Chris Snellgrove | publishing
When most of the time Buffy Vampire Slayer Fans re-watch the show, they were afraid to enter Season 6 because it was so frustrated. Not only is Tara dead, but it’s the season when we watch Buffy have a thoroughly toxic relationship with the Vampire Spike and engage in other extratrait behaviors to deal with the pressure of resurrection from the dead. Interestingly, though, this bad season effectively heralds one of the show’s best and earliest episodes. We’re talking about Buffy Season 2’s plot “When She Is Not Good” also involves a killer who performs well due to the tremendous pressure.
Buffy Of course, fans couldn’t know this when the episode first premiered, but “When She Was Not Good” previewed the show’s sixth season by making everyone (fans and characters) angry with the title character. In the background, Buffy actually died from the master in the Season 1 finale. However, Xander reborn her through CPR, and she defeated the vampire villain. But in the season 2 premiere, she’s particularly off the character: she snapped up at Willow, was cruel to Cordelia, she’s cool to Angel, and even flirted with him to annoy her undead boyfriend.
If you are Buffy When fans first watch “When She’s Sucked” you might yell on TV and ask why the killer suddenly became so cold and mean throughout the summer. But it turns out that all of this is the manifestation of Buffy’s trauma in the battle with the Master, after smashing the bones of the vampire, she returns to her old self, effectively destroying any chance he will be resurrected through the dark magic. For the most part, this is a highly respected plot, ironic as it heralds the core aspect of Season 6, which is hateful.
It’s easy to isolate the individual elements of Season 6 that countless fans hate, including Buffy’s horrible relationship with Spike (which is achieved in attempted rape). However, this relationship and other wrong decisions are driven by the fact that Buffy’s friend is resurrected after her death in Season 5. They thought she might be trapped in the hell dimension, but Buffy later revealed that they accidentally pulled her out of heaven. This combined with the trauma of Buffy’s mother’s death last season ensured the killer spent the entire season in a frustration as she solved something mundane like Bills and Undead Monsters.
Given what we know about Buffy in Season 6, it can be said that “When She Is Bad” heralds a later season, showing her reaction to trauma by making bad decisions, especially romantic decisions. In an earlier episode, this is perhaps the fact that she often rejects angels, even taking the example of sexy dances to make her vampire boy toys jealous. We don’t want to minimize Buffy’s previous trauma, but if killed and then immediately resurrected will cause all these romantic dramas, which is completely believable and can be returned from heaven afterwards month Will lead to a toxic relationship with Spike.
Unfortunately, what Buffy What writers and producers failed to see is that “When She Is Bad” is effective because it paints the arc of a series where the killer beats her trauma when credibility rolls. It’s better to have a plot or arc with our hero on the back foot, but as Season 6 shows, no one really wants the whole season Our title character is brought to a low profile by her depression trauma.
For better or worse, though, this brings fans closer to Buffy, as Season 6 is a trauma we share together, although only the killer can cope with her stress by having a shocked sex with the hot vampire. In this way, you can say that all creations are equal in all creations…some are more equal (and Way More weirder than others.
