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This is a series of essays exploring every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is not intended as episode reviews exactly, but a look at the themes, ideas, qualities and flaws of the show as they develop through each installment.

You can find links to every piece below the cut.

#pinned post #insect reflection

charmedslayer

Faith + 🚬

#insane to remember she wasn't lighting up the whole of s3 #faith lehane #S7

phox-129

THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB - Buffy Summers

i. @sophsun1 / ii. Antigone, Jean Anouilh, formatting by @tuverras / iii. @buffygifs / iv. The Sacrificial Lamb, Josefa de Ayala/ v. unknown / vi. @clarkgriffon / vii. @slayerbuffy / viii. H of H Playbook, Anne Carson / ix. Anecdote of the Pig, Tory Adkisson / x. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1.12, “Prophecy Girl” / xi. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5.22, “The Gift” / xii. The Oresteia, Aeschylus / xiii. Sacrificial Lamb, Wikipedia

reputayswift

No matter how profoundly sad a Buffy episode is, someone will walk in on you watching a scene like this

#yeah yeah the brain cancer/big snake episode we've all seen it

youaremyvoice

problematic acting ability gap

zevuffie

heycallmered

Get an ask in my inbox -> read it -> "oh, that's nice; I need to think of a good response" -> "this deservea more attention than I can give it rn; I'll take another look at it later" -> close inbox until later -> "later" never really comes -> forget -> repeat

#yeah

chromaticabrasions

i think being manacled with my arms above my head would be sooo comfortable

chromaticabrasions

hashtag need this

chromaticabrasions

oh don’t worry, that’s angel and hes being tortured becuz hes sucks so bad <3 it’s like vital to his heath that he is suffering in some way or other

#he needs torture marks to live

comradesummers

the problem with watching buffy the vampire slayer for the first time when you're 13 is that it will fundamentally reshape your brain chemistry to the point where literally all fiction becomes buffy the vampire slayer in different fonts. "watch another show!" you might say, and believe me i have! i promise i've watched many other shows since i was 13. but the problem is that all those other shows as well as films, books, podcasts etc. are simply deviations of buffy the vampire slayer to me. it's the holy text, the primary source. everything else is just commentary.

emflops

THE SACRED TEXTS???????

comradesummers

the reason buffy summers is a much better protagonist than a lot of the main characters in other teen supernatural shows is that those characters tend to be good people in a passive, boring way. they're generally nice and care about doing good, but they're rarely placed in situations where they have to make difficult decisions with no good outcomes, or pushed to extremes that force them to contend with the ugliest parts of themselves. btvs meanwhile is absolutely obsessed with the idea that passivity is inherently unethical. as such, in order for buffy to be a good person, she constantly has to make active choices. she never gets to be indecisive in the face of a moral dilemma. she always has to choose, to make tough calls, and that makes her genuine heroism and goodness far more compelling than a character who's just kind of passively nice.

#btvs #buffy summers

hi! I love your analysis and I’ve read all of them while working in the Office this winter (i am watching Buffy for the first time, start last year and slowly finishing Buffy and Angel).

There are many thing I agree on your analysis and others things I didn’t think about but are brilliant.

if it doesn’t bother you to say it, which is your ao3? I’d like to read your fic too! I’m dying for a good Buffy/Faith fic, but there are many of them and I’d like to start with an author whose interpretation of the show I know I trust and find so fascinating 😂 (because I’ve read your essays.)

https://archiveofourown.org/users/IvorySteel92

And thank you 😊

automatonwithautonomy

the way buffy the vampire slayer talks about sex is really fucked up. sometimes in a textually and thematically fascinating way. and sometimes just in a misogyny way.

#many such cases #reblog #btvs

missjessefantastico

i like to think that after primeval but before restless xander decided he had to do something to show willow he was chill with her sexuality, so he just stood next to her, offered her water, and went "boobs amiright?" willow went through an entire face journey because, on one hand, that's the weirdest way and time to show support given everything around them at the moment, but on the other... well... boobs indeed

#btvs #xander harris #willow rosenberg

For the record:

S5

S2

S3

S6

S4

S1

S7

Thank you.

#i saw the tv glow

talesfromthecrypts

“I really did live and breathe Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I cared about Buffy more than I cared about my real life. And just having that consistency — when I was, like, 10, I watched the first season of that show while it aired, and was with it for seven years. And it was such a tool of dissociation for me. It was, in hindsight, I think, very much a coping mechanism for not being able to form the kinds of deep romantic relationships that other people can form when they’re an adolescent in the right body. I wasn’t in a place where I could open myself up to people, but here was this show that was so emotional, that I could have this relationship with.” -Jane Schoenbrun

I Saw the TV Glow // Buffy the Vampire Slayer

#YEAH

Bored Now (Doppelgangland)

Doppelgangland is a very good episode.

There’s a version of this essay that is nothing but that sentence over and over again, phrased in different ways. It’s a nearly self-evident truth – this episode is uncontroversially and near-universally beloved. IMDB’s ranking has it as the best episode of Season Three, and 8th overall. It’s regularly mentioned as a season highlight by dedicated and casual fans alike. Vampire Willow is one of the show’s most memorable villains, and she only gets this episode to shine at all, after being criminally underused in The Wish. Even Joss Whedon ranks it among his own top 10. Fan ratings aren’t everything – the fact that Restless comes in at #33 is a clear indicator of the voters’ collective lack of taste – but when a fandom so clearly agrees on something, I think it’s worth asking why.

In one way, that question has a very easy answer: this episode is very fun to watch. Alyson Hannigan dazzles as the quietly charismatic Vampire Willow, dominating the screen with a very specific almost-awkward swagger. She then channels her inner Tatiana Maslany and delivers sparkling turns, first as Willow-playing-Vampire-Willow and then as Vampire-Willow-playing-Willow. She gets such joy from playing up the differences and similarities between both characters – perhaps my favourite bit coming in her demonstration of how terrible both Willows are at improvisation acting. Hannigan has been quietly improving as an actor since Welcome to the Hellmouth, and now shows herself to sit comfortably beside Gellar and Head as one of the strongest members of the cast.

And it’s more than just Vampire Willow – the whole show is singing. The humour is bright and zippy. Every character, now settled in the roles they’ll fill for the rest of the season, gets moments to shine. Anya is starting to emerge as a character who is recognisably Anya. The climactic fight in the Bronze is probably the best group action scene so far, and might have a shout to be the show’s best ever. Even the tertiary characters are in form: Devon’s insistence that only “fruity jazz bands” know more than three chords is quietly one of the funniest moments of the episode. This is an episode that starts being fun early on, and never stops.

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