BACK IN DEPRESSIONVILLE - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reaction - 5x19 - Tough Love
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The newest video in my editor reacts to series. This week I'm watching and reacting to Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time.
When Tara falls victim to Glory's incredible power, Willow embraces dark magic and launches a counterattack.
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A young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American supernatural drama television series based on the 1992 film of the same name. It was created by Joss Whedon under his production tag, Mutant Enemy Productions, with later co-executive producers being Jane Espenson, David Fury, David Greenwalt, Doug Petrie, Marti Noxon, and David Solomon.
The series narrative follows Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar), the latest in a line of young women known as "Vampire Slayers", or simply "Slayers". In the story, Slayers, or the "Chosen Ones", are chosen by fate to battle against vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. Buffy wants to live a normal life, but as the series progresses, she learns to embrace her destiny. Like previous Slayers, Buffy is aided by a Watcher, who guides, teaches and trains her. Unlike her predecessors, Buffy surrounds herself with a circle of loyal friends who become known as the "Scooby Gang" - a reference to the animated franchise Scooby-Doo that features a group of friends solving mysteries together.
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hey guys! just heads up. i watched these episodes according to the slayalive watch guide, so that means i watched this episode and then the rest of s5 of Buffy and then I watched 7 episodes of Angel in a row. Now I wanna break up the episodes a bit for youtube, so I just wanted to let you know that if you watch a reaction where I mention sth that happens in an ep that you haven't yet seen a reaction to, it's not a mistake nor did you miss out on a reaction. Hope you enjoy the reaction :)
Hi Lexi,... are you French??? 🤔
Just wondering! 😅
She's Dutch I think
@@hugobomb Oh! 🙂
After this, it's best to alternate between Buffy and Angel, the order in which they originally aired. Over the next two seasons there are a few crossovers between the two series, which won't make sense and/or will be spoiled for you if you aren't at the same point in both series at the same time.
@@hugobomb Pretty sure she's from Hungary.
I both love and hate the irony of the fact that Tara was the one who revealed the Key to Glory, despite her efforts of sacrificing herself/her sanity (something she was terrified of upon learning that Glory is a "brain sucker") to protect Dawn earlier in the episode.
I'm sort of fine with it. Maybe I'm a bit too much of an idealist to just discount what would be the consequences but Tara won when it really counted.
And it is also Tara who announced her sister to Buffy in the episode RESTLESS... I don't think it's a coincidence
Glory - "I'm hungry." Lexi - "Quick! Everybody hide your brains!" :D
How is this not a meme yet? This video has been up for almost an hour.
"I owe you pain" feels more like it was directed at the audience from the writers.
love that Tara didn't give in to Glory, Even with her hand being crushed and about to lose her mind she didn't give up Dawn.
One of my favorite parts of this video-
Glory: I'm hungry
Lexi: Everybody hide your brains
(Willow shows up at Glory's)
"Um. Bro. Her eyes! 👀"
(Glory shows up at the end)
"You gotta be fucking shitting me. Let me cry in peace you bitch!" 🤣
Love you Lexi! ♥
We’re all watching Lexi become more and more unhinged this season. I wonder if she sent Mutant Enemy her therapy bill?
The best part of that fight was when Glory says what's this bag of tricks and Willow says bag of knives.
02:15 "I'm going to go on a f* spiral"
Ehh, no sweetie, that is not now, that is the next episode.... 😅
I think what viewers mean about this being their favorite season is that this season is the most dramatic, and the one that really succeeds at pulling on people's heartstrings. It definitely can't be because of what happened.
One of my favorite episodes in the series. Willow going after Glory is just so fucking iconic, it's incredible. For her to actually make a GOD scream in pain? Like, damn!
Also, I love that Spike knows Willow so well... and imo it shows that Buffy is kinda out of touch with her friends? Is that just me?
Yet another great reaction! Also, I *love* your hair, the color is just so gorgeous!
Spike has seen Willow at some of her lowest times and vice versa. So this would make sense.
SPOILERS:
It’s partly the reason I wished Dark Willow and Spike had interacted. I could just imagine Dark Willow saying something like “Now who’s the victim?” and drawing on their short interactions together throughout the years to get to him.
My favorite part of this episode is Glory in the bath with her blindfolded minions--it's just too adorable!
Season 5 is a lot of fans' favorite season, because it's excellent. But it's also a prerequisite for surviving season 6. If you can get through all this, perhaps you're prepared for season 6. Guess we'll see.
"Well that's right, foreigner."
“Then we had Dark Willow, which was kinda fun as well but also a little concerning.”
Dark Willow is very fun. But those black contacts cannot be very comfortable to wear so I can’t imagine it was very fun for Alyson Hannigan.
