i was a bit too tired to record an “editing domi” POV on this episode but i did wanna take a second and say WOAH! i feel like this episode gets even better when rewatching (especially once i have the full s5 context), and i really really appreciated looking back on this ep!! ❤❤ so good!!!
Aww hope you get chance to include "editing domi" in others keys eps of the season.. its a nice touch. Thanks for another great reaction. was fun watchin some parts that "confused" you, sure will be fun to see when you realize how things happened
The way Michelle Trachtenberg plays the cutting scene is brutally good. "Am I real? Am I anything?" Kills me every time. Such a fantastic performance out of someone so young.
What this episode proves beyond a shadow of a doubt is that Spike is a Swiss Army Sidekick: you put him with any of the Scooby's (and some who aren't) and he's immediately the second banana who makes the duo a team. I'll never forgive Joss for never giving us a dedicated Spike & Joyce episode; it would've been legendary.
Great reaction, Domi! I really appreciated your considerations about what being a family is and how the show explores this theme through this season. A real family goes beyond blood ties, it's the bunch of people you chose to share your life with day after day, those you really love and care about, those who will be always be there for you no matter what.
summers blood .in a way dawn is more of buffy's daughter because she was created from her blood and not joyce's. if buffy was 15 or 20 years older the monks probably would have created her just like that.(by the way, great acting by Michelle Trachtenberg, right?)
One thing I appreciated about Buffy in this rewatch is that she let her friends in on a crucial secret. Her character gets criticized so often for isolated herself so I love seeing examples of trusting others and letting them in. Weather or not it was the right choice I another story, lol.
Spike/Dawn falls in a long line of violent man/innocent girl pairings that's become a lot more relevant since then with "The Professional", "Logan" and "The Last of Us", etc... (with comic book Logan/Kitty as an antecedent)
Some brilliant dramatic scenes in this episode. The scene where Dawn cuts herself was so hard to watch, that coupled with the fact that she is realising that her life has been a lie, and she doesn't know her true belonging. Spike has always spoke the truth to Buffy, and is always the most perceptive all them all. Some light relief when he says to Buffy 'not only is she a blob of energy but also a 14 year old hormone bomb' The Ben/Glory reveal incredible at the time. Such a powerful scene at the end when Buffy joins hands with Dawn saying it was 'Summers Blood' prophetic words indeed. A truly amazing arc now building in the S5.
Wait a minute...Glory is Ben. 😁🤣 Buffy and Spike have an interesting relationship. She has to always remember that he's soulless. And yet he continually shows her that being so doesn't mean the lack of one instantly means a person will be Angelus. Spike cares about her and her family... as much as a soulless person with the memories of William can. It's not to say he doesn't care, more so to say Buffy should be just as weary of him as she should of been (but wasn't) with Angel. Spike cares bcause of who he was as William, but he's still soulless. A great and smaller example is after reading that Dawn's the key aloud he says to an emotionally distraught Dawn "Guess that's you Nibblett." Someone with a soul would try to comfort her. He puts Buffy in her place later, but there was no direct worry for Dawn's emotions because he only understands them to a point. He understands what he explains to Buffy later about teenagers, but emotional intricacies are too complex for soulless creatures. Spike has the right to put Buffy in her place when she tries to yell at him for Dawn sneaking out and her not saying anything to Dawn before The Scoobies. Everything he says is true. But _watching over The Little Bit_ wasn't quite as important to him as Dawn bribing him with "steal[ing] stuff" if he didn't narc on her. It attracted Spike more than anything. The whole situation is very complex because, back to why Buffy needs to be careful, she denies a little to quickly and vehemenently, as well as not believably in any way, "He's not my boyfriend." She falling for him and in denial about it.
Its also a running theme with these two. People mistaking them for exes/going out. This is the second time it has happened in the series. They give off the energy of a couple obviously, and she can't see it but others can lol. (Parker and Glory)
@@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165 I don't know, I'm not one of her patrons, I just know she and Lexy (who I am a patron of), did a Buffy trivia thing a couple of months ago with questions up to the end of S5, all the players had finished S5. So Domi's YT is at least a couple of months behind her Patreon and she has finished S5.
