Review of Primeval

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Primeval (2000)
Season 4, Episode 21
7/10
The end of the Initiative (in its' current form at least)
25 August 2012
Warning: Spoilers
The Scoobies get back together and have a stonking great battle. What's not to love? Actually Adam's mingun arm looks pretty stupid.

Best line; Adam; 'You can't last much longer'

Possessed Buffy 'We can. We are FOREVER'

The female power of the Slayer overcomes the male power of Adam. Xander sleeps naked, Anya doesn't think that the unemployment office will accept him nude (really depends what job he's going for? the fabulous ladies nightclub?) Buffy and Willow have great big girly hug and tell one another they love them, awww! The writer/director also comment on the Willow/Xander/Buffy group hug. Oddly Xander wants Giles to join in. Is this really an apocalypse? A couple of hundred Adams running around would be a bad thing but not the end of the world? We see alternate Buffy as the uber-Slayer

Scoobies shot: Adam has a Predator style minigun but it's no match for Buffy's magic. The Colonel orders his men to get to the armoury which seems sensible. Xander zaps at least one demon with his taser.

Fanfic; read an interesting one where Buffy dies but the Initiative (or what replaces them) clone her as a supersoldier. But when the project is destroyed the clone survives and finds herself drawn irresistibly back to Revello Drive.

The end of the Initiative and it's a great battle, rather reminds me of The Spy Who Love Me. I don't think the season 4 storyline was all that good, the show still finding it's feet outside High School and having lost CC and Angel but still the best thing on TV.

Marks out of 10; 7/10, good enough ep but glad this wasn't the season finale
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