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The one time in the series we see a demon who isn't into Xander.

I must have watched a dozen reactions to this episode in the last month… RUclips keeps recommending them to me. I need to see if anyone reacted to Brigadoom; the other contender for my favourite musical episode of a long-running TV show.

Yeah your reaction to Spike's dream was similar to me and my mom's reaction LOL

If no one mentioned it yet (I didn't read all comments yet)... I read somewhere (and I think I confirmed it's true) that that actor HAS a twin brother and they actually used him at least in the scenes where both Xanders were there! :D

What do Buffy and those villains have in common...

I think Angel was supposed to have appeared in stead of Drusilla, but the network didn’t give permission or something like that.

I'm a bit baffled on your thought process of Spike reverting back to William because of his soul. Think about Angel - he wasn't Liam just because his soul was restored.

Definitely a great (and mysterious) one!

The opening and the ending of this episode really just bring it home; love that we are returning to Sunnydale High! Going right back to the beginning!

I am sure ALL viewers were SO confused over the sudden appearance of her sister, lol. I know my mom and I were! :D

You had the same reaction my mom and I had, when after Dracula introduces himself Buffy says "Get out!"

The first two minutes are so me coded, starting off with a task and immediately segueing into the absolute state of my life

Nice reaction to a season that has the most diverse reactions from fans. My group of Buffy Watchers since the beginning have agreed that this year is similar to the sewer breakup scene with Buffy and Angel in The Prom. The show is Angel and knows the relationship has to end for practical reasons. He doesn’t like it but understands their reality. Buffy wants to keep being with Angel but knows deep down it has to end. The audience is like Buffy. We know it has to end but we don’t want it to happen. It is with this backdrop that the final 22 episodes take place. We prefer to group the year together has the final 150 pages of a great 800 page novel. Be patient…. After all we have to have quality closure for people and stories that the audience has become emotionally involved and bonded. No break up is completely satisfying but if done properly, we can be like Willow and Oz meeting in Istanbul after many years.

I only discovered your reactions to this series recently and just blasted through them and had the best time with you laughing and crying (and me matching every one). I have seen every season of this show about five or six times, but the premiere and finale are just about the perfect bookends to this warm hug of a show. The only other show that even compares is The Good Place. That show is four seasons of pure perfection and one of the best TV finales ever. You will love it. Thank you so much for completing this journey.

Did you catch the Avengers reference when Willow mentions “Miss Harkness” in her first scene.

Tip: instead of posting Season 7, Episode 1, which is so long you can’t see the 1 in the title, just pose S: 7, E: 1, then your viewers can find episodes easily, quickly, without getting frustrated.

Yeah, Buffy training Dawn was a callback to the season 6 finale - Dawn helped Buffy fight, and now Buffy is training her so she can fight better.

Yeah, hard to believe you are already on season 7! ❤ I have an irregular heat best at times so I’m very familiar with abnormal heart rates. I don’t think your heart rate is abnormal considering what you are doing. Being on camera in front of your audience is stressful no matter how normal it might seem to you at this point. You are thinking hard, putting energy into your presentation while talking constantly in your intro. I think 90 to 120 would be pretty normal under those circumstances. (By the way, the inset of the episode scenes covered your heart rate during the video, but I’m sure you noticed that while editing)

You really have to listen to that last speech a couple of times. From the words spoken to the people shown, there is so much foreshadowing as well as information revealed if you pay attention. Also, you should go get a physical before you start an exercise regimen. Your resting heart rate is above 100 and that is called tachycardia. And you are going up to 118 when you are just sitting there talking. It could be as simple as high blood pressure or hyperthyroidism, but it could be heart disease. Get yourself checked out. Covid caused heart damage for me and I was able to heal that damage because we caught it early due to me monitoring my pulse on my fitbit. Things can be improved and sometimes reversed. And if it is nothing, even better.

You aren't alone when it comes to physical health. I'm glad you're sharing this with us. Going to the gym is really hard.

I'm not a big fan of this episode. But I love seeing all our big bads here. The callbacks are nice, but in comparison to other season openers, this one feels a little weak.

