Buffy 5x01 Buffy vs. Dracula, spoilers through S7

Is this one of the much maligned episodes like Beer Bad? For some reason I just have this impression in my brain that it wasn't going to be a great episode.

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McKillip, Patricia A. - The Changeling Sea

Liked it quite a bit. I loved the strange logic of it and the way McKillip can make gold chains turning to flowers, sea-dragons who are only human part of the time, and a soul-deep yearning for the sea seem to matter of fact and yet so magical at the same time.

I particularly liked the image of a heavy golden chain turning into hundreds and hundreds of little flowers floating on the ocean.

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I don't know what else to say, besides the fact that it felt like an old fairy story recently rediscovered and that I loved the images of moonlight hexes and the ocean.