Buffy The Vampire Slayer S06E06|'' All The Way''♡Reaction & Review♡
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You caught on right away with the flower already being in their room and that Willow already knew about this spell. Giles was worried about her right off the bat in Season 3's beginning after Willow tapped into the spell to get Angel's soul. Oz is expressing his concern for Willow's use of magic early in season 4. I always thought Tara going along with the resurrection seems off. I wonder how many of her and Willow's arguments over it Willow erased in order to get Tara to agree.
That’s definitely a thought-provoking insight I hadn’t caught on to before. I knew it was odd for Tara to agree but I just shrugged it off as maybe she thinks it’s okay when it was death by mystical means. But now I’m starting to think there’s more to it than that. A little magic mind manipulation might have occurred to get her to see it this way.
"I haven't paid for lipstick since... forever." Hmmm... ya know that's actually pretty likely. I never caught that before, and I love that after watching this show for twenty-five years it's still revealing new stuff here and there.
The power of timeless TV art/entertainment mate.
Can't wait for the next episode.
Don't know why...there's nothing special about 6x07!!!
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Always look forward to someone so invested in the series watching Once More With Feeling for the first time.
Do you remember ‘Something Blue’, Sofie? Where Willow was moping about Oz leaving and she says “I’m not a witch. If I had any real power I could have made Oz stay with me” or something like that. Now you know she was not above doing this shit and being entirely serious. Now she has power, she thinks she can control people, things, places, space, time…. Everything. She’s always been this abusive but she just didn’t have the power to do it.
Every time Willow couldn't handle her emotions, she went to magic. Like the "de-lust" spell with Xander in 3rd season or the episode you mentioned in 4th season... This missuse of magic is long set up
@@stirbjoernwesterhever6223 Precisely. And that’s why this arc does make sense and it is in character for her to behave this way. She’s got the power that she’s always wanted now to abuse, manipulate, gaslight or control. And she makes no hesitations in doing so with her own girlfriend who she can’t stand telling her “No”. So what does she do? She takes “No” away with magic.
It goes back before she started magic. Like how she “accidentally” broke into the city’s computer network.
@@zemoxian yes! This character does not understand the meaning of consent. My whole analysis is about this and how it ties into their insecurities with not being useful or worthy enough. It’s really quite in depth.
Bringing up the "Like how she “accidentally” broke into the city’s computer network" is ridiculous 🤣.
Y'all making Willow sound like a terrible person. She has no ill intent. She simply isn't aware of the harm she causes when making decisions like that.
Even what seem like throwaway jokes actually offer insights: For example, Willow going all gooey at the little girl dressed up as a witch because "look, how cute." What's manifesting in Season 6 has actually been brewing a long time, but we haven't registered it because we always looked at her and saw our sweet adorable Willow.
Exactly! This is something I say all the time. We don’t pick up Willow’s repressed sadism and questionable behaviour or mindset because we’re not looking at her as “a bad guy”. We’re not even looking at her as a threat. We think Buffy is more capable of going dark than Willow is because she’s the Hand. But the Spirit can be volatile and violent too and we come to see that our beloved cinnamon roll is actually a sour tart with sugar.
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In other words...Amy was right. ;-[
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This remind me Willow has a Cat and a Rat as pets.
@@painlord2k And iirc one of those is gonna come into play here pretty soon.
@@Girl4Music I dunno. I think that's true for her friends. But my impression was that Willow's been a bit concerning almost from the beginning. Buffy was always blatantly the more stable one, I feel. Most stable actually, compared to the whole cast. Part of what makes her a great, and frustrating, heroine to me, is that she's the rock against which weaker, less stable, toxic people cling. Realistically so, in a way that's admirable and saddening. She's a beautifully written bittersweet hero. And Willow is possibly the most perfect example of that unstable, toxic backdrop.
There's a huge difference between Buffy and Dawn about knowing right away if someone is a vamp. Buffy was in her first year of being a Slayer still learning regarding to Angel. With Dawn she is a sister to a Slayer, been living in Sunnydale since she was "10" and is around Spike all the time where she would learn from them by now on how to tell. Like with Cordelia in season 1 episode 1 of "Angel" when she went to the guys mansion she knew right away he was a vamp due to being around Buffy and the gang.
Loved the misdirection of the eccentric-lonely-old guy whoi just wanted company. I feel like Xander's pirate bit at the beginning was almost to set up Dawn's cute "Shiver me timbers" line while making out.
