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Better four days late than never... HAPPY SARAH'S DAY!

Happy Nick's day!

Happy b-day, Juliet Rose Landau!

Happy birthday, Nathan Fillion!

A very special day today...

Happy birthday to Woman Who Doesn't Age!

Thou shalt not trust anyone except Captain Spike in this wicked new version of the Buffyverse... It's like they (the core Scoobs) don't know each other anymore.

Happy b-day!

Happy heavenly birthday, Robin David Sachs!

We have so called "champions" who literally got away with murder. Who killed lots and lots and lots of innocent people. Who nearly ended the world few times. Who provoked Senior Partners to unleash a demonic army on one of the biggest US cities... But, yeah, Xander never getting called out for... what exactly? Saying mean things about Angel or Saint Spikey? Or daring to disagree with General von Buffy? Yes, we know the true "villain" when we see one.

Happy b-day, Marc Blucas!

Happy b-day, Eliza D!

Happy 70th birthday, Jeff Kober!

Apart from the notorious bathroom scene Captain Peroxide is widely considered to be the God's gift to Buffy and the whole Buffyverse. Unfortunately.

My shattered psyche has for some reason blocked the aforementioned disturbing image associated with quite forgettable episode inside my mind... 🙂

In defense of pre-season 6 episodes... Before After Life Willow did approach Xander at least on two occasions: 1) she asked him to help her pick up formal wear for the homecoming dance (3x05); 2) she came to Xander looking for advice when it became obvious Oz had boners because of Veruca (4x06).

Happy b-day, Fab Filippo!

Caleb & Felicity. They must be discussing the ways Caleb's gonna purify the girl... Waitress, 2007.

Oz and Dawn after deciding to elope... or not...

Happy b-day, Elizabeth Anne Allen!

I started losing respect for the character of Buffy Summers after that. She's hardly an intellectual, but she can't be that dumb. She knows Angel's gonna kill since it's a vampiric raison d'être (as Spike put it). She knows Angel's gonna come after her friends and family one day. She knows many people will die. And yet she walk away from him

Buffy is what happens when a good unique show gets popular AND when the show's creators start believing their shit doesn't stink and dedicating more time to hyping the series in the media or pushing agenda instead of writing good and interesting stories to captivate the audience.

After Giles practically spat on Jenny's grave by going along with callous "let's save Buffy's boyfriend Angel" plan in 2x21 I wouldn't mind seeing him deported back to England for good. Marginalizing Xander was a bone thrown to numerous Buffy/Angel 'shippers because of the "Lie" in the previous season's finale, but that's just my opinion. Besides, Bangel fans would've lost it if Joss delayed Buffy and Angel reunion for a couple more episodes. Buffy's friends had to grow up due to many things including having to act as Slayer's substitutes on the Hellmouth while Buffy stayed in LA. They were somewhat mad at Buffy for abandoning them and those feelings affected their judgement and behavior.

It does. Only those characters turn out to be very screwed-up, stripped of most qualities that made them likable in the first place and quite frankly barely resemble characters most of us loved. Buffy/Spike "romance" is just one shiny example. Yes, but watching them drifting further apart and acting like some self-centered assholes, acting out of character, doing stupid shit was no joy at least for me. Xander has the most screentime since earlier seasons, yes, but in most cases not in the way I expected him to be. I expected Xander the hero, not Anya's lapdog who nearly married (ex)vengeance demon and failed to notice his supposed best friend Willow was falling apart and showing all signs of a very disturbing behavior (not to mention that Willow's existence totally revolvs around Tara, Tara, Tara). He doesn't have the guts to stand up for Willow (eps 9 & 14 for example). Sure, he had his moment at the series finale, but that was too late IMHO. And the main reason Xander was absolutely irrelevant throughout the next season. Buffy was made a Slayer to fight supernatural forces, not high school nerds. Humanizing or not, in the older (and better) days it took one episode with the "threat" like that, not an entire season (i. e. Chris and Eric from Some Assembly Required). Way TOO LATE. Should have done it back in the season four. And he didn't just ditch Anya and forgot the whole nightmare. Xander doesn't know what to do about Anya and the whole wedding thing (all due to the foot in his mouth in the previous season's fainale) throughout the first half of the season and then tries to make it up to "poor Ahn" for the reminder of the aforementioned season. Xander never regrets being with Anya, never aknowledges it was a big mistake. He still interacts with Anya much more than with Willow or Buffy. And it's not like he and Anya are over for good since there's a strong element of "will-they-or-won't-they" during most of season seven (they shag in 7x16, after all). There are quite a few fans of Willow who will disagree 😉. Main story is fine, it's just what kind of story this is. Spike is the star of the show in the sixth season who has more screentime than any other character except the main protagonist. And that's the saddest part. Not the only bad thing unfortunately. So cutting anything with Spike in it wasn't the option since season 4... Spike was Joss' favorite, after all.

Not to mention it was thanks to Oz that Willow started messing with the dark magic and losing many of those qualities that made her very likable at the beginning.