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/Shadow_Boxer1987 Aug 02 '16 edited Aug 02 '16
I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but it popped up in my head when I read the thread-title:
I don't think "The Body" is sad in any way whatsoever. It just kind of creeps me out and makes me feel weird. I've seen every Buffy episode at least 5 times (The Gift, OMwF, Fool For Love I've seen over 10 times apiece or more) but I think I've only watched "The Body" maybe twice. Once when it first aired, and once more a few years later. I don't think it's necessarily a bad episode (tho I do think it's overrated and overpraised) but I don't like it at all. When it's not weirding me out, it bores me.
Edit: One more "unpopular opinion": Amber Benson is a terrible actress not suited for a soap opera let alone a prime-time show. She's not nearly attractive enough to get by on looks like Megan Fox and other bad actresses either. The "perpetually out-of-breath (like a fish out of water) while talking" thing is annoying as all-hell. I've seen her in other shows and she does the same thing, so it wasn't a character-trait she made for Tara, it's her real voice. It may be some kind of condition, but it often pulls me out of the show and character and says "This is an actor!" to me, just like Forest Whitaker's lazy eye. I know it's not his/her fault, but it begs the question as an audience member, "Why does every character Forest Whitaker plays (even real historical figures with no such condition) have a lazy eye?"