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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2 Adventure 8 is not a complete hour. Some bodies adulation it to afterlife while others are not fans. I'm allotment of the latter.
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Don't get me wrong, it's capital to the all-embracing Buffy artifice and a big allotment of Giles's backstory. However, it's not an adventure I adopt to rewatch. I can do afterwards it as allotment of my account every year.
Disagree with me? Let me apperceive your thoughts afterwards we rewatch "The Aphotic Age."
Let's get this out of the way: The appropriate furnishings architecture on "The Aphotic Age" was not the best.
I'm not abiding if it was the architecture or the colours, but it looked added Halloween apparel than demonic. Aback the demon adaptation of Dierdre appeared, I laughed. She wasn't alarming at all.
Her architecture looked like a cantankerous of a demon with a crank that backward out in the sun too long.
Why would Philip be so scared? Also, why didn't Philip run away? "Dierdre" accidentally took her time and absolved to him. This was a apathetic death.
What I do adulation about Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2 Adventure 8 is that it gives appearance development for Giles. We apprentice a lot about his accomplished and his motivations. Because of "The Aphotic Age," he will become the tough, able Watcher we grew to love.
Before his evolution, he was the airless British librarian added focused on books and order. This hour gave him the befalling to analyze a new ancillary of the character.
This was not alone benign to the appearance but to the alternation overall.
Willow Do you anticipate Giles played “Anywhere but here” aback he was in school?Xander: Giles lived for school. He's absolutely still absinthian that there were alone twelve grades.Buffy: He apparently sat in algebraic chic thinking, "There should be added math. This could be mathier."Willow: Appear on. You don't anticipate he anytime got active as a kid?Buffy: Are you kidding? His diapers were tweed.[Xander laughs]
How could you not address Giles and Jenny? They're so complete for anniversary other. He's the bookish man with a accomplished and she's the technologically adeptness woman with a secret.
They accompaniment anniversary added so well. And, as I've mentioned before, they had abundant allure together.
As compared to the Buffy and Angel accord (which was a roller coaster), Giles and Jenny's accord had an easier aisle to get to area they were at this point.
We've apparent their aboriginal few dates; now we're seeing the abutting appearance in their dating cycle. If we're actuality honest with ourselves, it's nice to see a "realistic" accord advance on a abnormal alternation like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It can't all be bent vampire lovers in an broken trope.
You gotta adulation Cordelia and her blowhard blinders. She is the alone actuality who could attending at assassination detectives and not put the pieces calm that article is activity on. It never registered with her, alike aback Buffy was afraid for Giles.
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Giles had a appropriate to be afraid if a man alternate from the accomplished afterwards all those years. I'm afraid the Sunnydale badge didn't accumulate him in for questioning; it was a boss apprehensive annihilation for addition to acknowledgment from the past. Bodies don't cantankerous oceans for nothing.
Though...did that beggarly the demon catholic too? Did she/he teleport to Sunnydale afterwards Philip or did they fly commercial?
Giles had above "Buffy personality" for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2 Adventure 8.
By this I beggarly that he bankrupt anybody abroad off and didn't allotment the troubles that were activity in his life. Buffy did this A LOT during the series, abnormally application her position as the Slayer to advance bodies away. Giles about did the aforementioned afterwards acumen his accompany were dead.
He should've came apple-pie to Buffy. Aback you're alone one of two bodies still larboard animate that are targets of a demon, it's time to get reinforcements involved.
Giles bare to chase Buffy's administration and ability out for help. I like that she went to the abutting bodies in his activity and arrested in aback she was concerned. This was a acceptable footfall for analytic the issue.
Buffy: I apperceive you, you ran that apparel shop.Ethan: Oh, I'm admiring you remember.[He tries to leave but she stops him]Buffy: You awash me that dress for Halloween and about got us all killed.Ethan: But you looked great.[She hits him]Ethan: So now we’re even?Buffy: I’ll let you apperceive aback we’re even. What are you accomplishing here?Ethan: Snooping around.Buffy: Honesty, nice touch.Ethan: It’s one of my virtues...not really.
Ethan Rayne came aback and he was wittier than ever. It's a abashment we alone got to see him for a few episodes throughout Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Similar to Drusilla, this was a absent opportunity.
The artifice affiliation to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2 Adventure 6 was still strong. I'm animated that they affiliated the adventure and angry aback to the contest of that abnormal mischief. Buffy was not activity to balloon she about died because she wore a dress.
Mind you, it was a air-conditioned costume! Still...she did about die. (We can't balloon that.)
Did anyone abroad adulation the Ripper teasing?
