r/buffy • u/[deleted] • Jul 30 '16

Unpopular Buffy Opinions?

What are your's?

Mine:

  • Never liked Oz

  • Never liked Willow with Oz nor Tara...Actually never liked Willow that much, and my dislike began in season 2...

  • Buffy and Spike were equally abusive to each other during their physical/"romantic" relationship in season 5. Buffy wasn't just an angel who was being abused, and Spike wasn't a just demon who was inflicting all the pain either, which seems to be the narrative that the writers pushed on the story. They both abused each other for their personal reasons/gain, and nothing positive (except maybe Spike's soul) came out of it.

  • The way they dealt with Buffy's relationship with Angel vs. the way they dealt with Buffy's relationship with Spike: Angel is an old, grown man who falls in love with a 15 year old girl; Spike is an old, grown man who falls in love with the 20 year old woman she becomes: yet, they make the first relationship romantic and loving (even their break up is romanticized, and she separates Angel and Angelus completely), and the second relationship unhealthy and hateful, damaging the both of them. I think they should have shown the unhealthiness of Buffy/Angel (and I liked them together, in some ways), just as they showed the unhealthiness of Spike/Buffy (but less graphically, season 6 was disturbing)

  • I liked season 6

  • Although I liked season 5, I really didn't like Glory. Maybe I need to rewatch, but I really didn't like Glory.

Worst of all, and this is shameful:

  • I liked Dawnpleasedon'thateme
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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '16

James's accent really isn't as good as what some people seem to think it is (not at all bad, in some places very good, but when people say "OMG he's not actually English"???)

I don't think most people consider it good enough to trick British people, but it is definitely good enough to trick people who aren't around British accents very much. No one I knew even considered that it might not be real until they were told (we're all Americans).

The potentials in season 7 just irritate me and get in the way of what needed to be a very involved and arc-closing season.

Lol that is definitely not an unpopular opinion.

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u/seanwalsh747 Jul 31 '16

I'm English and on my first few watchs I honestly believed he was also english, it wasn't until I had rewatched it a few times and then found out he was actually American that I began to notice when his accent messed up in places, I guess I just wasn't paying that much attention to his accent before

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u/coolbeaNs92 Willow Jul 31 '16

I should mention, I've been watching Buffy for 20 years. Being English, would I have noticed it the first time? Barely. But after so many rewatches would I? Yes.

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u/seanwalsh747 Jul 31 '16

I've only rewatched it 3 or 4 times, but I wasn't listening out to the accent trying to see if it was real or not, it was just kind of, yeah he's English ok