#bvs5

Woah hey so yeah, still failing at the Buffy updates ever since I’ve gotten disgustingly, lovingly obsessed. (i’m actually almost done with season six now, but i thought I would separate that post from the rest of this one)

Angel visited Buffy after her mother died (AND THEY KISSED). I’m glad their relationship has turned into this really great friendship. Like, they had that chew each other out and hurt all the time period, but I feel like they’ve softened into friends. And he was there when she really, really needed someone who wasn’t her family, or immediate friends, or spike

Willow and Tara had a fight, and shortly afterwards, Glory sucked out tara’s brain, which made willow PISSED. Which was good. But their fight was about willow using too much magic, and i think tara was in the right.

The whole latter portion of this season gets so dark, much to the praise of the writers, and the breaking of my heart. It seems like thing after thing after thing keeps going wrong (buffy’s mom dies, tara’s brain gets sucked, giles almost dies on the roadtrip, dawn gets captured, glory is seemingly indestructible), and rightly, near the end of the season, buffy goes all catatonic because she can’t bear it all. I’m really glad they showed how overwhelming darkness can be. And buffy has dealt with SO much of it. 

In the end, Buffy beats Glory (and the merging of dimensions) by sacrificing herself. At the end of the season, the very last thing you see is her limp body and her grave stone. 

CLIFF HANGER. 

Also, significant because the show was moving from the  WB to a different network, so a lot of people thought buffy was entirely over. over the course of the summer, the writers had to be super intentional about letting everyone know they were just switching networks, not actually going of the air

Wow. Okay. This season has been a doozie. Big things:

The Big Bad is a god (hellgod) called Glory. She’s beautiful and crazy and indestructible.

Riley left Buffy, and I kind of actually think that he had a bit of a right to? Buffy kind of got mad at the end and blamed him for leaving when she was giving her all, but i think he and everyone else could see that it wouldn’t last. and that while she loved him, he was kind of an extended rebound. and that is wasn’t  a Great love. Just a Love.

Buffy now has a sister! She’s actually a key -- a ball of energy put into human form by some monks -- that Glory is looking for. Her name is Dawn. She’s 14. She’s kinda very irritating most of the time, but she and Buffy need each other, because

JOYCE IS DEAD. Holy shit, this was a doozy to watch. I was sobbing, SOBBING on my living room floor. (On par with when Jenna died in The Vampire Diaries. TRAINWRECK). She was such a wonderful mother to buffy, and such a true depiction of a mom? I think it was also a pretty intense thing for me because she always seemed so... real. She reminds me of my own mother. She was adorable and kind of dorky and loving and was always there when Buffy needed her. And she made things okay. And she stroked Buffy’s hair on her 16th birthday. And I am so sad she is gone. Also, JOSS WHEDON. FUCK YOU. AND tHANK YOU. It broke my heart to see Joyce go, but “The Body” was so beautifully written and directed. On par for favorite episode. It was such a real glimpse into how the details are what are the saddest thing. In the words of Anya, Joyce will never drink fruit punch again, or eat eggs, or all these other mundane things that are so heartbreaking. 

On a different note: Spike loves Buffy. I love this. Buffy still loathes him. Perhaps even more than before. I feel they are doomed. I know that they do end up having some kind of relationship (maybe it’s just sexual?), but I’m thinking it might not last? I’m not sure. I really love spike as a character, though. And we got a bit of his backstory. He is so deeply emotional, sometimes to his detriment, but it means that if he loves buffy, he will really be there for her when she needs it. When she was worried about her mom’s tumor, he sat with her. No talking. Just sitting. And it was perfect. And he also comforted her one time when Dawn had run away.