Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 10 Reasons Season 2 Was The Best

6. Buffy Loses Her Innocence... A Lot

Compared with season 2, season 1 went pretty easy on the character of Buffy (beyond, you know, her death...but that didn't last long). By the end of that first season, she'd come to terms with her position as slayer, made friends and found love. Season 2 seemed determined to tear all of that apart. In Lie To Me, Buffy discovers that an old friend is using her as a bargaining chip in his attempts to become a vampire. Ouch. Then in Surprise, she quite literally loses her "innocence" (well, literal if you are 85 years old and still refer to virginity as innocence). Which should have been a happy moment but then her lover goes super evil and starts killing her friends. OUCH. And then she is tasked with killing him because of the whole slayer gig. Come on, Joss. Ouch! The character of Buffy is at her best when she's put under pressure and there is no pressure quite like a teenage girl's heartbreak. This is the season when they show moved into adult territory and it took its main character with it. This was the most devastating example of Whedon's fondness for making a metaphor literal- in this case, a guy changing after you have sex with him.