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Before the series, there was this. In 1992, Joss Whedon wrote a script for a movie called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The plot should be very familiar to a lot of us: a Valley Girl named Buffy finds out that she is The Chosen One. An old British guy named Merrick trains her to become "the Slayer." Her job is to fight a bunch of vampires.
Season 1. In "The Witch", Xander asks Willow to kindly stop beating a dead horse: "Will, yeah, that is the point. You don't have to drive it through my head like a railroad spike." Much later, we find out that this was Spike's preferred method of torture, hence how he got his name. "I Robot, You Jane" ends with Buffy, Willow, and Xander ...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer S2E20 "Go Fish". "I think we should lock up the rest of the swim team before they get in touch with their inner halibut." Directed by David Semel. Written by David Fury, Elin Hampton, Rob Des Hotel, Dean Batali, & Marti Noxon. For lack of a better phrase, something fishy starts to crop up with a fish monster appears to ...
Season 3. There is a scene in "The Wish" after Vampire Willow and Xander die, and the Master and Buffy are literally pushing people from one side to the other in an effort to get to each other. Dramatic to the point of funny, the scene probably defines narm. The demon from "Gingerbread" moves slowly, but somehow is fast enough to accidentally ...
The parallels get extra blatant after his Heroic Sacrifice turned out not to stick; now a soulless and villainous vampire he takes on Angelus's role as the villain with a personal connection to Buffy. He even goes after Jenny Calendar, just like Angelus did in the original continuity.
This Buffy is the "ideal" Slayer; no friends and family that keep her grounded in the world. This is what Buffy could have been, what the Council wanted her to be. She is a pure soldier who is basically doing what she does because this is her purpose, what she exists for, not in the name of defending it, but because she has no other option.
Willow and Oz. I don't want any trouble. I just want to be alone and quiet in a room with a chair and a fireplace and a tea cozy. I don't even know what a tea cozy is, but I want one. Buffy. "The slaying isn't getting any easier, either." "I don't know, I think we're kinda getting a rhythm down." "We're losing half the vamps."
