Buffy rewatch: 2.22. Becoming, part 2
When I was about to watch this episode, I wondered if I can still be affected by it, since I’ve seen it several times. Of course, this is one of the most important and iconic episodes of the show, but can it still move me when I almost know it by heart? And…it didn’t exactly make me cry this time, but it’s still an awesome episode you could
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I always thought this was a perfect resolution to the Xander/Willow/Oz storyline
I actually like the idea that it didn't end there, that the tension and feelings didn't go away, but Willow and Xander's S3 fling does nothing for me.
I always think back to these scenes as one of the obvious proofs that the idea that Buffy really thought of soulless Spike as a “thing” is utter BS.
I think she wanted to think of Spike as a "soulless thing", but she couldn't. She not only sees him as human, she identifies with him: when she calls him "pathetic" and tells him she hates him, she's taking her own self-disgust about her feelings for the murderous Angel on him. Which is also foreshadowing...
Not only does she feel that they wouldn’t understand what she’s been through, but, in her emotional state, she wouldn’t be able to be their friend and daughter
While I think Buffy has the best of intentions in emotionally (and sometimes physically) withdrawing from her loved ones when she's in a bad mental state, I'm not sure it's the best choice, either for them or for her. I think they were more hurt by her leaving them in this episode than they were by her acting out in When She Was Bad, and her depression in S6 might have gone a little better if she had opened up more to her friends, and not just relied on the relationship with Spike as an outlet for her negative feelings.
(really?! A teenage girl meets a handsome, mysterious older guy; a guy who’s spent 100 years alone with no purpose in life, is told that he can be important by protecting a beautiful innocent girl that kinda looks like his long-time ex-girlfriend? The possibility never even occurred to them?)
Well, to be fair the actual dialogue is a bit ambiguous as to what, exactly, it was they didn't see coming. Whistler says, "Nobody saw you coming." Which is odd, because...didn't he bring Angel to Buffy? *is confused now*
when Spike says “I want to save the world”, who’d think that he’ll really do it one day.
Also, Spike says "I want to save the world". Buffy, later, says, "I have to save the world". Spikes wants to save the world, Buffy has to save it. And Whistler tells Buffy, "In the end, you're always by yourself. You're all you've got.
That's the point." And later, Spike tells her, "I'm all you've got."
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