Buffy the Vampire Slayer REACTION | Season 6, Episode 20: Villains
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"bored now" is a great call-back to what vamp willow would say
Most brutal chest shave ever...
The new Gillette razor, now with an even closer sha.... No actually, you know what? Turns out this ones a little too close, you'd better stick with the old model for now.
It's such a dark season.
Right?! It even started that way.
In the comments on one of your videos in season 5, I said my favorite villain was yet to come. Willow is the one. She’s just so creepy as Dark Willow. Love it!
Haha, I remember you saying it! I don't think you were the only one either. She's definitely the scariest when she goes dark. 😲
SCARE HIM?!😂 He killed Tara, he must die.
Haha, I did kind of agree, I just didn't want it to be Willow who did it. I'd have preferred him to have sat on his own detonator, TBH. 😂
Love the edits in this one- had me cracking up
Hehe. 👍
Crazy how Buffy almost died for a THIRD freaking time! I wouldn’t ever be sane if I were Buffy
Interesting how Willow saves Buffy but then later battles her. Shows that the darkness was gradually growing inside Willow
Giles father figure role shows with Willow in this show too! Not just Buffy. From the start of S6, Giles was already suspicious of Willow and magic. Though he probably didn’t know she’d go dark, him showing up at the shop was like him saying “yup! I know my kid. Time to take care of it”
I had a thought during this rewatch when Clem asked Dawn if she wanted to rent some videos. The actual meaning of “rent videos” has changed completely since this show was made. :)
Regarding the magic in Buffy (and for Willow in particular); her magical journey has felt utterly organic to me. In many modern shows, a character acquires power/abilities of some sort and go from zero to adept in less than a season; maybe two seasons.. Willows gone from “hey, I can move a pencil”, through a bunch of errors, to restoring Angel’s soul (which she nearly didn’t manage, and drained her), to calling on Osiris to bring Buffy back (with a complex spell which knocked her around), to no longer needing to use complex enchantments (recall early this season when she’s working with Tara to make the hitchhiker demon tangible: the two of them were working an enchantment and then a Willow just says “Solid”). In this episode, she invokes Osiris through sheer force of will (pun only somewhat intended). It feels like a natural progression to me, and I appreciate it.
@@noahrobin1941 you summed up so well why Willow is my favorite villain. She’s complex and her “super hero” journey is completely natural. I can relate on a personal level to her darker side.
This is the completion for Willow that started in Be coming, Part 2. Willow has been progressing to darkness since she allowed the darkness of the Gypsy vengeance curse into her body and being. She was consistent in her progression until Tara. On a rewatch all of the clues and signs are present. From her recruitment to becoming a demon in Something Blue to her telling Giles she has mastered some dark magic spells in The Zeppo Factor. Dark Willow has been coming nearly 4 years and we have had sparks… Oz leaving, Tara’s brain drain, Buffy’s death, the break up with Tara, and now death as the final lock being opened
You can ignore my indifference to the magic. I really don't know why, but I just seem to have developed a disliking for that kind of thing. No idea where that's come from, TBH.
Nah, I get it. I have mixed feelings about it myself. The use of it in the Marvel movies (and comics) bugs me and bores me to tears; I recall having no interest in the Doctor Strange comics as a kid because of the magic, so this isn’t a new opinion. But for some reason I’m fine with it in Buffy. I should try to unpack that at some point. :)
@@noahrobin1941 Agree. Big difference is that in Buffy magic is almost exclusively dark, causes problems for the people that get involved with it( from being a rogue watcher that loses an arm,spending eternity in a trophy, or being sent to a dark op site) to the metaphor how Willows becoming an addict to her pride, ego, and self loathing. Also having witches at the time was a way to keep the YA female audience that made Buffy an ad revenue machine.
