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[oyceter]

Sparked by superplin's old postI loved Buffy through the earlier seasons and admired her and thought she was great, but I never loved her more than in late season 5 and season 6, when she was depressed and downtrodden and angry. I loved her most when she was overwhelmed by the world, when she was thisclose to the breaking point, and when she sometimes

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[aethel]

Interesting post. I like this remark:

I loved her most when she was overwhelmed by the world, when she was this close to the breaking point, and when she sometimes crossed over.

Yes, yes! Not only do depression, apathy, and self-destructive behavior make good drama, but also it forced me to respect her. I always appreciated her Woman Warrior routine, but in the first two seasons I was really annoyed by the way she felt sorry for herself; she complained about not having things that I didn't have either, but she had so many things that I didn't have, and she just didn't appreciate them. I mean, she had superpowers! I wouldn't mind a few superpowers myself. :) But you seem not to have minded her little foibles as much as I did...

I had difficulty relating to her in the early seasons. In fact, I didn't have much in common with her in the later seasons either--nobody I love has died, and I've certainly never had to kill anyone, let alone myself--but I felt much more sympathetic to her plight when she stopped whining about not having time in her busy slaying schedule for dating or cheerleading and started having real, grown-up problems.

[oyceter]

I liked her in the earlier seasons when she complained and everything, because I figured that's probably how I would be with superpowers...

And later, yeah -- none of the events that happened to her hit me (thank goodness!), but the depression and her way of acting out on it made complete emotional sense to me.