blog 22

I thought this episode was pretty interesting. I thought the alternate realities Buffy was experiencing was really cool. It never did become clear which reality was the real one that she was actually in or even if there was a real "reality". That's kind of confusing to talk about. In the end it seemed she just chose the reality that made her the most happy. Naturally she would choose the one where she has friends and where she isn't a freakish mental patient. I don't really understand why she would assume in the first place that the reality where she is a mental patient is her true "reality". I would think she would think they were just visions after getting attacked by the first monster in the beginning. There is a chance there are other clues in some other episodes throughout the series. I never realized that Buffy was intimate with Spike, the other vampire dude. That sort of blew my mind. He looks a lot older. It was really shocking to me when Buffy, after all these experiences with her friends, could just turn on them so easily by just a couple of crazy visions. That was very surprising. She just decided that they were just figments of her imagination, which is a crazy thing to pull out just like that. It seems like it would be a lot easier to see the mental patient situation as the fake reality. I was also wondering where Spike was when Buffy was beating up all her friends. I feel like he was convieniently left out.