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Archived from the original on September 7, Retrieved June 15, Archived from the original on November 21, Archived from the original on July 25, Retrieved July 16, The Subliminal Verses Guitar tab. They realize that the songs are bringing out hidden secrets, and later insist to Giles that something evil is to blame. As they argue, they walk past a woman series writer and producer Marti Noxon protesting a parking ticket "The Parking Ticket".

That evening, Buffy visits Spike, who angrily tells Buffy to leave him alone if she will not love him "Rest in Peace". Dawn tells Tara she is glad that Tara and Willow have made up after their argument. Since Tara has no recollection of an argument, she suspects that Willow has used magic to alter her memory. She goes to the Magic Box to consult a book, leaving Dawn alone. Dawn starts to bemoan that no one seems to notice her "Dawn's Lament" , but is seized by minions of Sweet Hinton Battle , a zoot suit -wearing, tap-dancing, singing demon.

They take Dawn to The Bronze, where her attempt to escape transforms into an interpretive dance with the minions "Dawn's Ballet" before she meets Sweet. He tells Dawn that he has come to Sunnydale in response to her "invocation", and he will take her to his dimension to make her his bride "What You Feel" when his visit is complete.

At the Magic Box, Giles recognizes that he must stand aside if Buffy is to face her responsibilities to Dawn instead of relying on him "Standing" and Tara finds a picture of the forget-me-not flower Willow used to cast a spell on her in a book of magic. Giles and Tara separately resolve to leave the people they love, respectively Buffy and Willow. Giles forbids the gang to assist Buffy so she goes alone, despite having no will to do so; eventually Giles and the Scoobies change their minds and leave to catch up. Spike begrudgingly decides to help Buffy, despite thinking things would be better for him if she were dead, and Sweet opines that Buffy is drawn to danger "Walk Through the Fire".

Meeting Sweet at The Bronze, Buffy offers a deal to Sweet to take the place of her sister if she can't kill him. When asked by Sweet what she thinks about life, Buffy gives her pessimistic take on its meaning "Something to Sing About". When the others arrive, she divulges that Willow took her from heaven and Willow reacts with horror at finding out what she's done. Upon divulging this truth, Buffy gives up on singing and dances so frenetically that she begins to smoke, on the verge of combusting as other victims of Sweet have been shown to have done, until Spike stops her, telling her that the only way to go forward is to just keep living her life.

Xander then reveals that he, not Dawn, called Sweet, hoping he would be shown a happy ending for his marriage plans. Sweet tells the group how much fun they have been "What You Feel—Reprise" and disappears. The Scoobies realize that their relationships have been changed irreversibly by the secrets revealed in their songs "Where Do We Go from Here? Spike leaves The Bronze, but Buffy follows him out and they kiss "Coda". Joss Whedon had wanted to make a musical episode since the start of the series. This was heightened during the fifth season when he hosted a Shakespeare reading at his house, to which the cast was invited.

They began drinking and singing, demonstrating to Whedon that certain cast members had musical talents. During the first three seasons of Buffy , he was unable to take more than two weeks off at a time, and the constraints of writing and directing the show precluded him from putting forth the effort of preparing a musical. Whedon spoke to the show's producer, Gareth Davies , about his idea; they agreed that a musical episode would be written. Whedon spent six months writing the music for "Once More, with Feeling". And they don't play piano very well.

The songs sounded really cheesy and horrible We were saying, 'Joss, you're ruining our careers. Preparing for the episode was physically difficult for some of the cast members, most of whom had little experience singing and dancing. They spent three months in voice training. Michelle Trachtenberg Dawn , who is trained in ballet, requested a dance sequence in lieu of a significant singing part, [9] and Alyson Hannigan Willow , according to Whedon, begged him not to give her many lines.

