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said he can be like weirdly a deer

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hunting isn't shark media so it's a weird

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shit and he was there too long. Now

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you're right state as welcome. That's all. If

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he was one episode I'd be like well

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as a on one n maybe if like

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this season altogether was better it would have

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yeah on differently this season. just it's a

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tough one socked it is a tough i

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hate about a lot of people's least favorite

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yeah the other and. I'm not saying that

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there weren't good episodes there were. There are

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plenty of episodes that I enjoyed, but as

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a whole. Yeah,

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and it's really Adam just lasted

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too long. Well for I'm wondering

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actually which is strange. I like that

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it has it's a What is so

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confusing to me though is that it's

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not the season finale. Yeah I have

3:51

a my my how is there another

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episode last. I. Don't want to give

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them anything away, but like them. The

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season finale is very interesting. Oh

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I actually really like the season finale, but

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it's. In. From for reasons unknown

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as make it such as head

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he's. It. Is very heavy and attorney it

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like. I. Don't know what to know what

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we have Line might once you start watching he heard

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village. I get the handy thing okay Elsa yeah it's

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is is this pieces of it that are very. Important

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to it's a very important finale in

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the grand scheme of things. I just

4:23

for like what it gives you for the

4:25

rest of the series over know any kind

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of flushes Alec making I were. Talking about

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it earlier. That. It kind of

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like fleshes out some characters and can against

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the more to mention. Okay silly you'll

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look back at me like com okay like

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that makes a little more sense for that.

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Personnel okay no such as gonna gives you

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a little bit are interesting ah ah

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bullets somewhat. this one Shall we? We shall.

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We start with the last time on Buffy

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Professor was made a D I y de

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men who we call me a poet

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and Adam He's one part vanilla human, one

4:56

part chocolate demon, one part strawberry Cpc sister.

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She just knows he's gonna make her proud.

5:01

instead he skewers her through the chest

5:03

because sometimes relationships with others are complicated

5:05

on that than their deaths adam test

5:07

spike with fucking up the scooby dynamics

5:10

to isolate buffy by dangling a promise

5:12

of chipper move or pump success forest

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is bullshit that buses curse interest for

5:16

heaney is ruined riley's chance at a

5:19

future he shoots adams power core with

5:21

loop see daisy recharges the motherfucker our

5:23

scary scenario amped up he kills forest

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with his arm bone erection buffy decides

5:28

to go back to school but the

5:30

cave again sounds very drunkenly shows that

5:32

he's a salty as the dead sea

5:34

griping their boss he never trains with

5:37

him anymore and says that adams is

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gonna kick your ass this of course

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with all caused by spikes big brother

5:43

social we aim to zander and willow

5:46

seeds of animosity also take root zander

5:48

thinks everyone thinks that he stupid and

5:50

will a thing said her relationship with

5:52

tara has buffy and sander wading through

5:55

the murky depths of homophobia willow says

5:57

that shit spin off for a while

5:59

like since the beginning of season

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four. Fair. Buffy says that

6:03

she finally understands why there is no ancient

6:05

prophecy about a chosen one and

6:08

her friends. And Adam

6:10

welcomes Riley to the shithole sewer lair

6:12

saying that he's been waiting for him.

6:14

It was crazy. Well, that

6:16

episode just ended with Buffy being like, fuck

6:18

y'all and Riley being like, hey, brother. I

6:21

was just like, whoa. Because that

6:23

truly is how it ended. Buffy saying,

6:25

fuck y'all and Riley saying, hey, brother.

6:28

Hey, brother. That's

6:32

exactly it. But here

6:34

we start at the ruins of Sunnydale

6:36

High. Buffy is still wearing

6:38

the most hideous coat that we have

6:40

ever seen. They're just ending the shitty

6:42

season with a shitty coat. Yeah, it's

6:44

true. This is the mark of how

6:46

off kilter things are. Like off is

6:48

down, left is right. And Buffy, who

6:50

is often so fucking chic, looks like

6:52

she's cosplaying for the OK corral. Yeah.

6:55

We're not OK with it. No. We're

6:57

not OK. The OK corral isn't even OK

6:59

for it. They're not OK. They're not OK

7:02

for it or with it or around it, near

7:04

it. The not OK corral. Huh. All

7:07

right. And she calls out Riley's

7:09

name, but he's not there. Or is

7:11

it that he sees her in that coat and he's just

7:13

not coming out? I could say the latter. My

7:16

money's on that. Honestly, the latter.

7:19

So hard cut to Adam's shithole sewer

7:21

lair and Adam steps towards Riley, who

7:23

looks confused. A

7:25

little confused. Adam has put in a

7:28

de-escalation and empathy program into his CPU

7:30

titty now. And he tells him that

7:32

he knows that Riley is fucked up

7:34

and his thoughts are all in turmoil.

7:36

But sit down, girl. They have a

7:39

lot to kiki about. Riley stares at

7:41

him silently, growing concern, very

7:43

clearly spreading across his face until

7:45

Adam tells him to speak. And

7:47

finally, he can, which is like,

7:50

what the fuck kind of mind-meddling bullshit is going

7:52

on in these streets? Like why is he

7:55

responding in this way? I was a little confused, to be

7:57

honest. Yeah,

8:00

there's something, it's very

8:02

clear very quickly that something is off here.

8:04

Yes. And Riley wonders too.

8:06

He's like, why is this happening? And

8:08

Adam paces, showboating the finale expedition like

8:10

a villain in the Scooby-Doo cartoon. He

8:13

says, nothing. It was mother, your

8:15

professor Walsh. She implanted the behavior

8:18

modifier. So immediately we're like, oh

8:20

no. Which Ash

8:22

has been saying for a while, like

8:25

you've been mentioning, like, is this weird? Like, did she

8:27

do something to him? Is she like drugging it? Like,

8:29

what kind of thing? Then we found out that there

8:31

was like drugs happening, but you seemed

8:33

like you were a little more like, I don't

8:35

know, it feels like something's up. Yeah. There

8:38

was just certain moments where Riley would react to certain

8:40

things. Yeah. Like, and I was like, and

8:42

you were like, I don't know. Yeah. It

8:44

feels like something's going on. I was like astute. I know.

8:46

I put astute in my watch of this. That was astute.

8:48

Because you said a couple of times that I noticed things

8:50

that you never noticed. It's true. And it

8:52

makes me feel smart. The astuteness of it all. And I don't look

8:54

into anything. Like, I swear on

8:56

my, I don't know. On your, on these

8:59

donuts next to me. And that's

9:01

for real. Honestly, that's, that's the

9:03

realest. So Riley is pretty

9:05

fucking casual with his reaction. Gee,

9:08

she really did the damn thing. Period. Putting

9:11

a chip in my head. Wow. Groundbreaking.

9:13

Period. He knew she

9:15

was a Krosby botch. But whatever has been triggered

9:17

in him is also preventing him from raging

9:20

against the machine slash

9:23

demon slash human. Because

9:25

it's his brother. You know, it's his

9:27

brother. That's his brother. That's

9:29

his brother right there. His own skin and

9:31

bone flesh. And metal, you

9:33

know. And CPU titties. It's CPU titties.

9:36

So Adam touches Riley's chest saying that

9:38

it was implanted there. It's

9:41

almost like a beautiful hallmark moment until

9:43

we realize that he's talking about a

9:46

behavior modification chip that is tied into

9:48

his central nervous system. Fuck.

9:51

Also, we're getting ahead. So spoiler

9:53

alert, if you want to skip over it. How

9:55

the fuck does he reach into his central nervous

9:58

system and take that ship out without having. the

10:00

most lasting effects. Here's

10:02

the thing, don't fucking worry

10:05

about it. Because as

10:07

he was doing it, I was like, cool, cool,

10:09

cool, he's gonna die though. Never

10:11

once have I ever even thought about reaching

10:14

into my central nervous system other than like

10:16

via therapy. But

10:18

like physically reaching into your central

10:21

nervous system, here's some more medical

10:23

advice, don't do that. But he

10:25

tells him. This is phase one of

10:28

your preparation. It lay

10:30

dormant until the time came. I simply activated it,

10:32

brother. I

10:34

love that he's me and Hulk Hogan.

10:37

He is, brother. Brothers. So

10:39

Riley's like, hold up motherfucker, do not

10:41

Hulk Hogan me, do not call me

10:43

brother. He says he's going to do

10:45

everything in his power too, but Adam

10:47

tells him to sit. And

10:49

Riley sits like a good boy. Ew. Adam

10:51

tells him. You have no power. Not

10:55

yet. Once you forget

10:57

your old life and embrace your destiny as

10:59

I have, you will know power you've never

11:01

dreamed of. I

11:04

think you're going to like it. And Riley just

11:06

glares at Adam. Cause in his brain

11:08

he's upset, but in his other

11:10

part of his central nervous system, he's a

11:12

good boy. And also we

11:14

get an intro. Do, do, do, do,

11:16

do, do, wow. When

11:19

we come back to Adam's shithole lair, he's

11:21

still yammering on. One thing about this

11:24

boy, this boy shuts up. He just

11:26

loves to hear himself talk. He's doing

11:28

a Ted talk. He's doing a tight

11:30

10 every five minutes. He is Tony

11:32

Robbins. Like he is that

11:34

guy. He's like, he's talking. So

11:36

I'm like, all right, it's been enough. We

11:39

get ad nauseam. Ad nauseam is

11:41

correct. So he's still yammering

11:43

on about, you know, an exposition dumping, which

11:45

I guess we can thank him for. It's

11:47

exhausting at this point honestly, but he says

11:50

that demons held onto grudges and were essentially

11:52

like boomers when it came to tech. Humans

11:55

were emotional and weak. So we'll

11:57

fix this bullshit. And Adam tells

11:59

Riley. Mother saw our feature, yours and

12:01

mine. She saw that you were necessary. She

12:03

saw the role that you will play by

12:06

my side. And he orders Riley

12:08

to stand up and Riley complies. And

12:11

Adam says that they are

12:13

brothers after all. Hey, brother.

12:16

I hate this. I don't like watching

12:18

Riley be ordered around. Nope, it's so

12:21

yucky. It's very the ick. For

12:23

me, like when he's like stand up and he's like, okay, I'm

12:25

like, ah, I hate it. It's not him,

12:28

it's the chip. No, like when he pulls out that

12:30

chip and is like, she's got me, I was like,

12:32

there he is. There he

12:34

is. I was like, go get your little

12:37

telescopic baton, Riley. Go. Somebody

12:39

go get her. Go. From

12:41

behind them, though, we hear Spike say. Warms

12:44

the cuckles of my non-beating heart seeing you

12:46

latch together. Spike's just welcome anywhere. He really

12:48

is. I love him a lot. He just does

12:50

the stupidest best shit. I love it. Even him,

12:52

though, seeing him scared in this episode, I don't

12:54

like that either. I know, I was like, oh

12:56

no. Fuck season four. I was like,

12:58

Adam, I hate you. Please go away. Adam

13:01

is pissed. He's like, bitch, why are you here? I

13:03

never sent for you. And I love it because Spike's

13:05

like, I'm not really the being sent for type. And

13:08

I was like, no, you're not. I just show up.

13:10

And he says that he did the damn thing, splitting

13:12

up the scoobs. And now it's time for Adam to

13:14

remove his fucking chip. And Spike looks

13:16

at Riley who just glares back at him

13:18

on moving and Spike snaps his fingers in

13:20

Riley's face and pokes him saying that Riley

13:22

is stiffer than normal. And he's like,

13:25

I like it. What's going on here? And

13:27

Adam tells Spike that he activated Riley's

13:29

chip. And Spike is less than impressed.

13:31

He says, So it's chips

13:33

all around, is it? Someone must

13:35

have bought the party pack. I love it. That

13:37

was funny. And Adam scowls telling Spike that

13:39

he will remove Spike's chip once the slayer

13:41

is where he wants her. And

13:44

Spike pats himself on the back. He's

13:46

like, my manipulation's worked. And Buffy is

13:48

now isolated all alone. And

13:50

Adam clarifies saying that's how he wants

13:53

her, but not where. He Says,

13:55

where I want her is down in the initiative.

13:57

She will ensure that as many demons die as

13:59

he- Humans, She will achieve maximum carnage

14:02

before she's too weak to go on.

14:04

Which. I'm like. You. Do have

14:07

a pretty good plan and most of

14:09

it is Imo. they do you do

14:11

and a good job And Riley interject

14:13

saying nobody know you can spit out

14:15

and calmly says stop talking and rally

14:17

complies. with

14:19

my photos. In Spike

14:21

is like right? the initiative That's what this

14:23

therefore in is like. Willow will give her

14:25

the deeds and Buffy will show up to

14:28

fuck shit up. And Adam

14:30

pauses for a moment saying the which

14:32

in Spike sauces him putting his hand

14:34

the near saying. Or will not.

