GALLERY: Here’s Every ‘Buffy TVS’ Cast Reunion Pic & We Need To Talk About It
Earlier this month, we celebrated 20 years since the pilot of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, a series that is held dear to many hearts and minds.
It’s difficult to summarise the impact the series had on the medium of television, and the position of women and LGBT on the small screen, but let’s just say: Buffy changed the world, a lot.
To honour the anniversary, Entertainment Weekly got the whole gang back together for a dark and moody graveyard photoshoot, which will give any Buffy TVS fan ALL the feels.
With the notable exception of Anthony Stewart Head (Giles), creator Joss Whedon and all the series’ stars reunited to share stories and reflect on the Buffy TVS phenomenon.
“The most important thing to me is that I have had people come up to me and say the show made me feel different about what they could be, about what they could do, about how they respond to problems, about being a female leader,” Whedon told EW. “People getting strength from my own little terrors is… There is no better legacy than that.”
The series made its leading lady a household name, catapulting Sarah Michelle Gellar as a feminist icon.
“I’m so incredibly proud of what we all created,” said Gellar. “Sometimes you need distance to really understand the gravitas of that. I appreciate everything about that job. As an actor, all you ever want to do is leave your mark — you want to do something that affects people.”
One of the biggest questions to plague the series was whether Buffy would have chosen Angel (David Boreanaz) or Spike (James Marsters) in the end. The photoshoot features both actors with Gellar.
However, notice in the group portrait Gellar and Boreanaz are holding hands, while Marsters stands solo behind – this is a sharp knife to the chest for Team Spuffy.
TV sisters Buffy and Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) being reunited was particularly adorbs.
The throwback everyone was dying to see was that of Alyson Hannigan and Amber Benson, as Buffy ultimate couple goals Willow and Tara. Seth Green was also there being a stage five clinger. Note: the awkward hand holding. Oyyy Oz, can you buzz off.
But the biggest news was that Anya (Emma Caulfield) may have finally overcome her fear of bunnies.
Also, Joyce LIVES.
And err…Giles lives on as a oil painting. The actor himself couldn’t get out of prior commitments in London.
Here’s the best of the rest: