Buffy the Vampire Slayer 7x2 FULL Reaction
Added 2025-02-16 10:42:19 +0000 UTC
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That scene of buffy and spike in the church is one of my favorites of the ENTIRE series. It still makes me tear up to this day.
Christina Gmiterko
2025-04-30 17:17:16 +0000 UTCSome super analysis here. Just wanted to add, the line about 'useless buckets of salt over your... ending' could also be a reference to Spike's sexual fixation and obsession with Buffy. (And the idea that women make men weak via their sexual power, and that when men 'spill their salt' so to speak they deplete their life force /energy , is a pretty standard subset of misogyny/incel thought.)
Bri
2025-03-12 12:53:46 +0000 UTCAnother thing to remember in re souls and Angel vs Spike-- it's not fleshed out a ton, but in S2 or 3 (can't remember), when Buffy runs into Whistler, he tells her that Angel spent quite a long time between being cursed with his soul the 1st time and when Buffy finally is interacting with him. There were years with his soul he was on his own, abandoned by Darla, Dru and Spike, where he lived in sewers and ate rats and had his own crazy times. Whistler showed him Buffy in LA, where he began watching her, and gave him a new mission. We're just actually experiencing and seeing Spike NEWLY souled for the first time, dealing with all his guilt, memories, choices, etc. You can't compare the decades of Angel having his soul, of having dealt with things long enough in his own way to come across less tortured and insane, with Spike who's brand new to the experience and doing his best. (Also much to be said, IMO, that Spike is the one who chose on his own-- when the demon was in charge-- to seek out his soul, so he'd never do something so wrong to Buffy again-- whereas anytime Angel is Angelus, that choice would *never* be made. Angel feels bad only once he's been forced back into his souled situation. So who's the true Champion of the People? Lol.) I'm real excited to watch the rest of this with you and see your reactions.
Alise Lynch
2025-03-02 00:40:56 +0000 UTCThe ending scene between Spike and Buffy. Sarah_M, in the comments here describes it so well. But yeah, I'm so drawn into that scene. It's gets me every time.
Out of the Nox
2025-03-01 22:55:33 +0000 UTCSo sad to hear that Michelle Trachtenberg passed today ππ
Tyler Ward
2025-02-27 02:34:57 +0000 UTCTry watching Run Lola Run
Jane Andress
2025-02-20 09:52:30 +0000 UTCCongratulations!! Welcome to the family!!
SofΓa Reyes
2025-02-17 19:43:55 +0000 UTCMy favorite part of your reactions is when the episode ends and you look so shocked and disappointed that it ended π
Kristen Rose
2025-02-17 00:07:57 +0000 UTCThey missed such an opportunity for another callback with Nancy. I think this is like the third Nancy in the show, the first appearing in Earshot and the second in The Wish. As closely as *this* Nancy and Nancy of The Wish look alike, they should have used the same actress and made them the same person. Then we would have known that in the alternate reality of The Wish, Nancy joined the White Hats, while in this core reality, she made her own ill-fated wish!
RavenLord
2025-02-16 23:50:29 +0000 UTCSounds like you have a whole lot of binging to do! Fun!
JennaB
2025-02-16 18:53:09 +0000 UTCHaven't even watched the reaction yet but reading this gave me chills. S
JennaB
2025-02-16 18:52:51 +0000 UTCThank you for putting all these thoughts and dialogues in written words. (crying here too) <3
SofΓa Reyes
2025-02-16 17:49:42 +0000 UTCOmg my mum finally let me get Patreon! Iβm so excited!π
Taraβs_Willowverse
2025-02-16 17:49:13 +0000 UTCThe only reason I love this season is Spike. That's all I have to say. (Great reaction and comments as always, by the way).
SofΓa Reyes
2025-02-16 17:41:04 +0000 UTCThe scene at the end of this episode is a standout for me for the entire series. The set design and lighting the the Shakespearian delivery of the script by James M and Sarah's facial expressions in return, are just flawless. F L A W L E S S. I've watched this scene over and over and over to pick it apart, and yes, you should totally pick it apart line-by-line because it is a masterpiece. "I dreamed of killing you. I think they were dreams. So weak. Did you make me weak, thinking of you, holding myself, and spilling useless buckets of salt over your ending?" This has to be reference to her dying at the end of season 5. He dreamt about her death, about him not saving her. When she came back in 6x02 he told her that every night he dreamt of saving her. He cried: 'useless buckets of salt over her ending'. "Angelβhe should've warned me. He makes a good show of forgetting, but it's here, in me, all the time. The spark. I wanted to give you what you deserve, and I got it. They put the spark in me and now all it does is burn." UGH I AM IN PHYSICAL PAIN OVER THIS LINE, HELP ME. "It's what you wanted, right?" -- this is to Buffy and then -- "It's what you wanted, right?" -- this is said looking upwards, inside a church, I believe he's speaking to God here. "And now everybody's in here, talking. Everything I did. Everyone I... And Him" --again, I believe he's talking about God here -- "and *it*, the other, the thing beneath, beneath you. It's here too. Everybody. They all just tell me go... go... to hell." His victims, the light, the darkness, it's all inside him, driving him insane. All because he wanted 'The Spark' -- his soul -- to give her what he thinks she wanted, what she deserved to have. "Why does a man do what he mustn't? For her. To be hers. To be the kind of man who would never ... *to be a kind of man*." DEAR GOD SOMEONE HOLD ME **ugly cries**
Sarah_M
2025-02-16 14:21:08 +0000 UTC
