retrofitted buffy blog

the buffy giles dynamic is very insane to me. its so much. thats his favorite sacrificial lamb that he doesnt want to sacrificed but he raised her too well for the sacrifice.

Something BTVS does that i think is really funny for a show that is ostensibly about vampires is that it establishes vampires as like. The baseline threat. Like she's not worried about vampires. Basically ever. Theyre just vampires! Theyre like the petty criminals to her spiderman. Almost all the interesting/ threatening villains are Something Else, they keep having to bring in new and weirder bullshit because they've created a world where vampires Are Not That Scary. And it is entirely because of Buffy that this is the case, thats why The Wish is so jarring and unsettling, because you're used to writing the vamps off as one note minor threats that'll get killed off in 5 minutes, because the Slayer is supposed to be there. Without Buffy around they have the power and potential to be genuinely scary but she's so used to dealing with them that it just never happens