There were a lot of incidents that sealed my poor opinion of Buffy. I have to admit to having always had an ambivalent view of the character. I liked her in Season 2 and disliked her in Season 4 post Sanctuary. I liked her again in Season 5 and early Season 6. I grew VERY impatient with her during Smashed. And, like Laura, after OAFA I really had developed great distaste for the character. Rather than being horrified by her own actions in Dead Things, her horror was reserved for having sex with Spike. Hello! She just had an incredibly abusive incident and what she was horrified about was having slept with Spike? For "allowing" him to do these things as though she hadn't been a participant? I cut slack until OAFA when she looked into Spike's bruised face and never showed one single moment of embarrassment for having done that.
Still, I tried to forgive her. However, the point where I finally knew I'd never like the character again was in "Get it Done" when after wallowing in her own pain all of Season 6 she mocked Chloe's, Willow's, and Spike's. She then required of them something she didn't require of herself. The way she buried Chloe like a dead hamster was appalling. The way she mocked Spike was apalling as well. At some point Buffy's callous behavior and ego-centrism stopped being a foible and started to become a defining characteristic. Ultimately I agree with the "Chosen" review that said that at the end of the day Buffy didn't earn her "happy ending," it was given to her by SiTs whose names she never bothered to learn and by Spike who she privately denied until her words were too late to have meaning and who she never publicly acknowledged.
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Date: 2003-08-04 01:12 am (UTC)Still, I tried to forgive her. However, the point where I finally knew I'd never like the character again was in "Get it Done" when after wallowing in her own pain all of Season 6 she mocked Chloe's, Willow's, and Spike's. She then required of them something she didn't require of herself. The way she buried Chloe like a dead hamster was appalling. The way she mocked Spike was apalling as well. At some point Buffy's callous behavior and ego-centrism stopped being a foible and started to become a defining characteristic. Ultimately I agree with the "Chosen" review that said that at the end of the day Buffy didn't earn her "happy ending," it was given to her by SiTs whose names she never bothered to learn and by Spike who she privately denied until her words were too late to have meaning and who she never publicly acknowledged.