MY BIGGEST BLUNDER YET - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reaction - 7x9 - Never Leave Me

[@Ebbagull]

That basenent scene with Buffy and Spike are one of my favorites of the entire show. Spike speaks with such conviction, but that doesn't mean he's right. I love that. I love that Buffy and Spike really start to truly know each other in this season.

[@daphneglasurus7886]

He *was* right about her from s6 but this is a different Buffy. I love the way she goes from saying “No!” Angrily to dropping her arms and saying “No” with quiet conviction. She HAS changed and anger and hate and depression are no longer motivating her.

[@juliant]

How did Andrew know Warren was skinned? - Anya told him and Johnathan about it when she teleported to them in the jail cell.

[@noahrobin1941]

And restated by Jonathon to Andrew earlier this season: “last time we were here, thirty-three point three bar percent of us were flayed alive”

[@paulhammond6978]

@@noahrobin1941 I love Jonathon's use of the 3 bar terminology for recurring decimals there.

[@cerrobueno]

OMG that's amazing! Can you imagine if in the credits it just said:- Anthony Stewart's Head...

[@karinhuddleston6232]

I think this is possibly the greatest thing I've ever read. Lol

[@danwiesdamageinc]

11:33 Trigger was the name of a horse in several westerns/cowboy movies, owned and ridden by Roy Rogers, a famous actor in westerns.

[@DanielOrme]

I was never so mad at a director, or maybe a film editor, as I was after Buffy says 14:24 "I believe in you, Spike." Her saying it, and Spike's grateful reaction, is such a colossal beautiful moment, I wanted more than the half-second they gave us to savor it.

[@x-man9473]

The writers really didn't like Spike or the Spuffy ship as much as fans did. It just feels like active sabotage on rewatches.

[@yinloveyang]

​@@x-man9473 But still gave them the comics books so be happy lol😊

[@theac.8125]

The scene in the basement between Buffy and Spike really highlighted something important: before his soul, Spike was EVIL. Abstractly, obviously we all knew that, but Spike was painted as such a sympathetic character. He was in love with Buffy, protected Dawn, and was shown to be goofy at times and even helpful to the gang, if begrudgingly. But he was still evil. It just wasn't shown on screen which is part of why Seeing Red was so disturbing. Him referencing what he had done to girls "Dawn's age" and how he liked his victims to cry when he abused them shows more than just killing for blood. He hurt them and was sadistic about it -- and what he almost did to Buffy, he also did to other girls less fortunate. Just like Angelus. But that's NOT who he is with a soul. For this reason, it's easy for me to put a divide between Spike with and without a soul. People hate him for what he tried to do to Buffy (which I understand. I still fast-forward that scene when watching the episode) and yet, they don't hold what Angelus did against Angel. Both were the worst of the worst as far as vampires go. If Angel deserves redemption (and he does. I love Angel! I actually prefer him to Spike), then so does Spike. Just something to think about.

[@Girl4Music]

Well, Willow, who has a soul, who is even human, she’s also very sadistic. Her soulless vampire self is even more so. It’s not that I don’t agree that Spike is or can be too. It’s that I just don’t think that being ensouled/soulless really makes a damn bit of difference when it comes to him. I think he can be that evil/good regardless whether he has a soul or not. I don’t think it’s all that significant. And you said it yourself with Angel. If it really was about the soul, why is it Angel informs Angelus/Angelus informs Angel? If it’s demonic possession, then how can he/they/it/whatever, experience the other? It just makes no sense to me because demonic possession doesn’t work like that. Demonic corruption can… but that’s something else entirely to what they trying to convince you a vampire is. Demonic corruption is about the person. The human what once was. And with Spike especially - his human informs him so much more than his demon ever does. Yet he is supposedly not “William” anymore. It’s confusing and frustrating that half the lore contradicts the other half of it depending on which “vampire/demon” it is. And this only ever matters with the significant vampires. Your average patrol kill? Not even a thought. If it’s really demonic possession that’s happening then Spike shouldn’t just have the acknowledgement of lack of self-awareness as a soulless vampire when ensouled. He shouldn’t have any awareness of anything his soulless self did whatsoever. He shouldn’t even be PRESENT in the experience of it. But it’s precisely because HE IS why he even has a soul now to begin with. 🥴 that’s how much the “soul” doesn’t even matter with him ‘cause odds are he’d still be the same way with/without it and then the Angel/Angelus dichotomy doesn’t make sense. It’s some wonky ass lore. It really is.