14:36

so my pillow case. Good

14:39

with mass naturals. He so

14:41

pretty that he doesn't he realize

14:43

that who does a storm a

14:45

brood funny Iran? A big Neapolitan

14:47

songs in circles All the sleigh

14:49

who's assists and Adams like cool

14:51

cool cool. You mean the friends

14:53

that you separated her from. And.

14:56

Spike chuckles saying damn right I did. You see

14:58

the scene and they will be talking to each

15:00

other for a long long. And.

15:02

Then the cards and steaks head start a

15:04

spin and he a long after all he

15:06

sure is not a lot lot of our

15:09

blog assist or blondie bear and as the

15:11

about and out i'm currently shakes his head

15:13

space face drops and he thinks. Boots.

15:16

I think I found a flaw in the

15:18

plan and Neapolitan Adam judges him. He's like

15:20

you fucking failed. He sounds like a disappointed

15:22

parent here. He does like you did not

15:24

do what I ask like sign and I'm

15:26

disappointed in. You, I know. Spike

15:28

isn't much for feeling bad about things though.

15:30

that's why we love him. He doesn't mean

15:32

he says like I'm ago, fuck this and

15:35

he quickly passes the buck saying whoa, hey,

15:37

you're supposed to be so smart you let

15:39

me play in the city like this is

15:41

on human of fair and out. I'm just

15:44

stares at stake intensely and Spike will finally

15:46

saying. Okay, let's not quibble about who fail

15:48

to be posing as. make sure the slavers where

15:50

we will go. spike turns to go

15:52

but thinks about it he's not one for

15:54

self preservation so he turns back and tells

15:56

adam that he will handle these like that

15:58

and will hit this chip thing when I

16:00

come back. Like come on. Yeah, like

16:02

come on. And Adam bitch pleases him, so

16:05

he turns and struts out of Adam's shit hole

16:07

layer. It's like two

16:09

characters that you love seeing, like sass

16:12

people and be like very... Strong. Strong

16:14

and in charge. It was

16:17

a tough scene for them. Yeah. It

16:19

was tough to watch. I was like seeing both of

16:21

them be so compliant and like wilting. I was like,

16:23

ew, don't like it. But

16:27

now we hear a knock at Giles'

16:29

apartment and this is another like shocking

16:31

character switch. Giles

16:34

is in a fuzzy robe. How did you feel about

16:36

that? I kind of, I love him anyway. I can

16:38

have that. So I was like, you know what? Yeah,

16:40

it's okay. He went through it.

16:43

Very hungover though. Very hungover. It's

16:45

not like him. I'll love him anyway.

16:47

I can have him, but I do

16:49

mostly love him when he is fully

16:51

together. When he's in his full academia.

16:54

Full academia. You know, the whole thing. And

16:56

he's clutching the back of his head because

16:58

like he said, he's very

17:00

hungover. Like two bottles of whiskey are going to do

17:02

that to you. And he

17:04

opens the door and it's Willow and Tara

17:06

and he's confused and fails to welcome them

17:08

warmly. And Willow doesn't notice because

17:10

she's actively shocked like we are that Giles

17:13

is showing off his decolletage. And

17:15

he looks down and closes it very embarrassed and tells

17:17

her it's been a late start. And

17:20

Tara politely says that she's hoping that Giles

17:22

is feeling well. And he tells them that

17:24

he plans on going for a brisk jog

17:27

later. And by brisk jog, he means retching

17:29

profusely and avoiding light while he recovers from

17:31

literal alcohol poisoning. He

17:33

thanks her, but asks why they're there. And

17:35

Willow awkwardly mentions that she forgot her laptop

17:37

and the disc. So he

17:40

invites them in and he grasps the back

17:42

of his neck clearly in pain and says,

17:45

Will you be working here? You

17:47

know, typing, talking. Because

17:50

that will be fine. It will certainly not

17:52

be fine. And Willow

17:54

says, no, it's cool. It's all good. And she

17:56

grabs her laptop. It's really

17:58

fucking awkward. like

18:00

it. Yeah. I don't like

18:02

this. There's been too much of this this

18:04

season. Yeah. When the scoops are that's honestly

18:06

that's why I love this episode because at

18:09

the end of it it's like finally. Oh,

18:11

like, yeah, that's what it is. It was

18:13

like a, it was honestly

18:15

like letting out the pressure in like,

18:18

you know, something that's ailing you like, it's

18:20

like, Oh my God. Yeah. Like it's like

18:22

a horribly like abscessed

18:24

tooth and you yank it out.

18:26

You know, like all

18:28

of that awfulness is gone. And coming off

18:31

of last episode, you're like, when

18:33

does this end? Like we gotta stop this. But

18:36

at Buffy's dorm, Buffy is wearing some awesome

18:39

shit kickers. I was like, did you

18:41

borrow those from face? I want

18:44

these. They're great. But she is so

18:46

full of on we, she's just sitting

18:48

on the floor. Yeah. And she stands

18:51

up and looks at a very strategically

18:53

placed photo on Willows bedstands. Uh,

18:55

it's a Buffy Willow and Xander back in

18:58

much happier times when the scoops are all

19:00

one and happy. I know. And she picks

19:02

up the phone and then she thinks better

19:05

of it. So she grabs a Slayer bag

19:07

TM and a gnarly battle acts that looks

19:09

like it's from like Dungeons and Dragons. She's

19:11

ready to fuck shit. Yeah. And

19:14

unfortunately that shit is not fitting in your tiny

19:16

Slayer bag TM, but that's okay. No, take it

19:18

with you. Now, hard cut

19:20

to Xander's basement laundry tool storage bedroom

19:22

apartment. And we get an almost

19:24

thirst trap of him lying on his pullout

19:27

bed. You know, if pouting men are your

19:29

kink, I guess they're not mine. Not mine.

19:31

Uh, Anya reminds him that he needs to check

19:33

the employment office this morning for a gig and

19:36

he mopes and sadly looks away from her and

19:38

on your size and lifts the blanket and capable

19:41

of hiding the delight from her eyes to be

19:43

able to drink in Xander's nude form underneath. And

19:46

she tells him, you can't go like that. They

19:48

won't even interview you if you're naked. She said

19:50

that like she's tried before, Which she

19:52

like, she knows something, She's, she's been through and

19:55

she's like, trust me, they won't interview you

19:57

if you go naked. I Mean, that's what it

19:59

felt like. If you know you know you know

20:01

she's She's gone through it. Knows. And

20:03

tells her that he's not going. there's never

20:05

anything good any like media should just join

20:07

the army and she reminds them that they

20:09

make him wake up really early which very

20:12

quickly changes his mind. read with and she

20:14

asks are you still upset about that site

20:16

you have with your friends? It would hours

20:18

ago. Gilbert. I think she

20:20

might be a Capricorn yeah, but I

20:22

found out before I think she might

20:24

be a demon Capricorn with a player

20:26

since he owed a diary heightened scalper

20:29

courses. but does some reason for oversee

20:31

those baby. she's a Capricorn. Sun Rising

20:33

and moon. Oh there you go scuttling

20:35

three Sega our he mumbles and reply

20:37

and see Amazon so they all think

20:39

you're a loss, directionless loser with no

20:41

plans for the future. And

20:43

he says you can't' just that shit away and

20:46

she's like, why not And Zander says that he

20:48

doesn't know a knee. Starts avoiding her gaze

20:50

and then adds these. I think maybe they're

20:52

right. And. On his heart

20:54

breaks for him and seat because she's could

20:56

girlfriend yes you know them and she crawls

20:59

into bed and she leaves her head on

21:01

his chest and says so what if they

21:03

are you're a good person and a good

21:05

boyfriends and and I'm in love with you

21:08

so whatever they think it shouldn't matter. And

21:10

he's is half heartedly agree. Sonos A She

21:12

just said I'm in love with the want

21:14

to ta Sarah. Tosser. Anything love

21:17

really do literally anything or just acknowledge it

21:19

may be yeah, I think I'm I'm not

21:21

like forcing you to thrown I love you

21:23

back. I mean at this point I feel

21:26

like. Kind of weird if you don't

21:28

like. Diverse. Something vague

21:30

knowledge it say very strange

21:32

Relationship is not. A good

21:35

boyfriend she claimed. see as we install

21:37

they are. You're a good person and

21:39

a good boyfriends and and I'm in

21:41

love with you. So whatever they think

21:43

it's shouldn't matter. And. He just

21:45

half heartedly agree. Sonos A She just said

21:47

I'm in love with the want to ta

21:49

Sarah. Tosser. Anything love really do

21:52

literally anything or just acknowledge it may

21:54

be like I'm I'm not like forcing

21:56

you to thrown I love you back.

21:58

I mean at this. I feel like it's

22:01

kind of weird if you don't but like There

22:03

are something they have a very knowledge

22:06

it. They're very strange relationship. He's not

22:08

a good boyfriend She claims he is but yeah,

22:11

but he's not but he's not yeah, he's going

22:13

through it He's just hot now at Forest murder

22:15

cave Buffy passes through an

22:17

opening into the sewers and bitch, you know,

22:19

it's Adam shitty sewer lair literally tm But

22:22

Adam has a new place a circular

22:25

stone rolls to the side opening to

22:27

a part of the initiative And Adam

22:29

leads Riley inside. It's like Frankenstein's lab

22:31

in there with power sources and beakers

22:34

shit looks sciency as fuck It

22:36

was cool It was really cool and Adam

22:38

informs Riley that this is where the new

22:40

race will be born and I said, oh scary

22:42

I said, uh-oh and only a

22:45

few people knew about this part of the

22:47

initiative. He says mother captures secrets Well,

22:49

it's the mother and mommy of it all that

22:51

is really just shaking me in my boots But

22:53

it makes sense because it's very serial killeristic behavior

22:55

very much And in front

22:58

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23:00

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25:02

so he says mother kept her speakers well and when

25:04

she comes out he smiles and says, I

25:08

don't like it because he loves mother

25:11

in a way that you don't love

25:13

mother. He's Norman Batesy. Yeah. Very, in

25:15

fact, he's very Norman Batesy because here

25:18

she comes strolling out after she died.

25:20

Hey, mother. Riley

25:22

is like us. He's fucked up.

25:25

He calls out Walsh's name while she walks

25:27

like a literal toddler towards an operating table

25:30

and she has a piece of metal tubing

25:32

jutting from the base of her brainstem and

25:34

then two plastic tubes with red Kool-Aid in

25:36

them which drape over each shoulder and

25:39

jut into her solar plexus. It's like

25:41

very intense. She out here. She looks

25:43

like a fucking mess. Her eyes are

25:45

sunk in and her cheeks look sewn.

25:47

She has a gross milky

25:49

eye. She looks pallid as fuck. She

25:53

could use some lippy. Yeah, she could just use a

25:55

Little Lippy. A little blush. You know, like

25:57

my mom always says, whatever I'm looking for.

26:00

Tired whenever I'm looking a little little pale.

26:02

uses cicala much. You throw some lipstick, follow

26:04

the suffocate. always knew you look like shit.

26:06

If Moto Z to put your mind on

26:09

you wanted you throw some lipstick on your

26:11

like I would Glacier Pilot. Horrible. Yeah and

26:13

out of the says. This is all have

26:15

club wix of she thought she would be

26:17

alive and. Mean. Than don't we all

26:20

are usually by implanting now. She

26:22

passes the ball over to a

26:24

Camel fatigued body on a stretcher

26:26

to the deceased Doctor Engelman, who

26:28

turns back to look at Riley

26:30

with very unfocused, very dead eyes.

26:33

Riley shirts. You. Know he's like

26:35

is. Is. A switch you're going

26:37

to do to me and it's

26:39

actually when he asked that you're

26:41

like I like genuinely you're like

26:43

you're scared of course and Adam

26:46

tells Rally that milky I'd Maggie

26:48

Walls and Angle men are just

26:50

workers. Riley's tested much death who

26:52

will send us the mony success

26:54

among it's I put testimony and

26:56

testimony that as testimony alleges so

26:58

thick that like destiny is trying

27:01

rest of the island money supply

27:03

of now Riley's testimonies child is

27:05

much greater. Before he

27:07

can ask for clarification, the fatigued body

27:09

on the stretcher sits right up. Welcome.

27:13

Riley Clutches is pearls because mama.

