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(This is a  Glory quote allusion from Season 5 when 
she was lecturing captive Dawn).
http://gloryisagod.com/99weightofworld.html

GLORY: Funny. 'Cause I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of ... and all I see is six billion lunatics looking  for the fastest ride out. (smiles) Who's not crazy? Look around. Everyone's drinking, smoking, shooting up ... shooting each other, or just plain screwing their brains out 'cause they don't want 'em anymore. (looks at Dawn) I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind. (sighs) 'Cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts. 

Instead we all get this as a reward for 7 years
of involvement:

FROM:
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140. 7-18 7ABB18 15-Apr-2003   Dirty Girls
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Episode Number 140 
First Aired April 15, 2003 
Production Code 7ABB18 
Writer Drew Goddard

Director Michael Gershman

Guest Stars: Eliza Dushku (as Faith) Clara Bryant (as Molly) Indigo (as Rona) Iyari Limon (as Kennedy) Anthony Stewart Head (as Rupert Giles) Kristy Wu (as Chao Ahn) Tom Lenk (as Andrew) DB Woodside (as Principal Robin Wood) Nathan Fillion (as Caleb)

 As they drive into town, Willow and Faith find themselves behind a truck. A young girl is thrown out with a deep wound 
and the truck drives off. The girl is unconcious so they take her to the hospital and report to Buffy. Faith's arrival brings a lot of tension to Buffy's house. All the potentials ask questions, but Faith is only interested in talking with Buffy. They clear the air and then receive a phone call from the hospital. The girl is called Shannon, she tells Buffy about a young preacher that saved her from bringers. He then called her dirty, branded her with his ring and stabbed her. Willow takes a photo of the mark from the ring. Shannon mentions the man's message; that he has something that belongs to Buffy. 

The gang discover that 'Caleb' is dwelling at a nearby vineyard with his bringers. They set out (against Giles' advice) to 
confront him, but upon arrival Faith gets knocked out in one punch. Caleb kills Molly and breaks Rona's arm, then approaches Xander. He says Xander is 'the one who sees things', then stabs his finger into his eye socket. Spike knocks Caleb away, giving Buffy a chance to rescue Xander. Admitting defeat, Buffy and what's left of the gang escape. 

This marks the return of Faith since 4x16 'Who Are You?' 
We learn that Caleb is responsible for the explosion at the Watcher's HQ. He is also the one controlling the bringers. 
Molly dies. 
Principal Wood fires Buffy from her job.

Although this is the first time that Faith has been back on Buffy since Season 4, she has appeared on six episodes of Angel since then. The episodes are Five By Five, Sanctuary, Judgement, and more recently, Salvage, Release, and Orpheus. 

Nathan Fillion recently played the starring role in Firefly, also by Joss Whedon. And on Angel, the actress who played the Firefly's first officer is Jasmine, the season's final villain. I 
guess Joss felt bad about their show being cancelled. 

141. 7-19 7ABB19 29-Apr-2003   Empty Spaces 
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Episode Number 141 
First Aired April 29, 2003 
Production Code 7ABB19 
Writer Drew Z. Greenberg 

Guest Stars: Kristy Wu (as Chao Ahn) Sarah Hagan (as Amanda) Eliza Dushku (as Faith) Iyari Limon (as Kennedy) Anthony Stewart Head (as Rupert Giles) Tom Lenk (as Andrew) Nathan Fillion (as Caleb) DB Woodside (as Principal Robin Wood) Indigo (as Rona) 

Xander is now blind in one eye. Everyone is upset including Buffy, who is taking all the guilt. She pays a visit to the 'now closed' school, where she is approached by Caleb. He knocks her out. Faith takes the potential Slayers to the Bronze, but their fun is stopped short when some assassins in police uniforms arrive. When Buffy discovers where Faith and the Potentials have been, she shouts at her. She tells them they need to listen to her orders. At this, a big arguement heats up concerning Buffy's recent decision. Buffy reminds them all that she is the Slayer, so they will listen to her. They tell her that Faith is also the Slayer, so from now on they are siding with her. They tell her she can either obey Faith's orders, or leave. Meanwhile, Spike and Andrew look into an abandoned missionary and discover a plaque which reads; 'it is not for thee, it is for her.'

