I didn't really identify with Buffy, but I wish I could have. Buffy was kind of everything I wasn't in school. I identified most with Willow(Oh, and William in "Fool For Love")
Tara: Do you have any books on robots? Giles: Oh, yes, dozens. There's a lot of research to be done in order to--no, I'm lying. Haven't got squat. I just like watching Xander squirm.
'Get It Done'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
erikaj - Sep 12, 2010 8:31:03 am PDT #7467 of 10575
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 12, 2010 12:17:32 pm PDT #7468 of 10575
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
There's identify with, and there's want to be. I was Xander. I wanted to be Faith.
Edit: Or would have done, if there'd been Buffy in high school. Why wasn't there Buffy in high school? Would have helped! (Blimmin' Dawson's Creek was all there was.)
Stephanie - Sep 12, 2010 3:47:27 pm PDT #7469 of 10575
Trust my rage
I totally identified with Buffy, especially in seasons 5&6. And 2. Which is probably why they are my favorite.
erikaj - Sep 12, 2010 5:03:50 pm PDT #7470 of 10575
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Who doesn't want to be Faith? Actually, I have met women who said they didn't, but I think they were fooling themselves.
Maysa - Sep 12, 2010 5:59:42 pm PDT #7471 of 10575
Who doesn't want to be Faith?
Well, it would be cool to have that "I don't give a shit" attitude that Faith has - but I wouldn't want all her self-hatred. One of the scenes that always makes me tear up is the one in "Who Are You?" when she's beating Buffy (herself) and yelling "you're nothing." Man, that's upsetting.
Maybe to be Faith after she went to prison and liked herself a lot more.
Laga - Sep 12, 2010 6:20:20 pm PDT #7472 of 10575
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'll take Faith's body and her mad skills but I'd rather have Xander's personality.
erin_obscure - Sep 12, 2010 8:46:04 pm PDT #7473 of 10575
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I never wanted to be Faith. She never seemed happy.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 13, 2010 1:32:34 am PDT #7474 of 10575
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I'd rather have Xander's personality.
By season seven, sure. NSM season one.
§ ita § - Sep 13, 2010 6:23:12 am PDT #7475 of 10575
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's no one on Buffy I'd really totally like to have been. Maybe Spike, for a while. But not for long.
beth b - Sep 13, 2010 9:43:22 am PDT #7476 of 10575
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I ided with Buffy in the last few season -- It was Willow or xander in earlier seasons. And always, part of me was Giles.