GLORY GOT ONE! Buffy, the Vampire Slayer 5x19 'Tough Love' Reaction!

[@alysharichards3757]

The pauses are kind of your quirk. The commentary is adorable because of how enthusiastic you are to speculate and how stoked you get when you’re right mere seconds later 😂 and it brings me back to how excited i was to watch it back in the day on cable on the air. Keep going, we look forward to these!

[@killianlpc]

Good reaction. We can understand Willow wanting to use her magic powers to avenge Tara, but we can see it's also getting out of control. Even though Glory is a very entertaining Big Bad we tend to forget how utterly cruel and evil she is. You are in for brilliant closing episodes to S5 with a superb, stunning finale unmatched in the whole show. Regarding your reactions technique, it's your channel, and you can do as you please. The speed that you have got through the show is amazing. A lot of those reactors have been doing Buffy for well over a year and still haven't finished Season 2. I think the majority like your reactions. Keep em coming.

[@feulps]

Get so excited whenever I got the notification of another reaction, just makes my day. Hope you stay on till the end of the series, best show ever and you're killing it 👏🏻

[@eliemoses]

🙌🙌

[@sefirotsgame]

@@eliemoses I'm loving your journey too. Your reactions are very unique and charged with emotion. You just don't hold anything, and that's great. I can understand that many people don't enjoy that, but you can know for sure that the hundreds of people that have watched you since season 1 are enjoying you way, so don't hold you back. Maybe a way to fix the problem would be to rewind a little of the scene when you have stopped it. Just rewach again that scene, so you'll be sure that you didn't miss anything not lose the flow.

[@StoryOfUsFinalDraft]

32:25 That also was prophesied 4x1 in library while buying new college books Buffy mentions the prices when her mom sees the bill it's gonna give her an aneurysm

[@midnightcryptworx]

"I hope it's a funny aneurysm."

[@jspettifer]

@@midnightcryptworx It was definitely not a funny aneurysm

[@jjlonsdale5971]

I think Giles interrogated the demon with something from his Ripper days 😬

[@meggo329]

Buffy loves poetry and spikes a poet

[@Anjalena]

RESPECT and a big thumb's up for taking the criticism on board and not being offended. 💯% Champion for that. I have also been frustrated at times with just how much you talk during an episode and I agree that the frequent pauses and long rants just break the flow of the story and the emotions that the writers are trying to build during a scene. You've also occasionally missed important bits because you were talking. I'm not trying to come down on you. I otherwise really enjoy your reactions. Honestly, I had no intention of ever saying anything about this but I was so impressed with how you handled the other critics that I needed to let you know that I respect it. Great work. I will defo be back. 👍👏😎

[@ericdoce4974]

Love your reactions. You’re noticing key themes and dynamics that will take center stage next season. Excellent stuff. Also, at this point, although are the main Scoobies are the heart and soul of the series, Anya really is the runaway star of the show!

[@lgbtorion]

there’s nothing “sus” about willow and tara. the only thing sus is willow becoming more dependent on magic as a way to fix all her problems. tara expressing concern over that is completely understandable.

[@raspberryred80]

I love your pauses.

[@coldservings]

"I'd do it. Right person. Person I loved." As he did in the previous episode. And note that Willow lasted five minutes before Buffy showed up.

[@leberry5891]

Always enjoy your reactions.👍

[@Sonya_Blade_1]

One of my favourite endings in the entire show, and my favourite *Big Bad, The Hell Goddess Glory* 🔥 Who now knows who *The Key* 🗝 is. Love love this episode! Nice work Elie! “You coo.. You cooled her down?! *Motherbeep* She's turning into *The Rock!* She's the most electrifying person in all of sports entertainment!” 🤣🤣 You're too much I swear lmao

[@workaccount7033]

I don't think it was just the watcher's council who taught Giles what he used on the minion; I think it was also Angelus.

[@roonarific1086]

I feel like the Russo brothers were inspired by Willow's "I owe you pain!" moment when they wrote Scarlett Witch confronting Thanos in Endgame

[@HelloXrancidkitteh]

honestly, with shows like Buffy especially where everything pretty much the show does or the characters talk about are for good reason and VERY RARELY are just filler, if at all....I actually really appreciate it when you pause to comment. I've seen some reactors to Buffy that talk right over the show and they end up missing important information and end up being confused at the end of the episode because they missed something or they miss a good joke or talk over a fan-favorite part. its okay to pause. especially with Buffy. you can't please everyone.

