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Latest news – April 21, 2002
Now Shooting: The season's shooting is over! They will start shooting again in late July.


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Posted by Wanda on E!Online on 4-8-02
http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Wanda/Trans/Archive2002/020408b.html

From mhs82: I've got major Buffy withdrawal! When does it come back? And give us another clue on who's dying!
I believe--even though it sounds inhumane--it's April 30. Here's another clue: One Scooby is shot fatally . Another critically. And a third is out for blood.

Posted by Wanda on E!Online on 4-15-02
http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Wanda/Trans/Archive2002/020415c.html

From ginamae: What's coming up on Buffy? Will we see more of the geeks?
Yes. Warren and his geekbuds end up behind bars on May 7, but the truly eeeeeeeeville Warren manages to break out, and he leaves the other nerdlbergs behind. In the following episode, we see that Warren is far more dangerous than he seems--especially now that he's sans sidekicks. The Scooby Death is his doing.

From reed: No new Buffy April 23! Why the wait? Is it also getting the ax?
No. The show will last at least until the end of next season. UPN is simply stockpiling all the new episodes for May sweeps...and it just might be the end of me.

From sausalito: Do you think they're going to kill off Anya? Say it ain't so!? She's cool and hysterical!
From what I hear, you've nothing to fear.

Posted by AngelX on the Kitten Board on 4-15-02

Drive by to clear up confusion...
Anya is frozen in a "can't move but not encased in ice" kind of way. Willow barges into the shop, heads for the "dark" books and Anya protests. In reaction, Will says, "Stop" and Anya suddenly can't move. It's temporary and not a deadly kind of thing... just keeps Anya out of Willow's way. It does last quite a while though as she's "frozen" early on in the episode and it doesn't wear off until very late in the episode. Xander and Buffy arrive at the shop in time for the effects to begin wearing off on Anya.

And still, as far as *I* know, there is no wish granting in 19. I don't know what Warren and the guys try to do that gets Andrew and Jonathan arrested. It *is* possible that Warren does wish for money or wealth of some sort as he does have an abundancy of it in ep 20. I assumed that was from whatever he did with the guys (as dialogue seems to hint that...but rumblings about ep 19 seem to counter my speculation) but it is possible he gets that money and whatever else from a wish. I don't see *how* he'd get that wish granted from a vengeance demon, but maybe? I don't know... If the "super power" stuff is all true, then it's also just as possible that the guys steal the money or whatever. There's lots of possiblities, we'll just have to wait and see which one works out.

Finally... Warren isn't in the house when he shoots at Buffy. He and Buffy and Xander are all in the backyard of her house when it happens.

Posted by Hercules on AICN on 4-15-02
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=12004

Anya goes vengeance demon. A Scooby dies. Willow emerges as the big bad. Yeah, yeah, it’s old news, you heard all of it here last summer - but readers still crave confirmation of the details.
On Tuesday, TV Guide posts its synopsis for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s" next new episode, "Entropy," the first of the the sixth season’s final five hours.

Do you want to wait till Tuesday? We don’t want to wait for Tuesday. Here’s a brief rundown of how the rest of the season shakes out:

6.18 "Entropy."
Teleplay by Drew Greenberg ("Smashed," "Older and Far Away"). (Airs April 30.) It’s an Anya-centric affair as the spurned Magic Box proprietress returns to vengeance demon mode and sets about evening the score with Xander. She gets her vengeance in an unexpected way: by impulsively bedding fellow spurnee Spike – as the Nerds of Doom watch! Buffy and Xander find out. Willow and Tara return to full coupledom. Buffy tells Dawn that Spike has been more than just a friend.

6.19 "Seeing Red."
Teleplay by Steve DeKnight ("All the Way," "Dead Things"). (Airs May 7.) At episode’s end, Warren accidentially shoots one of the Scoobies to death. Jonathan and Andrew find themselves tossed in stir.

6.20 "Villains."
Teleplay by Marti Noxon ("Bargaining, Part I," "Wrecked"). (Airs May 14.) Willow, enraged by the Big Scooby Death (BSD), heads for the Magic Box, puts Anya in stasis and returns to the darkest magicks (turning Willow’s eyes and hair black) before she goes on the hunt for Warren. Buffy, who died last year, also takes a bullet, but Willow is now able to make the slug go away. A Warren-bot decoy fails to keep Willow from tormenting the real Warren (with Katrina’s corpse, among other things) and killing him. Meanwhile, Spike arrives in sunny Africa to get his behavior-modifying brain-chip neutralized – or die trying.

