TROPHY CASE

I'm only ranking the twelve main credited characters on Buffy, not Angel or both just Buffy.

1. Buffy Summers
2. Rupert Giles

3 Willow Rosenberg 4. Xander Harris 5. Tara Maclay 6. Anya Jenkins 7. Cordelia Chase 8. Spike 9. Angel 10. Dawn Summers 11. Daniel "Oz" Osbourne 12. Riley Finn

Keep in mind this is just MY opinion

I know a lot of fans hated the werewolf redesigns in season 4 but I thought they were scarier than the season 2 one. But i think that demon Willow created in season 6 when she was high on magicks, would have been a better design

I never watched Angel, so this answer may lay in that series. I'm wondering if Angel's soul gave him any special abilities that a vampire wouldn't normally have. Rewatching Buffy now for the first time in ages, and I'm wondering exactly how his soul differentiates him from the other vamps other than simply having his soul.

Im bored, and since Im interested what this subs fav Buffy episodes are I figured Id do some polls and make sort of a tournament by season. If enough people enjoy it Ill post one daily. So to start with season 1 Ill start with three episodes until we've done them all, then the winners face until there is one. Ill pick episodes at random. So just for fun... round 1!

Be sure to comment why you picked what you did and why not the others

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The use of this Buffyspeak "X Much???" has always bothered me.

I think it is sourced from the 80's where we used to say "Walk much?" to anyone who tripped.
So you did something and biffed, and then you'd get that.

But in Buffy, it's used improperly and at odd times and it seems like the Actors don't always know how to deliver it even if it wasn't. Particularly Charisma where it's less question and more upspeak.

Anyone else or is this just me?

I know they didn't discover her until after she became a slayer. And I know she'd probably have refused any way. But does anyone find it strange the council didn't even attempt to tell Buffy, no you have to quit school now and leave your family. (Either they would explain it to Joyce, come up with a fake excuse to tell Joyce where Buffy is going, or just have her "vanish" and tell Buffy it's for her family's own safety). Sure Giles and Merrick didn't have an issue with it, but the council would have surely? It can't be the first time they were late discovering the slayer but apparently she's the first to stay with her family and have friends.

Which one of these Buffy monsters scared you the most?

They all had a special place in my nightmares personally 😅🫣

This is an uncomfortable episode to watch, for sure. But I'm surprised at all the hate it gets. I think it's difficult to watch Buffy (a character we all love) be so hurt and alone, so that just kind of blinds people to the narrative significance of the episode. I don't know if this was intended, but to me, it makes the whole ending work. It was never about tactics or leadership or whether the Scoobies were too cruel or Buffy was too arrogant. It was a necessary and inevitable breaking point reflecting the fundamental flaw in slayerhood. Reinforcing that as long as there is only one Slayer, she will one day end up alone.

Throughout the series starting from maybe the second season, Buffy has shown tendencies of her "superiority complex with an inferiority complex." On a few pivotal occasions, she's made impulsive decisions (walking into two separate traps in the beginning and end of s2), she's withdrawn into herself (post s2, most of s6), she's refused to be told to follow restraint (end of s4). Those weren't flaws inherent to her personality, those were intrinsic to Slayerhood itself and it culminated in her behavior in s7. There's a lot of talk about the fight being OOC but that's the point! Prior to s7, Buffy had largely kept a level head and the Scoobies had largely always followed her lead. But it was inevitable that one day, the odds would be stacked so high against them that the inherent loneliness of being the Slayer would assert itself with impunity, and the circumstances would overwhelm and exhaust her friends so much that both parties would lose their ability to connect with each other.

Think about it. When the nicest, friendliest and most social Slayer in history and her friends who have given her love, support and loyalty more than any Slayer has ever received can act like this, what hope is there for Slayerhood at all? The fight wasn't tactical or personal, it was systemic.

Why did Buffy have to find the Scythe alone?

To show that at that point the power of friendship wasn't enough. Buffy had tried to outrun the destiny of the lone Slayer for seven years, but the fight was evidence that it was catching up to her. She was *was* alone. This rift could be mended, but she knew in her heart that as long as she remained the only Slayer, it would happen again and again until she truly fought and died alone. The fundamental gulf between them would always remain, that they don't understand the unique pressure of knowing that every battle, every apocalypse, comes down to her and she doesn't understand how powerless and desperate they feel when things are getting out of hand and there is nothing they can do to change it.

Why didn't the Scoobies run after her? Why didn't everyone reconcile afterwards?

Because then the significance gets undermined. It becomes just another fight that can be fixed with words. It could only be fixed with systemic change. Having them make up on screen would suggest that the fight was about Buffy personally, or her leadership, or her friends, when it was a lot deeper than that. The point was never if either of them were right or wrong. It's valid to think that one side was, but it still wasn't the true meaning of that plotline.

IMO, nothing else could better emphasize just exactly how liberating the ending of the show was more than this fight. We're supposed to feel how free Buffy feels from the burden of being the only Slayer, making it so that no Slayer has to fight alone, and this is supposed to show exactly what is the burden of being the only Slayer.