After Seeing Red there is only one way the last three can go in the Season. It had been intimated all through this Season that even though Willow had sought help and was trying to curb her addiction, anything could set it off. Well her witnessing Tara's death is the catalyst for ultimate revenge and mayhem. It's now very much in the realm of Liam Neeson in Sam Raimi's brilliant film Darkman where relentless devastating revenge is sought on all who wronged him. Willow is now all powerful, and we feel will be unstoppable. Great scene in the bar when Warren tells them all he killed the slayer, and they tell him she is still alive. Little does he know it's not Buffy he has to fear. Once Rack has informed Warren that he can sense the power of the new Dark Force in the witch we know Warren will be doomed. Willow is now without any feeling or empathy, even when she draws the bullet from Buffy there is no emotion or feeling. Warren thinks he can fool Willow with Robot Warren, but when Buffy and Xander plea with Willow she says' I'm not coming back', she will get her retribution. A brilliant scene with Dawn too when she says to Buffy 'I'd do it myself if I could' as young girl and human, she has has that emotion and hatred towards Warren, a natural reaction many would feel. Xander makes a good point here in that you don't have to be a Vampire or Demon to be pure evil, saying Warren is as bad as any vampire 'sent to Dustville'. We see Spike seeking a similar way to Angel in 'The Trial' episode from the Angel Show, where is he seeking something by completing ultimate dangerous tests, but of what does he want? The final scene of Willow placing the bullet into Warren and sealing his lips is amazing. Still we feel hatred towards him as he is still showing no remorse, a truly detestable character worse than any Demon. As Buffy, Xander and Anya witness the skinning alive of Warren they are horrified. Willow says to them 'one down' there really are 'Two To Go'. A brilliant S6 episode.
I've watched this episode about 67k times before, so for me the most shocking here was your age reveal 😂 You really do look younger!
Happy birthday though, whenever it was! 🤔🥳
Nice editing and fun reaction!
Thanks! Unfortunately, it must all be smoke and mirrors, or some kind of accidental camera/lighting effect. I don't look so young when I look into a mirror, and I definitely don't _feel_ it either. 😬 I'm pleased you enjoyed the edit. 👍It takes me so long that it's always nice to hear that, so thanks. 🙂
@@jaypeakay5864 to be fair, most of us humans are our own worst critics. We can see others concerned about their appearance and we think they look fine, even handsome or beautiful - but when we look in the mirror at ourselves, we see flaws.
I think that is an almost universal aspect of human existence, maybe only narcissists are immune...
@@jaypeakay5864 Well.... I can relate!
I'm 37 going on 92.. Good thing my brain and hair is 21 🤭
I'm glad you appreciate the well deserved compliment!
Looking forward to the next one 😁 (No pressure..)
The magic is the shortcut used to explore situations, thoughts and feelings.
Great reaction 😊
The look!!! 24:24 !!
Haha. I was so confused. I'd love to have seen the look on everyone else's face when they first saw that scene.😲
@@jaypeakay5864 First run of the show, you're face was what the collective felt and did!! It was like, "Wait.. what was...OMG!! WTF did I just watch??!" ....all after dealing with the stress of WAITING a week after Tara's murder and Spike's nonsense...
You know, until you mentioned, I didn't really think about Tara's murder and the Spike assault as being in the same episode! At the time (for me) they were two separate traumas but now I see... They weren't! I guess we were grieving over Tara, but so pissed at Spike that we were able to separate...
There were hints, not just in this season, but through out the series that Willow could eventually head down this path & I mean more than just Vampire Willow and what Angel was about to say about becoming a vampire revealing more about a person's true nature until Buffy stopped him. There was Giles concern over here use of magic. The time she stopped herself from talking about a spell because of Giles (that line where she's talking about an ingredient they were using for a different spell & she was going to say something about what it could do mixed with something else & trailed off), what she was considering doing to Oz & Veruca after she caught them together, what she did when she went after Glory for attacking Tara, the magics that she had to use to bring back Buffy, what Tara said about how Willow was scaring her, as well as her addiction. And there's probably even more that I'm missing that hinted at this happening if given the the right thing to push her over the edge.
Did you know that you're the same age as the characters in the show would be up to date!?
I do know that! I realised after seeing the year of Buffy's birth on her tombstone. 😲
I get what you're saying about magic. In storytelling terms(especially a weekly TV series) it's very difficult to "modulate" it as the temptation is always to OP the character...and Willow is now essentially godlike.
The "magical system" of the show plays very fast and loose with its own internal rules and they are quite willing to Deus ex machina anything at this point for the shock value. Re: "Normal Again" ending on a shot of psychotic Buffy. Oh noes, was it all a dream?
Yeah, I was probably too negative about that. I think it's just a personal dislike of magical powers in shows/movies, or rather, god-like magical powers. I'm not a big fan of the superhero genre for a similar reason.
@@jaypeakay5864Buffy is superhero genre lol
@@dutchkel Yes, and I'm not a big fan of this genre, which is partly why I decided to do reactions to it, because it's something different to what I'd normally watch. I'm a fan of this specific show, just like I'm not a fan of some shows/movies in my favourite genres. Hope that makes sense.