 It seems as though the First is trying to isolate Buffy from her friends. Buffy is clearly stronger with her friends, but the First didn't originally notice this. Spike told Adam the same thing in Season 4. 

142. 7-20 7ABB20 06-May-2003   Touched 
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Episode Number 142 
First Aired May 6, 2003 
Production Code 7ABB20 
Writer Rebecca Rand Kirshner 

Guest Stars: Eliza Dushku (as Faith) Iyari Limon (as Kennedy) Anthony Stewart Head (as Rupert Giles) Tom Lenk (as Andrew) Nathan Fillion (as Caleb) DB Woodside (as Principal Robin Wood) Indigo (as Rona) Harry Groener (as Mayor Richard Wilkins III) Sarah Hagan (as Amanda) Kristy Wu (as Chao Ahn) Felicia Day (as Vi) 

After being kicked out of her house, Buffy walks alone until she finds another one. She breaks in and tells the previous owner to leave. Meanwhile Spike and Andrew return with news about the vineyard, but when Spike finds out what happened he hits Faith and leaves, trying to pick up Buffy's scent. The First pays Faith a visit in the form of the Mayor, but she isn't fooled. It tells her that love is the biggest power, and that she fought against Buffy while secretly wanting to be accepted. Robin finds Faith and the two share a moment, which leads to them having sex. 

When Spike finds Buffy, they talk about her being rejected. She says that everytime she makes a decision, someone dies and that maybe Faith is best in charge. She tells him to leave, but he refuses, telling her what he knows about the vineyard and that he loves her. She tells him she just wants to be held, so they fall asleep in each other's arms. 

The next morning, Buffy pays Caleb a visit. He tries to hit her time and time again, but still misses. The two fight for a while and Buffy asks him what he has that belongs to her. Meanwhile, Faith and the Poentials go in the sewers searching for an arsenal. When they find it, they also find Bringers. They take them on and defeat them, but Faith asks why there isn't many weapons around, until she discovers a bomb. Buffy finds a trap door which leads to a powerful weapon, lodged in a rock. 
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Gloriana says:
[i.e., the scythe, the analog to the troll hammer she used against Glory in Season-5. Some things never change...when you've trapped yourself with another unkillable foe script, look for the deus ex machina, or just annoint Willow with a new power/spell...
-Gloriana]
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The Season Finale of Angel airs this week, which will leave Angel free to return to Sunnydale for next week's two-part Series Finale.

143. 7-21 7ABB21 13-May-2003   End Of Days (1) 
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Episode Number 143 
First Aired May 13, 2003 
Production Code 7ABB21 
Writer Jane Espenson and Douglas Petrie

Director Marita Grabiak 

Guest Stars: Sarah Hagan (as Amanda) Kristy Wu (as Chao Ahn) Eliza Dushku (as Faith) Iyari Limon (as Kennedy) Anthony Stewart Head (as Rupert Giles) Tom Lenk (as Andrew) DB Woodside (as Principal Robin Wood) Nathan Fillion (as Caleb) David Boreanaz (as Angel) Indigo (as Rona) Felicia Day (as Vi) 

As Buffy gets her hands on the scythe, she finds that she is able to kill three Turok-Han with ease. However Caleb is becoming jealous, but feels less worried once the First decides to merge with him making him more powerful than ever. Meanwhile, Faith and the potentials get caught up in an explosion, leaving many dead and Faith unconcious. After giving Buffy his word, Xander leaves Sunnydale with Dawn, against her will. Buffy and Spike are feeling awkward regarding the recent events, so she sets out for information on the scythe. 

She finds a tomb where she runs into an old woman. She tells Buffy how the scythe was created to destroy the last pure demon, but it was made in secret and hidden from the shadow men. Caleb arrives and snaps the woman's neck. He and Buffy wrestle control over the scythe until he gets the upper hand. As he is about to strike, Angel knocks him down, leaving the scythe in Buffy's hands. She guts Caleb and leaves him for dead, before passionately kissing Angel. Spike watches them from nearby with a broken heart, as the First approaches him in the form of Buffy. 

Angel returns for the first time since Joyce's funeral in season 5. 
 

