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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5x16 FULL Reaction (Patreon)

Published:
2023-12-26 17:39:54
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2024-01-30 14:53:43
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Not to bring down the holiday/ new year vibe, but yeah... an admittedly incredible episode, killing off one of the best characters of the show, and definitely the most heart-wrenching episode of the show so far.

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Erika

we all went through it and we’re all here for you ❤️ can’t wait to check this out on my lunch break

Michael Smith

SMG deserved an Oscar for this amazing performance. Just incredible

CeNedra

To every young reactor comes 5x16 😔

Alison

Really sorry you got to this one so close to the holiday. The Body is considered one of the best episodes ever in television.

WapaneseWeeaboo

Unfortunately it’s that time that every Buffy reactor has to deal with eventually. This is such an amazing episode in TV in general, not just Buffy. 2 big episodes down, 1 to go.

WapaneseWeeaboo

I’m at work and thought about watching it too but there’s no way I’d be able to control the waterworks so waiting until I get home. 😂

thorreacts

She really did, I hope she at least got a lot of postive attention for this episode in particular because her performance is outstanding and so natural!

thorreacts

Yeah the show just won't be the same after this

thorreacts

I think it absolutely deserves that recognition, I haven't edited it yet (and part of me doesn't look forward to that) but it is a great episode objectively

thorreacts

Yeah this is definitely a gigantic moment in the span of reacting to this show, and certainly the toughest and most real in its tragedy

Nicola Rush

This one and the next episode after this one is just so emotional and powerful!

thorreacts

Yeah powerful is a great word to describe it... after watching you feel like you were run over or something

Red Dwarf

When this first aired, I was a mess this entire episode. I cried the entire time. It was a gut punch. The cast did amazing.

Tyler ✨

This is one of the episodes I have been most eager to see your reaction to, Nick. By far, one of the most powerful of the entire series. But, admittedly, I usually skip it if I'm watching it on my own. It strikes fear into my heart, thinking about losing my own mother someday and I can't take the pain that I feel through Buffy and the Scoobies. Anya's speach about Joyce never having fruit punch or eggs again is heartbreaking. Though the words that she says would normally be a humorous way of Anya trying to understand humans and mortality, it's really the most human that she has ever been or felt throughout the entirety of the show thus far. Joss Whedon has spoken about how losing his own mother as a young man influenced this episode heavily. He really wanted to emulate the numbness and how hard it is to complete even most mundane of tasks (like not having any music playing throughout the episode, or Willow trying to pick the right sweater before going to see Buffy at the hospital) after losing someone so close to you in your life. It's one of the hardest episodes of television I have ever seen. And I'm not sure I will ever be over it. The good news... Is that you're in for an amazing remainder of season 5. Can't wait!!!!!!

Nicola Rush

That's exactly how I felt after watching this episode for the first time, and like you I was in two minds about whether Glory was involved or not. The next episode after this one is equally as emotional, definitely shows the very harsh reality of life! The rest of this season is absolutely amazing though, can't wait for you to react to the rest of this season!

Tyler ✨

Also, your shirt perfectly sums up how all of us felt after Joyce's death. 😂

Stacey

Such a powerful episode and so haunting with the lack of background music. SMG fought really hard for joss to not kill off Joyce when she learned this was happening. She was really mad. Also a wee fun fact that kiss between willow and Tara was their first kiss shown on screen and it was the first lesbian kiss shown on any (I think) show. And the thanksgiving flashback at the start was put in by joss coz he didn't want the credits over Joyce face in the that scene with buffy finding her. Joss really is the king of giving us something so happy (Joyce recovered and enjoying life) and then ripping that away from us. This ep, hush and restless are top tier episodes. The rest of the season is amazing I'm so excited to see you react to them.

Peppermint

Such a sad episode. Joyce was a favorite for everyone. to make it worse is the lack of sound in the background. Joss got attacked when he made a statement that he could make a meaningful episode without the extra noise and people said he couldn't. Then this episode came out and he proved them wrong. This episode hit everyone in the gut.

Amanda Whittington

Oh, Nick, to be completely honest, after seeing how you reacted to Doyle’s death, I’ve been worried about you seeing this one. You have such a kind heart that I knew it would hard for you. One of the things that makes this episode so powerful and realistic is that there was no soundtrack. The only music played was the theme song during the credits. You’re one of my favorite reactors and it broke my heart to see you hurting so much today. I knew it was gonna be brutal reaction so I warned my husband and son to not worry about me! lol I hope you and your girlfriend and your family all have a wonderful holiday season!!!

