BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - 6X08 TABULA RASA REACTION
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God I hate my hair in this one...
This reaction came out last Saturday on Patreon.
awww i think its quite cute lol
Anyway you could tell us what the next episode of Buffy you'll be reacting to will be?
I actually think it makes you more attractive.
_ruff!_
Edward I hope it's smashed
He said the next episode he's doing is Wrecked. I'd love to see Smashed but I'm just as thrilled to see Wrecked.
That's why Tabula Rasa is called either "the saddest funny episode" or "the funniest sad episode" of Buffy.
@Ondrej When it's really just a "bad" episode in fact.
@@JLDReactions I vigorously disagree.
@@ourkeving I love Buffy, but I do not understand why people like this episode. I honestly think Angel did this episode better. The loan-shark, shark demon was definitely a jumping the shark moment. It felt like a step backwards for the show as whole, but I honestly just didn't like season 6 overall.
@@JLDReactions It's a filler episode but it's a damned entertaining one. It beats a "random monster of the week" storyline with little import and the fact that the Loan Shark is a joke in and of itself is practically calling out that trend in the series. It's pure character work for its own sake which is probably something the actors were starving to do by that point. I think both they and the audience like the idea of taking these characters and putting them in a different context and seeing what comes out of it.
"I must be a good guy, on a mission to redemption, I help the helpless"
This is a reference to Angel!! Angel's slogan on the show Angel is "We help the helpless" and the entire show Angel is about the path to redemption.
I can't wait for you to do Angel reactions!
You see I just can't understand that, for the crossovers alone how can you not watch it?
Epiphany you aren’t a hardcore Buffy fan if you haven’t watched Angel.
Epiphany I get it. I hated Angel on "Buffy" and couldn't understand how they gave the character his own show. But trust me, Angel's so much cooler on his own show. Plus, Cordelia and Wesley and Faith and freaking Spike as a main character!! Faith has a redemption storyline on "Angel" and if you haven't seen that, season 7 of "Buffy" won't make much sense to you (when Faith comes back). She and Buffy basically talk it out on "Angel". And don't you want to know what happens after the "Buffy" finale? 'Cuz they talk about it on "Angel" and there's one entire episode dedicated to one of the new Slayers. If you're a hardcore fan, don't you want to know about these things??
Yeah, I agree. Angel on Angel was so much better than his cameos in Buffy. I wish it had got a last season though but whatever.
Months or more after this episode originally aired, I was in a bookstore and out of nowhere I began to feel really, really sad. Like my eyes were getting watery and I was trying to actually not cry. I couldn't figure out what was bothering me at first, then I realized it was a song the store was playing as background music. When I got home, I looked it up and it was "Goodbye to You" by Michelle Branch... the song that was playing when Tara left Willow. That was when I truly understood just how powerful music can be.
Awesome reaction again! "Randy Giles. Why not just call me Horny Giles or Desperate For A Shag Giles! I knew there was a reason I hated you!"
"A Vampire with a soul? How lame is that!"
This has often been called the funniest sad episode and the saddest funny episode in Buffy. With heart breaking end song :'(
Willow controlling Tara's memories (Tara's comment about Glory invading her mind!!) and wanting to make Buffy forget heaven is scary, and really fucked up. Absolutely no sense of boundaries and consent! Argh! Really freaks me out at times.
"This Buffy came back wrong/different"
It's called depression :). Being in heaven and being pulled back to this world where she's spent the past 4 years of her life fighting her way out of life or death situations and losing her mother and so much else to boot, it took its toll on her. It's a very realistic path to take her down and I for one adored it. It takes a long time for her to claw her way back from that.
This Episode is both one of the funniest and one of the most heartbreaking all at the same time. Love it, and love Tara and can completely understand why she decides to walk away. She needs Willow to understand that the magic she is messing with isn't a game. But sadly Willow still has a way to fall yet before she hits 'Rack Bottom'...
I see what you did there... o.o
Oh, you talked over one of my favorite lines of the episode " we kissed Buffy, with the rising music and the rising.. music".
Loved the reactions to all the classic Spike/Randy and Giles stuff though.
Howcome I never noticed before that Willow saying "And I think I'm kind of gay" was a call back to Doppelganger in season 3 when she said the same thing referring to her vampire self?!
I guess this explains the Spike is like a son to me line in Restless now, doesn't it? :P
Of course Buffy would name herself after Joan of Arc , a famous martyr who died for the sins of others. Of course. Its just so fitting. Also kind of hilarious that even without memories Buffy still keeps saving Spike and that without her memories she finds Angel silly.
