Never Leave Me
Never Leave Me - the title quotes the words of Early One Morning - reveals the identity of the Big Bad while tying together more tightly the threads of the Spike and Andrew story lines with each other and with the seasonal arc. We now know the identity of the robed figures killing off the girls, and we…

Sleeper - 2
In Seeing Red Buffy had to kick Spike away when he ignored her cries of "no". This time, after he takes communion from her blood, his soul allows his love for Buffy to stop himself from repeating his sin: "SPIKE (in human face) I remember./Spike's horrified. His face is one of complete shock and disbelief…

Sleeper
Sleeper starts to bring together the threads of story we've seen thus far in S7 with Spike as the common denominator. Doug Petrie mentioned in his commentary on The Initiative that they had "Clockwork Oranged" Spike with the chip. What we've seen in S7 so far is a thematic recasting of Chapter 20 of that…

CWDP
The second great episode of S7 - third if you include Beneath You - marks the true beginning (heh) of the season storyline, as Buffy tell us in the opening words: "Here we go." The season's Big Bad isn't officially identified yet, though viewers with a good memory could be pretty sure. I'll hold off until we get…