Brilliant character analysis of Willow.
In All The Way, again we can see the tensions between Tara and Willow reaching new levels. Willow is gradually becoming totally addicted to magic, and the look that both Giles and Tara gave Willow was very telling. Xander eventually tells them of the impending marriage, which somehow gets overshadowed in the story here as we focus on Dawn. Dawn is course growing up now, and is very much under peer pressure from her friend. The date with the two guys is interesting in that when they go to the old man's house we are convinced it is him who is bad, only for one the guys to be a vampire and bite into him, replicating the very first scene in BTVS E1 S1 where Darla is the vampire and we were led to believe it was the boy she was with. Some funny comedy relief when they are all standing in a circle in the park, and the Vampire says 'are we gonna fight', and Buffy says 'did anyone come here just to make out' and the couple put their hands up. The juxtaposition of Buffy/Dawn interesting too, with Buffy acting like Joyce did was towards Buffy. I have to say at this point in the show I was really missing the Oz/Willow relationship, as it was so innocent and never had any arguments etc, things of course are very different now, with constant bickering and mistrust with Tara. Dawn of course has her coming of age moment here with her first kiss and dusting her first vamp. The groundwork is continually being laid by the writers for the episodes ahead.
All I want for Christmas is the next episode upload
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame!!!
All these years... it never occurred to me that it wasn't the first time she's done it despite having the stuff ready on the dresser to use at bedtime. eeeeeee.... oh em gee! Bad Willow. Bad bad Willow!
I thought it was obvious. Especially because she does it again in ‘Tabula Rasa’ after just being called out for it.
@@Girl4Music Obviously I thought Willow was better than that. So I’ve been wrong forever.
@@deirdrestatham5730 a lot of people do. That’s why it shocks them so much. But this behaviour was there from the very start. It’s just she didn’t have the power to make it actually happen. There’s even a line in ‘Something Blue’ where she says if she had any real power she could make Oz stay with her: and here she is doing just that with Tara.
This was all the set up for the next episode.
*Spoiler Alert*
Like for Tara: "Under Your Spell", for Xander/Anya: "I'll Never Tell", Spike: "Rest in Peace", Giles: "Standing", and Buffy: "Going Through the Motions"....
Absolutely! Not a bad episode by any means as I rewatch it with Sofie now, but its Monster of the Week nature is a bit of a throwback to early Buffy. Buuuuut YES its main purpose is to set up the glorious next episode!!
I've been binge watching your TVD series. And I love that you're watching my favorite season of Buffy right now! ❤️ Love your reactions and insights.
the power can be intoxicating. perhaps Buffy's return from the afterlife was the last straw in an already overflowing cup.
I like Xander's costume this episode. Spiffy eyepatch he's sporting.
He makes a cute pirate !
I see what you did there
Ethan got arrested by the Initiative after he turned Giles into a demon.
Sofie accessorizing microphones to go with her shirt.
More like she is becoming addicted to magic, like a drug...also 14:31 yeah...me too.
i love spike saying im a rebel ur an idiot
I suspect Willow's been using some form of mind control since before the beginning of this season. I don't think Tara would have gone along with the resurrection spell otherwise. Another difference between them is that Willow looks at magic scientifically, while Tara sees it religiously.
“I don’t think Tara would have gone along with the resurrection spell otherwise” 😮
Holy shit. But wait, that would have to be literally mind control. Not just wiping or thought and emotion reform. But I wouldn’t have put it passed her.
I just love your reactions ❤. I'm always looking forward to them. Your view on this episode is just on point
3:14 Which is funny because Xander eventually married Dawn in the comics 😂
Great reaction overall as usual, but my fave moment of your reaction is final scene
The next episode is my favorite!
Love this Halloween episode ❤️
Have a merry Christmas 🎁🎄
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Just reacted to this with Lexi (who also just uploaded her reaction to it). My comment talked about how I start thinking about people's reactions to Willow in S1, and how in S1, I always react to people's reactions to Willow by thinking of here onward.