And yeah Buffy acts differently, but then again its VERY in line with how she acted after she died the first time, at the start of season 2. Except worse. Its all the same problems stemming from the same place. Not to mention her behavior has been getting darker and more depressed through the entire show so far.
You always talk about the controversy around Buffy, sometimes a bit exaggerated, a word about Willow and her progressive fall?
Spike is wearing the same suit in this episode as he was on the swing.
This season is so painful, but it's also one of my favorites.
BTW "Help the Helpless" is one of Angel's catchphrases in his series. So yeah the whole Spike thing is very pointed.
10month late but...
yeah the whole point of the thing that spikes are pointed. :D
Anthony Head taught James Marsters how to speak like an Englishman. Knickers indeed!
It's one of my favorite seasons. The big bads in this season ist depression and addiction itself. This one of the most fearsome big bads you can be faced with. And to lighten this hard stuff up, they put brillienatly the geeks in.
The way you say Randy and Joan is adorable :) - as are they! There's been a ton of fanfic written about Randy and Joan , i.e the spell lasts much longer.
I've always been fascinated at how Spike behaves when he loses his memory. He doesn't realise he's a vampire - so feels no bloodlust? Can't sense he is/has a demon? It's both hilarious and fascinating that he assumes he's a good guy ( vamp with a soul, lol) - but another depiction of Spike's odd nature as a vampire. If he were just 'evil' without a soul, wouldn't he just revert to feral bloodlust , without his memories shouldn't the demon take over?
I think it's just more evidence that it's Council of Wankers propaganda to say that the demon just inhabits the dead body and there's nothing of the person left. And that it doesn't just apply to Spike - exhibit 2 being Harmony :) - she's really not that good at being evil, and is basically the same as her human self :)
There are various explanations as to why some vamps are more human than others, personally I always bought the idea that Dru's link to the PTBs as a seer meant she and those she sired stay very human. But they are still evil.
I must say I was a big time fanficcer and I've never read any on Randy and Joan? Plenty on Joan and Giles (Guffy will never die, the whole show is basically an ephebophile's wet dream) or Willow and Tara thinking they're the sisters and Joan and Dawn deciding they're the lovers.
My interpretation is that the demon in the vampire knows what it is as soon as it's sired, but forgetting spells like this one affect the demon memory as well as the human, so the vampire forgets what it is, and doesn't have the urge to feed right away. The same thing happens twice in Angel: once when Angel thinks he's a teenager, and again when the old man switches bodies with him. In the latter case, he ate food and acted like a normal guy until he was up close to Lilah's neck and vampire instinct took over.
@@rfresa That’s an interesting idea.
I quite like the idea that the demon lost its memory too!
I still think it’s part of the evidence in the show that a vampire is still the human they were but with demon added and soul gone. The soul being the conscience as many Buffy fans have postulated rather than the ‘essence’ or personality of the person. And that they are not empty shells with only a demon inside. Convenient Council propaganda to make it black and white for the slayers staking vamps.
I mean because the blood lust, hunger and instinct to hunt should still be there.
Instinct being different from memories of your life/unlife.
It is there after a little while with the old man.
With Angel as a teenager , I need to watch the episode again. I think once he realises that he is a vamp it is there a bit. But then is tempered straight away by the fact that he has a soul, which keeps his blood lust under some control.
I say some because I think a lot of Angel’s control of his blood lust is very conscious thing he does!
So yeah that one makes sense to me that Angel having lost his memories thinks he’s a teenager in the 1700s again, and does not realise he is a vamp/demon at first because his soul is dampening his demon’s urges.
When "Randy" says he "Help's the Helpless" It's a reference to the spinoff Angel.
Goodbye To You by Michelle Branch! It's like high school all over again,
How anyone can't love this season is beyond me. The two last episodes might be the two best back to back in the whole series.
And the last three of this season. Ahhhh
I like this episode and OMWF (and Normal Again) but otherwise I stay away from season 6. I just don't like it, I don't like Spike so I don't like Spuffy, and it's just so sad the whole way through. I cannot rewatch Seeing Red, "that scene" makes me feel physically ill, and as a result I just steer well clear of season 6. But we all have our favourite seasons, mine is season 3 because Faith is my girl, forever and always.
I can't love this season.Don't get me wrong,there _are_ good things in it,but I could never *love* it for several reasons:1)Willow's negative arc(she has always been my favourite and seeing her like this breaks my heart 💔),2)Tara's death,3)Buffy&Spike together!X-PPP
I for one LOVED the "clean slate" sight gag of your new room!
