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For the season opener it
was Buffy all the way, she easily tallied up an impressive 112 lines at the expense
of all the other characters, However Dawn worked hard, forcing her self on one
episode deal characters to maximum effect. Principal wood makes a great debut,
finishing third, largely due to the fact that he had to explain Buffy's fuzzy
job description. Xander squandered opportunities to score highly, despite his
exposition about the school, the driving B&D to school scene, and defeating
the monster of the week, he only managed as many lines as Willow and Giles, who
managed 19 lines a piece despite being half the world away from the plot.
Playing in a Spike
centric episode is never easy, but Buffy knew all the tricks for this one, make
sure to respond to all of Spikes lines and then make sure to speak to others as
well, these cunning tactics worked well to Buffy's advantage and she steals the
episode from Spike. Meanwhile Xander takes a leaf out of Dawns tactics by
focusing much of his lines on the random character of the week Nancy. Anya
settles for causing the monster of the week, never an easy way to get lines,
but she notches up an impressive 37, this in no doubt helped by her pointing
out Spikes soul. Dawn squanders her chances by staying in to do her homework,
never an easy way to pick up points. from the debutants Principal Wood falls
behind this week.
Another centric episode.
These episodes are difficult to play at the best of times, but with this
episode Buffy was cut off from the central character herself. Luckily Buffy's
still had some manoeuvres up her sleeve. When you cant talk to the only person
required for this ep talk to everyone else instead, especially Xander and Dawn
who are also cut off from Willow. Xander and Dawn did well as a result of this
manoeuvre though Dawn squandered opportunities by getting herself paralysed. As
a result of this Willow was forced to spend more time chatting to Anya and
Spike just to score enough points for second place. Anya tool a surprising
third because of this. Spike however was forced to repeat 11 lines of dialogue
just to make his score seem respectable, despite this he finished bottom of all
the teams from this weeks ep.
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Total number of lines 308 Played 15th October 2003 |
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Gold – Buffy(121) Silver – Cassie Newton(53) Bronze – Xander(27) Regulars– Dawn(24), Willow(22), Spike(9), Anya(Absent) Recurring – Robin Wood(8), Amanda(4) Guest Stars – Peter Nichols(21), Philip Newton(10), Tomas(7),
Josh(2) |
Buffy was on fire this episode,
relying primarily on random characters of the week to score multiple points,
and playing Willow and Xander evenly, in such away that Xander actually
finished with a medal placement despite the low score. Dawn was forced to also
use the character of the week tactics, but failed to make much impact with
Cassie, or with her sadness at her death. Spikes insanity didn’t help his
situation to grab lines, but debut team Principal Wood faired much worse,
foolishly he squandered an opportunity for points by not taking a more active
role in Cassie problem. Cassie herself finished second, with a respectable 53.
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Total number of lines 303 Played 22nd October 2003 |
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Gold – Anya(74) Silver – Xander(54) Bronze – Willow(44) Regulars– Buffy(43), Spike(8), Dawn(5) Recurring – D’Hoffryn(27), Halfrek(14), Olaf(12), The First(5),
Mustard Man(4), Parking Ticket Lady(3) Guest Stars – Rachel(6), Professor(4) |
Buffy faced an unknown
trip to the world of an Anya centric episode, but who would have thought she
would fair so badly as a result. Buffy’s attempts at new and interesting
tactics of threatening to kill the centred star and bringing up long forgotten
lies, failed to work as she scored just 43, and finished 4th, after Sarah
Michelle Geller had 5 points disqualified when it was revealed that Sarah
played another character (The First). In fact all Buffy’s tactics did was allow
Xander to pick up plenty more lines by reacting to Buffy. Willow’s attempt at
the tried and tested formula for centric episodes failed badly, thanks largely
to Anya’s tactics of gaining lines in flashback conversations with non regular
characters, and even an asleep Xander (genius), as a result Anya won her first
episode of the season and third ever. Spike should have abandoned the insane
tactic earlier, it never really gave the desired results, whilst protein
windows talk is never a good way to make an impact on the game Dawn.
