20 Reasons ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ is Timeless

11. The Characters

From Willow, Tara, Anya, Giles, Xander, and Spike to Buffy Summers herself, this is a show rich with well-developed, unique characters we can’t help but become invested in. —Ashley

12. Female Role Models

Buffy the Vampire Slayer provides us with strong, female role models, and the world can always use more of those. — Allison

13. The Love Stories

Spike’s love for Buffy is complicated, and Buffy’s relationship with Angel can never work, no matter how much we may want it to. Xander and Anya are fun to watch together, and nothing is more heartbreaking than watching Willow lose Tara.

While the love stories are hardly the point of this show, they’re still important in each character’s journey, and we can’t help but be invested in them each of them. — Ashley

14. Important Lessons

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is timeless because the lessons the show teaches are. Buffy the Vampire Slayer wasn’t just high school show about slaying vampires and demons.

It was about growing up, friendship, love, family, loss, learning to make hard choices, sacrifice, and so much more. These are universal themes.

As I’ve grown into adulthood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is as applicable to me now as a wife and mother as it was to me then as a sixteen-year-old girl. We see ourselves in these characters and they help us find ourselves. That’s why it stays with you forever. — Jennifer

15. It Was (and Really, Still is) Ahead of Its Time

Willow and Tara’s relationship wasn’t just important because they were a same-sex couple, it was important because of how they were presented and how they were treated by their friends — just a normal, loving couple. — Ashley

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