Becoming (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Becoming (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) "Becoming" is the season finale of the WB Television Network's second season of the drama television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", consisting of the twenty-first and twenty-second episodes. The two episodes were split into two broadcasts; "Part 1" first aired on May 12, 1998 and "Part 2" first aired on May 19, 1998. They were written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon. The narrative features vampire slayer Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) working to prevent Angelus (David Boreanaz) and fellow vampires Drusilla (Juliet Landau) and Spike (James Marsters) from awakening the demon Acathla. Production
Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) In the fictional world of the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off series "Angel", a vampire is a unique variety of demon that can only exist on the earthly plane by inhabiting and animating a human corpse. In "Fray", a "Buffy" comic book spin-off set about a century in the future, vampires are also called lurks. The vampires in the canonical Buffyverse differ greatly from those that appear in the 1992 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie. The movie's vampires are able to fly, look pale but relatively human, and do not crumble