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Total number of lines 356 Played 5th November 2003 |
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Gold – Buffy(102) Silver – Dawn(85) Bronze – Xander(47) Regulars– Willow(38), Anya(24), Spike(6) Recurring – Robin Wood(6) Guest Stars – R.J. Brooks(39), Lance Brooks(9) |
Buffy didn’t take any
chances with this one, after the previous weeks fiasco, she made sure to speak
plenty to Dawn, but also used a new and interesting tactic of grinding with a
random character of the week, and talking insistently about Spikes soul. Dawn's
wasn’t slow in this game either, and put in some great moves such as pushing a
guy down some stairs to ensure that she gets a conversation with principal
woods. Xander used a new and interesting tactic of speaking so much to Spike
that Spike doesn’t get any lines. Someone really should explain to Spike that
it’s okay to talk to someone other than Buffy, especially in a competition like
this. Willow grabed 4th place with an interesting magic spell, whilst Anya
should have realised that solo robbery was not a way to get lines this season.
Only 4 of the regulars
were fielded for this game, and Spike failed to speak one line. However
reoccurring and guest star characters appeared to fill in the blanks. Andrew,
who debuted in this episode (the first of 15 appearances this season) gave a
good performance by playing on Jonathon and The First allowed for an impressive
33 and 5th place, Jonathan also did well, however his murder at the end of the
episode may make similarly good scores unlikely. Buffy found herself in a good
position paired up as she was with a vampire for the ep. Instead of quibbling
and dusting the vamp/Sleeping with him however she took the unprecedented step
of being psychoanalysed by the vamp, an interesting tactic which well.
Gathering a good 72, but she failed to do well as the vamp himself. Holdon
Webster became the only character to appear in one episode and win Gold in that
episode, as well as becoming only the third character to win Gold in first game
(and the only one not played by Sarah Michelle Geller). Willow notched up
fourth place, with an interesting talk with The First, making sure to have
plenty of short lines such as "Oh God" and "Tara". The
First was equally impressive, scoring 48, in no doubt helped by its ability to
be in several places at once, which is always going to help. As is the decision
(perhaps controversial) that Joyce(3) and the shadowy Voice(1), were also the
First. Dawn did the best she could in an empty house, phoning Kit and talking
to herself was genius, though it still left Dawn in second to last Place.
Spike centric episodes
were old hat to Buffy by this point, and the react tactic worked a charm, to
leave Buffy with a 7 out of 8 victory for the season at this point. Spike took
natural advantage of the situation taking 64 lines, however having Aimee Mann
Sing over his bronze fight scene could not have helped him (Note this episode
features the least amount of measured lines this season). Dawn, Xander, Willow
and Anya have little to work with (though Anya attempt at sleeping with Spike,
was enough to boost her position to 3rd). Giles returned for his third game of
the season, but sadly squandered his near death experience, with only 3 lines.
Was this episode supposed
to be a Spike centric episode, who knows? Buffy seemed to think it must be and
played the game exactly like that, with plenty of lines taken from
conversations with Spike, and with others about Spike. Spike himself wasn’t
really left with much of a choice about how to play the episode, tied up as he
was and only able to interact with Buffy and the First. It was team Andrew who
made the surprising impact in the game, finishing 2nd, by avoiding interaction
with Buffy and Spike, and instead interacting with the so often overlooked
Willow, Xander and Anya, as well as the First, a pig and the butcher. Xander
did exceedingly well as a result with plenty of lines to Andrew during his good
cop routine. Anya’s bad cop routine didn’t work nearly as well for her, since
it forced her to be off screen for half the interrogation. Meanwhile Willow
squandered the opportunity of a decent reaction scene to finding Andrew and
only managed to grab 22 lines throughout the entire episode. Dawn and Principal
Wood played this game exceedingly badly, Principal Wood more so since he
actually had a revelationary “I’m secretively evil scene”. Sadly few lines of
dialogue can be made with a corpse.
Game 10 (Bring On the
Night), was the first of the season to feature the potentials. This meant lines
were hard fought. Buffy pulled a lot of classic manoeuvres, including the often
overlooked dream conversation, to score an impressive 92. Dawn’s tactic of
torturing Andrew, worked less well, despite Xander and Anya’s success is the
previous game with the same tactic. Xander himself did surprisingly well, given
his tactics of talking comic books with Andrew. Whilst Andrew also threw in an
“I’m on the road to redemption line”, scaring the others enough (given Angel
& Spikes success), that Buffy had him gagged. Willow should have tried
harder given her multiple plot points, whilst Anya also performed poorly,
despite her use of the classic tactic “Spike is Evil”. Giles returned in full
form to the game, despite last months neck injury, he was able to finish second
(and acquire more lines, than he had in the season so far), using his classic
Exposition guy tactic. Sadly he failed to expose how he survived that axe.
