Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a supernatural teen drama with many mature themes for a show that aired in the late ’90s. It follows a teenage girl who discovers she is the “chosen one” meant to kill vampires in the town of Sunnydale and keep the world safe. It is a challenging task to place on the shoulders of a teenager, and she ends up falling in love with one of the creatures she is supposed to kill, the vampire with a soul, Angelus. Angel and Buffy have a short yet intense romance after he experiences a moment of true happiness. He reverts to his menacing ways before he gets his soul, devastating Buffy and all the friends he’d made in Sunnydale.While fans were intrigued by Angel’s brooding persona of a vampire forced to roam the world with a soul, Buffy’s relationship with the once-villain and Angel’s romantic rival, Spike, excited fans more. Spike was introduced as a vampire who wanted Buffy dead, but over time, their goals started to align, and they wound up falling for each other. For some time, the love triangle between Buffy, Spike, and Angel divided fans. After all, Spike started out bad, and later on he redeemed himself, but after Angel’s personality changed in Season 1 it became a lot more difficult for fans to root for her first love. Spike was around when Buffy endured some of the most challenging transitions in her life, from her mother’s death to being brought back from a peaceful afterlife after her own death. She reunited with Angel at times, but he wasn’t truly a support system when Buffy needed one most. While this love triangle seemed like a no-brainer, it created the blueprint for tons of love triangles in fantasy shows that came after. One thing that fans can agree Buffy the Vampire Slayer got right in the ’90s was the portrayal of the bad boy in Buffy’s love triangle, Spike. From the beginning, Spike was a bad guy, and his biggest goal was to kill the Slayer. However, he did much more sinister things than try to kill Buffy. Spike bragged regularly about having killed two slayers, one of whom had a child that later came back to get vengeance. He also kidnapped Willow and Xander when he returned to Sunnydale, and later, after she actually came to trust him, he tried to sexually assault Buffy. The latter is one of the most vile things he’d ever done on the series, but it propelled his character forward and sent him off in search of his soul. Buffy and Spike getting together was one of the most debated relationships because if it wasn’t for Spike’s redemption arc, he wasn’t the kind of guy Buffy would fall for. While some might debate that Angel had his own bad boy element going for him, Spike was his polar opposite. As a vampire, Spike was crass and simple, he took joy in the suffering of others, he was something of a con-artist, and he loved being a monster because it gave him a sense of power he’d not experienced in life.
Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a supernatural teen drama with many mature themes for a show that aired in the late ’90s. It follows a teenage girl who discovers she is the “chosen one” meant to kill vampires in the town of Sunnydale and keep the world safe. It is a challenging task to place on the shoulders of a teenager, and she ends up falling in love with one of the creatures she is supposed to kill, the vampire with a soul, Angelus. Angel and Buffy have a short yet intense romance after he experiences a moment of true happiness. He reverts to his menacing ways before he gets his soul, devastating Buffy and all the friends he’d made in Sunnydale.
While fans were intrigued by Angel’s brooding persona of a vampire forced to roam the world with a soul, Buffy’s relationship with the once-villain and Angel’s romantic rival, Spike, excited fans more. Spike was introduced as a vampire who wanted Buffy dead, but over time, their goals started to align, and they wound up falling for each other. For some time, the love triangle between Buffy, Spike, and Angel divided fans. After all, Spike started out bad, and later on he redeemed himself, but after Angel’s personality changed in Season 1 it became a lot more difficult for fans to root for her first love. Spike was around when Buffy endured some of the most challenging transitions in her life, from her mother’s death to being brought back from a peaceful afterlife after her own death. She reunited with Angel at times, but he wasn’t truly a support system when Buffy needed one most. While this love triangle seemed like a no-brainer, it created the blueprint for tons of love triangles in fantasy shows that came after.
One thing that fans can agree Buffy the Vampire Slayer got right in the ’90s was the portrayal of the bad boy in Buffy’s love triangle, Spike. From the beginning, Spike was a bad guy, and his biggest goal was to kill the Slayer. However, he did much more sinister things than try to kill Buffy. Spike bragged regularly about having killed two slayers, one of whom had a child that later came back to get vengeance. He also kidnapped Willow and Xander when he returned to Sunnydale, and later, after she actually came to trust him, he tried to sexually assault Buffy. The latter is one of the most vile things he’d ever done on the series, but it propelled his character forward and sent him off in search of his soul. Buffy and Spike getting together was one of the most debated relationships because if it wasn’t for Spike’s redemption arc, he wasn’t the kind of guy Buffy would fall for. While some might debate that Angel had his own bad boy element going for him, Spike was his polar opposite. As a vampire, Spike was crass and simple, he took joy in the suffering of others, he was something of a con-artist, and he loved being a monster because it gave him a sense of power he’d not experienced in life.
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