Buffy The Vampire Slayer - S06x10|♡Uncut Reaction &Review ♡
Sorry, I'm late guys. I still have WIFI problems.
GOT is gonna take a little more time.
Anyway, It was really hard seeing Willow like this at the end.
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mc9jmekzodc6v4u/BTVS%206x10%201.mp4?dl=0
Comments (17)
The garlic is funny but also gets the point across that Buffy is still powerless against Spike’s attraction, as we see in coming episodes. She can’t ask Willow to do an uninviting spell, and the garlic shows her grasping at straws.
alyson really shines in this episode, which is the main reason i enjoy it so much. i love when she gets to show raw emotions, she's just so damn good at it.
This is an episode I clearly remeber from when he aired,
So Am I...
Oh boy I subbed to patreon yesterday to binge through the buggy reacts from YouTube and now I’m caught up and I’m crying lol time to move onto oth reactions. 🖤
Anyone catch what Faith referenced in season three? “Isn’t funny how slaying always makes you so damn hungry and horny?” And this episode Dawn says it’s weird that every night after slaying Buffy raids the fridge
Honestly, it's my least favorite episode in Willow's arc with magic. The hit-you-over-the-head-with-a-sledgehammer "magic is drugs" message is clumsy and overly simplistic. There's a huge departure from how magic affected Willow before. Good performance, bad episode.
Alyson was fantastic this episode, the scene where she breaks down felt so real, Michelle did an amazing job too
The best thing about this episode for me is a small, underrated Spuffy moment, when dawn is hurt and they’re taking her to the hospital, willow is crying, they turn around, buffy then turns to spike and for a brief moment they exchange a look, there is no even dialogue, but she knows he will take care of dawn and he knows she wants him to while she has to stay with willow. It reminds me of the episode “fool for love” where they’re sitting in silence next to each other. Buffy relies on him, and trusts him, he’s part of her life, weather she’s ready to admit it or not, obviously she’s not, but it doesn’t make it less real. They have the most bizarre relationship ever, and their relationship has changed so much throughout the seasons, from mortal enemies, to frenemies/siblings bickering in s4 to unrequited love to…well, this!! And as toxic and destructive as it is, there’s undeniably a foundation of trust, and an understanding, a connection, beyond physical, that she didn’t even have with Riley, or honestly not even angel. Spike has seen her at her worst and at her best, he has seen her light and her darkness, something she hasn’t been able to share with anyone else before because of the fear of been judged, but she can be herself around him.
The thing about addiction is. You can't help anyone unless they ask for it. Because unless they realize they have a problem, not matter what you do they won't stop. It is hitting rock bottom that usually is the trigger that needs to happen for the addict. I have lost a few friends to addiction and honestly, I have only gained back one of those friends because she had to realize her own problem and get herself into rehab and actually work to get sober. Because staying sober is the hard part and unless you really want it the addiction will overcome again.
And yes that is the same actor as that season 3 vampire and man did you catch that quickly!! 👏🏽
Addictions always happen when we don’t wanna face our unpleasant, negative feelings. Shame, guilt, not-enoughness etc. I am really wondering what wreck was doing to willow when she had to “pay” for the drug magic. It’s super disturbing and I always think it’s like prostitution, like he raped her Soul. What do you think?
It's absolutely prostitution, goods in exchange for services of a sexualised nature; in this case the 'goods' were a dose of highly addictive magic, and the 'service' was Willow allowing Rack to engage in a sexually charged energy exchange with her. Then you have Rack referring to Willow as 'strawberry', which just happens to be an old street slang term for prostitute, plus Willow crying in the shower the following day & the fact that she says, "I did things, I can't even..." to Buffy when she's trying to make Buffy understand how off the rails she was (and Buffy already knows about her taking Dawn to Rack's, and the demon, and the car accident, so what other 'things' is Willow referring to there). Prostitution doesn't always have to mean a physical sexual act takes place.
"It took me away from myself".... However clunky the 'magic as addiction' metaphor might have been sometimes, this articulation of what makes people vulnerable to it was really good, I think. That anyone who feels shame, pain, self-loathing, insecurity, lack of safety, can put this thing between themselves and those feelings, to find relief, even momentarily. I think it definitely encourages people to understand and empathise with the underlying feelings and impulse, and understanding that anything that fulfills this function (that isn't a healthy way of processing, like therapy or art etc) can be harmful.
Great catch on the Rack's actor, Jeff Kober, also playing both Kralik in Helpless! Fun fact, I went to college with his son 😜 (the closest I've come so far to meeting someone on Buffy 😆)
living for your reaction to almost seeing Spike naked 🙈😍
Yes, it IS the actor who played Kralik in Helpless, great catch 👏 how "funny" is it that Kralik was addicted to pills too 👀