Whilst principal wood continued to give lame ambiguous hints about his
character, and suffered accordingly. The debutant potentials found there number
cut down from 3 to 2. Whatever in the frilly heck Kristine Sutherland was
supposed to be playing(13), it has not been explained on the show, so I have
decided that this was the First in Buffy's dream, rather than Buffy dreaming
about her mom. These lines added to the first as Drusilla(13) and as Spike(1),
which takes the First' score for this episode to 27 lines, and snatched the
bronze from Xander.
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Total number of lines 336 Played 7th January 2003 |
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Gold – Buffy(51) Silver – Willow(38) Bronze – Kennedy(35) Regulars– Xander(32), Dawn(28), Anya(25), Spike(4) Recurring – Andrew(26), Rona(24), Giles(18), The First(16),
Molly(16), Chloe(12), Vi(11) Guest Stars – None |
It seems that being a
potential/slayer also means that you are quite chatty. First It was Buffy and now
Team SIT, as the Slayers in Training scored a combined 103 lines. What’s more
it seems Buffy has got complacent about winning games, and she really didn’t
seem to have tried this game at all scoring only a 51. Despite such a low score
it did prove to be enough to win the game, but only due to the vast numbers of
potentials and other characters. The potentials attempt to pass off the great
chatty evil as one of their own, was foiled by Xander, who at least still seems
to care about gaining a respectable score. The rest of the teams, tried their
hardest to score points, Anya’s tactic of offering sex gained her a respectable
score, whilst Willow found herself in good fortune of gaining lines, as a
result of Kennedy's efforts. Spike however faired pitifully notching up only 4
lines.
Buffy lost her second
game of the season, as Dawn’s I am a potential, oh no I’m not plot saw to that and
scored her an impressive Gold (the third of her carear). You would have thought
the title would have given Buffy fair warning, and perhaps it did one of the
potentials was missing without explanation (Chloe) assumed lost, some bodies
responsible. Meanwhile former bullied school girl Amanda was revealed to be the
really Potential all along and took third, whilst the other four Potentials
didn’t do too badly. Willow and Xander managed to gain adequate scores, by
getting involved with Dawn’s plot, however Anya and Spike squandered
opportunities to score, Spike more so because he is now out of the basement,
and actually attached to Buffy (normally a source of good lines. While a Team
SIT tactic appears to have taken Giles out of this game, shanghai Slayer, a
likely story.
Kennedy went to work
taking a 72. Willow took a leaf out of the First’s tactics for this game and got
another actor in to join the team and took an impressive 104, the fourth
highest score of the season. Kennedy destroyed this plan however by removing
the threat of Adam Busch, with a kiss, taking 72 lines and a silver. In other
team news Buffy picked up only 58, apparently as a result of vocal injury, and
not the general complacency she’s had in the last 2 episodes (this is her third
defeat of the season, and second straight defeat), whilst Spike’s attempt to
gain lines through incoherent screaming were judge illegal by the referee,
however use of coherent and short lines such as “Ow”, “yeah” and “Buffy” helped
him score 36, his 4th best of the season at this point.
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Total number of lines 389 Played 11th February 2003 |
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Gold – Buffy(81) Silver – Principal
Robin Wood(43) Bronze – Xander(38) Regulars– Willow(32), Spike(24), Anya(17), Dawn(10) Recurring – The First(36), Giles(36), Andrew(34), Kennedy(6),
Amanda(4), Chao Ahn(4) Guest Stars – Lissa(24) |
Buffy was back on form,
after the previous injury picking up an 81. Whilst Principal Wood fielded his
first team since December, and notched up 43 lines, by explaining his past,
dating Buffy, and finding some information about his own past. Xander also tried
the dating game as a source of lines, with mixed results, not scoring as much
as Wood, he did at least manage his highest score since him.
Meanwhile Spike and Anya tried the jealousy tactic, and Andrew realised this
was supposed to be a funny episode, dually provided the funny to take 34.
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Total number of lines 347 Played 18th February 2003 |
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Gold – Buffy(90) Silver – Principal
Robin Wood(49) Bronze – Spike(44) Regulars– Willow(38), Anya(31), Dawn(23), Xander(21) Recurring – Kennedy(36), The First(5), Andrew(5), Amanda(2),
Rona(1), Chloe(1), First Slayer(1), Chao Ahn(0), Molly(0), Vi(0) Guest Stars – None |
Buffy noticed the
problem with her speeches was that a lack of interaction with other players wasn’t
netting her the lines she deserved. She soon realised, like most bezoars, that
the best way to get a response was to offend as many people as possible.