Something interesting I noticed: in a lot of two-shots with DarkWillow, Alyson is standing differently than she normally does; her silhouette is different. I wonder if those contacts threw off her orientation and she had to tilt herself to stay balanced.
@@Theomite very likely. She hated those contacts.
Derpressionville, aka Whedontown.
I thought Whedontown was Patheticville...
"Is Buffy dying ?" "Here's my gift, it's my corpse !" "Is Dawn gonna be the next slayer ?"
We've left Happyville behind a long time ago and taken permanent residence in Depressionville
SPOILER(?) And it's only going downhill from here...I mean...S5 still has some sort of balance between depression and lighthearted...S6&7 are just UNBEARABLE!X-PP
That charger joke really caught me by surprise, very funny!
I love hearing your thoughts and predictions afterwards. Makes me so excited for you to watch the rest of the show.
"I'd do it. Right person. Person I loved."
And, in fact, he did in the previous episode.
Season 6 is my favorite because mostly who the big bad is but also because it's when I started watching the series. Which it is weird to start at season six but this was back when it was airing on tv and only way to binge it was to buy the DVD box sets. Luckily I told my friend I was watching it and he lent me the box set of the first 5 seasons so I was able to catch up. Till this day Buffy/Angel are my favorite tv shows.
You made a good point, none of the characters have a child or a sibling until now. Giles is a parental figure but not a parent.
I love season 5. It's my favorite season!
I wonder if Lexi is going to run out of clips of people screaming by the end of this season...
I mean this season is tragic and terrible things keep happening, but I've come to the conclusion Buffy fans are just used to pain 🤣 It's my favourite and it also makes me cry every time I watch it.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: It Can Always Get Worse!! I swear to god lmao
Well.. anyone that have tried to write stories knows that you can end it on a good note, but having long term shiny happy people is quick to get boring.
I mean, I wrote a Harry Potter fanfiction redoing years 3-7, thinking that by adding a few original characters to help Harry, everything could just get smooth for him... I wasn't halfway through the 2nd year of my characters at Hogwarts that I realized how boring it started to get, and that I had to put some serious shit to keep it entertaining. (Plus Deathly Hallows came out during the writing, and I realized there are bad things that were absolutely necessary in order for Harry to succeed in defeating Voldy).
Anyway, what I wanted to say is that I don't think that it's just Buffy fans.
I can tell you from personal experience that unless you are going through all of this kind of horrible stuff in order to fight a major bad guy it will just eventually break you. Trauma is like water with enough time and intensity it can destroy anything.
"Everybody hide your brains"
Wow, I'm sure you filmed this well before comments on your last videos but the lighting here with your new camera is way better in this video compared to your Dead End reaction for Angel from yesterday. I'm looking at them side-by-side right now and this lighting quality is night and day better. Good job tweaking things so quickly to get it looking right, everything is perfect on this one visually and the new camera is really paying off!
Keep up the great work!
I love Spike comforting Dawn with truth in this episode, it reminds me of when he punched Tara in the face in "Family"
So this was a very minor part of your review, but I have to babble about it because I’ve always had this theory since we learned more of both Xander and Giles backstories. I think the reason he’s a lot more loud and expressive with Xander than he necessarily is with Buffy and Willow (he tends to be a lot more measured, quiet, and disappointed with them when they majorly screw up) is that Giles dad was incredibly hard on him and set high expectations for him and his response was to do something terribly wrong by meddling in magics he couldn’t control. When Xander casts the love spell, or fails to watch Oz, it’s a weird parallel to how I imagine Giles dad reacting whenever Giles screwed up because in the dad’s mind so much was riding on Giles fulfilling his destiny and becoming a Watcher. I kind of head canon that a little of Giles’ dad spills out on Xander a lot because Xander is a young man making some very big mistakes.
It's funny how h0t Anthony Head is. Every season of Buffy was like a different version of him. He's just 6'1" of crazyh0t tho, like f**king legit.
I appreciate the show's attention to detail and how they integrate logic and realism organically into the story. Whenever I'm watching something that ignores or glosses over the details, it takes me out of it and makes me like it less. Like in Scream 5, there was a part where they think the killer is dead, and yet one character sends everyone else off to flee so they can confirm the kill/finish them off alone. Like, why do they still need to flee, and why can't they stick together? The answer to questions like these is usually just easily fixable bad writing. It means the writers don't care enough to take it seriously, so that means I can't either.
As for Giles, he is absolutely someone anyone would be lucky to have in their life. No one wants to see their loved ones being angry, but Giles is completely justified in every instance we see, and we never see it turn into abuse against the people he cares about. Willow, Buffy, and Cordelia have yelled at Xander more than Giles has.