27:16

It's. For. But

27:18

he looks like a seventies patchwork quilt

27:20

with mustard yellow demons. skyn i use

27:23

yucky ear I didn't like it, Most

27:25

of his face has been replaced with

27:27

staple demon parts and wires and tech

27:30

jutting out of his temples and then

27:32

is under. Bite is just large and

27:34

ensue hardens. It is just like offer

27:37

her a ride to lot when it

27:39

has this mangled Xian bowl of razor

27:41

sharp teeth. and it it's his teeth

27:44

us scary and this is that. This

27:46

is a point man. oh. For sure

27:48

to a slick. For a few members

27:50

include Dead Like Fortress to. See for

27:52

ability good looking B S and you see

27:55

it like this and you're like. Oh.

27:57

what have you done yeah well as if

27:59

you I think Adam was threatened.

28:02

Yeah, I think so too and Riley

28:04

says oh my god Kinda

28:06

like that Are

28:11

we like 30 days of night right now

28:13

look what's going on I didn't like who

28:16

forest became like it was I

28:19

Don't even know the word for it. It was just

28:22

it was like low bud. It was

28:24

low bud It was low bud. Just

28:27

so low that it's funny. Yeah God

28:30

has nothing to do with it. He becomes very

28:32

like terminator But

28:35

like if you were making a low

28:37

budge Terminator like the wish

28:39

version of yeah, yeah, it's it's silly

28:41

Yeah, it's bad cuz like that line

28:43

when what when Riley's like oh my

28:45

god And he says God has nothing

28:48

to do with it that could have

28:50

been a Line like

28:52

that could have hit Hard

28:54

that could have been like a Pinhead

28:57

moment of like do I look like somebody

28:59

who cares what God thinks kind of thing

29:01

like that Could I hit with some kind

29:03

of like oh, I feel chills. Yeah, it

29:05

was like God does nothing to do with it

29:10

It's a great line for something else

29:12

it's I don't think

29:14

it's needed here But see I think it

29:16

worked it could have worked. Perfect. You think

29:18

so the delivery fuck. No, I just don't

29:20

like it at all Yeah, see I think

29:22

this could have come maybe from somebody else

29:24

in this Scenario and

29:26

just not that voice. I don't need

29:29

that. It's all just messed up again

29:31

I know he's supposed to look horrific

29:33

and he does he does but the

29:35

appliance and this was Mikey who said

29:37

this and I was Like nothing could

29:39

have hit better than what you just

29:41

said He said they will

29:43

make him look like beavis from

29:45

and butthead fame and that's how he

29:47

described it He was like beavis from and

29:49

butthead fame And I think

29:51

that is the fuck you Doesn't he

29:53

you look confused? I

29:56

have I'm trying to picture. I've never really seen for

29:58

a minute I was like, you know what beavis? Oh

30:00

yeah, I know who Beavis and Bunyan

30:02

are. It was just your face. You were literally like doing

30:05

that like, I have no idea what you're talking about

30:07

face. And I was like, I know what they look

30:09

like. I just never seen them like talk. It's the

30:11

underbite. Yeah. The jaw. Yeah.

30:14

Yeah. That's actually exactly what he looks

30:16

like. And when he talks, it's literally

30:18

like the cartoon where it's like, pah

30:20

pah pah pah pah. Yeah, it's just

30:22

really fucking bad. We're upset about it,

30:24

but Adam looks like a proud daddy.

30:27

So. Because he made that. When

30:29

we go into non-existent commercial mode, Adam

30:31

is like, those are my boys. Mine.

30:33

Me and mommy's boys. Ew. Buffy's,

30:36

ew. Ew. Buffy's on a

30:38

fucking mission now. She power walks through

30:40

the cave to its exit, but it's

30:42

startled by Spike. And she asked what

30:44

the fuck he's doing there. And he tells her that

30:46

he's looking for a weekend getaway place and to piss

30:48

off. Buffy says that Adam

30:50

is using the cave system and Spike is like,

30:53

wha? No way. Ew. How

30:56

could I have known? He's really bad at

30:58

it. And Buffy says that Adam is cleared

31:00

out, so whatever fuckery he's working on is

31:02

probably about to go down. And

31:04

Spike asks about the disks that he nabbed.

31:06

And Buffy admits that Willow has the disks.

31:08

And Spike says, well, I'd get on that. Can't

31:11

ignore valuable information just because you two birds fell out

31:13

now, can you? And Buffy's like, yeah, yeah,

31:15

you're right. But then shit clicked for her because

31:18

Spike got a little cocky and overplayed his hand

31:20

here. How the fuck did he know

31:22

about their falling out? This shit is

31:25

sus. And now she's like, that's why

31:27

everyone was acting a goddamn fool last

31:29

night. I felt so

31:31

bad for her. I know. Like, what the fuck

31:34

went on when I was out here? Like, why

31:36

are you all missing it? Yeah.

31:39

So now she's like, oh, that makes

31:41

sense. Now at Tara's dorm room, Willow is

31:43

attempting to hack the mainframe, as always. And

31:45

Tara is worried about her. She's like, take

31:47

a break, girl. But Willow's like,

31:49

nah, I'm on to something. And then we

31:51

see the lines of blue and cream-colored text

31:53

scrolling across her screen. And we just know

31:56

this shit is technical as fuck. So

31:58

she says, computer shit, computer shit. And

32:00

she's figured out how to crack the code. And

32:03

Tara watches as something starts to happen on

32:05

screen and starts to shout joyfully

32:07

that Willow fucking did it, y'all! But

32:10

Willow is confusion. She

32:13

has neither beeped nor booped. She does not

32:15

know why this is happening. She didn't do

32:17

anything except look at it. Yeah, no. And

32:19

so Tara's like, I don't like something's happening.

32:21

And Willow says that it must be self-programmed

32:24

to self-decrypt at a certain point. But

32:26

she's fucking pissed. She was robbed of the thrill

32:28

of victory right before she had the chance to

32:30

crack it. I don't blame her. She's

32:33

like fuck. And Willow catches herself and

32:35

says, yippee! They have the information now.

32:37

And Tara reads the screen and says

32:39

that yippee isn't the right thing to

32:41

say either. Apparently the

32:43

encrypted text is cryptic. So

32:47

the phone rings and Tara picks it up

32:49

and it's Buffy. She tells Willow, who looks

32:51

like she has anxiety gas again. So

32:54

everything's not going great. Now at

32:56

the hidden laboratory at the initiative,

32:58

Riley attempts to talk to Professor Walsh. I

33:01

guess we can... Professor

33:03

Walsh. Quote unquote Milky-eyed Maggie over

33:06

there. Instead of Milky-eyed Maggie.

33:10

Instead of talking, she's making weird grudge sounds.

33:12

Like I hate it here. We all hate

33:14

it here. Forrest enters

33:16

the chat though, telling Riley that she's

33:18

fucking dead, brother. No way. He's

33:21

like, hey, she's dead. No way, Forrest. He's

33:24

so dead. I'd be like, so are you,

33:26

kinda. She's been reanimated with

33:28

basic to moderate brain activity, but she

33:30

won't be going to any Mensa meetings

33:32

anytime soon, which, you know, shame. He

33:35

then says that she's smart. I mean, she's real smart. So

33:38

it's like, that's the bummer. But

33:40

he then says arguably the most

33:42

disturbing line in the entire series.

33:44

He says, Mommy can hear you, but

33:47

she's still a walking corpse. Yeah.

33:50

Hate. Hate. Hate.

33:53

Hate. Hate. Hate.

33:55

I just want to

33:57

dip myself in acid after that. I

34:00

am here to tell you, I'm sorry,

34:02

I don't want to hear a grown

34:04

man say the word mommy. Nope. I

34:07

don't want that. It's yucky. It's weird.

34:09

It's weird. It's edipissy. Yeah. It's pissy.

34:11

Have you ever heard of those? Like,

34:13

there's like a place and it's like

34:15

a sound deprivation chamber and it's so

34:17

quiet that you can start hearing your

34:20

like blood rushing through your veins and

34:22

your lungs contracting. Yeah. Where are we

34:24

going? I have. Yeah. I want to

34:26

go there after hearing that. Do you

34:28

know? Send myself into orbit. Yes. Agreed.

34:30

Do you know that is like, I think

34:33

that would be the scariest experience. 100% it

34:35

was people that go. I worked with a

34:37

girl in the dark. Yeah. I

34:39

worked with a girl that went in one of

34:41

those and you like float. No, those are like

34:44

smaller ones. There's a, there's one that's like the

34:46

quietest room on earth. That's

34:48

horrible. Where you can literally, it's so

34:50

quiet that you, when I say

34:52

you can hear the blood rushing through your veins,

34:55

you can literally hear your organs

34:57

functioning. That's how quiet it is.

34:59

No. And it's in total darkness. So

35:01

you start to like, fucking lose it.

35:04

No, it's not like, yeah, I don't

35:06

want to go there. But there's also those like

35:08

meditative ones where you can like float in the,

35:10

in the little chamber. Fuck that. Yeah. No, I

35:12

don't want anything to do with that. Dark and

35:14

quiet together. No, I don't even

35:16

sleep in the dark. No way. But after

35:18

hearing for us, say mommy can hear you,

35:20

but she's a walking corpse. Send me to

35:22

the one where I can hear my organs

35:24

functioning. So after hearing mommy one

35:26

too many times, um, all of us

35:28

here at the pod lab, we've had

35:31

a lawyer drop a cease and desist

35:33

letter. Yeah. You'll be hearing from us

35:35

forest. Thank you. Riley hates it

35:37

too though. And mentions that forest is

35:39

dead as well. But forest is like,

35:41

no, no. And he literally wags his

35:44

finger back and forth. And he says,

35:46

no, bitch, no. I'm actually surging with

35:48

life and strength. And he says, Adam

35:50

made him almost as strong as Adam

35:52

is. And then he shadow boxes

35:55

and says, no, when he shadow box,

35:57

I hate it. He said, Why

36:00

not your girl again? Why look at Both

37:27

in the 90s. Yeah there you go! So

37:30

Buffy asks where Anya is. And Xander says

37:32

that she was pretty Gucci after the prior

37:34

night's shenanigans. She was gonna stay away. And

37:37

Willow says that Tara also felt unwelcome.

37:39

So there. And Buffy cuts straight to

37:41

the chase, asking Will who specifically said

37:43

that everyone was talking behind her back. And

37:46

Willow says that it was Spike. And Buffy

37:48

asks Xander the same, and it's Spike. And

37:50

she turns to Giles, and he says Well,

37:53

Spike can be very convincing

37:55

when... I'm

37:57

very stupid. When you do... I'm very...

38:00

stupid. I was like, no you're not.

38:02

You were just drinking susceptible to

38:04

bullying. And you were sad and having like a,

38:06

you know, an identity crisis. It's okay. But

38:09

Buffy says that Spike played them. That's

38:11

why everyone said what they said the

38:13

night before. Yup. And Giles shrugs

38:15

saying, of course. Well

38:17

Piffle, let's move on. Giles,

38:20

my guy. If you and I ever got

38:22

in a fight anytime soon, I'm gonna

38:24

say, well Piffle, let's move on. Well Piffle,

38:27

let's move on. Yeah. Piffle and Willow

38:29

agree, and Buffy smiles, and so do

38:31

we, because Jesus, this season has been tough.

38:34

Oh my God, I was like, group hug on campus. It's

38:36

about to, and I love that they were just like, here

38:38

you go, everything's fixed. If they didn't make you wait like

38:40

the whole episode, they were like, bam. Yeah, it was pretty

38:43

quick. That was nice. All happened in one fell swoop. I

38:45

was like, thank you for that. You're like 15 minutes in.

38:47

I was like, all right. Yeah. I

38:49

was like, all right, cool. But the awkwardness is

38:52

still there. It is a little bit. A silence

38:54

stretches between them until Willow asks why Spike was

38:56

playing head games. Xander thinks that

38:58

Spike was probably getting off from being an agent

39:00

of chaos, but Buffy thinks that it was probably

39:03

Adam. She's smart. She tells them about

39:05

running into Spike in the cave and his mention of the

39:07

discs. Willow says that she

39:09

decrypted them, or they sort of decrypted

39:11

themselves, and Giles asks what was on

39:13

it. And Willow tells him it was really just a bunch

39:15

of shit they already know about 314 and adds, but

39:18

it also said there's some final phase

39:21

where Adam manufactures a bunch

39:23

of creepy cyber demonoids like him.

39:25

And she mentions the hidden laboratory

39:27

in the initiative and Buffy gives

39:29

Adam his due. He's

39:31

playing 3D chess well. Even she said what

39:34

I said earlier. She was like, you know,

39:36

this is not a bad plan. And he

39:38

saw his moves through and Willow's like, what?