Remembering last season, she quickly set to work, firstly insulting the dead,
and then laying into Willow, Anya and Spike. The scoobs banded together and
realised that the best way to stop Buffy winning was to send her to another
dimension, though this tactic failed to stop Buffy winning the episode, it did
at least limit her to only 90 lines. Whilst Dawn’s use of Sumerian didn’t
really pay off and Principal Wood also scored highly taking a tour of slayer
central and then stalking Spike
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Total number of lines 364 Played 25th February 2003 |
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Gold – Andrew(114) Silver – Buffy(76) Bronze – Principal
Robin Wood(35) Regulars– Anya(27), Xander(25), Willow(18), Spike(15), Dawn(3) Recurring – Jonathan(23), The First(16), Kennedy(5), Warren(3),
Amanda(2), Rona(2) Guest Stars – None |
This plot involved Andrew
with a camera and the seal of stupidity making students kinda naughty. Andrew
who has previously utilised humour for great effect found himself in luck with
not only comedic writer Jane Espensen, but also a plot. This however was not
enough for Andrew, so he cheated further by using not only Flashbacks, but
complete and utter fabrications of the truth (fantasies). However a recent LLA
ruling means that Fantasies are an applicable method of garnishing points. This
gave Andrew a colossal 114 line victory, the second highest score of the
season, and also saw him become only the Eight character to beat the 100 line
mark, a feat that both Anya and Dawn failed to achieve. Buffy never one to let
someone else’s plot stop her winning tried her hardest to steal top spot, but
couldn’t work a way into the fantasies, and had to settle for second place.
Whilst The First and deceased teams Jonathan and Warren actually found the
flashbacks and fantasies working to their advantage, scoring all their points
from them. Meanwhile Wood took his third straight medal (Gold, silver, bronze),
as a result of luck more than any plan, still he does seem to have become quite
effective at finding himself the centre of the plot. Spike’s plan meanwhile
appeared to be to reprise his restless role for the camera, which didn’t
exactly work out for him, but neither did Restless. Whilst Anya and Xander
decided to ignore the plot entirely and work out their relationship issues,
with mild success as they took 4th and 5th respectively, and had a break up
shag. Kennedy and Willow had similar plans, but forgot to actually speak, were
it not for Andrew’s fantasies, Willow would have really struggled to get
anywhere in this game. Finally I’m not even sure what Dawn did, other than have
her worst episode since appearing suddenly at the end of Buffy vs. Dracula,
screaming “Mom”. Whatever it was, it wasn’t a good idea.
Although this episode saw
14 competitors, many of the players were quickly despatched with. Dawn received
a cot related head injury to take her out of the game, whilst a phone call
despatched Willow, and Anya became a fashion victim. Andrew also appeared to be
suffering from fatigue after the last episodes high scoring, and took only the
one line. Finally Xander and the potentials also mysteriously disappeared (foul
play?), to leave not only 6 effective contenders, but also Willow, Xander and
Andrew with their worst ever scoring game, and Anya with the same score she got
in Crush.
Of the 6 contenders left, Nikki had the trouble of being
dead for the past 26 years, and so had to settle for scoring through the teaser
flashback, and only managed a 5 line score, however this is 5 more than she has
ever had so, it wasn’t that bad. Drusilla meanwhile also had to settle for a
flashback appearance, despite actually being one of only a five qualifying
vampires to leave sunnydale alive, and her score of 8 reflected this. This left
Lies as a 4 horse race between Buffy, Spike, Giles and Wood.
On the surface of it this episode was Spike centric, but so
many episodes Spike centric episodes have quickly changed from being about what
Spike is going through, to what Buffy’s reaction to what Spike is going through
(Sleeper, Beneath You Smashed and even Crush have been won by Buffy). A change
in tactics were in order, and Giles conspired with Wood to get Buffy out of the
way and ill-informed. Which left Buffy thinking that this episode was going to
be all about training, and honing her skills. Which ironically enough is Giles’
forte in games, and unsurprisingly he took second, and his best score since
Grave. Working Buffy out of the game wasn’t enough for Wood, as he decided to
keep Spike feral and non-chatty, sighting the death of his mother as the cause,
in reality it was just a fiendish plot to keep Spike silent. This tactic worked
well for Wood as he scored not only his highest ever score but also took his
forth spot on the medals rostrum in a row, if the others aren’t careful Woods
will end up beating Riley’s achievement. Spike however had another tactic up
his sleeve, and followed Andrew’s tactic from the previous game to flashback to
1880, well out of the reach of the living, where he picked up a bonus 33 lines,
on top of the 36 he achieved in real time, and the bonus two he received from
Wood’s 1977 flashback. These totals combined to give Spike his first winning
game since Fool For Love, though his score in Beneath you was actually better.
