Sunday, December 14, 2025

Most Memorable Scene: Buffy Summers leaving Sunnydale

I don't know why I was thinking about this ending to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Becoming part 2 (season 2 episode 22). It's just so sad because not only did Buffy save the world but in order to do that she lost a lot. First, in order to leave her house to save the world, Buffy had no choice but to tell her mother Joyce that she was the Slayer. And in doing so, her mom told her if she goes out that don't bother coming back home. Yes, her mother said that in anger but she still said it. But Buffy had to stop Angel from releasing a demon that would destroy the world and that cost her something as well. Because right before she closed the demon's portal, she had to send Angel through it in order to close it. And that was sad because Willow Rosenberg's spell worked by returning Angel's soul to him and he was no longer the evil Angelus but it was too late.

With the world saved, Buffy truly felt like she had nothing left. No home, no love and no sense of being. Edit to add: I forgot she got kicked out of school which left her with another thing she lost. So she took her mother's words to heart and left Sunnydale. This was just so sad. And not to mentioned they added such a sad song to the scene, "Full of Grace" by Sarah McLachlan. I haven't watched this episode is so long, I don't know why I was thinking about it.

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