Giles featured on Previously.TV's "badass week." - BtVS

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July 09 2014

Giles featured on Previously.TV's "badass week." In which Giles' surprise return for the season six finale is deemed to be badass.

swanjun | BtVS | 11:46 CET | 8 comments total | tags:

I'd forgotten that scene, a fun one. My daughter's watching the show for the first time and is about 6 episodes away from this moment. We watched one last night where Buffy confides in Tara; daughter turned to me and said "Oh, I just love Tara." Took all I had not to laugh maniacally. She really liked Wash too.

MrArg | July 09, 12:13 CET

That is my single favorite moment in the entire series. Maybe even in all of the Whedonverse. I jumped up and down, screaming to my empty room, all by my lonesome that "Giles was back! He was going to make everything alright! Giles was back!"

k8cre8 | July 09, 12:24 CET

So good Whedon reussed it in the comics with Willow...

Darkness | July 09, 13:17 CET

I agree. People so misunderstand Willow in this. She was being repressed in her "giles" and she finally showed her face.

Madhatter | July 09, 21:46 CET

I really think the most tender thing Giles ever said to Buffy was, "You cut your hair."

Valsadie | July 10, 03:53 CET

Funny thing was, coming waaay late to the Buffy party (I started with Firefly... on DVD), there were spoilers here and there about almost everything. When I got to *that* scene, I pretty much did the same thing, because I hadn't known it was coming. Hush, Joyce's death, Tara's death, OMWF... all those landmarks were viewable in the far distance just being *around* the fandom. Giles' return was the only thing I really experienced as a surprise, and I think it made it that much more satisfying.

jclemens | July 10, 06:29 CET

They are correct. It's badass.

And yes, my reaction was much the same, k8cre8: "Yay! He'll fix everything!" I have long felt that Giles left too precipitously in S6; he should have backed off, maybe gone to LA, so he could be available to Buffy & the Scoobies, but not there all the time. But then we would not have had all the pain of S6. The delicious, delicious pain.

ManEnoughToAdmitIt | July 10, 07:49 CET

Whether it's using a chainsaw to cut a door, or blowing the hinges off an actual door, the man does know how to make an entrance.

And the anger, disappointment and sadness was clear on his face. I got total shivers.

ShadowQuest | July 11, 07:27 CET

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