144. 7-22 7ABB22 20-May-2003   Chosen (2)
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Episode Number 144 
First Aired May 20, 2003 
Production Code 7ABB22 
Writer Joss Whedon

Director Joss Whedon 

Guest Stars: Eliza Dushku (as Faith) David Boreanaz (as Angel) Tom Lenk (as Andrew) Anthony Stewart Head (as Rupert Giles) Iyari Limon (as Kennedy) DB Woodside (as Principal Robin Wood) Nathan Fillion (as Caleb) Indigo (as Rona) Sarah Hagan (as Amanda) Kristy Wu (as Chao Ahn) Felicia Day (as Vi) 

Someone sacrifices their life to save Andrew. Spike will leave town. 

The last ever episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 

Now go to the Palace on Glory's World and see what really
happened after May 22, 2001. And is still happening:
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What Was & is in the Narrative Works:
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Where Glory  is:
  "...a legend walking among them..."

Excerpt from "Time of Transition, Part 2"
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...
Looking up at Glory, she saw a broad smile. 
Glory winked. 
Clare made her pixie-face back at her. 

Clare and Glory had long ago secretly agreed on what their roles were. 

Once critical of all the bestowals that were occurring, Glory had grown to anticipate returning to the palace to meet them and discover what they were doing. 

Especially what Clare had been doing. 

They were an ever-growing family that treated Glorificus as a legend walking among them. Glory was immensely flattered by the respect shown her. 

Whereas Clare was just the one of them that happened to be a Mom, the Queen and pretty down-to-earth in her manner, at least most of the time. Besides she'd been human, but Glory was never really not a god of some sorts. 

They  frequently forgot that Clare was demonstrably far more powerful than Glorificus in many ways. Besides being much more practical. A product of  having been raised to the age of 27 as human, before assuming godhood. 

Beyond her two bestowals on Buffy, Glory had not made a single supergirl or god since then. Except for tweaking Tess in Roswell long ago, and tweaking Buffy-Anne. 
...
Now go to the Palace on Glory's World and see what really
happened after May 22, 2001. And is still happening:

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2. The Sunnydale Sagas 
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3. The Three Days Sagas 
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100% on-line 2001 
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4. The L.A.  Sagas 
 (From L.A. to  Destinies Unbound)
On-line 2001-2002
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5. The Greater Glory Sagas 
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On-line 2002-2003
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Dawn discovers she is a Slayer Candidate

As the Scoobies research the orgins of 'The First' to find a way to rescue Spike, Giles   arrives with reinforcements; three Slayers In Training. 

Meanwhile, Joyce offers Buffy  some advice in one of her dreams.

Buffy is nearly killed by the Ubervamp.
 

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 Guest Stars: Cynthia Lamontagne (as Lydia) Danny Strong (as Jonathan)  Kris Iyer (as Watcher) Harris Yulin (as Quentin Travers) Tom Lenk (as Andrew) Oliver Muirhead (as Phillip) DB Woodside (as Prinicipal Robin Wood) Adam Busch (as Warren Meers) Kris Iyer (as Nigel) 

Lots of  action. Buffy holds Spike 'captive' for questioning.
He talks to the First Evil, but Buffy cannot see it. Xander & Anya 
do a Good Cop/Bad Cop on Jonathan. 

Spike grabs Jonathan thru the wall. Biting him slightly. 
Buffy chains Spike in the basement.

Then a gang of the hooded Bringers/Harbingers invade
the home. There's a lot of fighting, including Dawn taking care
of business with a some great Slayer-style karate moves.
She gets hoodwinked by one Bringer playing possum and 
has to be rescued at the last minute.

Spike is taken away by the Bringers.

Buffy recognizes the Bringers as the First Evil's harbingers.
She calls the Council, which is in full battle planning since the death of a watcher & another slayer in training (SIT).
Quentin puts Buffy off. Then the Watcher's building apparently
explodes. 

The Ubervamp (Nosferatu) rises from the sealed hole with Spike's tortured blood.

All in all, a great episode setting up the next one.

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The First Evil has come to Sunnydale, and it looks 
like it's here to stay. 

This creature has the ability morph into anyone or 
anything, and it's not shy about showing it. There are  two 
Buffy's & 2 Spikes.