I never picked up on the fact that this probably isn't the first time. Considering how long Willow's been addicted, and how long people have cautioned her and/or been worried, it makes sense that it might not be the first time, but it also could just be her considering it. Either way, Tara was right about her using too much magic, and everyone who warned her over the years all the way back to Giles at the beginning of S3, have officially shown those moments to not be over-reactions.
on the contrary, there have been incidents where i think we can objectively say that characters *under* reacted to willow's growing problem. in _something blue_ willow took giles's sight, put xander in mortal danger, and stripped the free will from buffy and spike such that they almost married... and she seems not to have chastised at all. buffy's only concern at the end is what she's going to say to riley the next day. willow has always gotten a pass.
@@sirmoonslosthismind Of course they have under-reacted, but it doesn't mean Willow hasn't been warned over the years. My last sentence was saying the group weren't being cautious about someone who would never do so, as Buffy assumed earlier this season when she projected warnings about Willow's magic usage onto herself about Spike. I wasn't saying the group couldn't and should have handled Willow's addition since S3 differently or earlier.
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‘Something Blue’ is like ‘Tabula Rasa’ on a leash. In both cases Willow never intended to cause harm to her friends but in ‘Something Blue’ the spell was meant to be for herself. In ‘Tabula Rasa’ it’s meant for Buffy and Tara. Both are destructive spells that have dire consequences but one of them genuinely is a mistake in effort to quickly heal her heart, the other is a purposeful attempt to sweep issues under the rug.
However, what both episodes have in common is that both are a way of Willow avoiding addressing and dealing with her emotions. Both are using magic as a means to escape feeling her emotions. Both are a crutch to make up for what she feels she lacks in herself. And in that way - they are directly connected and show that Willow’s arc was always in character despite it not being made clear it’s true foundation. Where the addiction actually stems from and what kind of addiction it actually is. It’s an emotional one.
Every time someone says that Willow’s magic addiction just came out of nowhere and was just a way to create drama between Willow and Tara and the Scoobies, I mention ‘Something Blue’. Because in both cases magic is used as drug to self-medicate and that self-medicating had second-hand smoke effects on everyone else. It was harmful for everyone. Whether it was intended to be or not doesn’t matter. The fact is that Willow’s use of magic leaned more towards destructiveness than beneficialness and she excused it as “helping” or “healing” when it was actually harming and hurting both herself and others.
Quick fixes and bandaids never help or heal anything. What they do is they make problems more difficult to solve or take longer to find solution. Willow needed to be told that her abuse of magic was dangerous for everyone involved - whether purposeful or accidental. And she is all throughout the show but the conversation always avoids the main point. Which is that using it to offset something internal - emotions/insecurities/anxieties - will only lead to both internal and external destruction because it is not addressing and dealing with them honestly, intimately and head on. It is avoiding and escaping them instead - thus making things much worse “inside” and “outside”.
So if ‘Something Blue’ is the start of Willow’s spiral into emotional addiction, then ‘Tabula Rasa’ is the inevitable conclusion of it. Ignore the “magic” part. That’s not as relevant as the necessity to use it’s power to counteract Willow’s insecurities of being powerless or useless or valueless or worthless. She knew it was her best chance because it’s what she’s best at. They could have done the same with her preference for hacking and technology engineering but they never do - instead they give Warren that arc. And it’s not lost on me the similarities between them as far as the need for accumulation of power goes. All they do is make it clear Warren’s intentions are evil - he intends to control, he intends dominate, he intends to rape, he intends to murder. Willow never intends any of this - but it is exactly what she does anyway.
“They’re the bad guys - I’m not the bad guy.”
Translation: “It is justified for me to do it because I do not intend to do evil with it. They do.”
But Willow - you become like them anyway because you avoid the truth behind the actions. And the truth is that you’re the one in pain. You’re the one that’s sad. You’re the one that’s confused. You’re the one that HAS THE PROBLEM. Not Buffy and Tara. And you know this is the truth, you just refuse to face it.
I will keep saying it: the only thing that’s wrong with this character is that this character thinks and believes that there’s something wrong with them. It’s entirely an insecurity issue right from the beginning. And they mislead you into thinking that that is improved or fixed - when it’s only just covered up. This is the meaning of Willow’s nightmare in ‘Restless’. The hiding and disguising. The “costume” she wears. The “character” she plays. The “part” she performs. It’s all Willow. There’s no doubt about that. But at the same time - it’s a perception severely filtered by lies and an identity veiled in ego. It’s not so much that she’s pretending to be someone she’s not because you can’t pretend to be something you’re not aware of being. But it is an act. A performance. An obliviously and obsessively chronic and compulsive behaviour.
That is why Willow is such a profound character.
