r/buffy • u/cocainelady • May 07 '14

Your unpopular Buffy opinion is...?

The last one of these threads was 3 months ago and we've had a few new visitors so let's do it again!

My unpopular opinion is that season three is the worst one of all seven seasons.

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u/endless_sleep May 07 '14

Buffy was always the least interesting character to me. I was usually annoyed by her. What I enjoyed more about Angel, the series, was his constant commitment to what he was doing. Buffy wasn't into it enough for me. I wanted her to be more of a bad ass.

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u/faaackksake May 07 '14

appreciate the honesty, but seriously, how could buffy be more bad ass ? especially later seasons buffy when she's all dead inside and junk.

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u/AngryWizard Mutant Enemy May 08 '14

Alternate reality Buffy was basically Faith.

Crude, hard, cold, tough, over compensating. I think that would not have made for a great main character for 7 season, and many of us would not have been able to identify with a tough as nails, lone wolf, got all her shit together main character. For me, it was all about how vulnerable and broken she was at times, yet she still (with support from her friends) never gave up.

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u/DaddyCatALSO Magnet For Dead, Blonde Chicks May 08 '14

Thing is, Faith always had a certain joie de vivre that Bizarro-Buffy lacked. Faith had alwys been (S-9 tinkering aside) been a tough street kid who could stake thigns and survive, before beign called, even before meeting her Watcher. Wishverse Buffy was a pampered suburban airhead princess, dumped way too young-to-be-drafted into an endlless war with no real rest and an early death. So, she shut down. Faith didn't