“Once More, With Feeling,” by Joss Whedon
I have to admit, folks, the musical episode of BtVS presents a bit of a challenge on rewatch. I knew going in that I had seen it enough times that one more viewing was unlikely to yield new insights. It’s an exceptionally strong and delightful piece, easily the high point of S6... and, honestly, these outstanding episodes lend themselves less well to the mocking. It’s sad to say, but I get more comedy mileage out of the Knights who Say Key than “Once More with Feeling” is likely to yield.
It’s also the lesser-quality scripts and the things with bigtime “Huh?” moments that really give us all a lot of scope to get into “If only they’d done it this way!” (Though we’ll get lots of chances in S6 to play backseat writer after this episode.)
And I don’t want to treat you all to five hundred words of. “Squee! Oh, and squee this too!”
Though there will be some of that, of course.
[And you can sing along...]