Growing up, I watched Buffy in French on French TV, and I was so sad about Angel's departure that I just did not like anything past season 3. I tolerated it.
Upon rewatching once my English became fluent, I noticed that season 4 was actually hilarious. The first three seasons are quite funny, too, but in the French dubbed version, there's hardly anything funny. It's just misery and heartbreak. A bit of situational fun, but it just doesn't compare.

Anyway, I'm now at "Something blue", and it's comedy gold.

How are the other dubbed versions out there? Any language that managed to do anything good with it?

I remember reading somewhere that Sarah Michelle Gellar thought that storyline was out of character for Buffy or something, does anyone know what exactly she said?

That's interesting to me because I never liked it either, I know getting blown off hurts, and considering Buffy's first time it hurts even more, but it felt like a drag.

At the beginning of the episode Potential (7x12) we see the potentials training in the cemetery with Spike and Buffy. Spike then punches a potential and grabs the other, pretending to bite her with no pain (this was just for training.) >!Spike only gets his chip removed in 7x13 and we don't see him hurt a human until 7x14, !<so wouldn't the chip cause him to have terrible pain when he hurt them?

Tv talk is hosting another watch party for the OG Buffy Halloween episode! We’ll be streaming on Hulu and live chatting at www.tvtalk.live - hope to see you there! 8pm EST 👻

Here’s my official “tell me you’re obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer” without telling me you’re obsessed collection . I was born in 1989 and my first memory of watching Buffy when it was on TV in it’s second season in 1998. This show has truly made an impact on my life and still does. I love watching new generations react to this show. I have collected my share of Buffy memorabilia from Calanders (my mom knew me so well that she would buy them for me for each Christmas and let me unwrap it the day before Christmas). I also remember going to the magazine store in the mall searching for the Buffy and Angel magazine … While this show will never leave my heart, I feel as though it is time for me to sell my collection to another fan that I know will appreciate these. My goal is to sell everything at once for $500. I am located in the US (Pennsylvania). I am open to discussing payment/ shipping arrangements. Below is a list of items included. Thank you potential ;) buyers.

Buffy OMWF Script

Sunnydale High School yearbook

SMG “Scene” magazine

“Slayer” Buffy guide

Buffy comic

Buffy calendars: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Buffy magazine issues: 7, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30

Buffy magazine yearbook: 2003

Angel magazine issues: 12, 14, 15, 16, 17(2 copies)

Buffy/Angel magazine yearbook: 2006

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They know there's a hunter on the loose, they know they're stronger than them, why use their fists when the hunters are vulnerable to firearms. In Spike's case, it's for the fun of fighting.

If spike had killed angel in destiny, would buffy have gotten revenge?

For me its buffy, I love her wittiness so much and her ability to see a bit of humour in misery and pain as well. Without even realising the character grew on me so much that I often find myself making witty/sarcastic comments and buffy face motions and gestures! But it kinda helps tbh! Went from someone who was deemed pretty mehh to someone people say is funny and strong.. Especially when life gets difficult. Honestly i wish there was another tv show or movie character like buffy.

I've seen very negative opinions on it recently and decided to cancel the order I had placed via eBay, is it really that bad?

Which DVD set do you guys recommend and where on the internet could I get it?

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Narratively it wouldn’t make all that sense but suppose they found a way to make it work.

Would anyone ask Buffy to sacrifice herself again? I imagine it’s something that would at least cross the Potentials’ mind once, and it would definitely be brought up in the rift episode that she was expecting everyone to risk their lives when she could fix it just by giving up her own.

I’m not sure if Buffy herself would indulge this idea, she would toy with it but I think it would be established that she was over her depression in season 6 and was fully committed to living her best life.

What I can’t figure out is how the Scoobies would react. Xander, Willow and Dawn would probably reject it throughout, Xander and Willow because bringing her back was their decision and it would be unconscionable to make her pay for it with her life, Dawn because she was the most affected by her death the first time. Giles I’m not sure. He was never on board with the resurrection, and he was all about hard choices that season. I don’t know if he could bring himself to actually say it to her, but I think it would cross his mind.

Hi All

Not sure if this has been asked before but I just wondered who your favourite villians who were not demons.

Mine has to be Ethan Rayne, I don't know why I just love him, he makes me laugh so much and just love the way he bounces off Giles. One of my favourite episodes is Band Candy with him in.

Would like to add R.I.P. Robin Sachs

Like, the reboot has been announced in 2019 or something and I was already like why ? And each year, there's someone talking about how the reboot is in the work or it'll bee soon here but it's never comes (and hopefully, it will never cause we don't need this).

Those past few years we had so much reboots from classics like Charmed, Sex And The City, Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, Winx Club, Archie's comics (Riverdale), Mean Girls,The Craft.... None of them works, they had awful reviews and even by the gen Z standards, they still fell flat.

So, why Hollywood won't let go of Buffy's neck... like girly, leave it alone.

Did anybody read the Fray graphic novel? That would make for a fun tv series

This has probably been asked plenty of times, but do you think the Monks adding Dawn to Buffy and the gangs live changed anything in the timeline.

Example of some stories not happening anymore or happening differently.

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