30 Days of Buffy, Day #02

[itsnotmymind]

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 #02: Favourite episode
My favorite regular episode of Buffy is Dead Things. The creepy atmosphere, the twisted Buffy/Spike dynamic, the geeks fully going over to the dark side (even if Jonathan obviously has his doubts), Buffy trying to turn herself in and Dawn and Spike trying to talk her out of it in their different ways, Buffy's weird dreams of Katrina in cuffs and Spike in cuffs, and of course Buffy's breakdown at the end, begging Tara not to forgive her. My favorite conceptual episode is probably Restless. I like Hush and I love The Body but Restless is about dreams, which are such fascinating things, and it does a great job with the dreams of the four main Scoobies. If I had to pick a favorite dream, it would probably be Willow's, with the amusing drama class and the revelation of the end of Willow's fear of being outed as the geeky girl she once was, with all her friends watching in contempt, and complete with flirting between her current and her ex

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[itsnotmymind.livejournal.com]

Especially the sequence with Tara and Willow in bed, the Giles' segment with Buffy smiling, Buffy alone in the desert ... such a gorgeous imaginary. Love it so much.

It's a great episode.

The thing about Dead Things, at least to me, is that while I love the episode I find kinda painful to watch it and I don't do it a lot. I need to be in the mood to rewatch an episode like that, while I enjoy rewatching other episodes from S4 and S5 all the time.

I can see that. I feel that way about Seeing Red.