"Buffy vs. Dracula" (5x1) | *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* Reaction
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- I hope you enjoy my reaction to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Five, Episode One: "Bury vs. Dracula"!
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Watching reactors mental breakdown at the end of this episode will never get old 😂
Always worth watching 4 seasons of reactions.
Never lol
Absolutely, I was the same way when I first watched too.
@@Itsjandz105 same :D immediately checked the tv program to see if I had missed an episode
Watching the gaslighting in the comment section is better haha
"You think you know, what you are, what's to come. You haven't even begun."
sounds familiar. lol
"I know. Little sis is coming". -Faith
S5 cemented Buffy as one of the greatest shows of all time.
Exactly and season 5 is probably one of the greatest seasons of any tv series in TV
Already there after S2, imo. Seasons 3-6 just pile greatness on greatness, an embarrassment of riches.
Xander eating bugs was a callback to Dracula's assistant Renfield, who did the same thing.
Sorry--last one--but Dracula repeats what Tara says to Buffy at the end of season 4 (during the dream episode)--''You think you know... what you are, what's to come. You haven't even begun."
Tara spoke them aloud, but she was acting as the voice of the First Slayer, so it was actually the First Slayer that said them.
Ha! I suppose that is true.
The collective “mom!” from the two sisters is so priceless. It never gets old after 5 seasons.
Little Acapella going on there.
It is one of my favorite scenes.
the 5th season is arguably one of the worst to get through because Dawn is an annoying garbage character until much later
18:29 Cass.exe has stopped functioning.
Funny how no reactors remember Buffy’s sister at the start of this season. You’ll get there! 👍
This episode is actually very faithful to the lore of the original Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Dracula turns into a wolf there as well. Xander plays the part of Renfield, who also went crazy and ate bugs. Dracula can also influence the weather, so the rain at the beginning wasn't Willow's fault. Dracula caused the thunderstorm to avoid getting killed by sunlight.
It also echoes Dracula's arrival in Whitby in the book.
Welcome to the reaction we all had when this aired
Season 5 is so good. Some of the best tv of all time. Excited for your reaction! 🎉
"Riley just doesn't feel like a Buffy character"
He's just not whimsical enough lol he feels too damn normal. He speaks like a person. The rest of the cast speak like only Buffy characters do.
I love riley I am tired of the Riley hate!
Season 5 of Buffy . The. Greatest. Season. Of. Television. Ever.
A. Gree.
The Master in season 1 had mind control abilities. Druscilla had it in a way, but she had some before becoming a vampire.
Without spoiling anything, I'm just going to say in regards to the ending that most people agree this is a well written show. It will make sense, just gotta trust the process.
This
Reactor memories are so short! I know she wasn’t really in season 4, but I can’t believe you thought Buffy was an only child 😂😂
Fun fact: the actor that plays Dracula played SMG's boyfriend in the soap opera she was on where she won an Emmy.
Sarah won a daytime Emmy before her TV mother Susan Lucci did.
Fact is.. Buffy was merely a prequel to Ice Princess - it's pretty remarkable that you didnt get spoiled on that thus far, but then again.. Buffy fans are pretty respectful about that twist.
He is also so boring compared to the other ones, but boring characters are still able to feel like they belong *cough*angel*cough* but Riley is just so meh.
@@NerdySwede your aim was a little off 😁
@@godmagnus damn i usually never replies on the wrong post but here we go
The ultimate puzzled look by every reactor is priceless. It's like everything you thought you knew was a lie.
Lol right... It's like, almost all the reactors didn't even notice her 'till this episode.
You're usually so observant. Her sister's always been there.
And so it begins...😂
To be fair, she didn't get a lot of screen time.
I cant even put into words how excited I am for season 5. I hope you enjoy!
Weird how reactors don't know about Buffy's sister. I guess we were more observant back in the day. 🤷♂
I’ve literally had the worst day and seeing u post this has made it better thank you and love you
I hope tomorrow is better ❤❤
Girl, I don't know how to break it to you. But Olivia dumped Giles after Hush.
