in the whole series, for some reason, is that Buffy is on tears after she defeats the Master. The series is full of emotional moments but it's in this one I cry with her all the time - no matter how much of a pussy I feel.
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a little moment that i love and that always gets me is the last scene in innocence when buffy "celebrates" her birthday with her mom.
JOYCE
Well, go on. Make a wish.
BUFFY
I'll just let it burn.
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A lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer moments pluck my heartstrings but NONE compare to when Buffy and Dawn finally talk about their mother's death in Forever.
**Buffy slaps Dawn across the face. Dawn yelps and puts her hand to her cheek. Buffy puts her hand over her mouth in horror.**
BUFFY: (tearful) Dawn ... I've been ... working. I've been busy, because I have to-
DAWN: (tearful) No! You've been avoiding me.
BUFFY: I'm not! ... I have to do these things, 'cause ... (crying) 'cause when I stop, then she's really gone.
**Dawn frowns in confusion.**
BUFFY: And I'm trying. Dawn, I am, I am really trying to take care of things, but I don't even know what I'm doing. Mom always knew.
DAWN: Nobody's asking you to be Mom.
BUFFY: Well, who's gonna be if I'm not? Huh, Dawn? Have you even thought about that? Who's gonna make things better? (crying harder) Who's gonna take care of us?
**Faith throws herself against Angel screaming.**
Faith: I'm evil! I'm bad! I'm evil! Do you hear me? I'm bad! Angel, I'm bad!
**She begins to sob, grabbing a hold of Angel's shirt and shaking him.**
Faith: I'm ba-ad. Do you hear me? I'm bad! I'm bad! I'm bad. Please. Angel, please, just do it.
**Wesley comes running out of the apartment building.**
Faith: Angel please, just do it. Just do it. Just kill me. Just kill me.
**Angel wraps his arms around her shoulders and pulls her against him. She over balances them and they sink to their knees, Angel still holding her as she cries.**
Seconded for Loui, those are my choices too.
shareThe Buffy Dawn moment mentioned in Forever ALWAYS makes me tear up. A lot of people consider that episode a trite and unnecessary run of the mill follow up to the Body, I completely disagree.
Other tearjerker moments:
Willow finally breaking down to Xander in Grave
Buffy in Prophecy Girl "Giles im 16 years old, I don't wanna die"
As a matter of fact, the very first Buffy finale Id ever seen was The Gift, and even without 5 years of history I still completely lost it when Buffy jumped off that ledge.
Buffy in Prophecy Girl "Giles im 16 years old, I don't wanna die"
I agree with the scene in Forever. That's the only scene that's made me cry.
shareOh god yeah, Buffy's 'Who's gonna take care of us?' to Dawn is so heart-breaking, it's the one line I remembered from the show before I started my rewatch.
Others:
- Xander's speech to Dawn in S7 'Potential' about how Buffy and the others will never realize how hard it is for those without super powers.
- The whole Buffy/Spike confrontation in the church (S7 'Beneath You'), especially the moment when he sinks against the cross and asks 'Buffy, can we rest now?'
- Buffy/Angelus acting out the ghost love drama in 'I only have eyes for you', when she screams 'Don't walk away from me, BITCH!' I get chills, it's so intense. I LOVE the role reversal.
- all the moments when Willow cries. I don't know, something about Alyson Hannigan's crying really gets to me, it's so infectious.
I'm sure there are much more..
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Yes, Willow is the queen of crying scenes!
Willow: No, she was never gone. She was with me. We should have been forever, and I— (cries) I let her be dead. She's really dead. (breaks down into tears) And I killed her. (falls to the ground sobbing)
Kennedy: Willow, no.
Willow: Please, baby, I'm so sorry. Come back. I'm sorry. I'm sorry! Come back... (sobs)
A lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer moments pluck my heartstrings but NONE compare to when Buffy and Dawn finally talk about their mother's death in Forever.In Forever, the part that really gets me is how Buffy is angry with Dawn when she learns what Dawn's done.
Later, when Buffy hears the knocking at the door she turns, rushing to it like a hopeful child, Mommy? and is obviously devastated when no one is there.
Bonus points for Dawn silently and tearfully breaking the spell without ever letting Buffy know. Dawn keeps her painful secret to herself, never burdening Buffy with the knowledge that she did it and the horrible myriad "what if" thoughts that I'm sure Dawn wrestled with from then on.
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Buffy: Buffy breaking the news to Dawn about Joyce, with the entire classroom watching. I know it comes up as one of the saddest scenes, but you can see that her class just feels for her/them and I find that extremely beautiful and touching
Angel: After Angel goes through the trials trying to save Darla, she sees the great lengths he will go to for her, and she finally accepts her human destiny. We will just forget what happens next at this time
Angel: "Maybe it would be different. We don't know. Maybe, uh... because, you know, I have a soul - if-if I did bite you..."
Darla: "No."
Angel: "We don't know what it would do to you."
Darla: "Angel, I've seen it now everything you're going through, everything you've gone through. I felt it. I felt how you care. The way no one's ever cared before not for me. That's all I need from you."
Angel: "That's not enough."
Darla: "It is."
Angel: "How could the powers allow you to be brought back and dangle a second chance and take it away like this?"
Darla: "Maybe this is my second chance."
Angel: "To die?"
Darla: "Yes. To die - the way I was supposed to die in the first place."
They look at each other for a moment before Darla turns away drawing a shaky breath. Angel gets up and, still limping slightly, goes to sit next to her.
Angel: "I'm not gonna leave you (Darla looks at him trying not to cry) every moment you have left - I'm gonna be by your side. You're never gonna be alone again."
He drapes his, still burned looking, right hand around her shoulder and pulls her close as she begins to cry.