[@andrewshirley9240]

Regarding the intro- You know what you see in the comments on every one of the reactors listed?? "OMG you guys talk too much, you missed something really important in the video because you wouldn't shut up!" Pausing is 100% fine, it gives you the breathing room to say everything you wanna say while still being really sharp, catching almost everything that happens. The reason those reactors probably don't pause is because their patreon set-up likely offers a "watch-along reaction" style, where you sync up hitting the play button and watch their reaction to the entire episode.

[@Buffy8Fan]

In terms of pausing, I think it takes people out of the experience, but some reaction viewers feel the need to talk directly to their viewers before the video they are watching is over. I feel that is unnecessary, but if it something they feel the need to do, they shouldn't overdo it and should make pausing strategic rather than so often it doesn't feel to viewers like they are watching during edited videos. But if it is what they wish to do, they should do it. It's odd that Willow doesn't understand why Buffy isn't so stressed about Dawn. As she knows Buffy is Dawn's guardian and Dawn hasn't been going to school it seems pretty simple to at least put a general idea of 2 and 2 together even if she doesn't know exactly what Buffy is worrying about. Same goes for Tara. If Willow is unwilling to talk about Tara's fears that, whether unfounded or not, are valid fears considering Willow's recent past with boys and any potential issues Tara may have had with girlfriends who were experimenting or just used her or something along those lines, Willow should talk it out with Tara rather than get angry because without the conversation those valid fears will remain fears. I also understand Willow feeling the need to want to use magic, but Buffy is right in that when they have a chance is a better strategy. Willow jumping that gun out of the need for revenge combined with whichever Scooby thought it was a bright idea to stick Dawn and Tara in the same room (I tend to think it was Willow considering she had already not taken Buffy and Tara seriously enough about their issues so it would be in character for her to not consider putting the two of them in a room together and to talk a worried Buffy into thinking it wouldn't cause problems) is why the episode ends with Glory finding out Dawn is the key. Poor Tara. Facing Glory when she assumed it was Willow coming to fix things only to have to face Glory.

[@xxSydneyFox]

I think it depends on the person. I'm someone who needs to comment on the moment because I will forget later my thoughts.

[@protoman011]

I watch a lot of reactors too but recently, you’re the only one I look forward to. You do you brother!

[@JohnDoe-ls2zu]

Buffy has gone from only child to big sister, and now Dawn's legal guardian. Buffy had to drop out of college and she just turned 20. Tara just got brain sucked and Glory is closing in!! I don't know how Buffy can handle all this.

[@sarahxo2317]

I still can’t believe Buffy was only 20 when all this happened. All this family stuff she’s dealing with would be too much for some in their late 20s/early 30s😭

[@pillmuncher67]

Your Gollum impersonation is spot-on!

[@kevinperks2710]

I like your reactions they are different and I enjoy that keep up the great work

[@PumpkinStorm03]

Why is your golem impersonation so good?

[@dutchkel]

I don't know why nobody said this but your Gollum impression is on pt!

[@johnmoreland6089]

Very fun reaction!

[@btvschosen2022]

The pausing is a tad out of hand, especially for the body. The scene in the beginning was actually shot in still cam, all in one take because joss didn't want to take you out of the scene, but every 2 seconds you took yourself out. Pausing to talk about stuff is fine, but if you have paused 6 times in less than a minute then it gets a bit much

[@horsepuncher95]

I too would let Glory give me an open fracture 😭

[@DegrassiInstantStar]

Well, here we go. It's a constant GO GO GO from here on it.

[@collinwilliams1020]

I can watch Willow versus Glory all day

[@gureXD]

No it was confirmed by the creator Dawn had nothing to do with Joyce's death. Joss just wanted to show that life still happenes in this world

[@blackkatt777]

And my argument to what Joss said on the special features is that the fake memories that the monks put into everyone's heads was the "Shadow" compressing on Joyce's nerve endings in her brain. It was just too much for her and as a result, she ended up getting surgery. But, in spite of the surgery going well, the mystic "shadow" of which the doctor can't remove because he wouldn't see it, was still there in her brain. As a result of its presence, she died. I also mentioned to Elie that she never had any head trauma or medical issues with her brain before Dawn. In fact, it was within the first week of having Dawn, that she collapsed in the kitchen with neurological problems. But...that's how I see it. I would defend that argument on the mountain tops.