RavenLord

I am so, so sorry that I won't be able to watch this reaction in full. I'll jump around with it instead. It was rough the first few times I saw it, but after my mom died 5 years ago, I have an extremely difficult time getting through it. It hits harder now, and it was already a heavy hitter. I knew this would be a rough one for you as well because of your kind heart and how you felt about Joyce; it nearly broke my heart when you rejoiced at her getting through her surgery alive, because I knew it was going to be ripped away from you when least expected, just as it was for all of us. This is a Buffyverse rite of passage for everyone. If she had died on the operating table back then, we would have mourned and moved on, but THIS....doing it like this, it has the impact of a freight train. Not to mention the memory jump in the beginning, and then the awful fake-out (for us) when Buffy imagined Joyce recovering when the paramedics worked on her. It's so real how that works for many people, including me, those visual moments where our minds take us somewhere else, to a better place, or to an imagined better outcome. Like our minds are trying to fix what is wrong. There are therapists on YouTube who use this video to talk about grief. It feels so very, very real, and every actor was stellar in selling this reality.

Raven Dark

In every Buffy reactor's life comes episode 5x16... The Body is not an episode. It's a right of passage. Congratulations. You made it through the first of many trials to come. Welcome to the war room, Nick. I had the misfortune, or perhaps the fortune, of watching this the day after my best friend passed away. It's the first and only time I lost someone truly close to me. The entire day of his passing, I kept wondering if my reactions were normal, feeling like I was doing everything wrong, wishing I could have handled it better. This episode helped me see that every reaction I had was normal. James' passing helped me understand grief. This episode helped me accept it. I've seen plenty of people say that the vampire feels out of place, and while I understand their point, I don't see it that way. The vampire's appearance, for me, accomplishes two tasks. The first (and I'm fairly sure Joss has expressed that this was the purpose of the vampire's presence) is that it reminds us what she we're watching. Like you said, except for the vampire, this episode could have been in any other show. The vampire reminds us that this is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is a supernatural show, however real and raw the rest of the episode is. The second purpose, at least for me, is that it shows us the harshness of reality in the face of death and grief. Buffy has lost someone close to her, but at the end of the day, she still has a job to do. Life does not care what you're going through. Life doesn't care that you are hurting. Life waits for no one, and neither does evil. It is always there, and all we can do is carry on. Fantastic reaction, as always, Nick. This was a hard one, but you are not alone. We are here. We are watching. We are with you.

Raven Dark

I left my above comments right after watching the reaction, but before watching more than a minute or so of your afterthoughts, so I have a few more quick things to say. The part with the doctor. He wasn't saying to Buffy that he has to lie to make her feel better. If you watch the movements of his mouth, they don't match his words. He said, "I don't have to lie to make you feel better." Buffy heard, "I have to lie to make you feel better." I had to watch that part a few times when I first saw it to realize what they were doing. It's a brilliant creative choice, and yet another thing that makes the episode so painfully real. For me, one of the hardest things about death is what you pointed out in your reaction. It's the way the rest of the world moves on as if nothing has happened. Everything that happens around you, birds chirping, an ice cream truck ringing, people laughing, just feels so painful, but life just moves on. Which is exactly what I feel both the parking ticket and the vampire are meant to show. It hurts my heart seeing how much this one hit you, Nick. How ironic that this is exactly what makes the reaction so great. Through you, we are reminded that pain is a part of life. We see that it's okay to grieve.

Mithroch

This is still, I think, my favorite single episode of television ever. There is just such raw emotion. I generally manage to hold it together until Anya breaks down. A side note... I think maybe you missed that Anya finds the blue sweater that Willow is looking for and unknowingly stuffs it in the dresser drawer.

Erika

now that i’ve watched your reaction i’ll post my thoughts: bud the denial in you ran DEEP 😩 it made me so sad you kept thinking it wasn’t real or that the show wouldn’t kill her off like that. every time you questioned it i was like: ☹️😓🫣 but my favorite bits of this episode (sorry if others have posted comments similar to mine): -the amount of details they added to show Buffy in shock. when she looks at the phone and it zooms in was my personal favorite…… but i was bawling when i realized the quick zoom at Joyce before the paramedics arrived was a daughter seeing her mother in a vulnerable state. and so buffy quickly pulled her skirt down. THEN the cherry on top when she said “good luck” to them as they were leaving. wow 🥺 so hard seeing a character we love hurting like this. then of course Anya. yes her speech in Willow’s room will forever make me sob BUT when she WISHES joyce hadn’t died (we all know the importance of that word) and then they share that look where you can tell anya really means it. i can’t 🥲

Christina Gmiterko

Haven't watched it yet, but just here to say I've been waiting for this one....

DarkstarX84

Within the five minutes every time I see this episode, the tears already start welling up. Nick, you reached a pretty monumental part of the series, this of three tear-jerking episodes (technically four because of them is kinda of a two-parter) in the Buffyverse that you'll have to get through. It was effectively an exploration of grief, in all it's many forms and how there's no true way to know how to feel when an unexpected tragedy that you can't really fight; which is partially why there was a vampire at the end of the episode (on one front by having something that Buffy can fight and on the second one, as a reminder that her life as a slayer doesn't take a vacation for anything, even tragedy). The Anya speech gets me every time.

