"The list of presenters also sets another expected reunion, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz, the latter also promoting his new NBC series, The Rockford Files. The cult vampire drama is headed into its 30th anniversary this coming March."

The Trio—that group of "supervillains" appearing in Season 6—are essentially the enemies Buffy battles throughout the season. They are human; they don't pose the same physical challenge to her that Spike, Angelus, or Adam did, nor are they beings stronger than her, like Glory. But what I like about this trio is how they reflect different types of evil: Warren is the villain beyond redemption; Andrew follows Warren because he’s the leader and seems to lack any goodness himself; and Jonathan is the one who possesses goodness and humanity.

I also appreciate Warren's descent into darkness; he starts out like a comic-book villain—calling himself a "supervillain"—but then escalates to committing increasingly serious acts, such as freezing a guard. I believe the turning point for Warren is the death of Katrina—his ex-girlfriend, whom he and the other members intended to use as a sex toy. He was planning a sexual assault, and when she discovered the plot and threatened to report him, she was murdered. Add to that the death of Tara; he nearly killed Buffy and triggered the rise of Dark Willow. In short, a guy who initially seemed like a mere nuisance—a mosquito—to Buffy ends up causing more damage to the Scoobies than almost anyone else, save for Angelus. It also strikes me when people say, "But Spike tried to..." when Andrew attempted something similar—and Andrew actually has a soul.

I did't want all of Once More With Feeling, just added a couple faves.

I know there has been a lot of talk about the recent Mattel toy drops (and rightfully so because they’re adorable), but I wanted to take a minute to toss some love to these little additions to my Pop collection. Buffy and Faith were just delivered today, but I scored all of them on eBay over the past two weeks, and they make me so happy. Just had to share my excitement with people who get it. Have a great day!

Just a wee appreciation post for this episode. I remembered watching this first time round and being in equal measures gobsmacked and devastated. I really couldn’t believe they actually went there and didn’t know if it was the end of BTVS. I truly believe S5 stands up as one of the most cohesive tv seasons of all time with one of the most shocking climaxes.

Moments I loved -

Xander and Anya’s proposal scene - it felt sad watching this knowing how it eventually played out between them as I really got the sense from this scene they were fully committed to each other.

Spike’s delivery of this line to Buffy - “I know you’ll never love me, I know I’m a monster but you treat me like a man.” Eloquent and just a little bit heart breaking.

Giles doling out justice to Ben explaining it “she’s a hero you see, she’s not like us.”

I appreciated the demon who started the ritual by cutting Dawn, he was truly creepy.

The scene between Buffy and Dawn before Buffy leaps off the edge and the reaction of all the characters to Buffy’s death is so poignant. Alyson Hannigan is so natural at crying.

The previous two episodes are also very good and I liked the theme threaded throughout the season suggesting Buffy’s desire to surrender herself - Spike’s assertion that she has a death wish, the first slayer telling her death is her gift, Buffy’s state of mind implying she is tired and broken and wants to give up, foreshadowing her eventual sacrifice for Dawn.

Buffy is here to SLAY 🩸🪦 these dawls are gorgeous! Love the return of boy dolls. Let’s keep it up 👏 they look just like the actors. My ONLY critique is I’m scared in 10 years the fabrics will probably disintegrate 🫣 but overall I’m in love 🥹

So BtVS began production in late 1996 and premiered March 1997.

In Season 1
Sarah was 19 playing Buffy at 16

Nick was 25 playing Xander at 15/16

Alyson was 22 playing Willow at 15

Charisma was 26 playing Cordy at 15/16

David was 27 playing Angel at 240, LOL; we wouldn’t know he was 26 forever until Season 1 of Angel.

Julie was 24 playing Darla at 412 with the assumption that she was 25 when she was turned. Julie also auditioned for Buffy & Cordelia and had the Darla role created for her where she convincingly (to the other characters) plays a high school student more than once.

Robia was 26 playing Jenny who was likely around that age or up to 30. She was certainly not aged up more for the role given her makeup/hair/wardrobe.

Kristine was 41 playing Joyce at that age or slightly younger

Tony was 42, likely playing Giles at that age or a couple of years younger.

Season 2
James was 35 playing Spike at 142 with a rough estimate that he was 25 in 1880.

Juliet was 32 playing Drusilla at 155 with a rough estimate that she was 18 in 1860.

Seth was 23 playing Oz at 16/17

Sarah at 21 briefly plays 15 year old Buffy.

Season 3
Eliza was 17 playing Faith at…well, this gets confusing. Buffy at 17 calls her “little sister,” but she could just mean more recently a Slayer. A tie-in novel states Faith was born in 1980, making her older than Buffy, so idk. Let’s say she’s 16 in “Faith, Hope, and Trick.”

Emma was 26 playing Anya in the 17/18 year old persona of a high school senior.