[@gureXD]

​@@blackkatt777 I think this is a conclusion every1 including me arrives when this all happens, but if you look it up you get to the answer quite fast, it was not because of Dawn, it was a natural death. But feel free to live in denial

[@blackkatt777]

@@gureXD You don't see what I'm saying and disagree with the theory that makes more sense for the plot, then that's fine. I know exactly what Joss said. I've watched the show since it aired. I own all the original dvd sets. But your snarky remark at the end of your comment was absolutely unwarranted. Relax. It's just my thoughts on what he said. I thought I was having an open conversation about the show...but, whatever 🙄

[@blotcho84]

I always love your reactions, but you caught me off guard calling Willow The Rock, I howled at that one! We're in the endgame now, very exciting stuff!

[@eliemoses]

Just referring to the lightning hahahaha

[@ferrisulf]

I like your pauses. You have great insights. I think the criticism probably came from some people who show up for The Body because they are ready to watch reactors get emotionally destroyed. Pausing and critiquing got in the way of their plans lol. I personally appreciated all of you insights on how the episode was filmed. As others suggested, if you pause during a conversation, go back a few seconds after pausing. That may silence some of the complainers. ^_^ Onwards!

[@evatesche]

You make a great Gollum 😅

[@mathias6185]

From my point of view, you don't need to change your pausing style. If every reactor were the same, we would only need to watch one!!! One suggestion, though: Sometimes I "fear" that when pausing in a bad moment, you might miss something crucial (or very funny) because you might have paused in the middle of it. So if you do pause (which is fine), maybe it could make sense to skip back 2-3 seconds before resuming to make sure you don't miss anything? Just a suggestion, though...

[@n0namesowhatblerp362]

THis is a good suggestion

[@judson9223]

Guess the last episode was a sign. No less than 3 sexbots posted comments here promoting their virus links minutes after the video dropped. XD I've nuked them all.

[@hardybryan]

I knew you were going to catch some blowback for 'The Body'. People take their shows too seriously and if someone else isn't fully immersing themselves in the episode, there is a segment of the fandom that gets upset. Do you. Don't worry about it.

[@liteflightify]

I mean, those commenters do have a slight point. You do pause in the middle of almost every damn scene. But it’s part of your style I guess. It’s all good though Elie.

[@02michellemybell02]

Do you have a patreon page ? Do you do movie reactions to your patreons that request it ? Awesome Gollum impression spot on my friend ❤️🙂

[@evatesche]

I like that you are going through the season that fast. A lot of reactors are dragging it out, cause they get a lot of clicks and attention for Buffy or the want to drag it out a few more months on their patreon. I also like your way of stopping the episode and reviewing your thoughts. Just do it naturally like you have for the past 4,5 seasons. In this episode I could feel you beeing eager to say something, holding in your thoughts/opionion to not stop at the "wrong" moment, but for me that disrupted the flow of the reaction way more than if you had just stopped it the moment you would have initially wanted to 🙂

[@sefirotsgame]

I'm with Eva there. Your reactions are very unique and charged with emotion. You just don't hold anything, and that's great. I can understand that many people don't enjoy that, but you can know for sure that the hundreds of people that have watched you since season 1 are enjoying you way, so don't hold you back.

[@smylyface]

Please binge watch these final episodes if you can! Waiting is excruciating. I feel like a kid and it's 2 days until Christmas. 😂

[@BrittanyMari3]

Well there are reactors out there that rarely pause and still miss the important stuff or just don't understand. I can watch Buffy on own. I'm here for your content. Don't try too hard to please everyone in the comments. Try what works for you. You will never please everyone

[@colettepot7350]

Glory and Ben are not two different personalities, like Gollem (though I liked your imitation), but two different persons.

[@AnatoleVGC]

Im fine with the pausing, sometimes you pause mid scene and that can lose some dialogues, thats the only part I dont like. But usually pausing helps we here your thoughts and youto not lose dialogue while talking. There are a lot of reactors, do it as you like. The body reaction for instance was veeery different. Other reactor get VERY emotional on that episode, you werent like that but you took notice of every technical aspect of the episode and clearly loved it in a genuine but different way

[@AnatoleVGC]

I changed my mind, I went back to watch the video and you paused to make a terrible buffy poem, please never pause again lol

[@danielbutler8103]

I'm fine with the pausing, I do think it'd be good to try to wait for the end of the scene or at least the sentence (to avoid having a 5 minute rant only to have the next 2 seconds play and go never mind). I prefer this kind of react then the ones where they watch not talking or doing anything, I can watch it on my own.

