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   http://decider.com/2015/05/19/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-becoming/   
      
   TODAY IN TV HISTORY: BUFFY KILLED HER BOYFRIEND TO SAVE THE WORLD   
      
   By Joe Reid   
      
      
   Of all the great things about television, the greatest is that it’s on every   
   single day. TV history is being made, day in and day out, in ways big and   
   small. In an effort to better appreciate this history, we’re taking a look   
   back, every day, at one particular TV milestone.   
      
   IMPORTANT DATE IN TV HISTORY:   
   May 19, 1998   
   Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Becoming, Part 2″ (Season 2, Episode 22)   
      
      
   WHY IT’S IMPORTANT:   
   The influence of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been felt across all   
   television in the 15 years since it aired. Not just Joss Whedon and the   
   myriad other alumni who graduated from its ranks, but the style, the themes,   
   the way that teen drama and supernatural drama were elevated to a level of   
   respect they hadn’t been afforded before. And with its second-season finale,   
   the two-part “Becoming,” Buffy delivered its finest episode.   
      
   As was the custom on the show, the finale was the culmination of an entire   
   season’s worth of story, starting with when Buffy lost her virginity to   
   Angel, which caused him to lose the soul that was gypsy-cursed onto him,   
   leading to a bloody rampage across town by the now-monstrous Angelus.   
      
   Of course, it was more than just that one thread, and the cumulative impact   
   of “Becoming, Part 2″ has to do with all the threads coming together:   
   Willow   
   taking her first steps towards spell-casting, from her hospital bed of all   
   places; Giles and his grief over Jenny Calendar; Xander trying to balance   
   his desire for vengeance with sensitivity to Buffy (monster or not, it’s   
   still her boyfriend she has to kill) and kind of failing spectacularly at   
   it; and especially the wrenching scene where Buffy has to tell her mother   
   the truth: she’s a slayer.   
      
   But the reason why this episode is an all-time classic is the way it ends.   
   Buffy and Angel finally fight, and it’s a doozy. (“No weapons, no friends,   
   no hope. Take all that away, and what’s left?" “Me.”) And at the moment   
   she   
   gets him on the ropes … Willow’s spell works. Angel’s soul is restored.   
   But   
   it’s too late. Demonic vortexes conjured to swallow the world can be tricky   
   that way.   
      
   The final five minutes, where Angel’s soul returns and Buffy realizes   
   exactly what she still has to do are Buffy at its very best, and certainly   
   most devastating.   
      
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