@@Girl4Music The only thing I disagree on is the fact that I think her addiction started with restoring Angel's soul, otherwise she would have taken more care to listen to Giles in _Dead Man's Party_ or _Faith, Hope and Trick_ (I don't remember which one right now), who has had bad magical experience. It's still more minor in S3, but there nonetheless. Episodes like _Something Blue_ or _Tabula Rasa_ (I personally like to call out _Lovers Walk_ and _Wild at Heart_ as it doesn't matter that she didn't follow through with taking away their hormones for each other and Oz's ability to love) show it progressing. Willow's always had an issue people's free will. This episode is far from the first time. So I 99.99% agree with you.
@@Buffy8Fan that’s a perspective I’m actually considering because I’ve also heard that before and it’s worth researching and studying. Thanks for reminding me. And I totally forgot about ‘Lover’s Walk’. OMG 😣
Yeah, I’ve written a whole analysis about Willow’s issues with consent and her relationship with that specific theme for my BUFFY REWATCH ‘Welcome To The Hellmouth’ recap because there’s a very interesting interaction in that episode that I believe delineates why these issues manifest.
It comes under the subject of hurt people hurt people and I know it’s not an excuse but I still think it’s a very significant piece of character detail that gives you the Willow you ultimately get in this episode and this season. Which is somebody that literally takes the ability to give consent away. Takes autonomy away. And not just in a sexual way either. Willow’s issues with consent as far as sex goes are meagre compared to the issues with consent with power, control and domination.
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I can’t wait for your reaction in the next episode! I love it!
“I have 2 questions: How many times has she done this and how much of Tara’s memory did Willow wipe away?”
We don’t know the first answer but you can assume it was frequently because she doesn’t hesitate at all in this episode to do it. And as you said, she already had all of the ingredients ready to perform the spell.
The second answer is relative to Tara of course but only the argument was wiped objectively.
I know. It’s fucking awful and it’s not even the worst part. Not to me anyway.
It seems very plausible, for example, that she started doing this when she was trying to convince Tara to go along with the plan to resurrect Buffy. Tara was SO against the idea of resurrection spells in Forever, only to come around in Bargaining... It's suspicious. And it would make sense if Willow had essentially used this spell as a way to "retry" convincing her until she found an argument that worked...
@@ghostofdurruti how would erasing her memory of something do that though? That’s what I’m not getting. It must be another form of mind control because this is memory wiping. It could be thought and emotion reform instead. And the Lethe’s Bramble is specifically used for mind control point blank.
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Dawn may really be one year old but she has the memories of a normal 15 year old. So it's not problematic in a way it might be if she had only one year of human experience in her head.
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Posting my BUFFY REWATCH recap for ‘All The Way’. May contain spoilers.
There is so much to be said with this argument between Willow and Tara about Willow’s careless and reckless overuse of magic that to unpack all my thoughts on it would take awhile and make this recap incredibly long so I’ll try to keep it brief and get to the main point. Mainly, it just shows us that Willow is reaching the point of no return when it comes to her dependence on magic. Her arrogance and entitlement hits full force when Tara reprimands her for even thinking that she could cast a spell on everyone in the Bronze in order to find Dawn: who has gone off on her own adventure and has lied to Buffy and the Gang about where she’ll be. In their search for her downtown, Willow just wants to be quick about it and then leave. And what’s the quick fix for her? Magic.
Firstly, I don’t understand why Willow thought that shifting everyone that’s not female and a teenager into an alternate dimension for a fraction of a second was an appropriate or effective way of finding Dawn in the overcrowded Bronze. To me, it would make more sense to just use a locator spell that would highlight everyone that was a fifteen year-old girl: thereby not endangering anyone at all or manipulating their lives without their consent. But that’s not really the issue. The question is however in the hell does Willow not realize that it is wrong to do it in the first place? I mean would she like it if somebody did that to her? And without her knowing about it? The fact she thinks that she even has the authority to alter anyone’s life is extremely concerning. And it’s even worse because this time, she doesn’t even know them and they don’t know her. At least with resurrecting Buffy there was an association. Even when it was still wrong to do it.