[@craigjohnson4819]

Dude, react however you want. People will always criticise, just do what you want to do.

[@heatherb5368]

I know I'm late, but if ppl want you to quit pausing and giving your thoughts, then maybe they should just watch the show or movie alone because they obviously don't want your reactions to it. Just my opinion. I love your thoughts and how you progressively piece everything together on your own.

[@zenithquasar9623]

Why would people complain about pauses?! Better than talking over the important bits!

[@midnightcryptworx]

Wow people are so picky about stuff. I don't think you pause at the wrong times or whatever and I love the commentary!

[@arthurspils2565]

Yeah, this a solid episode - nothing making it particularly standout, but no faults like some of those episodes have either. As to the Dawn causing Joyce's brain issues theory, I can see it but prefer it just being natural as it reinforces the cold "sometimes people just die, even with all the magic stuff going on" message. Think it's more likely that Giles' knowledge of interrogation techniques is something left over from his Ripper days rather than Watcher training.

[@jenhalbert3001]

I also watch a lot of Buffy reactors and i love that you talk so much. And i agree that THE BODY was brilliant filmmaking, the use of should and silence was mesmerizing. Oh! And definitely watch and react to PREY. I feel like i shouldn't say anything, don't wanna bias, but it's worth your 2 hours and I'll watch it again. Have fun.

[@GKViddingHD]

Don't worry about those who want you to comment less. If you really have something to say, just say it. There is actually a popular youtuber named Cultured Bubble who stops the movie all the time because she has random things to say. People are different.

[@shawn2164]

patreon option?

[@eliemoses]

Not big enough for that yet and dont want to make people spend money on something i fully can't commit too

[@shawn2164]

@@eliemoses Thank you for the reply, looking forward to full reactions once you finish Buffy/Angel, that is why I was asking.

[@crosisx2714]

I'll never understand people who complain about pausing. Then just skip ahead? I'd rather you pause then miss dialogue while talking which multiple reactors do (especially those that dont watch with subtitles) and then they'll be confused by something later. Or a joke won't land properly because they didn't hear dialogue previously. So pause away!

[@n0namesowhatblerp362]

"Big" reactors didnt get big of watching Buffy, lets be honest here now! Think a little, you who wrote that comment. Plus its so obvious most of them are just doing it because its been "in" for the last 2 years. Theyre not actually interested and one can tell when they comment just to comment because this youtube thing is their jobs. You are actually interested, its clear with your comments. We live in a world of binge watching, and what the "big" reactors do. Im not interested in, and im instantly put of when a reactor goes "oh im gonna start watching another series now, simultanously, you dont mind that ill be uploading this series less now do you, so i can get more viewers from this other show in the meantime". Like, as if anyone watches series like that nowadays. We like binging. Why are so many youtubers not aware of this. Finish a series, then startt a new one I was once a patreon of this one guy, then he started watching Buffy less. He has tons of other series. I noticed how he is litterally sitting there looking at his phone, he wasnt actually watching and the comments he gives shows that very well. I obv. unsubsribed. Last time i checked that man still hasnt finished watching Buffy, but im sure he´d be ocnsidered one of the "big" ones. Id*** thinking that the big creators became big because of Buffy. Absolute foolery! What asshats, honestly.

[@CaptNondescript]

Willow and Tara

[@Atika55555]

I see you have an Arsenal shirt, did you know SMG herself used to be an Arsenal fan ? I'm sure you do lol

[@eliemoses]

Noo hahahaha letss goo

[@Blastimal]

I don't mind if you feel the need to pause to say something about what ya just saw. If I want to watch the show I have them so it doesn't bug me at all. To be fair pausing at the "right" moments when you have not seen the show is asking a lot. In any case I am more interested in the commentary than I am the episode it's self.

[@teresaschultzauthor8197]

I would rather have frequent pauses than reactors talking over the show! You keep doing what you’re doing!

