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Comment: @Blanketstitch: I dont know if you still wish to continue but if you do I have some furthur notes: You can not simply say "author" you have to say the names and publications. Second you over link things, links for common stuff such as "body bags" and "stutter" are unneccesary. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 02:40, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: While the sourcing seems weak but okay the plot is way to long. MOS:TV sets a standered of maximum of 400 words. Beyond trimming the section consider finding a few more sources. Try this one [1] as well as putting the title into a Google news search. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 00:45, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
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| "New Moon Rising" | |
|---|---|
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 19 |
| Directed by | James A. Contner |
| Written by | Marti Noxon |
| Original air date | May 2, 1999 |
| Guest appearances | |
New Moon Rising is the 19th episode of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written by Marti Noxon and directed by James A. Contner.[1] In this episode, Oz returns to Sunnydale, Willow ends her relationship with Oz and begins a relationship with Tara, and Riley severs ties with the Initiative after they temporarily capture Oz.
Plot
[edit]At Giles' apartment Buffy, Willow, Xander, Tara, Anya, and Riley meet. Oz arrives, to the surprise of Willow especially. Buffy explains to Riley that Oz is a werewolf, at which Riley shows disaproval of Oz and Willow's past relationship.
Oz reveals to Willow that he has learned to control his werewolf transformations. He expresses he'd like to be with her again. Tara stops by Willow’s dorm in the morning, seeing Oz and incorrectly assuming he and Willow had slept together.
Buffy asks Willow if she is planning on dating Oz again, at which Willow reveals she has feelings for Tara. Buffy expresses surprise and ultimately support for Willow's sexuality.
Adam, the Frankenstein's monster-like creation of the Initiative, makes a deal with Spike with the implied terms that if Spike helps him kill Buffy, then Adam will remove the electrical brain implant that is preventing Spike from harming people.
On the UC Sunnydale college campus, Oz realizes Tara and Willow are together and becomes agitated, transforming into a werewolf and pursuing Tara. Riley and his friend Forrest enter and put Oz in a body bag to transport him, saying if he has been violent they will kill him. They take him to the Initiative and Forrest, Riley, and their superior officer Colonel McNamara, put him through violent testing.
With Spike's help, the group are able to get into the Initiative. They are able to free Oz, and in the process Riley denounces the Initiative and aligns himself instead with Buffy and her friends.
Later, Riley tells Buffy that he was wrong about his black-and-white viewpoint regarding monsters. Buffy empathizes, saying that it's understandable to be taken aback upon finding out Willow was in an unusual relationship. She says she is going to tell him about her own past, implying that she is going to tell him she dated the vampire Angel. Oz informs Willow that he is planning to leave again, she tells him she will miss him. Willow meets Tara in her dorm room and asks her out.
Reception
[edit]Comic Book Report describes the episode as delivering "fans closure that was respectful to Oz while still being a powerful new chapter for Willow and Tara."[2] Rolling Stone ranks the episode as the 78th best Buffy episode, writing, "“New Moon Rising” should be remembered for nothing more than being an essential chapter in LGBT representation on television."[3]
This episode is an early example of sapphic women on teen popular television. One 2003 essay by English professor David Lavery states that "“New Moon Rising” offers us perhaps the first tearjerkery, “extra-flamey,” lesbian moment in television history," referring to the ending of the episode.[4]
Author Susan Driver praised that Willow's "[c]oming out is not dramatized as a sudden awakening or climactic social drama but is interwoven into the script as an unfolding intimate experience that eventually becomes common knowledge among her group of friends."[5]
Doryjane Birrer writes that this episode as notable also for how it is a turning point for Riley. She says that, in this episode, "Riley [...] explicitly voices his acceptance of the challenges to his us/them thinking posed throughout his romantic relationship with Buffy."[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "New Moon Rising". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 4. Episode 19. May 2, 2000.
- ^ Laurene, Via (13 December 2023). "10 Best Willow and Tara Episodes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ranked". CBR.com. Comic Book Report. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ Francis, Jack (20 May 2023). "'Buffy the Vampire Slayer': Every Episode Ranked From Worst to Best". Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ Lavery, David. "Apocalyptic Apocalypses: The Narrative Eschatology of Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (PDF). Slayage. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ Driver, Susan (2007). Queer Girls and Popular Culture. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. p. 72. ISBN 9780820479361. Retrieved 7 Feb 2025.
- ^ Birrer, Doryjane (Summer 2007). "A New Species of Humanities: The Marvelous Progeny of Humanism and Postmodern Theory". Journal of Narrative Theory. 37 (2): 217–245. doi:10.1353/jnt.2008.0005. JSTOR 41304859. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
External links
[edit]- "New Moon Rising" at IMDb