6.21 "Two to Go." 6.22 "Grave."
Teleplays by Doug Petrie ("Flooded," "As Your Were") and David Fury ("Life Serial," "Gone"), respectively. (Both air May 21.) Willow takes off after Warren’s fellow Nerds of Doom. Giles returns, Buffy employs some very tough love, and young Ms. Rosenberg comes to her senses a little too late.

Posted by goldengirl on FF on 4-16-02

I talked to a guy who has some information on the season finale. I don't personally know the guy so I can't vouch for him or his spoilers, but he sounded credible to me, for what that's worth. All I can say is that he does have a legitimate way of knowing what he told me and what he said sounds plausible.
First of all he says Giles is in the finale. In his words..
Giles comes back to kick Bad Willow's ass (he teleports by magic powers)....Willow kicks his ass and takes his power..raises a satanic temple and tries to conjure a demoness
______ stops Willow (its not Buffy).....Dawn gets slayage action [he inserted the blank there--we already know this is Xander]
Tara dies
Buffy and Dawn see the 2 geeks off in a van.
Willow is talked down by Xander, and is consoled by him. He described this scene as touching. One line he mentioned from the script, from Willow, is that her reason for destroying the world is so she doesn't have to deal with pain.
I asked what happened to Giles, and he said:
he's in the pit with Buffy, Dawn, and Anya[I'm assuming this is the jagged hole from the shooting location report]
I asked what the purpose of the pit was, and he said it was a fireball Willow sent to kill them or at least stop them.
I asked if Buffy was able to forgive Willow for doing this and he said it was unresolved.
The final scene is an overview shot of Buffy and Dawn looking out at the horizon. Quoting from the script...
"Buffy and Dawn are on their feet now, brushing themselves off" she looks around...."she's looking at a vista of rolling hills and greenery under a beautiful, perfect spring sky" they walk away from the cemetery and toward this beautiful world"
He had no Spike news, but his information was limited.

Posted by Fraz at FF on 4-16-02

Hello was asking my Boss who just got back from LA meetings who just left my
office what he thinks of Buffy after next year.

That with the fact that MN is signed to 3 years he said he thinks Buffy will
go at least thru 8 Seasons if they can keep SMG and the primary cast.
He said there has been no talk of a Dawn spinoff and doubts there will be.

They sent out a random survey to households this year and she is the least
liked character?

Take that for what it is worth.

Posted by Slayerguy on the Scream Board on 4-12-02
http://www.screamtrilogy.com/cgibin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=001367
Reported by the Spoiler Slayer on 4-16-02

giles returns...by teleporting...he wants to kick willows ass but she ends up
kcking his and then takig his power making her super willow...

and bascially in the season finale willow is bent on destoryign eveythign so
she doens't ahve to feel pain...so she raises a satanic temple and tries to
conjure up a demonness who is gonna kill all...and there is an intrestign
twist that doesn't directly involve buffy...she's in a pit fighting earth
monsters.

Posted by Partyman on BC&S and the Kitten Board on 4-17-02

drlloyd has asked me to post some more new information.
The information is directly from script sides that drlloyd has physically
seen, for episode 22.

Willow sends monsters to fight Buffy and Dawn to keep them occupied.
Xander goes to where Willow is trying to end the world and tries to keep her
busy while Giles and Anya drain her powers.

Xander gives Willow a big speech, but there is no mention of Tara.
Giles and Anya successfully drain Willow's powers - if they hadn't have done,
she would have been successful.

After Willow's power is drained, her hair changes back to red (sfx shot)
drlloyd asked me to state that this is "a complete betrayal of us", and I am
sure that we all wish it were fake or false, but it really does not appear to
be the case.

Also, I talked to dr. lloyd. She says the ending scene with B/D I posted is
in there, just out of sequence, but just as she told me originally, the finale ends with Spike in the cave in Africa.

Posted by Partyman on BC&S on 4-17-02

Willow responds telepathically when Buffy questions her actions (Like in "The
Gift" and "Bargaining Part 1") saying that "It's the only way to stop the
pain. I can't take it anymore"

Willow sends monsters to fight Buffy and keep her busy.

