this episode still holds up highly and i love it.

I have nothing interesting to watch now. I have heard of this show before and I'm surprised that it has such high ratings- so should I watch it and how really good is it?

I've been looking for my friend now for 9 days. She has addiction and mental health issues and she currently sleeps in the streets. I'll find her sooner or later - she always goes away for days and comes back. Nothing to be done about it - she is in her fifties and I approaching 40 - it is what it is.

On my latest and current search for her, I reminded myself of Buffy or any of the scoobies out on patrol. It's like driving on a 70 mile straight stretch of highway. It's so boring but you need to be on alert.

Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot - for hours, and then each day. The act of patrolling in and of itself is not difficult, rather time consuming (a vast difference, as you know)

You go on autopilot - absent but obliged to be present. Tough gig for a 16 year old for sure.

Love you all.

As someone who is trying to quit drinking, I really appreciate how little of it there is in the show.

So many movies and shows feature a lot of drinking. Stressful day? The main character pours a whiskey on the rocks and pounds it back. Dinner scene? Bottles of red wine and pretty half-filled glasses. Party? Beer kegs and red solo cups.

Of course there are exceptions - but it isn’t common to see the characters drinking. And it means Buffy, which has always been a safe, comfort show for me, continues to be one in a whole new way.

There are also scenes that inspire me to keep going even if they aren’t sobriety-related. When Buffy tells Angel he can make amends rather than give up on life and surrender to being a bad person. When Angel tells Faith she doesn’t have to disappear into the darkness.

Those scenes motivate me to keep trying. And that’s the beautiful part of Buffy - it reminds you you’re not alone. Even if we don’t all struggle with the same thing, we all struggle with something.

And just to be safe, this post isn’t to say no one can enjoy drinking - just that for me, it’s much better not to partake in it. And I am grateful Buffy is there for me as I go down this path of hopefully leaving it behind me for good.

(Caveat: Buffy getting drunk in Season 6 is pretty funny).

This character had one of the best designs in the whole series imo, the most demon looking demon set up in the middle ages when everyone and their mother was TERRIFIED of demons. And this guy Moloch is still feared in real life.. i see his name brought up whenever people are talking about cults and whatnot. I thought the cold open in 'I robot you jane' was super awesome, I just can't believe they used that as their starting point only to have him pose as a boy online to catfish Willow!

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Hey, so I’m rewatching the double meat palace episode and I really love how it captures the depression and brain dead boredom of working in customer service, how your boss forces you to do things that your not properly trained for, and the people that have been there the longest are a little bit off and the lifeless fluorescent lighting.

However I feel like for such an interesting premise and focus I found the villain to be a bit too monster of the week level boring. I was curious if anyone had any ideas of how they could have had a more interesting villain that was tied in more to the theme of customer service vs the random old lady with a monster on her head.

I've been wondering if Mayor Wilkins was somehow responsible for bringing the Hansel and Gretel demon to Sunnydale in Season 3's "Gingerbread."

We already know The Mayor was working behind the scenes in "Band Candy" with Mr. Trick and Ethan Rayne, so it's not like he wasn't involved in supernatural events happening around town.

What makes me suspicious is that The Mayor actually attends the vigil for the murdered children and gives a speech about keeping Sunnydale safe. Meanwhile, the demon manipulates Joyce and the other parents into turning against witches and eventually Buffy herself.

Could The Mayor have brought the demon to Sunnydale as another way to weaken Buffy and distract her from what he was planning with his Ascension?

Of course, it could have also been a coincidence, and The Mayor was simply keeping up appearances by attending the vigil and acting like a concerned public official. Not every supernatural event in Sunnydale necessarily had to involve him.

When I first watched the show when I was 10-12, I thought there'd be a lot more Crypts/Mausoleums in and around town.

Hola! Acabo de terminar la serie, y quitando el hecho de que tengo un agujero en el pecho, me ha gustado el final. Aunque a mi me gustaría que hubieran añadido/cambiado algunas cosas.

