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Buffy Fridays! Season 2 Episode 3 First Time Reaction! (Patreon)

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2022-12-09 16:39:05
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oiqn7iEyuEsAA8JgWBb2g2Gq9QzIz_qv/view?usp=share_link

THE FLICKER OF THE Vs IS HERE!! WOW, I didn't expect episode 3 to be so... massive to the plot!  Loved it (and I have a sneaking suspicion most of you guys do too! XD).

Love where the plot is going, the relationship between Spike and Angel, everything! .... We just need to work on Spike's quips. XD

Love you guys! Definitely feels like a major momentum shift just happened! Have a great weekend!

NOTE - If you try to watch soon after this post was made, you will probably need to download the video rather than stream it.  Sorry about that, Google Drive takes quite a while to process.  Hopefully this will be resolved in a few hours~!

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Saiyasha

There is a bit of behind the scenes stuff with the Annoying one. He _was_ supposed to be the Big Bad of the season, but the Writers kind of shot themselves in the foot. See, a child vampire is all fine and good as a consept, proper creepy and all that, but the thing is, he isn't supposed to age. That's the point, he is creepy because he is perpetually stuck in the same body as his mind ages. now, on paper, that makes sense. But the trouble is, _real_ actors actually _do_ grow, especiallyyoung kids. Collins actors was having rapit growth spurts and aging pretty visibly, so they decided to scrap th whole Idea before he bbecame a teenager in front of the Audience.

Vicky N

I disagree, Spike’s one liners are epic.

Milku Grace TV

This was awesome. Thank you! I believe that the actor who plays Giles helped teach the actor for Spike how to talk in an English accent, but I'm sure it was still quite hard for the actor to do it fluently. At least he tried haha XD. Thank you so much. I like Spike's lines, but to each their own :). Spike is a great character and I'm glad you enjoyed his introduction. You're so wonderful and a cup of sunshine.

indaeo

I love Spike's one-liners.

chris allen

Ah Spike and Drusilla I love them so much but in different ways watching Buffy when it first aired I was 15 (season 1 and just turned 16 season 2) and loved the show for lots of reasons but the abundance of super attractive woman didn't hurt, Buffy,Willow,Cordelia,Jenny,Miss French, but Drusilla was the one for me. I guess it says a lot about my taste in woman lol I am now 41 and nothing has chanced :)

chris allen

Also spike shows more character in this episode than Angel has in all of them put together

Captain Hammer

I love when some episodes that don't really connect with me, connect with someone else. That's a lot of the fun of the reactions. Seeing how other people view things.

Todd Bolton

Interesting that when you did an imitation of an American doing a British accent, you sounded like Michael Caine. The Die Hard reference is both to the hostage situation and that Buffy has to crawl above the ceiling to affect her rescue. Brilliant reaction and my first major disagreement with you does not take away from it. It is over Spike’s “lame” one-liners. (I’ll admit that since they bring in a new villain and try to show his large personality immediately, the ones I’ll defend may not have been perfect.) However, I’ll defend each one that you visibly (and/or verbally) cringed over. There were two where Spike mentions killing a slayer, one to the Annoying One and one to Buffy. The point of those were to drive home that he was actually capable of doing it – after all, he’d killed two before (otherwise, I agree they would have been lame but his money is where his mouth is). When he says that he “couldn’t wait”, when they burst into the school, it’s not funny (I’m not sure it’s meant to be) but shows his impatience. It’s setting up his character. When he says to the teacher, "I'm a veal kind of guy. You're too old to eat... but not to kill”, he then snaps his neck. This is actually terrifying. He’s not just killing because he’s hungry but for the pleasure of killing, itself. (We’ll see a much more personally horric display of that later in the season, by a different vampire!) When he says that he’ll kill Buffy quick, “as a favor from me to you”, I think it’s just a setup for Buffy’s comeback. And when he says, "Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a nice... ripe... girl”, it is one of the most subtle references in BtVS, for Xander had run across the tampon earlier in Buffy’s pocketbook (which it seemed maybe you missed). None of this is to say that later in the series they might not have given him even better lines at those points. Also, you seemed to miss one of my favorite comic visuals, when Buffy is chopping veggies with a sword. Nonetheless, a thoroughly enjoyable reaction to a top-tier episode. The episode is great in itself and for what it presages and for two huge character introductions.

FandomReferenceHere

YESSSSSSS! YES YES YES! Spike is here!!!! Veggie, almost everyone says that Buffy "gets good" around the middle of Season 2. I disagree. Buffy "gets good" right here when Spike shows up 😁😁😁 And now I'm gonna watch your reaction. I've been so pumped for you to get here.

Giorgia M

Bechdel test !!! It’s called the Bechdel test for measuring representation of women in movies. Just thought I’d comment before I’ve watched the full way through.

The Ginger Historian

Stilettos are certainly an idea. However with the amount of sudden running Buffy has to do, it would be a logistical nightmare.

The Ginger Historian

I must admit I've never seen anyone come down so hard on all of Spike's one-liners but be so enamored with "Slayee!"

