30 Days of Buffy, Day #14

[itsnotmymind]

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 #14: Favourite female villain
Faith, of course. Faith is a complex, ambiguous character who is powerful and cruel as a villain. The thing about Faith is that she lashes out most viciously at the people who reach out to her (except the mayor--she trusts him for some reason). She's also a slayer, which means she gets great fight scenes with Buffy.

Drusilla is a close second, because her madness is so fascinating. She's the only one of the fanged four who never got any kind of redemption storyline.

Comments

[kikimay]

Nice choice. I would probably pick Glory because her crazyness is hilarious and she manages to fight in tiny satin dresses.

[itsnotmymind.livejournal.com]

Glory is pretty awesome, but I like Faith and Dru more. Oh, Joss and his crazy brunettes...

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Dru never got a redemption arc, but considering that Darla's consisted of staking herself to give birth to Angel's son? Yeesh. I rather like that Dru's story is "incomplete" that she fades into the shadows but remains her own woman; she becomes the opposite of Buffy, standing in the sun in Chosen, remaining her own woman. Both get to carve out their own lives, "unfinished, incomplete" - their lives are their art.

[itsnotmymind.livejournal.com]

I have a soft spot for Darla killing herself for Connor, but in a show where three women die of mystical pregnancies, I can understand why people don't share the sentiment.

I wish we'd gotten more Dru (it would have been neat to see her interact with souled Spike) but I like that she got no redemption storyline.

Your last sentence is very pretty.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Your last sentence is very pretty.

Thank you! I stole it from myself actually - I had notes on a Dru & Buffy meta in my notebooks I'd been planning but it got away from me. Someday....

[lokifan]

Faith ♥ ♥ ♥

I am so glad Dru never got a redemption storyline. Partly because she's awesome as-is, and partly because I fear it would end up very victim-blamey and unpleasant. Darla, Angel, and Spike all chose to be vampires, all said "yes" to it. For Drusilla, it was another thing Angel took from her. She's a victim forever (while being strong and loved and wonderful) and doesn't need, can't have redemption in that sense.

[itsnotmymind.livejournal.com]

partly because I fear it would end up very victim-blamey and unpleasant.

That's an interesting thought. Of course, Darla, Angel and Spike didn't really know what they were agreeing to, but they weren't victimized the way Dru was.