Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 3x2 Full Reaction
Added 2023-10-20 13:16:04 +0000 UTC
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I told that there are many great episodes in this season, this one is definitely not one of those. The behaviour of the characters, all the interpersonal conflicts, may seem or not excessive, or more or less justified, all this can be questionable depending on your point of view, what annoys me about this episode is that it seems more just a part of a story without an ending. They lay out all this issues that everybody seem to have with Buffy, they set up this awkward party, than when finally they start to talk everything turns into chaos, eventually they stop the demonic force as usually, and ... that's it, there is no real resolution of any of the issues presented. It's a setup without the pay off. They gave us just this little scene at the end with Buffy and Willow but honestly I don't think that it's enough.
G.Un.
2023-10-23 00:02:51 +0000 UTCI want to say a few things regarding Xander, but held off to this episode because I feel is reaction in this episode is needed for full context. As you picked up on earlier Xander doesn't have the most nurturing home life and he has a tendency to mask pain with anger. This is why he has such a negative reaction to Buffy wanting to restore Angel's soul. All the pain from Buffy's rejection of him in season 1 comes to a head at this point. His reaction is not unlike Willow's to his dating Cordy, all he sees with Buffy is she would rather be with a vicious killer than with him. This carries over to his perceiving Buffy as abandoning the Scooby gang, her duty, and her Mother over loosing the same killer. He internalized all that pain and converted it to anger. Notice in the last episode he pretty much a written off Buffy, referring to her in the past tense, as well as dumping on Giles hope of finding Buffy in Oakland. I think it was actually Cordy taking Buffy's side that kind of wakes him up so to speak.
Mark Johnson
2023-10-21 06:58:04 +0000 UTC