Right? I thought she knew🤣
Actually, she kinda didn't. But they are just friends with benefits, nothing else. She doesn't live in Sunnydale, so she is just somewhere off screen
If you listen to the audible original Buffy Story "Slayer" you get more information about the whole situation ^^
Someone with better editing skills than my nonexistent ones really needs to put together a compilation of reactions to that last scene.
Challenge accepted! I am looking for other reactions now - Cass is the only reactor I've watched - feel free to link me any of your favorites :)
The reaction at the end was all of our reaction 😂
Remember what Faith said about getting off on fighting vampires? in the opening sequence, Buffy is laying in bed with her boyfriend, she gets up with out waking him, goes to a cemetery and fights and slays a vampire. Then she sneaks back into bed with her boyfriend and smiles. Buffy may have poo poo'd Faith's pronouncement, but she does get off on fighting vampires.
💯 I think a lot of people miss this.
She didn't eat a low-fat yogurt afterwards. That's for sure.
The end of this episode is probably my favorite Buffy reaction every single time. Just hilarious. Oh, I do love her little sister.
Joss Whedon wanted Amber Benson to be in the opening credits but the Network nixed it because it would mean a large pay raise for her. And the Studio didn't want to pay her more.
Season 5 is my favourite. A masterpiece. And all the seeds were planted in Restless & here, in Buffy Vs. Dracula. 🖤
I remember watching this episode when it first aired back in the days and I was BAFFLED and on top had to wait a whole WEEK for answers... 😭
SPOILERS
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and didn't even get them. episode two explains NOTHING.
But it made good conversation the next time you met up with your friends. Cell phones weren't that huge of a thing until a few more years later.
Water cooler talk or in between breaks at school, right?
S5 was 2000-01.
Actually S1-4 didnt start with successful cemetery fights.
A lot of people I knew had issues with this episode, but it was one of my favorite season premieres.
Yes, Michelle Trachtenberg was in Ice Princess, 17 Again and Eurotrip, etc. Wait. You don't remember her from the past seasons?
I always took it for granted Dracula and Joyce DID get it on! Yes, it's the Ice Princess, Penny Gadget, Harriet the Spy, Georgina Sparks and a whole lot more.
Cass: "Maybe she's a demon child of Joyce's and she just popped into existence."
Dang. That's harsh. Calling Buffy's sis a demon child? Yikes lol. I don't know why people always forget about Buffy's sister. I guess they get caught up in the story that they forget she's been there since day 1.
I love the sideways look she would give Buffy, back in season two, when she caught her sneaking back into the house after patrolling.
@@blimfark875 Yes! Or how she would blackmail Buffy to let her go watch a movie with her friends late at night every time Buffy snuck in Riley over 🤣
3:50 They broke up off screen and she’s never mentioned again. The fan theory is that she wanted kids and Giles did not. It comes from the fact that she was crying over an empty baby carriage in “Restless”
Yeah, the original Dracula had some sort of mental influencd over others, along with a handful of ogher powers.
Also, why are you confused? Buffy's always had a sister.
You are entering into my favorite season of Buffy! The characters and their interactions and the storyline are just all so much fun here! I cannot wait to watch your journey.
Watching people react to the end of this episode will never not make me laugh!
One thing you might only notice on rewatches is how there have been some hints about this episode and the season in general in previous dream seqauences.
11:00: Yes, Cass, Dracula thinks she enjoyed it. She kinda did. Go back to 03x21 and watch that scene between Angel and Buffy again.
Xander's seeming addiction to eating insects is a reference to the original Bram Stoker's "Dracula" novel. In it, there's a character named Renfield who lives in a mental institution. He eats bugs, he wants immortality from his master, and Dracula toys with him. There are also 3 female vampires (the bride sisters) who reside in Dracula's castle and eat babies. The hero of the story (Jonathan) visits the castle and is seduced by them. Also, Buffy's sister, duh... it's her sister, remember? Geesh.
