So I've finally watched all 7 seasons of Buffy!

[kilodalton]

Hopefully I've recovered a little bit of my fangirl-cred (which was seriously imperiled considering I'd never seen Buffy)

Random assortment of disjointed thoughts on all 144 (!!!!????) episodes here:

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* It is perfectly reasonable for a TV show to make you sob like a baby

* And laugh your ass off

* In the same episode

* That was one HELL of a series

Comments

[jessicaqueen]

I always found it problematic that the writers refused to acknowledge that Willow's bisexual. Yes, all the 'um, gay now' jokes are relatively funny, but it's clear that she did love Oz, and was physically attracted to him, even if she loved and wanted Tara more. It would have been different if she'd realised when she met Tara that, actually, this is love, and she hadn't quite felt it with Oz after all, but as it stands? She should definitely have been recognised as bi rather than completely gay.

[sherrilina]

I used to feel the same way, saying she was definitely bi and chalking up the "gay now" line to continuity fail (like the line about Buffy's death making any Potentials turn into Slayers since that would be Faith's death) or bad writing...but recently I've been reading some meta and commentary saying that it shouldn't matter, if she identifies as lesbian, people should accept that--and that the writer had had similar experiences before figuring out their sexual identity as gay. So idk now...

[kilodalton]

Yeah and wasn't the whole "um, gay now" thing in front of Tara? I think I remember that, because it struck me at the time that perhaps she said that because she was in front of Tara, and maybe she would have chosen a different phrasing had she been in private.

Idk, glad it's not just me though!

[sherrilina]

It might have been in front of Kennedy...or I always thought, so, but now I'm wondering...:s. Either way you make a good point.

[kilodalton]

I'm very glad to have seen it! It's really given me more of an appreciation for some of the themes that keep repeating across modern shows, be it Buffy, Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Vampire Diaries - you name it!

[amberfocus]

I always felt that Willow and Tara had pair-bonded on a deeply emotional level. I didn't think it would have mattered to Willow if Tara was a man or a woman, it was the person that she was and the experiences that they shared that made them who they were as a couple. Willow loved the person. I never, ever bought Willow with Kennedy. She always seemed uncomfortable and jumpy and that relationship was rushed and never felt right. Plus Willow clearly loved both Xander and Oz and expressed the love physically with both of them and not in a way that was experimental or her thinking she should be with a guy because she was a girl, but because she was very physically attracted to them both. So bisexuality makes a lot more sense to me, but I don't think mainstream American TV would have been able to handle such a thing in the late 90's/early 00's. Not even on the WB/UPN. So a lesbian she was

[kilodalton]

ITA with your whole comment.

Particularly Kennedy ... that just seemed extremely random and half-hazard @.@

[queen_insane]

I love Buffy so much.

Over time I've come to understand Buffy/Angel even if I ship Spuffy (it should be said though that my favorite Buffy ship is Spike/Angel/Buff). But I love the series so so so so much.

I have so many feels for this show I can't.

[kilodalton]

I feel like I understand why BUFFY would love Angel, but as a viewer it just felt very bland to me and not very interesting to watch =X

[queen_insane]

Yep. Pretty much this.

[develish1]

I would say Once More, With Feeling was the best ep ever, but it was fun :)

I'm not sure I could pick a "best Ever" though to be honest, it's actually been a while since I saw some of it

As for Willow, yeah I was always a bit dubious over her precise sexuality, as to me it seemed a little vague too

[kilodalton]

Yeah it's such a whirlwind that some eps are blurring together for me even though I just saw them - there are SO MANY!!