Posting my BUFFY REWATCH recap for ‘Blood Ties’. May contain spoilers. For this episode recap of ‘Blood Ties’, we’re going back to the theme of withholding information that we had in Season 4 with Willow withholding her romantic/sexual relationship with Tara from Buffy and the Gang, and Buffy withholding information of Riley being an Initiative Commando from Giles. But this time the reason to withhold information is much more serious as this is about Dawn’s true nature as the Key. Therefore, it would be information that would put the Scoobies in danger if they knew about her being it. Buffy only tells Giles this information as soon she finds out for herself, and they decide together that it’s for the best that no one else knows, lest they be targeted by Glory - who is looking for the Key to open a portal to get back to her Hell dimension. I wanted to address this withholding of information from the other Scoobies because “it’s too dangerous” to know it because it’s a common occurrence that Buffy uses the “it’s too dangerous” excuse when it comes to Willow and Xander. Knowing they’re willing volunteers in aiding her in the Slayage, she often worries about their safety when she’s really got a challenge on her hands. And I would say Glory is the biggest challenge she’s faced so far. As a Hell God, Glory is the strongest Big Bad Buffy has come across yet. She’s even stronger than Adam - so she probably thinks that the enjoining spell (where she, Willow, Xander and Giles combined their essences to defeat Adam when he was just too strong for Buffy to take on alone in the Season 4 climax) wouldn’t be helpful this time. So she and Giles figured that keeping them out-of-the-loop on the Key was the best thing to do to both keep Willow/Xander/Scooby Gang safe and protect Dawn. But see... the thing is, is they’re not going to take ‘no’ for an answer. Willow and Xander specifically (and Giles, to some degree, with officially being her assigned, and recently reinstated, Watcher) will always risk their lives not just because they’re the Slayer’s best friends - (and Watcher/Father figure) - but also because they’ve chosen their fate a long time ago. They were aware of the dangers and the risks and the consequences from pretty much the start of Buffy’s Slayer journey, and they chose to be willing participants in helping Buffy anyway. So now it doesn’t matter whether Buffy is around to fight evil as they’re going to be doing it anyway... because they’ve CHOSEN to do it. And that’s a very important word in the context of this subject because Buffy had no choice. I bring up Willow’s conversation with Buffy in the episode ‘Choices’ in telling her where she’ll be going to college after graduating from Sunnydale High School: Buffy: “I'm never getting out of here. I kept thinking if I stopped the Mayor or... but I was kidding myself. I mean, there is always going to be something. I'm a Sunnydale girl,... no other choice.” Willow: “Must be tough. I mean, here I am... I can do anything I want. I can go to any college in the country. Four or five in Europe if I want.” Buffy: “Please tell me you're going somewhere with this?” Willow: “No. *Hands Buffy a letter* I'm not going anywhere.” Buffy: *Reads the letter* “UC Sunnydale?” Willow: “I will be matriculating with Class of 2003.” Buffy: “Are you serious?” Willow: “Say,... isn't that where you're going?” *Buffy hugs her and they tumble onto the ground* Buffy: “I can't believe it! Are you serious?! Ah, wait, what am I saying? You can't.” Willow: “What do you mean, ‘I can't?’” Buffy: “I won't let you.” Willow: “Of the two people here, which is the boss of me?” Buffy: “There are better schools.” Willow: “Sunnydale's not bad. And I can design my own curriculum.” Buffy: “Okay, well, there are safer schools. There are safer prisons. I can't let you stay because of me.” Willow: "Actually, this isn't about you. Although I'm fond, don't get me wrong, of you. The other night, you know, being captured and all, facing off with Faith. Things just, kind of, got clear. I mean, you've been fighting evil here for three years, and I've helped some, and now we're supposed to decide what we want to do with our lives. And I just realized that that's what I want to do. Fight evil, help people. I mean, I think it's worth doing. And I don't think you do it because you have to. It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in.” Buffy: “I