And I never want to do it again. Battle, a three-time Tony-winner, wore prosthetic make-up for the first time to give him a demonic red face. Sweet was portrayed as "slick", smooth and stylish; in contrast, most demons on the series were designed to be crude and ugly. Running eight minutes longer than any in the series, [note 2] the episode was also the most technical and complex.

Once More, with Feeling (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Whedon, who has stated this is one of his favorite Buffy episodes, used a widescreen letterbox format for filming the only episode in the series to get this treatment , [12] different lighting to bring out the sets more vibrantly, and long takes for shooting—including a complicated shot with a full conversation, a song, and two choreographed dances that took 21 attempts to get right. These were designed to give viewers all the clues they needed to establish all the nuances of the relationships between characters.

Network president Dean Valentine remarked he thought it was "one of the best episodes of television I ever saw in my life". Critics hailed the episode as successful in telling a complex story about all the characters in a unique way, while retaining the series' effective elements of writing and character development.

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Throughout the show—as in the rest of the series—the characters self-consciously address their own dialogue and actions. Anya describes her own duet "I'll Never Tell" as "a retro pastiche that's never gonna be a breakaway pop hit". With a characteristic dry demeanor, Giles explains that he overheard the information about Sunnydale residents spontaneously combusting as he was eavesdropping upon the police taking "witness arias".

The song introduces the character's emotional state but also removes the barrier between the actor and the audience, as Gellar the actor portrays Buffy, who feels she is merely playing the part of the Slayer.

This hints to the audience that the episode's musical format is strange to the actors and characters. It is part of the fascination of "Once More, with Feeling", that we can, if we wish, choose to select our relationship with the text and dwell on a happy ending—or we can share the struggle of the characters. Rhonda Wilcox, [17]. The dynamic nature of the characters was a unique element of writing in the series at the time. Once they were established in the twelve episodes of the first season, characters began to change and relationships were developed in the second. This continued through the series to the point of unpredictability that sometimes became unsettling to fans.

Buffy continues her charade in the chorus number "If We're Together", beginning the song by persuading others to join in one by one, as if each is convinced that she is still invested and in charge, and their strength as a group is infallible. Secrets reveal themselves steadily throughout the episode. Xander fears that his future marriage will turn him into an argumentative drunk like his father. He attempts to avoid his fears through the song "I'll Never Tell", singing "'coz there's nothing to tell", after summoning Sweet to Sunnydale to show him that he and Anya will be happy.

Amid the various annoyances Xander and Anya express through this song, some verses are clear-sighted observations of behavior, such as Anya's accusation that Xander—once in love with Buffy—uses Buffy as a mother figure to hide behind. Anya and Xander's duet is the only song in the episode to address the audience directly. During the long single-shot scene when she and Xander talk over each other insisting to Giles that evil must be at play, Anya refers to the audience, saying "It was like we were being watched Like there was a wall missing Like there were only three walls and not a fourth wall.

Giles's truth, according to Whedon, is that he realizes he must not "fight my kid's battles or my kid will never grow up", [9] which he sings in "Standing" while he throws knives at Buffy as part of her training. Whedon remarked that this touch "is the kind of complete turnaround that is a staple of the Buffy universe".

Although "Once More, with Feeling" allows all the characters to confess truthfully, with the exception of Willow, it does not resolve the behavior that demanded confession in the first place. At the end of the episode, Buffy kisses Spike, initiating a romance that she hides from her friends. But when Morgan is bitten by a four-year-old boy, she becomes infected with a mysterious condition. Fever, insomnia, and a new bustline are only the beginning; Morgan morphs from nerd to bombshell.

As far as Van Xander is concerned, all vampires are evil, even the ones who reject human sacrifice and call themselves Puritans. Pretending to be interested in her, Van asks Morgan out and puts her through a series of tests to determine her killer nature. Morgan is thrilled to be dating a hot guy like Van and falls for him hard. As Van strings Morgan along, he grows increasingly guilty.

Morgan is kind, compassionate, and a gooey romantic.

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