Buffy The Vampire Slayer - S06x04|♡Uncut Reaction &Review ♡

If Buffy told Willow or anyone other than Spike, then everyone would know what was going on. Blaming her friends and family for not knowing when she doesn’t tell them in the first place is what is childish.

The Scoobies really were like children. They banked entirely on Buffy coming back. Instead of spending the months after her death stepping up to the plate and working out the best way forward to keep Dawn and the town safe in the long term, they spent all their energies plotting their glorious leader's return. If the spell hadn't worked, everyone, including Dawn, would probably have been tortured to death by those biker demons (they even had to ditch Dawn to do the spell in the first place). Then when Buffy comes back, all they can do is creep around her looking for her approval and point out messes, such as Buffy's finances, saying, "Here's this massive problem we knew about but didn't deal with. You need to fix it."The worst thing about the finances is that it's a human problem. The Scoobies were just as capable of fixing it as any slayer, but they chose not to. Imagine not only being dragged out of heaven, but discovering that your closest friends, who you trusted to take care of your affairs after you were gone, let everything slide.

I think Giles can see Willow is getting high off power cuz at one point Ripper was that way too. I think Willow needs to chill the hell out cuz she's thinking she's unbeatable and she's very wrong. I really like that Spike gets Buffy. Without a soul, Spike is able to see and understand all the nuances of her depression and feel love and affection, which is way more than what Angelus could. It speaks volumes. Also, Willow and Tara not paying rent or helping with the bills has ALWAYS bugged me. They're taking care of Dawn, but they're also using Joyce's life insurance for their own expenses. They live there too. They need to pitch in. Why did no one ever step up for that?

I personally have never liked Willow or Xander .

I always wondered why Willow simply didn't fix the house damage and water pipes etc. with magic - she can totally do that. May be not conjure money, but maybe replicate pre-existing money? Or at least unshatter a window, unflood a house etc. Put that thirst for magic to good use. I agree that so far, season 6 is darker than previous seasons. All the signs of depression you mentioned are very insightful - Buffy is performing these mundane tasks and you get a feeling that she's just numb. Going through the motions of being alive again, almost pantomime. Johanthan, Warren, and Tucker's brother are so GROSS together. And Johnathan joining a Super Villan Team out of boredom against Buffy especially pisses me off - He crowned Buffy as Class Protector!!!!!!!! WTF JOhnathan?!

Ok fun fact, Andrew ( the third idiot) was cast before as one of Harmoney's minion vampires, .... as for the scene between Willow and Giles, it's one of the reason I was arguing last episode that Willow is looking for gratitude and is actually drunk with power and how this whole thing was mainly her proving she can do what other people can't... Giles said it best, we don't know where she was .. even assuming you don't believe in heaven/hell afterlife thing, you'd still be so stupid to take for granted that this dead person is surely stuck in a hell dimension and wants to come back .. you'd have to be blinded by other motives to ignore the fact that maybe this person found some kind of peace

In the beginning of the show Willow and Giles were very close, Giles was like a mentor to both willow and Buffy, but along the way willow was a little bit sidestepped and Maby she recents that subconsciously. I miss willow and Giles more close relashionship.

I'm a bit late to the comments and a lot of people have already made mention of the Willow/Giles scene and the Scoobies dynamic, especially regarding how awful the financial situation is. I wanted to just mention another point about the Buffy and Spike scene. This season is all about contrasts. Not only is Buffy separated from the Scoobies (understandably so) but she feels comfort being alone with Spike, on his level. Think about how many times in the episode Buffy tries to make a dark humor joke and her friends reactions are confused/concerned. They don't understand her. Yet Spike's joke about "taking them out" gets her to genuinely smile for the first time since she's been back. Not only that, but Buffy's speech about how exhausting it is to make them think she's okay. But how she's struggling to find the right words and then Spike finishes her sentence! He knows that she's trying to say how much that makes them worry even more. In the Script, it says that Buffy's "relieved to be understood without words." This is a parallel to the end of Lover's Walk where Buffy says that she can fool her friends, she can fool Giles but she can't fool herself, "or Spike, for some reason." Buffy's finally coming to terms with accepting, maybe even craving, how much they have in common. How he gets her on a base level. It's just so extraordinary of a progression in their dynamic since School Hard.

After giving it a lot of thought, I do think Willow and Tara had been contributing by stepping up and raising Dawn. They had still been going to school while taking care of her also. Maybe in actuality they probably should have dropped out and worked. At least over the summer.. Maybe they were all still grieving and trying to figure stuff out. I'm curious to know when they first decided they were going to bring Buffy back. That surely preoccupied them. If they hadn't contributed financially before though, they should start now lol

You are my favorite. You pick up on things I haven’t even noticed after 20 years of watching this show, like the “them vs Buffy” shots. Love it! Thank you Sofie!

The scene between Giles and Willow is pretty amazing!

After growing up as kinda the ultimate overachiever, Willow sure doesn't take to being questioned very well. She really seems to need that validation from her friends and Giles 😬

Giles and Willow scene is so good and powerful.

Okay- so my take on the money thing. This is another episode that tends to have a lot of arguing in the comments, from my experience. Unfortunately, I think the common consensus is that Willow and Tara aren't contributing- but I really hate that thought. I honestly think that the writers just did not consider this question when making the episode, and wanted to keep up with the general feeling of Buffy being overwhelmed. In my opinion, the argument over contributions comes down to how much goodwill/benefit of the doubt a person is willing to give the Scoobies (mainly Willow) at this point in time. I refuse to believe that they weren't contributing *anything*. Like I said, I honestly just don't think this was intended to be as a big as an issue as the fandom made it out to be. I'm hoping that it won't turn into this here 😭 To be honest, though, I'm way more mad about everyone acting like Anya's idea to charge for slaying was so stupid/silly when Angel Investigations is literally doing that exact thing, like 2 hours away!! Like, what? Sure, I get that since this is Buffy's calling she might not feel comfortable doing that, but to act like it's so ridiculous when the Scoobies old friends/exes are doing that exact thing rubs me the wrong way. Like, "that's an idea *you* would have" Buffy, please. Jonathan 🥰 Warren 🙄 Jeez, I almost forgot about Willow and Giles 😬 Like, imagine thinking we would be here back when you were watching season 1! Yikes.

Yay! I love this episode. Do you have moderators for Patreon? There's a future episode that has two different versions (full-lenth and edited) and I want to ensure you are able to watch the full-length one. I want to make sure you are given the correct version to watch.