kind of love you.” Willow: “And, besides, I have a shot at being a bad ass Wiccan, and what better place to learn?” It’s not about Buffy. It’s about fighting the good fight. Fighting against evil. Big Bad evil, the likes of Glory, especially. Maybe it makes some sense to play the whole “it’s too dangerous” card with Xander since he doesn’t have any physical/practical and/or mystical/magical powers... but it doesn’t make sense to play it with Willow. Willow now knows who she is and what she wants. Even if she doesn’t always believe in herself, she’s at least self-aware enough to know what it is that makes her tick. She wants to feel the heroicness of Buffy in helping the innocent for herself. Willow wants the power... and now she’s got the power... there is no reason why she shouldn’t be allowed to know information that would put her in danger or make her a target when she clearly shows, and does later prove when Glory targets Tara, that she’s the only one strong and powerful enough to hurt her and protect everyone, including Dawn, from Glory. “The Slayer thing really isn't about the violence. It's about the power.” It ultimately comes down to Buffy thinking she’s burdening her friends with having to take on the responsibility of Slayage. But she’s all wrong. Her friends - especially Willow - have CHOSEN this life. And it’s literally Giles’ job so... get a clue, Slayer. You’re better off when you have help. Your ties to the world do not weaken you. They make you stronger. There is always danger, there is always risk, there is always consequences. But someone’s CHOICE is all that matters. Just because YOU didn’t get a choice in the matter doesn’t mean you can “relieve” the Scoobies from theirs in the name of “it’s too dangerous" because it is also too dangerous for you to be without them too, Buffy.
Certain themes and symbols are reeiterated. In S3, towards the finale, Xander plays a KEY part in the plan. When Angel is brought aboard Xander is said to be "Key guy" and Angel, are doing things in a not-key-guy-capacity. Here we have Xander given screen time to tell Giles that the key has a cruch on him. I feel like Im missing something cool.
I always thought of Dawn as more of Buffy's daughter. Especially in the last seasons. They made her from her genetic material, not her Mom & Dad's genetic material.
@sirmoonslosthismind Domi E has commented that she's seen season 5 so I think the only spoiler thing is eluding to the relationship they have in 6 and 7. Aside from that I don't really agree with the comment. It's never explicitly said who's blood they took from. They easily could have used Joyce and hanks blood and gotten the same results.
@@boqndimitrov8693 theres been so many times where either he says something that rattles her about Angel or someone says this amd she flips the f**k out and gets the upper hand 🤣
17:31 punch is really funny. Is it aerobics, Buffy? Or a dance? 😁 When she appears in a scene with a line 'conversation is over, bitch' it's so pretentious. It's absolutely like in comics some hero arrives to fight a big bad. They usually say smth like this.
The trust between Buffy and Spike is the kind that can only come from repetition of consistent behavior over time. He earns it in a way Angel never did or could. There's always the risk of Angel turning into Angelus because he never was strong enough to take accountability and unify his two sides. He represses and broods and expects rewards for his good behavior. Spike acknowledges and owns his past and his humanity and demon sides are unified so there's no risk of him turning evil. His demon cares for the Scoobies and his demon can coexist with his humanity. A house divided (Angel) will fall.
He absolutely did not expect rewards for his good behaviour. He spent the first season of his show toiling away to save people with no idea that there could be any kind of reward for him at all until he learned about the Shanshu prophecy at the end, and Cordelia had to talk him into charging money for solving cases. Angel has many flaws, but entitlement isn't one of them. Meanwhile, Spike explicitly told Buffy that he wanted credit for not feeding from bleeding disaster victims a few episodes ago and was genuinely annoyed that Buffy didn't give it. I like both characters, but saying that Angel should take lessons in lack of entitlement from *Spike* is a take I never imagined anyone would have.
22:23 Oh that’s the one thing that annoys TF out of me for the season: Dawn overhearing things at the wrong time is SUCH AN ANNOYING and a OVERUSED plot device.
i was a bit too tired to record an “editing domi” POV on this episode but i did wanna take a second and say WOAH! i feel like this episode gets even better when rewatching (especially once i have the full s5 context), and i really really appreciated looking back on this ep!! ❤❤ so good!!!
Yeah, the season is so good as it sets up so much with each and every episode.
Aww hope you get chance to include "editing domi" in others keys eps of the season.. its a nice touch. Thanks for another great reaction. was fun watchin some parts that "confused" you, sure will be fun to see when you realize how things happened
Michelle is so good this episode
Agreed, she really rocked it in this one.
She almost always does. There’s a reason that SMG was instrumental in MT being cast in the role.
@@artman2oo3 yea absolutely. I think the writing sometimes lets her down but she is fantastic
@@artman2oo3 They worked together on the now-late daytime soap opera, "All My Children".
agreed!!!
The way Michelle Trachtenberg plays the cutting scene is brutally good. "Am I real? Am I anything?" Kills me every time. Such a fantastic performance out of someone so young.
Hugging is a brilliant mom tactic that a) comforts you and
b) stalls for time while thinking of something to say.
😂😂😂
I absolutely adore Spike and Dawn's friendship!
I hate how they destroyed their friendship after season 6.. I loved their bond in season 5 and the beginning of season 6.
This episode parallells "Family" so beautifully. Tara and Dawn struggling with thoughts of not being real humans, and with their sense of belonging.
AHHH!!! yes!!!! love this connection ❤
That thumbnail though 😂 You know it's gonna be a good one
I LOVE U DUKEY!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Giles walking away from Xander's rant is one of my favorite funny off-beat moments in this episode!! It's was like "Gimme a break!" hahaha
What this episode proves beyond a shadow of a doubt is that Spike is a Swiss Army Sidekick: you put him with any of the Scooby's (and some who aren't) and he's immediately the second banana who makes the duo a team. I'll never forgive Joss for never giving us a dedicated Spike & Joyce episode; it would've been legendary.
That scene with Dawn covered in blood, absolutely stunning and terrifying 😳
Predictions are great even when (especially when) you're not great with them. Keep doing them!
thank you 😁😁😁i shall 🤗
Getting to revisit Season 5 through this, Glory really is such a good villain
Great reaction, Domi! I really appreciated your considerations about what being a family is and how the show explores this theme through this season. A real family goes beyond blood ties, it's the bunch of people you chose to share your life with day after day, those you really love and care about, those who will be always be there for you no matter what.
thank you!!! that’s so true❤
@16:50 "Don't scare me like this." - Are you new here?!
"How did she...F#!*K??" Made me laugh.
LOL when you put it like that 😂
summers blood .in a way dawn is more of buffy's daughter because she was created from her blood and not joyce's. if buffy was 15 or 20 years older the monks probably would have created her just like that.(by the way, great acting by Michelle Trachtenberg, right?)
One thing I appreciated about Buffy in this rewatch is that she let her friends in on a crucial secret. Her character gets criticized so often for isolated herself so I love seeing examples of trusting others and letting them in. Weather or not it was the right choice I another story, lol.
LOL! completely agree ❤
25:08 Interesting…you thought Glory switched places with Ben?
yep🫠silly domi… LOL. but i do figure it out eventually!!! do we… think there could be a connection in between glory and ben? hm….
@@domie LOL There may be…
@@domie I also thought Glory teleported in in place of Ben when I first watched, domi!
Spike/Dawn falls in a long line of violent man/innocent girl pairings that's become a lot more relevant since then with "The Professional", "Logan" and "The Last of Us", etc... (with comic book Logan/Kitty as an antecedent)
Some brilliant dramatic scenes in this episode. The scene where Dawn cuts herself was so hard to watch, that coupled with the fact that she is realising that her life has been a lie, and she doesn't know her true belonging. Spike has always spoke the truth to Buffy, and is always the most perceptive all them all. Some light relief when he says to Buffy 'not only is she a blob of energy but also a 14 year old hormone bomb' The Ben/Glory reveal incredible at the time. Such a powerful scene at the end when Buffy joins hands with Dawn saying it was 'Summers Blood' prophetic words indeed. A truly amazing arc now building in the S5.
