"Give Me Something to Sing About"

Ask me at any point and I will always tell you that I have always been a huge Buffy fan. I've loved the show since the first episode, except "Once More, With Feeling." It's not the music necessarily or the dancing, I'm just not a fan of musicals. Prepare to gasp...I've never seen The Sound of Music or Mary Poppins or even The Little Mermaid, so my technical musical criticism is limited. While I'm not opposed to someday seeing Ariel sing about being part of the human world, there's just something about musicals I don't like. I don't exactly know what it is about them that makes me cringe. Maybe it's because the cheesy music gets stuck in my head for days at a time, then I unconsciously find myself singing a few lines in a grocery store isle, leaving myself vulnerable to the weird looks and stares (made worse by the fact that I can't sing) people give me. What ever the case may be, it's just not my cup of tea and that line can totally be sung right there...ugh.

"Once More With Feeling" is another cringe-worthy number for me to watch. However, I will get to the positive things. I really liked Spike's song, "Rest In Peace" and thought it summed up his character well, and I also enjoyed Gile's song "Standing in the Way" as well. Both I found to be less cheesy and better written. I will also have to say that Joss was clever with giving a descent "singing" explanation. He didn't have the characters sing just to sing. Each person had inner feelings bottled up that needed to be expressed, and by the end of the episode those emotions were laid out in the open. It really did give the rest of the season direction with where Joss wanted it to go. Buffy turned to Spike in an attempt to feel something, Xander and Anya's relationship began to slowly crumble, Willow and Tara's relationship did crumble, Giles left and Dawn pretty much remained a bratty teenager.

This short scene was one of the funniest for me:

Dawn: Oh my God. You will never guess what happened at school today.

Buffy: Everybody started singing and dancing?

Dawn: I gave birth to a pterodactyl.

Anya: Oh my God, did it sing?

And a picture of course: