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Round 3 Poll 4

Fool for Love: After being bested in a fight by an ordinary vampire, Buffy asks Spike to explain how he killed two Slayers many years earlier.

Prophecy Girl: Giles discovers an ancient book foretelling Buffy's death at the hands of the Master.

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buffy is so funny because she's the most repressed, uptight, tightly wound girl in the whole world. but she genuinely believes she's a completely chill individual. i love her

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I still have issues with how they wrote Connor in season 3-4 (they relied far too much on having him be manipulated by people, and after a point it became extremely frustrating to watch, and also I do think a kid raised by a guy from the 18th century in a hell dimension should have been a lot weirder but I digress) but the biggest shift from middle school Sophie watching Angel and adult Sophie watching Angel is that whereas I once just found Connor annoying, I now stare at every scene with him and Jasmine-possessed-Cordelia and scream GET HIM OUT OF THERE!!!!!

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don't look too closely at cropped angel i haven't figured out how to crop images nicely in csp yet

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i think it is easy to assume on first glance that angel's plan in "becoming" to suck the world into hell is out of character because it is at odds with his previous plan to torment buffy until she is presumably driven 'mad'/loses her grip on reality like drusilla. however the important thing to remember is that angel is not tormenting buffy just for kicks. angel, while soulless, is terrified of vulnerability and love, and has been ever since darla pointed out that his father was ultimately victorious over him because he cared what his father thought of him and his father caused him pain because of it. he is profoundly angry that buffy (in his mind) 'made' him love her and thus made him vulnerable. (because, yes, contrary to certain opinions within the fandom, angel DOES love buffy without a soul -- that's kind of the whole problem!) that is why he torments her: because "she made [him] feel like a human being," which, as he says, is "not the kind of thing you just forgive." acathla, notably, doesn't come into the picture until shortly after "i only have eyes for you," in which angel, through ghostly possession, is made to experience the vulnerability and pain of love in full, and afterwards is desperate to 'cleanse' himself of the feeling. angel trying to destroying the world reads pretty clearly to me as a reaction to these events: he realizes he cannot ever fully be free of love or have the upper hand in this world no matter what he does to buffy, so the world might as well not exist at all. if he must be tormented, so must the world; if he cannot control his fate, he will control everyone else's. angel in s2 likes to present himself as being above it all, an apathetic puppet master whose only real emotion is pleasure at other's suffering, but this is merely a facade. in truth, he suffers from 'passion' as much as anyone; he is in love, and he is desperately angry and frightened because of it, and he wants it to stop, even if that means stopping the whole world along with it.

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there's this specific kind of "bad"/unsympathetic victim narrative that i'm obsessed with when it's executed well, where someone's trauma response is to become increasingly destructive and selfish, at first in the hope that there will be consequences - that someone will follow the broken, bloody trail they're leaving behind them and try to stop them - because that will mean that they've been seen. that someone has finally noticed them, acknowledged their pain, and done something about it. but then, when those consequences never arrive, or are too easily brushed aside, they realise that they're enjoying being in control (or the illusion of control) for once far too much to stop, and start to buy into this delusion they've begun to construct for themselves, where what they're doing is Justified, Actually, because of what they've endured to reach this point. they've long since crossed sunk cost fallacy event horizon. to look back now would be unbearable. which is, of course, when the consequences they cannot so easily ignore arrive, and they're forced to reckon with the fact that they've mistaken the grave they've been digging for a great and gleaming tower, the crumbling walls of which are now starting to collapse inwards on them. it's such an inevitable but compelling tragic route to go down.

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Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire slayer for Artober/Inktober. I picked the Halloween costume that best suited their personalities for this series, so they are from two different eps.

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do you have at least one poster in your room?

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debt repaid

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) "Becoming" — 2.21

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that’s crazy. I hope your blonde boyfriend dies btw

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Buffy saying "I just wish my mom was here" really falls flat for cuz...

Joyce wouldn't have COMFORTED her, let alone HELPED. She would have told Buffy that all of this was her fault ("if you weren't a freak your sister would be safe" or "if you had killed Glory your sister would be safe" or even just "you ruined everything again" all spring to mind as likely sentiments)

IDK why we all continue acting like Joyce was a good mom when the show established repeatedly that her love is 100% conditional.

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i know the answer is "they didn't know darla was going to be so important to the lore" but it is soooo funny to watch darla in buffy season 1. she's such a lackey. such a henchman. angel got a soul and spent the next hundred years curled up in an alley eating rats and meanwhile darla went crawling back to the master and decided her days of being an evil girlboss were OVER she was done making decisions for herself. whatever you say boss <3 spike and drusilla were out there living their best evil undead lives and darla third-wheeled them for a few years before going fuck this. literally would rather be vampire henchman #3

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underrated creepy aspect to the s5 fresley relationship is that neither of them remember wesley stealing the baby, getting kicked out of the gang, any of that stuff. wes does remember being with lilah (qv "you're welcome") but he certainly doesn't remember how or why. they literally are hollow cardboard cutouts of themselves. they've had their insides scooped out. even if you ship them why would you want them to be together like this........