When she starts talking about Angel, Christophe Beck plays his love theme for Buffy and Angel that we hear when Buffy sends Angel to hell. And then when she says "I wish my mom was here," you hear the Sacrifice theme that plays later during Buffy's death. incredible.
This scene still makes me cry to this day. SMG was amazing here. And that line where Giles says "it feels like a hundred" is an inside reference to the fact that this is the 100th episode of the series.
One of the most heartbreaking scenes in the entire show. I particularly like the way the sacrifice theme starts playing softly when Buffy mentions her mom. SMG definitely nailed it!
I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but Buffy pauses right before she wishes her mom was still there. I always saw that as her preventing herself from admitting that she wished she was dead. Maybe too many repeats put that notion in my head but I still find the moment very moving, if not more so because of that.
That was my take also. That she was at least going to say she wished it would be all over, that she could finally rest. It makes death being a "gift" to her make sense. The powers that be were letting her lay down her sword.
glad im not the only one that felt the same way about this moment. Many people critice season 6 for being depresive. That's the point. How could it not be
@@maximilianopichelluck3661 same.. she was finally in Peace... loved.. and they took it from her, stripped « away » forced to live in this hell we call earth, and once again with her Duty, being the Chosen one... that’s pretty depressing..
I think maybe it was a nod to Spike's theory that a Slayers time comes to an end when she wants it to. With Buffy, he predicted it would happen after she lost her mum, Dawn was really the last thing tying her to this world
I believe this the second of two times Buffy has stated she was going to quit slaying, first in Prophecy Girl and then here. The first time it was the result of fear for her life. And even though she was terrified of dying, ultimately her sense of duty won out. But here it's due to overwhelming loss. She's been beaten down to the point where she can't take anything more. When she says she'll quit if Dawn dies, this time she truly means it. It's a heartbreaking scene but beautifully done. And just one of the countless reasons this will always be my favorite show of all time.
"May I take your order?" "I don't know how to live in this world if these are the choices, if everything just gets stripped away, I don't see the point." "Sir this is a wendy's"
I honestly think her saying "I just wish my mom was here" in this scene is some of the best writing I have ever seen on television. We the audience were not thinking about Joyce in that moment, but her loss has cast a general pall over the season ever since it happened. It's always sort of lurking in the background for Buffy, one more entry to catalogue in the encyclopedia of stress that has become her life. Bringing Joyce up in this moment illuminates the audience as to EXACTLY how Buffy is feeling. This is a deep sadness, an incurable ache, an irreconcilable hurt. Joyce is gone and she isn't coming back, and her death makes everything impossibly harder forever and ever. That's where Buffy is in this moment. That's how lost and helpless she feels. Anyone who has lost a parent can understand it. Anyway it's just a brilliant moment of character writing, and so completely realistic. I can't get over how good it is.
To this day I find it hard to watch this scene without crying. It's like seeing how much Watcher & Slayer have grown (and grown apart) since that night he drove her home, after Angel turned bad (also one of the most moving scenes ever),..
Grief really hurts, this clip certainly touches on that, “I Just wish my mom was here” so many people can relate to this.... For me it’s my father and other loved ones. Update; I loss my beloved adopted Mom right before Christmas which will never be the same… My entire world feels incredibly shattered.😔💔😪 I feel this clip and line so deeply now more than anything, I don’t know how to live in this world either. When so many people are often simply stripped away, now parentless and feeling even more isolated in this dark cruel, oftentimes world. I can’t believe my beloved mom is gone. She was the mom, I never had I’d certainly rather disappear forever…. 💔🌏😥
I feel so sorry for buffy in this season, this season made me feel a hopelessness. Like they were broken down and almost lost to such a powerful being, they just take a blow after blow after blow. But they keep fighting and fighting, an in the end the battle goes their way. But of course at a price, A very very Heartbreaking price😭😭😭💔. Such a fucking fantastic season, This is still to this day the best show ever made........ Buffy forever.
I agree you @Simon May, this being the end of season 5 was the opening to a season 6, that really dealt with the darkness, feeling lost, heartache, even suffering that we all endure from time to time in reality within this cruel at times world. 💔🌏😔 Sarah Michelle Gellar Played this part so brilliantly well. Like she said, “whats the point, of living in this world, if everything just gets stripped away.” Especially during these “current times in this world” it’s highly relatable. Season 6; Joss made the characters more real, relatable and vulnerable...
"Guess that means a Slayer really is just a killer, after all." Oh, Buffy, you could not be more wrong! You could have killed Ben to kill Glory, but you still spared him! And you willingly made the ultimate sacrifice - your very own life - for Dawn! You thwarted a Hell-Goddess and saved the entire universe! :)
The Issue Is, We need to call a spade ♠️ a , Spade ♠️. Hunters(Slayers) were Walking Killing machines. They were more connected to the source of Killing to tighten up loose ends, Then they were To Humanity.
I've seen this episode so many times but for some reason in all those times I've missed the significance of Dawn carefully folding and placing her clothes in the hope that she might still need them. Between this and the scene where they were on the run in the RV ('this is the most amazing thing anyone has ever done for me',) the girl clearly wants to live, but she's sober or realistic enough to never expect or demand it, which is kind of incredible. And I mean, of course she should want to live, she's just a kid. It makes Buffy's gift, and that she never really flinched from stepping up, all the more moving. Caring relationships are different from just basic social mores or responsibility. The latter we could consider Buffy's responsibilities as the slayer, but her personal relationship with and responsibility to Dawn must in a sense supersede that. And by honoring that she managed to find the one solution that didn't require her to betray anything. They really managed to thread the needle with these 'conflicting responsibilities' so well and in such a gratifying way. This and the season two finale eternally remain the best for going just so hard with the emotional stakes and really engaging with the themes of freedom/choice that are always channeled so strongly through the character of Buffy.
I'm a huge fan of S06, probably my favorite season but amazing scenes like this one make me understand why some people say it should have ended with the gift episode... I hated the potentials with pure passion, Caleb was brilliant but I wished he killed those brats 😒😅 it's just although S06 was a masterpiece, this finale was as well, it was sad yes but perfect, complete, pure... It's just the potentials ruined the series finale for me 🤷🏻♀️
So many shows go on longer than they need to. That's why I'm fine with Reservation Dogs, another incredible series about youthful people, going out on a high note after 3 seasons. There were more stories to tell, but they wouldn't have been the same characters we met. I feel Buffy definitely 'outlived' her own series at one point
Yep. The harvest When buffy 1st died Acathla The Zeppo Doomed Glory (Mayor and Adam kinda have their apocalypse too, but on a smaller scale..the ones mentioend involve the world)
Nobody knew Buffy was also the key, so at this point the only possible way to stop the apocalypse caused by Dawns blood being spilled would be to kill Dawn. Giles insinuated in the scene before this that they would have to consider doing this, to which Buffy understandably objected fiercely. To be honest I think he would have tried to if it meant saving the entire world.
GhostGardens Is it possible to think that he might have also been confessing, to himself, that if it came down to it he would kill Ben? After all he’s pretty much the only one in the group with a grey moral area whereas everyone is trying to stay on the straight and narrow.
Anche io, povera cara! Con quello che ha sofferto, con anche la morte di sua madre, questa prova è stata tremenda per lei! E pensare a cosa arriva pur di salvare tutti compresa Dawn...
I just love this moment SMG is so so talented, i can feel all her emotion 🥺
Insanely heartbreaking moment. Really shows how much of a toll everything is taking on her.
Season 5 did not give this poor girl a break.
'I just wish my mom was here'. Heart-wrenching.
💔💔💔💔💔
Something I say often.... 💔💔💔💔 It really does hurt
@@Angellarocque85 It truly does💔
When she starts talking about Angel, Christophe Beck plays his love theme for Buffy and Angel that we hear when Buffy sends Angel to hell. And then when she says "I wish my mom was here," you hear the Sacrifice theme that plays later during Buffy's death. incredible.
MrHPsauce01 Christophe Beck is responsible for so much of this show’s success to me. He’s the Hans Zimmer of tv.
MrHPsauce01 so brutal. “I don’t know how to live in this world if these are the choices”.
Oh god I just noticed that imma crawl into a ball and cry
Mind blown
One of my favourite Buffy moments. I challenge anyone’s heart not to break when she says “I just wish my Mom was here”
I tear up every time.
Heartbreaking isn't it, she's just a girl❤😢
Ever since my mom passed away in december 2023 ive been contemplating watching that scene... its oddly cathartic
This scene still makes me cry to this day. SMG was amazing here. And that line where Giles says "it feels like a hundred" is an inside reference to the fact that this is the 100th episode of the series.
Beautiful acting. They did amazing job presenting this episode (original finale)
Defientley felt emotional when she said that. She maybe the strongest girl in the world but her mother always made her loved and protected.
One of the most heartbreaking scenes in the entire show. I particularly like the way the sacrifice theme starts playing softly when Buffy mentions her mom.
SMG definitely nailed it!
SMG deserved Emmy nominations for seasons 5 and 6, and probably should have won in season 2
SMG is incredible.
Felt bad for buffy that she lost a lot but still manages to carry on.
I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but Buffy pauses right before she wishes her mom was still there. I always saw that as her preventing herself from admitting that she wished she was dead. Maybe too many repeats put that notion in my head but I still find the moment very moving, if not more so because of that.
That was my take also. That she was at least going to say she wished it would be all over, that she could finally rest. It makes death being a "gift" to her make sense. The powers that be were letting her lay down her sword.
glad im not the only one that felt the same way about this moment. Many people critice season 6 for being depresive. That's the point. How could it not be
@@maximilianopichelluck3661 same.. she was finally in Peace... loved.. and they took it from her, stripped « away » forced to live in this hell we call earth, and once again with her Duty, being the Chosen one... that’s pretty depressing..
I think maybe it was a nod to Spike's theory that a Slayers time comes to an end when she wants it to.
With Buffy, he predicted it would happen after she lost her mum, Dawn was really the last thing tying her to this world
I believe this the second of two times Buffy has stated she was going to quit slaying, first in Prophecy Girl and then here. The first time it was the result of fear for her life. And even though she was terrified of dying, ultimately her sense of duty won out. But here it's due to overwhelming loss. She's been beaten down to the point where she can't take anything more. When she says she'll quit if Dawn dies, this time she truly means it. It's a heartbreaking scene but beautifully done. And just one of the countless reasons this will always be my favorite show of all time.
"May I take your order?"
"I don't know how to live in this world if these are the choices, if everything just gets stripped away, I don't see the point."
"Sir this is a wendy's"
Omg this comment is great but I would change that to Anya’s speech from The Body or when Buffy speaks to Dawn before she dies
@@frogurtcremebrulee5252
All three work well
I honestly think her saying "I just wish my mom was here" in this scene is some of the best writing I have ever seen on television. We the audience were not thinking about Joyce in that moment, but her loss has cast a general pall over the season ever since it happened. It's always sort of lurking in the background for Buffy, one more entry to catalogue in the encyclopedia of stress that has become her life. Bringing Joyce up in this moment illuminates the audience as to EXACTLY how Buffy is feeling. This is a deep sadness, an incurable ache, an irreconcilable hurt. Joyce is gone and she isn't coming back, and her death makes everything impossibly harder forever and ever. That's where Buffy is in this moment. That's how lost and helpless she feels. Anyone who has lost a parent can understand it.
Anyway it's just a brilliant moment of character writing, and so completely realistic. I can't get over how good it is.
To this day I find it hard to watch this scene without crying. It's like seeing how much Watcher & Slayer have grown (and grown apart) since that night he drove her home, after Angel turned bad (also one of the most moving scenes ever),..
Grief really hurts, this clip certainly touches on that, “I Just wish my mom was here” so many people can relate to this.... For me it’s my father and other loved ones. Update; I loss my beloved adopted Mom right before Christmas which will never be the same… My entire world feels incredibly shattered.😔💔😪 I feel this clip and line so deeply now more than anything, I don’t know how to live in this world either. When so many people are often simply stripped away, now parentless and feeling even more isolated in this dark cruel, oftentimes world. I can’t believe my beloved mom is gone. She was the mom, I never had I’d certainly rather disappear forever…. 💔🌏😥
I feel so sorry for buffy in this season, this season made me feel a hopelessness.
Like they were broken down and almost lost to such a powerful being, they just take a blow after blow after blow.
But they keep fighting and fighting, an in the end the battle goes their way.
But of course at a price, A very very Heartbreaking price😭😭😭💔.
Such a fucking fantastic season, This is still to this day the best show ever made........
Buffy forever.
The 5th one is the best season!!!
I agree you @Simon May, this being the end of season 5 was the opening to a season 6, that really dealt with the darkness, feeling lost, heartache, even suffering that we all endure from time to time in reality within this cruel at times world. 💔🌏😔 Sarah Michelle Gellar Played this part so brilliantly well. Like she said, “whats the point, of living in this world, if everything just gets stripped away.” Especially during these “current times in this world” it’s highly relatable. Season 6; Joss made the characters more real, relatable and vulnerable...
