Samuel Reyes
Chilling in SunnyD
Season 1: Balancing your school and social life. Buffy tries to fit in at school despite her calling, and finds friends who care about her nonetheless.
Season 2: Accepting responsibility for your mistakes. The best example of this is Buffy making Angel lose his soul and being forced to face the consequences.
Season 3: Choosing your path in life, a.k.a. "Ascension" (Choices is the perfect showcase for this theme)
- Buffy decides that being a Slayer will always follow her no matter where she goes.
- After accidentally killing a human, Faith embraces the Dark Side.
- Angel realizes he will never be able to provide any sort of life for Buffy and leaves Sunnydale for good.
- Willow gives up the chance to go to any college in the country to stay in Sunnydale and fight demons with her best friend.
Season 4: Identity - What better place to find your identity than college? At some point each character is forced to acknowledge who they are to themselves. Hell, there's even an episode called "Who Are You?"
- Proud-to-be-a-vampire Spike is no longer able to kill humans.
- In true Frankenstein's Monster fashion, Adam tries to understand what exactly he is.
- Riley wonders who he is outside of the Initiative after his own loyalty is called into question.
- Willow realizes she prefers Tara (and women) after Oz leaves her.
- Oz confronts his own fears about the beast within.
- Giles wonders if he's become obsolete now that Buffy no longer needs a Watcher.
- Xander struggles to find his calling and feels his friends have moved on and forgotten about him.
- Buffy tries to fit into college life and wonders if her job dictates whether she is allowed to have a nice, normal relationship.
Season 5: Dealing with the things you can't fight.
- Joyce's death through and through.
- Riley realizes Buffy will never love him the same way she loved Angel.
- Spike is forced to betray everything he once thought he knew when he falls in love with Buffy.
- Xander acknowledges his love for Anya.
- Buffy never asked for Dawn; Dawn was given to her to protect and Buffy is forced to adjust.
- Mortality is another big theme this season -- not only in Joyce's death but also Buffy's final sacrifice ("Death is your gift.")
Season 6: How do you realize that life is a total bitch but still find the strength to keep fighting? (Which I actually believe to be the theme of the whole show). Best exemplified through Buffy trying to get over her depression and in the final episode, 'Grave', when she tells Dawn - "I don't want to protect you from the world - I want to show it to you."
Season 7: Acknowledging that you don't have to make the journey alone. Despite the appreciated support from her family and friends, Buffy has always had the weight of the world on her shoulders. Thanks to Willow's spell she is able to share that burden with her fellow Slayers.
What do you think are the themes of each season of Buffy (or Angel)?
Season 2: Accepting responsibility for your mistakes. The best example of this is Buffy making Angel lose his soul and being forced to face the consequences.
Season 3: Choosing your path in life, a.k.a. "Ascension" (Choices is the perfect showcase for this theme)
- Buffy decides that being a Slayer will always follow her no matter where she goes.
- After accidentally killing a human, Faith embraces the Dark Side.
- Angel realizes he will never be able to provide any sort of life for Buffy and leaves Sunnydale for good.
- Willow gives up the chance to go to any college in the country to stay in Sunnydale and fight demons with her best friend.
Season 4: Identity - What better place to find your identity than college? At some point each character is forced to acknowledge who they are to themselves. Hell, there's even an episode called "Who Are You?"
- Proud-to-be-a-vampire Spike is no longer able to kill humans.
- In true Frankenstein's Monster fashion, Adam tries to understand what exactly he is.
- Riley wonders who he is outside of the Initiative after his own loyalty is called into question.
- Willow realizes she prefers Tara (and women) after Oz leaves her.
- Oz confronts his own fears about the beast within.
- Giles wonders if he's become obsolete now that Buffy no longer needs a Watcher.
- Xander struggles to find his calling and feels his friends have moved on and forgotten about him.
- Buffy tries to fit into college life and wonders if her job dictates whether she is allowed to have a nice, normal relationship.
Season 5: Dealing with the things you can't fight.
- Joyce's death through and through.
- Riley realizes Buffy will never love him the same way she loved Angel.
- Spike is forced to betray everything he once thought he knew when he falls in love with Buffy.
- Xander acknowledges his love for Anya.
- Buffy never asked for Dawn; Dawn was given to her to protect and Buffy is forced to adjust.
- Mortality is another big theme this season -- not only in Joyce's death but also Buffy's final sacrifice ("Death is your gift.")
Season 6: How do you realize that life is a total bitch but still find the strength to keep fighting? (Which I actually believe to be the theme of the whole show). Best exemplified through Buffy trying to get over her depression and in the final episode, 'Grave', when she tells Dawn - "I don't want to protect you from the world - I want to show it to you."
Season 7: Acknowledging that you don't have to make the journey alone. Despite the appreciated support from her family and friends, Buffy has always had the weight of the world on her shoulders. Thanks to Willow's spell she is able to share that burden with her fellow Slayers.
What do you think are the themes of each season of Buffy (or Angel)?
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