39:40

And Buffy says, you know how overcrowded the containment

39:42

cells have been at the initiative? Those

39:44

demons were just too easy to catch. It's

39:47

like they wanted in that place. Like a

39:49

Trojan horse. Buffy explains to the viewers at

39:51

home making sure everyone is fully up to

39:53

speed. Which honestly, if I didn't have like

39:56

you and Mikey holding my hand throughout this,

39:58

I would have needed that explanation. It's

40:01

complicated. Because, yeah, it's...

40:04

Everything in previous seasons of Buffy has

40:06

been very easy to understand. Yeah.

40:09

And like, they kind of just tell you pretty

40:11

much what's happening, the plan of action and stuff.

40:13

This one, and maybe that's part of

40:15

the reason I didn't enjoy it as much, I was just like, I

40:18

didn't know that they were catching those demons

40:20

that easily until like one episode ago. Yeah,

40:22

and I think maybe that's also why a

40:24

lot of people don't love the Adam

40:27

of it all and everything. Yeah. It's because

40:29

it's kind of overly complex. It really is.

40:32

In a way that's like not super

40:34

satisfying. Like, it's like there wasn't

40:37

like a super satisfying resolution to

40:39

it all. Like, you kind of

40:41

look back and you're like, I don't know, I

40:43

feel like that was a little too much for what I got out

40:45

of it. Yeah, exactly. There's too many

40:47

moving parts, there's a lot of people

40:49

that you don't really know what they're up

40:51

to or what they're supposed to be up to. I feel

40:53

like that's it because it's like, okay, she's

40:56

like, Maggie Walsh made this crazy ass demon. Like, I get

40:58

that. And then there was like the plan

41:00

three, fourteen of it all. But like then that kind

41:02

of fell to the wayside when Adam was on the

41:04

loose. Yeah. And then all of

41:06

a sudden it was like this demon against human war.

41:09

It was just like, it was

41:11

kind of like constantly changing. And he was constantly

41:13

having to explain to us what was happening. He

41:15

kept having to be like, because even characters in

41:17

the show were like, I don't understand why you

41:19

need Buffy here. And he was

41:21

like, because I need her to inflict this much

41:23

damage and then we can have these people. And

41:25

as long as she's tired from that, then we

41:27

can do that. And it's like he's trying to

41:30

explain. Yeah. Spike,

41:32

thank you for asking. Right. And I also

41:34

think it's kind of stupid. I'm like, I'm

41:37

just realizing why I don't really love this.

41:39

It's also stupid that he doesn't really fight

41:41

this battle. Like she has to go through

41:43

all these layers first to to fight him

41:45

in the end. And like, I guess you

41:48

could kind of say the same thing with

41:50

like how she fought the master and how

41:52

she fought the mayor. But

41:54

it wasn't it wasn't as elaborate.

41:56

Yeah, I just think it needs to

41:58

be. It wasn't as. satisfying.

42:01

Like at one point, and then I think

42:03

it's the next line actually, when Xander

42:07

says, does anyone else miss the

42:09

mayor? I just want to be a big snake.

42:11

And we all were like, yeah, we all raise

42:13

our hands in here. I think everybody does because

42:15

it's like, I get that. You

42:17

didn't need to give me a whole lot for

42:19

that. I was like, yeah, that guy wants to

42:21

be this, he wants to, you know, ascend. I

42:24

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43:05

some reason, when it gets over complicated

43:07

like it did with Adam, it's less

43:09

scary. Yeah, I think that's what it

43:12

is. Master? Terrifying. Super

43:14

scary the whole way through. Ask

43:17

Billy Loomis. It's always scarier with no motive

43:19

than you. Exactly. It's like, it's scarier when

43:21

you don't have all the pieces of the

43:23

puzzle. Right. Like

43:25

don't get me wrong, Adam is inherently terrifying.

43:28

For some reason, when it gets

43:30

over complicated like it did with

43:32

Adam, it's less scary. Yeah, I

43:34

think that's what it is. Master?

43:36

Terrifying. Super scary the whole way

43:39

through. Ask Billy Loomis. It's

43:41

always scarier with no motive than you. Exactly.

43:43

It's like, it's scarier when you don't have

43:45

all the pieces of the puzzle. Right. Like

43:48

don't get me wrong, Adam is inherently terrifying.

43:51

Of course. But as

43:53

the season progresses, he just gets

43:55

less scary. Yeah, and I think it's like, and

43:58

this might just be like my. Personal

44:00

preferences for like what's scary and what's

44:02

not he I didn't

44:05

find the patchwork Demon

44:07

machine a scary concept. He's

44:10

scary. Like you said inherently scary

44:12

Yeah, terrifying because he can kill

44:14

anything. He's kind of unstoppable. I

44:16

get the logic behind him being

44:18

scary But he doesn't resonate

44:21

with me. Right? That's how I feel you

44:23

the mayor You're a

44:26

politician Who's like extra

44:28

super nice and like washes his hands all

44:30

the time and is like a germaphobe and

44:33

a family man And then all of a

44:35

sudden on the other side He's like this

44:37

like, you know sacrificing things

44:39

and shit to like ascend into

44:41

this like demons. Yeah, that's fucking

44:43

terrifying I'm like, what the fuck

44:46

is that? But Adam? I'm just like, I don't know

44:48

you're just kind of like the Terminator Right

44:50

and it's kind of like I don't

44:52

know and he doesn't really like He's

44:54

like kind of funny. But like the

44:56

master was like funny. The

44:59

mayor was funny and then

45:01

Anna's like funny They're

45:03

menacing. Yes, even when they're being

45:06

Endearingly like silly

45:08

in way in times, you know, I mean like

45:10

the mayor was could be endearing all the time

45:12

Yeah, and even the master a couple times the

45:14

master was so fucking in here And

45:16

it's like they were menacing at the

45:18

same time Even when they were doing that

45:20

you were like this is terrifying

45:22

that I'm weirdly endeared to you right? Right

45:25

Do you think that part of it is like?

45:28

There's just this hidden menace that

45:30

ends up happening with people when they go

45:32

away to school Like they're just you

45:35

just kind of forget and yeah kind of in the background He's

45:38

something that's kind of like a looming threat, but

45:40

he's not like in your face the whole entire

45:42

time Mm-hmm I almost wonder if

45:45

they were trying to like create a big

45:47

bad that was almost like a metaphor for

45:49

like how hard it is to kind of

45:51

circumvent That first year

45:53

of college and kind of remain who

45:56

they are because like in all honesty like during this

45:58

this episode The only way that they can really

46:00

overcome it is actually like being,

46:03

you know, like literally enjoining themselves coming

46:05

back together. So I wonder if like

46:07

they did that on purpose. I just

46:10

don't think it works because I feel

46:12

like it felt the whole season he's

46:14

just kind of like this like rando

46:16

in the background that you're just like

46:18

kind of like, that's fine. But like,

46:20

that's the problem. That's exactly what you said

46:22

that he's just like lurking in the background.

46:25

And I don't know in the robot of it all like

46:27

the the machine of it all like we he could be

46:29

funny with the way he delivered things and stuff. But just

46:32

didn't hit for me. I was like, I don't

46:35

really give a shit about you. In fact, I

46:37

forget about you sometimes. I honestly think there's like

46:39

a myriad of reasons why he just doesn't. Yeah,

46:41

I just think there was a lot of pieces

46:43

that there just could have been

46:45

something different. I also think that they

46:47

were trying to go with like something that

46:49

was completely different from 100% they were they

46:51

have been up against before in the past.

46:53

It definitely because everybody has been super charismatic.

46:56

And I think that maybe they're just trying

46:58

to like, I think there's something completely different.

47:00

And I think you're I think you're big

47:02

bad needs to be charismatic because it puts

47:05

you as the person watching in a very

47:07

weird position where you're like, well, you're kind of

47:09

like kind of walk that person away. No, I

47:11

don't feel that way. Exactly. Like the

47:13

master. Yeah, we were like, Oh, you

47:15

got to die and like you got

47:17

to go but like, don't go

47:19

when it was like in the mayor,

47:22

we were like, No, fucking

47:25

die already. You don't want the

47:27

response. Do you want the response

47:29

to be either like, don't go

47:31

don't leave or like, fuck,

47:33

they had to go like I needed them

47:36

to go like, you want you don't want

47:38

it to be like, thank God, they got

47:40

rid of that one. Like that means he

47:42

fucking saw. Yeah, it's like that storyline needed

47:44

to end. Yeah. And here we are. And

47:46

here we are. But actually, that's how we

47:48

feel about that. And that's how we feel

47:51

about Adam. So we got

47:53

all up to speed thanks to Buffy and the

47:55

demons are in the initiative. They're all ready to

47:57

riot. There will be a massacre with the initiative.

48:00

And Willow adds, and Adam has a

48:02

neat pile of body parts to start

48:04

assembling his army. Diabolical, yet gross.

48:07

And that's when you go, oh, okay, that's

48:09

what he's doing. Like, that was the moment that I

48:11

was like, oh, okay, I get

48:13

it now. Me too. But this is

48:16

when Xander, who is disgusted, says, Does

48:18

anybody else miss the mayor? I just want to be

48:20

a big snake. And again, we

48:22

all were like, yeah, absolutely. And

48:24

Buffy tells Giles that she needs to shut

48:26

Adam down. Giles says that

48:29

they need to warn the initiative. And

48:31

Buffy says that they definitely won't listen

48:33

to her. She cursed Riley Finn to

48:35

become a traitor with her cursed trash

48:38

bikini. Plus, Riley doesn't hold any

48:40

clout. He's a deserter and kind of

48:42

missing. And Xander asks

48:44

why Adam wants Buffy to know about his

48:46

plan. And Buffy says that she

48:48

will likely even the kill ratio. And Xander's

48:50

confused why Adam isn't worried she might kill

48:53

him. But Buffy says he's

48:55

not worried about that shit at all. And

48:57

also, that's a fault. But he's not worried

48:59

about it at all. Absolutely. That is a

49:02

fault. In the hidden laboratory in the initiative,

49:04

Adam senses that Buffy is en route. And

49:07

Riley's sitting frozen in place in

49:09

a chair, awaiting techno demonic assembly.

49:11

Spike is psyched. And he asks,

49:14

Now, if you'll just get this chip out

49:16

a Ukrainian, I'll be out of your way.

49:19

And mind the hairline, I don't fancy fussing with

49:21

a comber once I resume my killing ways. He's

49:24

the greatest and I love him. I love him so much. He'd be

49:26

so upset if he had a comber. If they

49:28

ruined his hair, there's nothing wrong with a comber, but I

49:30

don't want Spike to have one. But

49:32

this would have been a truly damaged season if he

49:34

came out of it with a comber. I feel like

49:37

that was a curtain season. Adam

49:40

just stares and Spike is furious. But Adam says

49:42

that once she's there, he will do it. And

49:44

I'm like, why do you keep believing him? He's

49:46

changed the time when he's going to do it a hundred

49:48

times. I know. Now, at Giles'

49:50

apartment, they brainstorm how to kill Adam.

49:53

And Buffy offers that Adam's power center

49:55

is a uranium core attached to his

49:57

spine, which one good thing

49:59

came out of. We did learn from Jonathan

50:01

in season four episode 17 superstar. I still

50:03

have PTSD from that up. But you know

50:06

what? Thank you, Jonathan. Yeah, Willow

50:08

suggests magic and Giles recommends a

50:10

paralyzing spell only he can't perform

50:12

the Incantation and Willow asked if

50:15

it's because it's in Sumerian But

50:17

Giles says that he knows Sumerian only

50:19

an experienced witch can do the incantation

50:22

and it needs to be done near

50:24

the subject Xander sarcastically

50:26

says so no problem. All we need

50:28

is combo Buffy her with Slayer strength

50:30

Giles's Multilingual know-how and

50:32

willows witchy power Giles looks at

50:34

Xander who folds self-deprecating and says

50:36

that he's just full of helpful

50:38

Suggestions, but Giles is shocked and

50:41

says as a matter of fact

50:43

you are I actually loved that

50:45

moment because me too They were slowly

50:47

slowly slowly coming back together and then

50:49

it's just perfect Xander says something he

50:52

thinks is stupid and usually what it would

50:54

be stupid, but Giles is like fuck

50:56

You're right. No, they all realize in that

50:59

moment that they need each other. They are

51:01

all Necessary maybe

51:03

they're not a profit one about it.

