#buffy the vampire slayer season two

[alannacouture]

Is it even a real ship if they haven’t threatened to kill each other?

[dailybtvs]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 2.15 — "Phases"

[buffysummers]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

[angelthemanspanker]

the scoobies putting up the dozens of potentials in buffy's (big ass but like, for a family of two/three) house is so funny, all of the first's targets sleeping on the floor of a house made of cardboard a hop skip and a jump away from the centre of the hellmouth. do they know angel lives in an empty hotel

[bocadelinfierno]

[mezbeleyer]

If all of the strength and All of the courage Come and lift me from this place I know I can love you much better than this Full of grace... I know I can love you much better than this....

[comradesummers]

saw someone say in the tags of a gifset that buffy and willow are the most important relationship in the show "to me". and i'm here to tell this person that it's not just you babe. they literally are the most important relationship in the show. it's the first relationship buffy establishes with anyone in sunnydale. in prophecy girl, she goes to fight the master after she sees how upset willow is. i need to reiterate that; buffy is full-on willing to die for willow, at the end of season 1, after knowing her for maybe four months. willow is the one who resurrects buffy because she literally can't live without her. and then whenever they're in conflict it becomes the season long arc (see seasons 4 and 6). willow and buffy working together is what changes the slayer line forever.

they are the show.

[winterlovesong1]

I’m a fan of a story that has a continuous thread – a steady string to keep you as the viewer on track – pacing time – drawing familiarity – gathering a knowing awareness of where you are supposed to be.

This is particularly evident in rewatching season two of BTVS and focusing in on Buffy and Spike. In knowing where the story leads – in knowing where that string is guiding, this thread leads me as an audience member through so many lines - wanders me through so many moments where I as the viewer can feel the added weight when I move through the season -

“I’d rather be fighting you, anyway.”

“Mutual.”

I step forward within the story, wonderous, allured…

“To kill this girl, you have to love her …”

And not a second later, I graze my palm across the fibers of the string…and I feel…I know…

“Made me sick to my stomach to see you be the slayer’s lapdog…”

An added meaning rests in my hand…accompanied with significance as I follow…as I move to the rhythm of its direction…

“I hate you.”

“And I’m all you’ve got.”

And as one returns to the beginning of a story, but particularly this one, particularly Buffy, one should allow the string within the story to lead you through… This string is important…but it’s even more important after you’ve traveled through once…after you’ve held the experience of walking upon this story’s path. This string - let it lead you to where the story is unfolding…let it lead you to where it will end…

“I’m all you’ve got…”

They will be…they will be to each other…and not out of spite….but out of…love…

[raven--stag]

God Buffy is pissing me off!!! Ooooo Spike is so bad oooo a vampire a demon A THING(!!!) I shouldn't want to fuck him mee-mee-mee

Like, bitch?? He's hot, get over it!

Also the fact that at the beginning of season 6 she was all buddy-buddy with him and then randomly started behaving like an asshole makes no! damn! sense!

As a side note: this rant isn't about me being upset on spike's behalf because he bewitched me body and soul in fact it's not about him at all. It's about me not understanding Buffy and her motives because the writing is kind of strange and silly. It doesn’t really match her character development imo? I feel like at this point she should be a bit more mature🤷‍♀️

[singwith-love-at-our-throats]

over the past two months or so i’ve read a combined total of 2,443,207 words of spuffy fanfiction

[thepunkmuppet]

actually genuinely what the FUCK

[girl4music]

One line that really haunts me looking back isn’t from ‘Restless’ but ‘Something Blue’.

When she said “If I had any real power I could have made Oz stay with me.”

Now we likely thought, at the time, that this was just Willow dumping on herself. That she never really meant anything she was saying. She was just sad and grieving her loss and so her entire exuberant personality was deflated and she was just saying stuff like that because she was in pain.

But now we know that if she really did have that kind of power back then that that’s exactly what she would have done because she does it to Tara. Makes her stay with her via the power of magic.

And you watch that episode back again and you’re like “Whoah!” all of a sudden because you’ve seen the trajectory of the arc now. Where it will go.

The red flags were right there in front of us.

That might not have been her intention back then but it certainly was her mindset. It’s something her mind went to instinctually. She never had the power then but imagine if she did. What would she have done to Oz? Mind-raped him too? Scary.

And I do remember that the initial manifesto for Season 4 - the original intention - was to give us the Initiative and the Dark Willow storylines all in one. Does that mean that the human Willow went after instead was Professor Walsh? What if Oz never made it out of that Initiative underground base? What if he had died because of the meddlings of Walsh and her corrupt schemes?

What if the twist then was SHE was the faux Big Bad that triggered the real one? Triggered Dark Willow? Imagine how insane that would have been.

[buffysummers]

You're the Slayer, and we're, like, the Slayerettes!

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

The sole reason I want Buffy and Faith to be a thing in season 3 is Angel’s reaction. With him being lowkey misogynistic like half the time, there’s no way there isn’t some homophobia also in there. It would be so funny to watch him struggle.

Angel: Faith is not good for you. She’s too impulsive and self-centered. Buffy: You just don’t like that she’s gay. Angel: N- no! That’s not it! Buffy: Sorry, Angel, this is the 20th century. If I want to date a girl, I will.

And the rest of the season is just watching Angel be tormented because he can’t posit his (let’s face it, very reasonable) concerns without acting like a homophobe.

[bocadelinfierno]

[oveliagirlhaditright]

ANGEL

I hear this place serves coffee. Thought maybe you and I should get some...

(nothing from Buffy)

...sometime.

(nothing from Buffy)

If you want.

Buffy considers him for a long moment, then:

BUFFY

Yeah.

Angel brightens.

BUFFY (cont'd)

Sometime. I'll let you know.

And she gets up and goes. Xander, Willow, Angel stare at her departing back. Xander kind of respects what she just did. So does Angel.

ANGLE - BUFFY - WALKING AWAY

Tracking backwards with her. Letting her grow into a tight close-up. So we can see how pleased she is. Then she walks out of frame and we-

FADE OUT:

END OF ACT FOUR

...

There's something about Angel respecting what Buffy did there that I kind of love, tbh, in some ways it's so ridiculous--they're both so ridiculous here--and yet somehow great, too.

I guess that Buffy's being strong, in a way? Or at least putting on airs of being strong?

I mean, this whole episode started with Buffy wanting to date Angel, of course, but him essentially turning her down (even though he of course wanted her, too), because with him being a vampire, he feared that things could get out of control. And he would be right. But Buffy, being unhappy with that--and feeling like he treated her like a kid there--retaliated by going out with that college guy... who was part of a cult, who then tried to sacrifice her and Cordy to a demon. So by the end, of course, Angel rethinks his earlier thoughts and Buffy gets what she wants. You'd think she'd jump for it, but no: she's playing it cool and making him work for it, actually.

Edit: Like, there's just something about this attitude about Buffy's that's why Angel loves her, actually. And really her alone, because no one else would make him respect them like this, probably. If you're not making Angel(us) respect you with your strength, he doesn't have time for you.