Wanna know a buffynatural take that makes me insane? Every time I watch supernatural and these grown men are all like “I had no other choice” it makes me think about btvs season 2 episode 7 Lie to Me and one of buffys lines that’s like stuck with me all my life and it’s the “You have a choice. You don't have a good choice, but you have a choice.” and I’m just like, why can a 16 year old girl get this but grown men cannot? And then I’m like ohhh it’s the codependency issues and the abuse from their father. Also a great one from lie to me is the end scene with Giles telling Buffy that all will be good with the world gets me every time.
Also PS just ignore me if this is too much I just never have anyone to talk to about buffynatural and I just love it so much
i’m always taking hot buffynatural takes !!
ur so right number one - as always, what would buffy do. sam and dean could both benefit from starting from there
god lie to me is thee blueprint for the philosophy of the series (tpn hivemind shaking ur hand, it’s about the existentialism and the absurdism). i said it in this post but their philosophy (saving people, hunting things) is such an empty signifier by the end of the series it’s meaningless. i think i just would’ve liked to see the continuation of that lie to me conversation that buffy and angel have after amends (in gingerbread i think?) - “if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do”. like sam and dean faced with all the facts about how the universe works and their place in it - doesn’t that render their lives somewhat meaningless if they remain in those roles? (dean thinks it does.) anyway i think having a moment where they had some of that would’ve worked well in the face of that meaninglessness (and i think it would’ve been a cool use because the meaninglessness is coming from certainty of what the universe is and a sort of calcified meaning-making, vs. the meaninglessness coming from a certainty that there is no higher power and no true meaning to be found. camus eat ur heart out).
giles at the end of lie to me messes me up - any giles being buffy’s father figure messes me up. and also in the context of existentialism giles in the wish being the one to take the leap of faith and destroy the amulet - “how do you know that world is any better?” “i have to” i just,,,,,,,,