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Everything will be explained, trust the process 😂

I think the vengeance demon Halfrek was just trying to get rid of William in order to get to her real target who needed vengeance, probably someone else at that house party or someone they knew. Maybe putting him down was part of the persona she was trying to project.

I really like the "back to the old times" theme here. Even more after such a dark season like season 6, it needed some light. Sunnydale high back. Dawn with the two students "representing" the og trio: Buffy, Willow and Xander. The end with the big bads fan service. And very cool the fact the actors were in England for the Willow and Giles scene.

18:25 you are the only reactor I've seen figure out he was trying to cut out his soul. This is actually a callback to AtS 1x3 when Spike was torturing Angel he insinuated that he could cut out Angel's soul.

Heart rate monitor-great idea, especially for season 7, based on my experience of watching 7 as I found it very different to 5 and 6. Well, every season is different, but some are more different than others. Obvious screnn layout refinement: it would be good to see heart rate and show at the same time.

I think Lessons was an excellent opener with the opening scene in Istanbul with the girl being chased by the shrouded men a great little 'taster' of what is to come in the Season. We the see Buffy training Dawn, who says 'I'm now taller than you' we can see how Dawn has grown. Then as we are coming full circle Principal Wood cuts the ribbon to open Sunnydale High. Funny when Buffy says 'do I have mum hair' when Wood thinks she is Dawn's mother. We get our first scene of Supernatural happenings with Buffy in the bathroom. Very funny when Dawn says she was into 'Britney Spears early work, before she sold out'. The we have Buffy as the 'embarrassing mum' ruining Dawns intro to the class. The pencil scene is great when the student asks for it Dawn them seemingly stabs her in the eye with it, a throwback to Nightmares episode in S1. As Buffy is fighting the manifest spirits, we suddenly see a very strange looking Spike behind the door. Buffy sees his injuries, we know something has changed. Xander eventually breaks The Talisman, again funny scene when the student says 'you are the coolest mum ever'. When Principal Wood offers Buffy the job of Counsellor, of course she accepts, now call me cynical but surely you would have to have training, qualifications, credentials and experience to get such a post, but hey this is Sunnydale High after all. One of the greatest scenes in the whole Buffyverse at the end with Spike being tormented by Warren, Glory, Adam, The Mayor, Drusilla, and The Master, what have they all got in common, and of course finally Buffy too. It is brilliant writing. Great reaction again can see that you are enthralled and intrigued by this great opener for S7.

I like the heart rate thingy 💓😄

I LOVED the faces at the end. Did anyone let you know that the stuff with Willow and Giles was shot in Westbury at Anthony Stewart Head's farm. It's in Farmborough village outside of Bath?

Yes, Spike went specifically to get his soul back. Unlike Angel who didnt want his soul back and had to be cursed with it, Spike chose to get it to become a better man.

My favorite part of this episode is the last scene, and when it comes to reaction videos I love to see reactions to people seeing all the previous big bads.

That part where Buffy is playing an amusement park game and the vampire "prop" says "I am a vampire!"... for some reason that strikes me as super funny :D

~13 minutes in: You did that, down a cliff? Yikes!

I had to look up what "Yoko Factor" meant haha. I actually never noticed the title of this episode :P

Great episode, great reaction :)

Giles singing is one of my favorite parts :D

Best finale ever! We were still in the middle of the pandemic when it aired and I was sitting in my bedroom watching this finale, bawling my eyes out seeing everyone at that backyard BBQ. At the time, it gave me so much hope for the future and being able to get back to large gatherings with loved ones. Garrett's voice over and the music as we see the montage of where all of the main characters end up...*chef's kiss* I think a lot of shows try to be edgy or different, but they could really benefit from studying this finale and all the ways in which the Superstore writers got it right. There's nothing wrong with a happy ending (in many ways it was bittersweet what with the store closing down), with seeing everything work out in the end and getting sentimental. They totally nailed it. It's definitely regarded as one of the best series finales of all-time.

