spike played the demon in buffy once more with feeling.
spike played the demon in buffy once more with feeling.
who played the demon in buffy once more with feeling?
spike
the episode also emphasizes another theme of the season: buffy's response to forces that she cannot fight. throughout the season she encounters the much more powerful goddess glory, but joyce's death leaves her feeling the most helpless. in joyce's death there is no evil force to combat; she simply dies, and buffy, with all her power, is ill-equipped to grasp the enormity of her situation. in her shock, buffy retreats to a childlike state of confusion, calling to her mother when she does not answer: "mom? ... mom? ... mommy?" emma caulfield was also given the direction for her voice to rise to a childlike pitch at the end of her speech to give the same effect. according to "buffy" scholar rhonda wilcox, the themes of maturation and facing adult responsibilities begin with the departure of buffy's boyfriend riley finn six episodes before, and crystallize in the preceding episode in which buffy realizes she does not need a boyfriend to be fulfilled. at the end of that episode she is confronted with joyce's death, which is fully explored in "the body". facing responsibilities became the major theme of the sixth season. one critic writes, "drastic as it was, killing off joyce was the logical way to bring buffy and dawn closer together, sever buffy's last ties to girlhood and emphasize buffy's inability to accept the limits of her power, a recurring theme this season."
the body (buffy the vampire slayer)
during the season finale, buffy and willow come across the spell jenny was working on just prior to her death. while they deliberate on what is to be done, kendra returns to sunnydale by word of her watcher who claims that a dark power is once again rising at the hellmouth. this power turns out to be the stone statue of the powerful demon acathla who, once upon a time, attempted to swallow the world into hell. angelus hatches a plan to awaken acathla once again and destroy the world. after he fails to awaken the demon however, angelus sends a team led by drusilla to kidnap giles while he calls buffy out to distract her. as giles is taken away, willow is left comatose, xander's arm is broken and drusilla kills kendra. buffy returns to the library to find the police waiting for her. she flees their attack and makes it to the hospital to find her friends. when no one can find giles, she goes to his house where she finds a demon named whistler (max perlich). he tells her that what happened with acathla wasn't meant to go the way it did — angel is in fact the key that will re-open acathla but the powers that be thought that angel's destiny was to stop him. drusilla uses her psychic powers to trick giles into giving angelus this information after angelus sadistically tortured the watcher. meanwhile, willow awakens from her coma after a proclamation of love from best friend xander and adamantly decides to try to perform the ritual of restoration to return angel's soul. spike joins forces with buffy to help take down angelus while buffy's mom, joyce summers (kristine sutherland), finally figures out the truth about her destined daughter. as buffy leaves to retrieve a mystical sword brought to sunnydale by kendra, joyce tells buffy never to come back. sunnydale high school principal snyder (armin shimerman) expels buffy from sunnydale high. with nothing left, buffy storms angelus' mansion while xander aids a weakened giles. buffy is too late, even with spike's help (who takes drusilla out of the fray). angelus uses his blood to reawaken acathla. as buffy and angelus compete in an epic sword fight, acathla begins to swallow the earth. meanwhile, willow successfully performs the powerful spell after she is overcome by an unknown mystical energy. as angel's soul is returned, buffy has one chance to save the world and, after kissing him and proclaiming that she loves him, runs the magical sword through angel's chest, who is then swallowed by the portal, closing it for good. left utterly devastated, buffy flees sunnydale.
buffy the vampire slayer (season 2)