51:05

Exactly. But like you said every single

51:07

one of them is necessary Yes And

51:09

even Xander who always tends to get

51:11

because Willow has the witch power and

51:13

the power to hack the mainframe and

51:15

all that shit And Giles

51:17

is brilliant in a watcher. Yeah, I need

51:20

to live by trade And it's like so

51:22

he is they're always helpful

51:24

even when even when they think they're

51:26

not helpful They're all awful, but Xander can

51:28

sometimes be the one that you're like You're

51:31

helpful sometimes like not always and

51:33

so like seeing this it's like no you definitely

51:35

are right So the gang walks

51:38

into the edgers frat house and Buffy

51:40

kicks through the mirror revealing the elevator

51:42

shaft behind it That was awesome. So

51:44

badass We get a time jump to

51:46

them lowering themselves down the shaft with

51:48

spelunking equipment and Buffy asks How

51:50

will is and she's like I'm good, you know repelling down

51:52

the shaft isn't as scary as I thought it would be

51:55

Buffy says that she's sorry and she's like I

51:58

hate that shit has been so tenuous And

52:01

Willow says that it's not Buffy's fault. Spike

52:03

was a dickhole and gaslit everyone. But

52:05

Buffy says that shit was already strained and

52:07

they all kind of drifted apart this year.

52:09

And I like that it's not just like

52:11

they're not like, yeah, like it's all Spike's

52:13

fault because it's not. No. Like

52:15

Buffy just said, it's been this way all year.

52:17

And I love that they acknowledge it. They recognize

52:20

that. You're like, thank you. They broke the fourth

52:22

wall. Yeah. We're like, we know you

52:24

all saw it. That's a perfect way to put

52:26

it. Yeah. And Willow agrees saying that it's been

52:28

tough to keep the high school gang together during

52:30

the first year of college. Which is, which

52:33

is them saying. That's what we were trying to do.

52:35

We know this season has been tough, but

52:37

this is why. Because it is tough. Real.

52:40

The first year of college. And Buffy says,

52:42

But I want it together. Well,

52:44

I miss you. And Giles and

52:47

Xander. And it is my fault.

52:49

I've been so wrapped up in my own stuff, I've

52:52

been a bad friend. Even Buffy

52:54

is it! You guys get so

52:56

upset when we say that, but even she admits

52:58

she did it! She said so. And

53:01

guess what? Everyone could be a bad fucking friend.

53:03

Everyone's been a bad friend at some point. First

53:05

year of college, I was probably the shittiest friend

53:07

ever. I was like, I need all of you

53:09

and you left me. You left me. So

53:11

Willow says that slayer shit is pretty

53:14

crucial. And Buffy admits that she's been

53:16

wrapped up in Riley because, you know,

53:18

like he's so tall and hot. So

53:20

obviously. And you blame

53:22

me. Willow admits that she's

53:24

also been distant. There's a girl

53:26

who walks pelvis first that has

53:28

simply captivated her. I'm screaming. She's

53:32

been keeping secrets from everyone. And Buffy

53:34

doesn't think that's Willow's fault. She was

53:36

going through something huge, which I was

53:38

like, I love this. You're looking at a

53:40

friend now. And Willow admits that

53:42

she wanted to talk about it, but she

53:44

was terrified. And you know, this

53:46

sweet, I miss my best friend piano music starts

53:48

to play. And Buffy says, You

53:51

can tell me anything. I

53:54

love you. You're

53:56

my best friend. The best. That's

53:58

what it's like. the most satisfying

54:00

thing to hear. It really is. After

54:03

this season. I love you. You're

54:05

my best friend. Like, you can tell me

54:07

anything because you're just like, you were, you

54:09

do love her and you're like unconditionally like

54:11

this. Yes. So they stop spelunking and reach

54:13

over to hug, but start to drop abruptly,

54:15

sliding down until they reach the bottom. And

54:18

they hug, promising to never not talk

54:20

again. And they pounce and

54:22

hug Xander when he gets down saying, oh,

54:25

wonderful Xander. I love that. They shower him

54:27

with love, which he totally misreads as they

54:29

are going to die. But Willow

54:31

just leans in saying that they missed them. And

54:34

he smiles and calls up to Giles to get

54:36

the fuck down here for this amazing Scooby reunion.

54:38

I also love that he didn't say something gross

54:41

in that moment. I love that he didn't say

54:43

something gross. Like I was fully expecting him to

54:45

be like, make a threesome joke or something. Yeah,

54:47

absolutely. But he's just like, come down. I'm glad

54:49

it remained pure. Yeah. Time

54:51

skip to them prying the elevator door open

54:53

and Buffy Giss starts to give a pep

54:55

talk. But when the door slides open, a

54:57

bunch of camo edging taser enthusiasts point and

54:59

cock their guns. Fuck. Yeah, it's

55:02

not great, but I'm pretty sure I saw my man

55:04

Graham. You thought you were like this Grant. I was

55:06

like, I know this is a really shitty moment, but

55:08

look at Graham. I'm a this Graham. And

55:10

I thought, oh no. I'll think you can rhyme, say things. I

55:13

think he does. Yeah. Now

55:15

in the security room, spoke, spoke,

55:18

spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke,

55:20

spoke, spoke, Spike

55:22

smokes while he and

55:25

Adam watch CCTV as Buffy is

55:27

perp walked towards Colonel Mustard's command

55:29

room. And Spike says, it's

55:32

must see TV. It's

55:35

been taken traps all set. Slayer

55:38

has landed. So

55:41

one ship or activate please. But

55:43

Adam stares forward at the screens and

55:45

disbelief and he tells him, bitch, she's

55:48

not alone. And Spike sees

55:50

Willow, Xander and Giles walking in tow.

55:52

And Adam says, Spike failed

55:54

him again. And Spike

55:56

says that that is one way of looking at

55:59

it. Adam asks

56:01

what the other way is and Spike

56:03

dashes towards the exit before us grabs

56:05

him by the throat while spike pleads

56:08

Which I hate to see I know he

56:10

tried he's like oh what the fuck and

56:12

Adam smiles offering to remove the chip But

56:15

he orders for us to do so

56:17

by ripping spikes head off Yeah, and

56:20

forest chokes spike attempting to pop his

56:22

head off like a fucking dandelion But

56:25

in a truly gnarly turn of events

56:27

spike raises his lit cigarette and inches

56:29

it towards forest Eye, and it just

56:31

sizzles as forest rides in pain, and

56:34

I was like there He is

56:36

sometimes smoking comes in handy and apparently

56:38

only when spike does it yes, and

56:41

then he just nopes away Hey,

56:44

forest starts to pursue him But Adam tells

56:46

him to let spike go and he turns

56:48

back to the CCTV saying there's nowhere

56:50

left to run That was

56:52

chilling. That's the thing Much

56:54

more would have been so much more chilling

56:56

if someone else said it oh picture like

56:58

the mayor thing that why you're saying They're

57:00

even the master chilled to me to my

57:02

fucking bones. I'd still be thinking about it.

57:04

I can't even express to you I love

57:07

the mayor. I think the master

57:09

is my favorite big bad master is I

57:12

love him He's a masterpiece. He

57:14

is just a sassy ass bit Where

57:18

I come I think

57:21

that might be what you want

57:23

to say. That's what it is. I love him I

57:26

have to agree though the master is like They

57:28

started off real fucking strong. See you

57:31

guys. I feel like I'm

57:33

really excited to rewatch it They

57:37

yeah, they started off real strong and

57:39

the good news for them is

57:41

they were Maintaining could you give

57:43

me the mayor and I'm yeah all right same

57:45

like on the same kind of vibe like I

57:47

can handle this Like you got even stuff it

57:50

was strong and it's a dipped with this and

57:52

the thing is too It's not it because I

57:54

was thinking like you know is

57:56

Adam's storyline just too long. Maybe that was it And

57:58

then I was like no The Bears was

58:00

really long. Yeah, and this Masters was pretty long

58:03

But the mayor's was really long and we didn't

58:05

get enough of him. Yeah, I

58:07

agree We were like stick around but

58:10

no, but you're so right Adam season

58:12

and his storyline feels so so fucking

58:14

long He's just so sterile I

58:16

think the main problem is that it's

58:18

like trying to relate to a rock

58:21

because he's just like man Mary

58:23

I'm like, there's no charisma. There's nothing

58:25

to like draw you in Yes,

58:28

I know he's supposed to be but I'm

58:30

like, oh This is

58:32

the mark like just wasn't that's not what

58:34

I need from my big bad. No, I

58:36

need charisma uniqueness nerve and talent exactly I

58:38

need it all in the

58:40

colonel's command room mustard rummages through

58:42

Buffy's sack and tells her to

58:44

shut the fuck up and he

58:46

tells her that she has some

58:48

fucking nerve to waltz into a

58:50

government facility with weapons like and

58:53

he looks at the items confused by what

58:55

he's seeing and he grabs a gourd and

58:57

is a little puzzled and Will

58:59

says it's a gourd and Giles

59:02

helps out and says magic Mustard

59:04

doesn't really get it. But you know what

59:06

miss Harron from Mean Girls clarifies

59:08

further and says This is the fertility boss

59:10

a button to belly try does that mean

59:12

anything to you? And it does it means

59:14

nothing to him because he is stunned by

59:16

the weirdness and he asked them what kind

59:18

of freaks they are Which I'm like rude.

59:20

Yeah But it makes

59:22

a lot of very rude and Buffy attempts to

59:25

reason with him telling him that they've been Trojan

59:27

horse and Adam is About to fuck shit up

59:29

mustard claims. He knows about every

59:32

fucking inch of the initiative Including

59:34

the inches displayed on Riley Finn

59:36

spy cam only fans feed Now

59:45

Willow asks if he knows about

59:48

the secret laboratory in mustard chips

59:50

Asking Buffy quietly about what secret lab I

59:52

thought you knew every inch and Buffy explains

59:55

that it's the lab used for the final

59:57

phase of the 3-14 project and he doesn't

59:59

get But he digs his feet in saying

1:00:01

that he knows everything that goes on there and Giles

1:00:04

asked how the Edgers are going to get

1:00:06

close enough to remove Adam's power source

1:00:09

and he thinks for a second and says He's

1:00:11

going to incapacitate him with as much voltage as

1:00:13

possible and Buffy tells him

1:00:15

what a fucking Idiotic idea that is

1:00:17

because she's like yeah Adam feeds off

1:00:20

of that shit So you'll just make

1:00:22

him like supervillain even more nice try

1:00:24

and he asked her if she's telling

1:00:26

him his business and

1:00:28

she steps forward and This

1:00:31

is my girl right here drop that my Bisma

1:00:34

my best Zelda. This is

1:00:36

her She says this

1:00:38

is not your business It's

1:00:41

mine you the initiative the boys

1:00:43

at the Pentagon you're all in

1:00:45

way over your heads messing with

1:00:47

primeval forces You have absolutely no

1:00:49

comprehension of and then she drops

1:00:51

the fucking mic and she says

1:00:53

I'm the Slayer You're

1:00:56

playing on my turf. Excuse me 911.

1:00:59

There's been a murder. It was fucking

1:01:01

buff isma That is it was buff

1:01:03

is that's the biggest that's laid moment

1:01:05

of almost this entire series so far that

1:01:08

Slayed that Mike just that

1:01:11

Mike hit that floor that Mike Exploded

1:01:13

on the dance. It did it absolutely that

1:01:15

might cause the solar eclipse that just happened.

1:01:18

I think it might in the future. Yes

1:01:21

truly Incredible and mustard

1:01:24

attempts to assert control somehow after

1:01:26

that somehow he tries to saying that

1:01:28

this place is his domain But then the

1:01:30

lights go out man Does

1:01:32

this do get that bag on his face right

1:01:34

now and edger looks at his

1:01:37

computer which flashes? They're locked in when that

1:01:39

happened. I will say like I've been shooting

1:01:41

a lot of it, but it did get

1:01:43

scary Like I was there. Oh shit. What's

1:01:45

about to happen? It did this got scary

1:01:47

and it got like the stakes rose really

1:01:49

high and you could world It was too

1:01:51

human bring me back to the weird bar

1:01:54

with Willie. Yes. Let me see some demons

1:01:56

just Roman around You know like a ground.

1:01:58

She'll obviously this is underground I

1:02:00

know what you're getting like an underground scene.

