At the end of each credit sequence there is a long close up of Buffy just before the episode starts. The close up at the end of seasons six and seven is not really Buffy at all. In season six, it’s actually the Buffybot from 5.22 The Gift and in season seven it is the First Evil in Buffy’s form from 7.01 Lessons.
Related episodes: 6.01 Bargaining (Part One), 7.01 Lessons
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star*naming on November 14th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
WOW!! i thought i was the only one that noticed that. well..so much for feeling special :P do you think it actually means something, or is it just that the editors had a couple of heroic-looking close-ups and threw them in..i’d like to think there’s something to it, but i can’t quite put my finger on it. yet.
Mel on November 14th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
I think its just that for those shots they need a shot where Buffy is standing still for a few seconds sort of staring and those were the best ones.
star*naming on November 14th, 2005 at 2:24 pm
actually in the season 7 credits, the final close up isn’t at all heroic-like. she’s evil-looking with an evil superior grin(and that’s natural, her being the First Evil and all). but why make her evil (operative word, this one here), and in the credits, nonetheless?..
NotFadeAway on November 14th, 2005 at 7:09 pm
It actually makes sense that the shots don’t have to be of “Buffy.” The credits aren’t there to show characters, but are instead there to simply show shots of the cast. Therefore, it would seem logical that they would just take the best shots available to put at the end of the opening credits.
AnyaRocks on December 29th, 2005 at 4:21 pm
I was thinking the exact same thing, NotFadeAway.
ant4buffy on August 17th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
What? I don’t understand you.
The Season 6 credit is of the Buffybot in The Gift and in Season 7 the credit is The First as Buffy.
outforawalkbitch on August 20th, 2006 at 5:05 am
Yep…season 6 closing pic for the opening credits is the Buffy Bot, you can tell…cos she’s wearing that awful coat
ashley on September 1st, 2006 at 11:05 pm
I’m totally amazed that anyone besides me would notice or care about something like this :) It’s always kind of been funny to me.
HarFang on April 12th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I hadn’t notice, but I really think that this was made on purpose. I think that my instinctive reaction to putting those shots in the credits would be “Wait, no, we can’t, it’s not the right character !” On the other hand, we had already seen Angelus, double-Wander and (I think) vamp-Willow in previous seasons, so that may not have been such a problem after all.