Buffy Summers | You didn't earn it

In celebration of Buffy Summers' 40th birthday last week I decided to do a video centred around Anya's speech in Empty places. It never made much sense to me, because becoming the slayer is not something you earn. It is just something thrust upon you. Buffy never wanted it, never asked for it, but she damn well spent the next seven years after she had been called proving that she deserved to be in that leadership role. If Anya had said the speech in season 1, fair enough Buffy probably hadn't earned it by that point. But in the context of the seven years leading up to it; she died twice, killed the love of her life, sacrificed herself for the world and saved it numerous times. She had stopped everything that had ever come up against her and ultimately spent her life feeling alone because she could never have the normal life she wanted to. Everyone around her had been tempted by the dark side, Willow, Giles, Faith and Anya. Yet Buffy never lost her humanity, and always forgave her friends who did. Being the slayer is not lucky, yeah you get slayer strength, but the other aspects you lose because of that just do not measure up, as Anya had said earlier in the season, "Short, brutal death" is how she described the life of a slayer. Tell us Anya, how does that make someone luckier than you? They spend an entire season looking to her to lead, leaning on her and pressuring her to make all the decisions, Giles even insisted she became a general, but the minute she does and it does not go exactly how they wanted, they turn on her. tut tut. Buffy Summers you deserve better than that.
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