ONTD Original: Top 5 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Continuity/Inconsistency Errors

[ummnothx]

Greetings, ONTD.
Welcome to the 12th installment of the ONTD Original Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Today, I'm doing an installment on the top five inconsistencies in the series that just drove me nuts. Why five? Because these are the only five I could think of that just seemed to carry on and on and on...

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[fromyourashes]

the vampire breath thing - yeah. spike choking out dru made no sense. and angel being drowned on his show all summer was so dumb.

but buffy died - so kendra was called. she was THE slayer. then she died, so faith was called, and SHE was THE slayer. but she never died, so another one wasn't called. it made sense to me. but the conversations they had about it made no sense, as did them always forgetting about faith.

the eye of beljoxa meant the slayer being brought back from heaven was to blame, not buffy herself. giles explains that to anya in literally the next scene.

i always thought the older the vamp, the longer it took for them to die. or the stake wasn't in fully? or...yeah. nonsensical.

my biggest issues were buffy's birthday that they could never settle on, buffy's address that they could never settle on, and WTF HAPPENED TO THE SHIT THAT CAME OUT OF GLORY'S PORTAL??? and the ubervamps that potentials could kill IMMEDIATELY after becoming slayers. stop.

also, idt op has seen angel, but - vampires can get drunk. so who the hell did the retconning on angel where they couldn't get drunk?

[ummnothx]

I love your points! <3
I felt like the explanation that Buffy being brought back though and having that significant of an impact made zero sense...Buffy wasn't "the slayer" technically, because Faith was...so why was Buffy the big deal? Idk to me it just didn't make sense.

I agree with you SO MUCH on the Glory portal thing!!! lol.

[fromyourashes]

because they hated faith, that's all lol.

i really wanna know where tf that dragon went. is it still living somewhere in california? is it snacking on random californians? does it have a little cave of its own? where is it??

[helyanwe89]

Well to be fair Faith was in prison for a bit (Season 4-7) so she wasn't out there doing anything. Season 5 & 6 she was locked up and broke out during Season 7.

[alessar]

Not long after the series finale aired there was a leaked draft of the final episode script floating around. Supposedly it was legit, 90% of the dialog and actions were the same but there were some changes.

- Andrew died and Anya lived (this makes sense, and Emma Caulfield has stated she wanted to be killed off in the finale so she could just be done with the show and move on)
- they explicitly state that because Dawn's existence was based on Buffy, she was a slayer all along. Further, it was wedging her into the slayer hierarchy that somehow created a short circuit between her, Buffy, and Faith letting the 'slayer power' be jeopardized and moving The First to act.

Real? I can't swear it. Makes sense? Too much.