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By Chris Snellgrove | Published
When most Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fans see the program again, fear reaching season 6 because it is a disappointment. Tara not only dies, but this is the season in which we see Buffy have a frankly toxic relationship with the spike vampire and participate in another out of place behavior to deal with the stress of being brought back from the dead. Interestingly, however, this horrible season is effectively outed by one of the best and most first episodes of the program. We are talking about the Buffy The episode of season 2 “When She was Bad”, which also involved Slayer, acting out of the character due to immense stress.
Buffy Fans had no way to know when the episode premiered for the first time, of course, but “When She Wase Bad” wore the sixth season of the program by making everyone (fans and characters) get angry with the main character. For the context, Buffy died literally in the hands of the teacher at the end of season 1; However, Xander returned her to life through RCP and beat the vampiric villain. But at the premiere of Season 2, she is remarkably out of character: she breaks Willow, she is cruel with Cordelia, and it’s great for Angel, going so far as to flirt with him to disturb her non -dead boyfriend.
If you are a Buffy Fan looking “When She was Bad” for the first time, you are likely to pass much of the episode screaming on television and asking why the murderer suddenly became so indifferent and significant during the summer. However, it turns out that all this is a manifestation of Buffy’s trauma of her fight with the teacher, and she returns to her former self after crushing the vampire bones, effectively destroying any possibility that she resurrects through dark magic. For the most part, this is a well -considered episode, which is ironic because it announces the central aspect of season 6 that many hated.
It is easy to isolate individual elements of season 6 that innumerable fans hated, including Buffy’s horrible relationship with Spike (one that culminates in attempted rape). However, that relationship and, therefore, other bad decisions are driven by the fact that Buffy’s friends resurrected it after their death from season 5; They reasoned that she could be trapped in a dimension of hell, but Buffy then revealed that they accidentally took her out of the sky. This, combined with the trauma of Buffy’s mother dying in the previous season, said the Slayer spent the season in a depressive state while addressing worldly things like Bills and Monsters Undad.
Given what we know about Buffy in season 6, it is fair to say that “when it was wrong” he foreshadows that season after showing how he reacts to trauma when making bad decisions, especially the romantics. In the previous episode, this is perhaps better exemplified by his angel frequently and even leading Xander with a sexy dance so that his vampire toy is jealous. We do not want to minimize the previous trauma of Buffy, but if they kill us and then we resurrect immediately caused all this romantic drama, it is perfectly credible to move from the sky later. months It would lead to a toxic relationship with Spike.
Unfortunately, what is the Buffy The writers and producers could not see that “When She was Bad” was specifically effective because it portrayed an arc of an episode in which the Slayer triumphed over his trauma when they rolled the credits. It is good to have a single episode or arc where our hero is on the rear foot, but as shown in season 6, nobody really wanted a whole season Of our main character, they are given under depressive trauma.
However, for better or worse, this brought fans to Buffy because the sixth season is a trauma that we share together, although only the Slayer managed to deal with his stress by having sex with a hot vampire. In this way, it could be said that all traumas are the same … some are simply more equal (and shape strangest) than others.