You did see Buffy as a vampire in Nightmares from the first season.
Dracula is just the 3rd vampire we have seen that has the power of hypnosis. Just 3 in 4 seasons plus 1 episode.
Drac, Dru and who else?
@@youtert the Master
@@rfresa Oh, yeah. "You have fruit punch mouth" and all that.
Fourth, if you include the movie (or its comicbook adaptation) as canon.
"You think you know what you are, what's to come." Don't know if you mention it in the full reaction. But this same line was said by Tara in Buffy's dream in Restless.
Tara spoke them aloud, but she was acting as the voice of the First Slayer. It was the First Slayer that actually said them.
Out of all the season openers this is the funniest. I laugh at the scene where Xander shoves Anya in the closet.
So many reactors don't seem like they know Dracula lore, even and/or most of the basics.
Let the gaslighting jokes begin.
This is my first time commenting here, i have been waiting for you to get to season 5, since literally S1!
I cannot wait to continue watching you unpack this❤
Dracula is in the public domain so he can literally never die.
When they were writing the episode they were creating an old school vampire and they kept saying “like Dracula” so many times they eventually decided to check if they could just use Dracula. Public domain, so yeah.
Also, the actor starred in a movie about Dracula around the same time. I think I’ve heard there was some buzz or marketing noting the connection at some point.
Great reaction to a very underrated episode. Classic Whedon where he hides important details, plot lines, and information in a campy episode with a shock ending. Take your advice and be patient and know all will be explained… just not on your time clock.
No spoilers so much of this episode can be referenced in the future. Classic misdirection one… the opening sequence. You said it’s like many Buffy openings and a successful slaying starts the episode. But this is very different. We have never seen Buffy restless in bed before. She has always slept deeply and wakes up after Angel, loathsome Parker, and Riley. But Buffy can’t sleep and needs something more. Next she is in full sprint to catch and slay a vampire. This is not a patrol but a lioness in full gallop to capture its prey. This has the look and feel of a documentary on cats of prey finding and killing their meal to be satisfied. After the staking… no funny quips, no smile, just the look of fulfillment of mission. Then Buffy returns to bed to get sleep and a fulfilling rest. This is different and is setting the stage that Buffy talks to Giles about her actions. She says she has been hunting and not patrolling.Big difference. She talks about how Dracula knew more about herself/ power than she does. Go back to Dracula and his observation of the scar left by Angel. When you rewatch the Angel feeding on Buffy scene in Graduation, Part 2, watch from a sexual viewpoint. There is passion , desire, and lust that was not there when Buffy had sex with Angel. Their first time was sweet and full of Innocence. The feeding is very sexual and mature. It’s powerful and the way Buffy acts is that of satisfaction. Then ask yourself where did the power come from that grew the jungle in Where The Wild Things Grow.? One of the most powerful actions in the universe is making life and combined with unleashed inner sexual energy, creation of life/ power . Dracula does not want anyone, he wants to seduce Buffy. He wants that feeling that Angel experienced but it can only happen if Buffy is willing to become one.Buffy, like Faith or any other, is drawn to the power of selfish desires. That’s why Buffy has a taste but rewatch the sequence shown while Buffy drinks. She rejects and understands herself. She will not be satisfied in quenching urges/selfish desire. She sees that being just a Slayer or satisfying emotions to please herself is not her nature. She sees that she has a base of power that the Slayer is. She is being told that she can have an eternity of earthly power and worldly possessions with Dracula… power, sexual satisfaction, all that millions have sought since the beginning of life and Buffy says No.This is one of the classic stories in Western Culture. Evil, the devil.. offers the world and eternal life if you just give up your humanity. From Faust to the Twilight Zone we have seen those take the offer. But Buffy is truly special. She rejects it all. First she kills Dracula and then she recruits Giles to find out more on being a Slayer so she can reject being just a hunter/killer. This is the duality that Buffy has faced since Faith.
