Buffy: Restless

[Note: Below is my original review written when season four aired. As time passed, I slowly realized that "Restless" was brilliant, and it became one of my favorite episodes. Near the end of season seven, I wrote a long (and I mean long) essay about it that got some attention. Link here. And now back to my original review.]Giles: "Stay in character, remember your lines, and energy, energy,

"Restless" from a Seventh Season Perspective

March 23, 2003[Originally a Billie's Bytes column][p.s. I considered at one point revising this essay after the series finale aired, but later decided that it was more fun to leave it as it was, faulty and not-so-faulty predictions intact.][p.p.s. I don't seriously believe that Joss Whedon planned all of this; I think "Restless" was a stream of consciousness, and later, a lot of those