Xander confronts Willow and tells that she is still his best friend no matter
what. He acknowledges that he can't stop her doing what she is doing, but he
loves her unconditionally, and if he is going to die, then there is nowhere
else he would rather be than with her.

Willow freaks out at Xander's words and slashes at him (The reported scene
with Xander flying back and his shirt getting cut up etc.).

Xander: "First day of Kindergarten you cried 'cause you broke the yellow
crayon and you were too afraid to tell anyone. You've come pretty far ending
the world. Not a terrific notion, but the thing is yeah, I love you. I loved
crayon breaky Willow and I love scary veiny Willow. So if I'm going out. it's
here. You wanna kill the world you start with me. I've earned that."
Willow freaks out at Xander, yelling at him to "shut up!" but Xander keeps
telling her that he loves her.

Giles is doing *something* magically (not sure exactly what) and Willow
begins to run out of power.

Xander moves closer enough to Willow that she can hit him with her fist, and
she keeps sobbing.

Scene 25: Willow's hair morphing back to its red colour, and Xander holding a
crying Willow, telling her that he loves her.

Scene 28: Buffy has an epiphany.

Scene 29: "Xander kneeling next to Willow now, holding her as she cries"

Scene 30: Anya and Giles coming out of the wreckage that is the Magic Box.

Scene A31: Jonathan and Andrew leaving town.

Scene A32: "Buffy and Dawn are on their feet now, brushing themselves off"
she looks around...."she's looking at a vista of rolling hills and greenery
under a beautiful, perfect spring sky" they walk away from the cemetery and
toward this beautiful world" Buffy and Dawn coming out of the cemetery. into
a "vista of rolling hills and greenery under a beautiful, perfect spring sky"
It's barf-worthy

Scene 32: INT. AFRICAN CAVE

Posted by Partyman on BC&S Spoiler Board on 4-17-02

From Episode 22.

- Willow sends monsters to fight Buffy and Dawn to keep them occupied.
- Xander goes to where Willow is trying to end the world and tries to keep her busy while Giles and Anya drain her powers.
- Xander gives Willow a big speech, but there is no mention of Tara.
- Giles and Anya successfully drain Willow's powers - if they hadn't have done, she would have been successful.
- After Willow's power is drained, her hair changes back to red (sfx shot)

Posted by Fraz on FF on 4-18-02

UPN press released their announcer little ditty for the episodes in May

Tuesday, May 7 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - Buffy's remorse over her
relationship with Spike is heightened by her friends' mixed reactions when
they find out about the secret romance.

Tuesday, May 14 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - Everything changes for-ever, as
the friends try to cope with the cruel, untimely death of one of their own.

Tuesday, May 21 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - In the two-part season finale,
Willow turns back to the use of dark majicks to avenge a friend's death and
finds herself in dire circumstances.

All Hell Breaks Loose in the Explosive Two-Part Season Finale of "Buffy The
Vampire Slayer," May 21

Posted by gf2020 on the Kitten Board on 4-18-02

And hey, here's a bonus spoiler from me to you: With all of the tragedy and
pain in the final episodes of the season, Buffy realizes she really cares
again about whether she dies and her friends die. That's where the renewed
optimism comes from in the supposed finale scene. She's got her "fire" back.
Source: I talked to someone, independent of drloyd (i believe) who had the
same or similiar scipt sides or similiar that were posted. But this person
told me the information before they were posted here.

Also, Giles doesn't teleport himself really. Realizing the urgrency of the
situation, He goes to sometype of dark magician or shaman who sends him
across the ocean magically.

Posted by goldengirl on FF on 4-20-02

tidbits from the finale...
Dawn will decapitate a demon
When Willow telepathically communicates with Buffy, one of the things she says to her is "I brought you from this earth and now it wants you back."

Posted by Iowa on BC&S Spoiler Board on 4-20-02

I am a huge Amber Benson fan (shes my dream girl lol) so i obviously had to ask the big question! Will she be back for season 7? I cant remember his exact words (lots of drinking going on) but basically he led on that she will be back but maybe not as we know her now. Ill be happy with any Amber so this didnt bother me.

