#buffy summers season 1

[kratosfilms]

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[liam-summers]

Buffy Summers, Fashion Icon [Season One Edition] 💫

[dailybtvs]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1.12 — "Prophecy Girl"

[pocketsizedann]

The scene lives in my head rent free lmao. Also, really wanted to draw them all together so they are being their sad selves

[lovebvffys]

Buffy Meme: [1/2 Locations] The Magic Box

[fuffygifs]

ANGEL (1999-2004) “Sanctuary”

[the-crooked-library]

i'm doing a BTVS rewatch, currently on s1ep5 and oh my godddd

the first guy Buffy's ever gone on a date with or kissed: loves poetry, has a little hostility standoff with Angel, a tad morbid and excited to sneak into a funeral home, and says at the end of the episode "I didn't know nearly getting killed would make me feel so alive!" like...

girl you have a TYPE!!

[nostalgc]

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy - 1x11 (Out of Mind, Out of Sight) please if you save or use like or reblog

[comradesummers]

I really wish the show had brought up Merrick more (or like, ever). I know the writers were consistently vague whenever they had to reference anything that could overlap with the original film but, as is made very clear in Becoming, Buffy did have a watcher before Giles (who for some reason had an American accent, despite all other watchers being British, what's that about?), and he pretty much has to be dead, otherwise Buffy wouldn't need a new watcher. And even though they never bring this up directly, just the knowledge of this recontextualizes a lot of scenes. Buffy's big speech to Giles in Welcome to the Hellmouth where she explains how terrible it is to be a slayer is a lot more brutal when you realize that she's giving it to the replacement of the guy she couldn't save. And the scene in Passion where Buffy begs Giles not to die hits even harder knowing that her previous watcher did die. When she says "You can't leave me, I can't do this alone" she's speaking from experience.

And then in Faith, Hope & Trick, it's actually bizarre that Merrick never comes up, given how much of Faith's trauma is centered around seeing her watcher die, something Buffy can probably relate to. Now the Doylist explanation for this is probably that the writers either forgot about this element of Buffy's backstory, or were once again being deliberately vague about her pre-Sunnydale life. But in-universe, it suggests that Buffy just literally never talks about this with anyone, not even the person who could best understand where she's coming from.

What I'm saying is, the Merrick thing kind of inadvertently implies that Buffy is already pretty fucked up when we meet her. She's repressing a serious trauma to the point where she literally never mentions it to any of the other Scoobies. She is not okay.

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

flying fatality

[slayagelooks]

Buffy Summers behind the scenes

[dailybtvs]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1.09 — "The Puppet Show"

[pocketsizedann]

Did a spread with some drawings of Buffy being her gorgeous self. I absolutely love that outfit she is wearing on the right, like, I need a dress like that.

[raisedbythetv89]

I don’t understand how people can actually hate season 1 of Buffy unless they just hate fun and like jw has claimed “loves seeing buffy suffer” and be blamed and punished for everything???? It’s so nostalgic and camp and queer coded what do you mean you don’t like it????

The puppet show is comedic genius and I’ll say that shit with my whole chest - they’re dealing with an unknown demon killing children and Giles who is always chastising Buffy for focusing too much on things outside of slaying is like “THE SHOW! ITS ABOUT TO START!” 🏃🏻‍♂️💨

Buffy has beef with a puppet for 3/4ths of the episode that is so Spike of her and EXTREMELY FUNNY to me to have the slayer who decapitates vampires with tiny X-Acto knives and knowingly walks to her death majorly creeped out by a dummy 😹😹😹😭😭

Buffy whining in tandem with the tuba playing on the stage as a background sound track to her sinking mood after Synder forces the scoobies to participate in the talent show

The curtain opening to Buffy cradling the dead dummy and a dead demon on stage and Synder in the audience goes “I don’t get it - is it avant-garde?”

THAT SHIT IS SO FUCKING FUNNY TO ME

And Buffy is just in top form for me. Realizing Amy is in her mom’s body even on the verge of death. Seeing the way Cordy treats Willow and immediately finding a reason to align herself with Willow instead despite it being a new school and she is still struggling with not fitting into her old, pre-slayer life. Helping Billy face his fears in his nightmare while overcoming her own of becoming a vampire and really owning her slayerness in a way we haven’t seen before there’s a lot of scary things in the world “AND IM ONE OF THEM”

LIKE YES GIRL YOU ARE TINY AND SCARY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH OWN THAT SHIT. The whole bit where Angel is like BEWARE CLAW VAMP SO DANGEROUS WATCH OUT BE CAREFUL - and she’s like right…… I’m gonna use him as my own personal bloodhound to find the REAL monster. I EAT THAT SHIT RIGHT UP ITS AMAZING. It’s also when Buffy is blamed and suffering the least it’s such a nice break for the entire rest of the series that sometimes I just desperately need.

I LOVE that a show that gives us such deeply emotional moments and captures depression perfectly in season 6 can also be so silly and camp with genuine human emotion and connection underlying it because of the core of very talented and dedicated actors

AND THIS IS COMING FROM A DIEHARD SPUFFY. My man isn’t even there yet and Angel with his useless cryptic creepy bullshit is annoying me to no end AND I STILL LOVE IT

I know there’s tons of technical and quality stuff that gets better as the seasons go on but that’s part of the charm for me.

So anyway leave season 1 alone, she’s my girl and I love her.

[gehirnfussel]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Buffy + Death

[spuffybot]

Buffy Season 1 Rewatch Teachers Pet

Ughhhhhh this episode has two very significant themes that absolutely destroy me.

1. Adults Who Believe In Buffy Die: the way this girl is constantly let down kills me. Every time an adult sees the potential in her, believes in her, is on her side, they die. The moment with her science teacher is so beautiful. Joyce thinks Buffy with fail. Principle Flutie thinks she will fail. Giles thinks she isn’t committed to her duty. And here comes a man who sees that there’s more to Buffy than meets the eye and believes in her and inspires her to believe in herself and he bites it. We will see this happen multiple times and it just kills me.

2. Men Who Want Buffy To Be The Damsel: Xanders fantasy in the beginning of the episode is to rescue Buffy while she is helpless and needs him. This is the same fantasy Angel and Riley have. Even though Angel appreciates Buffy’s strength and capabilities, his dream is still to be human with a (fully) human Buffy. He doesn’t love the Slayer he loves the girl. Now obviously these things all serve the story but it just rips my heart out.