30 Days of Buffy: Day 1

[itsnotmymind]

Taken from various people.

Day #01: Favourite season
Day #02: Favourite episode
Day #03: Favourite song used in an episode
Day #04: Favourite female character
Day #05: Least favourite female character
Day #06: Favourite male character
Day #07: Least favourite male character
Day #08: Favourite friendship
Day #09: Favourite romance
Day #10: Least favourite season
Day #11: Least favourite romance
Day #12: Least favourite episode
Day #13: Favourite potential slayer
Day #14: Favourite female villain
Day #15: Favourite male villain
Day #16:Episode you like that everyone else hates - Favourite piece of monologue
Day #17: Character you relate to the most
Day #18: Character who didn’t get enough screen time
Day #19: Character you like that everyone else hates
Day #20: Best Spike-centric episode
Day #21: Best Willow-centric episode
Day #22: Best Xander-centric episode
Day #23: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did
Day #24: Favourite example of 90s special effects
Day #25: Favourite Buffyverse saying
Day #26: Favourite Scooby moment
Day #27: Cutest moment
Day #28: Character you love to hate
Day #29: Episode you hate that everyone else loves
Day #30: What you think made Buffy so great


Day #01: Favourite season
My favorite season is S6, the everything-goes-to-hell season. I love the depression arc. This is my favorite season for Buffy/Spike, when they are at their most twisted and dysfunctional (and convoluted). I love the geeks as villains, especially Warren, who manages to both be one of the show's most human villains, and among its most irredeemable. Willow's storyline has its weak point, but it is still a powerful storyline. Xander's choice to leave Anya at the altar rang true for me for his character. Although if he'd had any sense, he would have married her and divorced her later, sparing her the humilation of being left at the altar. But Xander is sometimes lacking in the sense department. And despite everything, the season ends on a positive note, with Xander saving the world by telling Willow that he loves her, Buffy coming out of her depression, and Spike choosing to get a soul.

S5 is a close second, being arguable the least flawed season, but I find S6 to be more interesting.

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Tara generally doesn't do anything for me.

*pouts* Actually, Tara didn't do anything for me in and of herself, with the exception of Hush and WAY (S4) until S6. I had read that she was a "beloved" character and I kept waiting to fall in love with her in her own right. And then S6, and OMWF/TR and I fell for her HARD. Comforting Buffy in DT, protecting Buffy and Willow in OAFA; Dawn geeking out when W/T are back together.

Also, the entire end scene of Tabula Rasa is one of the best episode endings - my heart is breaking for EVERYONE. You know that has to be awful for Dawn given that Hank and Joyce divorced. She didn't understand it then, either, I'm sure.

and of course Buffy's breakdown at the end.

I just saw your Day 2 post! Truly awesome choice, and a brave one (or at least it feels like it to me? I love talking about it. Infinitewhale did a post about buffy's dream in DT not to long ago (although the conversation got - out of hand. Was fun for a while though.)

I usually think of After Life as a separate episode, and since Bargaining is a little slow, it goes after Anne for my favorite season episode. But After Life is brilliant.

I admit I tend to skip through stuff in both parts of Bargaining, so I'm almost chopping the two parts down to one ep, so that skews it a bit. And yes very much to the Anne and After Life love. Buffy's blank expression in the mirror, or the look of what I can only call "shame" on the stairway KILLS me. It reminds me of Buffy looking at herself in the mirror in the Becoming flashback. Both scenes capture the essence of shame, IMO - feeling bad not for something you've done but for something you are.