"Hush"

I found this episode to be quite suspensful and exciting to watch. It had a really creative and spooky plotline which kept me interested throughout the whole show. I had never really thought about the significance of having a whole town not being able to talk but I thought it was a good point becasue it shows how something like that can make people panic instead of dealing with it which can casue chaos. I thought the Gentlemen were pretty creepy and their way of taking peoples voices away was a good strategy on their part. It makes it extremely difficult for people to communicate effectively when they cannot talk. When the people were in trouble they couldn't scream or yell or get any sort of help. One of the scence's I found interesting was when Zander thought that Spike had attacked his girlfriend and so he went after him. Before this scene the girl didn't think that Zander really loved her or cared about her. Sometimes it takes a traumatic event for people to really appreciate and care about the ones that are important to them. If he really did love her he should have told her the truth and not taken her for granted. Similarly, when Buffy is patrolling the streets looking out for the Gentlemen she runs into Riley. They end up kissing becasue they really do care about eachother but are scared and don't know what is going to happen. Before this, Buffy and Riley never told eachother how they felt becasue they were too nervous. Sometimes it takes the fear of losing someone to get people to show how they feel.