[@sirmoonslosthismind]

@@Girl4Music the world _should be_ messy. it shouldn't neatly align with your own pet theory of how the world is supposed to work. that wouldn't be realistic.

[@Girl4Music]

@@sirmoonslosthismind there’s nothing realistic about this show’s vampire/demon lore. It’s a supernatural show. The rules in it do not apply to real life in any way, shape or form. That’s what makes it interesting. But it would still be so even without the wonky soul lore. There’s been debate after debate about this subject: especially Spike VS Angel so it’s not just me that thinks this way.

[@x-man9473]

@@Girl4Music I think of this way. >Humans are born with a soul. As such, doing the right thing comes naturally. Doing the wrong thing (steal, murder, lie, cheat, etc.) is something they need a motivation to do. >Vampires not having a soul are the exact opposite. Doing the wrong thing comes naturally to them. They need incentives to do the right things. >Spike's personality of "needing to be loved" (by family, friends, and in relationships) stayed with him even when he was turned. So he had an incentive to do better, as it was beneficial for him.

[@Girl4Music]

@@x-man9473 “Spike’s personality” You mean William’s. Unless you mean when he turned ensouled. Not turned vampire. Because the vampire is just a random demon. It ain’t the person that was turned vampire. Surely you see my point now.

[@TigerNightmare]

The Bringers had a minute of screen time in Amends at best, so it's very easy to forget about them.

[@grife3000]

15 seconds (35:38 to 35:53), and those Bringers had eyes so they were less creepy and less memorable.

[@TigerNightmare]

@@grife3000 They didn't, actually. I'd show you a screenshot if I could. It's very quick, and it's easier to see if you pause and slowmo, frame by frame, or whatever, but they similarly have stitched up eyes.

[@grife3000]

@@TigerNightmare I thought they did from memory but when I went looking it didn't seem like they did. I'll just chalk it up to Buffy being a very darkly lit show at times and me not paying hard attention.

[@nedzed3663]

I'm just glad that you've finally accepted that Giles is in fact dead, for realsies this time, super dead.

[@B-Dad]

Just because someone is dead doesn’t mean they can’t pop up 😂😂 it’s THAT kind of show 🤷🏾‍♂️👍🏾

[@Lannisen]

Johnathan wasn't enough to open the seal, because he's small, he actually didn't have enough blood 😅 That's why Andrew was going to try with a pig, then Spike was supposed to try with Andrew, and finally the First used Spike.

[@keshaponso2034]

F/Jonathan also said that he should have told someone he was anaemic. The First apparently didn't know he was.

[@antoniolamounier]

Which makes no sense. The First can fool anyone into doing what it wants, and he drags two morons all the way from Mexico? Then it chooses Spike, which actually tips off Buffy to what is going on? Logic is not season seven's strength.

[@Henrik_Holst]

@@antoniolamounier It cannot fool anyone, I mean would you go around killing people down in a High School basement just because some dead friend/relative of yours told you to? Also no one ever claimed that the first are smart, by all means it seems to be more of a drama queen.

[@stardustvideo]

@@antoniolamounier Blood armor

[@antoniolamounier]

@@Henrik_Holst Surely the First could find in Sunnydale someone willing to kill. Besides, human blood works, pig's blood works, blood bought in the grocery store works, for crying out loud. It's just bad writing that it needs to go after Spike. The writers kind of explain in 7x16 why the First needed someone from Mexico (still doesn't explain why it picked those two morons). And they could've stablished that only the blood of a vampire with a soul feeding on people could activate the seal. That would've explained what the First was doing to Spike. But no, they just have the First do random shit that amount to nothing. It's frustrating.

[@idontsignin]

Anthony Stewart Headless.

