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Buffy The Vampire Slayer S04E22 - Restless FULL REACTION (Patreon)

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S144

But did you enjoy the episode? It's in my top 5 of the entire show.

Chris Peacock

So I won't get into any specifics, but just so you know, the show just spoiled the entirety of season 5 and also a few minor things from 6 and 7. But really. If you read way way way between the lines, season 5 is completely spoiled. :)

Anonymous

Watch this episode again after you finish the show That’s all I can say

Chris Peacock

The outfit that Willow had on was the one Cordy made fun of in the first episode.

Anonymous

Also, the confusing part - it's to represent that dreams are bizarre and can't explain what's going on. Also, with the weirdo Cheese Man Joss Whedon said: "…the Cheese Man — meaningless. Why? Because I needed something in the show that was meaningless, because there is always something in the dream that doesn’t make any sense at all."

Second_Strike

I'll leave other people break down the symbolism of the dreams and instead I'll just leave two pieces of trivia. 1. During the scene where Giles is swinging the pendulum and Buffy bursts out laughing, that is actually Sarah Michelle Gellar laughing at Joss Whedon making stupid faces behind the camera. 2. Cowboy Guy is the funniest and most likable Riley gets for the entire show.

Nick Velasquez

Willow is scared that no matter how much she changes and grows she’s still that nerd back in high school. Xander is scared that he’s going nowhere and no matter what he tries to do will never escape his parents basement. Giles is scared that his role in Buffy’s life is stopping him from having one of his own. (That why when he follows buffy Olivia starts crying) Buffy... without spoilers... I guess all I can say is “hey killer” and “be back before dawn” are important.

Gregor Donaj

You really have to watch the entire show and then come back to this episode. If you carefully watch for details you will recognize quite a few things. Not sure if all of them are intentional or some are just coincidences. I watched the show quite a few times, I watches this episode at least 10 times, and even now watching your reaction I noticed some new details.

Gregor Donaj

Oh, as for the start of the episode, you didn't missed anything. The episode starts with the opening credits, nothing before them. I think it was an artistic choice. In the scene before they fall asleep all the other credits roll. The director is credited just a few seconds before the first dream. So not a single dream image gets ruined with some words written ower it.

Chris (darkwater)
>>12537242

For sure do this. There is so much packed into this episode and a lot of it is spoilers too.

Chris (darkwater)
>>12540735

Also the small dream sequence in This Year's Girl is related. Buffy calls back to it in this episode.

Craig Evans

Joss Whedon wrote Xander's "I do a spell by myself" joke as a dig at the WB censors, because they wouldn't allow intimacy shown between Tara and Willow. So they use the 'magic equals gay sex' metaphor heavily in this series. It gets more relaxed in further series.

Craig Evans

Also, the bed she was looking at wasn't hers.

MittenCrab

I was really underwhelmed by this episode when it first aired. It seemed a real anti-climax for a season finale, especially after such a meh villain in Adam. The years, however, have increased my appreciation. The episode foreshadows so much of what is to come but ties it into the combo-Buffy spell from the last episode. It also really captures the confused, disjointed feel of a dream. But since you did ask nicely for an explanation, I'm happy to oblige with an interpretation of the whole episode: ^ | | | SPOILERS | | | V Hope that cleared things up. ;)

UTU49

If you didn't understand Restless... then... you actually kind of DID understand it. It's 40 minutes of dream logic. The most concrete thing here is simply that the spirit of the First Slayer tried to kill them in their dreams, because of the spell they cast ("The spell we cast with Buffy... must have released some primal evil"). Most of the details come from their individual anxieties. "You think you know what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun." THAT'S what this episode is really about... at least for me.

KiwiJello

I can't explain what the dreams meant. It would spoil stuff. You didn't miss anything, per se. Eh just keep watching... :P

Robin Gibbons

Everyone has said it pretty well. Once you finish the show go back and watch Buffy and Faith's joint dream from Graduation Day Part 2 and the one from This Year's Girl. Joss Whedon is such a genius, he was putting foreshadowing in those episodes starting two years before. This episode is one of the most amazing pieces of TV I've ever seen! The problem is you don't realize it until once you see the payoff.

Ookla

They do contain spoilers and I'm not telling you. :-) ...just be back before Dawn.