Wait a minute...Glory is Ben. 😁🤣
Buffy and Spike have an interesting relationship. She has to always remember that he's soulless. And yet he continually shows her that being so doesn't mean the lack of one instantly means a person will be Angelus. Spike cares about her and her family... as much as a soulless person with the memories of William can. It's not to say he doesn't care, more so to say Buffy should be just as weary of him as she should of been (but wasn't) with Angel. Spike cares bcause of who he was as William, but he's still soulless. A great and smaller example is after reading that Dawn's the key aloud he says to an emotionally distraught Dawn "Guess that's you Nibblett." Someone with a soul would try to comfort her. He puts Buffy in her place later, but there was no direct worry for Dawn's emotions because he only understands them to a point. He understands what he explains to Buffy later about teenagers, but emotional intricacies are too complex for soulless creatures. Spike has the right to put Buffy in her place when she tries to yell at him for Dawn sneaking out and her not saying anything to Dawn before The Scoobies. Everything he says is true. But _watching over The Little Bit_ wasn't quite as important to him as Dawn bribing him with "steal[ing] stuff" if he didn't narc on her. It attracted Spike more than anything. The whole situation is very complex because, back to why Buffy needs to be careful, she denies a little to quickly and vehemenently, as well as not believably in any way, "He's not my boyfriend." She falling for him and in denial about it.
Its also a running theme with these two. People mistaking them for exes/going out. This is the second time it has happened in the series. They give off the energy of a couple obviously, and she can't see it but others can lol. (Parker and Glory)
Wait...so you're saying, Glory is Ben???
Hey comments, do y'all think there's some sort of connection between Ben and Glory?
Anybody else in limbo knowing she's probably watched 5x16 and just hasn't uploaded it yet and we still have 2 more episodes in between?
She's finished this whole season quite a while back
@@maiddenis she on s6 now?
@@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165 I don't know, I'm not one of her patrons, I just know she and Lexy (who I am a patron of), did a Buffy trivia thing a couple of months ago with questions up to the end of S5, all the players had finished S5. So Domi's YT is at least a couple of months behind her Patreon and she has finished S5.
@@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165 Yes. She's just taking a long time to put her reactions on TH-cam to influence people to become a patron.
@@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165She‘s on 6x17 currently.
"Seeing Dawn's spiral" lol spiral
Listening to your theories on Glory taking over Ben's body was a blast. :)
Posting my BUFFY REWATCH recap for ‘Blood Ties’. May contain spoilers.
For this episode recap of ‘Blood Ties’, we’re going back to the theme of withholding information that we had in Season 4 with Willow withholding her romantic/sexual relationship with Tara from Buffy and the Gang, and Buffy withholding information of Riley being an Initiative Commando from Giles. But this time the reason to withhold information is much more serious as this is about Dawn’s true nature as the Key. Therefore, it would be information that would put the Scoobies in danger if they knew about her being it. Buffy only tells Giles this information as soon she finds out for herself, and they decide together that it’s for the best that no one else knows, lest they be targeted by Glory - who is looking for the Key to open a portal to get back to her Hell dimension.
I wanted to address this withholding of information from the other Scoobies because “it’s too dangerous” to know it because it’s a common occurrence that Buffy uses the “it’s too dangerous” excuse when it comes to Willow and Xander. Knowing they’re willing volunteers in aiding her in the Slayage, she often worries about their safety when she’s really got a challenge on her hands. And I would say Glory is the biggest challenge she’s faced so far. As a Hell God, Glory is the strongest Big Bad Buffy has come across yet. She’s even stronger than Adam - so she probably thinks that the enjoining spell (where she, Willow, Xander and Giles combined their essences to defeat Adam when he was just too strong for Buffy to take on alone in the Season 4 climax) wouldn’t be helpful this time. So she and Giles figured that keeping them out-of-the-loop on the Key was the best thing to do to both keep Willow/Xander/Scooby Gang safe and protect Dawn.
