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hi everyone!

here is my timed reaction to buffy the vampire slayer season 3 episode 6 "band candy"

a bit of a freaky friday with this one!!!

**react sync is giving me some issues and as i'm tight on time since i'm going out of town tomorrow, i'll try to figure it out and retroactively add timers for uploads this week later!

thanks for watching with me!

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 3 Episode 6 | Full Length

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Alfador42

This one must have been so fun to film for the "grown up" actors in the cast! Faith's absence in this episode can probably be explained simply by the fact that they often need to keep some characters out of certain episodes either for budget reasons and/or because they can't give every character something to do during the course of an episode. Was really looking forward to your reaction to this one and it did not disappoint ;)

Daniel Lowther

This is such a fantastic episode, with some great performances from the older members of the Buffy cast; especially Giles, Joyce & Principal Synder, who did great, acting like teenagers, & had some really memorable moments/lines. I love Ethan Rayne as a sort of agent of chaos; I know people like cool bad guys, but I love a good old fashioned cowardly villain, who knows he/she can’t fight, so they are weaselly & sneaky instead. And Robin Sachs did a fantastic job embodying those sleazy characteristics, in how he played Ethan Rayne. I love that we’re starting to see more from the Mayor. I think Joyce is a much better a character in this season, now that she’s knows about Buffy being the Slayer; I also feel the writers tried to write her a bit more sympathetically than they did in previous seasons, where she always came off as either harsh/overbearing or else as a non-existent absent parent, when they didn’t need her for an episode. But in this episode, we also see another side to her. As all the adults appear to revert to their younger mindsets, we get to see what they were all like as teenagers: Giles was a reckless tearaway, Principal Snyder was a massive geek & Joyce seems to be a bit of groupie, who was attracted to bad boys, like Ripper….so she’s one to criticise Buffy, when it comes to being irresponsible haha. The scenes with Joyce & Giles manage to be a mix of hilarious, wrong and completely cringe-inducing, all at the same time, & I bloody love them haha. Anthony Head did such a great job as being the teenage “Ripper” Giles; I remember either at the time, or slightly later, people were hoping they’d make a Buffy prequel TV show about young Giles in his Ripper days, before he became a Watcher, & it’s so disappointing that it never came about. The Willow/Xander storyline is truly annoying at times, & has done its best to ruin a couple of episodes so far, by trying to force itself into the secondary storyline. The writers shouldn’t have done it, & you’re right, it is a bit out of character for Willow; I know that she loved Xander that way earlier in the show, but she seemed to be over that, after Xander treat her terribly when he was pining after Buffy. It’s just feels wrong, wrong, wrong haha. As for you wondering why Faith was absent for all the crazy hijinks that went on during this episode, I believe that was down to Eliza Dushku’s age; you see, when she first started on the show, Eliza Dushku was the only one in cast of teenagers, was actually STILL a teenager at the time, so was only permitted to film for so many hours a day. At least that’s the explanation I once saw somewhere- it may be bullshit; but that would explain why she either only appears briefly in some episodes-such as the previous one about SlayerFest/the Prom, or else goes missing entirely in others, such as she did in this episode. They probably had to pick and choose which episodes to have Faith in, if they weren’t able to use her all the time; I suppose that’s why it was far more convenient, to have the rest of the main “teenagers” in the cast, be all in their early to mid 20s haha. I mean, the actors who played Cordelia & Xander were something like 27 or 28, when they did this episode; talk about being held back haha. I love that Xander realises that he’s been eating the chocolate as well, but it has absolutely zero effect on him; he’s already an immature teenager anyway, so his mental levels had no lower to go…silly, immature Xander haha. This must have been a really fun episode for all the older actors to be a part of; the scene in the Bronze looks especially fun, with them all dancing, singing & just generally messing about like a bunch of kids. I forgot how season 3 just seems to get better & better, as we get further into it; they really found their rhythm, with the formula and pacing feeling much more natural than it did in the previous seasons. I loved your reaction to this episode, Emme, and I can’t wait for the next one; I know, I say that so often, in my comments, that I could add it to my username…but it’s still true haha. Hope you’re having a fantastic week so far, & that you’re feeling good in general. 👍😀 All the best. xx

emmereacts

i really do enjoy the character of ethan!!! hes a very complex character it seems. also that definitely makes sense about the actress for faith, i didnt realize she was still a teenager!