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baltears

if the point was for you to be perfect it wouldnt be your life

baltears

YOUR one precious life

kingworm

rest in peace george michael you would’ve done numbers on here

femmedefandom

that ending scene in the park with Buffy and the April!bot talking in “I was made to love you” basically made the whole episode worth it for me. (I just wish I didn’t have to watch the rest of it to get to this point.)

it’s a beautiful moment, two young women drenched in the dying sunlight, discussing the pain of heartbreak in the innocent setting of a children’s playground. showing the dark side of love…it’s deterioration and loss.

Buffy’s empathy really shines through and April’s lines as well as the delivery just shatter my heart. there’s a wonderful examination of the expectation of perfection for a partner, the importance of existing separately from that partner, escape and abandonment, denial and acceptance, questioning your choices after a breakup, as well as the emotional investments and depth of feeling imbalances that can happen in relationships, through the guise of an “ideal robot” girlfriend.

it walks the line of giving nuance to April while unquestionably framing Warren as the villain for bringing her to life, only to throw her away once he got bored of her being exactly what he made her to be: pleasant, subservient, and endlessly devoted.

#its so goodddd #btvs #and prev no u care exactly the right amount this episode is so crazy and April is so important #i love when buffy is about patriarchy and how ppl resist it criticize it.. tear it down..#and patriarchal violence is such a major theme in s6 with a villain like warren #april is his first victim and she both displays the depth of his misogyny simply by existing and #somehow manages to make such a shallow confined personality feel human and lived-in if artificial #she just sticks in ur heart at least for me... she's so close to the core of what buffy as a show is about

xenobites

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) | 5.14 | Crush

#might be one of my fave episodes actually cause his monologues just hit theyre so good all the character writing here is so peak #+I GAVE YOU THE BEST.... BUNCH OF MONTHS OF MY LIFE #btvs #i don't wanna be the one #oh and god his little confused disbelieving smile when she disinvites him from the house. so good #is what hes doing ok obviously no. but it is very honest and raw and coming from a deep part of his character

lualuadraw

servant of two masters evil duo possibilities

#ur mergana art is so special and beautiful op #i wuv them....#merlin #the darkness to your light

slayerbuffy

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | S5E14: Crush.

#she was so legendary in this ep. i love how she delivers this like shes figuring out in the moment what she knew back then #actually this episode is fucking insane in general i love it so much #esp like how clear it already is that buffy is just. so incredibly repressed shes like a brick wall #obviously hes noticing something real. if spike can do anything at all its read people.#and his response to her (justified) refusal to even think about it much less admit it is by turns amazing and hilarious #btvs

cryptotheism

Parading his big stupid unmoving chrome body around like a sainted reliquary

Sometimes art can be perfect while being imperfect and thats what pisses me off that people dont understand. Its easy to nitpick. What's not easy is to be able to recognize what's a worthwhile tradeoff, what could realistically have been done differently, what the limiting conditions of production would be.

honestly i hate it when ppl are like 😗 ok well admittedly wheel of time was flawed.. like im not willing to admit that personally. its perfect as far as im concerned. certainly far more perfect than a tv series produced under those circumstances had any right to be. it might not be technically literally perfect but it could not realistically have been executed better except in bizarro world where tv shows somehow get produced like the lord of the rings trilogy with multiple years worth of pre production and a guarantee of an ending. which as far as im concerned makes it as close to perfect as anyone was ever going to get.

#wheel of time #some of yall dont know how good you had it. after another 10 yrs worth of tv shows youll be singing a different song.