Home
Creators
Search Recent Random
Posts
Search DMs Popular Hash Lookup Tags Random
Importer
Import FAQ
Register Favorites Keys Review DMs Logout
Community
Telegram ThePornDude
Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

Buffy Sundays! Season 6 Episode 10 Reaction! (Patreon)

Published:
2025-02-23 17:27:12
Imported:
2026-08
Tags:

Content

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fT3WLuPG4aIi996vh7IM221yIzHVcUX1/view?usp=drive_link

####### EPISODE SPOILER REVIEW BELOW! APPARENTLY SOME OF YOU ARE WATCHING FOR THE FIRST TIME ALONG SIDE ME, SO PLEASE DON'T READ BEYOND THIS POINT UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN THE EPISODE YOURSELF! ######

------

I don't know about you, but I absolutely LOVED this one! It was so powerful and well done! The drug metaphor wasn't subtle (let alone all the innuendos 0_0), but I found it amazing! A LOT of people will be looking at Willow in a different light now, and I found the ending weirdly cathartic, despite being very sad.

I am very interested to see the next time Willow and Dawn interact, and if and when Tara will get involved again.

But seriously, let Xander and Aniya out of the Magic Box! XD

Hope you guys are having a great week!

As always, if you click the video just after this post, you may need to  download it first.  This should be fixed in a couple of hours!

Files

Buffy 6 10 Done small.mp4

Comments

Jake M

Sorry in advance for the serious comment- but Reason #4 I dislike this season: Clearly, this episode wants us to equate Willow's frivolous magic use to drug abuse which has become an addiction; losing track of time, becoming a different person; she takes Dawn to Rack's den (Doesn't take a genius to realise what letter is missing from the beginning of his name), and the end sees her suffering withdrawal. And yet we're supposed to believe throughout the series that magic, when used in the right way, is good- eg Calendar's technopaganism and Terror's Wicca spells? With this logic, crack cocaine, heroin etc are fine and healthy when the intent behind them is good. That doesn't work. Mixed metaphors much? There's also emphasis throughout the season (eg from Terror, Xander and Anya) that Willow should be "cutting down" on magic, rather than stopping altogether. If you're severely addicted to something, in my opinion, you should aim to stop completely. Not limit your use to "when it's useful [alcohol/drugs/gambling/magic]"

Maia Brodsky

I always find it so fascinating how polarizing this season (and the Willow addiction plotline) is. Personally I don't mind if it's a one-to-one metaphor or not. And there are some addictive drugs that can be good when used appropriately, like certain prescription medications for ADHD or other conditions, but very bad when abused. I do agree that some of the execution is ham fisted here, but I do like the depiction of how addiction affects the people in an addict's life. I know S6 is some people's least favorite season, and I totally get it, but it's definitely one of my favorites.

Jake M

I appreciate your views- your raise a great point , It's forgotten about things like addictive painkillers, sleeping pills, vallium etc- which is weird given I'm on them! XD :) to me, it comes across as if it's been written by someone who doesn't really understand addiction as it's quite stereotypical and real life has far more nuance!

Lime Pie

Great reaction! I've been craving more of your reactions to this season. I definitely wouldn't say I enjoyed Willow breaking down, but I completely understand the sentiment because Willow clearly needed an astonishingly firm rock to be her bottom. Buffy may be rushing to draw parallels between Willow and herself, but I think there are definite similarities between their situations worth reflecting on. The main difference between them right now is the extent of the harm they are doing imo. Buffy is only really hurting Spike and herself whereas Willow seems to be hurting everyone around her. I'd argue the drug metaphor for magic has been going on since the season 2 episode "The Dark Age" when we learned Giles and his friends summoned Eyghon to achieve an "extraordinary high". It certainly became much more on the nose in this episode, but I think it works really well because this is the episode where Willow realizes it herself, which is a neat way for us to see through Willow's eyes. Amy was able to access magic through her mom, who I imagine was deeply steeped in the world of dark magic, so it doesn't surprise me that she met Rack at such a young age.

Garry (Not Jerry)

“Willow, what have you become?” Veggie Gamer, Season 2 Episode 19

Garry (Not Jerry)

This is a great episode. The way Buffy says “get up” when willow’s on the floor crying. Heart breaking. 😭

Jake M

"I'll leave a note on the fridge. It's the first place [Buffy] goes after patrolling..." Do you remember Faith's introduction? She said "Don't you find slaying makes you hungry and horny?" Maybe Buffy is turning into Faith...Wesley better watch out! :o

