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don't talk to me about buffy summers. she didn't come back wrong. she wishes desperately she came back wrong. she's sure she did, because she feels wrong and if it wasn't her dying and it wasn't her being dragged kicking and screaming back to the land of the living and it wasn't her clawing out of her own grave only to have to do it all again then it's just her. it's just that buffy's wrong. she's irreperably broken and all death did was stop her from being able to hide it.

watching btvs 3.18 where buffy gets telepathic powers. noticing four things

  • i miss spike
  • her fear to turning into a demon feels like her dealing w faith induced gay thoughts given the broader context of s3
  • angel's incredibly boring & leaves me incredibly cold.
  • buffy trying to figure out all the reasons why she thinks angel might like faith mostly reads as buffy crushing on her: ("she has that bad girl thing working for her" "she attracts protector types to her" ok)

this probably would've made the show worse but i wish in s6 when tara and willow are broken up and buffys all secretive because she's seeing spike and she covertly asks tara to help her work out why spike can hurt her they dragged that out for a little longer and the scooby gang suspect buffy is dating tara. this would not be approached with any tact at all. it would push the queer rights movement back by decades if anything. but it would've been very fun for me personally

honestly a pity that Luke & Leia being siblings was so tacked on to the original trilogy bcos i think retroactively Leia being Anakin's daughter really beefs up some aspects of A New Hope, namely:

taking the prequels into account, the fact that Anakin fell to the dark side bcos he was trying to protect Padme and their unborn child and then his first on screen atrocity in the OT being unknowingly torturing his own daughter has a delicious irony to it. especially given extent to which Leia and Padme are parallel characters. love that.

the fact that Vader correctly predicts that Tarkin's plan to get the location of the rebel base out of Leia won't work. he's presumably there like 'well she'll just lie. that's what I'd do' and he's right bcos Leia does think the same way as him.

it is impossible for me to buy into the whole Buffy x Angel romance which sucks because so much plot depends on it. they rarely interact at all before love is brought up and even then, trust never is. Buffy will mention him to Willow or Angel will stalk Buffy to “save” her and/or deliver a cryptic warning and then disappear. and then I guess they make out? but there’s like zero moments of witty repartee or laughter or flirting or fun sparring or research or conversations about themselves or adventures or anything that would build a relationship. because by the time season 2 rolls around and he turns evil, the only foundation we have for this incredible love is that Buffy thinks he’s brooding and hot and so special for having a soul and Angel handwrings a few times about their age difference and his guilt but has a great time pursuing her and getting jealous and making out with her. so…soulmates I guess?

i actually DON'T respect people who think faith's love for buffy is unrequited because then you need to heterosexually explain to me why she entertains so much of faith's weirdness esp about her sex life, why she was too raw and hurt about losing angel (AND kendra) to let herself be close with faith before it was too late, why "bad girls" is an episode about a femme fatale seducing the hero, why she was the only one to affirm repeatedly it could easily have been her not faith with finch, why she feels so abandoned by faith, why she's so soft with faith in the hospital dream after everything, why she makes the stabbing downright sexual when bragging about it to the mayor to get under his skin, why she didn't give up on faith until the bodyswap and even then why after that she was holding out just enough to save faith after she tried to kill angel again, why she feels so possessive of faith (see her anger about faith opening up to angel), why she apparently has a fantasy premade to accuse angel of about faith's heaving bosom and pouty lips and vulnerability, why she memorizes faith's word and throws them back in faith's face for years even after s3 and s4 (the "holier-than-thou" description spike recounts in s7, ripped from faith's description of buffy in s4), and why she treats faith like an ex for all of s7.

buffy loves faith, and it's an integral part of her character.

Buffy: No. I'm not gonna do this. Faith: Why not? It feels good.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3 episode 15 "Consequences" (1999) dir. Michael Gershman
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