Michael Short

Spike is one of my favourite characters. I got to meet him too :D

FandomReferenceHere

There are a few episodes of Buffy that get a bad rap just because everyone is so excited for what is coming next. I think "Some Assembly Required" is one of those. But I'm really glad it was so meaningful to you! TBH I think everyone has a Season 1 (or season-one-esque) episode that they fall in love with and passionately defend against all haters :-) Mine is "The Pack". I love it despite all its flaws. Oh, Spike's accent 😂 It does get better! Apparently, Spike was originally supposed to be a vampire cowboy with a Texas accent, and they changed it to "generic lower class English" at the last minute. I believe that Anthony Stewart Head helped James Marsters get a better handle on it. There is one vowel sound that I personally think he never quite gets, but then, Spike been around for at least a hundred years, so I'm sure his accent is allowed to morph over time! Edit: Oh, I wanted to add: "Uncle Tom" is a character from a book called "Uncle Tom's Cabin," an American anti-slavery novel from the 1850s. I think American kids used to have to read it at school, although I never did. Calling someone an Uncle Tom is to accuse them of being a race traitor, specifically to accuse them of being a black person on the side of white people. In my opinion as a white person in America, it is kinda classic 90s tone-deaf racism to have a white character call another white character (or anyone) an "Uncle Tom." You can invoke your marginalized status as a vampire (lol) and call Angel a traitor to vampire-kind without bringing slavery into it.

Hanneli Norrgard

At this point, I don't think it's strange that Spike has bad one-liners. He's a new character and not one of the main group. He's my favorite this episode purely because he kills the Annoying One. My rating would probably be a 9. I find it so interesting that while they broke the rule and killed a "kid", even Buffy didn't show it happen. They showed before and after but not during because that would just be too much. On accents, I give people passes. People always talk about Americans who don't have great other accents, but no one ever talks about non-Americans playing Americans and not having great accents. I watch things all the time and almost immediately think, "That actor is not American." (by origin. The person could be American now, but certainly didn't learn English in the U.S.), but people don't really care. They just go with it. It's not always necessarily accent, though, but sometimes the tone that is way off to a native speaker's ears. I'm not saying you're doing this because you aren't, at all. It's just a common refrain with Spike from many people.

RavenLord

So have I, for real! Spike is my favorite.

Garry (Not Jerry)

1. I thought it was always Anthony Stewart Head (Giles) who does the Voiceover at the start, wasn't it him in season 1? 2. There is another "not my daughter, you bitch" reference, that I thought you were making! (Molly Weasley?) 3. Spike really does shake things up doesn't he? Colin wouldn't have been able to last as a villain anyway, right? (I mean the actor had to grow up eventually, didn't he?). Love how much it blew our mind though!

RavenLord

I've been waiting and waiting for the arrival-of-Spike episode! Yes, the accent is a bit off, but the attitude is there. James Marsters played Spike with the inspiration of both Billy Idol and Sid Vicious. Both he and Juliet Landau (Drusilla) are American, it's true. Spike is absolutely my favorite character, even though there are a *lot* of great characters throughout this series. For me, this episode is 9/10 because of: Spike's arrival, Colin's demise, Ms. Calendar's growing connection with Giles, Joyce's smack-down of Spike, Cordelia helping whittle stakes, and the reveal that Principal Snyder (and the Sunnydale police) is somehow "in the know" and not actually clueless about the supernatural goings-on in town. It's been mentioned before, so it's not a spoiler to say that when a Slayer dies, another rises. There are potential Slayers, and the mystical energies activate the next. Again, not really a spoiler, IMO. It was covered as recently as when Buffy learned she was prophecised to die at the hands of the Master, and she shakily asked Giles if he was going to train "the new girl." "Meatpie" was the nickname of the guy Sheila greeted at the start of the episode.

Amanda S

I read somewhere that the actor who played Colin had a growth spurt during filming, which is why they have him sitting a lot in the scenes. No idea how true this is though. But yea, immortal kids would quickly become problematic in TV shows since they refuse to stay small lol.

Shannon Elizabeth

You finally get to meet Spike!! He’s my absolute favorite character! Another awesome video, Can’t wait for the next Buffy Friday :) I actually thought you were making a Harry Potter reference with the whole “not my daughter you b****” line from deathly hollows part 2 when Molly Weasley is fighting bellatrix lestrange lol 💛🦡💛

Shiby23

I completely forgot about Spike! and the whole when does a slayer become a slayer is talked about in the Movie ;) another reason to watch it :D

Garry (Not Jerry)

I love the symbolism of “from now on we’re going to have a little less ritual and a little more fun”

Diego Zenhäusern

Really enjoyed this episode and your constant disapproval of spikes one-liners was just the best😅

Giorgia M

Okay so I was waiting to comment properly till I had the time to really sit down and think what to say but now I’ve forgotten what I wanted to say lol. This is a great episode, I like how it shows Spike’s strategical thinking throughout so while he doesn’t win against Buffy he still seems like a decent opponent. I think till this point the bigger villains don’t feel as real, to me this is where they become their own characters with thoughts and feelings. I’d say this episode is maybe an 8.5/10 I would say 9 but even though I LOVE this episode, i don’t think it even makes top 5 episodes of this season. That’s just how good this seasons episodes are to me so. It’s hard to reflect on this episode overall with a rating because it’s mostly the spike introduction episode to me. Side note, always bothered me that spike sings like fee fi foh and doesn’t make it rhyme or anything? Did they purposefully give him weird dialogue? Anyway, I think the writers decided to get rid of the Anointed because they realised how impractical a child of that age would be for filming as he was already growing despite the fact he was meant to be immortal. I am very much a stickler for accents. Bad accents kill movies and shows for me. It’s a testament to Buffy that it wasn’t ruined by Spike’s hammy accent. However, I actually have more forgiveness for it because they are vampires and if he’s been travelling the world for 200 years or something then his accent would be weird. Look at Billy Connolly! After years of touring etc, his accent has changed a lot. It’s natural. So I can actually make canon sense of it in my brain lol!!