Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic
Posing as a viscount's daughter, Faith infiltrates Lady Genevieve's gala and is attacked by Roden's gargoyle security team. Elsewhere, Willow offers to Dawn with her plus-sized problem and is called upon to upgrade the castle's defense system.
- 2010-2011
- 1 season
- 20th Century Fox
- Animation, Action & Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- TV-14
Posing as a viscount's daughter, Faith infiltrates Lady Genevieve's gala and is attacked by Roden's gargoyle security team. Elsewhere, Willow offers to Dawn with her plus-sized problem and is called upon to upgrade the castle's defense system.
Season 1 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 2010
Episode 1
The Long Way Home: Part 1
Mon, Jul 19, 2010 15 mins
Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything's fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears.
Episode 2
The Long Way Home: Part 2
Mon, Jul 26, 2010 15 mins
The destruction of Buffy's hometown, plus covert and powerful slayer "cells" around the world, add up to a new label for the Scoobies: Terrorist threat.
Episode 3
The Long Way Home: Part 3
Sun, Aug 1, 2010 15 mins
With Buffy incapacitated, Amy the witch has taken the opportunity to-get this-lay siege with an army of the undead. Willow takes her on in a witches' battle royal as hundreds of Slayers defend their Scottish citadel.
Episode 4
The Long Way Home: Part 4
Sun, Aug 8, 2010 15 mins
Warren begins torturing Willow, who is magically bound to an operating table, irritated by his death at the witch's hands. He reveals how his human life ended, and how Amy saved him with a "pretty hokey" disappearing trick and used magic to keep him from dying of shock, her powers now serving as his new skin. Warren then prepares to mutilate Willow with a scalpel. Back in Scotland, Dawn is fuming over Willow's kidnapping. She begs Buffy to bring Willow back and adds that "Will is like a mom to me." This doesn't seem to sit well with Buffy but she opts not to discuss it, instead choosing to focus her attention on the mystics trying to track the portal's echo so it can be reopened.
Episode 5
The Chain
Sun, Aug 15, 2010 15 mins
Buffy's new position as leader and figurehead of the world's five hundred most powerful women has made her a bigger target than ever before.
Episode 6
No Future for You: Part 1
Sun, Aug 22, 2010 15 mins
Faith,. the fugitive Slayer is given the assignment that could change her life - if Giles's specialized training doesn't make her want to end it first.
Episode 7
No Future for You: Part 2
Sun, Aug 29, 2010 15 mins
Lady Genevieve Savidge is one of the most dangerous women on the planet. If she's left unstopped, the British heiress will usher in the apocalypse. Faith has accepted Giles's offer of an early retirement package for this gig.
Episode 8
No Future for You: Part 3
Sun, Sep 5, 2010 15 mins
After discovering Genevieve is planning to kill Buffy, Faith realizes that Giles had not sent her to save the world from a rogue Slayer, but to actually save Buffy. Nevertheless, she continues her assignment, and convinced Genevieve that she has sided with her. They immediately start bonding, even taking a bath together. Outside the Savidge manor, Giles along with a gnome, Trafalgar, is trying to break into the manor to rescue Faith. Although, the freelancer, failing to open it, questions if Faith has gone "native" and is not working for Giles anymore. Meanwhile in Scotland, Buffy and Willow are in the Slayer Organization command center fixing up some of the force fields around the arena and discussing how they should respond to the danger posed by the army. Suddenly, Roden teleports Buffy from into the Savidge manor. Genevieve attacks Buffy and they fight, while Faith watches from a balcony. While the rogue Slayer proves to be an accomplished fighter, she is defeated by the more experienced Buffy. As Buffy is about to deliver the killing blow, Roden prepares to magically attack her. Faith quickly leaps into the fight, jumping with Buffy through a window and falling into a swimming pool. Buffy accuses her of switching sides again, despite Faith's attempts to convince her otherwise, and attacks her. During the ensuing battle, Faith almost drowns Buffy in the pool, but comes to her senses in time, telling her to shut up. At that moment, Willow teleports Buffy back to Scotland, leaving Faith alone and shaken. While Buffy orders Willow to contact Giles immediately, back at the Savidge residence, Faith sits crestfallen as Genevieve approaches, prepared to swing an axe at her head, realizing that her friend has betrayed her.
Episode 9
No Future for You: Part 4
Sun, Sep 12, 2010 15 mins
Slayers battle to the death in the thrilling conclusion.
