Issues in Buffy

[NoShip]

Not sure, though having recently watched Becoming, I am not sure they would have had the cop, at the start of Becoming 2, actually try to shoot Buffy.

Well..... Throughout BTVS, Whedon's dislike of law enforcement is shown. The best example is the absolute corruption of SPD which offers up the residents for killing on a daily basis by covering up the Vampires and Demons feeding on them.

 

[silvermoon]

I've got issues with the Chinese wannabe slayer being used as comedic fodder in 7.
Issues with Dawn/Spike's special big bro/little sis relationship just being dropped in 6. More of a pet peeve.
Issues with Buffy being dressed as a datalounge dude once said, "like a baby hooker". Much preferred her in clothes that looked like she meant business.
Riley the fall guy. I liked Riley but it felt like he was a sacrificial lamb on that show. I don't know if the writers ever meant to keep him around - clearly not - but never felt like he got his due as a character.
Buffy's pointless college career. In 4 she is mocked by a professor for her views. She never struck me as an academic type of gal so it felt very artificial and forced. She drops out anyway.
Giles being pissy and annoying in 7, all of his old warmth and charm gone.
Willow's sudden I'm gay thing. No, she's actually bisexual, but ok. Guess audiences then weren't ready.
I'm sure the article is referencing more cultural things and less subjective ones but that's what I've got for now. Other stuff has already been said or debated and I won't add much that's new.

 

[NotASlayer]

Riley the fall guy. I liked Riley but it felt like he was a sacrificial lamb on that show. I don't know if the writers ever meant to keep him around - clearly not - but never felt like he got his due as a character.

My understanding is that he was meant to be kept around by the writers (maybe Joss too?) but studio pressures forced them to have Spike take his place, hence the "Riley is in a fantastic place" episode in S6, which was the writers taking revenge.

Willow's sudden I'm gay thing. No, she's actually bisexual, but ok. Guess audiences then weren't ready.

I agree with her being bisexual. She had crushes on Xander and Giles and clearly had a relationship she enjoyed with Oz. But the existence of bisexual characters is often ignored; less so now than back then. If you look here No Bisexuals - TV Tropes in the section on Buffy, it says in an interview Joss was pressured not to make Willow bi so that her same sex attraction wasn't considered to be a phase.