719 – Empty Places

although we've come.... to the eeeend of the rooooad.... still i can't leeeet gooooo......this is it, y'all! the finale. there is just so much we cover in this episode that i cannot in good faith summarize it with a little pithy description. we're done! thank you so much for listening! you've made this journey a fun one. if you ever want to come back, we'll always be here for you.unlike spike and anya.who are dead. 

AND ALMOST TWO MONTHS LATER, WE'VE RETURNED!due to some pretty serious personal Stuff, we weren't able to get this episode edited and uploaded in a timely manner. but we're here now! we've got mystery scythes. we've got chloroform. we've got... angel???? 

in our first (!!!) in-person recording session since the premiere of our podcast, lo, those many years ago, we try and tally the people of color in this season, talk about spike and buffy's relationship (duh) and update ourselves on tom lenk's current career.

WOOP DE DOO, we finally reached beth's least favorite episode of the entire series. sure do love to see our protagonist abandoned by her friends and loved ones! sure do Love That!

hello, caleb! hello, faith! goodbye, xander's left eye (or was it right? i'm too lazy to look it up)! goodbye, multiple potential slayers! PRIESTS. am i right ladies?

this episode? is FUCKED. the gaps in spike's past are finally all filled in, but the most important thing is that buffy DEFINITELY didn't know that spike killed robin's mother and that beth is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT right. tell your friends. 

this episode is Fine but we get a bunch of andrew, which can be nice, depending on whether or not he's totally denying murdering his friend. 

TRIGGER WARNING: this episode of buffy speak discusses discusses rape and, briefly, suicide. feel free to skip this one if you are uncomfortable with those topics!y'all like episodes that are at once lore-heavy and also answer NO questions whatsoever?? then this is the episode for you!! we've also got questionable narrative decisions, half-baked rape metaphors and another one of buffy's CLASSIC "everyone sucks but me" speeches. but at least the Generic African Men are actually speaking a real language?

racism! racism galore! we've got racism against asian people, we've got racism against black people, we've got it all, folks! don't you JUST LOVE IT. 

amy sucks, kennedy... kind of... doesn't suck?, beth has never seen sky high and andrew is a downright delight. all this and more on this week's episode of BUFFY SPEAK: THE COLLEGE YEARS