@@michaeld.williamsiii9026 I agree was she really in heaven or over all the bullshit and thrust back into it...
@@ElkahJones Absolutely right, 💯👏🏽💯
"Guess that means a Slayer really is just a killer, after all." Oh, Buffy, you could not be more wrong! You could have killed Ben to kill Glory, but you still spared him! And you willingly made the ultimate sacrifice - your very own life - for Dawn! You thwarted a Hell-Goddess and saved the entire universe! :)
love this
The Issue Is, We need to call a spade ♠️ a , Spade ♠️.
Hunters(Slayers) were Walking Killing machines. They were more connected to the source of Killing to tighten up loose ends, Then they were To Humanity.
This made me tear 🥺
"I just wish my mom was here."😖
I've seen this episode so many times but for some reason in all those times I've missed the significance of Dawn carefully folding and placing her clothes in the hope that she might still need them. Between this and the scene where they were on the run in the RV ('this is the most amazing thing anyone has ever done for me',) the girl clearly wants to live, but she's sober or realistic enough to never expect or demand it, which is kind of incredible. And I mean, of course she should want to live, she's just a kid. It makes Buffy's gift, and that she never really flinched from stepping up, all the more moving. Caring relationships are different from just basic social mores or responsibility. The latter we could consider Buffy's responsibilities as the slayer, but her personal relationship with and responsibility to Dawn must in a sense supersede that. And by honoring that she managed to find the one solution that didn't require her to betray anything. They really managed to thread the needle with these 'conflicting responsibilities' so well and in such a gratifying way. This and the season two finale eternally remain the best for going just so hard with the emotional stakes and really engaging with the themes of freedom/choice that are always channeled so strongly through the character of Buffy.
(I just wish my mom was here)… breaks my soul every time
Yes I felt buffys pain when she said she missed her mother and everything gets stripped away. Know that feeling very well
Same here…😔💔😢
How did Geller not win an Emmy. Absolutely robbed
2:20 the saddest moment in tv history :(
im trying to remember the 5th almost apocalypse. theres season 1 the harvest, acathla, the zepo, season 4 doomed and glory
Prophecy girl counts too
There was one "short" apocalypse in season 2. In a Xander focus episode, but it was just for comedy purpose 😅
Lo sto guardando 30 volte al giorno😬😁
Una delle scene migliori 😭😭
@@KonanAkatsuki0 😭
I'm a huge fan of S06, probably my favorite season but amazing scenes like this one make me understand why some people say it should have ended with the gift episode... I hated the potentials with pure passion, Caleb was brilliant but I wished he killed those brats 😒😅 it's just although S06 was a masterpiece, this finale was as well, it was sad yes but perfect, complete, pure... It's just the potentials ruined the series finale for me 🤷🏻♀️
So many shows go on longer than they need to. That's why I'm fine with Reservation Dogs, another incredible series about youthful people, going out on a high note after 3 seasons. There were more stories to tell, but they wouldn't have been the same characters we met. I feel Buffy definitely 'outlived' her own series at one point
So how many apocalypses does that make for us?
1:23 U KEPT COUNT?
Yep.
The harvest
When buffy 1st died
Acathla
The Zeppo
Doomed
Glory
(Mayor and Adam kinda have their apocalypse too, but on a smaller scale..the ones mentioend involve the world)
Wait why would giles hurt dawn?
Nobody knew Buffy was also the key, so at this point the only possible way to stop the apocalypse caused by Dawns blood being spilled would be to kill Dawn. Giles insinuated in the scene before this that they would have to consider doing this, to which Buffy understandably objected fiercely. To be honest I think he would have tried to if it meant saving the entire world.
GhostGardens Is it possible to think that he might have also been confessing, to himself, that if it came down to it he would kill Ben? After all he’s pretty much the only one in the group with a grey moral area whereas everyone is trying to stay on the straight and narrow.
Povera Buffy....
Anche io, povera cara! Con quello che ha sofferto, con anche la morte di sua madre, questa prova è stata tremenda per lei! E pensare a cosa arriva pur di salvare tutti compresa Dawn...
Who Trains on a heavy bag in heels?
Buffy of course
The slayer
@@RRADOMALnot realistic though
Neither is fighting demons and vampires @@becky2235