March 4th, 2010
I, Robot…You Jane
Oh. My. God. That was terrible. Terrible. There is so much wrong I’m not sure where to start.
Okay, let’s just start at the beginning. It’s 1418. A demon with a neck-snapping fetish is terrorizing cultists in Italy. Monks trap him in a book. Then what do they do with that book, you ask. Do they throw it in a fire? Put it in a box and sink it to the bottom of the ocean? Rip it to pieces? Nope. They stick it in the library and hope no one reads it. Smart, guys. Glad to know you’re on our side.
Anyway, for some inexplicable reason, Giles, Willow, Buffy, Xander, two computer geeks, and a computer teacher are in the library scanning pages of the books. Willow scans the demon book. The demon is set free in the internet. Wacky hijinks ensue.
There’s a message about the evils of being “jacked in.” Willow is cyber-stalked by a demon who convinces her that he’s in looooove with her. That is, until his sociopathic computer-geek minion kidnaps her to bring her to the local computer company where they have made a robot for the demon to possess. They even made curly demon robot horns. Yay!
Really, the only good part about this episode is the introduction of Jenny Calendar…TECHNO-PAGAN! Plus a few good lines. I give it a D.