[@therocpd]

Don't take the criticism to heart though. If every reactor was the same it would be boring AF I guess it depends if you're more here to make money from the views or to enjoy a show and share that enjoyment They're not a one or other choice but you have to find that space between them you want to inhabit

[@Suzismymom]

Paused to once again address the pauses, I love the pause!!!! I was considering challenging the commenter to a duel but Sir Bob has it under control already 😂 PS: I mean no offense but I watch a ton of reactors and have been for years, again, no offense intended but I never heard of any of the reactors the commentator listed 🤷‍♀️ If you're causing a stir then you know you're doing something right 😂😂😂 Just continue to be you 💘 Now I shall watch! And hope for the pauses 😍

[@kirstiebriggs3068]

Dude!!! You have got to stop SCREAMING down your Mike!!!! 😡 Those of us with headphones on are now deaf!!!! 🤫😬😩😡 XxXxX

[@n0namesowhatblerp362]

Dudette, i guess youre new here. He has to have the volume really low otherwise the videos gets flagged. He tried uploading with different sound volumes but they get taken down. I do wish he would lower his intro bit though because thats so much louder than that rest. Like atleast if everything was the same volume that would be nice.

[@kirstiebriggs3068]

@@n0namesowhatblerp362 I'm not talking about his sound effects ect...I mean he literally screamed at one point! 🙈😆 It's his voice when he gets worked up about something, he starts shouting! 😆 I had my headphones on and the volume up full, so it really hurt!!! Lol 😂😂😂 I'm semi new to the channel btw 😁❤️ XxXxX

[@jjlonsdale5971]

Personally I like the pauses!!

[@danzthename]

The Normies are ok, but they talk over important lines a lot because there are like 12 of them watching at once. And as of S2, they still mispronounce Giles.

[@johnmoreland6089]

Both of those facts drive me crazy about the Normies, although I still enjoy their reactions for the most part. So much better to pause than talk over a scene.

[@n0namesowhatblerp362]

Yeah and they do it only because theyve seen that its popular now to start wathcing this series. They dont actually care. If they did they owuldnt be talkign over it...They have hundreds of other shows.

[@andrewshirley9240]

I'm 100% sure them saying the hard "G" for Giles is a joke at this point. They called out the right way to say it, but there was actually a moment or two where Suraj said it right and then immediately followed up with the wrong way of saying it lol.

[@crosisx2714]

Yea the Giles thing is a joke but for sure they often talk over eachother and over important dialogue. I hope they are watching with subtitles because thats pretty important at times if you can't hear it.

[@johnmoreland6089]

@@andrewshirley9240 Absolutely. But they’ve run it into the ground at this point. Still enjoy them though.

[@einstini15]

Honestly, frequent pausing can get annoying.... but i would argue that is better than the reactors that don't pause it but keep talking and miss ton of dialogue.

[@hardybryan]

Well that's right, foreigner.

[@Shoofyou10]

I really feel like if you pause and talk rather than talk over the episode while it plays you would probably miss less dialogue. That at least seems logical to me. But what do I know

[@cedricdallaire3324]

omg the backseat reacting is real what a bunch of annoying reaction munchers XD dont worry about ppl crying about the exact moment you pause.. what a ridiculous mob of control freaks XD i LOVE your reactions never change!

[@claudeprince6724]

The majority of those "big reacters" mentioned, I've never heard of them. So how big can they really be?

[@Atika55555]

I consider Alley Domie Lexi Riley Thor and Sofie big reactors, the others, not so much

[@claudeprince6724]

@@Atika55555 I don't know who alley domie is. The other 4 I know but it's annoying that I have to wait minimum 2 weeks before they upload. Coz I only watch their buffy and angel reactions. The rest of the shit they react to, I have no interest in.

[@n0namesowhatblerp362]

@@claudeprince6724 Same! Its like i say, we live in a world of binge watching. What makes these reactors think, we want to pause this and watch whatever else theyre watching..it puts me of. They take years to finish thinking they can drag along viewers to other projects. Eff that. It pisses me off and makes me wanna do the exact opposite, which i also do.

[@crosisx2714]

@@Atika55555 Agreed and of those Sofie pauses and rewinds all the time, Alley has subtitles in case she misses something talking, Riley and Lexi can talk and listen at the same time. Thor needs to work on talking over dialogue however.

[@ernesthakey3396]

@@claudeprince6724 "alley box" and "domi e." - well worth watching.

[@MosesAceCrawford]

Buffy Game Face at the end thought