Buffy S1E11 'Out of Mind, Out of Sight' REACTION

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[@Itsjandz105]

Cordelia is on fire this episode. The library scene is one of my faves of the entire series.

[@noahrobin1941]

This is the episode which lets me babble about one of my favorite bits of nerdy trivia. If a person is actually for-real fully invisible, I means that light (photons) travel through them without interacting with any part of them, yes? For instance, let’s say I’m invisible and I’m standing between you and, I dunno, a small purple dog. The reason you can see the dog through me is that photons are bouncing off the dog, passing through me, and into your eyeballs where they hit cells on the back of your eye, which your brain interprets as “seeing”. If anything happened while a photon was traveling through me which deflected/blocked, it wouldn’t hit your eye so you wouldn’t see the dog. Which is fine, as far as it goes, but break it down further: if light is passing through every bit of me without interacting with any of the atoms in my body, that means the light isn’t interacting with any of the cells in my body. Including the cells in my eyes. Which means I’d be blind. :) Amusingly,‘I was first introduced to the idea of “invisibility = blindness” by an episode of Classic Who; I didn’t fully understand what they were saying at the time (it wasn’t discussed directly); it wasn’t until years later that a story I was reading talked about it explicitly and it all clicked.

[@spamfilter32]

I love that scene at the Bronze where the time sort of slows down, and we see the wind gently blow Buffy's hair and she uses her senses to "see" Marcie.

[@feudist]

Cordy becomes a legit character...with a layer. 🙂 In many ways, this ep IS the end of S1, or more specifically, the end of the "beginning". The foundation has been laid. From the finale onward, the series matures sharply and starts its march into Legend.

[@spamfilter32]

The words in the text book that Marcie is reading in her assassination class are the lyrics to a Beatles song.

[@23Phillycheese]

Love this ep. Cordelia and Marcie are iconic

[@noahrobin1941]

As you may have already looked up, Clea DuVall plays the invisible student; she was indeed in an episode of American Horror Story. She was also in the short-lived HBO series “Carnivàle” which much-younger-me remembers liking a great deal.

[@vov.7397]

She's really good, and I'm a bit surprised she hasn't had a bigger career. I've always liked her.

[@spamfilter32]

She was also in the 1st season of Heroes.

[@paulhammond6978]

This is one of my favourites from S1. I quibble at how nasty they made the invisible girl, but the concept of a person who everyone ignores becoming invisible is so cool and has stuck with me. I kinda like the X-files type "secret government organistion" thing at the end. Also, of course, great Cordy moments that make her more than just the popular mean girl stereotype begin here.

[@wolandbegemotazazello]

Russell T. Davies once noted that he used Buffy as the template for the new Who. What did he mean by that? He meant that like Buffy the new Who had episodes that were internally coherent but which also pointed forward and looked backward. Example: the increasingly layered character traits foregrounded for each of our Gang in Nightmares point forward as you will see. Pity that you largely missed these character emphases in the last episode. And this is one of the reason Nightmares is so important. The new Who and Buffy, in other words, are novelistic with each episode a chapter in an unfolding text. Additionally, both the new Who (thought the old Who was too particularly during the Douglas Adams years) and Buffy were, like some Shakespeare, multi-tonal, in that they mix comedy, melodrama, satire, parody, drama, and tragedy, for instance. Finally, the new Who and Buffy work on multiple levels, Buffy more so than the new Who. They can be watched and enjoyed literally-the narrative structure-and metaphorically or allegorically. Buffy, for instance, is an existentialist exploration of the horrors that make up the life cycle. You seem to be missing some of these metaphors. The metaphor at the heart of this tale, of course, as you noted, has to do with high school status and the associated cliques and how those in lower social statuses in high school as in real life are largely silenced.

[@killianlpc]

Again a really well written episode, exploring how an outsider can feel when ignored and excluded, and how they can be driven to extreme actions because of this. A very sinister ending with shades of many an X-Files episode. Great indeed. Funny comedy again also with Cordelia telling the story about knocking the girl down in her car, and making it all about her.

[@sirmoonslosthismind]

"it was the most traumatizing event of my life, and she's trying to make it about her leg." -- cordelia chase

[@McTavish11T7]

Hope you're feeling better soon. Loving watching these with you.

[@AlxMar5]

What's the difference between "male breathing" and "female breathing"? It's just breathing, and different people sound differently.

[@JustJames83]

Are you loving the show so far Lukey? I hope so

[@lukeyread]

yaaaassss! I’m having a great time 🥰

[@Buffy8Fan]

SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES What Cordelia says that is her first character growth moment in the series ("It's better than being alone all by yourself") just happens to be Buffy's deepest issue: loneliness (even when surrounded by those she cares about).

[@spamfilter32]

Yes. Exactly!