1:02:02

Yes, you know, yeah Like the underground like

1:02:04

coffee shops with just demons and vampire. Yeah

1:02:06

kind of thing like I want that Yeah

1:02:09

So Adam beeps and boobs in the

1:02:11

security room fucking with measures in place to

1:02:14

keep HST is contained and he watches as

1:02:16

a few initiative members round the corner nearby

1:02:19

And then he presses a button which opens

1:02:21

the containment cells This reminded me

1:02:23

a little bit of like cabin in the

1:02:25

woods when they open all the containment cells And

1:02:28

I love cabin in the woods I know I want

1:02:30

to watch that but the woman drops her clipboard and

1:02:33

shock and is tackled by a demon kind of like

1:02:35

it Really is like cabin in the woods Which makes

1:02:37

sense, you know and she shouts

1:02:39

as another demon attacks the edger in black

1:02:41

and they scream in agony as the clipboard

1:02:43

and wall Are just sprayed with blood and

1:02:46

this is when it got cool. I was

1:02:48

like, this is so gnarly Yeah, exactly in

1:02:50

the command room the computer edger says that

1:02:52

the hostiles are loose All of them are

1:02:54

loose and he looks like he is actively

1:02:56

shitting his pants. Wouldn't you? Yes, and Buffy

1:02:59

says that it's Adam and pleads for mustard

1:03:01

to let her handle it like she said

1:03:03

all this would happen She's like I'm literally

1:03:05

telling you right now. That's what's up. Yeah,

1:03:07

she's like get your fucking people out of

1:03:09

the initiative I'll handle this and mustard is

1:03:11

a fucking dumbass though And he

1:03:14

takes most of the men interesting three edgers

1:03:16

with holding the scoob because they're under arrest

1:03:18

and As soon as the rest of

1:03:20

the Edgers leave the room Buffy just incapacitates

1:03:22

all three within seconds I'm like dude she

1:03:25

incapacitated you once do you remember that? No,

1:03:27

he's how quickly forgets her Now

1:03:29

we get like a second act montage kind of

1:03:31

thing Yeah willow takes a

1:03:34

seat at the computer while Giles mentions how

1:03:36

dangerous the enjoining spell is They need a

1:03:38

quiet and safe space to do it out

1:03:40

in the main room of the initiative their

1:03:43

explosions and edger screams as he's yeeted through

1:03:45

the air the room descends into Chaos's Edgers

1:03:47

and demons mix on the battlefield. This is

1:03:49

when shit got fucking awesome It was great

1:03:51

a demon kicks an edger in the head

1:03:54

like faith soccer kick that cop in the

1:03:56

face in season 4 episode 15 This year's

1:03:58

girl. Hell. Yeah, like that That cop,

1:04:00

the edger, most definitely died. Graham

1:04:03

opens fire, killing a demon, but is tackled,

1:04:05

as a lab-coded initiative member gets her neck

1:04:07

snapped by a demon. I said, stay

1:04:09

away from Graham's neck. I said, oh no.

1:04:12

And Spike slow-motion punches and kicks his

1:04:14

way through the chaos. Another

1:04:16

doctor attempts to climb out of the

1:04:19

Silver Line operating theater, but tentacles wiggle

1:04:21

wiggle and wrap around his leg and

1:04:23

drags him back down. That part was

1:04:26

really scary. This

1:04:28

is so Cabin in the Woodsy that

1:04:30

I can't even like, watching it now

1:04:33

that that came out. Like

1:04:35

obviously in the future you're like, well damn. This

1:04:37

is like, very clear. And

1:04:39

it's so good. Like this kind of chaos

1:04:41

is the chaos I was looking for in

1:04:43

the initiative. Yes, yes. Something needed to change

1:04:46

with the initiative. It was just too sterile

1:04:48

for me, I think. And that's what, in

1:04:50

comparing it to how it's

1:04:52

like a little similar of a situation in Cabin

1:04:54

in the Woods, I'm like, you perfected it in

1:04:56

that. I agree. That was definitely

1:04:58

it. Completely agreed. I think it really does come

1:05:01

down. Yeah. So it's just being very sterile.

1:05:03

A little more something to it. Now in the

1:05:05

command post, Willow notices that there are air and

1:05:07

power ducts running to a part of the map

1:05:09

that supposedly is just stone. So bitch, they found

1:05:12

it. Buffy looks running to

1:05:14

a part of the map that supposedly

1:05:16

is just stone. So bitch, they found

1:05:18

it. Buffy looks at the map and

1:05:20

it's right behind 314. Yes,

1:05:23

bitch, let's go. So

1:05:26

Buffy asks if Will can unlock it. And

1:05:28

Will says that all the locks have been

1:05:30

disengaged except for the exits. So

1:05:32

they traverse the pandemonium. Graham shoots

1:05:34

your boy, protecting his fellow

1:05:37

edgers. Buffy kicks demons

1:05:39

in the sternum. This scene has

1:05:41

everything. There are sparks. There's pyrotechnics.

1:05:44

There's electricity tasing guns. Demons

1:05:47

and edgers yeet around each other. Like

1:05:49

as spotlights aimlessly manned or the scene,

1:05:51

action music is playing as Buffy tackles

1:05:54

Willow to the ground, preventing her from

1:05:56

being attacked. It's good chaos.

1:05:58

It must have been really... fun to

1:06:00

shoot this. Super fun. So they scramble

1:06:03

through the doors to 3.14, noticing an

1:06:05

anti-chamber leading to the laboratory. And Buffy

1:06:07

tells Willow to barricade her in. And

1:06:10

she double checks with Giles, making sure that they're

1:06:12

going to be good to do some witchy shit.

1:06:14

And Giles says, yes, bitch. And

1:06:16

Buffy asks how long before the ritual kicks

1:06:19

in, five minutes. So Buffy says

1:06:21

she'll move fast then. And Xander calls

1:06:23

after her, saying that he doesn't like her going

1:06:25

in alone. And Buffy stares at

1:06:27

her friends so meaningfully

1:06:29

and says, I don't think.

1:06:31

And you can tell this

1:06:34

hits. Willow looks

1:06:36

so fucking touched. They needed this. Xander feels

1:06:39

it. You can tell. And when Xander says

1:06:41

it, like, I don't like you going in

1:06:43

after alone, I was like, that's

1:06:45

your boy right there. Like, I was like, that's

1:06:48

such a friend being like, I want to go

1:06:50

in and like put my shit in danger for

1:06:52

you. Right. And she's like, you are putting your

1:06:54

shit in danger. Like we are together. And that's

1:06:57

the thing. It's the recognition of I couldn't do

1:06:59

this about you. Whereas sometimes she'll be like, I

1:07:01

have to go in alone. Like, yeah, you can't

1:07:03

worry about you. And this time it's like, you

1:07:06

need to do your part of your

1:07:08

because you're doing your part. Yeah. So

1:07:10

I'm not alone doing this. Yeah. You

1:07:12

got me. I got you. Exactly. It's

1:07:14

like you are vital to this succeeding.

1:07:16

And it's like all of them. It

1:07:18

hits so good. They all need to

1:07:20

hear about. So Giles, too. I'm so

1:07:22

glad that Giles got to be a

1:07:24

part of it. Because he's been like

1:07:26

on the outskirts. And like

1:07:28

having them all just come together and do

1:07:31

this was so fucking satisfying. I love it.

1:07:33

I love it. Oh, and Buffy turns backwards

1:07:35

and marches off into the hidden laboratory. Willow

1:07:38

barricades her in and conceals the entrance

1:07:40

as Xander and Giles block off the

1:07:42

main entryway to room 314. Now

1:07:45

Buffy walks into the hidden laboratory

1:07:47

and is horrified to see Riley

1:07:49

sitting stiffly in like some

1:07:51

kind of like operating procedure chair. It literally

1:07:53

honestly it looks like this the chair that

1:07:56

you sit in when you're getting your eyes

1:07:58

checked. Yes, it actually does. It's like

1:08:01

an optometrist chair. Yeah, it

1:08:03

really does and she asked if

1:08:05

he's okay But all he can do is stare at

1:08:07

her and she tells him to say something and he

1:08:09

attempts to move his lip But it's he's

1:08:12

unable to do anything I see it and

1:08:14

he shifts his gaze behind her and

1:08:16

she turns to see Milky-eyed Maggie Walsh

1:08:18

and Angleman looking all gross and Reanimated

1:08:20

and shit and Buffy's like what

1:08:22

the fuck is this bullshit? And

1:08:25

why you know, why can't you talk

1:08:27

to me and Neapolitan Adam pounds the

1:08:29

runway towards her saying he can't he's

1:08:31

not programmed He's part of the final phase

1:08:33

now as you were supposed to be and

1:08:35

Buffy quips. Sorry. I don't

1:08:37

jump through who's home command I've

1:08:39

never really been one to tell the line. It's like

1:08:42

no, she hasn't bitch. No, she hasn't Neapolitan

1:08:44

Adam observes her for a second and

1:08:46

says, oh kill her and Forest

1:08:49

joins the chat and grabs Buffy at

1:08:51

a headlock sing some cheesy ass line

1:08:54

in the lowest most ridiculous voice I

1:08:56

hate it and the shot settles on

1:08:58

Milky-eyed Maggie who starts up a what

1:09:00

appears to be a bone saw me

1:09:04

Yeah, I was like that's not

1:09:06

good I hope it wasn't a

1:09:08

bone saw though because a real bone saw like won't cut through

1:09:10

your flesh really Yeah, it's not like

1:09:12

made to it's made to cut through bone not

1:09:14

flesh That's so wild that it can cut through bone

1:09:17

But yeah, like when I was shooting like when

1:09:19

when you like use the bone saw Yeah, if I

1:09:21

held my hand out like they showed me this like

1:09:23

when they first you know They were like,

1:09:25

oh put your hand out and I was like, I didn't rather not and

1:09:27

they were like I'm not gonna cut your hand off and

1:09:29

I was like, okay Put my hand out and they

1:09:31

went right into my hand and it just bounced

1:09:34

right off my hand. Wow, that's really interesting

1:09:36

I guess if you pushed hard enough into

1:09:38

flash it probably would obviously but I

1:09:40

was like strange choice, huh? But I

1:09:42

guess it's effective. It looks fucked up. Yeah, that's

1:09:44

the thing and nobody nobody except an autopsy

1:09:48

About that we'll go with it. I think it's cool. But

1:09:51

yeah, I was fucked up So they wouldn't she

1:09:53

just walk slowly towards Buffy with it anything

1:09:55

really very menacingly So we got

1:09:57

a non-existent commercial and come

1:10:00

back it's the third act montage

1:10:02

by Doug Jones. Third

1:10:08

act montage! Buffy kicks milky-eyed

1:10:10

Maggie Walsh and she flies through the air like

1:10:12

Angel chasing a rat into a pile of trash

1:10:14

and becoming part one. Hey! Beads

1:10:16

of sweat form on Riley's head and he

1:10:19

is maybe pooping? I'd be. I

1:10:21

don't know. I was like, I was. I

1:10:23

would be pooping. That would definitely be a

1:10:25

secret weapon of sorts. So funny. If

1:10:28

we get 314 proper, Giles, Willow and Xander

1:10:30

start the circle and we get that really

1:10:32

cool 360 rotating magic

1:10:34

shot as Willow says. The power of

1:10:36

this layer is all who wield it. Last

1:10:39

to ancient first we invoke thee.

1:10:42

Grant us thy domain of primal strength.

1:10:44

Accept us from the promise. Because

1:10:47

mine and heart and spirit you will let

1:10:49

the hand in publicize. Do

1:10:51

thy will. And it was so good

1:10:54

because it's literally them. That

1:10:56

whole spell is being like, power

1:10:58

us together. Yeah. To

1:11:01

like, all of our mind, spirit and

1:11:03

heart are like conjoined. They're invoking the spirits.

1:11:05

I'm like, oh that's a secret! They're invoking

1:11:07

them at all. Now in

1:11:09

the secret laboratory shit's not going great.

1:11:11

Forrest seems a little bit unfazed by

1:11:14

Buffy's violence. He shoves her

1:11:16

forward, she eats shit and cablams her face

1:11:18

into a metal stretcher. That looked like it

1:11:20

hurt so badly. Not great. Thank god you're

1:11:22

the Slayer. Yeah. She's going

1:11:24

to just shout her name and Forrest turns around and

1:11:26

says, Shut up. Watch me

1:11:29

kill your girlfriend Finn. That's an

1:11:31

order. That line. That's

1:11:33

an order, Ian. That line. Shut up.

1:11:36

Watch me kill your girlfriend Finn. That's an order. That's

1:11:38

an order. That could have gone on

1:11:40

the cutting room floor, that one. Because it's

1:11:42

so like, this is the military. And

1:11:45

it's just dumb. Yeah, it's very like, you expect

1:11:47

that to be there and then you're like, hey,

1:11:49

cool that they didn't do that but not here.

1:11:51

Yeah, it's just, I was like that. He should

1:11:53

workshop that one. Yeah, I didn't like that one at

1:11:55

all. But Riley goes

1:11:57

back to strained pooping face as Forrest. Resumes

1:12:00

beating the snot out of Buffy Riley goes

1:12:02

back out into that jerk now the jerk.

