BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER S2 FINALE!!
Added 2026-02-09 09:59:53 +0000 UTC
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Season 3 is the best! You really should watch that one when you're ready. After that, the show goes downhill, so feel free to stop. But Season 3's big bad is fantastic and the new slayer is great for storytelling in a way Kendra couldn't be given the story arc. While I think you'll like Season 3, the rest I think you'll struggle.. Buffy has some good episodes here an there after Season 3. But 4th season is not good with the exception of the no dialogue episode (marvelous!) and the dream episode. Season 5 is fine, but not amazing. Season 6 is terrible, with the exception of 2 episodes. Season 7 is fine, but not amazing, with one truly great episode. It's not really fair to compare this to True Blood. Buffy was on network tv and the main characters are teenagers in high school. True Blood was on cable and all the main characters are adults. That's why it reads as more mature. It was for a more mature audience and had tons more leeway on what could be shown. Yes, they're both about vampires, but that's about all they have in common. Also, Buffy didn't have source novels, like True Blood. While they start to vary the show from the books more and more, the writing team had a lot to draw from. True Blood also goes downhill. I think the last season I really cared was Season 4. I never made it all the way to the end of the series, stopping mid-Season 6.
Turtle2002
2026-02-24 09:02:47 +0000 UTCI for one never forgave the show for how dirty they did Kendra. Your hiatus decision is fine. Buffy is a huge commitment, and the Angel of it all also inclines me to skip certain episodes. If you come back, I’ll be here.
Classic R & B Lover
2026-02-20 19:27:27 +0000 UTCRE: Paragraph 1: True. I also think it is interesting that while Angel was introduced to the audience as likable because of the soul that he was cursed with, when you see the backstory of that core four: Darla, Angel, Dru and Spike, Angel was the worst in terms of their human lifetime.
Classic R & B Lover
2026-02-20 18:54:53 +0000 UTCI don’t know if you remember, but yes, Angel turned Drucilla. He admitted to Buffy that he stalked Dru and drove her insane before turning her.
Classic R & B Lover
2026-02-20 18:50:30 +0000 UTC😭😭😭
ArcAngel
2026-02-11 06:08:41 +0000 UTCRight?? My favorite episodes are yet to come...the award winning episodes! 😭😭😭
ArcAngel
2026-02-11 06:08:20 +0000 UTCWhat a depressing way to end a show. And they have to add that heartbreaking Sara McLaughlin song at the end...it's tragic with tragic sauce! 😭
ArcAngel
2026-02-11 05:59:17 +0000 UTCLol smh
Raymond Walker
2026-02-11 05:58:39 +0000 UTCStopping after your nemesis is gone....😂😭😹 noooo! 😂😭😹...omg...too funny.
ArcAngel
2026-02-10 23:12:09 +0000 UTCI’m glad you finished out this season. I think you’re gonna miss some of the most interesting Buffy by not going on with it, but I totally get it. At least you ended out honest one of the strong episodes.
Joan Plesa
2026-02-09 20:10:52 +0000 UTCA few things to point out regarding Angel (and the buffyverse lore by extension): first, remember in the Halloween episode how he said when he was human he hated all of the girls, especially the aristocratic women? Well, all Darla had to do to was dress like one of them and the human Angel who supposedly had no interest was there with one glance. Second, the idea that vampires have no relation whatsoever to their human selves doesn’t hold up the same way with the glimpse we get of human Angel. He’s sloppy drunk, planning to steal from his own father, and when his friend collapses he leaves him where he is on the ground with no thought at all, then tells Darla that the only challenge he doesn’t rise to is “an honest day’s work.” He might not have been a murderer as a human, but he wasn’t what one would call good. Then we get the flashback to Drusilla and the Whistler-sponsored stalking of 15 year old Buffy. So we’re shown that as a human, as a vampire, and as a vampire with a soul he’s drawn to young women, especially those he views as being innocent or pure. His soul might give him overwhelming guilt and shame for his actions, but it doesn’t change the scaffolding of who he is and what drives him. As for Kendra, yes we’ve seen Drusilla use thrall on people before, but Kendra’s death is still not played with the gravity it deserves. It’s a monumental moment for Buffy. It was such a huge deal for Buffy to find out that she’s not alone in her calling like she thought, so to have that ripped away is devastating. But the script doesn’t really take the time to show that and instead it gets overshadowed by Willow and Xander’s injuries and Giles’s capture. Kendra absolutely deserved better. Regarding watching True Blood, I definitely don’t recommend watching them simultaneously. They might both be about vampires, but they are very different and don’t have the same target audience or storytelling style. Also Buffy was so incredibly influential to the vampire genre that the similarities that are there can mistakenly come across as overdone tropes. Maybe finish watching True Blood before you continue with Buffy, because going back and forth between them will just be disorienting.
Henry Leor
2026-02-09 17:07:48 +0000 UTC"Close your eyes." The last thing both Darla and Buffy said to him before they killed him...
Ash Lee Can
2026-02-09 16:24:28 +0000 UTCTo be fair about Kendra, they don't really havd time to mourn and grieve at the moment for her. The world is literally about to end, Buffy's literally been on the run for her murder since finding her body, and Giles is missing. It's non-stop chaos this episode...
Ash Lee Can
2026-02-09 16:04:59 +0000 UTCAhhh when spike finally bands up with the scoobies! I love this song!
Lisa
2026-02-09 15:16:28 +0000 UTC
