I love how Oz is all philosophical and deep in thought, and the only indication he gives out loud is a little "Huh." His character is so intriguing, I love him
"I am my thoughts. If they exist in her, Buffy contains everything that is me and she becomes me. I cease to exist." "No one else exists either. Buffy is all of us. We think, therefore she is." Gold.
I especially love that after going through this whole existential crisis in his mind, trying to puzzle out the great mystery that is Buffy and her newfound powers, all Oz says out loud is "huh..."
I love how it shows everyones personality. Xander thinks about sex. Oz thinks about complex topics, Willow has two different lines of thoughts at once and Cordelia doesn't think before speaking exactly whats on her mind. And Wesley feels guilty about perving on a legal girl.
Cordelia thoughts are less speaking before she thinks and more of her being unafraid to say what is exactly on her mind. Cordelia’s never afraid to share her opinion on situations and it often either gets misunderstood as selfishness or stupidity when she merely has no shame or filter.
@@drmayeda1930 I think that stgm may have meant "legal girl" equals a minor, which would then mean that a legal woman would be an adult. Still, that way of putting it could be easily misunderstood.
@@drmayeda1930 In real life (and I know their character ages are very different from their real ages) but in real life they're only 4 years apart. Charisma was around 30 years old during Season 3. She looks great for her age though and does a fantastic job of playling school age Cordelia.
If we didn't have any context, it looks like a flirty look like she's cock-teasing him. When I first saw it, I thought it was sexy as hell. Of course, in reality, she just knows his dirty little secret. Bad for him. >.>' LOL
As someone who watched Angel before Buffy, I had no idea Wes and Cordelia were almost a thing. You'd never think it if you saw Angel, where she treats Wes was like her big dorky brother and he treats her like his lazy little sister.
I love how Cordelia is portrayed here. Completely unafraid to say exactly what's on her mind. Especially considering she holds onto this trait even after her redemption and rise as a Champion.
I prefer the scene with her mother a little later in this episode. 'You had sex with Giles?' 'You had sex with Giles?' 'On the hood of a police car?' 'Twice.'
If someone is hearing your thoughts and you have a song stuck in your head, does that person here the song in your voice or the singer's? Cause usually when you have a song stuck in your head you're imagining it in the singer's voice and not your own.
I think you've got a false dichotomy there. The version of the song playing in your head could easily be incomplete or wrong in any number of ways: it could be disjointed, some of the lyrics might be wrong, or even parts of the sound could be wrong even though you'd swear you know the song by heart. In the end, what the person hearing your thoughts hears might be completely unrecognizable to them, even if they know the song themselves.
I love how, if you listen carefully, you can hear Jonathan’s negative thoughts throughout, but it gets so mixed up in the melee that you wouldn’t notice it (same as Buffy).
so apparently, wes has no mental discipline and i know xander isn't the brightest bulb on the tree but, seriously, he can't even do basic multiplication?
Well Spike she wouldn’t have been able to hear for the same reason she couldn’t hear Angel. Anya would be interesting, although I suspect she would be similar to Cordelia in the sense that she’s fairly willing to say what’s on her mind. Then again she might also be thinking about some of her past vengeance or the things she’d seen which would have been interesting.
Cordelia doesn’t generally say true things at this point in the series. She doesn’t get that sort of character growth until Angel. At this point, she’s still quite shallow and stupid. In this scene, the reason she says what she’s thinking is because she just doesn’t care about anyone else’s opinion and she’s so simple minded that her private thoughts match her public ones.
@@quleughy I disagree... throughout Buffy she says EXACTLY what she thinks with no hidden agenda, she doesn't agree or like something she will say it... prime example in this scene willow being too much of a coward to say what she's really thinking and own it, you could read Cordelias mind and still not get anywhere cause she would tell you...
Oz probably thinks about sex just as much as any other teenage boy. But for him, thoughts about sex involve thoughts about Willow which would be really weird for Buffy. The difference between him and Xander is he has enough self-awareness and mental discipline to avoid it. He probably started thinking philosophy to keep his mind occupied.
Exactly. This is where we’re headed. Every unasked opinion every dumb thought every everything on display. How Buffy feels is how I imagine most people after reading comment threads all day.
This episode was really rough for me because when I watched it I was having issues with psychosis-especially hearing voices. I didn’t hear other ppl of course, but I knew how she felt,how it was driving her insane to hear all these voices talking to her.
Honestly probably how she verbally thought in “Who Are You”. She speaks her mind pretty bluntly in that episode. Like when Willow says “I hope they throw the book at her” Faith (as Buffy) says “I bet I know what Faith would say to that” but she didn’t actually say it, she was thinking it and then imagining stabbing Willow.
honestly if I had telepathy and were part of a neural net I would assume my thoughts would be too loud and emotional and complex and it would kind of just spill into others instead , like being in a giant bustling city and still you are the loudest
Okay, am I the only one who doesn't think in words all the time? Every single time someone with a telepathic power is portrayed, it's portrayed exactly like this: voices in the telepath's head from all the different people around him/her. I've always thought that odd, because I don't hear my own voice in my head most of the time. Usually, I think in images, unless I'm really stuck on a problem. Even right now, as I write these words, there's no voice in my head reading them "aloud", so it makes me wonder, am I alone in operating this way, or would a telepath's head be a much quieter (and possibly more visual) place than Hollywood thinks?