Why are you so confused? That's Buffy's sister. I know she's been a background character most of the time but you're acting like she never existed. Thankfully she finally gets a lot of character development moving forward.
Its weird how this happens to every reactor. I guess it must be hard to record and pay attention to background characters
Ice Princess indeed, a fun movie. Also Europtrip. "Scotty doesn't know!"
Also check her out in Criminal Minds/Sleepy Hollow.
How do you not remember Buffy's sister!? She's been in so many episodes
Hey good to see Buffy's sister again! Haven't seen her since Season 1 🥰
She was in season three also. Remember, Joyce telling Buffy, that she couldn't, "slay in front of her sister."
Let the gaslighting begin
I remember clearly when this episode first aired in the German TV (as with all Buffy episodes about one year after the original air date in the US) and I first saw it. I was very much looking forward to this new season and here I was, realizing that I obviously must have missed at least one episode already because what do you mean, sister??
I was so pissed at myself for beginning too late with the new Buffy season xD it was only on the next day that my friend in class told me that in fact that was the first episode of the season, and I haven't missed an episode at all.
I was relieved but even more confused xD
It were different times ^^ it wasn't as easy to know if you've just missed an episode or not xD
There would have also been no way to rewatch any missed episodes until the DVDs came out after the finale ^^
Yes yes yes season 5 in my opinion really makes up for season 4
HAHAHAHA YESSSSSS I've been waiting for this fucking ending so long! YESSSSSS
How could you not have noticed Buffy's sister considering her major crush on Xander..... not very observant... tsk tsk
One of my favorite endings to watch someone watch!
Buffy would need to be near death, then drink Dracula's blood, in order to be turned into a vampire.
“Ice princess…?” I’m howling 😂😂😂
I always wondered why you never mentioned her sister in past episodes. Glad to see you finally acknowledging her!
She's so annoying we rather pretend she doesn't exist!X-P
Let the gaslighting begin 😈
lol it's a rite of passage at this point.
It's tradition, she's now one of us.
It's a tedious non-joke that vergers on spoiling. I hope she's not reading the comments for this and the next episode.
This isn't a spoiler but season 5 has my favorite finale and big bad!!!!!!!! such a phenomenal season
I agree! It's not my favorite _season_ but I agree about the finale and *expecially* the Big Bad!! 💗
Put your faith in that they make it work.
this is buffy's BEST HAIR season!!!
Come on. You don't remember her consoling Buffy in her room when Angel turned bad? And all the other times she appeared in past episodes? Come on.
I'm surprised you don't remember Buffy's sister. Remember the episode where Buffy, Willow, and Buffy's sister had a slumber party in Buffy's room? And what about the time Joyce, Buffy, and Buffy's sister got that nice family photo?
Cass, you obviously missed season 1 Episode 13, where Buffy went back to California and reconnected with her dad and her younger sister.
Nice of the writers to bring her back for Season 5.
About time Buffy's sister started getting some quality air time!
Try paying attention sometimes. Buffy's sister has been here since the beginning, she just gets more screen time now as she is a little older than she was in season 1 and really came inyo her own as an actress. But she's always been there.
Don't you remember the pilot episode when Buffy, her mom and her sister moved to Sunnydale?
How about when Buffy stood up to Ted to defend her sister?
What about how devastated her sister was when Buffy left at the end of season 2.
Surely you remember the episode when Faith was babysitting and things didn't go great.
Or the episode where the B- plot was Buffy's sister taking care of rat Amy while Willow was away.
You need to pay more attention to what you are watching.
I loved babysitter Faith, just Joyce and Buffy's expressions when they see her in makeup and a thong!
