by because he’s concerned about Willow. But it turns more into a lecture about responsibility in the face of her grief.
• Willow definitely doesn’t take it well. She tells Giles that he doesn’t see anything and her eyes do a funny flashy thing.
• Suddenly Giles’ vision is blurry.
• Spike manages to break out and escapes Giles’ place.
• Back at the dorm, Willow mentions that Amy (in rat form) was a perfectly normal girl… and she turns back into a perfectly normal girl… for all of a second.
• Because then Willow says, “…then she’s a rat.” And Amy’s a rat again.
• Buffy goes to find Spike. And Willow says she’ll probably find him in two seconds. And then she does!
• Willow goes to Xander to complain some more. Sarcastically, she asks why Buffy doesn’t just marry Spike.
• And then Spike proposes. And Buffy says yes.
• What will Riley think?
• What will Angel think?!
• Willow continues her little rant by telling Xander he’s a demon magnet. That won’t help matters.
• Buffy asks Giles to give her away. He’d be touched if he weren’t so disgusted.
• Now Giles is completely blind. Spike is actually being helpful by looking into a spell that can reverse whatever has made Giles blind.
• Buffy gets supplies from the magic shop and stops to look at wedding gowns.
• Riley sees her looking at the dresses. So she breaks the news to him that she’s getting married.
• To say it takes him by surprise is an understatement.
• After Willow leaves Xander’s, he’s hanging out with Anya when they’re suddenly attacked by multiple demons. Because he’s a demon magnet.
• Xander and Anya make their way to Giles and they figure out that Willow’s spell to make her will reality actually worked.
• Willow makes her way back to her room by herself. Once inside, she’s attacked by a demon.
• We’ve seen this demon before. His name is D’hoffryn. Back when Anya was a vengeance demon, he was pretty much her supervisor.
• He’s offering Willow a job.
• When D’hoffryn shows Willow how her spell has affected everything, she asks to be sent back. She turns down the offer to be a demon.
• D’hoffryn is disappointed. But he seems to be okay with her decision.
• Willow is sent back and breaks her spell. Everything goes back to normal.
• Buffy and Spike are disgusted with themselves.
• To clear the air with Riley, Buffy makes up something about the need to fake him out when he saw her looking at dresses.
• Body count: Vampires – 1