I'm a big fan of Buffy the vampire slayer, love every minute of it and I never get tired of it. This is a list on my favorite speeches on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There are a lot of speeches in the series, but there are few that stands out from the crowd and either bring you to tears or fill your heart with hope to continue fighting. Here are my favorites and why I like them, so you could probably guess that this is going to be a long post! … Hopefully I won't bore you XD
Season 1
“You missed one ball and the whole game was your fault? What, you were the only one playing? There wasn't eight other people on your team?”
Well, no this isn't a favorite speech.. But it was all that I could find in the first season. So obviously it has got to be on the list :P After all, this is speeches for every season. And that speech is true anyway so, better to mention it than not at all... Next season!
Season 2
“Passion. It lies in all of us, sleeping, waiting. And though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us, guides us. Passion rules us all and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments: the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace, but we would be hollow: empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”
This is from the episode “Passion” where Angel kills Miss. Calender. He talks about passion and how it go through all of us, passion both burn and create and through this speech he makes it very clear what passion is and what it does to us. And it's so beautiful XD It took me long enough to find this speech, I looked over the season three times before I found it. Cruel, I know because I love it so much, but I always had in my head that there would be another speech, that would fill me with a deeper feeling. I love when Spike tries to convince Buffy that he'll help her. But it's not really a speech. It's just two people talking really... So I couldn't put it in. So I'm glad that I finally found this one ^^
Season 3
“Look, lots of people lose themselves in love. It's no shame. They write songs about it. The hitch is, you can't stay lost. And sooner or later you have to get back to yourself.”
“And if you can't?”
“If you can't, well, love becomes your master, and you're just its dog.”
This season was most about love, I think.. It was about Faiths father relationship with the mayor, Buffys relationship with Angel, in the episode “Love's Walk” we found out Dru had left Spike. Also it was in this season where Willow and Xander found deeper feelings for each other than friendship. So there was really difficult to find a speech that wasn't about love XD I also thought of the speech Spike gives out to Buffy and Angel. Where he explains that they will never be friends. But this spoke to me more. It speaks to everyone. We all have been lost in love in some point and that's what makes this speech even more powerful than “you'll fight, and you'll shag until it kills you”. That's why I love this speech. The metaphor of being the dog to love is just wonderful. I absolutely love it.
Season 4
Faith: “You got a pair on you, Joyce. I like seein' that in a woman your age. Guess you can afford to talk that way. I mean in the world according to Joyce Buffy is gonna come crashing through that door any minute. But... look what I found. Buffy Summers. Buffy Summers. Buffy Summers. Buffy, Buffy... A lot of letters. She hasn't been by in a while, huh? And you'd think, with a crazy chick like me on the loose, crazy chick with a wicked grudge against her no less, she'd call and give you a heads up. But Buffy's too into her own deal to remember dear old Mom.”
Joyce: “You don't know the first thing about Buffy. Or me.”
Faith: “Don't I? I know what it's like. You think you matter, you think you're a part of something, and you get dumped. It's like the whole world is moving, but you're stuck. Like those animals in the tarpits. It's like you just keep sinking a little deeper every day, and nobody even sees.”
Joyce: “Where you planning to slit my throat any time soon?”
Faith: “Don't tell me you don't see it, Joyce. You've served your purpose. You squirted out the kid, raised her up, and now you might as well be dead! Nobody cares! Nobody remembers! Especially not Buffy, fabulous superhero. Sooner or later, you're gonna have to face it. She was over us a long time ago, Joyce. Too busy climbing onto her new boy toy to give a single thought to the people that matter! I mean you're her mother, and she just leaves you here to die!”
Here's another powerful speech where we all can sympathy with Faith. In her world, she is just a rock beside a mountain that is Buffy. In the third season we hear Faith say “I do my job better than anyone and who does everybody thank? Buffy.” In this speech in season four we get a little more on Faiths pain, what she's going through. I love it because.. It starts off gentle, where Faith compare her life to Joyces. Then it becomes more wild and her tone changes to lot of pain and that pain transforms into hate. The actor is doing a great job performing this speech and it's so wonderful to listen at. Great writing, great performance, what else can you expect from this show?
