TROPHY CASE

I’m moving and need to pare down the stuff I own. I OBVS love these, but all of my recent Buffy watches have come through Hulu. I can’t remember the last time I touched one of the DVDs in these sets. While they’re amazing, should I just donate them and enjoy the streaming?

I really liked her with Giles. I wish she had been in more episodes.

This actor directed john wick

It’s always annoyed me that in the first episode that Spike is introduced he calls Angel his sire. what’s with the goof? But it has a bunch of funny moments too… overall I really like the episode. The ending where Willow is stuck in the cleaning closet with Cordelia… major “bored now” vibes lol. Also Buffy talking to her mom through the hole in the door is perfectly recreated in Restless.

I really don’t want to sound old by saying this, i remember watching the show growing up and the love i felt for every character, xander included. He did his fair share of bad things, i will never forgive him for leaving anya at the altar and all, but i feel like now he’s getting everyone’s hate. Maybe im missing something, he was surely the character with most flaws in my opinion, and as joss whedon said himself, xander is based off of him, so that’s saying something. But i still remember him being genuinely a good character, a lot of interesting arcs and good episodes. Maybe is the nostalgic factor, but i can’t bring myself to hate him as much as everyone seems to do right now. So please fill me in in case i’m forgetting something

They definitely didn’t officially release these. Dailies are never supposed to be seen by anyone other than the crew. So were these leaked or something?

Decided to watch ‘Homecoming,’ rewatched a bunch of episodes due to Faith and…the cinematography on this show is still really good. There are actual colors, there are light and shadows, there is depth.

I know this is a pretty low bar to clear but it seems increasingly rare these days, but even when characters are in dark environments, you can still see their faces. Like, that should be cinematography 101 but it’s increasingly rare these days.

‘Game of Thrones’ had an entire battle episode where you couldn’t make out anything and the crew was just like “your TV sets are not calibrated correctly, this is not our fault.”

Is it shooting on film rather than digital? Is it just better cinematographers?

Everything on network television now looks to me like flat, underlit, overly digital blue and orange-tinted trash to me compared to so many shows from back then.

Like, the difference between how ‘Buffy’ looks and, to name one of shows aping ‘Buffy,’ ‘Riverdale,’ is stark just from watching 10 minutes of either show.

What gives?

Buffy season 2 ep 4 Inca Mummy Girl

New girl comes to town.

But she's a little older.

Incan pirate guy.

Buffy season 2 ep 5 Reptile boy

Buffy makes a choice,

Frat boys or snake guys, tough choice.

I get the bear thing.

Buffy season 2 ep 6 Halloween

Costumes take control,

Manly Xander, Willow ghosts,

Bridgerton Buffy.

Drusila would be my choice but there’s also Spike, Angel and any other vamp we meet.

For me, it was The Gentlemen from “Hush”. And Doug Jones being the leader made it even better.

The spell she invokes right after entering. Is she invoking gods? Does each word mean a different thing that makes the spell "power up"? What EXACTLY is she saying? Any insight would be great!

I just noticed that the same actor plays Ken in BtVS S3E1 and Richard is AtS S1E7.

He does great as a demon, and rewatching wasn’t such a thing back then, so I get it.

Any other instances of actors showing up as different characters across the two series?

Today’s victim was just stressed out about his school work and ended up splattered on the walls. Thanks a lot Hellmouth. RIP stressed out kid.

So, a while back I asked for suggestions as to what outfits the characters in my Buffy version of Love Letter should wear. I'm using AI to create anime/cartoon versions. I've done 13/19 so far. If you want to see them, check them out on my Google Drive here! Keen to see what you guys think!

Characters missing: D'Hoffryn, Ilyria, Lilah, Lorne, Tara, Willow

Some characters look better/closer than others, but I'm not going crazy with trying to get them perfect, just somewhat decent.

Why would a vampire do this? She killed herself just to pass a message for angel? Seems odd to me and also unnecessary. This vampire could have just made a student do it.

Also I love how everyone backs up in the class while buffy is just chillin in her seat with zero F's

People have raved in the past about Passion of the Nerd.

I’ve given Twisted View a shout out too.

But, I also wanted to suggest episodic analysis who has done some great season breakdowns of all of Buffy and Angel, def worth your time.

Does anyone know why Slayin' It is on hiatus? The info on the most recent short ep descriptions says it's being revamped but I wonder what's brought that about. I mean, it wasn't the most disciplined or on-topic Buffy pod I've heard but it had a certain charm.

