I Robot, You Jane

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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In 1418, a group of Italian priests use magic to trap the demon  Moloch in a book, only to be released if the book is ever read aloud.  In 1997 Sunnydale, the computer teacher, Ms. Calendar, is working on  a project to digitally scan all the books in the library. When a new  arrival, in a strange language, is scanned, Moloch is released into  the computer... and into every computer connected to it. Now Buffy  must face Moloch's human minions, while Giles must figure out how to exorcise a demon from the Internet.

Meanwhile, Willow meets a nice boy online. His name is Malcolm...

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GILES:      Nonsense! I simply don't adhere to a knee-jerk assumption that because something is new, it's better.

Unfortunately in this case something old isn't exactly good either. This has got to be one of the worst episodes of Buffy, in my opinion. The only positive to come out of this episode is the intro of Jenny Calender.

One of the few vampire-free episodes, the others being "Witch", "The Pack", "The Puppet Show", "Inca Mummy Girl", "Living Conditions", "Fear, Itself" and "Beer Bad".

When Moloch accesses Buffy's file, her birthday is listed as October 1980 and she is listed as a senior with a GPA of 3.4, then as a sophomore with a GPA of 2.8. When Chris pulls up her file immediately after that shot, her birthday is listed as May 1979 and listed as a senior. Also, both files list her as having only one absence, highly unlikely given her slayer duties. As noted elsewhere, Moloch being a Corrupter and "corrupting" the database, it is likely that he was altering these--along with other--files. Season two's Surprise reveals that Buffy was born in mid January 1981. In season four's Doomed, she tells Riley that she is "Capricorn, on the cusp of Aquarius." Which translates to approximately January 19th. Finally, in Season five's episode "The Gift" Buffy's headstone states 1981 as her year of birth. I mostly discount season one info. in this case, and go with the latest info. as the correct info.



My views/status of characters;
Buffy - like
Willow - like
Xander - understandable
Giles - like
Cordelia - absent
Angel - absent
The Master - absent


Overall I consider this a very poor, if not the poorest, episode compared to the rest of the season/series.