#btvs rewatch

[youlivhere]

We don't talk enough about:

"I'd rather be fighting you anyway", "Mutual"

Because what the fuck. That's like the highest declaration of love between enemies.

[sayanrougshaban]

[sunnydalelibrarian]

Liking Spike more than Angel is extremely funny when you're Scottish. Like, as a point of principle, do you know how much the Irish guy has to piss me off for me to actually prefer the Englishman?

[socratesgirl]

it is also because buffy is just right most of the time but i do find it intriguing (and funny) that buffy immediately clocks that spike hid willow and xander at the factory and he immediately has to go like "uh uh uh what??? do you think im um stupid? that would be crazy" and honestly the whole episode is them just them reading each other deadly accurate style lol and they only continue to do this every single episode together until they die at their separate times

[amongaesthetics]

Okay so I’m rewatching Buffy for the nth time and I just noticed something about episode 4.

Like, I remembered the plot well enough- you don’t forget “it’s scary to fall in love with my substitute teacher because what if they’re secretly a praying mantis who wants to eat my face.”

But what I didn’t quite put together is that the teacher who gets killed in the beginning of the episode was probably the only person on the show who believed in Buffy as Buffy Summers and not Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Like, everyone who knows Buffy Summers thinks she’s a screw up- bad grades, no commitment to homework, skipped classes, got in fights, burned down a gym, was expelled from her past school. Only those who know about the Slayer know to overlook these blights as necessary to her fight against evil. Normal people, those who don’t know, always think she’s a screw up- even her mom.

This teacher on episode four who dies before the intro saw Buffy Summers. Saw the sharp girl in the back of the class, quick-witted, good on her feet, with all her flaws and blights and said, ‘don’t listen to anyone’s negative opinion about you. I see your potential. I see your ability. Put in the effort and show them how well you can succeed because I know you can.’

Giles is good enough- he becomes a father figure even- but it’s hinged in his belief of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, not for Buffy Summers. The way his guidance and care for Willow, for example, isn’t clouded by his belief that she must be something in the fight against the end times. Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Giles must shape up- and while played for comical relief, this is demonstrated in his inability to understand her desire to be Normal Teen Girl who tries out for cheerleading and skips fights to go to prom.

Buffy only mattered to people, only felt like she succeeded, as Buffy the Vampire Slayer- except for this random guy who dies 5 minutes into the episode and is never mentioned again.

And I think Buffy being robbed of that genuine belief in her is what comes back to get her after college since nobody ever says that to her again.

[o0psididitagain]

Another hilarious Spuffy/Bangel comparison is how Angel complains and bemoans never being able to go out into the sunlight, even says he’s jealous of Xander for being able to see what Buffy looks like in the sun (2x02), just constantly complains, and never tries to see Buffy during the day.

Then you have Spike… Mr “I was in the neighbourhood”, Mr “Security Blanket”, Mr literally constantly appears smoking and covered with a blanket because he couldn’t bear staying away during the daylight hours. I don’t think he complains ONCE about being a “creature of the night”, because it quite simply doesn’t stop him.

Just a funny observation!

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

cordy, get out of my shoes

[misselesava]

buffy the vampire slayer ⇾ 2.05