Tabula Rasa has always been one of my favorite episodes, but watching you react to it has made it even better, if that's possible. Sure, it would be awesome if you were able to react to every episode but regardless, every episode you react to is a gift as far as I'm concerned. I'll take whatever I can get when it comes to Buffy, especially when you're the one reacting to it. I've watched/listened to so many Buffy reactions over the years and you are without a doubt the best of the best. I'm hating the fact that we're so close to the end, unless you react to the Joss-approved comics but that's just a pipe dream for me. I'm only on Season 9 of the comics because I'm trying to stretch them out so I have at least 2 seasons to go. Luckily Buffy is one of those shows I can watch over and over and still find something new to love each time I watch. Except The Body. I've only watched The Body once because it hits too close to home, I lost my Mom a few years ago then lost my Dad the following year, and the only difference was I found my Dad on the floor instead of the couch. They did an excellent job of portraying all the little things we have to go through when we are left to deal with everything and that's enough about death, sorry.
I'm happy to know you'll be reacting to Angel, and if there's any way you squeeze Dollhouse into your busy schedule, I think you will not be disappointed, it's only 2 seasons but it was cool to see so many Joss actors in the show.
Ok, shutting up now after this one thing, thank you so much for what you do, I don't know if you realize how much joy you bring to strangers. I've been having a really tough week and you are completely responsible for making everything good again just by making these videos. You are the absolute best!
What is wrong with Willow indeed 😉😂😭. Also poor Tara and Buffy. But at least we have bunnies, daddy Giles and son Randy to cheer us.
Great reaction. It's been so long since I watched Buffy that I forget about some of the great stuff that happened in season 6.
IIRC, Anthony Head was leaving the show because the BBC had agreed to co-produce a Giles spin-off called "Ripper," set in England. Then they spent ages going back and forth on the idea until Joss Whedon got fed up and it totally fell apart.
This season is by FAR the most CW. That is meant in both the best AND the worst versions of what the CW stands for. And this episode lays the groundwork for SOOOOO much of what is to come.
All right, got that off my chest. I LOVE this episode for what it IS as well. The "connections" that aren't quite on point. The "tabula rasa" characters that stay true to the ones we've come to know and love. The heartbreak of Tara and Willow. And if you go back a "few" episodes, take another look at the Season 4 Finale: Restless and check out the outfits Giles and Spike are wearing while they're on the swing set. BRILLIANCE!
God I'm excited for seeing red and all the end of this season (in a... sadistic kind of way)
Poor willow this is the begining of a serious down spiral that no one knows how to deal with or stop buffy is caught up with her own depression dawn busy stealing and xander and anya are getting married yea they said something but had no idea how to deal with someone who has an addiction only person who tried hardess was tara. Giles just attacked her so she would comeback at him mean while tara tried but failed really awesome wsy to make a topic about drug addiction.
the worst thing is I know that you've seen ahead and know how all your joy will turn to tears :(
This is why you watch Buffy/Angel chronologically, so you understand the references ;)
I love how much you love Spuffy haha
The Spike/Buffy relationship is the best example of be careful what you wish for in media. I wanted the two of them to get together so badly when I was watching the first time. Then they did get together and I was pumped... until the reality of their being together was made apparent in the next few episodes. Now I look back to all this build-up and I cringe.
Peter LaCara Danger of him not having a soul, mixed with Buffy at peace, more then imaginable, then taken away to have the world literally placed back on her shoulders and all the pain that goes with it. Honestly, it takes a long time to adjust to life after that, and I appreciated both performances for being so realistic.
Loved the reaction as usual my friend. Great episode. Looking forward to the next one.
Did you know that they were originally going to kill off Spike after a couple of episodes. But fans liked him so much he stayed until the end.
Once More With Feeling is one of my favorites cuz I love musicals and James Marsters' voice but this is also one of my favorite buffy episodes.
Great episode and reaction! :D
Willow drove me crazy this season. I just wanted to take her by the shoulders and shake her!
On another note I think one of the reasons Hook and Emma worked on OUAT is that they reminded people of Spike and Buffy(if things had gone better).
Yeah, a lot of shows try to recapture that star-crossed lovers kind of feel of Buffy and Spike and fail because they don't the dynamic quite right. The whole point of why it works here is because they are equal very flawed forces - its a relationship where both push back and both change and develop. Its not one fixing the other, or one lecturing other, its both, whether they are their worst or at their best.
I was kind of surprised that OUAT managed to get that aspect right, but then again, Jane Espenson, the person who pretty much ran btvs in Season 6 and 7 is in the writing staff there.
