3. When Is This Set?
The television seasons of Buffy were all clearly mapped out in terms of time. In season 1 of Buffy- Buffy was 15/16- Season 2- 16/17 and so on until Season 7, where she was (as were her friends) 22. So they were all meant to be 22 in 2003 right? How old are they supposed to be now? How many years have there been between the TV series and the comic books? In one of the earlier arcs, Buffy fantasizes about Daniel Craig in his blue swimming shorts- a reference to 2006s Casino Royale. So is Buffy supposed to be at least 25? But wait a minute, on the tombstone after *spoiler* Giles dies an event that happens at the end of the same Season, it says he died in 2011. So is Buffy supposed to be 30? Season 9, set obviously after the events of Season 8, is supposed to explore the life of a woman in her early twenties. But, as every Buffy fan knows, a fact that was clearly displayed on her tombstone at the end of season 5, Buffy was born in 1981. So, shes 31 right? Was Season 8 supposed to have spanned Buffys life for almost a decade? There was nowhere near enough story for that, and this was obviously not the writers intention. I only wish the comics had taken the TV route, and made it so that each season was set over the course of one year, so that season 8 explored the years 2003-2004, and season 9, 2004-2005.