But see... the thing is, is they’re not going to take ‘no’ for an answer. Willow and Xander specifically (and Giles, to some degree, with officially being her assigned, and recently reinstated, Watcher) will always risk their lives not just because they’re the Slayer’s best friends - (and Watcher/Father figure) - but also because they’ve chosen their fate a long time ago. They were aware of the dangers and the risks and the consequences from pretty much the start of Buffy’s Slayer journey, and they chose to be willing participants in helping Buffy anyway. So now it doesn’t matter whether Buffy is around to fight evil as they’re going to be doing it anyway... because they’ve CHOSEN to do it. And that’s a very important word in the context of this subject because Buffy had no choice.
I bring up Willow’s conversation with Buffy in the episode ‘Choices’ in telling her where she’ll be going to college after graduating from Sunnydale High School:
Buffy: “I'm never getting out of here. I kept thinking if I stopped the Mayor or... but I was kidding myself. I mean, there is always going to be something. I'm a Sunnydale girl,... no other choice.”
Willow: “Must be tough. I mean, here I am... I can do anything I want. I can go to any college in the country. Four or five in Europe if I want.”
Buffy: “Please tell me you're going somewhere with this?”
Willow: “No.
*Hands Buffy a letter*
I'm not going anywhere.”
Buffy:
*Reads the letter*
“UC Sunnydale?”
Willow: “I will be matriculating with Class of 2003.”
Buffy: “Are you serious?”
Willow: “Say,... isn't that where you're going?”
*Buffy hugs her and they tumble onto the ground*
Buffy: “I can't believe it! Are you serious?! Ah, wait, what am I saying? You can't.”
Willow: “What do you mean, ‘I can't?’”
Buffy: “I won't let you.”
Willow: “Of the two people here, which is the boss of me?”
Buffy: “There are better schools.”
Willow: “Sunnydale's not bad. And I can design my own curriculum.”
Buffy: “Okay, well, there are safer schools. There are safer prisons. I can't let you stay because of me.”
Willow: "Actually, this isn't about you. Although I'm fond, don't get me wrong, of you. The other night, you know, being captured and all, facing off with Faith. Things just, kind of, got clear. I mean, you've been fighting evil here for three years, and I've helped some, and now we're supposed to decide what we want to do with our lives. And I just realized that that's what I want to do. Fight evil, help people. I mean, I think it's worth doing. And I don't think you do it because you have to. It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in.”
Buffy: “I kind of love you.”
Willow: “And, besides, I have a shot at being a bad ass Wiccan, and what better place to learn?”
It’s not about Buffy. It’s about fighting the good fight. Fighting against evil. Big Bad evil, the likes of Glory, especially. Maybe it makes some sense to play the whole “it’s too dangerous” card with Xander since he doesn’t have any physical/practical and/or mystical/magical powers... but it doesn’t make sense to play it with Willow. Willow now knows who she is and what she wants. Even if she doesn’t always believe in herself, she’s at least self-aware enough to know what it is that makes her tick. She wants to feel the heroicness of Buffy in helping the innocent for herself. Willow wants the power... and now she’s got the power... there is no reason why she shouldn’t be allowed to know information that would put her in danger or make her a target when she clearly shows, and does later prove when Glory targets Tara, that she’s the only one strong and powerful enough to hurt her and protect everyone, including Dawn, from Glory.
“The Slayer thing really isn't about the violence. It's about the power.”
It ultimately comes down to Buffy thinking she’s burdening her friends with having to take on the responsibility of Slayage. But she’s all wrong. Her friends - especially Willow - have CHOSEN this life. And it’s literally Giles’ job so... get a clue, Slayer. You’re better off when you have help. Your ties to the world do not weaken you. They make you stronger. There is always danger, there is always risk, there is always consequences. But someone’s CHOICE is all that matters. Just because YOU didn’t get a choice in the matter doesn’t mean you can “relieve” the Scoobies from theirs in the name of “it’s too dangerous" because it is also too dangerous for you to be without them too, Buffy.
