#but dont get me started on season 5 riley or a will commit every crime

[sunnydalebimbo]

Okay so I’m never going to like Riley ever, but I will very begrudgingly admit Season 4 Riley is maybe what Season 4 Buffy needed. Before you execute me on sight, please let me defend myself. Season 4 Buffy has of changes going on in her life, moving out of home, going to college, and coming out the other end of two major emotional relationship, Angel and Faith, and Season 4 as a whole is a about change and redirecting lives and dynamics. What Buffy need (or at least thinks she needs) is someone relatively stable. And Riley, no one had ever accused our butterscotch hunk Riley of being wild and exciting. Buffy wants someone normal (but not so normal they can’t contend with her lifestyle) and reliable (enough you don’t have to fear he’ll disappear for a month or be haunted by the ghosts of the people he’s murdered) and Season 4 Riley provides that. He’s polite, he’s respectful, you can bring him home to mom, and that’s good for Buffy at this time in her life. Also, pretty much every sexual experience Buffy has had up until this point has been wildly traumatic, and Riley provides that vanilla safety. And now I’m never going to tell anyone to like Riley (because you probably shouldn’t) but I think Riley had the potential to be good for her.

#im sorry #i swear im not a riley apologist #he fills me with rage too everyone #but i think he had a tiny bit of potential in season 4 #but dont get me started on season 5 riley or a will commit every crime #but i feel like season 4 and season 5 riley were dufferent creatures and one of them wa smidlky tolerable #and he was kinda good for buffy in the beginning #and as long as buffy is happy #someone’s gonna unfollow me for this one #but i will desvere it #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #riley finn