[@peaceisnature]

The First: GASLIGHTING LEVEL 100

[@Mountain_Mutt]

Schrödinger's Giles. That may be one of the best things I have ever heard.

[@stephaniebarker472]

I love the little shout out to the movie babe and babe pig in the city. Every time Andrew screams out “that’ll do pig!“ I laugh my ass off.😂

[@9ansean]

15:42-16:06 The moment where it clicked you've been waiting for finally arrived! And apparently after all this time wondering about Buffy's memory, she would up remembering that episode better than you did. Also don't feel bad about the forgetting Giles. I assumed at first you just didn't want to think about him possibly having died. It actually wound up making your sudden recall and the HEAD joke at the end TWICE as funning. "First of all it's just bad news. Cause he's not even in the episode!"

[@Girl4Music]

Don’t worry about it Lexi. Sometimes I forget Willow even exists. I think it just goes to show how captivating this show can be that you forget about your favourite character. Also, that ‘pump for information’ joke never gets old. 😂

[@jp3813]

To be fair, Giles is no longer one of the main characters at this point. Willow, on the other hand, appears in every episode.

[@Girl4Music]

@@jp3813 yeah, she technically took Giles’ spot. The student surpassed the teacher.

[@chickwithbricks]

The seal opening had you like a kid at Christmas "omg it's opening what is it gonna be!!"

[@kennethmcgowan4423]

I'm so glad I found ur channel its made me so happy to rewatch buffy with you

[@davidmcleod5133]

Oh my god, that opening!!! 😆

[@Madbandit77]

If you know who wasn't scum, Lexi would have been a staff writer on the show. 😎

[@HelloXrancidkitteh]

@@Madbandit77 plus she was a child at the time they were writing the show lol. and Joss had female writers, Jane being one of them and a fan favorite, and ended up being one of BtVS's producers.

[@kemipue]

5:22 lol never noticed how messed up the UK is on that map!

[@pillmuncher67]

Principal Wood is actually not evil. He is, in fact, an angel, and his real name is Amenadiel.

[@920215Gurra]

Lucifer reference right?

[@yinloveyang]

Lol like for real...?!?! It was actually the original idea for Angel character but it's better that they changed it

[@TheOnlyOneSpeedfreak]

"thats another freaky motherf*cker" yea that sums it up

[@salyx]

Yes, that was the Council headquarters blowing up. You looked away during the establishing shot.

[@67Daidalos]

You may have caught it up while editing, but in the scene with Andrew and The First taking Jonathan's appearance, they explained why it didn't work : Jonathan-First said "I should have tell people I was anemic". So he just didn't had enough blood in him to activate the seal (and that's also interesting, cause it seems to indicate that there are things the First can't know about people, even though it seemed to read their mind)

[@hardybryan]

Pretty sure the seal just needs blood. Jonathan wasn't quite enough, so they needed a little more. The pig probably would have worked too.

[@grife3000]

Yeah, when the First took Jonathan's form he pretty clearly said that his blood wasn't enough because he was a small guy. Plus, you know, we get a "That'll do, pig" joke.

[@karollysiak1]

This is the first time we see a real vampire on the show

[@xen0bia]

Yup, an all-natural vampire demon and not a vampire-possessed human.

[@ThePurpleRants]

Your whole rant at 18:19 is so me when I'm mind blown by my own dam actions when I'm high.😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ThePurpleRants]

Btw, the first evil says she's the first evil in episode 1 on her end of the episode, villain cycling rant. A.k.a the best set up of any big bad

[@Dilzik]

It’s picking up and Lexi is so excited. I’m here for it

[@claricehoffer1874]

I love this episode. I still feel that Cassie's prediction to Spike that Buffy would one day tell him something was her telling him she belived in him because that, to me, would be mean more to Spike.

[@dancerkris95]

Actually, I think it's regarding the finale on what she says to him near the end.

[@IslandpferdeHaukagil]

​@@dancerkris95Please don't spoil! Even knowing which character makes it to the finale is a spoiler of some kind!

[@alicequinn505]

17:23 Ooh bloodthirsty, girl. On second thought, I think that would've been entertaining too.

