Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 3x06 "Band Candy"

the dichotomy of band candy is so... baffling to me. like they pull great comedy from all the adults in town acting like teenagers and it is so unserious. giles and joyce have sex on top of a police car??? principal snyder goofy adolescent?? everybody going bananas in the whole town!! and then. it is all a distraction from trying to murder straight up BABIES. just a normal ritual sacrifice of killing thirty innocent babies in a crypt. to me its one of the darkest evil plans in buffy. cant believe this is the same episode wtf

big fan of this episode personally.

BTVS | 3.06 | Band Candy 

“I didn’t know you could do that.”

BUFFY SUMMERS ✦ Band Candy

I'm A Teen, I've Yet To Mature (Band Candy)

There are few demographics more underrepresented in Buffy the Vampire Slayer* than Adult Female Characters. As a coming-of-age story, the bulk of Buffy’s cast is understandably made up of Adolescents, who carry on their stories as Young Adults as the show moves on past high school. Beyond these characters though, the show finds time and space to develop many beloved Adult Male Characters. Giles is the first obvious example, but Angel and Spike both also add to this roster, as does Robin Wood in the show’s final season. These are major characters afforded a lot of focus and narrative perspective. Our list of Adult Women on the other hand extends as far as the late Jenny Calendar - a character with a personality and hastily-constructed backstory that could charitably be described as “fascinating”, and uncharitably as “messy” - and Joyce Summers.

Joyce comes into an interesting position this season. She has been a part of the show since the beginning, but the first two seasons positioned her primarily as an obstacle for Buffy, whose ignorance of the supernatural kept her firmly external to the narrative. She is pointedly absent from much of Season Four, and while she gets a lot of screentime with her illness and eventual death in Season Five, it is not her struggles that the show is interested in, only how those struggles are affecting Buffy. Her position is always that of the archetypical Mother. The nagging, obstructive force of Seasons One and Two, the voiceless absence of Season Four, and the sanctified near-Madonna figure that she becomes in Season Five and then posthumously. These comprise nearly all the roles ever afforded to the most thankless of narrative roles - the Hero’s Mother. The Mother can be a nuisance, unmentioned, or tragically dead, but very rarely are they permitted to be a person.

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Lowkey kind of wanted to see Band Candy’s Ripper with a gaggle of girls who are hanging off of him because they heard him sing and play Heat Of The Moment by Asia on the electric guitar and treat him like a rockstar while he gives not a single fuck and smokes his cigarettes.

Imagine all the scoobies and Snyder rolling up on that.

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Band Candy: Adults throughout Sunnydale behave like immature teenagers after they eat cursed candy. Wild at Heart: When Oz falls hard for a sexy singer who also happens to be a werewolf, he must choose between Willow and his own animal instincts.

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Band candy!Giles is just way too sexy.

Happy Calendiles Secret Santa to kjmoran! They wanted a Giles/Jenny AU, so I went with my favorite, the "Jenny Lives AU." Because really, we were robbed of S3 Jenny in "Band Candy," weren't we? @calendiles-secret-santa

Giles's accent in band candy!!!!!!!!

If Fearne gets to meet Caleb and/or Beau and successfully picks their pockets (please!), I desperately want Matt to let Liam and Marisha decide what little character tidbits they might be carrying

Hello! We are Ghosts!👻🎃

been watching buffy for the first time and ive become so gilespilled it makes me look stupid