Reported by Steph on TabRas and BC&S Spoiler Board on 4-20-02

Anyway, Verity and I attended an Australian Buffy Convention (it wasn't all about Buffy - there was Robert (can't remember his last name) from Earth Final Conflict and Gigi Edgely from Farscape as well) and met Nicholas Brendon today. Nicholas was really funny, extremely nice, and a pleasure to meet. Plus, he's not puffy at all in real life - he's actually normal sized, bordering on fit (and he took his shirt off at one point, so we know). He really looks much better in real life than he does on screen.

Anyway, during my photograph session (and I was lucky enough to have the photographer run out of film when she got to me, so I got to talk to him for about 2 minutes, which was longer than everyone else), I asked him when/if Spike comes back from Africa and asked what was happening with that. Nick told me that Spike will definitely be back, that he will be there till the last episode, and that Spike has
had "an extension". I asked him what he meant by that, but he wouldn't tell me. I didn't quite know what to make of it. My first thought was contract extension, but he was already contracted through Season 7 anyway. Verity immediately thought hair extension, but I don't think that's what he was talking about!

Anyway, later in the group presentation, he said that the Big Bad of Season 7 will be revealed fairly early, even as early as the end of the first episode (he actually misinterpreted a woman's question - she was asking about this season, but it was nice to get spoilers anyway). He also said it would be "very intense" and he thought it sounded great.

Anyway, that's about all the spoilage I got. But, it might interest you to know that he prefers B/S over B/A and B/R. He said that Buffy/Angel got tedious, melodramatic and soap-operay, that Riley was just the inbetween guy, but that Spike was the most interesting character. Wouldn't that kill the B/Xers - Nick Brendon is a B/S supporter!! He also assured someone who asked if Spike would be killed off (!) that he would be there till the end of the series. Other than that, he answered some fairly basic questions, talked a bit about the musical and what it was like working on Buffy etc. Didn't get as much spoilage as I liked, but I got a lovely autographed picture, which made up for it!

Posted by Tensai on BC&S and the Spoiler Slayer on 4-20-02

Seeing Red
After creating a weapon that gives the trio super human powers Warren goes after Buffy. During a grueling battle Buffy breaks the orb that gives Warren his power. Warren escapes but Jonathan and Andrew are thrown in jail. And a shocking turn of events puts the lives of two of the members in danger.

Join me in the Crypt of Decryption:

On a personal note, please excuse the delay in posting this update. As I enter the final trimester of pregnancy, I find I'm really really tired a lot! I try not to post often when I'm tired, as I make mistakes--and I've made a bunch lately. I've added in some Wanda stuff I missed in the last update, and I'm just writing off some of the location info I think I missed. My apologies.

We're starting to get a better picture of what's at stake in the finale: a battle between a grieving, hurting, destructive Willow and her friends, particularly Buffy and Xander. I've suspected for a long time that Season 6 would end as it began--with Buffy having to choose between life and death. It seems the finale makes that most explicit by placing Buffy in a grave/pit and having her fight her way out. The final scene involving her and Dawn viewing the sunrise and walking away from the dark cemetery (symbolizing death?) also seems a deliberate reversal of the beginning of the season.

Another parallel is Willow's desire to destroy the world so that she doesn't have to deal with the pain of losing Tara. In The Gift we learned that Buffy was willing to allow the world to be destroyed so that she wouldn't have to live without her sister (who would have to die to save the world). Similarly, Willow cannot bear to live without Tara. Will suicide be an option in Willow's case as it was in Buffy's? We have no evidence of this, but it is something to consider.

I want to address some false spoilage out there. The Spoiler Slayer has already done a wonderful job of debunking these spoilers at http://spoilerslayer.com/buffyblog.php. I just want to remind readers that highly credible sources such as AngelX and others have disputed these spoilers, and they should be considered not credible. I won't post them here because I don't like to give credence to spoilers I consider untrue, no matter how many people on the net take them seriously.

Nicholas Brendon's appearance in Australia offers us a new Season 7 tidbit to chew on. He claims that Spike returns in Season 7 with an "extension." His word choice is predictably puzzling. My feeling is that we are going to be left this season knowing that Spike has sought out a change, but not knowing precisely what change has been made to him.


Scheduled writers and episode titles:

Ep. #18 Drew Greenberg
Title: Entropy

Ep. #19 Steve DeKnight
Title: Seeing Red

Ep. #20 Marti Noxon
Title: Villains

Ep. #21 Doug Petrie
Title: Two to Go

Ep. #22 David Fury
Title: Grave

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