Certain themes and symbols are reeiterated. In S3, towards the finale, Xander plays a KEY part in the plan. When Angel is brought aboard Xander is said to be "Key guy" and Angel, are doing things in a not-key-guy-capacity.
Here we have Xander given screen time to tell Giles that the key has a cruch on him. I feel like Im missing something cool.
Yes, Buffy got stabbed, but I think her catching the crowbar(?) soften most of the blow.
Spike is a vampire with soul, just not A soul.
I always thought of Dawn as more of Buffy's daughter. Especially in the last seasons. They made her from her genetic material, not her Mom & Dad's genetic material.
She's more of a clone,in that sense.
you're either lying or spoiling. in either case -- why?
I think that's exactly what Dawn is supposed to be symbolically.
@@sirmoonslosthismind Don't you think she's gotten past season five by now?
@sirmoonslosthismind Domi E has commented that she's seen season 5 so I think the only spoiler thing is eluding to the relationship they have in 6 and 7. Aside from that I don't really agree with the comment. It's never explicitly said who's blood they took from. They easily could have used Joyce and hanks blood and gotten the same results.
He is NOT my boyfriend!
cuz they got married in season four lol
@@sirmoonslosthismind Engaged....but the point stands.
Overcompensating too much, lol
if you want to piss off buffy instantly - this is the way! 😂
@@boqndimitrov8693 theres been so many times where either he says something that rattles her about Angel or someone says this amd she flips the f**k out and gets the upper hand 🤣
Loving your reaction videos! Can you say how you are able to capture the video and audio of the show so clearly?
Damn red looks so good on Willow.
I can imagine her in like a red negligee 🤤
Sorry Tara. 🤣
love this episode ,dawn and buffy
17:31 punch is really funny. Is it aerobics, Buffy? Or a dance? 😁
When she appears in a scene with a line 'conversation is over, bitch' it's so pretentious. It's absolutely like in comics some hero arrives to fight a big bad. They usually say smth like this.
12:50 is there some kind of connection between Ben and Glory?
do we think Ben and Glory could be connected somehow?
unlikely!!! 😂
The real love story for this season is Buffy and Dawn. Buffy falls in love with Dawn. There isn't any other way to describe it.
Buffy + Dawn = Family.
that’s so true 🥹oh my heart!!!! i love them!!!
🎉😂
good omens season 2??
The trust between Buffy and Spike is the kind that can only come from repetition of consistent behavior over time. He earns it in a way Angel never did or could. There's always the risk of Angel turning into Angelus because he never was strong enough to take accountability and unify his two sides. He represses and broods and expects rewards for his good behavior. Spike acknowledges and owns his past and his humanity and demon sides are unified so there's no risk of him turning evil. His demon cares for the Scoobies and his demon can coexist with his humanity. A house divided (Angel) will fall.
He absolutely did not expect rewards for his good behaviour. He spent the first season of his show toiling away to save people with no idea that there could be any kind of reward for him at all until he learned about the Shanshu prophecy at the end, and Cordelia had to talk him into charging money for solving cases. Angel has many flaws, but entitlement isn't one of them.
Meanwhile, Spike explicitly told Buffy that he wanted credit for not feeding from bleeding disaster victims a few episodes ago and was genuinely annoyed that Buffy didn't give it.
I like both characters, but saying that Angel should take lessons in lack of entitlement from *Spike* is a take I never imagined anyone would have.
Was pretty much going to say the same thing. Spike is more far more selfish IMO. If not for the curse he's arguably more consistent too.
❤🧡💛💚💙💜
I really didn't like willow and xanders response to buffy not telling them
Its NOT 'the squad' its "The SCOOBY GANG"
22:23 Oh that’s the one thing that annoys TF out of me for the season: Dawn overhearing things at the wrong time is SUCH AN ANNOYING and a OVERUSED plot device.
Isn't that a little sisters job? To be nosey, listen in on convos and be annoying 😂