While I'm here, interested to learn about any other Buffy podcasts worth a try - I listened to Buffering The Vampire Slayer and I'm listening to The Rewatcher (which I love).

Every time we meet Faith before she accidentally kills Allan Finch, and then joining the Mayor I always think about what could have been had that night never happened, how much stronger the Scooby Gang would be if they had two Slayers on their team pre-Season 7.

Would Buffy become overpowered if she had another Slayer in the Scooby Gang?

...her vengeance gig was more of a grey thing? Instead of cursing men who cheated she cursed domestic abusers and only truly horrible men? I think it would allow her to be a comedic character who willingly became a demon without having to work hard on a redemption or guilt or whatever (which they didn't do until last minute), but still would raise interesting dilemmas. I know The Wish would have needed a different character though.

My last episode was the "What's My Line" 2-Parter and I have a couple questions:

1. Do we see more of Kendra in the future?
2. How are Spike and Drusilla related? They feel like brother and sister and some of their scenes have incest vibes (How it comes off as for me).

Wouldn't it have been awesome if the Wish created an entire additional season, which was just alternative characters having to work on getting the world back to the way it was?

In my scenario it’s basically the same exact show and storylines with a few updates and maybe some of the iffy parts cut out (maybe).

If you could recast with contemporary actors, who’d be your ideal?

And realism has no place here. Seriously I included Margot Robbie so no limits. Here are my picks so far and this is actually the narrowed down version lol 😊

Buffy

• Jenna Ortega
• Kiernan Shipka

Angel

• Jacob Elordi

Spike

• Reeve Carney

Willow

• Kathryn Newton
• Maia Hawk

Xander

• Skyler Gisondo
• Ross Lynch

Oz

• Frank Delane

Cordelia

• Alexa Demi
• Alisha Boe

Giles

• Pedro Pascal
• Cillian Murphy

Jenny

• Evan Rachel Wood
• Kristen Ritter
• Cobie Smulders

Faith

• Zendaya
• Ashley Benson

Wes

• Nicolas Hoult

Joyce

• Ruth Nega
• Wynona Ryder
• Christina Ricci

Anya

• Lana Condor
• Ella Purnell

Tara

• Kristen Froseth

Riley

• Callum Turner
• Rome Flynn

Drusilla

• Ella Purnell
• Cara Delvigne

Darla

• Margot Robbie
• Leighton Meester

Lilah

• Phoebe Tonkin

Lindsey

• Joe Cole

Gunn

• Daniel Kaluuya

Fred

• Madeleine Mantock

Doyle

• Tom Holland

Groo

• Austin Butler

Lorne

• Joseph Gilgun

Kate

• Ashley Benson
• Leighton Meester

Glory

• Sydney Sweeney

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Faith is still alive and Spike is on the cover. Sid was season 2. I'm guessing between season 5 and 6?

Name one episode that can be removed from the entire series without having a substantial impact (or any impact) on the life of the show?

Good luck lol

Hey everyone!! I'm new to this community, I never watched Buffy much, my mom was more the fan (haha). But at San Diego Comic Con years ago (I'm thinking anywhere between 2012-2017; my memory is AWFUL), i met a guy with a smaller booth in their dealer hall. He was an older man, and one thing he had for sale was an ornate looking cross necklace with a hidden knife in it. It wasn't a plain cross like I see Buffy wear in some photos I've searched online; it was really ornate looking, and had color. The man had told me that he had made the necklace while working as a prop designer on Buffy, and he thought they were going to be a huge hit at events so he made a bunch of replicas for sale at events. Yet somehow, no one cared for them (edit: as in, no one wantes to buy them despite the fact they were replicas of a real prop he made for the show, so they were authentic replicas made by the actual creator). He had so many of them, in boxes clearly worn with age. He actually had to open a few of them to make sure they were undamaged, as the first few boxes, the glue holding the ornate decal had gotten brittle over time. But I thought it was the COOLEST thing, so I bought one off him for only $20. I loved that necklace so much, but I lost it years ago.

I've been trying to find the designer again, so I can get another one of those necklaces. If he still has any, anyways. I just can't find the episode Buffy wore it in so I can show what it looked like. I'm fearing that maybe they didn't kick off for him because even though he made the prop for the show, they maybe never used it in an episode? Or its from an unaired episode? I don't know the history of the show, those are just my theories. But if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd super appreciate it!! I miss that necklace, it was just so cool.

This is a hard question for sure, but what do we think is the most poorly written / executed / etc. episode in season 3?