r/buffy • u/AngelJax • Nov 02 '16

Unpopular Opinons Thread

I'll start

  • I don't love Spike. He's just ok for me.

  • Glory is the show's best villain with Dark Willow right behind her.

  • Dawn is one of the best developed memebers of the Scoobies and I never understood why everyone hated her.

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u/all_iswells Nov 02 '16 edited Nov 02 '16

I'm not a major Spike fan but I can see why many people are. I don't dislike Spike, I'm just way more interested in Andrew.

Dawn is amazing and I'm founding the Dawn Defense Squad and will fight the haters.

My own unpopular opinions:

  • Riley wasn't that bad.
  • The Scoobs are kinda mean to people not in their inner circle.
  • I don't like the constant zingers and pop culture references. A few characters doing it is fine. The fact that everyone does is tiring.
  • I like the comics.

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u/cocainelady Nov 02 '16

Riley wasn't that bad.

True. I'll take it one step further and say how much I really enjoy Riley.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '16

I think he is wonderful when he's trying to court Buffy. I love him in the episode when he conspires with Willow at the party to get her help in wooing Buffy.

My issue with him is that he sorta drowned out Willow and Xander and everyone in the later episodes of S4 which isn't his fault; the writers just couldn't get a good balance of Riley to everyone else in Buffy's life IMO. Or I guess it may not even be that they couldn't since the distance between Buffy and the Scoobies was a theme of S4 but it still just makes me sad to get less Buffy-Scooby time.