Buffy 6x10 - full reaction
Added 2022-11-30 17:00:13 +0000 UTCdid we really hit rock bottom?
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I think maybe the most worrying 'side ' info we got in this episode is that Amy was going to Rack in high school. Oh god poor Amy.
Cory James
2023-11-05 02:37:54 +0000 UTCI wanted to make a separate comment for Dawn cause I just love her so much. This is hard to watch cause Dawn is a sheltered kid. It might not seem like it cause she's exposed to vampires and demons, but Buffy barely even lets her leave the house out of fear. She is SO observant and she always has a really good read on people. So watching her squirm in that drug den while Willow got high sucked. Cut to one of her SURROGATE MOMS that took care of her in Buffy's absence (so she trusts her completely), crashing because she's intoxicated and breaking her arm. Not only is she betrayed but she's also heartbroken and probably terrified because this is BIG and she couldn't have stopped it. It's just one step further in Dawn feeling abandoned by the people around her. Dawn is also so damn strong. She planted her foot right into that demon and knocked it down. She runs away but fights whenever she is caught. Ugh. I just love her. Plus, I have to mention that instead of leaping to Buffy's defense like he did with the muggers previously, he immediately goes to Dawn and checks on her. He ACTUALLY loves Dawn unlike how he is obsessed with Buffy. He's not in love with Dawn or anything but I think he kind of feels like she was given to him to protect just as much as Buffy because not only did Dawn seek him out in the beginning cause he made her feel safe, but Buffy takes her to him to keep her safe as well and Spike took that seriously and never actually stopped and that has everything to do with Dawn which is so sweet to me. He really just genuinely cares about her cause she's just a kid. Growth. He used to eat kids.
Cory James
2023-11-05 02:17:59 +0000 UTCI think I'm one of the only ones who thinks Willow's magic addiction was a long time coming. You have to realize, though, that she didn't seek out Rack at first on her own. It never even occurred to her to use magic for pleasure and not just convenience. But as a lot of times, all it takes is that manipulative friend to talk you into trying it and then you think it's fine, I can do this and control it, it feels great and I'm strong. But it's actually controlling you and you end up needing it. I don't think the 'magic as drugs' things comes out of nowhere either. Giles mentions in season 2 that he and numerous other groups of people used magic specifically to get high and feel powerful. When Willow starts doing magic with Tara, we can see them 'sexually responding' to the magic and it is supposed to be a metaphor for sex before we can show them even kissing. But it can also be seen as that euphoric high feeling and can maybe infer that powerful magics give you a euphoric feedback response that might make you want to keep using even more powerful magics just to feel 'stable and normal' because your dopamine receptors are being fried. Tara honors magic and views it as a sacred tool to use in times of trouble when there is no other clear solution. Willow views magic as an actual tool that she can grab, like a hammer and some duct tape, and just fix whatever she wants how she thinks it's supposed to be because she can.
Cory James
2023-11-05 02:11:14 +0000 UTCThe portrayal of Amy in this episode is great. I love it when a minor character with just a few scenes is so funny and raw and real. I love when she says, "No, that's fair. I was a rat." I also love it when she's being slightly roughed up by Buffy. Amy's queasy grunts with each shake really communicate her very specific type of suffering at that moment. And I love it when she says, "I think I'm gonna boot." Boot was the go-to slang term when I was in college in the late '80. Do people still say "boot" for vomit?
Andrew Pulrang
2022-12-15 04:08:32 +0000 UTCYeah the magic equala drugs plot comes a bit out of nowhere
TheLexiCrowd
2022-12-04 15:24:04 +0000 UTCI really hate this episode. Apart from Giles' offhand comment in season 2 about the one spell he used to do with his buddies that was an "incredible high," we've never seen magic be used this way before; and this is definitely not the reason Willow has been using magic. But suddenly there's a dealer and she's inclined to go there just to bliss out on ambiguous "magics" that don't do anything than make her feel good. This element comes out of left field, when this entire time, her problem hasn't been a dependence on magic, but a lack of applicable ethics in her use of magic. She feels that because she can do something, that gives her the right to do it. And that's the problem with the likes of Tara taking issue with both using magic for the party favors at Xander and Anya's impromptu engagement party, and using magic to zap people at the Bronze into another dimension or wipe people's memories. This season the show has been indiscriminate about the type of magic being used and just lumped it all together to create the wrong problem with Willow's magic use. Lexi even points this out with Willow closing the blind (or her inability to, because she was wiped). If you can use magic to close the curtains, or create decorations that will disappear on their own, and do that without hurting anyone or needing to sacrifice a virgin or something, who gives a shit? If you can use magic to directly interface with a computer, why wouldn't you? Ostensibly using magic side-steps the immediate problems of merging the human brain with technology; and you don't have to deal with Elon Musk, so that seems like a win-win. We're also going to overlook that Willow could barely teleport Glory last season, and now appears to be more powerful than a god. If they had been showing her prior to this episode doing magic because it made her feel good, or altered her state of mind, that'd be one thing, but they haven't. This season seems to completely ignore why or how she's used magic; when it's always been her sense of entitlement to use every resource to do whatever she wanted and her obliviousness to any possible consequences; whether it was computers or magic. But this episode makes it out to be something else, and I absolutely fucking hate it.
Stargazer1682
2022-12-03 00:52:03 +0000 UTC
