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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
"Who Are You"
Original Air Date
2/29/00
by wendelicious WB, Tuesday at 8:00 P.M. EST
Taking a page from John Woo’s FACE/OFF, Buffy and Faith switch
bods and wreak havoc on this week’s "Buffy”.
When we last left our heroine, Buffy had saved her mom from Faith’s
clutches, and was doing battle with her nemesis. But then Faith
used some sort of weapon to switch bodies, and the authorities
dragged Buffy (now in Faith’s bod) away.
Faith-Buffy tries to make nice to Mom, but can’t
wait to slide into Buffy’s leather pants and crimp that blond
hair. She heads over to Giles’ to pal around with her newfound
gang, and then it’s off to slay, as a good slayer should.
But Faith-Buffy takes a little detour to the Bronze, taking quite
a turn on the dance floor. There, she runs into a malicious Spike,
where she lays this line on the injured vamp: "I could ride
you at a gallop until your legs buckle and your eyes roll up.
I’ve got muscles you’ve never even dreamed of. I could
squeeze you until you pop like warm champagne and you beg me to
hurt you just a little bit more." Um, couldn’t have
said it better myself. Can you tell that show creator Joss Whedon
wrote and directed this ep?
Meanwhile, Buffy-Faith is locked in a truck under the
supervision of Council operatives, awaiting certain non-doom.
Willow and Tara moon at each other for a while, then
head over to the Bronze and run into Faith-Buffy. Of course, Faith-Buffy
gets the sitch right off the bat. She says to Tara, "So,
Willow’s not driving stick anymore?" While at first
we think that Tara’s ego is bruised by this encounter, it’s
quickly apparent that the Wicca princess knows something’s
up. She and Willow go back to her place and act out some sort
of spell that enables them to see Faith-Buffy’s true energy.
Really it just gives them a chance to get sweaty and have metaphorical
sex.
Speaking of sex, Faith-Buffy heads straight to Riley
for a romp. But Iowa’s top export won’t play those reindeer
games with her--he indoctrinates Faith-Buffy into the rites of
making sweet love. It rips Faith-Buffy to the core when Riley
says, "I love you"--little does he know he’s not
sharing sentiments with his main squeeze. Faith’s "soul"
returns like Angel’s did when he discovered true love a couple
seasons back.
Buffy-Faith escapes from the Council and runs to Giles,
convincing him that she’s actually Buffy. And just in time,
too, as Monster Adam has corralled some vamps and some victims-to-be
in a local church.
Everyone rushes to the scene, which actually resembles
the location of the Nicolas Cage/John Travolta reunion in FACE/OFF.
Faith’s newfound humanity brings her to the church as well.
Buffy and Faith battle Adam’s new acolytes, disposing of
them quickly. Then they face off with each other. When they grab
hands, the switcheroo is over, and everyone’s body and spirit
is back where it belongs.
But all is not well. Adam is still at large. So is
Faith. And Riley tells Buffy that he banged Faith-Buffy. His bad,
until next time.
The actors on this show love to play out the role reversals,
and they are quite good at it. Eliza Dushku (who plays Faith)
has her Sarah Michelle Gellar imitation down flat, even lowering
her voice to do her Buffy interpretation. Sarah Michelle, on the
other hand, has a more limited range; she nails her Faithisms
in the first couple of scenes but loses them later.
Love the hot and heavy sex talk and action on this
episode. And it was cool to bring some vamp lore back into the
scenario by having Adam rally vampires into a church. But the
Adam story sucks--I’m over it. Where’s the Mayor when
you need him?
And please let Willow and Tara get to the action already--every
storyline on this show moves too quickly and that one drags and
drags. Tara needs to pull up those sleeves, both literally and
metaphorically.