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Buffy 7x12 - full reaction (Patreon)

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2023-05-17 16:00:10
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clem can do what???? 

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Ron Fehr

It occurred to me that once Buffy was resurrected, The First would have practically all of season 6 to carry out its plan. It could have gotten rid of the Slayer line much sooner. I think that it should have gotten rid of Buffy while she was still in a quandary about her circumstances. She would not have been mentally prepared to fight The First.

Chess Red Eagle

I may or may not have skipped right to Xanders speech at the end lol. But I love it so much. It's why he's such a good character. Yes he can be hypocritical and makes mistakes that can be frustrating but that just makes him human. And like humans he also has some of the best moments too of empathy, and insight that the others just don't see. God I love that scene

cosmotron

I have kind of mixed feelings about this episode. I like Dawn’s character a lot in this one, and I like the little callbacks to things like her sneaking out of her room in a way that’s just like Buffy back in s1. Buuuuuut there’s also a lot I’m not super into. For one thing, it highlights something that has never made sense to me. Why isn’t Buffy training Dawn alongside the other Potentials? She was training her at the start of the season, and you’d think she’d want Dawn to be able to defend herself even more now that they have an idea of how bad things are. There’s literally no reason Dawn can’t be training alongside them- it’s not like any of them have super strength after all. Idk, that’s always bothered me and never really made sense. I also am admittedly not huge on the speech Xander gives at the end. It’s well acted and the things he’s saying are nice, but…I dunno, it’s never really clicked for me the way it’s supposed to I think.

Ron Fehr

If Dawn had actually been the new potential Slayer, it wouldn't have really made sense to have the scene with Amanda talking to Buffy earlier on. The main reason for that scene was basically to alert the viewer to a new character, in my opinion.

Stargazer1682

I kind of don't like this episode; or at least the direction it ultimately took. Like, we didn't need a new Potential; there are plenty as it is and the more new characters they add, the less time there is for the already overloaded cast. This especially where, when this season started Dawn was finally coming into her own as a character, was becoming more integrated with the Scoobies and the introduction of the Potentials pushed her onto the back-burner. So here we have an episode that could have brought her back to the foreground and continued that arc for her; only for the episode bend over backwards to push her back into the background. And then they try to pat themselves on the back for it with Xander's speech; which SOUNDS good, but devoid of anything meaningful. Like, Xander's lamenting about being the one who fixes the windows - okay, if that's an actual concern you have and want to really be able to fight, then maybe, I don't know... do something about that? This episode is, in a nutshell, the difference between Buffy and Angel (the shows); because on Angel, the characters actually have growth and you don't have to be mystically endowed to have value in a fight. You train, you develop gadgets and strategies that help you. Maybe get your throat cut and grow a depression beard. Like, Wesley could probably kick Xander's ass now, right? And there's absolutely no reason Amanda needed to be the one to stake the vampire; especially when Dawn was kicking ass right up to the point where she realized she wasn't "chosen" and even after. Being a Potential doesn't inherently make them special or give them any extra abilities; it just means they have Potential to have all of those qualifications eventually, maybe. But the whole point is, they don't right now.

Stargazer1682

My pet theory about Dawn - and this is pure speculation/fan theory/fan wank, whatever you want to call it: Dawn was called by Buffy when she died in season 5 and is the hypothetical and heretofore unidentified third Slayer. It would explain several things. At the end of season 6, we see Dawn fight in the tunnel with the sword; and her excuse for being so good is that she's watched Buffy fight - but we've all watched Buffy fight, and most if any of us aren't able to fight like Buffy. We saw her hold her own against the Bringers when they attacked to kidnap Spike; fairing better than Xander, Willow or Anya did. And again in this episode, she fights better than a pack of Potentials. It would actually make sense if there was some commonality between the nature of the Key and the source of the Slayer's powers; if it was the same type of energy, which is why a Slayer needed to be the Key's guardian in order to be a failsafe if the rift was open. And then lastly, it would also explain why the locator spell in this episode hesitated at first; if a Potential (Amanda) and a Slayer, Dawn, were in close proximity and it didn't know which one to prioritize until Dawn got closer to Amanda, forming a direct line between the two.