[@chrisandersen5635]

Yeah Santa Clarita Diet is fantastic. I for one want another season. Watching Buffy when it aired could be agony. We couldn’t binge. Only watch when it aired. Could only watch again when the network decided to repeat.

[@Square-ow7oq]

I want another season of Santa Clarita so bad but i don't think is gonna happen

[@astridramea2714]

Master was not a "real" vampire, he was just very old. But he was the same human hybrid as the rest of them.

[@mychunkyjordi7585]

There wasn't enough blood with johnathon it tells you in the episode. They took spike because he didn't give it Andrew

[@WilliamLucas-hy8mx]

He has anaemia so his blood was too watery. Plus he's short.

[@x-man9473]

That Speech Buffy gave to Spike is iconic. It annoys me because they were having moments like this at the beginning of season 6, then they completely changed direction. Their moments together should have been like this in the last 2 seasons.

[@JennyDavid]

I entirely agree! I do love Season 6 as it is, but I also love to imagine that their relationship only improved and progressed from how it was when Buffy returned. They're clearly able to reach each other on that level. I suppose we needed SOME push for Spike to get his soul back, but I like to imagine other, more palatable motivations.

[@x-man9473]

@@JennyDavid They established in late season 5 that Spike would do anything for Buffy purely because he loves her. He even alluded to giving up on all evil for her in season 5 episode 14 So she could have easily told Spike that she loves the sweet and comforting side of him. But hates the demonic side of him. And Spike would have been influenced to get his soul for her. The whole incident didn't even have to happen

[@izz61864]

You, didn’t have your popcorn for Quentin’s death 😆

[@Marwolaeth01]

“I forgot about Giles!” Lmao, I assumed you were just still in denial mode and so talking about anything and everything but him. Especially when you said you actually wanted a follow up with Andrew, I was certain at that point you were clutching at anything rather than face Giles’ fate, even Andrew 😂

[@dutchkel]

😮😂🎉🎉😂

[@CSItefla]

Well - with this episode I can now safely say that it's the end of Quentin Travers. Back in 3x12 - Helpless you wanted to be spoiled if Travers dies. ... sadly I held my tongue

[@HopelessHermit]

Detective Kate: that not evil thing, was just an evil thing

[@henningaasland8704]

Hi. Great reaction. It did'nt work with Jonathan cause he was a bit anemic. he did'nt have enough blood..

[@pillmuncher67]

Trigger was the name of famous singing cowboy actor -Gene Autrey- Roy Rogers. In honor of this horse, Willie Nelson named his guitar also Trigger.

[@9ansean]

It was actually Roy Rogers who stared with the palomino named Trigger. Right idea. Wrong singing cowboy.

[@frugalseverin2282]

@@9ansean He lived to be 30 yrs. old. After Trigger passed, he was stuffed and mounted at the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum.

[@pillmuncher67]

@@9ansean Thank you, that's what I wanted to write. I always get those two mixed up. You know that feeling when a tumbling tumbleweed tumbles through your brain?

[@la_beatrice]

I LOLed at your intro 😂

[@adgato75]

What makes me laugh is that there is absolutely no way that Spike knows who the hell Tucker is. He should definitely know Andrew better than Tucker lol

[@invadertifxiii]

"no not the piggie ki** a human"

[@12chapin]

He’s the Master’s Master😆. Hello 👋🏻

[@becca1189]

❤🧡💛💚💙💜

[@valeriem.8112]

The chip doesn’t work only when he’s being controlled by the FIRSt ( evil) 👿

[@danielbutler8103]

I Think the seal needs a certain amount blood and Jonathan got it to about 90% so it only needed a little more.

[@Buffy8Fan]

Great opening.

[@betheastwood1184]

My favorite line of this reaction was "I would have loved to see Andrew bleed!" 🙂

[@TenebrousFilms]

The Master was old enough to be between modern vampires and... well, not just old, ancient. *Neanderthal* ancient. 40-130 millennia old, *minimum.* I've always believed that the aging of the Master was the default, while Kakistos (Faith's big bad that chased her to Sunnydale) developed differently as he aged, due to some alliegance or worship to some other kind of demon.

[@andreduarte8372]

The ominous mood that started building the moment we first heard "From beneath you, it devours" was off the charts for this episode and the next, culminating in a certain speech in 7x10. Too bad the rest of the season, while not a bad ending for the show by any means, fails to live up to the potential (heh) of its own hype.

[@marshmallow6885]

Ted lasso season 3 whennnn

[@jenhalbert3001]

I promise, we've all forgotten the most important part before, shit just happens. Still a great reaction to a fun episode, though, and that's what matters. I didn't really start to like this season until the third time i watched it, you're doing way better. Have fun.

[@naraiceylob]

It was the Bringers that Buffy encountered in season 3. She didn't see the first at all.

[@Zso-VIII]

No, Buffy met with the First in that cavern under the tree place, she spoke with it.

[@Madbandit77]

Actually she did in the form of Jenny Calendar in "Amends".

[@trufamilybromontqc]

The last 2 season feel deferent and then you think ow giles ,thats why giles❤.we miss him

[@bluesilvahalo3576]

You. Forgot. Giles. GILES???? I'm shook 😐

[@qrsx66]

Johnathan was not juicy enough, let's try with a piglet !

[@killianlpc]

Really beginning to heat up now, with Warren appearing again to Andrew to try and manipulate him, and Quentin Travers looking for Giles too. Funny when Willow confronts Andrew and brings him back to the house, with Anya reveling in the 'good cop, bad cop' scenario with Andrew. Interesting scene with Buffy feeding the bag of blood to Spike, she did the same in S4 Something Blue, that time with disdain and reluctantly, this time we can see by her facial expressions she really cares that Spike makes a recovery. Spike and Buffy have a real conversation about feelings and her attitude to life now, we can see these are now on a different level, so much more meaningful. Great scene when Spike grabs Andrew through the wall and bites him. Xander works out that the song is 'the trigger' to Spike's behaviour. Again the way the writers are using Principal Wood, we just know there is more to him. When Spike is chained in the basement he tells Buffy of how cruel he could be as vampire, which is hard for her to listen to. However, Buffy knows deep down that Spike has changed, and gives a great speech to him telling him this. Then of course we see the Shrouded attackers break into the house, and Spike has now gone missing too. Buffy eventually make the connection to have fought them before, which she did back in S3 and realises it is The First Evil. The Watchers Council prepare to the attack, but are blown to pieces. So now Buffy is alone in this fight. Great last scene where Spike is on a type of crucifix and is bled to open the Hellmouth and the form of Buffy says 'want to see what a real vampire looks like' Another great episode Building towards the Show Finale.

[@invadertifxiii]

schrodingers giles lol

[@RabidTribble]

I miss Giles. I wonder if the first will use his image to trap Buffy. 😉 Would Willow see through it?

[@Nicamon]

07:18 - 07:48 This is *literally* a War of the Nerds.😂😂I can't take _any_ of them seriously and the paradox is that...I *know* Willow is potentially not joking!!!😰 08:07 - 08:14 _What_ doesn't leave a mark?🤨I didn't understand the word...😅 12:07 - 12:14 In her defense I *COMPLETELY* forgot the episode"Amends"...but that's because I didn't like it. If it was 1 of those I knew by heart I would be as frustrated as you are.^^; 13:07 - 13:13 Oh,yeah,sure!🙄She didn't in ep 6x19,you think she's gonna do it *now* that you have a soul?!?!Bitch,please!!You should have staken yourself properly back in ep 4x11!!😒💢Now it's TOO LATE!!>O

[@allisonlussier248]

Whedon is dark- but he’s not entirely stupid. He knew better than to make us watch Giles die.

[@Silver-rx1mh]

You have a very odd/simplistic approach to this. Why on Gods green earth would it be the master??

[@alooncnej4696]

I think the show losts its superb i like the First but this dark way to torture Spike is horrible and well done but i don't know, this season is not stronger as can be seasons 5 and 6. I liked this episode Tom Lenk is so great and Andrew a perfect fun addition to this last season.