The last episode and from then on I truly my favorite episodes all the way to the end. So excited to watch you react to them!
That kind of breaks my heart because the final two reactions (particularly the finale reaction) of the season are two of my worst reactions yet. I was kind of negative too. Sorry about that, sometimes things just don't click right. I can only hope you'll enjoy the final season with me. 🤞
@@jaypeakay5864 no you're doing fine and adding the extra things here and there are hilarious. Don't stress my man, I ain't going anywhere..... Willow on the other hand lol
Your intros are fine! I'd have guessed you were in your 30s...
Did I complain about my lame intros again? 😂 I'm still doing that, lol. It's because I always just switch on the camera without a plan for what I'm going to say. 🤦♂By the time I finish them, it just feels like I've rambled for 10+ minutes.
Man, my 30s flew by, I can barely remember them. 😂 Time absolutely sucks balls.
@@jaypeakay5864 I feel that for sure! I'll be 67 in August! How did I get to be 2/3s of a century old?!?
@@jaypeakay5864 to be honest I enjoy your rambling intros, because they are literally stream of consciousness and sometimes you guess stuff that's going to happen and sometimes you figure stuff out as you are talking about it - and it is clearly unscripted, and that's okay, it's great! We're still here watching. 👍👍
I go back to look at what reaction viewers thought about Willow in S1 during this time and with S1's initial reaction I wonder what this reaction will be.
I think Willow's letting Warren run all day. It's a type of torture she's giving him.
Willow's now a murderer. She wasn't defending herself. She was getting vengeance (and it definitely wasn't justice as that is about righting a wrong that is best for everyone on both sides of the situation, and Willow going after the other members of the Trio shows it is vengeance [see more about that in a paragraph below], not justice) even Anya has never directly done that (D'Hoffryn and those he gives the power of the wishes feel they justify it by having it come from the wishers rather than doing it themselves, as Willow does). She had Warren tied up, mouth sewn shut, and tore off his skin after slowly piercing him with a bullet. Knowing he's scum/wishing this on him, and actually doing it to him are different things. No one caring he's dead doesn't justify the end means. Willow cannot escape justice on this one just because she used magic. A human is still dead without the law being on her side. That is why Willow burned his body into nothing. No body, no crime. Warren himself being a murderer makes her issues towards him understandable, but it doesn't make her actions right. That's the whole point of why her friends have the look on their faces after they failed to stop her and why Buffy was trying to stop her to begin with. Willow is now a murderer. I don't mind that Warren is dead. But how he died makes Willow a murderer.
Warren's plea about Willow being a good person just before his death has truths, but he's doing it to save his skin and there isn't any way Willow would listen to him. I'm not even sure she would've listened to her friends had they arrived in time.
Jonathan and Andrew are not at fault for Tara's death. They have other sins on their heads, but those sins are for human laws and they are currently in jail. They don't deserve death for Tara's murder. Warren shot Tara with a gun. He's outside Buffy's juristiction as it was, ""Human death by human means." But Willow's vengeance and her going after those who weren't involved in shooting Tara puts Willow in Buffy's "juristiction." Andrew and Jonathan being accomplises to the death of Katrina, while also participating in raping her, makes the situation a human juristiction, as well. Willow not doing so as she stated with, "One down," means Buffy will have to go after her. Willow is in Buffy's juristiction. The Trio no longer are.
Angel told Buffy Faith had a taste for killing after The Deputy Mayor. Willow is now in the same position Faith was in during that point in S3. I remember Willow's thoughts on Faith during that point and even before that point. So, it's actually quite interesting Willow is now in that position. Will she go down the path Faith did? If she does, will she come back, as Faith did? Faith has been in the darkness longer, when you consider her issues, but Willow is an addict who purposely fell off the wagon to ignore her grief and get vengeance. Where does that level of thinking stop as an addict to magic?
Xander asking, "When," about Anya becoming a demon is bad. He should know, or at least highly suspect, the answer immediately. I find it sad that no one in The Scoobies saw Anya re-entering demon-hood coming, and are still still considering Willow a friend, despite Willow currently doing what Anya does and did with vengeance wishes (only with Willow doing so without anyone wishing it with a vengeance demon, which Willow once turned down being, ironically enough). It speaks as to how the group dynamic works.
"Bored now" is a great call-back to what Vampire Willow would say and who Willow currently is.