1:12:04

Yeah We should have got in

1:12:06

this moment. Somebody should have slid a squatty potty underneath

1:12:08

him and then like Problem

1:12:10

resolved. I got you. I like four of

1:12:12

those things So

1:12:15

Riley wiggle wiggle his hand towards a

1:12:18

broken glass bottle on the table next to him

1:12:20

You sweaty Betty though, and he grabs

1:12:23

it and whips the weapon towards his

1:12:25

own chest bitch

1:12:28

bitch We were all

1:12:30

three of us were like Skittered

1:12:33

up the walls with discomfort. It's

1:12:35

gross like fuck any

1:12:38

slices downward And

1:12:40

we're assaulted by a mesophonia moment

1:12:42

as he drags the glass down

1:12:44

opening a giant fucking wound Look

1:12:47

out for your heart there, bro Careful

1:12:50

don't hit that paracardium

1:12:52

not that now in

1:12:54

314 proper willow presents

1:12:56

a tarot card Spiritus

1:12:58

spirit she hands Xander another

1:13:01

animus heart. She gives Giles

1:13:03

one sophist mind I love it and

1:13:05

Willow over turns. I and I

1:13:08

love that they they they

1:13:10

like fit their poorly You know these person

1:13:12

they're given to Willow over turns a final

1:13:14

card manus the hand We get

1:13:16

a shot of Buffy getting her groove

1:13:18

back in the secret laboratory like yes,

1:13:20

bitch lay I'm fee is the hands.

1:13:22

I love it this They

1:13:25

killed it with this like they did

1:13:28

this that part every part of this

1:13:30

part was just like yes Yeah, it

1:13:32

fit so well. It was so satisfying

1:13:35

and it just was like yum yum.

1:13:37

Yum Yeah, so Riley starts fishing around

1:13:39

the open wound he made in his

1:13:42

chest into his central nervous Yeah, and

1:13:44

we get the worst squelching sound and

1:13:46

thankfully cut away for forest sucker

1:13:49

punching Buffy and unfortunately But

1:13:52

he tosses her on to a gurney and

1:13:54

Riley grimaces a cold sweat washing down his

1:13:56

face as he tries to find the chip

1:13:59

forest She lifts Buffy up and she

1:14:01

rips an overhead electrical line, which dangles

1:14:03

spraying sparks into the room. Back

1:14:07

in 314, Willow says, We enjoin that

1:14:09

we may inhabit the vessel. The

1:14:11

Hand, daughter of Sinead, first of

1:14:13

the worm. The camera spins faster

1:14:16

and faster, showing Xander Giles and

1:14:18

Willow's hands all joined and their

1:14:20

faces deliberate with concentration. I love

1:14:22

that shot. So cool. Riley

1:14:25

squelches and grunts as Forrest forces

1:14:27

Buffy onto the stretcher. Milky-eyed

1:14:30

Maggie and Angleman restrain her as

1:14:32

Riley succeeds in grasping the chip

1:14:34

out. Forrest asks Buffy if that's

1:14:37

all she's got. And behind her,

1:14:39

Riley shouts, No, she's

1:14:41

got me. And he yanks

1:14:43

the tubing out of Milky-eyed Maggie and

1:14:46

Amal's Angleman's torso and they fall to

1:14:48

the ground lifeless. It

1:14:51

was such a moment. It's so good.

1:14:53

But he yanks the tubing out. I

1:14:56

saw one person say that, like, I

1:14:58

was about to see that Riley didn't

1:15:00

stand a chance against Angel to

1:15:03

that specific person. Have you seen this scene? I

1:15:05

feel like I'm sorry. What? But have you seen

1:15:07

that to that specific person? I just got to

1:15:10

add, did you see this scene in

1:15:12

the telescoping baton scene? Did you see those

1:15:14

scenes? Did you see those? Do they come

1:15:16

face to face again? Ask the watcher?

1:15:19

Yeah, I don't think so. So I saw that

1:15:21

he did stand a chance against Angel and then

1:15:23

he did this. He imagined somebody

1:15:25

loving you so much that they

1:15:28

fish through their central nervous system

1:15:30

to deactivate a chip that was,

1:15:33

you know, like, unconsentrally put in

1:15:35

them. Yeah. Inconsensually. See,

1:15:38

that's where the difference is. Angel's

1:15:41

dead. Yeah. All of

1:15:43

his things that he does are like, yeah,

1:15:45

romance, like fun. So in the

1:15:47

grand scheme of things, it's like he's dead. So,

1:15:50

like, the stakes are there for him. But,

1:15:52

like, are they? Yeah.

1:15:55

Riley, alive, just reached

1:15:57

into his central nervous system. to

1:16:00

pull a chip out of his

1:16:03

chest to save Buffy. That's the

1:16:05

sexiest thing anyone could do for

1:16:07

you. To me, me personally, same.

1:16:10

Me personally. Personally. That trumps it

1:16:12

for me. Correct. That just, that

1:16:15

takes the whole cake. Yeah, that takes the

1:16:17

whole, he's never done anything like that. That

1:16:19

takes the bakery, actually. Yeah, I, that, mm,

1:16:22

I'm into it, but that's just us. I woulda needed,

1:16:24

I'm sorry, I woulda needed to pause in this moment

1:16:27

and be like, I'm gonna be like, everybody

1:16:29

pause real quick. Hold on a sec. Real quick.

1:16:31

Teamy make up sesh right ahead of everyone. And

1:16:34

again, if you are, it's fine, if you're

1:16:36

a team angel, be team angel, like, be

1:16:38

who you wanna be. And again, angel in

1:16:40

the later seasons of Angel is

1:16:44

much more endearing to me and much

1:16:46

more likable. And I can see the

1:16:48

Angel Love more in that part. Yes.

1:16:51

Right now, where we are in

1:16:53

the series, both of the series,

1:16:56

it is a no fucking contest

1:16:58

to me. Agreed. And where we

1:17:00

are in this series too, is

1:17:03

I didn't like Angel at this point. Yeah. I

1:17:05

liked him later. So it's like here, I'm

1:17:08

still where I am. Yep. Yeah.

1:17:11

I think, I think Riley stands the

1:17:13

largest chance against Angel. When he yanks

1:17:15

those tubes out, my goodness gracious. She's

1:17:18

got me. And then no one

1:17:20

will ever show up for you like that. Like, I

1:17:22

mean, no one is, I mean, people have shown up

1:17:24

for me, but like, but nobody's ripped

1:17:27

tubing out of two reanimated corpses of

1:17:29

my men, of their mentors for me.

1:17:31

No. After ripping a chip out of

1:17:33

their stuff. Show up for me like that so I

1:17:35

know it's real. So I know it's hubby, I listen

1:17:38

in. Show up for me like that. Drew's like, I

1:17:40

don't have a chip in my central nervous system. He's

1:17:42

like, if I had one, I'd rip it out. He

1:17:44

would. No. I would

1:17:46

too. It's true. Now Forrest focuses on Riley and

1:17:48

Buffy kicks him in the face. And she tells

1:17:50

Riley that she needs to get to Adam. And

1:17:52

he tells her to go as he and Forrest

1:17:54

prepare to face off. Riley walks towards

1:17:57

him and Forrest tries to flip Riley over

1:17:59

his head. Riley lands on his feet

1:18:02

and they trade violence. Mustard leads

1:18:04

his men commanding them to fall back. And

1:18:07

in the security room, Buffy finds Adam and

1:18:09

she lunges Adam, but he swaps her back.

1:18:12

She tries again, but he slams her against the

1:18:14

control panel and throws her across the room. He

1:18:17

rocks towards her, unsheathing his arm bone erection,

1:18:19

and she breaks it over her knee and

1:18:21

punches him in the face, which is so

1:18:23

badass. That was awesome. She tells him that

1:18:26

she broke his arm and he tells her

1:18:28

that he's got another. And he shakes his

1:18:30

left arm, which makes

1:18:32

mechanical sounds as it shifts

1:18:34

into a fucking automatic rifle,

1:18:37

like a machine gun kind of thing.

1:18:39

That's not fair. He's Megatron. Like

1:18:42

when did he become Megatron then at that

1:18:44

moment? And I

1:18:46

love it because Mikey said, damn, this

1:18:49

guy has so many layers that he deserves

1:18:51

an interview with Oprah to uncover his secrets.

1:18:53

That's incredible. It

1:18:57

is true. Now Buffy is

1:18:59

shook. She launches herself and dives behind

1:19:01

the control panel as Adam sprays

1:19:04

the room with ammunition, which at this point I

1:19:06

was like, that's dumb. I

1:19:08

didn't like it. I didn't like it. Genuinely

1:19:10

waiting for him to be like back to

1:19:13

the choppa. I did. It's like, all right.

1:19:15

It's just not my kind of vibe. No,

1:19:19

it's not my kind of scare. No. It might

1:19:21

be your kind of scare. So if it is,

1:19:23

I hope you dug this really hard. I hope

1:19:25

you were fucking flying off your feet with this.

1:19:28

But it just wasn't my particular kind.

1:19:30

Retweet. In 3.14, Willow implores the

1:19:32

spirits to bring them to the vessel, AKA

1:19:34

Buffy. We get a shot of the camera

1:19:37

whirling in circles, then

1:19:39

flying through the ductwork down towards

1:19:41

Buffy's upturned face, and the power

1:19:43

panel explodes, clouding the room with

1:19:45

billows of smoke. As it

1:19:48

clears, Buffy stands up and bitch,

1:19:50

her eyes are glowing orange. I

1:19:53

loved this so much. It

1:19:55

was so cool. Neapolitan Adam tells Buffy

1:19:58

that she can't last much longer. Buffy's

1:20:00

like, oh no bitch no. And

1:20:03

it sounds like her voice mixed

1:20:05

with Giles, Will, and Xander. And

1:20:08

she says, We can. We are forever.

1:20:12

They are forever, guys. Five

1:20:14

ever. They are. Five ever.

1:20:17

Neapolitan Adam lowers his rifle arm as Buffy

1:20:19

starts her Starbucks order, speaking the Sumerian that

1:20:21

only Giles knew how to speak. Adam

1:20:24

thinks this shit is interesting, but raises his

1:20:26

rifle arm and sprays bullets in her direction.

1:20:29

But bitch, they had a force field

1:20:32

in front of her. That was so cool. And

1:20:34

then they look like harmless little raindrops

1:20:37

in a puddle pooled vertically in front of her.

1:20:40

And Adam starts to look a little

1:20:42

nervous. He thinks it's very interesting. Can

1:20:44

I just say too, the fact that

1:20:46

like CGI was

1:20:48

what it was. Like we've seen some fucked

1:20:50

shit. Absolutely. Have they done? We've

1:20:53

seen some fucked shit on this show. Absolutely.

1:20:55

That wasn't held up. Like that

1:20:57

wasn't silly or gimmicky at all.

1:21:00

That was such a cool shot.

1:21:02

Agreed. Like I thought it was so

1:21:05

cool. That stood the test of time. Hell yeah, it

1:21:07

did. I thought this was great. It was really cool.

1:21:09

In three fourteen and HST attempts to break

1:21:11

through the barricade. But bitch, the scoobs are

1:21:14

still caught up in the camera spinning magic

1:21:16

moment. Oh no. Oh no. Oh

1:21:19

now Forrest tosses Riley around the

1:21:21

room assaulting him with his fucking

1:21:23

ridiculous voice. He throws Riley

1:21:25

into a bunch of canisters of gas

1:21:27

nearby and Riley grabs one and charges

1:21:30

Forrest beating him with the tank repeatedly.

1:21:33

We hear the sound of gas

1:21:35

escaping as Forrest grabs the canister away

1:21:37

from Riley who knopes the fuck away

1:21:39

and dives behind a stretcher turned on

1:21:41

its side for cover. Forrest raises

1:21:43

the canister above his head right next

1:21:46

to the sparking electrical line as we

1:21:48

read flammable written across the metal surface.

1:21:51

Bitch in the words of

1:21:54

Katy Perry, baby, you're a

1:21:56

firework. And Riley goes, oh,

1:21:58

oh, oh. S4 shoots across the

1:22:00

sky. That

1:22:04

was our music moment. And that

1:22:06

was also what Mikey is. It

1:22:08

was. I love that

1:22:10

in the end, Forrest takes himself out.

1:22:12

Yeah. That is just...

1:22:15

It's poetic. It is poetic at that moment. Because he just... You

1:22:18

do. You

1:22:20

saw him like slowly have this like

1:22:22

character arc that you're like, you're going

1:22:25

to take yourself down, dude. And he

1:22:27

does. Twice, actually. He's

1:22:29

two. He's going after Adam the first time.

1:22:32

And then ending up as this weird demon

1:22:34

and taking himself out again. Because he couldn't

1:22:36

get out of his own way. Exactly. He

1:22:38

really couldn't. Exactly. Now Neapolitan Adam is still

1:22:40

attempting to shoot through Buffy's forcefield and he

1:22:42

shoots a small missile at her.

