I didn't start watching Buffy until season 6 and was getting caught up with all the other seasons on FX at the same time, so nothing was a surprise. Still, The Gift gets me every time. I, too, would have been perfectly happy for the show to end there; it seemed suitable and fitting. I'm guessing I would have mourned Buffy if it had been the end; she was a character I highly identified with and I still miss the damn show, every day.
Gavin, ask yourself this question. What are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon or me?
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
SailAweigh - Sep 09, 2010 7:47:46 am PDT #7466 of 10464
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
erikaj - Sep 12, 2010 8:31:03 am PDT #7467 of 10464
Always Anti-fascist!
I didn't really identify with Buffy, but I wish I could have. Buffy was kind of everything I wasn't in school. I identified most with Willow(Oh, and William in "Fool For Love")
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 12, 2010 12:17:32 pm PDT #7468 of 10464
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
There's identify with, and there's want to be. I was Xander. I wanted to be Faith.
Edit: Or would have done, if there'd been Buffy in high school. Why wasn't there Buffy in high school? Would have helped! (Blimmin' Dawson's Creek was all there was.)
Stephanie - Sep 12, 2010 3:47:27 pm PDT #7469 of 10464
Trust my rage
I totally identified with Buffy, especially in seasons 5&6. And 2. Which is probably why they are my favorite.
erikaj - Sep 12, 2010 5:03:50 pm PDT #7470 of 10464
Always Anti-fascist!
Who doesn't want to be Faith? Actually, I have met women who said they didn't, but I think they were fooling themselves.
Maysa - Sep 12, 2010 5:59:42 pm PDT #7471 of 10464
Who doesn't want to be Faith?
Well, it would be cool to have that "I don't give a shit" attitude that Faith has - but I wouldn't want all her self-hatred. One of the scenes that always makes me tear up is the one in "Who Are You?" when she's beating Buffy (herself) and yelling "you're nothing." Man, that's upsetting.
Maybe to be Faith after she went to prison and liked herself a lot more.
Laga - Sep 12, 2010 6:20:20 pm PDT #7472 of 10464
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'll take Faith's body and her mad skills but I'd rather have Xander's personality.
erin_obscure - Sep 12, 2010 8:46:04 pm PDT #7473 of 10464
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I never wanted to be Faith. She never seemed happy.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 13, 2010 1:32:34 am PDT #7474 of 10464
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I'd rather have Xander's personality.
By season seven, sure. NSM season one.
§ ita § - Sep 13, 2010 6:23:12 am PDT #7475 of 10464
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's no one on Buffy I'd really totally like to have been. Maybe Spike, for a while. But not for long.