38 stories that take place largely within dreams

38 stories that take place largely within dreams

Citation :: 16. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, “Restless” (2000)
The fourth season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer threw fans for a loop: Its penultimate episode wrapped up the season’s Big Bad storyline, leaving the final hour to deal with the slayer mythology itself. The exhausted gang gathers at Buffy’s place to unwind after the big fight, and all four fall asleep almost immediately—unaware that the First Slayer, the spirit of that early vampire-fighter, is out to get Buffy and her friends. The episode is told as a series of dreams, with the First Slayer taking down Willow, Xander, and Giles one by one. Finally, the First Slayer confronts Buffy in her dream, stating that she must work alone; Buffy rejects that notion, wills herself to wake up, and stirs her friends. Joss Whedon veered away from traditional narrative a few times in the fourth season, most notably with the mostly silent episode “Hush,” but his unexpected foray into dream territory cemented Buffy as a risk-taking show. The dreams themselves aren’t as weird as other pop-culture dream sequences, though Whedon did throw in an odd cheese-slice man whom he later admitted had no significance. (Sometimes a dude with cheese on his head is just what he appears to be.)

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