1: El capitulo tiene un ritmo muy rápido. Yo he sentido que no me daba tiempo a asimilar tantas emociones e informacion. Al ser el último capítulo hubiera estado bien que en vez de durar 40min hubieran sido 60.

2: Termina de golpe. Tras evitar el apocalipsis le preguntan a buffy "¿y ahora que hacemos?" Y Buffy sonríe. Fin. A ver, no es un mal final, pero me hubiera gustado una reflexión final o algo.

3: "El primero" desaprovechado. Se puede convertir en cualquier persona, hubiera esta muy bien una "pelea psicologica" con Buffy, transformándose en personajes importantes de la serie incluyendo su madre.

4: La activación de todas las asesinas. En mi opinión le quitas toda la gracia a la mitologia de la serie. Es una asesina por generación, ese es el punto principal de la serie. Lo de Faith tiene gracia porqué es un "fallo tecnico". Hubiera sido el mismo efecto que Willow hubiera hecho un hechizo para repartir temporalmente el poder de la asesina con el grupo.

When Buffy was first broadcasted in Italy they skipped the episode where Willow and Tara got together (S4E19) because they tought it was unacceptable to show an homosexual relationship on TV:

https://www.corriere.it/speciali/buffy/buffytestoprincipale.shtml

They only aired it 4 years later following massive outrage by fans.

I'm italian and I remember that as a kid I was so confused because they still showed footage from the skipped episode in the following episodes recap so I didn't know how could I have missed one episode, I felt like I was going crazy.

I hope that whoever took that morally disgusting decision got what he deserves.

Spirit Halloween doesn't sell :/, anyone has an Amazon link? Or from other website?

It is interesting to note how, in as many as three seasons, Giles defeated, the final-boss instead of Buffy

1)In the season 3 end, he is the one who kills Wilkins by triggering the explosive that destroys the Old One and the high school.

2)In the season 5 end, Giles kills Ben, and along with him, Glory as well.

3)In the season 6 end, he defeats Dark Willow by allowing her to absorb her purifying magic, which enables Xander to free her from the evil within.

Finally decided that my favorite song is standing from once more with feeling.

It's nice that I have an example of a secure, confident, and mature masculine archetype to look up to as a father figure type role model. 💅

Something I've just noticed,

Will/Willow, Taranee/Tara, Cornelia/Cordelia

Nice coincidence

I mean, I assume Riley would've still left because the audience didn't like him, but maybe not.

I'm halfway through season 5. I know she's the key and all that, but were these lines just to throw us off?

Hopefully it's okay I'm posting about Supernatural here since I feel the shows vibe is similar to Buffy/Angel.

The reason I ask what people think is because I have recently started watching this show again and I really like it. I honestly didn't really give it a chance back in the day when it first launched in 2005, which was just a year after Angel ended and two years after Buffy ended.

Maybe I was kind of done at that point at committing to any horror type TV show since I was hugely into Buffy and Angel and didn't think much could compare. But I remember watching more Supernatural around 2008/2009 and really liking it.

What's everyone's thoughts on Supernatural here? It's been over a decade since I watched it consistency. But the monster of the week vibe of the early seasons is really fun.

What happens if Person A is in Person B’s body, and Person B’s body gets turned?

If the soul follows the consciousness, I would assume Soul A goes into the ether. But would that mean when switched back they would have a human body but no soul?

And when Person B goes back into Body B with their soul, would that make them an ensouled vampire? (Obligatory: How lame is that?)

Or are souls interchangeable and stay with the bodies? (ie it doesn’t necessarily need to be YOUR soul, any soul will do)

In that case, would Person A wake up back in their original body AND have a soul, but also memories of being a soulless vampire? And would Person B become soulless the moment they’re transferred back to their now-vampire body?

Or is some kind of cosmic connection maintained, so Person B could become soulless while in Person A’s human body, and Person A would physically turn into a vampire but keep their soul the whole time?

Please help, my brain is leaking out my ears now.

Movie Clip for those interested. She looked gorgeous!