New Moon Rising: Live & Uncensored

A Willow friendly room, huh, Tara?  As my students might say: "Ohhhhhh yeeeeeyaaaah."  Wil, it is so adorable how you translate the Scooby meeting for Tara.  I'm so pleased that you two are becoming full-fledged lady lovers as Tara becomes a full-fledged Scooby (a member of the FAMILY, even?  Go on home naw, Bobby Ray!).

Giles, YOU may not appreciate Anya's snide remarks, but I really, really do.  (Why don't you serve your purpose and go back to being the sexified, raspy-voiced, coffee-shop crooner that I know you are?  What?)

And OHMYGAAW, Oz is back!

CUE Nerf Herder.  CUT TO Me fist pumping.

"Oz was a werewolf and Willow was DATING HIM?"  Oh, Riley.  Who hasn't dated a corn-fed Iowa boy with conservative values, unable to accept an "alternative lifestyle," blind to life's variety.  Buffy, we all know that love isn't logical with you darlin'.  WHERE THE HELL is Angel.

Ugh, I cannot HANDLE the Willow faces in this episode.  They are torturous.  "I'll have the less confusing waffles right now"--Willow, summing up how I'd like to approach most things in life: f*#& it all, and indulge in various breakfast foods.

Buffy (to Riley):  "Right, and then you can have a perfectly balanced breakfast, and then you can call your mother."
...

Buffy:  "There's different degrees of..."

Riley:  "Evil?"

Buffy:  "It's just different with different demons.  There are creatures, vampires for example, that aren't evil at all"

Douche-bag:  "Name one."

...enter Forrest (what a charmer)
I could write an entire post on this whole issue, but I have to keep up.  Go obey sa'more commands already, Riley.

This coming out is touching, but in the interest of full disclosure I'm currently thinking, "Buffy, your hair is lookin' real nice this season."

Wakey, Spikey!  Adam is the most dull villain.  I wish to wipe him from my screen.

I'm totally glossing over all the Willow/Tara talk.  Sry.

If there were ever an argument for ditchin' dudes, Oz's reaction to discovering Wil's relocation to the Isle of Lesbos is it.  I mean, he absolutely loses his shit, all jealous and werewolfy (who wants a thickly-veiled metaphor these days?).

HOLD THE PHONE.  Cutest high-five scene ever:
Anya:  "Slap my hand now!"
Giles:  "Huh?"
Anya:  "In celebration!"

10 points for anarchy.  You may be on the road to redemption yet, Riley.

ANGELLLLLL.

I'm using humor to deflect the pain I feel watching this final scene between Willow and Oz.  Willow looks at him as adorably as the first day she saw Oz at Sunnydale High, but oh, how things have changed.

In conclusion, we can all agree that Where the Wild Things Are ignited a fire within each of us, and that THIS episode is seriously lacking in sexy-singin' Giles.  (Ohhhhh yeeeeeeyaaaaah.)