Season 5
“But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens, how we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's... There's just a body. And I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead any more. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And Xander's crying and not talking. And I was having fruit punch. And I thought... “Well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever.” And no one will explain to me why.”
Oh God... I cry every time I hear this speech. I get teary eyes just by thinking it XD Sorry, it's just.. This whole episode called “The body” scares me. It's unpleasant to look at, it gives me chills every time, so much that I can't watch it as many times as I've seen the other episodes... and it's a masterpiece! The absent of the music, the great performances, the camera shots, the sounds... Everything is so well thought, everything fits into the story, everything is perfect! That's why it scares me. This speech gives me so many feelings and it works so well. It's absolutely wonderful! Do I need to say more?
Season 6
Tara: “Things fall apart. They fall apart so hard.”
Willow: “Tara?”
Tara: “You can't ever... put 'em back the way they were.”
Willow: “Are you OK?”
Tara: “I'm sorry. It's just... You know , it takes time. You can't just... have coffee and expect...
Willow: “I know.”
Tara: “There's just so much to work through. Trust has to be built again, on both sides. You have to learn if... if we're even the same people we were, if you can fit in each other's lives. It's a long... important process. Can we just skip it? Can you just be kissing me now?”
Now, this isn't really a speech, I know... But I just love to hear it! You can call a small speech because Tara is talking about getting back together with an ex. Many people have done it and she says that you have to think about so many things before you rushes in to a relationship. Not just with your ex. With anyone. It's a long important process. But in the end she realizes that she can't live without Willows love. She loves her too much to start over, she couldn't wait until they held each other and confessed their love. It's so beautiful and again, this is a speech that makes me cry. Just because it's so beautiful XD Also I take the opportunity to say that Tara's death is wonderful made! The fact that she comments on Willows shirt before she drops and dies.. Willow who can't quite understand what is going on before she holds onto her body. It's sad and perfect. This show has never disappointed me! This season was no exception. Probably my favorite season, but I don't know.. It's a hard pick!
Season 7
Buffy: “You're right. We don't know how to fight it. We don't know when it'll come. We can't run, can't hide. Can't pretend it's not the end, cos it is. Something is always been there to try and destroy the world. We've beaten them back. But we're not dealing with them any more. We're dealing with the reason they exist. Evil. The strongest. The First.”
Giles: “Buffy, umm... I know you're very tired...”
Buffy: “I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. I'm standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me. We're not ready. They're not ready. They think we're gonna wait for the end to come, like we always do. I'm done waiting. They want an apocalypse? Well, we'll give 'em one. Anyone else who wants to run, do it now. Cos we just became an army. We just declared war. From now on, we won't just face our worst fears, we will seek them out. We will find them and cut out their hearts one by one, until the First shows itself for what it really is. And I'll kill it myself. There is only one thing on this earth more powerful than evil, and that's us. Any questions?”
This season... I go back and forward about this season. I don't know if I like it or hate it. Probably because it's the last season and that irritates me. But there is another reason. Or lots of other reasons XD 1. Buffy is starting to become a superior bitch who thinks she's better than everyone. 2. Spike goes soft. 3. There's not many funny talks anymore, just speeches of surviving and pain. 4. Those potentials... I really hated them. They were lost girls who floated around like kids and it wasn't amusing to watch. Sorry, but that's my opinion. Although there is lots of moments that I like in this season. Like this speech. It always fills me up with hope and happiness. It shows why Buffy is the leader and it makes me want to follow her because she knows what she's doing. Later on though she just becomes a babbling person who can give a speech about anything. I also like the speech that Xander holds about Buffy. “She has literally died twice to save the world”. Although this gave me, again, more feelings.
That's my list! Hope you enjoyed it and.. Even though Buffy's out from TV.. Buy the DVDs! You'll have fun watching them and watch the commentaries as well! They are really funny! Joss really knows how to entertain as well as educate us! See you next time