I think that's the same thing for almost all of us .. the words-thoughts sound or are showed more like " comics clouds" ..it's weird even explain it lol
@@BeneficenzaCristianaPoorMacho I don't think so. I believe it has to do with people being more 'visual' or 'auditive'. I always think in words. It's like a two ways communication going on in my brain between my feelings and my logic, after which I decide on what makes the most sense, and then I react accordingly.
@@BeneficenzaCristianaPoorMacho No. I think exactly like the way the show portrays it. More of the way Oz and Willow are portrayed (like how she talks and speaks at the same time).
@@cordeliachase601 Me too. I've read in books where someone is 'finally, blissfully able to stop thinking', and I think 'Not possible. I ALWAYS have worded thoughts going through my mind even when I'm most relaxed!' Frequently very philosophical; though I rarely go Oz-level deep. 😁
The funniest thing.?? Willow getting angry with Buffy getting into her mind when she does that season 6 and season 7 without asking or any thing. Ironic
But with this scene it's more direct 'cause Buffy is immediately responding to every thought she hears straight from Willow. Imagine if you're about to say something and someone just responds to it before you could even say it. Freaky. When Willow entered Buffy's mind, she did that because Buffy went catatonic which took everyone by surprise and someone had to step in (psychically in that regard) and get her back on track. In this episode, Buffy had no control over that kind of power that she didn't even ask for.
I meant after season 5, in season 6 and 7 Willow talks to everyone through the mind and Xander never likes that and he said it many times but Willow never minded . Except the part where they talked that way in season 7 to take all the slayers to show them how much of a bad ass Buffy was ,that was cool.
There's a big difference. Buffy's powers allowed her to read the thoughts of everyone around her whether they - or she - wanted to or not, whereas Willow's telepathy was simply a two ways communication. Knowing whatever they think and hearing the thoughts they send your way is not the same thing.
@Kagereneko Oh, most definitely agree. It was so unnecessary - she was already such a unique character they didn't need to make her more 'interesting.'
Still, best moment was when Buffy heard Dawn thoughts: "I wonder if she notice that I took her skirt. And crossbow. She would freak out, if she knew I broke it".
I kind of take after Cordelia, usually just say what's on my mind with a diplomatic spin... Usually. It's gotten me into trouble with my clients on occasion, more often than not they appreciate the honesty however.
Everyone in the room should have left the moment she started hearing what they're thinking. Oz should have left because he should have wanted to keep his thoughts a secret and not just to follow Willow
Has anyone else noticed that when Xander is trying to think of anything other than sex, he starts doing Maths. One of the mathmatic questions he does is 5 X 6 haha and his answer is 32.... 5 X 6 = 30......
Imagine the thoughts of Buffy id she heard if Dawn Summers (Buffy's sis), Anya, Riley Finn, Kendra Young (R.I.P) & Tara McClay (also R.I.P) - if they were in the library, too *Dawn* - Mostly thinking on how cool her big sis Buffy is/ or is not so cool Slayer & probably wants to follow in Buffy's footsteps; if only she can date a hot vamp guy like Angel/Spike which get a outrageous look from Buffy *Anya* - thinks about Xander & if she like him & how hot he is & whether there a bunnies/rabbits around as she scared of em *Riley Finn* - thinks if he's good enough for Buffy & why he feels left out of the group *Kendra Young* - similar a bit to Anya's thoughts about Xander; keeps telling herself in thoughts - must not think of Mr. Xander like that! That he is not handsome, must focus on her Slayer training *Tara McClay* - nervously wishes she can talk to Willow alone; if only Willow was single & didn't have Oz as her boyfriend
It's a shame the writers did not write in telepathy indefinitely for Buffy. Would not be dissatisfied if there were fanfiction eating away in Joss Whedon's attic. It had to be written out since Buffy would be OP - it would solve so many of her hour-long episodes in at less than 3 minutes.
Telepathy is way overrated. Lots of people say they'd love to know what everyone else is truly thinking, but the truth is, a lot of people could be selfish, mean and unpleasant if they could say what they're actually thinking out loud. I think I prefer not to know by a long shot, it's definitely not anywhere close to my top list of powers I'd be going for.
Oh, Pennywise is a Matrix security program in America, it's always the zombie body of a dead native. Remember how traditional sorcery utilises unwilling blood sacrifice ? His blood pays more than other people's so he gets the lion's proverbial share of the anomaly cast.
@@drmayeda1930 It was one of the dinner ladies. Jonathan is a red herring, he intends to shoot himself atop the tower. The real villain was the lady who intended to poison the next day's meal and kill anyone who ate it.
Because of the subject matter about the episode, that being Jonathan preparing to shoot his fellow students, would have been in extremely poor taste given that the intended airdate for the episode was barely a week after the Columbine High School shooting. The episode wasn't banned, it was simply postponed until months later.