Stargazer1682

Right now at least, it's not clear what advantage Buffy poses for the First or what circumstance of her being alive again it's exploiting. It think it's plausible that it's just the fact that the First can assume the identity of anyone previously dead; and now it can assume the identity of a living Slayer. However you feel about Buffy's first "death," her soul definitely didn't leave her body or whatever mystical qualities needed for to be qualified as "dead enough" for the First to able to take on their identity. So like, you can get your head cut off, but if you're Lorne, that doesn't mean you die; whereas for a human, yeah, the First could assume your identity if, for example, a Bringer snuck up behind you with some sort of sharp blade and swung it at your exposed neck. Not sure why I felt the need to mention that... 👓😏 Where was I? Oh, yeah, so Buffy was gone enough to call a Slayer, for some reason, but not so far gone that the First couldn't become her *then*, but can now. And it's not just that the First can become a Slayer, because it can become all of the Slayers that have ever existed, but this is the first time, ostensibly, it could become a LIVING Slayer; which might conceivably give it a link to the Slayer line. This would then make sense why it would need Buffy to be alive until the very end, because if she dies, so too does that link to the Slayer line.

Ron Fehr

Xander:"Maybe I should get a cape." If Edna from The Incredibles heard that, she would agree with Lexi, no capes.

Shaun Houghton

Schizophrenic? People think Buffy is schizophrenic? She may be feeling inferior due to her superiority complex, but I have no idea why people would think such a thing.

Adoreandu

You are so coolm right now, incredible.

Robin Davies

Xander’s speech is sweet, and works well to cheer Dawn up but I agree that it doesn’t bear a lot of scrutiny. Dawn was “extraordinarily” stupid to go vampire-hunting without a stake or backup. She wouldn’t make much of a slayer if she’s already forgotten what Buffy taught her at the start of the season. Who has the power, Dawn?

Ryan Martinez

When watching this show week to week, I was 14 when it started. I related to Xander, obviously as I was a 14 year old boy. Might I empathize the word, "boy". In many rewatches I have seen his ridiculous flaws and have in myself also related to them. Not as much as him, but I can see why many come down on his character and his decisions. But the speech he has with Dawn in this episode....It always brings me to tears. It is by far my favorite Xander moment in the entire show. He's a flawed character, but that moment showed the true soul of who he is.

Eric J Quintern

This episode in theory is really good, but there's a lot of issues with it. First off taking untrained potentials to a demon bar is just kind of stupid. Second, Dawn going out in the middle of the night and completely forgetting all her slayer training and trying to kill a vamp on her own is ridiculous. The way the Scoobies talk about Dawn is not completely unsurprising because it's shown in every season that they aren't the best at advice or looking out for their own. Plus Xanders speech at the end is great and all but lacks any real purpose and sounds whiny at times. They try really hard to make it feel like he is "the soul" of the show but he has said and done so many things that would go against that thesis through out the series to make it meaningless when something like this happens

Cory James

I literally hate every scene with Dawn and Xander lol. Yeah, it's cute....if he was doing the older brother thing but he's falling in love with her I guess? It's on the same level of Cordy/Connor hate for me. It makes me gag. I hate that Joss Whedon wrote those comics and made them canon. (Again, I'm so sorry if you haven't read them or the plot of them, I figured you were done with the whole series) BUT I LOVE DAWN SO MUCH. God, her character is just so good, I don't know why anyone dislikes her. I also don't know why Buffy stopped training her tbh. She's on the same level as the potentials right now even if she isn't one lol They need all the fighters that want to fight. Everyone should be training. Dawn is a badass and Buffy keeps refusing to recognize it.