Alexis Cardarella

Yes, there's A LOT of foreshadowing, and it's also about certain internal struggles the characters are dealing with, just in, you know, convoluted dream form. I think the convoluted part made me not like it all that much the first time around. But it's in my top ten now. I love it, even just the directing aspect.

Anonymous

I was as confused as you on my first watching of this episode a long time ago. I kinda didn't like it either, but I was much younger back then. Now it's probably in my top 3 of the season. Looks like people have pretty much already explained the important parts that you need to know, so I'll just leave it at that. Season 5 should be an interesting ride. I like it, though it's not my favorite(Season 6 is), but regardless of that, I know other people love it, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you think of it.

Shashank

I’ve signed up on here recently, it’s great to get a chance to try and see buffy through fresh eyes again by watching your reactions. The first time I saw restless my reaction was similar to yours. Since you asked for clarifications here is a long attempt. There is a LOT of foreshadowing of things to come, but there is also a good amount of putting things together that happened so far. So without going into the ridiculous number of references to plays, novels and movies or ANY SPOILERS THIS is what you could know given what’s happened so far: Recall that each character was connected to an aspect of the slayer when invoking what I’ll call uber buffy in the last episode: Willow was the spirit, Xander was the heart and Giles was the mind. The dream sequence also follows the same order as the tarot cards Willow lays out in the joining spell. The dreams since they connect to each character’s unconscious plays with their own self perceived insecurities and connect back to the earlier episode “Fear Itself” and for Giles “a new man” specifically. The fact that the charters lips don’t move sometimes is a reminder that the words are coming from the dreamer’s unconscious fears filtered by the first slayers influence and not the character being shown. TO THE DREAMS: Willow basic fear seems to be that despite all her growth over the last 4 seasons she’s still just a geek and a person unworthy of respect and love from her friends and lovers. Her recurring emphasis that they will see her true self [the self she still believes she is: weak scared and incapable recall season one after she finds the dead bodies and how scared and helpless she feels in prophecy girl]. Her dream thus is all about playacting and disguises. She feels she’s already playacting despite not being prepared or being good at it. Even when she isn’t wearing a costume people think she is. She can’t tell when the play begins or ends her incompetence at “drama” will lead to her real self being shown to everybody. This is shown most clearly when they flash to the high school and her giving the book report. also she is “killed” by strangulation: cutting off the air: air is associated with “prana” or “life force” for that which gives spirt to matter thus connecting to her being the spirit of uber buffy….or more to the point metaphorically she is the spirit of Buffy herself. [To some extent her real self and the fears associated with it have to do with her homosexuality though how it’s unclear to me in the dream sequence and since her friends already know….maybe someone else has some ideas on that]. Xander’s fears are pretty straightforward continuing from fear itself. He’s unseen and below others in capabilities. Basically he’s unimportant and insignificant in this great drama of good vs evil as well as conventional life. Xanderes dilemma is no matter what choices he makes [being in the army, being in college] he keeps ending up in the same place: his parent’s basement….. When he’s on campus he can’t understand what everyone is saying to him. He feels that his friends are beyond his ability to understand. Principle Snider basically tells him he’s worthless, in a way standing in for all authority figures who have always told his as much. At the end we overhear his parents fighting, and his fear that that’s all life holds for him…..there have been many casual references to his parents fighting and domestic tension in the early seasons….but it’s easy to miss the first time through[I did]. He has his heart torn out being the “Heart” of Buffy from the spell and metaphorically for the show. Giles insecurities have been on display for most of season 4. He has been feeling useless without a role not sure how he helps Buffy if he’s not her watcher. Spike tells him he’s got to make up his mind: What is his life now that he’s not a watcher and what is his relationship with Buffy if now a watcher or parent? His idea that he can defeat the first slayer with his mind is also shown to be wrong, as he has his “frontal lobes cut off” Buffy dream is heavy in prophesy and calls back to older dream profices that have yet to be fulfilled [particularly her and Faiths dream earlier]. Buffy’s fear is of being left by those she loves and being left because it’s her fault. Recall when Angel turns evil she asks him right away if it’s something she did…did she do something wrong. Similar with Parker to some extent. Also it’s been show she feels responsible for her father not wanting to be in her life and also possibly for her parent’s divorce. She always feels when people leave it’s because there is something lacking in herself. [I find this really SAD]] Also as a side note Buffy is keeping her mother walled off from her life when she could break through the wall if she wanted but she doesn’t here in the dream. Riley sees her as a killer….a fear she has that at heart she is a just a killer. Also seeing Riley as a government goon taps her fears that he is still caught up in the initiative’s ways of thinking: particularly of conquest and power over others. Unlike the others who are forced to wake by being acted upon Buffy wakes because she begins to see though the illusive nature of the dream…..buffy choices are consequential to the very fabric of reality….in a way she is the Neo of this dream Matrix [Not sure you or others are familiar with the Matrix….dating myself….a kid from the 90’s] also a call back to how uber buffy stopped bullets in the previous episode like neo in the matrix. Style wise I think it’s a clear tribute to twin peaks from the hallway scenes, dream sequences, to the cheese guy. As others have said this is an episode that is much more enjoyable after you’ve finished the whole show. Hope this was useful, I enjoyed thinking about it.