Buffy totally flummoxed by these sneaky keep-her-out-of-the-picture tactics
ended up off the rostrum altogether, for the first time since Selfless, and
only her the fifth ever time in which she has failed to make it.
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Total number of lines 339 Played 15th April 2003 |
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Gold – Faith(69) Silver – Buffy(60) Bronze – Caleb(48) Regulars– Spike(38), Xander(29), Willow(14), Dawn(6),
Anya(Absent) Recurring – The First(15), Principal Robin Wood(10) Rona(10),
Shannon(8), Giles(7), Andrew(6), Kennedy(5), Molly(3), Amanda(2), Choa Ahn(1) Guest Stars – None |
An arc heavy episode was
the venue for this game, which meant that the First Evil was back in the game
and looking to score. The First had noticed it was in trouble, a ranking of
only eleventh, was a poor score for a big bad, it was even poorer given that it
was supposed to be the great chatty evil. Part of its problem was lack of
talkative minions, Noodles and the bringers had provided a bit of company, but
they hadn’t been setting the world alight with talk of fine conversation. What
the first needed was a minion who could talk, he set to work and encouraged
Captain Mal to enter the game. Unfortunately, like all the Firsts plans, it
backfired spectacularly as It could only pick up 15 lines, as Caleb sort out
new avenues of conversation, firstly with debutant potential Shannon, and then
ensuring that the scoobs made an appearance at his home. Rather impressively
for a debut character he took 48 lines, the best debut score by a little bad
since Faith in season 3.
Speaking of Faith, she was back. After 3 seasons away, and
raring to go. Faith was last seen running from a church in Sunnydale, or for
viewers of Angel, leaving the hyperion with Willow. It might be a bit late in
the season to hope for much impact, but Faith is the only re-occurring
character to have more lines than a full season regular. In season 3 she beat,
Angel, Cordelia and Oz. She immediately set to work to maximise her score. The
first and most important tactic she used was to get rid of Willow by abandoning
her at the hospital. That was a clever move, going into this game Willow was in
second place, leaving her at the hospital gave her little opportunity to impact
in this episode. The next tactic was even smarter, both Xander and Buffy had
legitimate issues with Faith that might need addressing. Such conversations
would undoubtedly result in both of them speaking more. Faith’s clever tactic
was to completely ignore them and talk to a character she had never met, Spike.
This allowed her to talk about herself. Andrew may have been able to thwart her
season 3 talk with that nifty flashback sequence with his voiceover, but Faith
still had a lot of blanks to fill in for subsequent events. All in all Faith
utilised scenes such as this to take 69 lines, and her second straight gold. A
remarkable feat, only Buffy and Willow had previously had 2 gold episodes in a
row. Even more remarkable is the fact that these episodes are split by over 3
years. Spike also didn’t do to bad from it, especially given that his only
tactic at first glance appeared to have been to take his shirt off. He did
remarkably well to get 38 lines (his sixth best score of the season), that
ranked him fourth in the game.
Buffy meanwhile was in trouble yet again. With Faith’s
tactic blocking her from both Faith and Spike, she exhausted her opportunities
for lines with either one of them and departed the summer’s residents to the school,
perhaps in a vain attempt to turn this episode into Buffy The Guidance
counsellor. This plan was soon thwarted by a keyed in Woods, who sacrificed his
own scoring opportunities for the greater good by firing Buffy. This left only
one opportunity for Buffy to do well in this episode, come up with the most
hair-brained scheme she could think of, and argue its merits out with those
available. To give credits where its due, the scheme worked well as Buffy took
a 60 and second spot on the rostrum.
From the remainder there really wasn’t a lot scoring
opportunities. Faith had shut out Xander and Willow, whilst Dawn and Giles shut
themselves out. Giles went one step further with bad tactics, when his
suggestion that Caleb might have set a trap, led to him and Willow being left
out of the fight, and missing out on vital lines. Whilst the Sits and Andrew’s
talk about Faith was obviously not going to provide the same opportunity as
talking to Faith herself. Xander however had clearly been learning lessons from
the previous few episodes, as he implemented the use of dream sequence with
non-existent characters in order to grab points. Further to this an
inspirational speech, that was actually you know, inspiring, and a vital if
unfortunate role in the battle led to Xander getting a 29, not a particularly
good score for the man in third, but hey at least its not fixing windows..