Ugh, speaking of OUAT (spoilers), it honestly felt like they ripped off a lot from Buffy. I'm pretty sure some writers from Buffy moved in to OUAT, but still. They basically took the Dark Willow Arc and Souless Angel Arc and made it Into the dark swan Arc in OUAT. First, Emma goes dark like Willow, except she wasn't nearly as savage as Dark Willow. Then Hook becomes dark and tries to kill everyone like Angel. Then, at the end, the blonde chosen one (Buffy, Emma) sacrifices the one she loves after they become good again by impaling him (Angel, Hook) with a sword and sends Him to hell. And then, they both get sent out of hell by divine intervention. Only difference is Buffy was done so much better, had more action, and Buffy is an older show but still manages to somehow look less fake. When I saw that episode of OUAT, I just remember sitting there dumbstruck by how they blatantly ripped off that scene, and both arcs to a lesser degree.
Yeeeah, she was the writer I was thinking of. Still irks me though, basically recycling such an important moment in Buffy.
There's nothing recycled about star crossed lovers concept. Its as old as time in terms of literature. The only connection between both here is that they were influenced by same writer and they were both done incredibly well.
I know things like this, has been done before. Star crossed lovers and heroes going bad. I just thought it was bizarre how similar it was on such a smaller scale
"She came back weird"
Hah
Super excited to watch this as it's one of my favourite episodes
I'm so glad you reacted to this one. It's definitely one of my top 10 favorite episodes of Buffy. It's hilarious and heartbreaking.
Haha love yours reaction!!!
Buffy the Vampire layer, this time she gets the stake
Aw I just adore you and your reactions!
Yes it is true, Buffy is different in this season, but I understand her motivation to behave this way.
Much less justifiable is Willow and the spiral of madness she is dropping will soon have dramatic consequences ....
Dave L' Ammazzavampiri Man I really hope he reacts to that episode!!
They do say power corrupts and sometimes a large does of it to someone who was always so contentious can have that effect without them even realizing. Sad when it's the best of us.
I love this episode!
Is it wrong that I would love to watch/read about the universe of Joan the Vampire Slayer.
This one and "Wrecked" are in the wrong order on your playlist fam
It's so sad how season 6 in the end ruined Spuffy for him :(
I still loved them in season 7,they were at their best then.
One of the very best episodes!
I guess you are doing the next one now because I can't find it good luck look forward to seeing it :).
Probably won't happen but I do hope the last 4 episodes of this season will get a reaction video since all 4 are like a continuation of each other and generally amazing (my favourites of the whole show).
Come and join me in giving that beautiful actress the nickname "SaMiGe"! I didn´t get behind it either, the first time, I read it, but after time, I´ve grown to love it! Just gotta pronounce it Frenchly!.....
I know you only react to a few select episodes each season for reasons I don't know/recall. But maybe for season 7 you could increase the amount of episodes you react to. It is the final season and a lot of things happen. It would be nice to get some good reactions during the season as well as reactions to the build up of the ending. Of course do what you can or what you feel like. As my mother always taught me; You never know until you ask.
Adamas97 I've already finished all 7 seasons
Well, that is sad news but that is life. I look forward to watching the reactions you've recorded. :)
Only one Buffy video this weekend? 😢
Just... Bunnies
yer super fun and weirdly cute for reviewer. and i agree that this is a super fun episode with a crazy sad ending. hope you keep enjoying the series.
I realized, that I only started to really like Tara, after the whole show was over. While it aired, she was always pretty much not interesting/ important enough to me.... Same thing with Dawn actually, I think.....
Entropy is my favourite episode for it's last scene. Please react to it, Seeing Red and the finale eps of the season. You'll regret it if you don't record your reactions to the end of this season.
Could you de reactions to Angel?
Brilliant stuff, I always think TR suffers a little in comparison with OMWF much as Forever does with The Body, both let down by stupid monsters, the Loan Shark and Mohra Demon. But yeah, it shows what a character driven show this has become by this stage and how even though everyone is amnesiac we all see their true selves come through (except for Xander/Anya?). Reworked on Angel of course in Spin the Bottle which is arguably even better.
react to Buffy the vampire slayer season 6 episode 21 why did you stop reacting to them
I don't get why anyone would be happy about Buffy and Spike together. It's self-destructive and ... icky. Basically everything that was broken about her relationship with Angel without any of the positive elements
I'm sorry, I watched this, I own this but this is VERY OLD; you really just seeing it for the first time? I'm a little lost on this one...
Hate to say, but this episode is highly overrated. I feel we've seen this premise before for some reason. And the shark demon was HORRIBLE! Was that supposed to be a reference to the show jumping the shark or something?
He's quite clearly a loan shark
I'm not a native English speaker but I even understand the pun...
I would wanna go out with that version of Willow, too. Just hope, she´s gonna forget, that she´s... you know..... kinda gay......
OK, I guess, probably not....
Dawn is particularly insufferable in this one.