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Happy Birthday

Let's all wish the Cross and Stake a happy 5th Birthday. Five years is an honored age for any fan site to reach, especially when the show itself has only begun it's seventh season.

Michelle (AngelX) puts her heart and soul into her site, which probably explains a great deal of it's success. It should also be noted that without sites like the Cross and Stake, the Spoiler Slayer probably would have never gotten it's start. It was during my days as a C&S Regular, that the concept of a Spoiler Slaying site came to me.

Congratulations on five great years.

Sweetie's Back

Sweetie, who used to post quite a bit on FanForum last season, posted information about 'Bring On The Night' at the Crumbling Walls website (thanks to Isabelle for permission to repost).

Basics:

Giles arrives with three SITs (Slayers in Training). The first has been tracking slayers and killing them. All SITs are now heading toward Sunnydale.

Annabelle dies. Molly and Kennedy are the other two - one seems to have a slight tiff with Buffy for not killing Faith, so there is tension. I think she is the next destined slayer. She seems sort of a lot like Buffy.

I think some people may know this already, but the script wants you to believe that Giles is dead. It says something like:

[WARNING: Pay CLOSE attention to GILES. Don't let him TOUCH anyone or anything. Be aware of this at ALL times.]

This could either mean
1) He's really dead and is in the 1st Evil form.
2) The writer's just want us to think he's dead, so they're careful that he doesn't come in contact with anything.

Personally, I think Giles is alive and kicking, but that's just because I love him so.

Spike: Tortured by "Nosferatu" and the First talks to him in the form of Dru. Spike seems very much saner in this episode, clear headed. Dialogue about how much he is trying to change for Buffy (which I'll get later). The poor guy gets completely mauled in this episode - worse than what Glory did to him. I hear there's some pretty sick and violent stuff that might not even get to air. It doesn't look like he get rescued in this episode, but he most likely will in the next. But that doesn't mean Buffy doesn't try.

I don't have much on the gang (Will, Xander, Anya), except they pretty much play their typical comedic sidekick rolls. I don't have any info on Dawn, which doesn't bother me because I personally find her dreadful this season.

Giles sort of leads Buffy to the old x-mas lot in Amends. This is where she gets her a$$ ALL kinds of kicked. It's not pretty. Annabelle dies at the hands of the thing. The gang finds Buffy thrashed out of her mind. She heals and does what Travers basically did and said their declaring war on the first.

Andrew tells the gang about the seal in the school basement. No one is there and the gang covers it up. There is a great scene with Principal Wood and Buffy in the school halls.

I hear the end seems very over the top, as Buffy gives the gang a pep talk of some sort. It's somewhat corny dialogue, but delivered right or changed by SMG at the last second could make it right.

Most of which gels with other spoilers we've heard (and with some of the outline that I have received). I will make a note of pointing out the issue that one of the SIT's has with Buffy about Faith. If it's correct, it means that my source was doing more than speculating when I mentioned that back on November 12th.

Herc Speaks

Herc posted some spoiler updates at Ain't It Cool News. While some of the info comes from the casting sides, and I've made comments on some of the others (Miss Kitty), there is some new stuff.

- Word is that explosion at the Watcher's HQ in London left no survivors. With Quentin Travers and so much of the watchers council wiped out (and assuming Giles isn't really dead) will Buffy's former mentor be sought to rejoin the council as new head watcher?

- Dawn will soon discover that she too is a slayer candidate. (Was Giles unaware of this during all those years he served as Buffy's watcher?)

- Willow is expected to update us on Miss Kitty Fantastico sometime in the next episode or two.

- Xander and Anya will not permanently reconcile.

- It now seems a virtual certainty that Faith will not survive the "Buffy" series finale.

Faith dying of course isn't too surprising, as you would expect this to be necessary step to activate one of the potentials. For those who will immediately panic that next year the show will then become 'Dawn, the Vampire Slayer', I don't know if that is the likely scenario. I can see half-a-dozen ways that the show could continue without Dawn having to become a Slayer. I think it's going to be left up in the air until UPN and Fox decide what they are going to do about Season Eight.

SpoilerZone

There was another update at the SpoilerZone, which is providing even more info about Episode's 11 - 13.

Sweetie has posted information on Fan Forum that confirms much of what my anonymous source reported regarding episode 10. I have some additional details:

Joyce appears twice to Buffy in her dreams. In the first dream, Buffy believes her mother is the First. In the second dream, Joyce tells Buffy that evil cannot be defeated. It is everywhere.

Buffy seems worried about Spike. Not excessively, but she knows the First has him, and she wants to get Spike away from the First.

I also have some information on episode 11:

Juliet Landau does not appear in episode 11, nor does the Master.

The SiTs are demoralized by the events of the previous episode and are egged on by a troublemaker.

Giles and Anya seek information from a supernatural source who tells them that the reason why the First is acting now is because of a vulnerability in the Slayer line.

Spike continues to resist the First, who is tormenting him in the form of Buffy. However, at the end of the episode, Buffy comes for Spike. This is not a long, actiony scene but rather something short, quiet and sweet.

And some information on episode 12:

This episode takes place some time after 11, as Spike has mostly healed and is helping Buffy train the SiTs.

When Buffy thinks she's hurt Spike during a training demonstration, their closeness is obvious, especially to the SiTs. Later, when talking to another character, she indicates she knows her relationship with Spike is over, but that confuses her.

Willow does a spell to locate a Potential Slayer in Sunnydale, and the signs point to Dawn, who bravely faces her destiny.

We've seen the sides showing that Buffy and Spike take the SiTs to a demon bar. Well, of course, everyone's favorite demon, Clem, is there.

Drew Goddard indicated at the Bronze Beta that a scene had been filmed with Xander that gave him chills and would please longtime fans. My source suggests the scene is probably the final scene of the episode, where Xander talks with Dawn. It's apparently a beautiful scene very true to Xander's character, where he discusses how he has been part of the Scoobies for seven years but never had superpowers like all the others. Dawn tells him he is special even without superpowers. This is very much a Xander-Dawn bonding scene.

Again, everything fits what I've been hearing from my own sources, although details vary here and there. I would also presume that Juliet Landau will likely only appear in 'Bring On The Night'. I originally placed it as 'Showtime', but only due to the episode that was filming when the comment was made. Scenes are shot out of order
all the time, so it's entirely possible that's the source of any confusion.