If you wrote Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

[saturn5]

Number One is keep Buffy the same cheerful funny character from S1-2.

Number Two, I'd keep the original plan, ending it at Season Five. Glory kills Tara creating Dark Willow, the finale is either Glory and/or Dark Willow and it ends with Buffy dying.

I wouldn't change a thing. Much as I loved season 1-2 Buffy she had to grow, she couldn't stay carefree because she wasn't, she had to become the adult. But she's still the girl we love

 

[Lonemagpie]

The problem is people don't just turn gay.

Beg to differ. I have a good friend who dated men until she was 37, then suddenly met the right woman. It was like a switch was thrown.

Translation: she's bi or had beards.

 

[Forbin]

The problem is people don't just turn gay.

Beg to differ. I have a good friend who dated men until she was 37, then suddenly met the right woman. It was like a switch was thrown.

Translation: she's bi or had beards.

No, it was more of a sudden realization. Also a realization as to why she could never form a good relationship with a man before. Or hey, maybe she'd just been kidding herself for years - when she told us she realized she was gay, more than one of us responded "no kidding." The woman who "turned her" (for lack of a better term), is one of the most gorgeous creatures I've ever met, so I can't blame her.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Beg to differ. I have a good friend who dated men until she was 37, then suddenly met the right woman. It was like a switch was thrown.

Translation: she's bi or had beards.

No, it was more of a sudden realization. Also a realization as to why she could never form a good relationship with a man before. Or hey, maybe she'd just been kidding herself for years - when she told us she realized she was gay, more than one of us responded "no kidding." The woman who "turned her" (for lack of a better term), is one of the most gorgeous creatures I've ever met, so I can't blame her.

Well, realized that she is, is different than suddenly becoming... Even if they'd *said* that about Willow it would have been better than what we got.

 

[Thestral]

We just know... and that Buffy blamed herself for their divorce (one of her nightmares in S1 "Nightmares" was her father telling her what a disappointment she was to him and that she was the reason he left).

I'm not sure why I'm chiming in since I've barely watched any Buffy (though I'm really feeling a hankering to lately since I do like Joss), but I don't see what this tells us. Children blaming themselves for their parents divorce is incredibly common; this would tell us more about Buffy than about her dad, no?

I never said otherwise. (Yes, it was about Buffy, it told us that early on that Buffy tends to blame herself for all sorts of things and to think that she's always getting abandoned because there's something wrong with her.) I was just listing what we know about her relationship with her father. We never really learned that much about Hank. Yes, he completely disappeared in the later seasons, when they had to find a reason for Buffy to be Dawn's caretaker after Joyce's death rather than Hank... But it wasn't really such a huge difference. It's not like he was such a presence in the early seasons, either.

Ah, gotcha.