This winter I am watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the second time. I nearly got all the series by now and I have to kill winter somehow (no television and I do not like to surf the internet).
As I saw it for the first time again I hardly could remember it except Spike. And yes Spike is still the one (I love his style plus his London accent).
Giles is a great personage as well (English accent, you got me, and a bit insecure although he is the watcher).
Willow is great too, changing from a nerd into one of the strongest witches there is, still insecure and what a beautiful girl (woman) she is, dressed very original as well.
I can not help it, but I simply can not stand Buffy. Before she became the slayer she was very unsympathetic and she still is. No matter how much people help her out (which is not common and should be done) she is always complaining.
No matter how many people get into trouble because of her behaviour or words, she always claims to be the victim and saviour. To my opinion she has a very big mouth and I would prefer to be killed, bitten by a vampire way more instead of be saved by her!
The people around "always complaining Buffy", might be groupies (like Spike said) but they are loyal. I have big doubts Buffy is loyal at all. She simply does what she has to do or what is expected from here. Most times she is very grumpy, annoyed she has to do it and will use every second in between slaying to complain about it.
Buffy is not the kind of person I would like to have for a friend. What people and vampires do for her she find normal. She thanks them way too often by scolding at them and beating them up. It is also her way to enter, let herself in, by kicking doors, beating up first and no matter if she gets the answer, she keeps on doing it. It annoying.
Spike is a good example of a loyal friend. No matter what, he keeps helping her out, fighting his own kind. He loves to live and takes and makes the best out of life. Despite all the restrictions he has to deal with. Still he is not accepted, scolded at, beaten up for no reason and called soulless and a creep.
The biggest creep around is Angel. I can not discover anything attractive about him, his name does not seem to fit to him and the "message" Buffy and he love each other dearly is somehow not strong enough broadcasted to believe in.
Angel should be the one with a soul, but is a real creep and talks bullshit half of the time.
Buffy is a selfish piece of shit as well, so if it comes to that they are a good match (both feel pity for themselves). There is simply not a bit of humour to find in this girl, which makes her even more annoying. At least Anya the ex demon is there to brighten up lives and make you laugh out loud.
Although she seems to be attracted to wrong people/vampires herself, Buffy blames others if they do so. Her way of measuring, looking at it, labelling and pointing at others and her lack of being able to say thanks once in a while (and in a way it sounds for real) says a lot about her.
To me she is a sadistic person that loves to break others and truly believes nobody is able to live without her.
I wonder what the world would look like if all women would be slayers and behave like her.
I cannot remember I saw her this way years ago as the series started. Although I never was a big fan of her. I could say I was way younger at that time so I might look different at things now. But if so... how come I still love Spike and how come my youngest, watching this series for the first time, shares my opinion?
The good news is: even hell does not want Angel, according to my youngest, and they started his own series (Spike shows up in it as well). The series I would and will never watch.
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Within the series' narrative, William was an unsuccessful aspiring poet in the Victorian era who was mocked and called "William the Bloody" because of his "bloody awful" poetry.
Giles thinks William acquired the nickname Spike for his preferred method of torturing people with railroad spikes, but it is revealed it is because his poetry was so bad you could stick a railroad spike through your head. So despite of what you think or always thought about Spike he is the good guy and always been a romantic guy!
