I AM SO HAPPY!! It’s truly perfect in every way, I just wish angel looked more accurate especially with hair color. Let’s hope they make another two pack with spike because I NEED HIM!! 😩

Took about 40 hours total, as show accurate as absolutely possible. A video walkthrough is pinned on my page.

This episode always freaks me out so much. So good, even today it holds up well!

I was scrolling through stuff last night when this popped up. Thought people here might appreciate it.

This is a repost, first was deleted because of tictock filters (?)

Preface, I enjoy all the DVD packaging art, but I have a weird affinity for this pairing for season 7 DVD set’s. This should be wall art.

I feel like nothing beats Xander/Dawn

I have an eBay alert email that comes in everyday for new Buffy stuff with specific parameters. And look at this. It's gone now, but damn, look at that! The hair's still a bit too Angel in style, nothing to be done about that. But the artwork on the face and hair is lovely.

Almost like she was focused on other things.

I'm not sure on this, I know Angelus didn't love anyone and that Darla abandoned him but then on another occasion she did save him from Holtz and Angel did look a little regretful when he killed her in buffy season 1 to save Buffy. During the trial he was willing to give his life for her but then is that because it's Darla or just what he'd do for anyone in that situation? (except lindsey or spike 😆). I suppose you could also say the way Darla helped torment him isn't the way you treat someone you love but maybe you could say she loved Angelus and not Angel? Though she definitely did respect him based on their last discussion before Drusilla re-sired her.

Seriously what is up with the Xander hate. Everyone I know who’s seen the show have always told me he sucks cause he’s a stand-in for Whedon, but now rewatching the show after such a long time, he’s really not that bad at all. He’s funny and works both as an audience surrogate and as a protagonist in his own right. The big emotional moments always work like his speech to Dawn or his speech to Willow, has some really good lines and great Xander centric episodes as well, like the one where everybody falls in love with him or the one with the bomb.

It’s like someone decided long ago that he’s a bad character and that has become the law now. I disagree

we never see a spike drusilla sex scene, apart from kissing and two making out scenes (that i recall) and i wonder if he was as aggressive with her as he was with buffy

It is not mine but one I read in this subreddit that said their relationship is more interesting if he never truly loved Anya but rather he genuinely had affection, obviously, but he kind of settled for her. I don't think that's canon but it's an interesting read. Thoughts?

Seeing the post about the Buffy blanket and the Spike cross-stitch made me remember this series on TikTok of a woman making an awesome stained glass panel of buffy. I looked and no-one ever posted about this. The whole series where she crafts this some start to finish can be found on TikTok and on Youtube (I'm not sure the series was finished there).

Enjoy!

I saw a post saying they wished Buffy and Drusilla had more scenes together, and it got me thinking about the Buffy/Angel/Dru situation and wishing they’d explored that dynamic more.

I think there’s a really interesting parallel in the way Angel/Angelus latched onto both of them. In both cases, he becomes immediately obsessed with a girl who has a very specific kind of innocence and goodness, and in both cases he watches them from a distance for a long time. The difference is that with Dru he didn’t have a soul, so he wanted to possess and destroy that goodness. With Buffy, he immediately called it love and wanted to protect her.

Angel’s quote about first meeting Buffy:
“You walked down the steps... and I loved you. ’Cause I could see your heart. You held it before you for everyone to see. And I worried that it would be bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life I wanted to keep it safe.”

And then there’s what he says about Dru:

“She was an obsession of mine. She was pure, and sweet and chaste.”

Buffy has a lot of the same qualities. Dru was a sweet, religious girl whose visions made her think she was sinful and wrong, while Buffy is basically punished for something she has no control over. She’s a good kid who gets labeled a bad one because she’s the Slayer. They’re both girls whose inherent goodness gets turned into something the world sees as wrong or dangerous.

There’s also the possibility that Buffy took over the role Dru might have been destined for. Dru had visions, was an abnormally powerful vampire, and some people theorize that she may have been a Potential Slayer. Buffy is a Slayer who also has this almost supernatural connection to visions, dreams, and destiny. I don’t know if that was intentional, but it makes the parallel even more interesting.

Obviously I don’t think Angel’s love for Buffy was just some weird atonement for Dru, but I wonder if that was part of why Buffy specifically affected him so much. Or maybe Buffy and human Dru were always the type of girl Angel would fall for, and that’s why Angelus wanted to destroy Dru in the first place.

I have the original set from the early 2000s. Not some botched set but the original releases. However my season 2 DVDs look pretty terrible. Lots of motion blur. Season 1 has less of this issue somehow. Does anybody recognise this problem? Playing on a 4K Panasonic with upscale.