30 Days of Buffy, Day #08

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Day #01: Favourite season
Day #02: Favourite episode
Day #03: Favourite song used in an episode
Day #04: Favourite female character
Day #05: Least favourite female character
Day #06: Favourite male character
Day #07: Least favourite male character
Day #08: Favourite friendship
Day #09: Favourite romance
Day #10: Least favourite season
Day #11: Least favourite romance
Day #12: Least favourite episode
Day #13: Favourite potential slayer
Day #14: Favourite female villain
Day #15: Favourite male villain
Day #16:Episode you like that everyone else hates - Favourite piece of monologue
Day #17: Character you relate to the most
Day #18: Character who didn’t get enough screen time
Day #19: Character you like that everyone else hates
Day #20: Best Spike-centric episode
Day #21: Best Willow-centric episode
Day #22: Best Xander-centric episode
Day #23: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did
Day #24: Favourite example of 90s special effects
Day #25: Favourite Buffyverse saying
Day #26: Favourite Scooby moment
Day #27: Cutest moment
Day #28: Character you love to hate
Day #29: Episode you hate that everyone else loves
Day #30: What you think made Buffy so great


Day #08: Favourite friendship
This is a hard one, as there are so many good friendships on the show. For rivalry and angst, I would go for Buffy and Faith (or should that be categorized as a romance? I can never decide). For long-lasting strength, I would go for Buffy, Xander, and Willow. I think my absolute favorite is Willow and Xander. I mean, he saved the world by telling her he loved her. What more can you ask for in a friendship?

Comments

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I loved Buffy and Willow in early seasons, of course, but as IRL, lovers/partners pulled them from the early intimacy. People complain about that but that is exactly what happens. No one can sustain the same childhood/school age level of friendship into adulthood, at least that I know of.

So my favorite female friendships in the late seasons are ones that I think didn't get explored enough, that didn't get enough screentime: Buffy and Tara (I've written about them before and plan to say more in future), and Buffy and Faith. In both instances I can't help but feel that they didn't get enough time together.

Buffy and Faith is an example of "the subtext nearly became text - before Joss put it back into the box." So I think there's a bit of both, whether the writers say so or not. Faith and Spike occupy almost the exact same role in Buffy's life. But they are also "sister slayers", which complicates things and is interesting in terms of Angel & Spike parallels of "family". Which points to how screwed up the system/paradigm that created both vampires and Slayers is.(Has anyone explicitly made that parallel in fic or meta?)

Sarah and Eliza have a really wonderful chemistry I think even in Dirty Girls you can see them standing very close to one another in a way that contradicts Buffy's proclaimed wariness of Faith (which, you can't blame her - Faith de facto stole/raped her body, or at least violated it.)

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Which points to how screwed up the system/paradigm that created both vampires and Slayers is.(Has anyone explicitly made that parallel in fic or meta?)

Not that I'm aware of, but there's a lot of fic and meta that I miss.