Buffy the Vampire Slayer || 5x18 || Discussion
Added 2022-02-02 18:30:01 +0000 UTC5x18: "Intervention"
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Holy! Shit!! We bacc at the desert!!! And we got to see more of the first slayer!! :D AHHH I am so excited! I have been waiting to get more of the slayer stuff and I am hype... well not SUPER hype to find out what "death is your gift" means, bc that makes me a little nervous.... hehe...
BUTTTT we also got BIKE!! uh... a lot of the episode is um... with a robot.... so. um- that was a bit much fksjcksdh. BUT THE END SCENE!! literally crying, screaming, jumping off a cliff- i am here for it <3 *chefs kiss*
aaaand we got more of our queen, Glory!
Just in all, a really great episode that was also very fun to watch!
Hope yall enjoyyy! :)
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Comments
I think it’s fascinating the way robots tend to appear in the whedonverse whenever questions of destiny and free will are being explored. Buffy (both the show and the character) always places heavy emphasis on choices, something the Buffybot lacks the capacity to make, and that’s obviously being juxtaposed with Buffy on a quest to figure out her destiny. There’s not much difference between programming and destiny, and the episode seems to suggest that the hand on the rudder has a lot to do with the turnout. Except, of course, that Buffy has a long history of rejecting and redefining the nature of her destiny, which a robot obviously can’t do. I think it’s so interesting that the Buffybot arrives in the same episode that we see the First Slayer again, although it’s complicated by the fact that she is, once again, little more than a body for a power to speak through. Sort of a darker way of looking at the Slayer role. An intriguing set of circumstances, thematically. There are some deeply squicky moments, which I think comes both from the lack of consent and the lack of respect Spike gives to a character that means so much to us, but I do think it’s a fascinating episode all the same.
Mitch M
2022-02-08 07:54:38 +0000 UTCI've always been sympathetic of the Buffybot. She doesn't understand the perverted motivation behind her creation, but she's been programmed with the motivations of "the slayer", and dang it if she isn't doing the best she can. She merely lacks the ability to resist Spike's sinister attraction.
Jeff Cornell
2022-02-06 09:24:00 +0000 UTC
