The Harvest

These snapshots may contain SPOILERS for the entire series, so if for some reason you haven't yet seen some of the episodes and do not want to know what is going on, read no further.

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Buffy rescues Willow and Xander, but Jesse is left in the hands of  the vampires. Buffy no longer resists her calling, but immediately  begins to plan a rescue. Because they are already involved, Giles  tells Xander and Willow about vampires and demons, and that Buffy  is the Slayer.

They are overwhelmed by it all, but they insist on helping Buffy.  Meanwhile, Luke and the other vampires are planning to begin  The Harvest, a dark ritual that will free the Master from his  underground prison. Needing to slaughter innocents for the ritual,  they descend upon The Bronze to feed. And only the Slayer stands  in their way.

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"One thing's for sure. Nothing is ever gonna be the same. "

This was originally aired along with part 1. Obviously this doesn't mean much when viewing these on DVD. It continues with Luke in the mausoleum getting ready to bite Buffy. He's then scared off by her cross(?). Seems kind of wimpy for a bad ass vamp who's hundreds(?) of years old. Especially when in the same episode Jesse, a newly turned vamp, knocks a cross out of Xander's hand relatively easily.

We get an explanation of the vampire mythos in the Buffyverse. Vampires were created by the last demon to leave the earth when he intermingled his blood with a humans after feeding on them. Thus the first vampire was created, and have spawned since.

We also get an explanation for all the tunnels underneath Sunnydale the vamps use, they're electrical tunnels.

Like the little scene with Cordelia and Willow in the computer lab. Cordelia  puts down Buffy and Willow has her delete the program she's writing.

As has been pointed out by several people the weapons chest Buffy has is a very good visual of what is going on in her life here. When Buffy opens the chest we see all the trappings of a normal life that a girl might keep, but hidden underneath we see all the accouterments of the Slayer.

My views/status of characters;
Buffy - like
Willow - like
Xander - like
Giles - undecided
Cordelia - dislike
Angel - undecided
The Master - leaning towards like (for a bad guy)


Overall I consider this a poor episode compared to part one as well as the rest of the season.

Opening bookmark quote for the entire span of the series.
Giles: The earth is doomed. (sarcastic)