After the mistakes of
Dirty Girls, Lies My Parents Told Me and Storyteller, Buffy is back to her
winning ways. Thanks in part to Buffy’s me against everyone else tactic which
allowed everyone to her object to her insane plan, and her to react to their objections.
With her being the only one on her side, it soon became clear that Buffy was
going to win this round. Unfortunately Buffy was less convincing with the
actual arguments, and in scenes reminiscent of Big Brother, Buffy was voted out
of the house, which may well cause her problems with next weeks score.
Faith took second though not only her reaction to Buffy’s
tactics, but also a sabbatical to the Bronze with the potentials and Dawn
proved a winner, and helped Dawn pull out of the doldrums she’s been in since
Get It Done. Whilst Giles finished third thanks in part to his isolation of
Spike and Andrew. Meanwhile Xander’s injury kept him and Willow out of much of
the game, and Anya’s exposition tactic also failed to take. Caleb proved he may
be a one hit wonder, as he took only an 8.
After last week’s
success with the “insane plan” tactic, it seems that this week Buffy’s plan
backfired on her, after it left her ostracised from the other scoobies and
reliant on Spike finding her. However a few late quips at Caleb’s expense still
got Buffy a 33, her seasonal low. Faith stepped into Buffy’s slayer shoes after
a quick usurpation of the utopian democracy, and found her self benefiting from
Buffy’s role to take a 69 and the game.
In second place was Spike, picking up his third silver medal
of the season, good tactics such as snarky indignation, and interaction with
characters other than Buffy, saw him do well, though a staring contest possibly
cost him. Whilst in third came Kennedy, undoubtedly not only due to the first
network television same-sex, sex scene, but also due to the intense debate at
the opening of the game. The remaining regulars faired less well. Dawn returned
to more familiar territory after the last games mild success, whilst Anya and
Xander’s Xanya tactics failed to take. Willow did better but was primarily
helped out by Kennedy’s tactics.
The reoccuring’s faired better. The First utilised The
Mayors image to great effect, and Robin Wood did well out of Faith’s tactics,
and Giles’s research with the Bringer saw both him and Andrew do well. The
Potentials didn’t do that badly either, mainly scoring from the success of the
coup.
Nostalgia laden End of Days,
proved to be a mighty even affair, save for Buffy who stormed the game with an
86, everyone else was pretty even with every other player, save an unnamed
dying potential and a late arriving Angel, everyone else scored a 10 or more
(14 players), but Xander was highest of this pack with 29, giving him his second
silver of the season, but also the dubious honour of having the worst scoring
silver medal in the history of the series. Dawn faired less well from being
knocked out and took only a 13, whilst Willow(18) and Giles(22) researched, and
Anya(22) and Andrew(27) provided the comic relief, with Andrew taking bronze.
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Total number of lines 349 Played 20th May 2003 |
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Gold – Buffy(96), Silver – Angel(32) Bronze – Spike(30)
& Faith(30) Regulars– Willow(27), Xander(21), Dawn(10), Anya(9) Recurring – Principal Robin Wood(23), Giles(20), Andrew(14),
Kennedy(14), The First(12), Amanda(4), Caleb(4), Vi(2), Rona(1), Carridad(0),
Potential(0) Guest Stars – None |
Cookie dough and baking
seemed to be the main plot of this episode, and as a result Angel finally made
a guest stint count, with both his highest score and first medal since Graduation
day Pt 2. Buffy also did well, due to the cookie dough, and resolution of the
season’s arc (Joke), to take the episode and a 96, her fourth highest of the
season, and best score since Him. Spike’s sacrifice and the Faith/Wood
relationship proved fairly even as Faith and Spike tied to take bronze and a
30, which left Xander requiring 17 lines or more to remain in third, thankfully
grief at Anya’s death clinched it and Xander took a 21. Whilst Anya herself
faired poorly, undoubtedly not helped by falling a sleep for the D&D scene,
nor her untimely death. Dawn also did badly, and although she got the last line
of the series, mall talk in an episode full of death was never going to cut it.
Willow’s Goddess scene provided some source for scoring, as did comforting
Kennedy through the realisation that she was unlikeable. All in all some people
did okay, others very badly and Buffy completely dominated the episode, the
season, and the series as a whole. Shish anyone would think the show was called
Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
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