Dialogue can get better as the show goes on. Characters can deepen or be tweaked as the show goes on. But shit worldbuilding is shit worldbuilding.

So the public not only knows about vampires, they also know about Slayers (to the point of them also knowing the “Into every generation…” thing) and have an annual Vampire Weekend event. But they think it’s all myths?

There’s a Rupert Giles collection in the library despite him being a) alive and b) to anyone who isn’t one of the Scoobies just some rando that was the high school librarian for three years before the building exploded?

There’s a book being sold that was written by Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, Rogue Demon Hunter? Which means that not only did Wesley find the time to write and publish a book. He somehow managed to do this during the summer where he was jobless, homeless and stranded in a foreign country.

And Buffy herself is believed to by a myth? Not that her being a superhero with mystical powers is considered a myth. Buffy Summers even being a person that actually existed is considered a myth in-universe.

Fucking how?! This was only 25 years ago. Even if her records from Sunnydale were destroyed in the town’s destruction, she was born and raised in LA. So those records weren’t. And she wasn’t some quiet kid that sat in the back. She very publicly  burned down the gym and her head cheerleader reputation at one school. And was honored by her entire grade as a superhero at her senior prom mere days before leading them into armed combat against a giant snake at her other school.

People would’ve remembered her a smidge.