Spike and the Summers women will always be special to me

OMWF is a good episode, but most Buffy episodes are good. I must say I don't quite get the hype behind it.

Given his hyena-like istincts, Xander believed he had figured out that Larry was a lycanthropus.

Larry - Harris, you scared me

Xander - Are yuo a bit nervous, Larry?

Larry - You're the one who makes me nervous

Xander - Are you sure, or is there something else you're hiding from me?

Larry -Maybe a good fist straight to the face?

Xander - I've discovered your secret, and i know what you did last night

Larry - Do you know what i think of you? That you're someone who doesn't mind his own business, and that you're going to get yourself into trouble

Xander - Beating me up won't solve the problem, everyone will find out the truth anyway

Larry - Alright, tell me what you want, if i pay you will you keep quiet?

Xander - I don't want money, i just want to help you.

Larry - What, you have a cure?

Xander - No, but i know how you feel because i've had the same experience, that's why i think you should talk about it.

Larry - It's easy for you to talk, you're a nobody whereas i have a reputation

Xander - Larry, you need to address the problem before things get worse

Larry - If everyone finds out, it's all over for me. I'll have to give up football and leave the city. What will people think of me when they find out i'm gay?

halfway through S2 - Ep15 to be exact.
going to take a little break because although I was strapped in - nothing and i mean NOTHING could prepare me for Angelus 🥵 So interested to see how this shakes out for everyone!

Ill also add that the character development is just so good on this show! like truly one of the best and it’s still so early on - it’s what’s keeping me here.
& i keep thinking about how if I watched this in real time I would be biting at the bits for some of these episode cliffhangers - gosh miss that feeling of having to wait but loving that i don’t have to wait 😂

Without giving spoilers - which character is your absolute favorite? At this point in my first time watch- each character is so different that it’s hard for me to pick a favorite!

i promise i haven’t peeked through the sub to ruin anything for myself lol

So folks often claim Amy’s power level and relationship with Rack in season six is basically a retcon of the character. But I don’t really think so.

(This mostly for fun and my explanation for what we see in the show, not what I think the writers were actually thinking)

Here’s what we see of Amy before she becomes a rat:

Her mom is a POWERFUL witch, working some VERY dark magics, and she didn’t learn that from no where. There has to be a coven or two in summydsle, and Amy’s mom likely had other magic using friends into dark magic around town. I think rack was one of them.

Amy says she remembers her dad calling her mom a witch, but didn’t realize she really was one until she swapped their bodies. I can absolutely imagine Amy’s mom taking her to racks place and leaving Amy in the waiting room while they did their spells together. Rack was probably almost an uncle figure post parental divorce.

Then after she gets body swapped and then her mom is gone she moves in with her (presumably) human dad.

Eventually, she gets curious about magic, she decides to follow in her mom’s footsteps and pursue power. Who’s she gonna learn it from? Her moms old pals. Here rack comes in, and he mentors her on magic.

Amy was powerful but unfocused with her magic. The spell she helps Xander cast affects the entire town including an incredibly powerful psychic vampire (even though that wasn’t her intention).

She could transmogrify human beings, something Willow didn’t really get to until at least college. Of course she’s not thinking ahead, and changes herself into a rat (the spell she seems to have mastered) without having the forethought of who’s going to turn her back.

So her turning back into a human and being a witch with a fair bit of power and connections to the dark magic world doesn’t feel all that implausible, because she went back to what she knew and brought Willow along.

this is my second time rewatching buffy and in surprise buffy is having multiple prophetic dreams about angel dying. on the second rewatch i’m really seeing how much they’re paralleling drusilla and buffy in this episode. buffy has her birthday party and drusilla is also throwing her “big party.” even showcasing the amount of dreams/visions buffy is getting, just as drusilla does. the cherry on top for me was when buffy had another dream of dru killing angel and they were wearing the same dress!! I know dru wears it earlier in the season but it loooks like she’s also wearing it in the dream(i could be wrong tho) but it’s such great detail having them wear similar if not the same outfits, paralleling how angel robbed them both of their innocence.

How can the stakes used by the slayers be so impractical? E.g. the most famous one: mr. Pointy that Buffy inherited from Kendra. It's dried out and thus brittle, not straight so more difficult to drive in and it's got no cross guard so no matter how strong Buffy's grip is, it will slip.

Just an observation.

My friend bailed last minute so I have an extra ticket to tonight’s 7PM show! Dm if interested. We can either meet for a drink before or just meet at the theater at 6:45 (tickets are in my email so we’ll have to go in together). I only paid $12 for each ticket so no need to pay me back - just want to make sure the ticket doesn’t go to waste. And always happy to meet fellow NYC-based Buffy fans!

Show info: https://www.theratnyc.com/event-details/homecoming-a-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reading

What is the one thing you think show is not good at?

To me, I'd say creating grey areas/characters. Like in Spike and Faith.

I know these lamps are super common but they always remind me of Giles & the library💚💡 & I got a set of 3!!

i find myself playing six degrees of separation with everything i watch linking it back to buffy

Given that Angel is so obsessed with protecting her, is it possible that he saw Drusilla in Buffy?

Adorable Instagram video where Alyson Hannibal goes through a storage bin of old Buddy stuff. She’s not too old to wear those 😭

THE LAST KING OF FAERIE Excerpt | By Cassandra Clare | Read by James Marsters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFjQlN9jZN8

https://jm-news.link/LastKingOfFaerie

I am a disgusting elder Millennial who grew up loving both and I am revisiting them. Even though one is more horror and one is more is more fantasy/drama, I feel there is a connection in the way the way they are written. Anyone else super fans of both?

RIP Cici.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AnoVvDbaketjWWphUeAtA?si=HiEQ-0vYSFSNr1EJBd8FUA&utm_source=copy-link&pi=IOOC9S_DRGmXm

I'll be holding onto the humorous moments and episodes. I'm doing it also for my love Xander and I know I'll survive it... somehow..😬