#Riley Finn

[nicnacsnonsense]

Love how Spike seems to feel guiltier about having upset Buffy by showing her Riley getting suck jobs from vampires than Riley seems to feel about actually getting the suck jobs.

[layer-of-slayers]

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[thepunkmuppet]

Buffyverse Characters - First and Last Appearances

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[breezybeej]

The problem with Riley Finn is that he's so bland but the three episodes before he goes away are like.

He was actually becoming someone interesting for a little bit. A real freak who lurks in shadows and does weird shit like get recreational suck jobs from vampires. Who has custom plastic stakes that look exactly like wood so he can non-fatally poke vampires. Who is self aware enough to assess his own problem but too stupid to like. actually do anything about it.

But instead of going farther down that path, he

GOES TO BELIZE TO PROTECT CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES FROM NATIVE ISLANDERS PRACTICING THEIR OWN RELIGION

[irate-iguana]

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[lilatara]

imagine if the BtVS writers had just...let us ever be mad at Riley.

For writers who so clearly understood an audience's desire to root for an underdog, they never seemed to understand that they needed to give us an outlet for our frustration with Riley in order to "forgive" him.

Of all the worst problems with how Riley is written as a character, these are two moments in As You Were that always boil it down for me.

After having a year to reflect on everything that DIDN'T work in Into the Woods, apparently the writers' takeaway was that BUFFY needed to apologize. Chasing a helicopter wasn't QUITE humbling enough, I guess. She needs to say sorry to the guy who left her and got married within a year...because clearly SHE was the only one not fully committed to their relationship. Sure.

He, otoh? Has nothing to apologize for.

Now, bear in mind, at this point, we in the audience have watched Buffy lose her mom, sacrifice her own life, struggle through a legit resurrection, but the writers still want us to care that it hurt Riley's feelings that Buffy cried more over Angel than him.

AYW should've been Riley's redemption. He should've shown up apologetic, sheepish, and frankly, if we were meant to get on his side, a little loser-ish. But the writers seemed incapable of getting that you can't make us like a character by just repeatedly telling us he's faultless. They already let him leave once, with Xander lecturing Buffy and us that we had failed to appreciate the best guy we were ever going to have a shot with. But no one was buying. So how to drive it home this time? Have him show up literally "intense, fit, and more handsome than ever", now with new scar! Just like that other guy we know you're into!

Buffy won't just run after him this time. She'll swoon, she'll pine, she'll be filled with jealousy. She'll be a loser in a bad outfit. She'll smell. She'll be less effective and knowledgeable than the super couple. She'll be caught in a humiliating, intimate situation. And how shocking that this somehow still did not make Riley a fan favorite. Who ever could've predicted? Other than everyone who had already seen it not work in ITW, that is.

[mycatismyfriend]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 4x22 "Restless"

[nicnacsnonsense]

The thing is I think we’re ultimately supposed to understand that Buffy was emotionally closed off from Riley and was keeping him at a distance, even if she wasn’t aware she was doing it. We certainly don’t see her opening up to Riley or leaning on him the way she did with Angel or later did with Spike. The problem is Riley and Xander are such self-righteous assholes about how they present this information that I deliberately choose to believe they are wrong.

[lopeirce]

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[dreamsuvivor]

Riley boy… if you can’t handle dating a bad bitch, don’t date the baddest of them

[oncemorewithqueering-tv]

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okay so I was NOT expecting anyone to vote on my spike version of this, so...

here we are again.

[hersterical]

Literally one of my all time favorite interactions in btvs is in season four when Professor Wells is all like

“Riley has the highest kill count in the entire initiative and has been responsible for the execution of 12 subterrestrials.”

And Wells and Riley both look so freaking proud and smug and are fully expecting Buffy to just be blown away but then she’s just like

“Oh yeah, it’s been a slow week for me as well. I’m only at about 15 vamp dustings but there’s a nest I was planning on hitting tomorrow if you want in.”

[toomanylizzes]

One of the best visual jokes Buffy the Vampire Slayer ever did was put Spike in Riley’s clothes in Crush.

Look at him. Trying to wear Riley-core. Commando cosplay. No one ever calls him out on it, and he looks so awful, and he’s trying so hard while making it look like it’s all a coincidence, and I’m pretty sure those were actually Riley’s old clothes that he stole.

[finalgirl1984]

I think it would have been funny if Riley genuinely was just a normal likable guy. Maybe he accidently ended up in the initiative's frat, and at first they think he's somehow connected but he's just so nice that the guys just decided to keep him around. They tell Walsh they're going to try to recruit him at some point but don't. Once the gang finds out about the initiative everybody is immediately suspicious of him but he doesn't know what's going on. He seems to always just stumble right out of sight of some supernatural stuff like mr magoo.