Glad you enjoyed episode 6x22! I sometimes wonder what happened regarding Anthony Stewart Head. Did he make plans to work for a different company, for example, the UK TV industry, after the end of season 5? Obviously Giles leaving and coming back is a huge feature of this season.

The season started and ended with Buffy crawling her way out of the ground.

I wasn't expecting to hear a Pharoahe Monch song in a Buffy reaction!

Great rumination session. Your comments about Spike reverting to his William personality and then having a real romance with Buffy is a lovely idea. This wasn’t my favorite finale either. It’s probably toward the bottom of my rankings. Great season though overall. First time I watched this I was also surprised when Spike got his soul.

I was looking for a reaction to this episode and you just uploaded this hahaha . Nice!

Spike went through the trials because he wanted to be better for Buffy. He willingly won his soul back. He did it for Buffy.

I tend to agree with you. The writers attempted to cover two major arcs this seasons: Buffy’s post-death depression and Willow’s “addiction”/recovery/despair and IMO the results are…mixed. Not “mixed” in the sense of the whole thing being meh, but it the sense that (for me) some stuff worked well and some stuff reeeeally didn’t. I give the writers full marks for having Buffy’s depression run the whole season rather than the far-more-standard-for-the-time 1-2 episodes. It can be a bit of tiring to watch, but one could argue that’s the point; that’s certainly what she feels. On the flip side, the final fight with the plant people and emergence from the pit into the daylight felt as though it had been bolted on at the last minute. “We know Willow’s going to be doing her things, and Buffy’s already fought her so we need her out of the way” or some such. To re-use a phrase from my comment on your reaction the previous episode, it felt ham-fisted. Regarding Willow, I think I get what the writers were going for: wanting to destroy the world (or thinking/convincing yourself you do) as a metaphor for being unable to handle the place you’ve taken your definitely works for me on paper. The execution didn’t quite work for me and I’m not sure why; possibly because Buffy and Dawn vs the Plant People broke the rhythm of the climax and possibly because the whole satanic temple thing came out of /nowhere/. Big points for trying it; if you don’t go for it big you’ll never win big. But it also means that if you come this -><- close but miss, it’s going to feel like a miss. For a counterpoint, and I f you haven’t seen it, Sarah Z made a 90-minute essay in which she sings the praises of season 6: ruclips.net/video/UMC45v0ULCY/видео.html

S6 is fantastic. It’s funny how you struggle to accept Dark Willow and her motives 😂 Willow was literally a struggling addict and her lover was murdered so it made sense for her to have a dramatic downfall (which was foreshadowed and made in typical Buffy-apocalyptic fashion) which caused her to be “destructive” towards herself and the rest of the world dealing with grief. Also, it’s important to note the amazing juxtaposition of Buffy crawling out of the grave from the beginning of the season vs the finale. It reflects the important theme of this season which is life. Existing vs living. (Crawling out of her grave by herself and depressed, versus crawling out with her sister and newfound purpose and meaning of life)

You've got to think a little deeper. There is so much below the surface. Each episode serves to move each character along a specific journey towards an eventual designation. Each moment has meaning in that context, the bigger picture. Trust the process. ;) 💕

This is not my favourite finale either. Sure, it's a nice idea that Xander's inconditional love can save the day, but it feels like they built the idea of Willow being unstoppable, and then, a hug and we're OK. But you're right, we see once again that Xander, no powers or anything, can save the day because he's brave, and because he's true. He makes A LOT of mistakes, but he comes around. That's a good friend to have around. Buffy finally feeling like she has reasons to live is also nice, although she was to supposed to have realized that already. I think Spike fans like to believe that he wanted his soul back, but I think he wanted to be fully evil. Nothing in his words indicates he wanted to be good, "that bitch" is not the most loving way to refer to someone XD However, his wording allows for the entity in the cave to interpret it literally, so "what Buffy deserves" is not what Spike was thinking of. Anyway, on to season 7...

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Have you gotten a chance to drop in on the coven and say 'hey'?? 😁 We found out that Angel had a soul in the Angel episode, during 1st season. He explained to Buffy (before killing Darla) how he was able to be good.