Haha. After the finale reaction, my mind totally went back to S1 Willow. 😲
Ben is evil and so is Willow! Wouldn't you say, it's a travesty really?
Slayer, meet Flayer
Oh, I am more of a magic guy, and I think this show approaches it as constrained as possible.
That's fair. Just try to ignore my negativity about the magic - it's important if you're going to watch the next two reactions. 🤦♂😲 Cheers. 👍
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Andrew and Jonathan are Warren's accomplices. If they hadn't joined him to form the Trio, and followed him as he got more and more out of control, Warren would still be an evil pos but the damage done by him would likely have been less. And Willow has no qualms about visiting Vengeance - it isn't Justice, but to be fair Anya has done worse to men for less cause. I would not have shed a tear over them, but if Willow exacts similar vengeance on them she may never recover herself, and that I would mourn.
Not to worry, as it turned out, Andrew took one of them out for her! 😬
@@jaypeakay5864 I'm guessing that's a voice from the future watching season 7... 😁
Bruh I would've guessed you mid 20's
Dude, no way! It must be some kind of random camera trickery. I look and feel older than I even am. That was good to hear, though. I just have to find a way to fool myself into believing it now. 😁👍
You do not look like someone who is 43, you're more like 28-32
Haha, it's probably just the poor quality picture combined with being blasted by a bunch of cheap lights hiding my age. I have a rotting front tooth which isn't showing, for example. I also have some grey side hairs, face wrinkles, and the bone density of an 80 year-old. I guess we can't trust what we see on the internet. 🤔 All that said, thanks for making me feel better, it's very much appreciated. 😁👍
@@jaypeakay5864I'm 43 too which means we are the same age as Buffy as a character... And Harry Potter. Kinda funny.
@@dutchkel Haha, I noticed that too when I saw her tombstone. I actually had no idea Harry Potter was 43. 👍
It’s a difficult episode to properly explain emotions and feelings. The only disagreement is the comment about the show going off the rails . This is the natural completion of Willow and her journey into darkness she willingly started In Becoming, Part 2. The final 2 episodes of Season 2 were the blueprints for several characters and what they were to become. Listen to the narrative of Whistler and much is revealed after finishing the next 4 seasons. Becoming Part1 showed the past so we could learn and understand . Becoming Part 2 showed the path for Spike, Buffy, and Willow. It starts with Angelius being turned by Darla because of the immature loutish Angel not fully understanding but wanting to quench his desires. The last is Willow and her embrace of darkness/ evil to satisfy her desire to become special and stand out from the crowd. Since Willow allowed the dark Gypsy curse to enter her body and become part of her being, Dark Willow has been on the way/ Willow has been slowly becoming consumed and on a rewatch it becomes apparent. There have been sparks and flashpoints bringing her closer and even non obvious events ( like in The Zeppo) that Willow has been practicing, studying, and embracing the dark magic. Tara’s death ( her light being extinguished) has finally unlocked the power that has been mentioned by demons over the years. It’s easy to be missing because it’s been an artful misdirection going on with intent we don’t look to see. That’s why listening again to Whistler throughout Becoming you understand this was inevitable. Brilliant storytelling that allows different interpretations of many choices Willow has made over the last 4 years and gives more insight to her dream in Restless. The final 2 episodes of the season are wild, buckle up.
Willow is predestined long before the last episode of season two, if you get the translation of the Italian opera lines sung to her in season one, episode 10, Nightmares.
You're right. I'm just not that keen on how it turned out with her. I don't particularly like magical powers (in a show/movie) either, so that's probably my issue, if there is even is one. I'm sure I'm in a tiny minority who feel that way. Thankfully, they've calmed her down for S7. Haha.
@@RLucas3000 Thank you. I have never heard or read about this information before. I have learned so much about the show from comments like yours and I appreciate the knowledge shared.
@@jaypeakay5864 Very understandable. It’s only at this point in the series that I understood that magic had really only been used and portrayed as being dark/evil. Because it’s Willow we have given her a pass. Tara is just so sweet that we forget her big magic spell nearly gets Buffy killed and then she almost never uses magic . In a few instances she does some with Willow but it’s a protective spell or with Willow to get Glory away from killing the gang.
Think back but from the first time we see magic with Amy and her Mother and throughout the use of and users of magic are doing things not for good but for selfish and dark purposes.There are a few off times but it’s hard to root for magic when it’s mostly an agent for the evil.