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Buffy 6x5 - full reaction (Patreon)

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2022-10-30 17:00:08
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Giles is coming in clutch <3

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Preaching to the Horse's Mouth

So we get the Wes/Cordy reenactment *and* the Lexi reenactment?! Fuck it I don't even care that we didn't see Buffy and Angel together, my life is complete now.

Stargazer1682

Oh, yeah.. I was trying to remember which episode this was. I kept going through the early 6 episodes and I knew I had to be forgetting one. Now I know why, I must have tried to block it out...

Stargazer1682

As noted, I really hate this episode. It's so contrived and the trio are so fucking cartoony. Like, if you can build a wireless camera that small in 2001, you don't need to be a moustache twirling comic book villain, trying to take some demon infested, podunk town like Sunnydale. You get yourself to Sillicone Valley and graciously accept obscene piles of cash, THEN become a moustache twirling Bond Villain, eventually trying to race other billionaires off the planet. The episode overall is just dumb and a contrived way of having Buffy bounce around jobs and find one excuse after the next for one of the viable options in front of her not to work out. Like, going back to school is sort of an intermediate, long term solution to her problem, but just as Lexi immediately observes, it doesn't solve her financial problems. The whole thing of having Buffy work with Xander in construction just... it doesn't work from top to bottom. Like, for one thing, Xander seems to have advanced in the construction company pretty fast for someone who has only been there full time for barely a year. His plan is also to just dump Buffy on people she doesn't know, with no training; the people working with her don't know anything about her or what she's capable of. And top of that, for someone who's been living the Scooby life for 5 years, is painfully tone deaf to everything Buffy tells him, much less how his coworkers respond to Buffy and just leaves Buffy and runs. I feel like Xander's kind of an ass in this whole scene on the jobsite, but in a way that almost borders on out of character. Xander's a tool on a good day, but you'd almost think he was living a whole other life, that had nothing to do with the supernatural. You'd also think the people on his crew also didn't live in Sunnydale. I mean, the cognitive dissonance has to be strong in most Sunnydale residents, but these guys take the cake. The whole thing at the school was asinine, for exactly the reason Lexi brings up; and should have immediately been picked up on as a plot hole when making the episode; which is, what is Tara seeing that she's being so casual about Buffy getting a drink from a bubbler for 20 minutes? Never mind her just walking away in the middle of the conversation. Like, what did Tara tell Giles or the others after Buffy reported what happened? Was she not even visible during these moments, that people could bump into her when the campus sped up? And, oh, yeah, HOW THE FUCK DO THESE MORONS EVEN HAVE THIS SHIT?? Warren invented fucking pocket-sized time manipulation. He's taken the work from that other idiot in season 2 of Angel and made "improvements". Then we have the magic shop, which should have been her first stop; and it should have taken more than that one bad experience, seeing as she's ALWAYS THERE ANYWAYS, so she might as well get paid for it. But here again, just as Xander was being an out of character ass at his jobsite, Giles and Anya apparently offer Buffy virtually no training; and then penalize her by taking the shipping out of her check, when they didn't bother to oversee her first sale or give her any kind of instructions about that?? Bullshit.

Stargazer1682

People often debate why the Council doesn't pay the Slayer; especially in light of this episode. The general consensus is that they don't want the Slayer to become too independent and expect her to be reliant on them; which also part of the reason they contrived the Cruciamentum, which probably killed a high percentage of past Slayers before they reached too far into adulthood; for the few that even made it to 18. It's also generally agreed that there's probably an unspoken expectation that the Watcher supports the Slayer, unofficially; and using some portion of the salary they get from the Council, thereby also further making the Slayer dependent on them. All that's all well and good, in terms of the Council. There's no doubt that they're actually just the worst. The problem then is Giles. Yeah, he gives her check in this episode, but what she needs is something that will be able to support her long term. However much he's given her, it's only going to last so long. For one thing, I'll never understand why Giles of all people (or Anya for that matter) doesn't convince Buffy that she and Dawn need to downsize to something that would ostensibly be more affordable than a flipping house. We don't know whether Tara or Willow are chipping in anything, but given that we know that they're both in college and we're given no indication that they're working, while stressing the need for Buffy to find a job, it seems probable that they aren't working and don't have much, if anything to contribute to the household income; even as they contribute to the expenses. They could always go back to the dorms and Buffy and Dawn could find a small apartment. Or turn the space in the back of the magic shop into a studio apartment and probably still have room to train. That space seems larger than the rest of the magic shop, and we don't even see an inventory space. But there are a bunch of ways Giles could be helping Buffy secure something long term that wouldn't split her focus with her Slayer responsibilities. She could offer self-defense classes in the training space. Giles could give her his stake in the magic shop - which he only bought in season 5 because he was bored; and by all rights was in a fairly secure financial position during season 4, before he got his back pay and reinstatement with the Council; and is now ostensibly being paid by them regularly again. Or if he's really attached to the Magic Box, he could keep his stake in that and give Buffy his salary from the Council; and effectively let the Council pay her to be the Slayer despite any official or unofficial policy to that end. My preferred idea though would be for Giles to help Buffy start her own business that would give her flexibility in her schedule and possibly even serve as a front for her Slayer duties. She doesn't want to charge to save people (like Angel), fine; charge the deceased. Buffy could run a funeral home in Sunnydale and make bank, plus it would give her a reason to be coming and going from the cemetery all the time; provide advanced knowledge and insight into possible monster attacks she should look into or vampire activity. She'd have access to some of the vampire victims before they even make it to the cemetery and would maybe not need to patrol quite as often. And I say, mix in some holy water with the embalming fluid and vamps go poof the second they turn. Neat as you please.

Stargazer1682

Oh, God, I forgot about the cat poker.... Why does this episode exist....?

HuntingSwan

Here is my theory as to why Giles may be struggling in Sunnydale, why he left in the premiere. He killed Ben here, staying makes it constantly on his mind and he can't cope with the guilt of what he did.

Preaching to the Horse's Mouth

Probably not one of my favourite episodes but by no means basement tier either. Lots of fun moments. The mummy hand with the tongs, Buffy stomping on Giles' glasses. Buffy's shots face😆 Kind of a silly one all around but it's supposed to be. A solid ok from me.

Ariel17

Based on the things you really liked about this episode I think you would really enjoy watching and reacting to Marvels Agents of SHIELD, especially by the time you get to the final season :-)

Steveo

I always crack up imagining Buffy frozen mid sentence and Tara just walking away from her like she's totally fine. Like it makes no sense lol

Rio de Tanana

So, missed what the last scene in the previous episode was about. I’m tempted to skip to your future rant.