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[oyceter]

Sparked by superplin's old post:

I loved Buffy through the earlier seasons and admired her and thought she was great, but I never loved her more than in late season 5 and season 6, when she was depressed and downtrodden and angry. I loved her most when she was overwhelmed by the world, when she was thisclose to the breaking point, and when she sometimes crossed over.

Spoilery through Buffy S6

I saw her on the screen beating up Spike with so much self-hatred, and I saw myself in her.

Well, obviously not beating up Spike.

But I understood her then, felt like I had lived under her skin, felt that horrible pressure when nothing works, when everything is just one more thing that wears you down. And while I love Buffy in the earlier seasons, she's not me then. She's ten times better than me, smarter and faster and braver, and I admire her for that. But I've never had real moments of righteous anger, or of kicking villain butt, or of facing death and going on anyway.

So while I adore Buffy before her mother died, I understand Buffy afterwards.

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[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Today seems like a Buffy Love Day - with your post, and Plin's new post. Which is a good thing.

I cannot quite relate to Buffy of earlier seasons, or to the most of high school for that matter. I like her, sure, but it is the later seasons when her problems, her emotional state began to resonate with me.

[oyceter]

Mine's mostly sparked by Plin's new post, which pointed me to Plin's old post. Fun to watch LJ trends ^_^.