I love Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel (The Series) because, in Joss Whedon’s desperate attempts to make the Scoobys and Team Angel seem like funny, quirky outcasts, he made most of them autistic by accident.
Willow? Autistic.
Xander? Autistic.
Cordelia? Autistic.
Angel, Wesley, Oz, Anya, Fred, Andrew and Spike?
Autistic.
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watching s7e19 empty places and s7e20 touched is so insane because like. buffy has tried her best to protect these girls. yes, she's made mistakes, but how could she not? she's never had to look out for such a big team, most of them rather incompetent (which isn't their fault either), and the other potentials have made mistakes, too. but all the time before, her scoobies have had certain skills, so this is a completely new situation. also, she's never been a perfect leader, not in this season, and not before. but again, she's never had such a big and relatively incompetent team. what i find extremely wild is that willow, anya and xander are also so against her. faith isn't great either (and i really love her) but the way everyone, faith included, is critizing buffy about "being a harsh/singular leader" and then immediately becoming just that once they threw buffy out is crazy. the fact buffy believes them is so heartbreaking as well... she doesn't see how much she's been trying.
and once again, spike is the only one who stood up for her. who, in the last ~2 seasons, has always stood up for her. once again, with feeling comes to mind. "i'll be free if that bitch burns. i better go help her." giles (also very shitty in empty places and touched and also before that, trying to kill spike) wants her to go alone to fight the demon, but spike knows that going alone is what kills slayers. it's how he killed two slayers. but even before that, like constantly protecting dawn throughout seasons 5 and 6, getting kidnapped and almost killed by glory but not giving dawn up, or "i made a promise to a lady" during the ritual, the way he breaks down after buffy's died. and even after that, he still takes care of dawn, is still around. but he's not even told the scoobies are trying to resurrect buffy. giles continually telling him that his opinion isn't something the scoobies could ever use. after everything he did, he is still not respected. the only person who ever sees him is buffy, and as much as i like their relationship, she needs a long time to see him and to accept it. but when she does, it's magical.
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ok but am i the only one who doesn’t completely despise cordelia and xander together… like they’re not my favorite ship on the show but… they had their moments
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Xander being bi, for all your bi Xander needs.
Please reblog if you use!
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this is my second attempt to get into Buffy but dayum it’s so hard cause i just hate Xander’s character so much 😫😮💨 he’s just so pick-me it hurts in the first season
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