Buffy The Vampire Slayer 5x18 | Intervention
Added 2025-07-20 01:46:00 +0000 UTCMy reaction to Buffy Season 5 Episode 18.
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Lol some friends!
Chance's House Of Horror
2025-07-21 16:10:00 +0000 UTCThe way not one of them thought βthatβs not buffyβ is wildddd!! But spike looked sooo hot all bloody and shirt ripped π€£
George Alexander
2025-07-21 12:30:08 +0000 UTCIβm not having sex with Spike, but Iβm starting to think you might be. Lol
Derek Jones
2025-07-20 22:15:05 +0000 UTCThis episode has one of my all time favorite Buffy lines! "you guys couldn't tell me apart from a robot?!"... Also, love your horror bandwagon shirt !
Fauxindigo
2025-07-20 02:31:15 +0000 UTCAlso, I still scream at Anyaβs pure delight when someone actually finally asks her about her money π€£π€£π€£π₯°π₯°
Aurro Eronaile
2025-07-20 02:29:20 +0000 UTCAbsolutely right about the Buffybot, SMG has said that she had a blast playing the Buffybot and considers it one of her most favorite times in filming of the entire show
Aurro Eronaile
2025-07-20 02:25:25 +0000 UTCI'm so excited for this reaction, Intervention is one of my favorites of the entire season! I'm sure most people commenting will discuss the Buffybot (and there is a lot to say aboutβ¦that!) but I want to focus on Buffy's arc as it is such a pivotal point in her journey. Since the pilot episode, Buffy has always struggled with walking the line between being a growing woman and being The Slayer. Ever since the spell in Primeval that woke the First Slayer, Buffy has feared that she was becoming increasingly inhuman (robotic, even). In 5x1, she said she had been going "hunting" and that she feared Dracula's comment about her "darkness." She was never able say "I love you" to Riley despite the fact that he said it to her several times. She's so worried about her incapability in saying those words that she, heartbreakingly, doesn't even know if her mom knew before she died. In the previous episode, Dawn says she's so closed off that Dawn insanely didn't think that Buffy even cared that Joyce died. In this episode, the Scooby's couldn't even tell her apart from a robot (even Tara didn't say anything even though she knew Buffy's aura was off in the bodyswap episode with Faith). This just confirms Buffy's worst fears that her strength is turning her into stone. This brings us to Spike. Buffy had no problem with Spike having an invite to her house for years, even despite him kidnapping Xander & Willow, trying to kill Buffy multiple times, allying with Adam, showing up in her bedroom while she was naked, etc. but it was the fact that he tried to say "I love you" to her that got her to rescind the invitation. In Buffy's mind, what did it say about her that she couldn't say the words to Riley or her family when a soulless demon like Spike can say it? Yet, at the same time, Buffy has always turned to Spike for help. She went to him immediately in Checkpoint with Joyce and Dawn and told him: "You're the only one strong enough to protect them." She didn't turn to Giles or Willow either. So, in this episode, she's so convinced Spike would give them up to save his life, but he didn't! She's genuinely shocked that Spike exhibits the first truly selfless act of love in his (un)life; his willingness to die to protect Dawn at all costs because he knew it would kill Buffy. Dawn is really the only family she has left and the most important person in her life. It was confirmation of Buffy's almost subconscious instinct in Checkpoint - he was strong enough to survive Glory's torture. Buffy is thinking about the First Slayer's words that she is "full of love" as she kisses Spike. It was Buffy's way of being able to show authentic, real human feelings. She didn't have to do that. But it was her way of spontaneously demonstrating her profound gratitude to Spike. It's quite an extraordinary and compelling trajectory from School Hard.
Land Howard Johnston
2025-07-20 01:48:03 +0000 UTC
