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Episode 2.11: Ted | Episode 2.13: Surprise
Characters:
| Buffy | Angel | Xander |
| Willow | Giles | Cordelia |
Overall (2/10)
Buffy:
Well, this episode is All About Sex. Starting from the very first conversation between Buffy and her mom where her mom tells her that the outfit she wanted made her look like a streetwalker. The writers not-too-subtly hit us over the head with the "sex has consequences" message.
Buffy has some issues with her mom, who doesn't feel that she's being responsible enough (foreshadowing the next episode, Surprise). In the end, she's grounded very thoroughly.
Buffy also has issues with her egg. Turns out she's a single mother (though we never see anybody else's partner, so I don't see why this matters). But it wigs her out thinking that she's doomed to follow in her mother's footsteps.
And finally, we get Buffy giving into her teenage hormones by having several makeout sessions with Angel in the graveyard. Apparently, her Slayer duty comes second to smoochies. She's also very melodramatically in love with Angel in a teenage high school-girl sorta way. I'm sorry to rain on the Buffy/Angel romance (Okay, I'm not really sorry), but a 16-year-old girl telling a guy that the only thing she sees in her future is him.....I've heard that from plenty of girls in high school who end up with another guy a few years down the line. It happens. She's still a kid. Right now, Angel is what she wants. And when you're a teen, what you want encompasses your entire existence to the point where you can't see anything else. That's Buffy.
Anyway, when everybody's eggs take them over, only Buffy and Xander aren't affected. We do get some amusing scenes with Buffy and Xander trying to figure out what to do. And then doing it.
Angel:
And Angel has turned into a hormonal 16-year-old boy. Okay, Buffy, I can understand being all with the smoochies. But Angel's old enough that he's gotta realize how stupid it is for the Slayer to be making out in the middle of a cemetery. Apparently those 100 years of isolation have left him a little...well...pent up, if you get my meaning.
He none-too-subtly asks her what she thinks of their future given the fact that he can't have kids. This line of thinking is brought up again at the end of S3 when he decides to leave her for her own good.
Xander:
Xander smooches with Cordy in the closet. And he is actually fairly entertaining during the "sex talk" in class. We see that the true consequences of sex go right over Xander's head.
It's ironic, then, that Xander is one of the two not affected by the eggs. Mainly cause he hard boils his. Not the doting father, but truly a good idea. He helps out Buffy at the end.
Our Willow seems a little uncomfortable with the sex talk flying around. Out of the class, she seems the most aware as to what the true consequences of sex are. But she still falls victim to her egg and goes into zombie-mode.
Oh, yeah. I guess Giles was in this one. He just didn't do much. He had a nice chat with Joyce about kids being a burden, and refers to the Scoobies as his "children", which is rather sweet. Course, he's under the influence of the egg-monster at the time, so...
Cordelia and Xander's love-hate relationship is in full swing here. They lust after each other, but they don't really get along very well.
The plot is stupid. Really. I'm not gonna bother trying to explain it cause it is amazingly stupid. And the Gorch brothers served almost no purpose but to pad the episode.
Some egg-monster. Yawn.
Not an arc episode, though it heavily hints at what's to come next in the series.
I really don't know why they made this episode. The only plus sides I see are that, yes, it does foreshadow the Buffy/Angel sex in the next episode and the fact that there are dire consequences because of it. Also, some of the banter was amusing. But the episode as a whole is just silly and boring to watch with a nonsensical plot.
Special performance award goes to Sarah Michelle Gellar for wearing a completely inappropriately-cut bra for the small tank top she's wearing during the main fight. Also, for getting covered in egg-monster goo. That's a trooper there.
2 out of 10. Can I erase this episode from my memory now?
Hard to find one, but the most significant moment is in one of the Buffy/Angel make-out scenes in the cemetery. The camera pans across from their kissage to a tombstone that says "In Loving Memory". Heavily foreshadowing the loss of Angel's soul that's coming up.
Episode 2.11: Ted | Episode 2.13: Surprise
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