It seems to be playing with what's left of Spikes mind 
and its also confusing the rest of the scoobies. 

Jonathan and Andrew are back and they are up to no good.

Spike is seen feeding off humans again

Aimee Mann  performed her song 'Pavlov's Bells' in 
The Bronze.

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This "Beast"
is not Glory

When Cordelia's apocalyptic nightmares become a reality, Angel, Wesley, Gunn and Lorne find themselves powerless against The Beast who has risen from the center of the Earth, bringing earthquakes and fire storms to Los Angeles
.
Bloodied and beaten, Angel and his friends realize that they may not be able to stop the impending doom.

This is obviously related to the Buffy episode 2 days later
where the morphing First Evil appears. But is the Beast
actually the First Evil. (Apparently not. And they can't defeat it

Glory was The Beast in Buffy Season-5, but not this time.
 

Spike has started killing again, but doesn't remember it.

The Duo returns. Jonathan kills Andrew as a sacrifice per Warren's (First Evil's) instructions 

Dawn talks to her mother after a knock-down, drag-out magic battle with the First Evil, who may be posing as her mother. 
She says  Buffy will abandon her in the end. 

Buffy fights a vamp who psychoanalyzes her. 

The First Evil appears to Willow as "Cassie" ansd tries to get 
her to suicide to join Tara. It morphs out when she declines.

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When Lorne performs a spell on Cordelia to restore her memory, it inadvertently causes the gang to revert back to their high school personas and leaves them with no memories of each other. 

Eventually, they discover that the only way to reverse the spell is to kill a vampire, just as Angel realizes that he is one.

Dawn Gets Physical.

This episode was a great and fun filler before the progressing of the Theme begins in earnest in the next episodes:
7-7 "Conversations With Dead People" 
7-8 "Sleeper" 

Plus the apparent plot linkage with Angel after their comparable fun filler episode Sunday:
4-6 "Spin The Bottle" 
4-7 "Apocalypse, Nowish" 

It was fun watching Dawn transformed into a love-sick puppy who pushed the not-aware jacket guy's rival down the stairs without a qualm or conscience. 

Plus gets into a catfight (Buffy's word) with a similar lovesick rival.

Dawn initially tries out her pathetic cheerleader routine,
falling down in the process of her attempt to impress him.

Dawn pursues the guy with some provocative dancing. 

Willow, Buffy & Xander identify the girl as a slut, until she turns around and the slut is Dawn.

Buffy is livid. Dawn is flippant and defiant.

Then Buffy falls under the spell. The transition from counselor
to love-puppy was clever and well done,

This was hilarous as the two tried to convince one another that the apparent spell was only on the other and that they themselves were in love.

Interesting that Spike was the one who quickly identified the jacket as the source of the spell at the brother's home, looking at the pictures. (More on that later.)

Just when it seems nothing can get worse, Willow and Anya fall under the spell. Watching them decide how to show their love the most was delicious. 

Anya sets off to steal.
Willow to turn him into a girl (Anya's regretted suggestion).
Buffy to slay the principal (with a bazooka).

Precious was Dawn's collapse against the wall when 
she realized she had no skill to show her love.

Resigned, she mopes out and lays on the railroad 
track to commit suicide to leave a memory of her 
undying love.

All this was extremely well done and sequenced, even 
with a 4-way split screen once. 

Watching Buffy prepare to cheerfully overkill the 
principal thru the window, as he works at his desk,
was masterful. Buffy prepares to fire, Spike stops her, 
and she is visible chasing after him to get the bazooka 
back. 

None of which the principal sees. 
But we do.

Buffy rescues Dawn, who is on the wrong track from the 
first train anyway. But not the second.

The denoument after Xander & Spike steal the jacket and 
burn it was clever too. Dawn & Buffy ruminating about 
spells making no one responsible for their actions.

Anya never admits that the newscast about the thief
in black in Sunnydale was about her out to prove 
her love by stealing. (We assume she keeps the loot?).

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Now back to the underlying issue.
Love spells.

Early on Dawn taunts Buffy about her relationship
with Spike. Buffy says it's not love.

In  an earlier season, Willow bespelled everyone and Buffy 
was in the process of marrying Spike.

