Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5x07 "Fool for Love" Reaction
Added 2022-01-22 01:13:16 +0000 UTCLink: https://streamable.com/7xr8hx
I love these episodes so much, like learning more about the BTVS lore is one of my favorite things. Getting more insight on the previous slayers like I wanted and more of the power 4 group.
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The perfection that is this episode ✨ I loved Spike's flashbacks because that acting, costuming, and especially the editing looked like movie shots. I heard Joss Whedon received a lot of fan mail praise because of this episode. I've always liked Spike because he's a funny villain but I truly have a warm spot in my heart for William Pratt, I can't watch that scene of him getting bullied without my eyes watering up a bit lol who would have thought Big Bad was once a Hopeless romantic pacifist poet 😊 Oh and thank you for dragging Riley he is always complaining and never satisfied...so annoying 🙄
Nicolette Lima
2022-01-24 04:41:59 +0000 UTCI love this episode. the acting, directing, writing....*chef's kiss* Also Riley killed the vamp with ease, but it was just a normal vamp who got a lucky day and managed to win against Buffy by pure luck :) also spike at the end is so down bad he's down CATASTROPHIC
x_Rhi_x
2022-01-22 19:00:37 +0000 UTCThe flashback wigs are hilarious.
Juniper And Sage
2022-01-22 11:51:53 +0000 UTCInteresting note IMO: At the end of the episode, Spike finds Buffy in the same state that Drusilla found William, and both vampires had the intention of (one way or another) killing the person in pain. But Spike makes the decision to give Buffy what William probably needed that night, which was just someone to sit with them while they're going through it, and in that sense he got a redo of his own murder/siring with a "better" ending, as well as giving Buffy the shoulder to cry on that she needed and that he once needed but never got. Also others might have already said this, but Angel was still Angelus in the 1880 flashback but they had differing hunting tactics. Angelus is all about mentally torturing a victim before finally killing them (like it's an "art"... which is also why he spent so much time just stalking and messing with Buffy emotionally in season 2) whereas Spike prefers straight up massacres and bloodshed, and Angelus is pissed that the new guy is forcing them to hide from angry villagers due to recklessness. It's Angel by the 1900 China flashback, which you already know from AtS. Angelus and Spike WERE frenemies for awhile before Angel got his soul, though.
Syed Hasnain
2022-01-22 03:53:28 +0000 UTCThis is my favorite episode, i love spike's backstory sm. And that ending 🥺💕 James is such a good actor, he showed so much range here.
c
2022-01-22 02:25:37 +0000 UTCYeah, Dru being Spike's sire is a retcon, but I do like it better that way. Since Spike did refer to Angel as his sire in School Hard, they added that sire 'can be anybody in the line that made you', so that the line would sort of still fit. The creators said that the term 'grandsire' doesn't exist for vampires in the show, but it's used pretty commonly for Angel in fanfics at least 😅 I'm sure that Dru calling Darla 'grandmother' helped with that...
Ailish
2022-01-22 01:34:03 +0000 UTC