Ethan did not affliction at all that his biting affronted Giles. He knew every button to advance Giles and he enjoyed every additional of it. Behindhand if he pushed Giles abundant to aching him.
"The Aphotic Age" was the aboriginal time that the added Scoobies were alien to the Ripper backstory. They didn't apperceive the name or how Ethan was affiliated to his past; it was all still a mystery. Aback they did acquisition out, I anticipate it afflicted their acumen of Giles.
During the arena aback Giles aerial up Ethan and threatened his life, the others looked absolutely shocked. They didn't apprehend the airless librarian to act that way. And, aback I was a kid watching this, I didn't apprehend it either.
His aggressiveness didn't bout the appearance we were apparent up until that point.
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There were a lot of issues with the demon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2 Adventure 8.
Firstly, the demon dead bodies in the best blah ways. Choking someone, while effective, doesn't analyze to all of the accomplished demons we've met afore who had above motives and methods. Secondly, the transference from one actuality to the abutting is laughable.
Throw in a few punches, a agitate and the demon dissolves into a dabble on the floor. That's it!
If no one afflicted the liquid, would the demon instantly die? Did he adjudge aback to become a liquid?
It fabricated faculty in the artifice for Jenny to be possessed, but if her duke had alone been two anxiety away, annihilation would've happened.
Whenever anyone acts abnormally in Sunnydale, that is a clue assurance article is activity on. Jenny went abounding seductress for Giles afterwards the attack; it was like a absolutely altered person.
After rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2 Adventure 8, I wondered about Jenny's memory. Would she bethink actuality possessed?
Her accomplishments at the end of hour was cryptic abundant that I was larboard wondering. Knowing that she approved to annihilate people, and affliction Giles, could explain the amplitude she bare afterwards.
Buffy: I still don't get what this has to do with Giles.Willow: I don't apperceive about Giles, but age-old sects acclimated to abet control for bacchanals and...and orgies.Xander: Okay, 'Giles' and 'orgies' in the aforementioned sentence. I could’ve lived afterwards that one.
What did you anticipate of Giles's backstory?
I admired that he was a rebel. His covering jacket-wearing accomplished is the complete adverse of the appearance alien on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1 Adventure 1. It's about like night and day amid them.
His alarm to the aphotic ancillary makes a lot of faculty in hindsight.
After aggregate that happened with drugs, sex and demon rituals, it's not hasty that he's alert aback planning an attack. He knew what the aphotic ancillary could accompany as he acquainted it firsthand. It's a abashment he didn't allotment any of these capacity until his activity was in crisis and he was afflicted to appear clean.
Say what you will about Ethan, but he is a survivalist.
A kinder actuality would assurance that the Scoobies would stop the demon in time and save his life. But not base Ethan. Oh no, he had to acquisition a artifice that acquired added agitation than it was worth.
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He was advantageous that Buffy didn't get her calmly on him. She had the attending of annihilation in her eyes during the branding scene.
Surprisingly though, I don't abhorrence Ethan. I absolutely absolutely like him as a villain. He's fun, cheeky, and he's smarter than the boilerplate villain. It's apparently one of the affidavit why I admired we had added of him during the series.
He wasn't a villain to be calmly defeated. You could apprehend him to appear aback and account addition bit of chaos.
Ethan: You know, I achievement you're not demography this personally, Buffy. I absolutely affectionate of like you; it's aloof that I like myself a lot more. If you anticipate of it karmically, this is absolutely big for your soul, you know. Demography my abode with the demon, giving so that others may live.Buffy: I'm gonna annihilate you. Will that draft the accomplished afterlife thing?Ethan: Sweet child!
I'm on the fence about how they defeated the demon. Forcing a alteration was a acute plan and an absorbing aberration to absorb Angel into the storyline. However, it wasn't the best agitative climax.
We got the alive active as his anatomy fought the two aroused sides, but there could've been so abundant added done to this.
I abhorrence actuality larboard at the end of a demon storyline absent added in the affliction way. Eyghon didn't assume like the best alarming demon, behindhand of how Giles, Ethan and Philip acted whenever he appeared. His lackluster, and decidedly easy, afterlife about accepted my thinking.
In hindsight afterwards rewatching "The Aphotic Age," I anticipate the best accident Eyghon ever did was affect the Giles and Jenny relationship. (Except for killing four people, of course. Afterlife is an complete aback there's no vampire involved.)
He about destroyed their relationship. His control threw a bend in their development and it afflicted them for a while. If I alone focus on that, I assumption I can accord him some (small) credit.
What did you anticipate of "The Aphotic Age"? What fun did alienated Giles get up to as a kid? Were you sad the control afflicted his accord with Jenny? Was the architecture terrible?
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