A review by wyrmbergmalcolm
Night of the Living Rerun by Arthur Byron Cover

2.0

Set during season 1 of the TV show, this stand-alone story sees Buffy and the gang dream a lot. For such a small story, there are a lot of characters and a convoluted plot. There are some interesting moments, particularly, Xander's possession by the ghost of a witch (and walking as used to a different set of hips), but there's an awful lot of not much really happening. Giles is ill, Willow sits at a computer, Buffy can't kill (the baddies are possessed, not evil), Angel's off brooding somewhere and...oh wait, it's season one, that's that whole gang. Conversely, adding the Master as the main evil behind the shenanigans actually made what plot there was, nonsensical. As with Coyote Moon, the whole big evil bad thing that could threaten life as we know it is...suddenly defeated and that's it, the end.
This could almost be truncated to the sequence before the opening credits which would then lead into the real meat of the story