Buffy The Vampire Slayers S5 finale - The Gift turns 21!

[a_files06]

Twenty-one years ago today, the 100th episode of Buffy (aka The Gift aka the Season 5 finale) aired pic.twitter.com/GKgjd61WM5
- Wh*donesque (@whedonesque) May 22, 2022

-The season 5 finale of BTVS which is titled 'The Gift' turns the big 21 today!

-This finale is remembered for several different reasons:

• It officially killed off the title

Comments

[kerosene_pill]

I remember sobbing my little eyes out so much. And I know everyone hates him and them but this exact moment gutted me so much ;A;

[silverstarry]

Same. Spike was crying his cold dead heart out and I felt the same way. Buffy's death really hit me hard.

[a_files06]

While I hate Spuffy, I would've been ok with a brief fling in S6 had they not taken it to the mutual love aspect of it.

[stf_ugh]

Back then I was too young to get why the Buffybot was so gross like I hated it but I didn’t hate spike at that stage tbh.

After that tho when he tried to rape her tho, bye. Fucking die spike no I don’t fucking care that you got your own soul back. Bye.

[ss_riggins]

Oh man, I remember being a teenager losing my shit over this.

[ljtryout]

Hot take, but i liked S6 and loved S7.

This one was a great finale tho. Little teen me was like "how the hell are they gonna bring her back?!"

[stf_ugh]

I loved the idea of Willow being the Big Bad tbh ~one of their own~ like sorry I thought it was great lol. Didn’t really care for season 7 tho.

[shittysoup]

[a_files06]

S7 focused way tooooo much on Spike and not enough on the Slayer lore/Buffy and the scoobies. I love the potentials, the first, uber vamps but all of it didnt have proper breathing room.

[buckyno]

This was around the time I got very into Buffy. It’s funny though I tried rewatching it and it felt like a slog so I stopped. There are some great moments in the series but there’s also a lot that doesn’t age well and felt very tedious when revisiting it.

I’ll admit Spike was my favourite character when I first watched the show. I was into Spike/Buffy (which is problematic of course but I didn’t fully realize it at the time). I think my favourite Spike moments were with Angel though. I wish they had explored that relationship more when Spike was on Angel’s show in the final season.

[aeipathy]

spike and angel's banter was a+ on the final season of angel lol

[awkward_as_heck]

'Walk away Spike'

'You're a wee little puppetman'

Gets me everytime.

[buries]

i can hear their voices in this comment lmfao

[stf_ugh]

One of my all time fave moments of the series was when she was walking up to Dawn and that little guy who was supposed to be so ~scary and a big deal was standing there with his knife and she just shoves him over the edge without missing a step lol.

I hate Joss Whedon.