Later, in Season 6, Buffy was Spike's sex-slave for much 
of the season.

That makes 3 obvious episodes where Buffy's actions were
the same. The first & third were love spells. 

In both cases those affected were unable to admit they 
were bespelled. 

The second (Season-6 Spike-Buffy) has all the signatures of
a more insidious sex-slave spell by D'Hoffryn. 

This was hinted at when she appeared in the house they 
were trapped in and called Spike "William" and told Anya 
she'd moved beyond just helping women with vengeance spells.

If it walks like a duck & quacks like a duck, must be
three instances of similar spells. 

The bringing up of the Spike-Buffy affair in the context of 
Dawn's love spell, then ending the episode with Buffy 
saying Dawn bore no blame because it was only a spell,
sort of puts a cap on it.

The quick finding by Spike that the jacket was the source 
of the love spell points toward him being the requestor, 
as hinted at, of the D'Hoffryn sex-slave spell. 

Interesting, because the writers keep coming back to this 
well, circling it and pitching pennies into it. This time
they drew a bucket from the well and poured it out for us to
ponder. 

A superb episode with an underlying issue surfaced and 
explained obliquely.

Fred pays a visit to her old professor, and discovers that he was responsible for her being sucked into Pylea. 

A portal monster tries to grab her as she's speaking.

Meanwhile Angel visits a comic book store to try and find out about some of Fred's missing classmates, and discovers that he is very popular in online chatrooms.

Lilah is somehow peripherally involved.

This was boring and pointless.
Only Cordy's presence eased our embarrassment.

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Dawn is trained by Buffy in Slayage.

Glory returns 
briefly to deliver
her "torn off lips"
speech.
(Glory-1)
 

see 9/24/02 entry below

Glory returns briefly to deliver her "torn off lips" speech: 

GLORY:"...more than blood. I'm... you know, 
I honestly don't think there's a human word
fabulous enough for me. Oh, my name will be 
on everyone's lips, assuming their lips 
haven't been torn off. But not just yet. 
|That's alright, though..." 
 

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see 9/24/02 entry below

Cordelia returns, but she has no memory of who she is or that Angel is a vampire.

After rescuing Cordelia from a demon, Connor takes on the role of her protector and Lorne reads Cordelia's future to help restore her memory but sees an approaching apocalypse involving Angel.

Lilah dupes Wesley again. But he seems to like it.
She gets her demon to suck Lorne's destiny vision (from 
Cordy singing) out of Lorne's brain.
 

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Minimal Dawn content.

Anya grants a young woman's wish, but the violent 
act of vengeance leaves Anya completely guilt-ridden. 
Her agent of vengeange is a big spider demon that Buffy 
slays easily in the woods behind the frat house.

Flashbacks to Anya's past include: Anya's ex-boyfriend 
troll Olaf (seen in season 5's 'Triangle') and the origin of Anya's bunny fear. 

Anya sings in a fantasy sequence about her prior idyllic
life with Xander.

Willow gets D'Hoffryn to intervene.

Buffy and Anya have another fight, after the gang finds
out about her destructive wish granting. Buffy plumges a sword into her chest, but Anya pulls it out complaining 
she forgot how much swords in the chest hurt.

D'Hoffryn appears and after some one-liners, accepts
Anya's offer to leave the demon business, knowing she will die. Instead, D'Hoffryn kills Halfrek as a lesson to Anya
before her powers are stripped. She and Xander have some
uncomfortable moments in front of Buffy's house.

D'Hoffryn mumbles another 'From Beneath, It Devours' 
variation to remind all of the Theme before he leaves.

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Angel, Fred and Gunn take a road trip to Las Vegas to enlist Lorne's help in finding Cordelia, but get caught up in a supernatural—and literal—"futures" trading scheme. 

A ruthless casino owner holds Lorne hostage, exploiting the popular entertainer's psychic abilities to steal unsuspecting patrons' destinies. 

It is Angel's future, however, that is the most interesting.

Or not. A boring episode. We watched "Charmed" instead and zipped our way thru this debacle.

Cordy finally returns at the end, memoryless.

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Minimal Dawn content.

Buffy is settling in to her role at the high school helping 
Minimal Dawn content. troubled teens and sorting out problems, but is left puzzled when Cassie, a student, comes to her and calmly tells her that she knows has only a week to live.

