I Only Have Eyes For You

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As the Sadie Hawkins Dance nears, Buffy faces inner demons as she feels responsible for the loss of Angel's soul. Meanwhile, Sunnydale High is even more dangerous than usual as students and staff begin spontaneously reliving an old Sunnydale tragedy.
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Willow: Exorcism.
Cordelia: Are you crazy? I saw that movie! Even the priest died.


Good character development, average dialogue and a great plot.

   
Until the final act, I Only Have Eyes For You follows a familiar formula. There are plenty of distractions from the core story: the snakes and the bees are cheap scares; the whirlpool that threatens to swallow Willow, and Cordelia's snake bite. They detract from what might otherwise have been a classic story.

Despite all that, once all the pieces fall into place, it's hard not to be drawn in. The ending, where Buffy and Angel re-enact James and Grace's final moments, is such a compelling twist that it suddenly seems like the rest of the episode was written to explain the finale, not the other way around. It's an great ending that evokes a wonderful sense of destiny at work.

Buffy seems to have a real issue with forgiveness. Not being able to forgive herself, both here and again in season 6.

This episode can be seen as the beginning of Willow's interest in witchcraft. There were signs before now, but here Willow has started to explore "magic and stuff" websites, and finds it "really interesting". Willow tells Giles that she was using Ms. Calendar's teaching plans which she'd left on her computer. But Angel had previously destroyed this computer in "Passion," bit of a goof there.

As everyone seems to like to point out the episode's title comes from a song by The Flamingos, a rhythm and blues group famous for tight harmonies. It's the song that James and Grace are dancing to, recreating the events of 1955. The only trouble is that the song wasn't released until 1959, when it became a top 20's hit.


Foreshadowing
After a few previous hints, (notably in School Hard), it's revealed that Principal Snyder knows that the school is on the Hellmouth, and is in collusion with the authorities and the mayor. - Season 3


Buffy:  Tell me that you don't love me. - She repeats this line in Lovers Walk

My views/status of characters;
Buffy - like
Willow - like
Xander - like
Giles - like
Cordelia - like
Spike - like
Angel/us - like
Oz - absent

Overall I consider this a good episode compared to the rest of the season.