Buffy The Vampire Slayer 5x7 | Fool For Love
Added 2025-06-04 16:31:29 +0000 UTCMy full reaction to Buffy Season 5 Episode 7 "Fool For Love".
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lol it’s so good too!
Chance's House Of Horror
2025-06-24 14:09:48 +0000 UTCI mean... this episode was for me hahaha
George Alexander
2025-06-24 10:14:01 +0000 UTCDefinitely!
Chance's House Of Horror
2025-06-06 14:42:29 +0000 UTCSpike's 80's look is Billy Idol's Rebel Yell
Corey Wolf
2025-06-06 05:35:01 +0000 UTCThere's not much I can think of to add, other than this episode is amazing. Definite top 10 episode for me.
Claire Eyles
2025-06-05 11:01:03 +0000 UTCThe etymology of the term is a bit murky. Depending on what source you use the term 'Poof' comes into use anywhere from the 1820s through to the 1880s (predominantly British), and the term 'Poofter' comes into use anywhere from 1850 through to 1910, and has tended to be more prominent in Australia through the adoption of Cockney words, including Cockney rhyming slang (eg 'Wooly Woofter' as a rhyming cant for 'Poofter'). As an Australian who grew up hearing the word ad nauseum, thanks to my extremely bigoted Father, I never actually heard the word used outside of Australian and Cockney slang. It's one of the reasons I've always found Spike's use of the word in 1880 to be a bit more than slightly jarring. Okay it kind of makes sense that Spike is trying to adopt a more working class 'Cockney-esque' manner about him, but there's little evidence that a word like 'Poofter' was in common usage in 1880, Cockney or not. Sadly the term also became associated with a horrific practice in Australia that was known as 'Poofter Bashing' (literally treated as if it were a sport). A lot of gay men in the 60s, 70s, and 80s were brutally assaulted and even killed by people who thought it was fun to spend an evening out bashing up people they deemed deserving of such abuse. There was a brief period in the early 2000s of gay men in Australia attempting to reclaim the word, much like Queer and Dyke had been reclaimed. I don't remember it lasting that long or being all that successful, considering the history behind it.
Claire Eyles
2025-06-05 10:09:02 +0000 UTCPoofter or Poof are both derogatory terms used for gay or effeminate males, which originated around 1850's somewhere in Europe. It's still used today in a negative way. However as a gay man from the US, I find it funny sounding.
Bastion33
2025-06-05 02:56:26 +0000 UTCTY! Be sure to tune in for the discussion tonight if you can!
Chance's House Of Horror
2025-06-04 20:15:55 +0000 UTCAh ty for clarifying! I thought I forgot something lol
Chance's House Of Horror
2025-06-04 20:15:36 +0000 UTCI totally forgot about that line!
Chance's House Of Horror
2025-06-04 20:14:59 +0000 UTClmao
Chance's House Of Horror
2025-06-04 20:13:41 +0000 UTCSo they had to update the "sire" lore for this. In season 2 ep.3, Spike did call Angel his sire. He and Dru were supposed to be killed off a few eps later but they were so popular, they decided against doing that. Somebody on a forum I believe, asked Joss Whdeon how could Dru have sired Spike, when it was said that Angel was his sire. Joss responded, that vampires from the same line of makers can be considered their sire in terms of when they were turned. So technically Darla, Angel, and Drusilla are all Spike's sires. I could be wrong, but I think Joss also said that was always the case, which I think is BS.
Talis26
2025-06-04 17:32:57 +0000 UTCOur first look at a chaos demon 😁 exactly two seasons to the episode after Spike said Dru cheated on him with one “have you ever seen a chaos demon? All slime and antlers” Edited because my memory failed me once again 😭 Lovers Walk was 3x8 not 3x7, so almost exactly two seasons to the episode 🤣😭
Aurro Eronaile
2025-06-04 17:17:30 +0000 UTCLMAO 🤣 you said, “Come on, Spike! Save your girl! …oh, it’s Riley…” 😒
honeybumble1012
2025-06-04 16:48:29 +0000 UTCSo, we're finally here! Fool for Love is one of my favorite all time episodes of Buffy. Infinite rewatchability. I've seen it dozens of times over the years. It's truly a pinnacle episode of television as a whole. Everything about it is utter perfection from the first scene to the last. The editing and story in the middle is incredible. And in a single episode, it completely reshapes our understanding of Spike and Buffy going all the way back to School Hard and deeply informs our understanding of the rest of the show as well. You could write an entire thesis just on this one episode. And indeed, many people have. James Marsters does a true acting masterclass. I wanted to shout out just what an amazing job Sarah Michelle Gellar does in this episode too. She really does such an amazing job with the full range of reactions from scared at the beginning, to annoyed when she has to order him wings, to repulsed by Spike after hearing about killing the Chinese slayer & again when he tries to kiss her and finally devastated when she finds out there's something wrong with her mom. But I wanted to specifically mention Buffy's utter look of confusion and bewilderment after Spike asks if there's anything he can do. And then as Spike *comforts* Buffy by patting her back. And most importantly, the fact that *she lets him*. SMG conveyed so much emotion in those few seconds just with her facial expressions. Didn't even need any dialogue. Just incredible. Also, a lot of reactors miss this on the first watch, but as the camera pans out, right before the ending credits, you can see Buffy and Spike breathing in sync with each other on the porch. I can't wait to watch this reaction and see what you think.
Land Howard Johnston
2025-06-04 16:36:40 +0000 UTC
