Freya checks out the axe and says, "I see you've found our weapon." She also tells Buffy that she's the last one of many, and she's been waiting for Buffy. Buffy wants to know what Freya is, but the mysterious woman doesn't give a direct answer; she just implies that she's real and very, very old. Freya holds out her hands for the axe, and Buffy totally surprises me by handing it over. Then I caught my breath because I thought Freya might use it to lop Buffy's head off, which would've been a real shocker and an exciting development, but instead there's more talking. Of course. Freya claims to have been on the team that buried the axe in rock in Sunnydale for whatever inscrutable reason. Don't think we're getting an answer on anything here. Buffy wants to know what the shiny weapon is. I scare both Latch and Brit Boy by bursting out, "IT'S AN AXE, YOU MORON!" But no, Freya says it's a scythe. She obviously hasn't been reading her dictionary, or manuals of weaponry, while she's been waiting for centuries in her boring crypt. I guess a nice library wasn't part of the deal. Freya asks Buffy's name and gets all, "No, really," when she hears what it is, but with a name like Freya, I'm not sure where she gets off making fun of "Buffy." All aboard! Please hand your tickets to the conductor and join me on the Exposition Train, folks, because it's pulling out of the station now. Destination unknown, but on the way we'll go by the quaint village of The Shadow Men Became The Watchers, the rolling mountain range we call Freya's Folk Watched The Watchers, and the large metropolis of Freya Calls Herself A Guardian. Then she actually has the gall to say that she's one of many "women who want to help and protect [Buffy]." Man, is she full of shit or what? She "wanted" to help and protect Buffy, but what? She discovered soap operas, had a little TV installed in her crypt, and the time just flew while she was watching her stories instead of the Slayers? I've been watching this show for seven years, and I know for a fact that the "Guardians" didn't do a goddamn thing for Buffy, Faith, or Kendra. She didn't even know Buffy's name!









