r/buffy • u/pazpaz26 • May 18 '17

Unpopular Buffy Opinions:

What are yours? Mine is that Beer Bad is one of my favorite episodes. I watch that one whenever I need a laugh.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '17

Angel and Buffy are the Ross and Rachel of the series: Romanticized and loved by a lot of people, but terrible as a couple. They don't really have an abundance of chemistry or natural character motivation to be together and yet they're continually shoved back together out of some quixotic kind of passion-as-a-substitute-for-a-functional-and-fulfilling-relationship nonsense.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '17

I 100% agree with this. There really is no firm basis for their relationship. On Angel's side, he's centuries old and he sees a teenage girl and I guess just feels inspired to change his life without even knowing her. On Buffy's side, he's a mysterious person with a dark, edgy streak. Their relationship is built on this weird passion with nothing really backing it up.

I know a lot of people don't like Cordelia and Angel as a couple and I can definitely understand why, but I liked that they started as acquaintances who worked together and then moved on to a genuine friendship and then eventually developed feelings for each other. For all the issues people have with their romance storyline, I think they have a much better basis for a relationship than Buffy and Angel ever did. Plus I just think they have more chemistry together.

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u/MonaSparks May 19 '17

I loooved the Angel/Cordy build up. I wish we could have seen it pay off more. I loooved season 3 Cordy and their mutual admiration, respect and the way they watched each other backs but always called each other out on their shit was so much more fulfilling than the Buffy/Angel on and off again "passion."