Jake M

This will be my last comment of the week, sorry for over rambling. Firstly- Terror didn't use magic on Willow, she simply stopped one of Willow's Locator spells working because she thought she was a demon based on what her family had told her. Secondly- taking Dawn to a crack den is despicable, but I think W's mind rape and subsequent sexual assault on an unsuspecting Terror is worse as it leaves deep, deep scars. However, debate is healthy so if you think Willow taking her to Rack's is the worst thing she's ever done then that is fine and you aren't wrong! 😊 On the breakdown - yes, it's very cathartic. I've been Willow, on the floor- it's hard to admit you have a problem and ask for help until it's too late. I still feel incredibly guilty. (Although I must emphasise , I didn't let a demon scratch my best friend's sister) Apologies for my negativity recently. I do still enjoy the show and your reactions. I just find the storylines (s***idal ideation, addiction and SA) incredibly relatable and extremely uncomfortable. TLDR: Great acting, horrible storyline. Love to you and Woozle x

VeggieGamer

Thanks for the comments, Jake! Don't worry, feel free to many as you like! I think the spell I was thinking of wasn't the 'tracker' one, but a.. 'Pleasure one' at some point? Or am I misremembering that? I swear that happened at some point. I think even at time I said 'well that was a youthamism!'

Jake M

My apologies, I have completely forgotten that!

VeggieGamer

Oh not at all!! I have forgotten so much! But even at the time, I am pretty sure that was when Willow first started to really be interested in Tara, which always played on my mind as a bit messed up!

Jake M

On a happier note, Nathan Fillion (Dogfrey, from Firefly) is one of my favourite actors, so the fact you found him amusing in Much Ado is a good sign for the future! Still not convinced to watch it though XD He's great in a detective show called Castle, too.

VeggieGamer

Yeah it probably isn't worth checking out just for him if you are really against Shakespeare, as he is a kinda 'second half' character that only shows up a few times, but he is a brilliant comic relief and Fillion does a great job in the role (with Andrew as his sidekick)

Jake M

I have bad memories of Much Ado from an awful school teacher, so I tend to avoid it- glad you enjoyed though!

Lime Pie

Having seen this show more times than I care to admit, I can guarantee that Tara has never used a spell on Willow for pleasure as of yet. I think the spell you’re referring to is when they conjured a draconian katra to switch Buffy and Faith which had very “pleasurable” imagery.

VeggieGamer

Thanks Lime! Honestly, I can't remember what episode it is from, and know you guys will know the show a lot better than I would! So I assume it is exactly as you say!

Lime Pie

I should add that Tara has messed with Willow’s mind when she made everyone unable to see demons, but it wasn’t for pleasure and much more justifiable than what Willow did to Tara.

thompur

The actor who played Rack, Jeff Kober, is the same one who played the vampire Zachary Kralik in the 3rd season episode "Helpless" when Buffy loses her powers as a test for the slayer by the council.

esme

i mean, they've kind of had these themes since season 2. giles uses magic for good and we find out he also has a negative history abusing it. he describes summoning eyghon as an "incredible high". it's not just something 6 threw in there

Jake M

True, but this is the most in your face and (to quote Maia) ham-fisted example yet. I always interpreted Giles' "incredible high" as metaphoric, akin to adrenaline rush, but in hindsight I could be wrong, and he's being more literal. In season 6 there's definitely no room for interpretation though, it's black and white.

esme

that scene between willow and rack (that's the drug dealer guy's name, not raxus, they were just saying his name with an s after it to indicate ownership- rack's place) is supposed to be a metaphor for trading sex for drugs. a 'strawberry' is someone who trades sex for drugs and not only does he say she tastes like strawberries he literally calls her strawberry

Maia Brodsky

Yeah I was gonna say this. Tara absolutely did use magic on Willow and the rest of the gang, but she knew it was wrong, fixed it, and apologized. And she didn't use magic to erase memories so her partner would forget a fight. The circumstances were different, but she did misuse magic in that one instance.

Hanneli Norrgard

One thing I like about this episode is that is shows how this impacts others around the person. So many believe that using illegal drugs is a victimless crime because that person chooses to do it, but it just isn't true. My sister is one of those, and I can't simply tell her, "Yeah, that's because you're the addict. You don't see how it impacts other people because you're not concerned with it." I mean, she was in the room when our friend killed himself (mainly because of too many drugs throughout his life) which caused her huge trauma and her, our mom, and me to be close to being killed by his skinhead friends (man, I just now realized how much that one incident has made our lives absolutely insane), was abused by her then husband (partly because of drugs), lost custody of her daughter permanently (because of drugs) but still can't see that it isn't victimless, even though she supposedly no longer uses drugs and hasn't for years. Dawn is the representation of that. I do agree with another poster with this issue of it being shown as OK in moderation. If it's being painted that way to the addict, that just isn't right. If it's supposed to be akin to an OTC or prescription drug that is being misused, I think that needs to more clear since almost everyone presumes it's about illegal drugs. To me, this and what she's done to Tara are both so bad. Tara's was horrible, but doing this to Dawn is also horrible. She's a child who trusts Willow completely, and this is what Willow does.