Episode 10
Anywhere but Here
Thu, Aug 19, 2010 15 mins
Buffy and Willow meet a demon who reveals a dim future, forcing the two to reflect on their past. Meanwhile, back in Scotland, Dawn confides in Xander the deed that led to her mysterious growth spurt.
Episode 11
A Beautiful Sunset
Thu, Aug 26, 2010 15 mins
An ill-prepared Buffy comes face to face with the new Big Bad in the form of an old-fashioned death match.
Episode 12
Wolves at the Gate: Part 1
Sun, Oct 3, 2010 15 mins
At night, Xander and Renee observe a pack of wolves lingering by the moor. Willow arrives at the castle with Andrew, who sends himself off to bed right away, just as Willow is attacked by a mysterious woman, Kumiko Ishihara, shrouded in fog. Meanwhile, Buffy and Satsu talk together in bed as the two just had sex. Buffy says she had a wonderful night, but asks that Satsu not to tell anybody about it to the other Slayers.
Episode 13
Wolves at the Gate: Part 2
Sun, Oct 10, 2010 15 mins
Fifteen minutes prior to Xander and Renee's visit, Dracula reflects on his solitude. He now appears as a bearded old man in a soiled bathrobe. His demonic butler Butterfield walks in and encourages him to get out of his depressive state. Their conversation reveals that Dracula has been drinking heavily and rarely leaves his room, not having killed 'so much as a peasant' in months. He worries that people are beginning to wonder what has become of the mighty Dracula. He suddenly musters his energy, however, when he notices Xander landing his helicopter outside of his castle. He orders Butterfield to get him a razor. Clean shaven and seemingly young again, Dracula greets Xander at the door by calling him "manservant," to which Xander reciprocates by calling him "master."
Episode 14
Wolves at the Gate: Part 3
Sun, Oct 17, 2010 15 mins
Buffy and the Slayers finally arrive in Tokyo to find Aiko's body strung up against a skyscraper. Beneath the corpse reads a message written with Aiko's blood, "welcoming" them to Tokyo. Buffy orders her body to be cut down and carries it to the Tokyo Slayer headquarters. She lays the body in a Buddhist temple and sits in the corner of the room for the remainder of the day in despair. At night, Willow approaches her and proposes conjuring a blanket for her. Just then, Dracula and Xander arrive. Dracula mocks Buffy for not considering performing the rudimentary containment spell called Carolina's Grasp to defeat Toru, despite her and Willow's unawareness of it. Toru waits in his luxurious flat with the lens established on the roof. He discusses Buffy's arrival with his minion and orders him to gather all of his vampires.
Episode 15
Wolves at the Gate: Part 4
Sun, Oct 24, 2010 15 mins
The issue opens with Renee's thoughts and regrets as she dies. As Xander is overcome by grief and holds her as her life slips away, Dracula sends Buffy for Willow. Buffy replies that she cannot leave Xander alone, and Dracula vamps out and fights to his side, replying that he is not. Willow, in turn, is locked in mid-air combat with Kumiko. Kumiko deflects Willow's attacks easily, revealing that they are both students of Saga Vasuki and thus knows the counters to her spells: they "speak the same language". This prompts Willow to say "Good. Talk to me".
Episode 16
Time of Your Life: Part 1
Sun, Oct 31, 2010 15 mins
On a hot tip, Buffy and Willow head to Manhattan hoping to unlock the secrets of Buffy's mysterious scythe.
Episode 17
Time of Your Life: Part 2
Sun, Nov 7, 2010 15 mins
After a shaky introduction, Buffy and Fray must join forces in order to discover the purpose of their meeting, and its impact on the world at large.
Episode 18
Time of Your Life: Part 3
Sun, Nov 14, 2010 15 mins
A powerful enemy from Buffy's past confronts the Slayer and Fray in the future, having allied with Fray's greatest foe. Meanwhile, Dawn's gone through another bizarre change.
Episode 19
Time of Your Life: Part 4
Sun, Nov 21, 2010 15 mins
In the future, Dark Willow is musing on how long she has lived and how she dislikes living through history while Buffy is chained up unconscious to a chair in Fray's apartment. Fray asks what the plan is, telling Dark Willow that she won't kill a slayer, no matter what Dark Willow has shown her. Willow tells Fray to keep Buffy there long enough to miss the "extraction" at midnight; she seems to want Buffy not to go back to the present. Fray tells Erin what Dark Willow showed her: that if Buffy goes back, she will "change the world". Dark Willow has told her that Buffy going back to the present will result in changes that will mean Fray's future will not come to pass.
