This episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was very interesting, yet I felt like it was a very slow moving episode. The idea of Buffy being split between realities was a cool concept, but it was also scary at the same time because the audience was not given a clear clue on which reality was real. The doctor did a very good job of explaining how Buffy could just be schizophrenic and how she created her alternate reality of being a hero and having a sister. I often found myself torn between which realities to sympathize with. Part of me wanted for Buffy to be healthy and reunite with her parents and to stop hurting her friends, and the other part of me wanted her to snap out of her state of mind and go back to the way things were during the entire series. Some people might think that since those 3 nerds in the beginning seemed to have caused Buffy to go crazy, then her vision of her being in a mental home was a fake. This could be disproven by the fact that her schizophrenic mind could have made up that part about the nerds unleashing a monster to explain why she acted like that. This debate definitely made the episode interesting, but I thought the episode dragged for the most part. It seemed like nothing really got accomplished and they could of done the whole thing in 20 minutes, instead of 50.
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It was really hard to decide which Buffy to "root for". Because either scenario could make a great case for the real reality, it was definitely a make-you-want-to-stick-around kind of episode.
ReplyDeleteI really liked what you were talking about- how we never really find out which world is Buffy's real reality. I also really like that we don't find out. It makes the whole show more believable to me. Like the fact that Buffy could have just made it all up. That they recognize that her and Xander and everyone else's existence is DIFFERENT.
ReplyDeleteYa I was real confused about what was real and what was not
ReplyDeleteI agree that it was somewhat of a slow-movin episode, but at the same time, I could not stop watching it. I felt as though I actually NEEDED to find out what happened. Joss Whedon definately did a good job with this episode.
ReplyDeleteThis was a slow episode, but it kept my attention because I was unsure of what was real or not at certain times. I really enjoyed this episode.
ReplyDeleteYou're definately right-- it was difficult to determine which reality was Buffy's "true reality." Even though she chose to stay with her friends in Sunnydale, I still wonder if the mental hospital universe was reality.
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