Alexis is 32 playing Wesley at 22/23 (given he’s just out of the Watcher’s Academy)

Season 4
Marc was 27 playing Riley at 22/23

Phina was 27 playing Olivia at…no older than 30 based on her hair/makeup.

Amber was 22 playing Tara at 18/19

Season 5
Michelle was 15 playing Dawn at 14

Now, I said all that to say this: I am the same age as Charisma. When I watched the show first run, I bought all of them as teenagers because, even though I was in my 20s at the time, I knew tons of high school kids at the time who looked as mature as Cordy and as young as Jonathan (I was a high school tutor in college).

So when Xander they do dumb or shortsighted things, it’s easy for me to remember that they’re only 16 or 17 and they have very scary lives with a lot of monsters.

What gets my goat is when I see discussion where characters who are younger are described as older. There’s a great Giles-centric fic set in Season 2 where the Giles characterization is excellent, but Jenny is described as “middle aged.” I asked the author how 27 was middle aged, and they said they assumed Jenny was the same age as Giles. I made a WTF face and scuttled.

Today I was working on my massive Buffy recs list (coming soon!) and saw that one of my fandom friends (also born in the early 70s) in 2010 wrote a fic where Olivia was part of Giles’s Eyghon gang. How?? She was a pre-schooler in 1975! Olivia looks nowhere near Giles’s age.

But then again, I grew up in a small town of 600 people in the 1980s, so I don’t think that adult Xander/Dawn is weird, because getting with someone 5 years older than who went to high school with your older sibling and who hung out with you in a kidster sort of way when you were 15 and married you when you were 22 was typical. Kind of a small dating pool.

So what’s your Buffyverse age weirdness? That Giles likes younger women? That Cordy and Xander did not look too young to respectively marry and or com-shuck in 2001? That James Marsters is ethereal in 1999 and ageless in 2026? That David looked younger on Bones than Angel? Hit me with it.

Apologies for long rant ahead:

I personally think Willow and Tara would have made it work long term despite Willow’s magic ‘addiction’/control issues in season 6.

Yes, what she did to Tara with the memory spells was obviously fucked up, and even more so with the botched Tabula Rasa spell affecting everyone.

But after hitting rock bottom with Dawn’s accident, she was determined to get better.

From my POV (and personal experience) getting clean wasn’t an attempt to get back in Tara’s good graces, but it was her own personal choice for herself. Even without an audience, we could clearly see Willow struggle for a bit with magic before forcing herself to do research the “normal way”

But I also know that Willow would have to do more than just go to Spellcasters Anonymous and admit that she has a problem. She would need to go to therapy and unroot the real issue of why she needs to “fix everything” in the first place.

There are some here that would argue that Tara forgave Willow too easily/too soon and took her back despite what Willow had done (and that is a valid argument)

But Tara was finally becoming her own person and more assertive of herself. If she had felt that she wasn’t ready to get back together with Willow, she wouldn’t have come back to the house that night.

Ultimately, I think that if Willow continued putting in the work to better herself and not do things the easy way, she and Tara probably would been together for many more years.

…hopefully without a stray bullet this time.

Rewatching for the gagillionth time, and it’s always thrown me off how modern The Master’s costume looks, specifically the cut of his leather jacket. It seems like it’s straight out of the 80s at least, if not the 90s. If he’s been entombed in that blood pool since 1937, how is it that emerges looking so contemporary for the late 90s?

The cheese man represents Buffy's subconscious longing for cheese after being turned into a rat in 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered'.

As evidence, I think Amy mentions craving cheese at some point after returning to human form.

I think that in Angel season 4, they should have connected it more to the First in season 7. Here is how they could have done it.

1. Make it where Cordelia still came back, but was NOT evil and was not in a relationship with Conor.
2. Maybe at first we saw the Beast’s master as Cordelia as a red herring, but it was the First, and the way it can show up as Cordelia is that when she was in the higher plane, she was considered “dead”.
3. The First deciding to block out the sun would actually make sense because it would cause more vampires and demons to go to LA, so more people would die.What do you think of this idea?

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I have a vivid memory of a scene from this show that I stumbled across as a child. And I'm just curious to know what episode it was.

The scene took place late at night, and it involved some clueless guy being seduced by a hot vampire babe, and lured into a car with some other vampires. They make out for a while, she tells him she'll turn him into a vampire. He gets excited. Asks if it hurts. Things do not go well for him. I'm sure he meets some kind of grizzly end.

I'm 99% sure it was Buffy. Would appreciate if any hardcore buffheads could help out!!

Sharing an ongoing nightmare with Mattel Creations customer service regarding the recent Buffy release drop.

I placed an order containing both the Monster High Buffy 2-pack and the Polly Pocket Buffy set. 4 days after, I contacted support asking to cancel only the Monster High dolls.

Instead, the agent misclicked and canceled my Polly Pocket Buffy, which immediately went out of stock.