Christina Gmiterko

I still cry no matter how many times I've seen this episode. Such a real depiction of death. And from this point on, tonally, both Buffy, and Angel as well, are never quite the same. Some fans loved it; some fans hated it. I personally think the remainder of Season 5 from this point on is a masterpiece of television.

Viera Galikova

... "We're not drawing the object. We're drawing the negative space around the object." - Dawn's art teacher Anya is seen as the first representation for people with autism by many autistic fans ... not understanding quite emotions of people around, not getting on everybody's wavelength, but still feeling the same pain. ...Dawn's reaction to the news is what is going on inside of Buffy. This episode is harder to watch with every year passing. It was heartbreaking and beyond AMAZING the first time I saw it. The no music at all, the realism, the fact that anyone who has never watched the show at all can still watch this episode alone and appreciate it as much any fan of the show would, Tara and Willow having their very first kiss on camera... THIS is when fans first actually see them kiss... .... this episode gets way to real ...harder and harder to watch the older you get ...

Dutchkel

I still cry watching reactors watch this episode as well.

Claudi H

This episode triggers me so much (it's how I found my own dad), I can only listen to it and even then I'm bawling

Nicologik Reacts

What a great reaction to this episode, and also one of the best reviews to it that I have ever seen. There are so many aspects to this episode. Some more visible than others, but you´ve covered almost all of them in your review, after watching the episode only once. That´s pretty impressive. I´m sorry you had to go trough this though. I cried alongside with you. I hope you weren´t too sad for too long after ending the reaction.

Priscila

This episode really shows how well done and powerful this series is, it manages to get such raw emotions from the viewers. Anya's breakdown is heartbreaking.

Milku Grace TV

Thanks so so so much. This was the best reaction ever and best review. Wonderful. Thank you. Take care always!

Amber

This was such a great reaction, Nick! (I won't say I joined specifically to see this one early, but did I join to see this early?) The acceptance on your face when you said "It's just her body" at the end...it's so real. The lack of music, the departure from what we've known in previous episodes, the brutal realism...it hurts in a way few other episodes do. Absolutely one of the best and most difficult to watch episodes of television.

Leijette Riopel

I have seen this episode many, many times, and never before noted the significance of Anya saying she wished that Joyce hadn’t died, until reading your comment. Of course, Anya of all people would never use that word casually. She knows the power of a wish, so what a beautiful way to have expressed her feelings about Joyce’s death. I just love Anya this episode. Her speech in the dorm is the one that always gets me crying. I am barely hanging on after hearing Willow ask “why can’t I just act like a grownup? can’t I be a grownup?” and breaking down to Tara, and then Anya just destroys me every single time.

Leijette Riopel

I think it was in the director’s commentary for this episode when Joss said that the choice to have no music in the whole episode was important, because music in a movie or show is always comforting to the audience. Even suspenseful, scary, or terribly sad music gives the audience guidance about how they are supposed to feel while watching a scene, and he wanted this episode to really let the audience sit in the discomfort of no music telling us what we are supposed to feel, which mirrors how most of the characters are unsure what they should feel or how they should behave in this situation. I’ve always thought it was a very effective choice. It makes me want to compare this episode to previous moments of loss or grief on the show - I am specifically thinking of Jenny’s death in “Passion” and how the music that plays under Angelus’s voiceover while he is watching Buffy and Willow get the call telling them that Jenny is dead is so haunting and sad at the same time, which gives us hints about what Buffy would be feeling in that moment, even though she basically goes blank-faced and doesn’t even speak, disbelief, sadness, but also horror, fear, and guilt at learning that Angel is the one who killed Jenny. In “The Body” we have to get all our clues about what Buffy is feeling just from SMG’s performance, which is so amazing. I think this show is an example of one that consistently uses music to great effect, including in this episode where the absence of music is such an important choice.

Mitch M

Buffy's "good luck" to the paramedics always kills me. Even in the midst of shock and her most painful moment, she finds time and energy to be compassionate.

Carrie Els

The vampire at the end is also naked, the fight is raw and graphic and horrifying - as is death.

Raven Dark

Ohh, I really like this, Carrie. I like it a lot.

Becky Mitchell

This episode killed me when it first aired on TV. And it still gets me every time. My daughter watched all 7 seasons when she was about 13.... and slept in my bed for 3 nights after this episode. When my own mother passed away in 2019, this episode hit even harder, because I recognize the almost paralysis that the characters feel. And Buffy saying that she isn't even sure that she is there, so she can't answer when people ask how she is doing. Joss and SMG and the rest of the cast really captured the realities of how different people handle the first few hours of grief after a death. Any top ten list about "saddest deaths of a TV character" has this in the number 1 or 2 spot. SMG deserved an Emmy Award for this.

Purple Nurple

I've not got to this ep yet, but you watched this around Christmas?! That's as sad as me watching a finale of my favourite show (with a sad ending) a few days before Christmas! I'm just thinking I'm getting ever closer to this ep and not sure how much I can watch! (may need to watch the edited version)

K'Banj

Everytime I see this episode, Dawn's reaction breaks my heart!