@@Nepthu Nightmares. It technically wasn't real, just Buffy's own fears coming to life, but it still works for the intent of the video. Buffy genuinely believes that he thinks this and his behavior later in the show seems to prove that she's right

@@julienblackout thank you! I really enjoy making these. It is not. I don't think most podcasts are. We're on Spotify, Apple, Amazon music, etc. We also have an Instagram account where we post essays and analyses for each episode.

@@stephenharber5694 thank you so much! And that's fair. I can make it work but I don't fully buy into it either. This edit isn't necessarily meant to prove that it was real, but more to show the weight of Buffy's choice this episode.

@ Oh totally understood, your edit makes it work so much better than the episode did (which is one of my faves, actually.) I love the edit and will always treasure this! Thank you again! So good! Looking forward to hearing you take on this episode. I have to get through “Hell’s Bells” first 😔 P.S. I like “Doublemeat Palace” so I’m glad you enjoyed it 🤣 🐄 🐓

We do a live podcast for every season finale 😊

His impact would be greater if they had Xander bring him up at least once. He was supposed to come back to haunt Xander as the first evil in conversations with dead people.

@@becomingbuffypodcast that would’ve been awesome if they did that! Instead they just forgot about him.

It has its good moments! And it's so nice to have a lighter season compared to the next few

I love Season 4. I admit that I like Seasons 2, 3, and 5 a little more, but Season 4 is great.

* "... *launch the entire series in new directions." Note that I did NOT say "nude erections".

Thank you so much! I've done a handful. There's a season 4 analysis, A New Man, The Initiative, Angel and Choice, In the Dark Analysis, Beauty and the Beasts, The Wish, Hush, and an analysis on the music in Buffy and Angel.

It is though because he easily could have chosen to do bad. Angel with a soul and Spike with a soul admitted they still were capable of evil. Spike was good kill Principal Wood and Angel allowed Darla and Drusilla to kill the lawyers. I love both characters too but I still like Angel more. His entire arch is a struggle with a doomed outcome no matter which way he goes. And in him wishing back the day in I will remember you was the biggest act of unselfishness any by could have ever done.

I liked Ryan. Why they dropped him and put her with spike was crazy to me. I hated her and Spike. I stopped watching

I mean Reilly. They should have played his character better. I liked him for Buffy

Morality is, largely, a social construct.

Yup, showing that the prophecy was the same in each universe. But also showing how strong Buffy is when she embraces her humanity and chooses autonomy. That's why she lives in the normal universe.

Oo I like this headcannon!

This is really really insightful! And I 100% agree. It's also consistent with what Buffy tells Willow and Xander in "Selfless" when she's deciding whether or not to kill Anya. (Interesting that it's Angel that's thrown back into Buffy's face, yet again) Buffy's friends truly never understand the role and function of the Slayer. Buffy's incredibly patient with them!

@@becomingbuffypodcast yes, I love that episode. Although, by that time Willow has a much better understanding of Buffy's role. That's why she avoided telling Buffy about what Anya did for as long as possible, because she knew Biffy would have been compelled to kill Anya. The show built in so many similar details from this time into Anya's story. From the moment Buffy learns Anya has become a demon again, she avoids being around her as much as possible. At that moment, Anya is under Buffy's constant judgement again and Buffy tries to keep ignorant as much as possible of Anya's actions as she can because she similarly dreads having to kill her. I love the fight scene between them. Anya has known the whole time Buffy's position, although her avoiding killing, I think, is because she's genuinely changed. Still, once she's killed, she knew Buffy would be coming for her. In fact, I would go so far as saying that her killing was her giving up, a kind of suicide by slayer. Still, during the fight, Buffy stopped held back as much as possible, resisting in the same way she did in this episode with Angel. She easily could have killed Anya after she impaled her and Anya was unconscious, but she held back, delaying, hoping somehow she wouldn't have to do it. Then, at the first sign that there was even a hope she wouldn't have to kill her, Butfy stopped attacking completely. As soon as Anya was given a choice, Buffy stood back and waited. As soon as Anya was reversed the deaths and reentered the human realm, Buffy was so relieved to free from the burden of having to judge her still. An even crazier character with respects to Buffy's role as judge of demons though, and my favorite, is Tara. For mez that is the best one, because it shows how Tara loved Willow so much more than we initially thought. She grew up thinking she was a demon. Not only a demon, but one that was destined to consume her and turn her evil at some point in her life. Also, by the time she met Willow, she knew her change was coming soon. So, when Tara learned soon after that Willow's best friend was a super being whose duty was to slay evil demons, she would have known that staying near Buffy would mean she would die when she changed. Yet, Tara never left Wiĺlow nor tried to separate her from Buffy. She chose to stay with Willow and keep Willow close to Buffy, likely hoping that when the time came, Buffy would protect Willow from her demon side. She was willing to sacrifice her life to be close with Willow right up to the end. I think about that brief time between when Tara's demon half is exposed to the group to when Spike proves she's only a human, the dread going through Buffy's mind. In those moments, she had to face the reality of judging Tara. Of the potentiality of having to kill Tara. Likely, those moments were amongst the worst in Buffy's life. Just imagine her having to seriously think over the idea of having to kill the woman Willow loves most in the world. Some people complain that they would have preferred Tara had been a half demon, but they show never could have done it. As the slayer, Buffy would have constantly been judging Tara and it would have killed her, and likley her relationship with Willow.

@@becomingbuffypodcast Selfless is a great episode into the psychology of Buffy as the Slayer and her role as the one who swings the axe on evil. And I love how it's reiterated by Wesley in the Angel Seaon 4 episode Salvage when he tell Faith "I know. That's why it had to be you." Wesley is well aware that while Faith may be a Slayer, Buffy is THE Slayer, and when it comes down to it, she'll tear out own heart and put Angelus down once and for all. Because that's what it means to be the Slayer. It's a such a subtle line but speaks volumes of Buffy's role in the mythology of the show.

@@Stoneblazer ok I LOVE this take!

That's the plan! It may take me a bit but I want to do one on Faith.