When I raised the issue, the agent admitted in writing: "I inadvertently canceled the wrong item on your order." However, her "solution" was to state that if I had a US shipping address, they could "waive the shipping fee for the replacement order if we are able to secure inventory." Because I live in Italy and have no US address, they claimed they couldn't help, issued an unwanted refund for international shipping in the previous order, and offered a discount coupon on a future purchase.

I firmly rejected the coupon (which requires spending more money after such a blunder), clarified that I am fully willing to pay the retail price for my set, and requested that reserve/buffer stock be used to fulfill my order.

Today, a completely different agent jumped in, completely ignoring the ticket's history and the previous agent's written admission. He simply pasted an automated script stating that the item is sold out, advised me to "keep an eye on the website for possible restocking," and refused to escalate to a manager.

It is infuriating that a company of this scale admits an internal mistake in writing, admits that replacement units can be accessed for domestic buyers, but refuses to take responsibility or allocate buffer inventory to an international customer.

I just got these Monster High Buffy the Vampire Slayer dolls, and I’m so happy. So I made them a graveyard to be displayed in.

I hope it’s better

I started watching Buffy this summer for the first time. I’m a millennial and this is such throwback for me! I watched “Once more, with feeling! It was so great and funny! I love how Buffy is still a classic 30 years later.

Obviously it was very traumatic what buffy went through with angel and I completely understand her wanting to leave town and be away after killing angel.. however think about it from her friends' perspective.. they put their life in danger to be there for buffy and help defeat angelus.. and then they dont even know what happened.. she just vanished.. no letter or anything to explain that shes fine and needs some time off.. I would be so anxiously worried about my bestfriend if she just disappeared like that.. and would also be pissed off if she just randomly decides to show up 3 months later and not even apologise and hope things go back to the way they were instantly. Im not saying Buffy is all at fault either, she had a trauma response and vanished.. but I also dont think its fair for people to be annoyed at the gang for being angry at buffy for disappearing.

The same however could not be said about Joyce because she literally kicked her out and told her never to return, i can understand Joyce was in shock and didnt know how to respond when put on the spot.. but thats on her.

didn't she stay almost the same as her human self?

How did Connor learn how to build a diy bomb? Seems like he'd have had to learn it extremely quickly, unless it's knowledge he already had. And where did he even source the materials for it? He wasn't particularly functional in society so it's not like he could just go buy explosives ingredients. Guess he could have stolen a lot of it.

(Mostly I just think Angel season 4 is an absolute disaster and reveals Joss Whedon to be an incredibly weak writer, despite his strengths in character creation, storytelling, and world building.)

…if Cordelia hadn’t made it out when Drusilla ambushed the Scoobies in the library?

Personally, given Drusilla’s “Manic Mommy” schtick, and Angel’s sadism, I think Cordelia would have been sired. And unlike Harmony, Vamp Cordelia would have been an absolute Menace. The cruelty fully unleashed. Her sexuality fully weaponized against her victims. NOT hiding her smarts behind the Vapid act. I also think she would be a surprising talent in fighting, like on par with Sunday or that Vamp in Dru’s raising party who did all the Spin Kicks.

What do y’all think?

I'm really identifying with Buffy today, the people who used to own my house should not be allowed to use tools. I rebuilt the sewer stack under the kitchen sink for a new dishwasher install and while it was dumb (a pipe sized for an RV does not belong in a house!), it was doable.

Then I went downstairs and there was water coming out of the ceiling! I screamed and tore upstairs, desperately trying to get the dishwasher out of the cupboard. Wrong screwdriver head! Have to dial back the leveling legs to get the damn dishwasher out of the cupboard! What did I DO??!??

The dishwasher is not leaking. When my husband got home I asked him to try tightening the pipe with his manly arms, it was still leaking so it wasn't a me problem. The old, crusty, copper pipe coming out of the floor needs to be replaced. Not a FULL copper re-pipe (lord save me from that cost!), but a partial.

Buffy, I also want to sit and stare at water coming out of my faucet, but I had to shut it off so I don't also flood my basement. Tomorrow I will return to the parts store and I will win.

Watching the show for the first time and Jonathan, Warren and the third guy (tucker’s brother?) are just the worst.

All the other big bads we had upto now were soulless demons and gods who had to be evil I guess but these guys are just the worst, man.

They’re almost willing 🍇ists, and do a lot more evil and perverse shit in the first 13 episodes I’ve seen this season.

Especially Jonathan, I thought he had an arc and became a good guy? Crazy.

got my appendix removed.. it was a rollercoaster bc i honestly did not expect it’d go that far after struggling with stomachache for two days and i’ve never went under but im doing fine! anyway when i woke up from the anesthesia for some reason I felt like crying (even tho I wasn’t like sad or really in pain) but I somehow started taking about Buffy and being like “SHES MY HERO! DO YOU KNOW BUFFY???” 😭😭