Maia Brodsky

Oh and I agree that Willow erasing Tara's memory is a bit worse than what she did here, even though the actions in this episode ended up causing more consequences in terms of actual mortal peril.

Diego Zenhäusern

I definitely felt like that was what the scene was implying but I didn't know at all about that being called a strawberry.😮 Thanks for pointing that out!

Diego Zenhäusern

Well, I'm certainly no genius; I didn't get (C)Rack's name AT ALL🙈😅🤦‍♂️

Jake M

Don't worry Diego, it took me 4 views! 🤣

Hanneli Norrgard

As a late note, kind of a sad episode to have watched this week seeing the Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn) news.

Delia P

Firefly is brilliant really hope you watch it. Also, any thoughts yet on when can we expect Hunger Game Catching Fire? I found it a bit surprising that it took hurting Dawn and not Tara leaving to make her realise. I would have thought she’d care more about Tara than Dawn. I have a much less concern/sympathy for ‘addicts’, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think the removal of accountability by saying it’s a disease etc doesn’t help. Allowing people to get away with or diminish their responsibility for the things they do makes them worse, for longer. They always need to hit their rock bottom, not what others consider it to be before they even consider fixing themselves. They’d get there faster if they weren’t enabled and excused as needing help before they believe that. Once they do figure that out, help obviously but until then I think tough love and calling them on their behaviour is best. Willow might not have gone so far into magic if they’d called her on their concerns when they started having them and Tara should have told them about messing with their minds. People, especially these days are far too quick to blame anything but themselves for their problems and actions and they seem so eager to be weak/victims, unnecessarily. It disgusts me. Accountability is important for a lot of things but I don’t think you can be a good or mature person without it.

Claire Eyles

So this is usually the point in the season where I end up writing a whole entire essay illustrating Willow's seasons long arc of growing addiction by using my own personal experiences as comparative points. I may have one of my essays on other patreon channels copied somewhere, but just for now I am honestly too bummed out about Michelle Trachtenberg to say much of anything besides I really enjoy your reactions, Vege.

Claire Eyles

I will say a couple of things about this episode. First one, as others have very rightly pointed out Willow did basically prostitute herself for a fix of magic. I am fairly open about my past history with heroin addiction, to the point that I've hosted private group chats for Doctors looking to better understand/treat substance abuse disorder, and one of the most common questions I get is anything along the lines of, "So when you were about to prostitute yourself for the first time, why was that not the 'wake up call' moment that made you immediately turn around and embrace sobriety?" Now I'm sure for some addicts that is the moment of clarity they need to commit to recovery, I've just never personally met one, including myself. The psychological part of addiction, that compulsive element that drives you to use your substance of choice (in Willow's case it's magic) is so strong, so all encompassing sometimes that it can make stuff you would never otherwise do seem like the most easiest, most obvious, most logical path to go down. First time I worked the streets, there had been a literal overnight price doubling of gear (heroin), that meant I didn't have enough money to score, I couldn't find anyone to go halves with me or chip in for some, I was starting to go cold turkey, and then someone just casually suggested I go to one of the local working girl areas and make some money that way. And honestly, in that moment, without a word of a lie, there was not one single brain cell in my head that popped up and said, "WTF are you thinking, we absolutely should not even be considering doing this ?!" -- Instead what my addict brain heard was, "If you go do this thing you will get money and then you'll be able to score heroin". Not a single buggering thought about anything else, just 'Need heroin, be nice to man, get money , buy heroin." Seemed like the most logical thing in the world to do at the time, of course later it was different and yeah I did the whole standing under the shower crying thing like Willow in this episode (still didn't stop me from going back out again the next time I needed a hit). I'll post another observation on addiction soon-ish. I will finish watching the reaction and maybe rest first.

Claire Eyles

Another thing I love about this episode and Willow's addiction arc in general, is just how well it depicts the 'split' in the brain/mind of an addict. I sometimes liken it to your brain/mind being separated, or compartmentalised, into 4 different quarters: there's the part that is way deep in denial and doesn't understand what everyone is so concerned about, because everything is fine and dandy, and there's absolutely nothing wrong, and besides you can totally stop whenever you want to; then there's the part that understands and accepts that things are screwed up, but takes zero accountability and spends the entire timing whinging about how it's everybody else's fault but yours; then there's the part that will lie, cheat, manipulate, steal, peddle your own arse, and be as selfish and self centred as possible in order to be able to continue in the addiction; and lastly there's that one part that fully knows, and understands how bad things really are, that you absolutely do have a problem, that it's nobody's direct fault or responsibility other than your own, and that you desperately want to get clean/sober and not be living the life you are. In Willow's arc in this season alone we've seen her go through all of those 4 compartmentalised states of mind. Just well done to the writers, the more tacky 'hit you over the head with the symbolism' type drug reference stuff still does not take away from just how well they attempted to tackle such a complex and difficult topic (and do it better than any other shows I was aware of at that time).