Summary: The Hellmouth Podcast is back for Season 2 of the BTVS series. We have a new logo, new music and a new Season of Buffy. In this episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Buffy Has Issues Giles attempts to kill Buffy Willow and Xander kiss? and much more... Hellmouth Podcast Episode 0201 – When She Was Bad * Welcome to the Hellmouth Podcast * Back with Season 2 of the BTVS series. * New Hellmouth Hotline * Call 1-888-818-8941 * www.hellmouthpodcast.com (http://www.hellmouthpodcast.com/) * hellmouthpodcast@gmail.com (mailto:hellmouthpodcast@gmail.com) * twitter @hellmouthcast * facebook * www.browncoatsmovie.com (http://www.browncoatsmovie.com/) * SlayAlive Forums * We start the episode with a quick Season 1 “Previously on BTVS” * Open like so many episodes, in a cemetery. * Xander and Willow are walking along side the cemetery playing a game. * Based on their discussion, the entire summer since their sophomore year has passed. * Willow comments that Xander is looking forward to school starting because Buffy will be returning to Sunnydale. * Buffy has spent the summer in LA with her dad. * There is an ice-cream moment here where Xander and Willow share a look and a touch. * There is almost a kiss, but then…vampire! * “Hey Guys, did you miss me?” * Opening Credits * The group reunites. * Buffy chastises Xander and Willow for walking around at night without so much as a cross. * Xander informs Buffy things have been slow on the monster front since she killed the Master. * Buffy reacts visibly to the mention of the Master. * “It’s like they knew I was coming back.” * We don’t know what happened to Buffy while she was in LA but it is safe to assume she didn’t have to deal with all the vampire issues. * Xander and Willow discuss how they buried the master (consecrated ground, ritual, etc). Willow thought it was neat, they got to wear robes. They buried him up by a tree. * Willow asks if she has seen Giles, she says why would I do that? I’ll see him at school. * Hank and Joyce Summers are unpacking Buffy’s stuff. * Hank is describing to Joyce that Buffy was good in LA. She didn’t get into any trouble, she just seemed distant. * They don’t know how to get through to her or what to say. Joyce just hopes that Buffy makes it through the school year. * In a scene very reminiscent of Buffy’s first arrival at Sunnydale high, we see a shot of the front of the school with the bus driving by. * Giles and Principal Snyder are walking through the halls discussing the first day of school. Snyder compares the students to locust only there to feed and mate. A bunch of hormonal time bombs. * Giles doesn’t know why he became a school principal given his abhorrence of children. * Snyder says of the students “Every time a pretty girl walks by, every boy turns into a gibbering fool.” * The two of them have a playful discussion about what each did over the summer. Ms. Calendar did the Burning Man festival, Giles had his nose in a book. * Buffy, Xander and Willow run into the two of them in the halls. Xander and Willow are happy to see Giles. * Giles asks Buffy how she is. She somewhat sarcastically says… “Alive and Kicking” obviously a reference to the season finale. * Issue#1 I think there is still some resentment, by Buffy, towards Giles about how he handled the revelation of the Codex prophecy of her death in Prophecy Girl. * Giles tells Buffy that when she is ready they can begin her training again. * Buffy is ready after school. * Giles offers her a few days to relax. * In the next scene, we are in the library. * There is music playing as we see a montage of scenes with Buffy performing various training exercises. Giles watches with a level of concern/examination. Giles can sense Buffy’s heightened intensity level.