38:45 "You know what on second thought let's not go to [Dark Willow], its a silly place"
😂😂😂 🎶We eat ham and jam and spam a lot!🎶
So Buffy really likes poetry? Who does she know who was once an aspiring poet?
Maybe it was Owen who sparked Buffy's interest in poetry...
Joss Whedon doesn't give us what we want, he gives us what we need. We might have thought we needed some more Bangel, or some Biley (well ... no, not really) or some new love interest for Buffy. But no, we didn't know we needed Spuffy so much until now. And there we go...
Except the only reason that Spike is still in this show is b/c of his popularity. If Joss had his way, he'd be killed off by now.
@@jp3813 Yes, James Masters did such a good job that he became a regular. What they did with the character's arc is brilliant imo
This episode found me siding more with Tara than Willow, possibly because I've also experienced loss of family members. In this scenario, Tara better understands what Buffy is going through.
8:35 damn Lexi really hit the nail on the head
I hate the irony that Tara lost her mind to protect Dawn, but she unwittingly revealed Dawn was the Key after she lost her mind.
It’s about to get SO GOOD. I’m so excited for you 😂 ❤
I love how spike calls out buffy on her blindness towards willow going after glory
"This gonna be the death of me" oh my sweet summer child...
I'm melancholic af and prefer sadder stuff (if it feels real and not maudlin or sensationalized, anyways), and I always liked the higher stakes character conflicts surrounding Buffy's responsibility and choice (ie: S2 and S5 season finales absolutely go the hardest and are the most satisfying to me) so I was always one who said s5 was my fav. Often being left with the desolation or sorrow of something (if well executed/'realistic', ofc) is that much better to me because it basically haunts you and therefore just sticks with you more, so in a way you can get more satisfaction from it because your involvement ends up feeling both longer and like more substantial or honest or deep or something. Like I like fun stuff too, but it's also weirdly gratifying to have something just crawl into your psyche and never leave, sometimes ghosts make good long term companions lol. Even as a kid my favorite episodes were Restless and The Body because I could watch those a lot and still get a really strong emotional impact from it lol (I guess I like em trippy and sad) Everyone is different, though, I'm literally just like the paradigmatic example of someone with a melancholic temperament imo so it's just natural I'd have these particular opinions as an extension of that lol...
i always wanted Tara and Fred to meet
I'm always impressed on HOW THE F*^€ NO ONE SINGLE SOUL SAW GLORY DOING THIS TO TARA IN THE DAYLIGHT!
Sunnydale should be called Darkdalle or Blindale
25:45 Glory wasn't responsible for figuring it out, Willow was. Willow kicked the hornets nest just to make herself hurt less.
And why? Because Willow thinks magic is the solution to everything. Which is how her fight with Tara started.
If Willow hadn’t gone after Glory and almost getting herself killed in the process, Glory wouldn’t have gone after them in that scene (although even still Glory would have figured out the key eventually she was set on attacking them all one by one until she found out who it was.)
@@TheJayden3977 Exactly my point.
@@DaDunge
Yup. I get she was vengeful but also it was so incredibly foolish.
True. And if Willow and Tara hadn't had the fight, Tara would not have been alone at that time, and maybe Willow could have done something to help Tara get away from Glory before she ate her mind.
Hey 😺 I just found your channel today, looking for Buffy reactions, and I really love your videos 😻 I really need to know also; what lipstick are you wearing here?? I love the shade sooo much 😺🌷
As a longtime smoker, I can understand where your charger is coming from..
i have SO many things i want to say in response to the intro but i can't say anything without spoiling everything so i won't talk about that 😂but this is my favorite season - so i'll explain myself. part of why i think this season is my favorite is because of where it falls in the series (in my opinion season 4 is kind of a dud in a lot of ways despite having some really good stand alone episodes and season 6 is brutal despite having some extremely interesting story lines). i like glory as the big bad because she's not just a menace she's also funny. i actually like the introduction of dawn and her role in the story. and finally, this is my favorite because the season finale is my all time favorite episode of this series. it managed to take me by surprise when i watched it the first time, and even after watching this series at least 10 times through, it still hits me like it did the first time i saw it. bonus points for the monologue at the end that always gives me courage when i need it.
Not sure where you are on Patreon BUT I highly recommend you check out the promos for Season 6. ZERO spoilers and they are beautiful and chilling.
ugh outside, the horror. theres people out there did u know that lol
Awful
This seems a very valid reaction to this episode! 😢
Posting my BUFFY REWATCH recap for ‘Tough Love’. May contain spoilers.
