Once More With Feeling!
This is my dedication post to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode: Once More with Feeling. Once More with Feeling is a musical episode. Before I start, for those of you who have never watched this show, here is a summary:
“In every generation there is a chosen one… she alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.” Buffy Summers knows this tale by heart, and no matter how hard she tries to be just a “normal girl”, she can not escape from her destiny… Thankfully, she is not alone in her quest to save the world, as she has the help of her friends, the hilarious (and surprisingly quite effective) evil-fighting team called “The Scooby Gang”. Together, Buffy & co. will slay their demons, survive one apocalypse after another, attend high school and college… and above all, understand that growing up can truly be Hell sometimes… literally.
It starts off with the song “Going through the Motions” as Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who just came back from the dead, is basically just going through the motions. She feels numb to the world and blames her friends from ripping her out of what she thinks was Heaven. Then we soon find out that people are bursting into song all over Sunnydale and that this leads to spontaneous combusting, people bursting into flames from the inside out. As we find this all out, the Scooby gang goes through the day singing their own tunes such as I’ve Got a Theory, Walk through the Fire, I’m Under Your Spell, Rest in Peace, and many more! It isn’t just any normal singing, people in Sunnydale sing their secrets. You can blame this on the devil, who was summoned to Sunnydale. Now that he arrived, he has a goal of his own: Make the girl who summoned him his queen (who he thinks is Buffy’s sister Dawn).
Just like in any Buffy episode, Buffy saves the world and they party! Not exactly…. They didn’t beat the devil the way everyone would think. The devil finds out that it wasn’t Dawn who summoned him, but Xander (Buffy’s best friend next to Willow). He then leaves and the Scooby gang are left trying to cope with the truth that the songs brought out of them.
I did not do this episode justice at all. I probably butchered the entire plot, but it such an amazing episode and I just felt like I should dedicate a post.
when i first saw this episode as part of my normal weekly fix of the BTVS i was floored by it amd thought it was superb. it wasnt just chucked in but made sense in the whole season arc. I have seen other series that have had musical episodes but none compare to this. its still worth watching for so many reasons. 9/10