But I’m on the second episode and I guess the Christian god just canonically exists in this show? Crosses and holy water and shit work on vampires. Seems like a bold choice for a show to say “uh yeh that deity canonically exists in our show but I guess it’s just indifferent or whatever?”
Maybe this gets lampshaded at some point but in the second episode it’s weird as fuck lol
Is three the one with spike? I enjoyed that one a lot, the season after the one with spike felt like a mess and I stopped watching
Spike has a guest appearance in one of the season's best episodes where he gives Buffy and Angel relationship advice. But he doesn't become a series regular until season four when they put the chip in his head (ugh)
I LOVED THAT EPISODE
it was the only thing that kept me watching that season for longer , but then I realized the rest of it was still p bad
They put a what in his what?
In Season Four theres an amusing subversion of the "old villain returns and has a sinister monologue watching the heroes" trope where he starts and immediately gets stunned and captured by some military guys called the Initiative. They put a chip in his head that shocks him when he tries to do violence to humans. He escapes and appeals to the Scooby Gang for help, they think helping a sociopathic vampire be able to kill again is a bad idea, so he mostly just hangs around for the rest of the show being their frienemy (he finds a loophole that he can fight monsters and demons without triggering the chip, and in later seasons goes through a serious character arc of his own).
It was mostly a lazy plot device to get a logical excuse to keep Spike as a regular,, he fills a niche of being a ruthless soulless vampire (in contrast to Angel) who could both play Devil's Advocate or be comic relief depending on the situation.
Huh. Idk if I like that. Huh. :huh: