Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Showtime" 7x11 Reaction
Added 2022-02-07 02:11:25 +0000 UTC
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I mean, no it's not. He was an idiot to everyone, and that's the end of it. There has never been any suggestion he was some sexual predator on young people, and just because he is not a great person doesn't mean that is a justifiable accusation to make on him.
MichaelB
2023-04-21 21:51:53 +0000 UTCI was thinking that, but it wasn’t only sexual aspects that he was guilty of, he was/is abusive to men he works with too.
Kathryn Cottam
2022-02-10 22:45:18 +0000 UTCit's kind of creepy seeing a bunch of teenage girls all over the show now considering everything we know about Joss
Daniel R
2022-02-10 17:18:29 +0000 UTCThe first can only take the form of dead ppl just so your aware and its incorporeal(doesn't have a physical body) which is why it talks or uses ppl to get things done.
DABSLABOG
2022-02-09 00:35:59 +0000 UTCOne thing I was wondering was about Angel because those are kinda far behind now and with the watch order some of those probably should have been watched already to sync up with the crossovers later on without having to stop Buffy and watch a bunch of Angels in a row first.
TheMew
2022-02-08 12:40:54 +0000 UTCYou are pretty much half way of this season. Surreal. The finale half ever. The potentials are annoying, even if I can understand them and I do think they are realistic in their behaviour. You are the first reactor I've seen to notice Miranda, so cool! and yeah that is Felicia Day. I think some potentials are found by the council others they miss, Buffy would have been missed for a long time, until very near her activation or slightly after it. They don't stay ' trained' forever, from what I understand slayers need to be below the 18 to be activated, once that age is passed, they can no longer be called upon.
s jaco
2022-02-08 09:16:58 +0000 UTCYour brainstorming what they could do to bring the show back is interesting to me. I'll be curious to see what you think they should do once you see how it ends. For me, no one but SMG could be Buffy. So if they did a revival, it would have to be with some slayer other than Buffy for me to get on board (you should Google "Fray" some time. Cool comic about another slayer a couple hundred years into the future from this show...I'd kill for a show version of that, tbh. Sort of like "Buffy Beyond" lol)...and if they wanted to find some way to have guest appearances from SMG as Buffy every now and then (either in flashbacks or whatever), even better. The other thing is, at this point, it would indeed have to be done without Joss. And I used to think, "there's no Buffy without Whedon" ...but these days, I don't think that's necessarily true. Sure, this world was Whedon's idea, but this show was the product of a writers' room full of very talented, creative people. The Buffyverse was a training ground for creatives who went on to become great writers/directors/showrunners in their own right: Drew Goddard (Daredevil, The Good Place, Cabin in the Woods, The Martian), Jane Espenson (BSG, Jessica Jones, Once Upon a Time, The Nevers), Steven DeKnight (Smallville, Spartacus, Daredevil, Jupiter's Legacy), Douglas Petrie (Tru Calling, Pushing Daisies, American Horror Story, The Nevers), Jeffrey Bell (ALIAS, Spartacus, Agents of SHIELD), Shawn Ryan (The Shield, Terriers, The Get Down, Timeless, SWAT), Marti Noxon (Grey's Anatomy, Prison Break, Mad Men, UnREAL, Sharp Objects), and Drew Greenberg (Dexter, Arrow, Agents of SHIELD) to name a few. If they got some of the old creative team back together - the big "if" being if they'd be willing to do it without Joss, I could see a revival working. But it couldn't be a remake. It would need to be another story in this universe, imo.
Andrea
2022-02-08 08:55:32 +0000 UTCGenerally, the whole Buffy isn't an active slayer thing is something the fandom has made canon. In reality, the writers just forgot that when Buffy died, a new slayer should have been called. The whole Anya and Giles story, while it was action packed it served a purpose in revealing why this first evil hasn't tried its hand before now. Yes, Buffy died in season one, but she was gone for two seconds and was brought back naturally. In season 6, Buffy was dead dead and was brought back by some pretty dark magic, so there was something there for The First to take advantage of. The First is an It, an entity. It can not interact with the world except be visible and talk and possibly imbue some power. Most of the time, the power it uses, like with Angel in season 3, is to talk, get in the minds of its victims, and sow seeds of doubt.
C J
2022-02-07 08:07:22 +0000 UTCand yes that's the actress who played miranda on lizzie mcguire lol. her name is lalaine
cil
2022-02-07 05:31:08 +0000 UTCi think i get your confusion at the beginning. when we first see buffy getting called on the steps of her school in LA (flashback in season 3)...she is completely oblivious to what a slayer is, until they tell her. whereas with other potential slayers (like kendra)...they already know they're next in line because someone close to them has told them and/or they've already started training. i think your question is ...why do some potential slayers know about their calling beforehand and others don't. this is never explicitly answered on the show. so i'm not sure what the answer is tbh.
cil
2022-02-07 04:56:36 +0000 UTCOh Steven. So many hits and misses for you on this one. Props to you first of all for steadily improving on the looking down at your phone thing. There's less and less of that in each review, and that's totally appreciated sir. Plus side: You got it. The First is non-corporeal, meaning it's simply a malevolent spirit that cannot physically touch or harm you, which is why it sends its minions The Bringers to do its dirty work for it. They're blind because The First is their eyes. And they are the hands for The First since it technically can't touch anyone. Yes - The Potentials are, for the most part, annoying AF. It is incredibly telling that Kennedy is the one you like lol. And yes, some Potentials have Watchers when they're extremely young who start training them young to prepare in the event they're Chosen. But there are some Slayers who are activated that the Watchers Council simply missed and never tracked down before they were activated. Buffy was one of those girls. Merrick was her first Watcher, and by the time he tracked her down, she was already activated. Kendra was one of those Slayers who were detected early in her life as a Potential and who studied with a Watcher since she was a young child. So it varies - there's no one size fits all criteria there for a Slayer. Negative Side: You didn't care enough about Giles and Anya's side story to pay close attention, even though you mentioned a great question earlier that ties directly into what they found out. You mentioned that "Faith was THE Slayer, and Buffy was just A Slayer", meaning that when Buffy dies, nothing will happen, but when Faith dies, that's when one of the Potentials will be activated as the new Chosen One. Had you been more invested in Anya and Giles's convo with Baljoxia's Eye, you would have realized that Baljoxia's Eye said that the Slayer's most recent return to the living has irrevocably rendered the forces surrounding the Slayer line unstable. Meaning that your earlier statement about Faith being the only active Slayer was no longer applicable after Willow brought Buffy back with her Bargaining spell at the beginning of Season 6. When Buffy died at the end of season 1 from being drowned by The Master, Xander resuscitated her using CPR. She came back to life, and retained her powers as the Slayer, but the Slayer line moved on already and activated a new Slayer: Kendra. At that point, Kendra was the active Slayer, and the Slayer line went through her. Buffy was just a "Slayer out of time" so to speak, making her exception to the Slayer rule. But the forces around the Slayer line were still stable, because there was still only one active Slayer. And when Kendra died, that triggered a new Slayer to be activated, which was Faith. As Steven correctly pointed out, Faith was now the active Slayer, and the Slayer line went through her now. That all changed at the beginning of season 6 when Willow magically brought Buffy back from the dead. Willow's spell FULLY reinstated Buffy back into her life as if she never died. Meaning Buffy now retained her birthright, which was her place in the Slayer line. In other words, Willow's spell now resulted in TWO active Slayers, meaning the Slayer line now went through both Faith AND Buffy. The powers that surrounded the Slayer line (including being passed on to the next Slayer) were always designed for just one girl in the entire world at a time. Thanks to Willow's spell, for the first time ever in history, those powers now went through two girls in the world at one time, which rendered the powers unstable. And THAT is what finally gave The First the opportunity to finally attack the Slayer line by eliminating all the Potentials so that there can be no new Slayers to activate, and then they destroy the actual Slayers, who by then will have no Watchers Council or Potential Slayers to help them. At least that's how The First is hoping it goes. Anyhow - again...great reaction. And great to see you connecting the dots more and more each episode!
Fuiono Ching Sung
2022-02-07 04:36:11 +0000 UTCThe First is not corporeal it can't touch anything it works through others so The First as Eve could not have killed the girls. Giles explained this in the last episode
Melissa Murphy
2022-02-07 02:54:41 +0000 UTC