Tara was absolutely horrified by the mere suggestion and it’s clear that without her there with her, Willow would have absolutely attempted it. What’s infuriating is that when Tara told her to consider whether something may go wrong, Willow is arrogant enough to believe that it won’t. See, in mentioning that, Tara was really just trying to temper Willow by making her see the situation from a different perspective. From the crowd’s perspective. Unfortunately, it had the opposite effect in that Willow thinks it’s an attack against her capability and capacity to do spells successfully. Which is not the case exactly. There’s still a risk it can go wrong even with how adept Willow is at magic because spell casts on multiple people often does and Tara knows this personally. See: ‘Family’. Although it wasn’t intentional that the Scoobies wouldn’t be able to see their demon attackers when Tara cast her “blinding” spell, it still happened that way. Those were the risks and consequences of casting a blinding spell. Willow was lucky it was just her friends; people she’s closely associated with when she cast her ‘will be done’ spell in ‘Something Blue’. Forgiving friends. This is different. These people she’s about to cast a spell on don’t know her and she doesn’t know them. She has no consent and therefore no authority to control their lives to complete her objective. It’s just insane that she thinks she does. Tara was well within her rights to intervene. She knew it was wrong because she attempted spell casting on multiple people, including Willow, herself and regretted it as it was never her intention what happened because of it. Which is what she means here. It hasn’t got anything to do with whether Willow is capable or powerful enough to do it: evidently she is. It’s that spells cast on multiple people do go wrong no matter what the intention is.
Then there’s the second half of this argument where Tara tries a different tactic to deter Willow, knowing how people perceive of her does affect her emotionally and make her think twice about anything she does or says. But that all blows up in her face too because Willow isn’t in good spirits with Giles at the moment since their argument in ‘Flooded’ about Buffy’s resurrection and how angry he was at her for not considering the risks or consequences of her use of magic then. And specifically dark magic at that. Willow immediately assumes Tara and Giles are talking about her behind her back and then proceeds to be a complete hypocrite by attacking her for not realizing how it makes her feel. It’s different when it’s her. The egomaniac that reared it’s ugly head in ‘After Life’ walked in for a VIP pass at the Bronze this evening and our once innocent and endearing Scooby is careening off a cliff and she’s too blinded by her power corruption to see and to halt the damn vehicle. A metaphor that will eventually manifest itself extremely literally a little later on in the season when Tara is no longer around her to take the driver’s seat.
I get so frustrated at watching this scene and in the following scenes afterwards surrounding this subject. I just want to teleport into the TV screen to give her a piece of my mind when she behaves like this because, in my opinion, Tara doesn’t go hard enough with the reprimanding. But then again, Tara is not me. I’m nowhere near as easygoing when people I love start acting like complete fucking dickheads. That’s that on that. I have much more to say but I’ll leave it here.
Nicely said. But consider a different metaphor: "Spirit, Mind, Heart, Hand."
I noticed you didn't comment on Buffy. She's the leader of this group, and she's not leading, she's avoiding.
And it's all interconnected.
@@doug3691 because my comment wasn’t about Buffy. It’s about my favourite character. Willow.
Would you consider doing a reaction to the TV series" lost, which was huge
Reading through the comments again, I’ve noticed a lot of people have brought up ‘Something Blue’ as a way to explain how and why Willow ended up here.
The thing with ‘Something Blue’ is Willow’s spell went wrong. It didn’t work in the way she intended it to work. She never intended to hurt her friends when she did the ‘Will Be Done’ spell. And so she never meant to manipulate anyone really other than herself in order to heal her heart. To make the pain go away at will. To quickly and easily end suffering.
Which is exactly why she comes to Tara’s aid in ‘Family’ and empathises with her predicament.
WILLOW: “She just did a spell that went wrong.”
In both episodes both Willow and Tara are supposed to learn that actions have consequences. Even unintended ones. Neither were using magic in a selfish way as there was no intention to be selfish.
Now with Willow this changes. While she never thinks of what she’s doing with the forget spell as “selfish” she most definitely is intending to manipulate Tara. And she does so not by “changing” her as such but by taking something about her away. Her bodily autonomy. Her ability to make informed choices with her body based on full information. This is a violation of Tara’s mind and body. So there’s no excuse for that. Willow can’t excuse her actions there with “it went wrong” or “I didn’t mean it” because it didn’t and she most definitely did. She meant to manipulate Tara.
If anything ‘Something Blue’ just shows us what Willow could be capable of if she intended to do damage as well as had the power to do damage.
