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    S06.E09: Smashed

    in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    On 3/5/2024 at 9:26 PM, Halting Hex said:

    Willow has been doing magic for four years by this point.  I think you can trust her a little, regardless of what her ex says.

    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. 

    Xander

    in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    · Edited by lembergwatcher

    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.

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    in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    On 12/3/2023 at 5:19 AM, Halting Hex said:

    Blanked out Anya dragging his recently-maimed-and-heavily-medicated (he couldn't even walk unassisted in the previous episode, recall) ass onto the dirty kitchen floor in Groped, have we?

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

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    in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    On 12/3/2023 at 2:21 PM, MapleCourt said:

    I like how in Episode 3, when something goes wrong, the first thing Willow does is call Xander - that would never have happened in Seasons 3-5.

    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).  

    S02.E14: Innocence

    in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    On 11/9/2023 at 7:39 PM, MapleCourt said:

    Only bad part was that she didn't kill Angel at the end. I get why she didn't, but the guy did just try to destroy the world.

    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

    Spoiler

    thus figuratively signing a death sentence for numerous innocent people. The saddest party is that Buffy never truly aknowledges she was partly responsible for all those deaths too and has zero problems with continuing the whole thing with Angel in the next season.

     

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    Buffy is what happens when a good unique show gets popular

    in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    · Edited by lembergwatcher

    18 hours ago, MapleCourt said:

    Giles and Xander are practically nonexistent except for a few obvious tropes. The ending of Season 2 is ruined by bringing back Angel after just 3 episodes.

    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.

    18 hours ago, MapleCourt said:

    The party scene in the second episode of season 3 is actually a good metaphor for that season. Whenever I watch season 3, I feel like Buffy at that party, wandering around wondering what happened to the friends and home she used to enjoy.

    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.

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    in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    12 hours ago, MapleCourt said:

    After killing us with Faiths, Rileys, Anyas and Oz's for 4 seasons, the show finally focuses on its established characters.

    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.

    12 hours ago, MapleCourt said:

    More screentime for the Big 3. Giles is missing for most of the season, but that's honestly better than dragging him out for 30 seconds of meaningless screentime like in Seasons 3-5. Xander has the most screentime since Season 2.

    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.

    12 hours ago, MapleCourt said:

    I like the Trio. They're a humanizing relief after the cascading mega-villains of previous seasons.

    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).

    13 hours ago, MapleCourt said:

    Xander finally ditches Anya. And not just at the wedding.

    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). 

    13 hours ago, MapleCourt said:

    Willow has the main story, almost equal to Buffy, which is great for fans of Willow.

    There are quite a few fans of Willow who will disagree 😉. Main story is fine, it's just what kind of story this is. 

    13 hours ago, MapleCourt said:

    There's some bad, mainly Spike, but at least he leaves town at the end.

    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.

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    in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    On 11/9/2023 at 10:48 PM, MapleCourt said:

    And poor Willow gets stuck with this loser for three seasons

    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. 

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