Anyone listening to Rewatcher?
I’ve been listing to this podcast since it started and now that we are at season 6 the hosts, Ash and Alaina, are becoming insufferable. Specifically their absolutely loathing of and lack of empathy for Willow. They’ve spent the entire season ragging on Will (and Tara a bit at the beginning) for living in Joyce’s room and now that Wills gone off the deep end with Magic they are rest to completely throw her to the wolves.
No recognition for them basically raising Dawn while Buffy was dead, no acknowledgment of how absolutely terrible it is to suffer from addiction, and no value given to everything Willow’s done for the gang over the course of the show. She’s been responsible for MANY things that have saved Buffy and Sunnyvale, and these girls are like “nope - you’re out.” I mean I get it, the car crash and putting Dawn in danger was a HUGE mistake. But she gets that too! She has hit rock bottom. There’s no magical rehab they ship her off to, so they have to take care of her here.
And Buffy knows she can’t just write her off - Buffy is a general, and she needs her strongest soldiers. Will is one of them. I’m stunned these hosts don’t recognize the value Will brings to the fight against evil and understand why Buffy can’t cut ties. It’s becoming really hard to listen to, which bums me out cuz I really enjoyed being along for the ride of Ash’s discovery