The villain in Once More, With Feeling can be said to be unique among Buffy villains; he gets away. Rather, he willingly walks away rather than having to fight with Buffy. Sweet, as he is named in the credits (but not in the actual show), plays a little havoc with Sunnydale but is fulfilled, not by eating babies or drinking blood, but by forcing people to reveal secrets though song. Admittedly, he isn't the nicest guy ever, commenting on the entertainment value of spontaneous combustion, but out of the Buffy villain crowd, he's the one I'd buy a beer for (Spike would get the other).
Sweet is definitely my favorite one-shot villain in the series for a few reasons. First is his impeccable dress sense, I mean who wouldn't want a red zoot suit? Second, Sweet's powers are rather off the wall, who expects spontaneous, yet excellently choreographed, song and dance routines to be dangerous? Who has contingency plans for that? Third, he actually wins. He is the only bad guy that wins in the entire series. The only reason he leaves at the end is because he gets bored and doesn't want to make Xander his queen. All in all, the award for Best One-Shot Villain goes to....*drumroll* Sweet!
2 comments:
Ooooh I didn't think about the fact that he is the only villian to win. GOOD point!
I feel like some really interesting aspects of this episode get glossed over because it is a musical.
I agree definitely. I think Sweet's reference to Nero is significant as to what the results for Buffy shall be. She seems to be distracted to not care ultimately what is going on around her temporarily. Although, I'm pretty sure she will given good guys winning and all that probably with some mis-steps and scrumping with Spike along the way.
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