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Buffy: Buffy breaking the news to Dawn about Joyce, with the entire classroom watching. I know it comes up as one of the saddest scenes, but you can see that her class just feels for her/them and I find that extremely beautiful and touchingGood choice! I agree -- it's beautifully shot and still makes me feel the despair of the moment. I especially love how it silently shows how sad, moved and ... helpless ... all of the onlookers are.
Angel: After Angel goes through the trials trying to save Darla, she sees the great lengths he will go to for her, and she finally accepts her human destiny. We will just forget what happens next at this time
Angel episode I Will Remember You. Most heartbreaking and beautiful episode. Buffy pleading him that they won´t have enough time and then forgetting all when time sets back, but Angel will always remember the perfect life they could have had. Couldn´t get much more epic love than that 💜
shareIn the series finale when it's just Buffy, Willow, Xander and Giles standing around talking in the school highway, like in the good old days! The team that started it all.
Also anytime Dawn and Buffy has a tearful embrace, like after Dawn tries to resurrect Joyce. Sisterly love!
I don't necessarily cry at the conventionally sad or heartbreaking scenes. I inevitably tear up when Buffy gets the Class Protector award in The Prom. It's one of my favorite scenes in the series. It's just a wonderful, miraculous moment for Buffy, who isn't as unappreciated, nor as secret, as she thought. "I had no idea that children en masse could be gracious." Sunday certainly deserved to be dusted if just for breaking that umbrella next season in The Freshman.
shareI don't necessarily cry at the conventionally sad or heartbreaking scenes. I inevitably tear up when Buffy gets the Class Protector award in The Prom. It's one of my favorite scenes in the series. It's just a wonderful, miraculous moment for Buffy, who isn't as unappreciated, nor as secret, as she thought. "I had no idea that children en masse could be gracious." Sunday certainly deserved to be dusted if just for breaking that umbrella next season in The Freshman.I love that scene, too! It gets me every time. I particularly love how Jonathan's speech begins:
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Cool topic! Buffy has a lot of wonderful emotional moments. A few that always touch me but don't seem to be routinely mentioned:
I love the shot of Buffy grabbing Glory's knife wielding hand just in time to save Willow in Tough Love. It's such a terrific hero moment for Buffy. (Okay, maybe a little clichéd -- arriving JUST in time -- but it still gets me every time!)
In The Gift, which has soooo many great moments, some smaller ones that really get me:
She's with me. [Willow to Glory about Tara.]
SPIKE: You don't come near the girl, Doc.
DOC: I don't smell a soul anywhere on you. Why do you even care?
SPIKE: I made a promise to a lady.
DOC: Then I'll send the lady your regrets.
The helpless look on Spike's face as he looks at Dawn and realizes he has lost and cannot protect her. (And I love the funny bookend of Buffy barely registering Doc, just looking annoyed as she shoves him off the tower.) I also like how Spike's explanation that he made a promise to a lady really recalls him as William, the bloody awful (human) poet.
Later, it's heartbreaking to see all of the Scoobies reacting to Buffy's death. I really love how as the Scoobies slowly approach Buffy's lifeless body and gather together around her, there is the small shot of Spike unseen crying like a baby in the background.
Bargaining
Dawn, unable to sleep, curling up with the Buffybot as it's being charged. It's not only beautifully shot, it also says so much despite being such a relatively tiny beat in the episode.
The Buffybot getting drawn and quartered. It's horrible visually and Buffybot's innocence and lack of awareness immediately prior makes it even worse. And because all of that simply is somehow just not quite bad enough, Dawn finding her and trying to comfort the Buffybot as she "dies".
Dawn's relationship to the Buffybot is so touching, particularly when we see Dawn's unguarded moments with her. I'm not sure that I really appreciated it when I first watched, but I sure do now.
Oh, and a happy one to finish:
That beautiful shot of Buffy and her Mom hugging when Buffy arrives home at the end of Anne. It's so beautiful and touching -- it gives me a lump in my throat every time I see it.
"It's a real burden being right so often." Captain Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
I think my favorite moment of this kind on BtVS is when Buffy and Dawn find out in Tabula Rasa that they're sisters.
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There's several moments that always tear me up, every time.
-Buffy and Giles' confrontation in Prophecy Girl 'I'm 16 years old. I don't wanna die'
- Buffy breaking down and smashing the Master's bones in 'When She Was Bad'.
- Surprise/Innocence, the whole episodes
-Becoming part 2 ending
- Buffy breaking down in The Prom in tears
-The Body. Just makes me feel emotionally numb through the whole episode
-The Gift. I'm a wreck at the end, every time
-Once More With Feeling- Buffy revealing they pulled her out of heaven.
-Grave- Xander and Willow's talk on the hill
Few shows tear me up like that.
Some Angel ones
-Faith breaking down in Five by Five. 'I'm bad! I'm evil! Kill me!'
-Angel and Darla near the end of the Trial
- Buffy and Angel at the end of I Will Remember You
- A Hole In the World
One small moment I always find touching, and so incredibly necessary was when Buffy confessed to Giles and Willow that Angel had his soul back when she killed him. Finally, she was shown some empathy for what she went through, having to kill somebody she loved. Aside from Giles, the Scoobies were so insufferable with how they reacted to Buffy’s brief departure from Sunnydale, after saving the world again no less. I have a hard time even watching “Dead Man’s Party” because none of them even attempt to take her aside and ask, “Hey, what happened?” “Why did you feel like you had to leave?” They selfishly avoid her until Buffy understandably reaches a breaking point, and then proceed to verbally attack her. So the scene where Buffy explains what happened to Giles and Willow was very satisfying.
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