"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Listening to Fear (2000)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

David Solomon

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator)
Rebecca Rand Kirshner (written by)

TV Series:

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)

Original Air Date:

28 November 2000 (Season 5, Episode 9)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Fantasy

Plot:

While Buffy and Dawn stay with Joyce in the hospital, Giles, Willow and Xander patrol the cemetery chasing...

Plot Keywords:

Female Protagonist | Sister Sister Relationship | Lesbian | Heroine | Demon

Cast

Sarah Michelle Gellar	...	Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon	...	Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan	...	Willow Rosenberg
Marc Blucas	...	Riley Finn
Emma Caulfield	...	Anya
Michelle Trachtenberg	...	Dawn Summers
James Marsters	...	Spike
Anthony Head	...	Rupert Giles (as Anthony Stewart Head)
Charlie Weber	...	Ben
Nick Chinlund	...	Major Ellis
Kevin Weisman	...	Dreg
Randy Thompson	...	Dr. Kriegel
Amber Benson	...	Tara Maclay
Kristine Sutherland	...	Joyce Summers
Paul Hayes	...	Older Nightwatchman

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Company:

Mutant Enemy

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Willow refers to the Tunguska Blast of 1917. In fact, that event occurred in 1908.

Quotes:

Joyce Summers: I bet it's not even hooked up to anything. Just like the push-buttons at the cross-walk that are supposed to make the signal change.
Buffy: I'm sure someone's on- Wait, the push-buttons aren't hooked up to anything?

The Demon from Outer Space

While Buffy and Dawn stay with Joyce in the hospital, Giles, Willow and Xander patrol the cemetery chasing vampires and Riley continues in his process of transformation in a vampire. Later, while watching the stars, Tara and Willow see a meteor crashing nearby Sunnydale. The Scooby group realizes that a demon called Queller has just landed on Earth. Joyce returns home since her surgery will occur only two days after, and the Queller arrives in the hospital attacking crazy people. Due to the compression of the tumor to her brain, Joyce acts strange having hallucinations, but she also sees the truth about Dawn and makes Buffy promise that she will take care of Dawn if she dies in the surgery. When the Queller arrives at Joyce's home chasing her, Buffy fights with it to save Joyce and Dawn.

In this episode, a demon with appearance of an insect is summoned by Ben to destroy the people that Glory sucked the brain, but his motives are not disclosed. Dawn is still an annoying character, and Willow gives the best lines of the episode with her tiny, young, woman and Jewish Santa Claus. Spike, as usual, is also hilarious snooping into Buffy's house fool for love for her, being startled with her presence. I am curious with the behavior of Riley, being constantly bitten and sucked by female vampires, and who is Ben. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Ouvindo o Medo" ("Listening to the Fear")