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Did i just watch the best episode of television, no warning whatsoever, like 25 years late, a random wednesday night at 2 am????? Did I just do that??? Without knowing?? Do I have to live what's left of my life knowing I've already witnessed peak television????

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More Buffy rewatch thoughts:

1. I’ll never say that watching “Hush” was a mistake. It’s still one of the best episodes of the series. I will say that I could’ve been smarter about it and watched it during the day, instead of after midnight. in the dark. alone hahaha

2. “Can’t even shout, can’t even cry

The Gentlemen are coming by

Looking in windows, knocking on doors

They need to take seven and they might take yours

Can’t call to Mom, can’t say a word

You’re gonna die screaming but you won’t be heard”

I had forgot all about the creepy little girl singing the creepy song and I am doubling down on “I could’ve been smarter about how I watched this.” I am also wondering if The Gentlemen freaked out my younger sister as much as they did me and if so, I’m weighing the pros and cons of teaching my niece the lyrics and having her creep out my sister.

3. Willow being bored and just looking around the rest of the Wicca group while they do their prayers to Gaia is me at dinner with my Christian relatives. Also Willow being one of the only two members of the Wicca group actually interested in doing Wicca things and being scolded for suggesting that? Perfectly apt metaphor for the Democratic Party, but I digress. And also, first appearance of Tara! Yay! And (in future hindsight) lesbianism saves the day! Double yay!

4. The Gentlemen’s design is so simple but so effective in its creepiness.

5. This episode should be like exhibits A, B & C for the effectiveness and importance of a good score and good sound design in film & television.

6. Before their voices are stolen, Giles asks Xander to take Spike for a couple of days while he has company over. Xander reluctantly agrees, but he ties Spike up to a chair while he’s sleeping. Xander wakes up, realizes his voice is gone, starts panicking. Spike realizes his voice is gone as well, but before he has a chance to react, Xander is pantomiming that this is all Spike’s fault somehow, despite Spike pointing out that he is still bound in a chair. Xander keeps insisting it’s Spike’s fault, to which Spike flips him a peace sign.

All of which is to say that Spike wanted to flip Xander off so bad, about as much as Superman wanted to curse in Justice League Unlimited but was relegated to having to say “Lex flipping Luthor” instead. TV censorship/standards & practices are what they are, often leading to very stupid alternatives for the dialogue or action that’s intended, but sometimes they are unintentionally very amusing.

EDIT: @waytooinvested-main informed me in the comments that Spike actually was giving Xander a British equivalent to the finger, making this whole section kind of moot but that’s ok. You live and learn folks.

7. I am a sucker for “the world has gone to shit, please kiss me” tropes and I thought it worked well enough for Buffy & Riley’s first actual kiss.

8. The whole point of this episode was about the power of communication, taking it for granted and how everything breaks down without it. I think Hush is incredibly successful in executing these ideas in multiple ways, one of the best examples being Buffy & Riley. Them (sort of) finding out about each other when they’re literally speechless and both happen to be fighting the Gentlemen’s minions, then still being speechless even when they get their voices back and needed to talk was kind of brilliant.

9. For a show so often praised for its dialogue, there’s a lot of great comedy without it. That being said, though the scene where Xander mistakenly thinks Spike is drinking from Anya and attacks him is funny, it’s also the only scene I have a nitpick about. It throws off the pacing and tension from the concurrent action where Willow and Tara are fleeing some of the Gentlemen while Buffy and Riley are fighting others. Logically, I know it had to be included to resolve an earlier plot point by having Xander unknowingly demonstrating Anya’s importance to him and there was no where else to put it, it just doesn’t fit as comfortably as I’d like.

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The Gentlemen

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I wrote an essay on Buffy The Vampire Slayer in my college English class and one of my points was about Tara and Willow starting their lesbian relation in Hush and he wondered if their relationship started in that episode cause lesbian relationships were supposed to be kept quiet— hence the meaning of the episode Hush.

Mindblow

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Hush is one of the first episodes of Buffy I ever saw. My parents were out with friends that evening and I was of course not allowed to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I remember vividly how scared I was when the episode was over and how I didn’t dare to turn off the lights behind me when I ran upstairs to my bedroom.

Didn’t stop me from ultimately falling in love with the show. Oh, and with Doug jones, of course.