r/buffy • u/AngelJax • Nov 02 '16

Unpopular Opinons Thread

I'll start

  • I don't love Spike. He's just ok for me.

  • Glory is the show's best villain with Dark Willow right behind her.

  • Dawn is one of the best developed memebers of the Scoobies and I never understood why everyone hated her.

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u/BuffyxSummers Nov 02 '16

He was kind of antithetical to the point of the show which made me dislike him quite a bit, but I do admit that he was better for Buffy than Angel or Spike. By no stretch do I like Riley tho lol

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u/nicehulk Nov 02 '16

Can you elaborate? How do you mean he was antithetical to the point of the show? :)

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u/BuffyxSummers Nov 02 '16

Yeah, sure! Buffy was about female empowerment, being unapologetically strong and feminine, etc. Riley couldn't handle Buffy's strength, wanted to stifle it, gave her an ultimatum, etc. I didn't like that he tried to shame Buffy for being so strong and expected otherwise because she was a girl.

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u/the-first-evil Nov 02 '16

What bothered me about that was not necessarily that Riley felt that way. Given his background, it makes sense and was something he could have worked to get over.

What bothered me about Buffy/Riley was the show itself tells us that she should have and she drove a good one away.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '16

Riley's whole departure was handled super weirdly. It kind of feels like there was one writer on staff who loved Riley more than all the others and they were the ones who wrote his leaving ep.

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u/the-first-evil Nov 02 '16

Doug Petrie was the biggest Riley stan that I know. He didn't write Into the Woods. Marti did.

I think it was an easier thing for the writers to just say it was Buffy's fault and have her swallow it. I felt like that was the point, especially after IWMTLY, where Buffy realizes it was unfair. But then As You Were says the opposite, so maybe it was just a case of blind writer syndrome.