In 'Tough Love', Willow and Tara have a fight about several things, but mainly and eventually the point of Tara being frightened by how powerful Willow is becoming as a Wiccan and what that means for her "fitting into her life" going forward as she accumulates more and more power. Willow immediately interprets that as her not trusting her when it comes to her sexuality. That she'll suddenly "switch" to straight again. Remember - bisexuality wasn't something very well understood back then, so the choice to avoid mentioning it in TV was less controversial. It was either you were straight or you were gay. Pick one.
This argument between Willow and Tara shows you how conscious and careful the writers were in how they wrote this relationship, and specifically, how Willow perceives it compared to Tara or the other characters. Willow absolutely perceives herself as a GAY WOMAN. She's not confused or conflicted. Could they have written the transitioning for Willow from straight-to gay better? Of course they could. They could have written a coming-out story for her and not just a coming-out confession to Buffy. But see, the thing is, they knew that they were walking a fine line between writing Willow's experiences accurately and explicitly... And writing the relationship in such a way where the audience watching might perceive it as not being a serious and committed relationship. Might perceive it as just being college experimentation. And so they have the character themselves express how insulted they feel by that perception. And even with their own girlfriend. Willow is basically stating "you can't decide for me" and that's absolutely in line with their whole character arc. The “this is my decision”. This decision being that they have identified themselves as “gay”.
A person being able to identify themselves is incredibly important, and showcasing that in TV, especially in the 90′s/early 2000′s, is incredibly validating for anyone who relates to this character for their self-identification. Yes, Willow is just a fictional character and obviously so are the other characters. I get that. But I also get that art/entertainment is a reflection of real life. So that means Willow, and the other characters, are a reflection of real people. Willow, the person, identifies themselves as “gay”, they express themselves emphatically as “gay”, and they aren't comfortable with being perceived as anything other than “gay”.
yes, in this house we like fun. fun fun fun xD
You said so much thing in the intro that are both true and false. That's why this show is Amazing! Enjoy the ending or this AMAZING Season! 😂
lol, end the season with a funeral for Dawn she says. I remember when I too was innocent.
oh this episode
(Concerned squeaky voice) My favorite season is season 3...
That's my second favorite, after 5.
So Buffy really likes poetry. Maybe she needs a guy who is a poet.
omg this comment
Crap! I skipped :'the body's for a couple days but it didn't help when I finally watched so I guess I'll watch you suffer through this now.
Silly you. You can't have a funeral/ burial for a key.
Lexi likes Giles "The Ripper" because he is a good man.
Good men are dangerous men that have their power under their own control and they decide to not use it for bad reasons.
If you analyse the scene, Giles make Willow and Anya look away when he "break" the "hobbit with leprosy".
He doesn't want expose them to his "hard core" side and unneeded violence.
Also speed up the scene, hearing is better than showing and cost less.
Lexi is wrong about the scene with Xander.
People like Giles very, very, rarely become loud when they are about to use violence.
They use their "peaceful" options first and they don't work (being loud could be one of them).
But when they deliberate to use violence they become calm, because they must turn a switch ON and OFF.
I just want to know whose decision it was to allow Dawn and Tara in the same room while Tara was mentally incompetent and so shortly after Glory swore revenge ("this isn't over"). Perhaps that is why it wasn't shown. It would've been like Peter Quill hitting Thanos as they tried to get the glove off. Blame directed by audience and characters. Personally, I think considering how blasé about the importance of things in this episode Willow was, it seems more like a her decision. But Buffy OK-ing it isn't good either. Nor does vice versa make it look good. And if Dawn, Buffy and Willow knew better.
Just imagine if they defeat Glory in ep 21, like in S4😆? Hello.
07:35 - 08:14 As a hardcore anti-Spuffy person I admit this is the most reasonable/well put pro-Spuffy argument I have ever heared.ù___U I also love how you parted very clear your TV show love for Giles and the Ripper and your real life concern about him.👍
08:32 - 08:44 😅😅😅😅😅
16:37 - 16:48 Excellent point.😆 16:49 - 16:58 OMG,that jumpscare was so perfect!!You scared me!!🤣
20:26 - 20:41 Do you remember how well that worked last time,Buffy?!?You know...in"Dopplegangland"?!?!
23:28 - 23:31 This is *LITERALLY* me at Hook at the end of ep 3x11 of"Once Upon a Time"!🤬💢
25:44 - 25:53 And yet it's cruelly ironic that she refused to tell Glory who the Key was and then _because of that_ she ultimately was *still* the one who revealed that to her!So basically if she just told her from the beginning maybe the final result would have been the same...but with Tara not turning mad!X-[
I love what this show does to people 🧡