#BTVS season 6

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

every night, I save you

[dyke-o-matic]

Funny: Spike crashing the wedding of a man he neither likes nor respects

Funnier: Xander inviting a man he neither likes nor respects to his wedding

Funniest: Xander inviting a man he neither likes nor respects to his wedding, AND giving him a plus one

[paperpuzzles]

[jennys-calendar]

Rewatching 6x02 and like

[machetesquirrel]

I support Willow in her revenge quest because supporting gay rights also means supporting gay wrongs.

[the-crooked-library]

upon my rewatch of season 6 of BTVS I gotta be real here. say what you will abt Mayor Wilkins but he would NEVER have left his murder daughter to struggle alone with debts and a sister. he’d be like “sweetie you own real estate that people live in, why are you working a minimum wage job?.. come now I am going to teach you the most useful evil skill you’ll ever learn, it’s called Being a Landlord” and then pay all her bills and make her drink her milk bc calcium is important

[bluehairedboyfriend]

You know Xander's "I love you speech" would have 100% more powerful if delivered bu Buffy

Buffy has been depressed all of season 6 ever since Willow revived her against her will with magic, she started sleeping with Spike to feel something and stopped because she felt she couldn't love him and she expressed to Giles that she felt that she was incapable of love even saying "I love you" to test it out. Imagine if she would have brought Dark Willow back with repeating "I love you" and meaning it so much that Willow comes back.

[summershq]

can we talk about the fact that Buffy killer herself to save the world so many times? she was also ripped put of peace, of “heaven”, tried to kill herself again, before Dawn finds her, was depressed and no one did anything, she was surrounded by people and no one did anything. they spend all her mom’s money, brought buffy back without in any way making sure she was actually in a hell dimension, they didn’t dig her up SHE HAD TO CRAWL OUT OF HER GRAVE TO BE ALONE IN SUNNYDALE THAT WAS IN SHAMBLES. then willow suggested wiping her mind?!?!?! like are u crazy. they make her work even though they continue to live in her house, is depressed and shamed for the way she copes (with spike who actually sees and understands her), kicked out of her own house where she pays the bills and loses the man she loves.

[pinesorneedles]

once more with feeling is such a devastatingly good episode preceded by such perfect setup, and just the perfect emotional release.

as a musical theatre composer i kinda hate the refrain of "when you can't speak, sing" because i think it's extremely oversimplifying, but i do think the art of the musical allows for glimpses into the confessional and the internal that a lot of performance art just doesn't. and while btvs is usually really good at doing that through the metaphorical, season 6 as a whole focuses on the internal world of the group so strongly, while also having the "big bads" of the season be human. it's a really massive tonal shift, obviously, but it also pushes each of the characters further inside themselves.

so at that point in season 6 where everyone is in a weird repressed emotional state, where communication is at an all-time low and conflict is at an all-time high, completely unaffected by some mystical big-bad, it feels like something needs to come out. and like, literal genius to have it come out during a musical.

also, just structurally it works so well. starting off with going through the motions, about buffy's isolation and depression, leading straight into i've got a theory where the group asserts that there's "nothing we can't do if we're together" immediately introduces a sort of dissonance to the assertion that everyone's together, and the fractures continue throughout the episode. like, the stuff introduced at the top gets properly addressed at the end of the episode (when buffy confesses to having been in heaven, and no one in the group knows what to do with it, followed by buffy getting with spike, taking some control over what she's going through). and similarly, under your spell at the top, and then tara's realization of what willow's done to her. i can't go through every single thing, but it's just such a tight episode that's so strong on it's own while also perfectly tying into stuff that's been set up. (it's also like,,,,, the only proper externalization of xander/anya's relationship worries until hell's bells)

it's also just completely delightful, like it's fun as hell!!! it's funny in all the ways that buffy is, it's heartbreaking in all the ways the show is. it's fun as hell all the way through while also confronting the splintering of that's marked the season. the songs are fun and varied, it's just perfect.

it's a perfect episode of television to me <3 i love it. that's all folks.

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

plus, fire pretty.

[screensland]

BUFFY SUMMERS, Buffy the Vampire Slayer S06E15, — "As You Were".

[paperpuzzles]

[alannacouture]

The only person she trusts 💞

[tara-fantastico]

I don't know if this was intentional or not, but the paralells between Buffy and Dawn standing up to mr Maclay in Family and Tara standing up to Xander and Anya in Older and Far Away are just...Gaah. Tara is almost directly quoting Buffy, some variation of "if you want her, you got to go trough me." Her pose is the same as Dawn's:

(Picture one is Dawn standing with her arms crossed, next to Buffy with her hands on her sides, in the background isWillow and Giles. Picture two is Tara standing, arms crossed, intentionally between Willow and Anya, having placed herself so that Anya has to physically get through Tara to get to Willow. Buffy is placed similarly in the first picture but Tara is outside the shot.)

It's just, it was the first time someone, anyone, stod up to Tara's abusers. It was a type of love she had never been shown before and she mimics it when she has to stand up to someone. It was Buffy and Dawn who taught her how to do that!!! Tara has been formed by the love of all of the scoobies, not just Willow.

[skyegraves21]

So I’ve thought about it a lot, what would the scoobies have done if Buffy had been in hell, she would have been feral like Angel!

[sunshiny-rants]

Willow & Tara forever and always, obviously, but why do I kinda ship Willow and the Buffybot…