There’s been a lot of debate about Buffy’s hair when she emerges from her coffin in 6.02 Bargaining (Part Two). It’s much longer and darker than when she died in 5.22 The Gift - is it a goof or not?
True, there is no sunlight in a coffin so Buffy’s hair would have become darker in her grave - but we all know that Buffy’s golden locks aren’t just bleached only by the sun. On the other hand, it’s apparently a grisly urban legend that hair and nails continue to grow after death, so Buffy’s hair wouldn’t have grown.
Related episodes: 6.02 Bargaining (Part Two)
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blutortu on June 13th, 2005 at 8:19 pm
The color I always assumed was the sticky grave-dirt. I mean, if her hands were that filthy, her hair’s probably none-too-clean.
As for the extensions, is it not reasonable to assume that the same person who picked out that horribly drab dress for a twenty-year-old girl to be buried in would also suggest a couple of extensions to bulk up what was sure to be lifeless grave-head? I mean, she’s dead, I’m sure if she were alive she would’ve objected to that weave.
Thinking also symbolically, her darker hair is an immediate visual precursor to the darker changes in Buffy herself which become more and more self-destructive as the sixth season goes on.
onlimain on November 18th, 2005 at 7:41 am
Well, just because it was an urban legend doesn’t necessarily mean that the writers knew that. In S2 ‘What’s My Line Part II’, she even mentions it:
Buffy: Wouldn’t be much of a change. Either way I’m bored, constricted,
I never get to shop, and my hair and fingernails still continue to grow.
So really, when you think about it, what’s the diff?
Culf on September 15th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Hair and fingernails doesn’t actually continue to grow, the skin shrinks slighly, forcing out a little bit of the hair and nails that was still buried underneat the skin, making it look like it grew a milimeter or two. (I know, I’m a well of creepy knowledge)
Buffyfan29 on December 7th, 2006 at 1:59 am
Cuff is quite right. The fingernails look longer for the same reason. As the flesh of the fingers shrivels up the fingernails, which are the same length, extend farther beyond the end of the now much shorter fingers.