Season 6 gives us both in a loosely wrapped handbasket. And when Tara confronts Willow about what she did to her in ‘Tabula Rasa’, Willow attempts to gaslight her in telling her that she didn’t mean to violate her, she just wanted to “help” or “fix” their relationship. But Tara isn’t a fool. She makes it clear to Willow that there’s nothing she can say that will make anything better. She gives her one final chance because she’s Tara (the representation of purity)… When Willow squanders and blows that she was done. Personally, if it was me, she’d never see me again. The power of magic has gone to her head. When it becomes an addiction she can’t control that’s when people think the storyline is veering off course and she’s becoming out of character. I disagree. I think it makes all the sense in the world what happens. How she spirals. They just don’t make it clear in the writing why she does. Thus, it’s a difficult storyline to accept.
As for the spell on Tara specifically… and why she does it or however many times she does it… Willow is co-dependent to Tara so anything involving losing Tara was out of the question. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I’ve never said what she does is out of a lack of love. If anything it’s the opposite. She loves too much. She loves with a vice like grip. Not willing to let go. Willow’s way of “fixing” the relationship was to pretend the fight never happened. Erasing Tara’s memory of it completely. So her way of “fixing” is the same thing as avoiding experiencing. Deleting the whole situation. And essentially what this does, assuming it’s happened more than once, is take away Tara’s autonomy. Her ability to make her own choices. And she doesn’t consider that when she does the spell or when she is physically intimate with her when she’s still under the influence of Lethe’s Bramble.
“I’m not surprised that as someone who started out as pretty much a nobody who gets bullied at school Willow will not be that willing to just stop using the power she attained. She’s spent years being less than sidekick to Buffy and in a way reaching this level of power maybe allowed her to feel like Buffy’s equal. She’s proud of being useful, she’s proud of being capable. I get that. But she also seems to be quite toxic to those people who would challenge her power trip. It’s like she sees herself as this unstoppable heroine of her own story and like views those who would challenge her as trying to hurt her. Feeling powerful is one thing but feeling powerful at the expense of the people that loves you is absolutely no no.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯 🎯
As I said to Faith Victoria, In Willow’s head she was the hero of her own story and not the villain of other people’s stories. She’s morally grey and I love that!
It's usually the villains who are most convinced they are the good guys that end up doing the worst deeds. I always find it funny that when Tara is introduced in season 4, most people assume she is shady, untrustworthy, or has access to some dark power, and then come season six, all of those traits can be applied to Willow while Tara remains the responsible good magic user.
@@faithvictoria9014 yes, there was a reactor that mentioned how they were worried that Tara would go rogue or corrupt with doing that blinding spell too. Mentioning how performing a magic spell on Willow was violation. So it’s definitely ironic that Willow ends up being the partner that does this to their other half. Some may even call it karma
But I’m sympathetic towards Tara’s situation with the magic useage on others given she never intended to cause any harm whatsoever. This is a whole lot different.
@@Girl4Music The most endearing part for me is probably that Tara actually learned from her mistake in Family, taking one episode to understand a lesson that by season six Willow still refuses to learn.
@@faithvictoria9014 yep 👍
Yeah yeah yeah. Let's get to the next reaction already, miss vocalist.
Ah, yes. The start of people demonizing Willow. Instead of looking at her as someone who is making mistakes, let’s just call her evil, amirite? It’s a facile take and tbh, this reactor is usually more nuanced than this.
I don't really know another way to look at it. She's not just making mistakes the way Dawn makes mistakes, she's actively erasing her girlfriend's memories to prevent her from being angry with her, even to the point of preventing her from leaving her. That's some truly heinous shit. This isn't some subconscious thing she isn't meaning to do, she's using a spell whose specific purpose is memory erasure. It's Gaslighting turned up to 100.
Her cavalier approach to magic in general is also super wonky. She's gotten so powerful that her perception of reality and reality itself need not be different things, because she can change reality to match her perception (or at least she believes she can).
What she is doing is very, very bad. So, yeah. Especially compared to the way she used to be. She is choosing the wrong path. And everything Giles has warned about is coming true.
Once is a mistake, twice is a choice.
Three times is fucking abuse.
The mistake was Something Blue.
The choice was Wild At Heart.
This episode is abuse.
Willow is an abuser. Deal with it.
@@sebrussell that’s what I’m saying! She’s a gaslighter. A manipulator. A controller. Even a fucking rapist. Nobody’s “demonizing” her. She’s demonizing herself.
I mean...she is clearly getting on everyone's nerves in this season 😬