Spuike is tali-king to the Theme vision-Buffy when 
Buffy finds him in the basement. She can't see this
"It's about Power" Theme vision-Buffy.

Suspecting the girl is suicidal, Buffy investigates and discovers a cult of students playing with dark forces and comes to believe Cassie is psychic. She and Spike fight
the demon.

Cassie makes a couple of predictions before she keels 
over dead. One to Spiike & one to Buffy: -She'll tell you 
and you'll make a difference.
"Her" web site is:
http://www.geocities.com/newcassie/

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Another goddess,
not Glory. 
Spidery.

When Wesley advises Angel to visit Dinza, a dark spidery "goddess of the lost" who has valuable information on how to find Cordelia, he learns that a certain mystical antiquity called the axis of Pythia that can locate souls across dimensions. 

Angel, Fred and Gunn break into an auction house to retrieve 
the axis, only to discover that an electrifying cat burglar has the same intentions.

This is 'Electro-Girl' Gwen, some of whose childhood as a deadly-to-touch girl is show.

She and Angel spar, her kiss kick-starts his heart. Both are
trapped and gassed, but escape to stomp the baddies.
Gwen wanders off after finding it was all for Cordelia.

A bored Cordelia looks down and can do nothing to escape
her elevated status. Her apartment's being packed up 
and moved.

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Buffy, Xander and Dawn are unable to find Willow, whose return to Sunnydale is marred by a demon who relishes the skin of his victims. Meanwhile Anya pays the price for undoing the curse on Ronnie (the giant worm demon) and is restricted to only being able to teleport for Vengeance jobs

Dawn is officially a member of the Scooby Gang..

Dawn is quick to state her position that Willow may not be trustworthy. Even though Buffy initially seems ready 
to marshmallow Willow, as she usually does.

Dawn is a working member of the gang and their on-line researcher.

She's not put off by the gory details of the skin-eater, but 
seems to relish the reaction of the other 2 members of this        decimated Scooby gang. 

More a trio now.

She quickly reaches the same conclusion  as Buffy - that "insane-o" Spike still  makes a good bloodhound.

Her clever remarks as they walk thru the  woods are funny 
and ambitious.

Her battle tactics seem a bit hesitant against something 
she can't see at first.  But she's using either the same or probably  a shorter version of the sword she used in 
 "Grave". 

Maybe like the one Buffy used in "Lessons". Certainly the 
neck is an easier target than the heart.

When she's scratched by the demon, she doesn't
panic, simply reminds everyone that it's poison.

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The whole sequence of "comically paralyzed Dawn"
is carried off well. From her barely recognizable
complaints about 'watching her head', 'face up' and 
'vomit', she was indeed comical.

Especially as Anya decided Dawn was posable.

And finally falling over stiffly as the demon was 
'thumbed to death' by Buffy. 

Though we were treated to a lengthy "Buffy marshmallows Injured Willow" bed scene,  we never see anything about 
fixing up Dawn's big scratch on her belly.

All-in-all, a rather cleverly done episode with great light 
humor moments and a really gross demon. Plus great Anya-Willow retorts and interfacing.

Part of the purpose was to generate sympathy  for Willow. 

One has to remember that Willow did it to herself, as she 
said. 

Go Dawn! 

Wesley rescues 
Angel.

With Angel trapped on the ocean floor and Cordelia stuck
on a mystical plane, Fred and Gunn are frustrated at the 
lack of  clues regarding their friends' whereabouts.

Wesley has another encounter with Lilah. He has 
Justine tied up in his closet and they rescue Angel.
Wes lets Angel feed on him

Lilah beheads her boss and takes over in his place.

(in work)
 

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Dawn makes a 
death threat.

Another Glory
worm knockoff.

Soon after, Buffy reports for her first day as Sunnydale High's student liaison, Xander introduces her to a  woman whose 
dog was eaten by the "Tremors"-like  worm. 

Dawn delivers a nearly incomprehensible one-liner as 
Xander is talking to the surprisingly composed dog-owner.
Dawn says to Xander, gesturing, "Wipe the drool off ..."

