UNEDITED EXCLUSIVE: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 3 Episode 11 REACTION!
Added 2020-10-14 22:38:08 +0000 UTCWhat it dooski! Here's my UNEDITED EXCLUSIVE: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 3 Episode 11 REACTION!
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I think the problem is, if you remove the spell aspect, it just becomes a straight episode about the Satanic Panic, which was still in people's minds at the time, and which Buffy doesn't usually do. It's more usual for the show to take a real-world issue and put magic/vampires/demons or whatever behind it to blur it slightly (like Ted's domestic abuse/robot or Angelus' abusive boyfriend/soulless vampire thing). I do agree that the story isn't executed well, but I think totally removing the magic would take off the Buffy gloss.
Laura_Ali
2020-10-15 07:35:48 +0000 UTCThe rat at the end IS Amy :p It's an ok episode, just meant to be light hearted and comedic. Monster of the Week sort of story.
Brent Justice
2020-10-15 06:56:26 +0000 UTCI quite like the idea of Hansel and Gretal actually being a story about persecution and mob mentality. I'm positive that Buffy is not the first to read it that way, but it makes that fable a lot more interesting. But I don't think it was executed particularly well. Of course like any Buffy episode, it was entertaining, but it's too jarring and the concessions they made to make the story work are bordering on being plot holes. I feel like they could have just let Willow's mom remember that she's a witch. Joyce was around all the time in s1 and s2 so keeping Buffy's identity a secret was a relevant decision in the narrative, but Willow's mom is already super neglectful and Willow is about to graduate anyway so it wouldn't impact the series basically at all if the writers didn't want it to. I also don't like that the righteous mob was under some sort of spell. It kind of takes away from the message about persecution, since no one was really in full control of their actions. Even though this is a thing that human beings actually do, a lot. I think it would have been better to have everything the same up until Joyce tells Buffy her efforts are fruitless, but instead of the kids revealing themselves, have the mob start behaving in a way that's out of Joyce's control. Make it about group fear and not the temporary insanity of individuals. Make it about the snowball effect of Joyce's well-intentioned but ignorant and rash actions, she could have actually learned a lesson from that.
KT
2020-10-15 05:31:42 +0000 UTCSo at 10:45, you're basically saying "Chekhov's Amy"? This ep turned around so fast at the end. It was so dark throughout, then all of a sudden Buffy is all like "did I get it" and Xander and Oz just fall out of the ceiling.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2020-10-15 02:45:12 +0000 UTCGingerbread is not a fan favorite but I’m very fond of it. It’s a solid satire of the 80s/90s ‘satanic panic’. The unfortunately acronymed MOO is, I’m guessing, a reference to the very real 80s ‘advocacy group’ BADD which stood for Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons. I shit you not.
Flora Smith
2020-10-15 02:01:47 +0000 UTCAccording to The First trueee... but Buffy doesn't seem to believe it. "Some great evil takes credit for bringing you back and you buy it!?".
Bisibia
2020-10-15 00:20:00 +0000 UTCAngel coming back wasn’t about Buffys love, the First is responsible for angel coming back. It was trying to convince him to kill her, and when that didn’t work, it accepted angel saying he’d kill himself. “That wasn’t the plan, but it’ll work”
Dani Dekay
2020-10-14 23:22:07 +0000 UTC
