Today's Blast from the Past!
I'd like to dedicate this post to my cousin for recently bringing Buffy back into my life. In the most recent years we have seen supernatural beings such as Vampires and Werewolves grace our televisions as if it is some new and unheard of concept. However, before there was Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf, and True Blood, there was Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
We watched for years as Buffy and "The Scoobies" fought Apocalypses and survived death on numerous occasions. We watched which now seems to be a recurring theme, two male vampires in a love triangle with the main heroine (who also happens to be a human). We have seen girls turn into witches and guys becoming werewolves. We have watched as citizens of the town disappeared one by one. We have also watched the non-supernatural help in the fight against good and evil that graced our television. Moreover, Buffy the Vampire Slayer introduced a very strong female role for its viewers, showing that women can take charge and protect themselves from "evil" in this world, all while kicking a little ass.
Over its seven year run, we grew to love goofy Xander, brainiac and enchanted Willow, protector and guide Giles, “it’s all about me, me, me” Cordelia, the brooding Angel, “William the Bloody” known as Spike, and the “I’m the Slayer…Slay-er. Chosen One? She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries…? ‘In every genera—‘you know. I really don’t feel like doing the routine. Ask around. Look it up: ‘Slayer comma The.’”, Buffy.
Out off all the characters described above, I have to admit Spike is my favorite. He played evil extremely well and that British accent could also make him quite the charmer when he wanted to be. I believe he had the largest transformation throughout the years of the show. He started as one of Buffy’s prime enemies to becoming one of her friends, lovers, and right hand “man” ( I mean even with a soul he was still the living dead). He had some of the best lines of the series in my opinion and truly loved Buffy in the end even though she never truly loved anyone other than Angel.
As the show came to an end we were left with this final scene and once again all good things must come to an end:
Willow: “The First is scrunched, so… what do you think we should do, Buffy?”
Faith: “Yeah, you’re not the one and only Chosen anymore. Just gotta live like a person. How’s that feel?
Dawn: “Buffy? What are we gonna do now? (Buffy looks at them, looks back at the crater, and we are in full close-up as she considers the question, a small smile creeping onto her lips as she decides on her answer)
More Quotes from the Series:
Spike: You listen to me. I've been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine, and done things I prefer you didn't. Don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood... which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes. A lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred-plus years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You... Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it's not because I want you, or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are. What you do. How you try. I've seen your kindness, and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you, and I understand, with perfect clarity, exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. You're the One, Buffy.
[Willow brings Buffy, who is in hospital, her homework]
Willow: It's my way of saying get well soon.
Buffy: You know, chocolate says that even better.
Willow: I did all your assignments. All you have to do is sign your name.
Buffy: Chocolate means nothing to me.
[Spike tells Willow about his breakup with Drusilla]
Spike: She wouldn't even kill me. She just left. She didn't even care enough to cut off my head or set me on fire. I mean, is that too much to ask? You know, some little sign that she cared? It was that truce with Buffy that did it. Dru said I'd gone soft. Wasn't demon enough for the likes of her. And I told her it didn't mean anything I was thinking of her the whole time, but she didn't care. So, we got to Brazil and she was... she was just different. I gave her everything. Beautiful jewels, beautiful dresses with beautiful girls in them, but nothing made her happy. And she would flirt. I caught her on a park bench making out with a Chaos Demon. Have you ever seen a Chaos Demon? They're all slime and antlers; they're disgusting. She only did it to hurt me. So I said, "I'm not putting up with this anymore." And she said, "Fine." And I said, "Yeah, I've got an unlife, you know." And then she said... she said we could still be friends. God, I'm so unhappy.
Spike: I mean, "Friends." How could she be so cruel?
Angel: "Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir. Open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us. Passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we can live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead."
Dawn: The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.
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