Buffy volunteers to find the creature, and Spike, who's being tormented by the theme forces, shows up to offer his 
assistance. Buffy only watches as the deranged Spike fries 
a bit on a cross he embraces.

Anya made the worm and she fights Buffy, then Spike, briefly.
Anya sees that Spike has a soul. 

Willow, meanwhile, prepares to return home, wondering 
how she'll be received after her Glory-imitation of trying to destroy the world for no real reason at all.

Dawn delivers a death threat to Spike if he harms or
touches Buffy.

Quotes:
Dawn: You guys really need to ease up with the whole dating demons thing. 
Buffy: Hello, I'm sorry, wasn't that you having these smooch-o-thons with a teen vampire last Halloween? 
Dawn: See, this is why I don't want you talking to my friends

Dawn's Death Threat to Spike
Dawn: Spike? 
*Spike looks at her*
Dawn: You sleep, right? You, vampires, ... you sleep?
Spike: Yeah ... what's your point? 
Dawn: Well I can't take you in a fight or anything ...
but you do sleep. If you hurt my sister at all ...
touch her ... you gonna wake up on fire.

Slayers of the SIT (Slayers-in-Training)-
The Slayers of the SIT wear military-style boots
and pants. They are Initiative/Knights of Byzantium-like
types using Middle Eastern jambiyah daggers.

-Hired by a rogue Council?
-Hired by Doc, fellow worshipers of Glory?
-Followers of the true neutral entity helping Buffy? 
-Followers of the true evil entity destined to slay
 the SIT and Buffy, but to overlook the off-Slayer
 line of Dawn the Last Slayer?

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DTLS SAYS: 
"Dawn's death threat to Spike. Deja vu all over again."

Ed- She means, as we've pointed out, that Dawn made
a similar threat to slay Spike back in 
"Three Days in  Sunnydale, Part 2" 
(online summer 2001) 
For similar reasons:

http://gloryisagod.com/threedaysinsunnydale2.html
"Yes, I was a sex slave, a prostitute, a whore...and 
inside, just a little girl..."

Dawn gasped in sheer horror at this latest revelation of Buffy-Anne's. It was at this moment she decided that, 
when the time was right, she was going to slay Spike. 

That time was surprisingly near, though she couldn't 
know it at the moment. 

Ed- Buffy-Anne is the real supergirl who was extracted 
from the Bot by the Roswell Tess. While Isabel was strangling Spike on principle. She looks like a teen Buffy. 

And has a charming encounter with Dawn in the park & 
in Dawn & Curupira's Glory Hall apartment.

The quote above comes from the apartment portion,
which is mildly intimate.

Buffy-Anne is later adopted by Glory (Glorificus) and 
becomes her primary alien super-magic technology 
expert. She's a key supergirl in "Blood Road" ,when the 
first starship is stormed through the portal. Her devotion
to Glory, Dawn & Tess is legendary. 

She turns in Dawn & Tess in "Last Portal to Roswell"
when she discovers they used a backfiring, flawed
"Energizer Bunny" sex spell on Kyle & Pat. 

Alarmed  by the implications of their loss of will to males, 
(reminding her of her sex-slave stint in the Bot), she persuades new mom Clare to assert her non-existent authority to put Dawn and Tess on trial in the 4 parts 
subtitled "Pandora's Box".

It is this trial that forges the nucleus of the "New Pantheon",
with Clare as the unlikely leader. In "Our Story" she is 
elected Queen, after de-limiting the re-creatrix god Holly.

Dawn is trained by Buffy in Slayage.

Glory returns 
briefly to deliver
her "torn off lips"
speech.

(Glory-1)
Glory returns briefly to deliver her "torn off lips" speech: 

GLORY:"...more than
 blood. I'm... you know, I 
 honestly don't think there's a 
 human word fabulous 
 enough for me. Oh, my 
 name will be on everyone's
 lips, assuming their lips 
 haven't been torn off. But 
 not just yet. 
 That's alright, though..." 

(Note- Clare and several others were actually listed
in the credits as CO-STARS.

Dawn starts school at the rebuilt Sunnydale High. Buffy becomes some sort of school liaison. Dawn starts 
Slayage training with Buffy. 