Anonymous

“I’m recording this at 3:30 AM” you could almost say you were... Restless.

Einar Sigurðsson

Buffy is looking at her bed, because the foreshadowing here started when Faith and Buffy made the bed....you should rewatch that scene :D

FernWithy

I'd link you to some analysis, but there would be spoilers in the essays. The basic gist was each of them was attacked from their roles in the spell -- Willow lost her spirit, Giles his mind, and Xander his heart.

Hef

Little Miss Muffet counting down from 7:30... Oh, that clock's completely wrong...

Hef

Luv that you love Giles' singing. Little known fact, he was one of the original members of Pink Floyd! :P

Richard Lucas

I hated this episode when it first aired, but watching it again now, I picked up on 2 amazing things (I’m sure there are a lot more): 1) something Giles says while on the swings! 2) something Tara says in Buffy’s bedroom

FernWithy

All right, found an analysis of the episode that seems to have been written between seasons 4 and 5. The author mentions hearing spoilers, but doesn't mention what they were, and seems to be talking about the kinds of things people were talking about when they were at the same place you are. <a href="http://longstoryshortpier.com/exegesis/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://longstoryshortpier.com/exegesis/</a>

S144
>>12561874

That wasn't her bed. It's the unused room of the house.

Josie Ball

All this episode does is make me impatient for you to start season 5, one of the best imho. Can't wait! (I need to finish Angel and your reactions still though, so I have something to pass the time)

Holi117
>>12580768

thats a cool little nod i think compared to when 730 appears the first time through faith. I like that call back

Holi117

one of my favourite episodes... the dvd has the commentary from Joss Whedon where he goes into detail about the stylistic choices he made for the dream sequences as well. I know lots of people have commented on the basic dream meanings (and thankfully not given spoilers to things yet to come which is great!) but If you are able too, you should try and watch Joss' commentary as well. He is sooo clever in some of the ways he puts symbolism and meaning into the smallest of details. (its on the s4 dvd, so i it should be totally non-spoilery)

Jean Olenick
>>12542133

yeah, cuz when the show switched over to UPN, that network was so new that it didn't *have* censors.. and the writers went a little crazy. As James Marsters says about season six: "If you don't control writers, they WILL write pornography." Since the writers in season 6 weren't controlled by network censors and Joss was splitting his time between being show-runner/head writer for Buffy, Angel AND Firefly, well... the writers weren't controlled. Season 6 is a love it or hate it season, but we do get more sexy-times there than in any other season of the show.

Jean Olenick

Also, the fact that Willow finds Tara in a narrow space between the dark red velvet-y curtains was supposed to be a metaphor for lady-parts.

Brandon Wiesner

This is probably one of my least favorite episodes of the series but you make the sucky episodes so much more fun! Basically the point was, the spirit of the first slayer, which was brought upon by the enjoining spell they did in Primeval, was using their dreams to contact them and try to kill them. I guess you can call it a Freddy Krueger rip-off, if you know who that is. The dreams, by and large don't make sense, which is kind of the point, because how many times have you woken up from a dream and said WTF? There is foreshadowing though. The biggest one, which I can say because you've gotten through most of season 5, is the coming of Dawn. Otherwise, it's a waste of an episode IMO and a pretty terrible season finale. I agree that Primeval should have been the finale.

ThatBasicChick

I had flashbacks to my childhood with that VHS tape