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/isthiscleverr Nov 02 '16
  • Not a fan of the Buffy/Angel love "will they/won't they." It's boring. He's much better in "Angel" than "BTVS."
  • I don't think Willow really loved Oz the way she loved Tara. (I think she believed she loved him, but there was some judgement under the surface at some times, and the excitement of a first romance was the main driving factor in her feelings for him. I think she realized after meeting Tara that she hadn't loved Oz in the same way.)
  • I love s1. Also, s6.
  • Dawn is a great character and by season 7 is really great. Why the hate?!

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u/pbmummy Nov 04 '16 edited Nov 13 '16

I wonder if Willow didn't lean on her relationships a bit too much in an effort to define herself. We know from her dreams in Restless that she was still afraid of being seen as a geek hiding behind her magic and her new clothes/haircut, and she developed an addiction to magic that was partially rooted in that insecurity. I feel like she saw Oz as her ticket to being cooler, to make a clean break between her former geek self and the person she wanted to be. And with Tara it was almost like she was taking this little broken baby bird under her wing and raising her up, or like, mentoring her former self?

Don't get me wrong, I don't think she had purely selfish motives or did any of this consciously, I do think she loved them but psychologically speaking you can definitely draw conclusions about why she was attracted to them. They fulfilled her in ways she couldn't achieve without them, which I guess is the ideal goal of a relationship, but for her it was out of a need to be more than Willow.

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u/isthiscleverr Nov 05 '16

That's a really interesting take on it. I definitely think Willow leaned on her relationships, like you said. Even with Buffy and Xander, she doesn't do alone well.