A Slayer-in-Training (SIT) is murdered in Istanbul
by monk-hooded garish humans(?). Willow moons 
over her lack of punishment in England and says something
bad is coming out of the earth/hellmouth. (Now under the new principal's office in newly rebuilt Sunnydale High).

Dawn and Buffy debate who has the power, and 
whether Dawn was a little girl or  a little woman - "I'm taller 
than you," Dawn points out as a vampire gets 
stuck trying to get out of its grave. Dawn almost slays him, 
but misses the heart. Buffy saves her, but says 
she missed the heart first time, too.

(Actually Dawn slayed her first vampire last year in "All the Way" with zero help from Buffy). Dawn appears to have kept this a 
secret from Buffy.)

Q. Is Dawn actually pretending to be a slow learner
just to get time with Buffy?

Most of the episode is Dawn, Dawn, Dawn. Dawn 
in typical high school stuff. Then the weird things happen. She and 2 others are trapped in the basement after past dead things attack her and the others. 

It starts with Buffy in the girls bathroom, then Dawn and
Kit. Finally they & Dawn are captured in the basement. She calls Buffy on her new cell phone.  Dawn rigs a weapon of bricks in a purse and attacks the dead things with some 
gusto. And gets into trouble.

Buffy arrives and fights. Then she encounters a deranged Spike. Xander destroys  the talisman someone used to get
the dead things there.

(Clare Kramer was on the staff of her Delaware,
Ohio HS school newspaper, called "The Talisman").

Glory (Clare Kramer) returns briefly in the start of the 
"Theme" for this season, near the end of the episode.

She's either real , or a part of a Spike morphing vision 
of past Big Bads/Little Bads. Except the last one is 
Buffy. Glory talks of her name being on all lips, if they even
have lips after they're torn off. The Master says things will happen in the next few months...involving something before
the Word & before the Bang.

The visionary Buffy says it's all about power.

SPECULATION: The coming evil is the creator 
of the universe herself. In the Works this is 
Holly, the be-deviler of even Glory. She's called
the "re-creatix of the local universe". And is
always threatening to exit her creation and 
restart it.   (continued next column---->)

Other( Dawn Learns Slayage, or does she?)- A++
Other(Glory is real, or is she?) -A++
Other(Is there an evil before the creation?) -A+
Other(Dawn & Buffy Cell phones) -A
Other(Buffy keeps being called Dawn's Mom) -A++
Other(Buffy acts like  Dawn's Mom) -A++
Other(Slayer in training killed) -A
Other(Spike is deranged)-A
Other(Willow is confused and unpunished)-C

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(continued)
PURPOSE: Return to real episodes to get survival 
ratings and develop a basis to transition to a
Buffyless Season-8 with Dawn a Slayer. Also to 
play games with the fans about the opening and 
the ending meanings for the future.

DAWN TRAINS AS A SLAYER: Finally!  But she has already killed a vampire, yet she pretends to be a 
slow learner?

PUNISHING WILLOW: Glory 'died' for almost the same thing. Willow should 'die'? 
Prediction- she will get marshmellowed, not 
smothered. And cause even more problems later. 
Like Faith, she is incapable of  recrossing the 
threshold to her old self.
DTLS SAYS: 
"Welcome back, Glory. Go, Dawn the Last Slayer."

She's commenting about the improbable return of  Glory
and Dawn, as noted in the DTLS Works of summer 2001
and later.

"What can we say? Deja vu from the oldest DTLS Works 
online since Summer 2001."

She's commenting about the cell phone usage by Dawn 
and the oddity of the bathroom scenes. 

Curupira, Dawn's slaying buddy, used her cell phone that
she kept in the space between her boobs, since her tight 
green costume has no pockets.

The bathroom stall scenes were reminiscent of the action that takes place in the R.B. Hayes HS bathroom  in 
"Sisters & Slayers". This work is stated to be  a 
contra-cast dark docu-comedy based on the real 
god-Killer Twins of  "Blood Road" & later.

All in the DTLS Works:
http://www.gloryisagod.com/worksdawn.html

ALSO SEE: 
Dawn & Michelle, etc.,  in the recently completed
Season 7/8  possibly predictive "Parable of the Time 
of Transition":
http://www.gloryisagod.com/timeoftransition.html