"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" The Weight of the World (2001)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

David Solomon

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator)
Douglas Petrie (written by)

TV Series:

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)

Original Air Date:

15 May 2001 (Season 5, Episode 21)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Fantasy

Plot:

Despite the gang's best efforts, Glory has succeeded in taking Dawn. This failure after so much effort...

Plot Keywords:

Heroine | Bound And Gagged | Lesbian | Female Protagonist | Sister Sister Relationship

Cast

Sarah Michelle Gellar	...	Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon	...	Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan	...	Willow Rosenberg
Emma Caulfield	...	Anya
Michelle Trachtenberg	...	Dawn Summers
James Marsters	...	Spike
Anthony Head	...	Rupert Giles (as Anthony Stewart Head)
Clare Kramer	...	Glory
Charlie Weber	...	Ben
Dean Butler	...	Hank Summers
Lily Knight	...	Gronx
Bob Morrisey	...	Crazy #1
Amber Benson	...	Tara Maclay
Joel Grey	...	Doc
Kristine Sutherland	...	Joyce Summers

Runtime:

43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Company:

Mutant Enemy

Quotes:

Doc: What can I do for you boys? Want some cocoa?
Spike: No. We need information. We need...
Xander: Ben's Glory!
Doc: Who's what?
Spike: Look at this. Special Ed remembers.
Xander: Yeah. I do. Ben's Glory, and Glory's Ben. It's like this fog's liftin'.
Spike: Wonderful. But not why we're here.

Dawn Must Be Killed

Glory is feeling guilty and confused and she feels also that the bond between Ben and her is fading. Meanwhile, Buffy is catatonic and Willow goes into her mind, finding that Buffy feels guilty for Dawn. Spike recalls that Ben and Glory are two entirely separate entities sharing one body and tells the Scooby gang. Glory is waiting for the exact moment to activate the key with Dawn's blood, turning down the barrier of dimensions and mixing the different realities into each other. But Ben wants to survive struggling with her. Giles reads an ancient document that Spike and Xander got from Doc and finds that Dawn must be killed to save the world.

In this weird episode, the duel between Glory and Ben is great, with intense use of special effects. However, the trip of Willow in Buffy's mind is repetitive, boring, silly and pointless. The conclusion of Giles means that the Knights of Byzantium were correct. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "O Peso do Mundo" ("The Weight of the World")