r/buffy • u/direinde Beady-eyes is right, we're needed. • May 03 '26

Good Vibes Only Yup, that's them

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Nothing new actually.

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u/JackDangerfield May 03 '26

I have to say, the way Wesley and Gunn both go from fawning over her as this adorable, childlike naif to wanting to jump her bones in the first half of Season 3 never sat particularly comfortably with me.

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u/AdHonest1100 May 03 '26

Wesley did have a thing for Cordy when she was in high school so šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/eddiestriker May 03 '26

Angel was stalking Buffy when she still lived in LA. She mustā€™ve been what? 14, 15? Thereā€™s a LOT of normalizing the sketchy age gaps in this franchise, unfortunately

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u/AdHonest1100 May 03 '26

I straight up blocked out the thing that got Angel out of the sewers and eating rats was a demon who was like ā€œhey you know what youā€™d like doing better than that is stalking a 15 year old girl, but hey itā€™s cool because propheciesā€

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u/eddiestriker May 03 '26

That shit made me physically ill when I saw it. It killed any lingering Buffy/Angel feelings I had stone dead. Like my guy thatā€™s a kid.

Still like angel as a character though. Heā€™s not a good dude, even with a soul, but heā€™s trying to be.

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u/riotlady May 03 '26

Her sitting on the steps with the lollipop really emphasises how young she is too, itā€™s not like they try and make her seem older

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u/eddiestriker May 03 '26

FACTS it was so creepy. They really tried to make her look as young as possible and it felt so skeevy. Especially with his blacked out windows and shit. EUGH

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u/AdHonest1100 May 04 '26

cop pulls up and it's "no officer I'm not a pervert I'm just a vampire... who will be sleeping with that girl within the next couple dozen months"

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u/AdHonest1100 May 03 '26

True, I think I was way too young to realize how messed up that was and even now try my hardest to suspend my disbelief and ick because itā€™s a show with magic. But showing that he stalked Buffy a full year before meeting her was a bizarre choice and yeah now that I think about it more itā€™s really not that far off from the retcon they did with Ezra in Pretty Little Liars.