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Buffy 1x10 (Patreon)

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2024-03-10 14:45:01
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2026-06
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Full Length : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpxsqa7CDcI

Reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s8ei39Wfb4


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David Schmidt

Great reaction, guys, thanks. I truly enjoy watching the show through the eyes of "Buffy virgins". In a DVD commentary for an episode, Joss Whedon gives a shout out to the animal wranglers the show worked with (dealing mainly with rats and spiders and the occasional cat and snake) and how rats were among his favorite actors. Give them a treat and they will do anything you ask.

Tony Hofmann

Pretty interesting to watch what each of the Hellmouth-tamers’s fears are by showing us their nightmares. The scene with Buffy and her dad is an incandescent shitstorm of emotional abuse. SMG’s performance is almost too good, as years later I still have trouble watching without getting overwhelmed. You can see why she won an Emmy even before she was on BTVS. Also, it’s easy to overlook Dean Butler's performance as Hank Summers, Buffy’s dad. We're so invested in Sarah, it’s easy not to notice his work. He chose to play the scene as, “Dad offering advice, after the kid has done something disappointing.” He never raises his voice, never loses his temper. He just lets the words bury her, (figuratively here; Buffy’s literally buried alive later in the episode). This show was excellent with character building over time. Learning the principal characters' nightmares here in episode 10 of the first season is foundational and sets up a ton of cool shit. Finally, I want to point out the scene with the Master touching the cross. Watching a Vampire (which is something scary to us, or it would be in real-life) face the thing it fears, while speaking about the importance of overcoming fear, is both weird and interesting. Obviously, the major theme of the episode is fear and how facing one’s fear is what is needed to overcome obstacles. That is literally laid out in the Master’s speech, and Xander demonstrates it when he makes himself stop running and turns and punches the murder-clown that’s chasing him. Also, it’s the climax of the episode, when Billy faces the monster, and removes its “mask.” But what about Giles and Willow? Willow fears looking like a fool in front of people. Being humiliated. (Also Xander’s fear, before the chocolate-nazi-clown attack). She doesn’t confront that. Giles literally states what his worst fear is, when he sees Buffy’s tombstone. He fears that he will fail Buffy, and she will die. Something one must assume all the Watchers before him had to face, since Buffy is the current Slayer and that only happens when the previous Slayer dies. Does Giles confront his fear of failing Buffy by episode’s end? What about Buffy, herself? She experienced the most emotionally brutal thing we’ve seen on the show so far, in the scene with her dad. Does she confront her fear that she’s to blame for her parents’ split? It is an interesting notion that overcoming fear is not always the panacea we might hope it would be. Or that some stories might suggest it is. I’m reminded of a show you guys just completed, The Expanse. At one point, early on, Amos and Alex are talking- Amos: “I have not felt fear since I was five years old.” Alex: “I wish I was like that.” Amos: “No, you don’t.” BTVS is very different from The Expanse in many ways (stake to the heart doesn’t do shit to the proto-molecule). Also, Amos from The Expanse and The Master share little in common. But the point holds in both instances: can the absence of fear turn a person into a monster? Remember, to become a vampire, the vamp has to suck your blood, but then you have to drink its blood, too. That can be read as a loose metaphor for accepting fear. Or for overcoming fear by choosing to become the thing you fear. (Hey, I said it was a loose metaphor). Looking at fear as a double edged sword is fascinating, and an idea BTVS revisits often.

John Sotomayor

"You're right Mikey, it's not about horses." // "Oh no, she's full of fear." omg Mike's deadpan takes are the best YOOO calling the underwear AND clown thing with Xander with like no hints at all, good job guys. Joe please beat up Buffy's dad for all of us. Also good call pointing out the various types of fears/nightmares showing us things about the characters.