The Slayer before Buffy was turned into a vampire and Joss Whedon planned to have her as the big bad for season four and that he regretted not doing it. The only hangover of this is Sunday from episode one. Personally, I don't see how having a super powerful vampire as the big bad would be different from the first two seasons with the Master and Angelus. I never get tired of watching reactor's bafflement to the end of this episode.
"Ice Princess?!" First time I've seen a reactor recognize her that way. One person did say, "It's Harriet the Spy!"
Some of the things you mentioned made me think you'd enjoy the show of Interview with The Vampire, I'm currently obsessed with it, and we are only halfway season 2, but it'd be a great addition if you have some time
Me waiting for the last minute of the episode like 👀👀👀 so your brain can break 💙
Don't you remember when Faith tried to kill Buffy's sister in season 3? One of my favorite episodes.
She wasn't trying to kill her, she wanted her to be her own little sis.
@2:37 I heard that red mark on Buffy's back is supposed to be from when she got her tattoo removed in Season 1, that's insanely good continuity
Interesting assumption that when the lab was destroyed, all chips were deactivated. You know, like all sold computers stop working the moment a factory is shut down.
Drusilla has the power to compel as well. We saw her use it on Giles and Kendra.
And the Master. Dracula is only the 3rd Vampire to have this power. Just 3 vampires in 4 seasons + 1 episode.
Imagine watching this episode when it first aired on television. Then not being able to watch the next four till next year because your idiot little brother threw a game controller at it and broke it.
Yay! One of my fav Buffy reactors fr
Season 5 is a perfect season idc what anyone says I know fans really love season 2 and 3 as well but they didn’t reach the level that season 5 does imo.
I have been WAITING for this season
Our favorite sister finally returns.
I've always found her pretty annoying TBH. When she was a child I could still excuse her(sort of...)but now that she's a teenager she's possibly even worse!😖
Welcome to the greatest season in The Verse........
18:27 - Cass.exe has stopped responding.
😂
Reactions to the ending of this episode never get old.
Wait I know she hasn't been in a lot of episodes but you don't remember when she took her sister to the ice rink?
Glad to see buffy's lil sis again. It's been too long
Agreed :)
I was hoping she was gone for good. I could never really stand her...X-/
I first saw Michelle Trachtenberg in the live-action "Inspector Gadget" movie. You are going to love her here.
Activate spoil-protection
I do like some of the novel shoutouts--Xander getting turned into a mindless bug eater like Renfield, Dracula having the ability to turn into a wolf, mist; the 3 vampire ladies. Are there some others?
Delivering a casket-sized box to a castle. In the novel, that’s not how Dracula arrived, but it’s still playing with the same trope.
No spoiler, but this is my favorite season of Buffy. I'll be interested in your opinion when you have finished it.
I love the confusion at the end of this episode lmao
It's nice to see Buffy's sister finally getting more screen time. She really hasn't been around since season 2, as the actress was off filming the Inspector Gadget movie.
Everything they did in TVD they copied from Buffy. Compulsion. Love triangles. Little siblings. the Humanity Switch (exemplified by Angel). Daylight rings. All from Buffy. Ian Somerhalder DEFINETLY watched Buffy S3 when getting ready for his role. I mean, Damon is the perfect combination of Angel and Spike as one person.
TVD novels were released in the very early '90s, though, years before the Buffy tv show. When Spike arrived in the show, he actually reminded me of Damon Salvatore, lol. (I didn't watch TVD show, though, so I can't speak to the actor's performance being informed by Buffy S3. That's definitely possible.) A lot of the similarities are probably just common tropes in fiction and vampire lore.
How can you forgot Buffy's sister? She's been there the whole time! 😁
one of the best season opener and my fav personally ✨
This episode is always hilarious to zoom to the post-episode analysis for any reactor
What are you talking about? Dawn's always been an essential part of the show. Remember that one episode she messed with willows spell and high Jinks ensued
I think vampire lore consists of them being able to shape shift into wolves or something like that. It happens in the greatest vampire movie ever, OG Fright Night.