Buffy The Vampire Slayer - S06x12|♡Uncut Reaction &Review ♡
I had enough meat for one episode...
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“There is something weird about this episode”: Sofie. One of my favorite of what used to be called stand-alone (or monster of the week) episodes but really doesn’t apply to BtVS anymore. For the storyline of Buffy’s depression is moved into high (or low) gear, and Willow is tempted almost beyond her willpower, plus we’re introduced to Hallie! (unless she is indeed Cecily from “Fool for Love”, as I assume she is). So it is not the “Go Fish” of the season – though I find it interesting that Xander and Dawn were playing Go Fish, as you astutely pointed out (never occurred to me before – I know someone who hates this episode and “Go Fish”, this Easter Egg will delight him. But “Go Fish”, while funny in some parts is not consistently funny as you showed, either laughing or squirming at the grossness throughout this one. And Go Fish does almost nothing to advance the plot). As you said, this episode is mundane. And as you said previously about the whole season (and the Trio), it doesn’t fit. That is depression. Depression has never been so fun as in “Doublemeat Palace”. Willow’s “what you did to me was wrong” to Amy, I wonder (though it’s never stated this way) if that was the beginning of her realization (or was based on her realization) that what she did to Tara was wrong. When you realize that the secret ingredient is not supernatural, you say, “Nothing really weird is going on in this fast food…” No, just Buffy’s depression and the supernatural customer’s metaphorical penis (does it stand for sex with Spike?), and Buffy is so depressed, paralyzed, that she doesn’t kill a single demon this episode. You “miss” the old Buffy – and I get it, but I can’t say as I do. If not for this season there is a whole aspect of Buffy and the Scoobies we’d have never seen. I’m glad they haven’t gotten stuck in their formula. Your appreciation for this season has been encouraging. (Possibly my favorite of the seven seasons. Certainly, in the top 3 – all of season 5-7, which I mostly just consider one glorious season.) I do hope your appreciation for the Trio will grow – for you’re also laughing most of the time they’re on screen. Didn’t know I could like this episode more, but after watching you laugh and cringe the whole time, it moved up a few notched in my favorites.
This ep always amuses me
It does seem crazy that the Watchers’ Council doesn’t pay slayers. Maybe their bureaucratic system doesn’t budget for slayers who are too old for their parents to support them. Many slayers will be dead before they’re 18 and nearly all the rest will be killed by the vicious Cruciamentum test.
According to Kendra they want to keep them from friends school even family. So they're "not distracted". My thoughts are that they're all about preparing potential Slayers and Watchers. Once one is called for the most part they're done with them. Except for telling them what to do.
I kinda like this episode😂 it’s gross and depressing, but It’s so funny, and I love the dark humor!! Plus, it gives me X-files vibes. Buffy is so cute, and the more she spirals the more I love her this season, and I don’t think we’ll ever get the old buffy Sofie, the stuff she’s gone through changes you, and while she can heal and get to a better place, she’ll never be the same person she used to be again, which is not a bad thing. And yes, spike genuinely believes she’s a demon, and that’s why I don’t believe he’s gaslighting her to drag her down, he wants her to accept that she’s like him now, because he thinks they’re the same, and that makes him even more convinced that they belong together.
D - Buffy's never going to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or anything big. X - Buffy's the Slayer... D - But that means she's going to have crap jobs her whole life. Minimum wage stuff. I could still grow up to be anything. But for her, this is it. One of the saddest scenes of the series IMO. It reminds us how very much Buffy has given up to be the Slayer.
It doesn't matter how she looks, the important thing is that, Amy is a rat.
The design of the creature was a bit… Glad I am not the only one that saw it 🤣
Probably my least favorite episode of the season, but I can’t wait to watch your reaction.
I remember this episode depressing me so much when I saw it. Amy is such a bad person for doing that to Willow. Having sex in a ratty garbage filled alleyway is a new low for Buffy.