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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 4, Episode 22Restless (23 May 2000) 8.4
Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Giles experience dreams in which they are pursued by a mysterious figure. Director:Joss Whedon |
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| Sarah Michelle Gellar | ... | ||
| Nicholas Brendon | ... | ||
| Alyson Hannigan | ... | ||
| Marc Blucas | ... | ||
| James Marsters | ... | ||
| Anthony Head | ... |
Rupert Giles
(as Anthony Stewart Head)
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| Kristine Sutherland | ... | ||
| Amber Benson | ... | ||
| Mercedes McNab | ... | ||
| David Wells | ... | ||
| Michael Harney | ... |
Xander's Father
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| George Hertzberg | ... | ||
| Emma Caulfield | ... | ||
| Seth Green | ... | ||
| Armin Shimerman | ... | ||
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In the fourth season finale, Buffy, Xander, Giles, and Willow decide to stay up late watching movies after their victory against Adam, only all four of them immediately fall asleep. One by one, each of their dreams take a dark and twisted turn as a sinister force stalks each of them through the dream world and inside their own heads. Written by Alex
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Willow: Who, Miss Kitty?
[Shot of their kitten, playing with a ball of red yarn in slow-motion]
Tara: You'd think she'd let us know her name by now.
Willow: She will. She's not all grown yet.
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Written by Joss Whedon
Performed by Anthony Head (as Anthony Stewart Head) (vocals), Four Star Mary (other instruments),
and Christopher Beck (piano)
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Trivia
In Giles's dream, there's a moment that seems to foreshadow the sixth season musical episode, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, with Feeling when Giles bursts into song, and climbs on stage and tells Xander and Willow, in song, what they need to do. See more »Goofs
As Xander crawls from his ice cream truck into his room, the the blue screen outside the truck's side window partially leaves the visible area of the window, revealing the studio. Then, the chroma key effect is turned off too early, showing the blue screen in its true color. See more »Quotes
Tara: [In Willow's dream] I think it's strange. I mean, I think I should worry that we haven't found her name.Willow: Who, Miss Kitty?
[Shot of their kitten, playing with a ball of red yarn in slow-motion]
Tara: You'd think she'd let us know her name by now.
Willow: She will. She's not all grown yet.
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Soundtracks
"The Exposition Song"Written by Joss Whedon
Performed by Anthony Head (as Anthony Stewart Head) (vocals), Four Star Mary (other instruments),
and Christopher Beck (piano)
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What people tend to forget is that Buffy was first advertised as a Horror-Teen-drama-comedy, which was why people either got very turned off by it or people got curious to watch it. But as the series got started the word "Horror" could very well be place with "action". Which to be brutally honest saddens me, now action can be fun and awesome and Buffy's way of showing action ranges from campy and fun to nail-bitingly intense to "oh my god why is there so much F*cking fighting??!" which sums up my feeling towards Buffy's more actiony episodes. Bottom line - character, humor and frights is what, to me, makes an excellent Buffy episode.. so if you are in to Buffy, or film in general, for the action this is where I tell you that maybe this episode won't do it for you - for the very reason it does everything right in my opinion.
The episode takes place after the big final battle in which the main cast of characters re-bonds with hugs, heartfelt speeches and fusing themselves with a spell to all join Buffy giving her super(er) powers to take on the big-bad of the season Adam. After the battle, and where the episode begins, the crew meets up at Buffy's to watch videos but all end up falling asleep and what follows a four character studies told through their dreams. But something is lurking in all of their dreams trying to harm them.
I remember being 12 and watching this for the first time and already being won over simply by how the dreams looked, yes the dreams reveal much about the character and even for-shadow the coming seasons, but the way the dream world looks and feels is what makes me care to analyze what they might mean. Surreal spaces, sound and acting all come together to create very "realistic" dreams that stray between uncomfortably humorous to crazy intense. How the "monster" is not shown I actually think works great, again overly long karate scenes with bombastic music get me exhausted.
Now it being one of my favorites I don't have to tell you I like this a lot, but that doesn't mean I think it could have been slightly improved, I can't help but think the creators could have gone a step further for instance more cameos would have been great, seeing characters like Joyce and Oz despite their little involvement in the season tells us much about our characters and how they still think of and feel about these people, I'm not saying "Bring back all the character!!" but I can't help but feel having Angel or possibly Faith interact with Buffy in her dreams could have been very rewarding, it's still a fantastic episode but there is space to go a little bit further in exploring the characters, it feels a bit like a missed opportunity.
Restless is in my opinion one of the series finest, and the criticism that it's boring I would feel only worked if their were 20 other episodes like it, which there are not. This episode is an entity on to it's self - and I'm glad they did this once. After all season 4 of Buffy was all about experimenting, and judging by how fantastic the next seasons turned out I'd say it paid off big time.
..gee this review went on long, sorry. I give "Restless" a 9.4 out of 10, it's one of my personal favorites and with Superstar and Hush the best episode of season 4 and I recommend it (and the other 2) to all people who are Buffy-curious but haven't actually given it a try and also, obviously, to fans of the show.. but you've all already seen it.