1:22:45

But Buffy waves her hand and

1:22:47

it transforms into three doves. Again. So

1:22:51

fucking cool. Beautiful. Not

1:22:53

lame at all. No, it was gorgeous. You

1:22:55

just couldn't stop looking at it. Whoever did

1:22:58

that, like CGI shit, like they did

1:23:00

big things. Truly. So

1:23:02

he points his arm gun again, but she does a

1:23:05

hand motion that puts his toy back into his arm.

1:23:08

And she does these... The hand motions

1:23:10

are very fluid and very just like beautiful.

1:23:13

Beautiful, yeah. And he punches at

1:23:15

her, but she whips out of his way.

1:23:17

Very matrixy. And he's unable

1:23:19

to land a single hit. She

1:23:21

bashes him in the face, kicks him and

1:23:23

sends him reeling backwards. Adam is

1:23:25

like, what the fuck? But

1:23:28

we get a spinning overhead shot of the scoobs in

1:23:30

three fourteen. As Buffy says, I never

1:23:33

hoped to grasp the source of our power. And

1:23:36

then she fucking flips him

1:23:38

like a motherfucking pancake. Like a

1:23:40

flapback. Flip. She's like,

1:23:42

you're bubbling. Other side. And then

1:23:44

picks him up into the full

1:23:46

chung-li from Street Fighter, hovering in

1:23:48

the air and kicking him repeatedly.

1:23:52

She rears back and punches through

1:23:54

his fucking abdomen. And we get

1:23:56

another misophonia moment as Adam grasps.

1:23:59

that Buffy's arm fear very apparent

1:24:01

on his face for the very

1:24:03

first time. And Buffy

1:24:06

glares at him red-eyed and yanks

1:24:08

backwards, revealing that she's

1:24:10

holding a metal canister glowing with

1:24:12

green light from Neapolitan Adam's torso.

1:24:15

It still has gross bits of desiccated

1:24:17

strawberry flavored ice cream attached to it.

1:24:19

And she holds it up next to

1:24:21

her face saying, But yours is right

1:24:24

here. And then Neapolitan Adam just drops

1:24:26

to the floor and that was our

1:24:28

last motherfucking scoop of

1:24:31

that shit sundae. And you know

1:24:33

what? I've actually never been a fan

1:24:35

of Neapolitan ice cream. So there you go. So maybe

1:24:37

that's another reason I didn't like him. That was another

1:24:39

reason. I couldn't

1:24:41

be happier. I cheered. I

1:24:43

was like, I looked at you both and I was

1:24:46

like, we're finally done. And we were like, yes. And

1:24:48

we were both like, oh, thank goodness. Like the

1:24:51

sigh of relief that you breathe after

1:24:53

this fucker goes out. Truly. Goodbye. Bye,

1:24:56

bitch. Now, Riley sees Adam's

1:24:58

lifeless body on the ground and he watches

1:25:00

as Buffy stares at the core intently. It

1:25:02

raises into the air. We hear chanting and

1:25:05

Sumerian as a pallid green light crackles with

1:25:07

energy around the core. And then it erupts

1:25:09

into a burst of white light and

1:25:11

just disappears completely. And

1:25:13

Riley touches her face and she just gets

1:25:16

the vipers and falls right into his arms,

1:25:18

which we all would. In

1:25:20

three, fourteen proper, the scoobs gasp

1:25:22

as they reenter their bodies. The

1:25:24

HST bursts in, but Spike tackles

1:25:27

him and violently wrenches its neck.

1:25:29

Spike pants, saying that the HST was a

1:25:31

nasty sort of fellow. Good thing he was

1:25:34

there to fucking save them. And

1:25:36

Giles says, yeah, thank you.

1:25:39

Although your hero is most likely muted by the

1:25:41

fact that you were helping Adam to start a

1:25:43

war that would kill us all. And Xander's like,

1:25:45

yeah. And thinking that Spike

1:25:47

saved them so they wouldn't stake him on

1:25:49

the spot. And Spike says, well, yeah, did

1:25:52

it work? And they don't respond. They

1:25:54

just stand up. And Spike says, well, then

1:25:56

everything's all right. We all get to be not

1:25:58

stake through the heart. Good work. I'm

1:26:00

obsessed because I'm like, yes, come back. I that's

1:26:03

the thing. I just love, I love the

1:26:06

juxtaposition of Mike and the Scoobies because like

1:26:08

when he's fully against them, I hate it.

1:26:11

It's like I liked it when he was fully

1:26:13

against them with Drew and like that whole thing.

1:26:16

But now with the chip in the head, I'm

1:26:18

accepting that he can't be fully against them. So

1:26:20

it's like, I like that. Like very

1:26:23

just like there's a bond there. There's something there's

1:26:25

something that I like it. It's a wonky little

1:26:27

partnership that happens, but he's still kind of against

1:26:30

them. But when he went like full against them

1:26:32

with Adam, I was like, no, no. Yeah. Because

1:26:35

also Adam's not a good partner. Drew is

1:26:37

a good partner. No, with the

1:26:40

actually now Buffy and Riley

1:26:42

burst through the secret entrance and Willow

1:26:44

says that Buffy was great and Buffy

1:26:46

clarifies we were great. They

1:26:48

all move to go and do the madness and the

1:26:50

initiative by fucking up some demons. Now

1:26:53

in the Pentagon, Zoom Daddy says that

1:26:55

this shit was an experiment. This

1:26:58

was an attempt to control and harness

1:27:00

otherworldly powers for military purposes. That shit

1:27:02

failed. 40% of the

1:27:04

Edgers had a series of rap

1:27:07

adding, and it seems that it was

1:27:09

only through the actions of a deserter

1:27:11

and a group of civilian insurrectionists that

1:27:13

our losses were not total. I

1:27:15

trust the irony of that is not lost on any of us.

1:27:18

And he says that milk eyed Maggie

1:27:21

Walsh's ideas were bangers, but unfortunately they

1:27:23

did not pan out great. Demons

1:27:25

can't be harnessed or controlled. So

1:27:27

the project should be terminated and

1:27:29

all records destroyed. And the typical

1:27:31

steps to a government cover up

1:27:33

will ensue now. And he

1:27:36

adds the initiative itself will be filled in

1:27:38

with concrete. Burn

1:27:41

it down, gentlemen. Burn

1:27:43

it down and solve the

1:27:45

earth. Great ending. Such

1:27:47

a cool ending. Ask

1:27:50

the Watcher. They don't know about

1:27:52

the Slayer, it seems. I

1:27:54

look to Mikey to help me. I think that they

1:27:57

probably would because. Right. Yeah.

1:28:00

because Maggie, I'm

1:28:02

sure, wrote notes about her. Yeah. And

1:28:05

also, she got clearance. But

1:28:07

they just call her like, they refer

1:28:09

to her and her friends as like a group of

1:28:11

insurrectionists. I don't know. That's a good question.

1:28:14

It's a little unclear. Because my

1:28:16

initial thought is they do. Yeah. Because

1:28:18

I don't see how they couldn't, to

1:28:21

be quite honest. Where they know about demons

1:28:23

and everything. And I feel like maybe they

1:28:25

just aren't using, maybe they're just using government

1:28:27

talk here. Because they're in a government setting.

1:28:29

So they're not gonna be like, and the

1:28:31

Slayer. Like, you know, it's like, they're just

1:28:33

like a group of civilian insurrectionists. Also, they're

1:28:35

like the other track record of everything that transpired

1:28:37

up to this point was pretty fucking awful. So

1:28:40

I'm pretty certain that they're not gonna be like,

1:28:42

hey, let's go after this supernatural power. Yeah. Since

1:28:44

this other shit worked out so well. Yeah, I

1:28:46

think they're just like. They're probably just like, well,

1:28:48

leave that over there. Like, you know what, fill

1:28:51

it in, let them leave and like, that's

1:28:53

the end of that. That makes sense. Very

1:28:55

government cover-up-y. Just like, bye, very. Yeah. It's

1:28:58

so weird to me that this is

1:29:00

not the season finale. And

1:29:03

I genuinely don't know

1:29:05

what to expect from the next episode.

1:29:07

You don't. I imagine that

1:29:09

it's gonna end on like some

1:29:11

wild-ass cliffhanger that will

1:29:14

set us up for season four,

1:29:16

five. Five, five. But

1:29:19

I don't

1:29:21

think you can guess. I really don't have a

1:29:23

guess. Like, I don't have

1:29:26

a prediction. Yeah. I don't think you could,

1:29:28

to be honest. Because this was very

1:29:30

season finale-ish. Yeah, like, because I

1:29:32

said to Mikey in the beginning, I was like,

1:29:34

what number episode is this? And you said 21.

1:29:36

And I was like, no, it's gotta

1:29:38

be 22. You're like, nope,

1:29:41

there's one more. I

1:29:43

don't know what my wooden stake-sab is. I really

1:29:45

can't come up with one other than cliffhanger. They

1:29:48

went for a more heady season

1:29:50

finale than an action-packed wild

1:29:53

season finale this time. I know. And

1:29:55

you both keep using the word heady. I know

1:29:57

what that means, but I don't know. how

1:30:00

it what to take from that to which you

1:30:02

wouldn't to apply. Yeah, there's no way you would.

1:30:04

Yeah, I don't know. I'm excited for you to

1:30:06

watch it. All right. I'm just excited to see

1:30:08

what your thoughts are. OK. Because

1:30:10

I really like this episode that makes

1:30:13

me happy. And it's like, but

1:30:15

I like it for for reasons I

1:30:17

cannot really reveal yet. I want

1:30:19

to watch it right now, please. I

1:30:22

want to go to I want to go to the I

1:30:26

got it. I was going to

1:30:28

say, Buffy in that white sheer shirt with

1:30:30

the pink top underneath in the black pants

1:30:32

and the shit kicker boots. You love the

1:30:34

shit in perfection. She looks beautiful.

1:30:37

Yeah, like beautiful. She's like stunning.

1:30:39

And honestly, I love Willow. Her

1:30:42

outfit with like the pink, like baseball

1:30:44

jersey kind of. I know that was cute. It was

1:30:46

very of the time. Whatever that's called. I forget what

1:30:48

those shirts are called. What are they called? A raglan.

1:30:50

Raglan tease. That's what it is. She

1:30:52

she just looks cute and she looks very

1:30:54

Willow and super fashion and for Tara and

1:30:57

that same scene. Yeah, she looks wicked cute.

1:30:59

Oh, she looks beautiful. She looks so put

1:31:01

together and her hair is up and on

1:31:03

her face. And like you said, that's symbolic.

1:31:05

It is. She's happy. You

1:31:07

know what? Giles is

1:31:10

rope. I don't find Giles

1:31:12

sexy like I just can't. But his

1:31:14

robe is pretty sexy. He also has

1:31:16

the cutest smile. Like he has

1:31:18

the cutest. To me, it's very dad ask. So yeah, that's

1:31:21

OK. And Spike always looks amazing. Yeah.

1:31:24

And you know, Maggie Walsh fashion in

1:31:26

for looking like a fucking nightmare. I'm

1:31:28

going to look so scary on Halloween

1:31:31

and I can't wait. Future

1:31:33

fashion and for my I can't wait for

1:31:35

that. It's great. Yeah, I thought there was

1:31:37

so many seeing them doing

1:31:39

the incantation together is like my favorite

1:31:41

thing ever. It was incredible. Killed

1:31:44

it. I think honestly, my quote

1:31:46

of the week is definitely when

1:31:48

she says when

1:31:50

he says like, I don't want you going in there alone. And

1:31:52

she says like, I won't be. Yeah,

1:31:55

I because that just hit so

1:31:57

right. It hit every part of me. It's so.

1:32:00

Yeah, I think gum hold on my quarter

1:32:02

of the week You could

1:32:04

never hope to grasp the source of our

1:32:06

power thick just because you know that that's

1:32:08

like such a double meaning Mm-hmm. I love

1:32:11

I love that. I love it. Yeah, I

1:32:13

really and it's fun to hear like that

1:32:15

all their voices Yeah, like that's really cool.

1:32:17

It's really cool and Buffy looks great with

1:32:19

yellow scary contact guys. She does She looks

1:32:22

great and whatever She really does that huge

1:32:24

like gash on her face even Sexual attention

1:32:26

moment of the week was when Riley ripped

1:32:28

the tubes out of angle men and Milky

1:32:30

Ed Maggie Yes, and said she has me.

1:32:32

Yes But

1:32:38

yeah great episode great episode and I

1:32:41

am leaving to go watch the next

1:32:43

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