30 Days of Buffy, Day #10

[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 #10: Least favourite season
Toss-up between season three and season seven (I don't usually include S1 when ranking seasons, because it is just a little baby season). S3 was the season where I lost my emotional investment in the show the first time through. It has Faith, which is a good, but while I like Faith a lot, I had a hard time getting into her arc this season. I was bored of the high school setting by this point, too. Season seven has a lot of things that I like (a lot of what they did with Buffy/Spike, Andrew, and Buffy's arc in the season), but a lot of things that weren't very well done. A lot of the scenes seemed stilted, all those potentials I never managed to warm up to, and villains (both Caleb and the First Evil) that didn't really interest me.

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Season three would have worked better for me if it had been more consistent with Faith's role in it. The real high points - Bad Girls, Consequences etc - don't happen until very late in the season. (the Mayor and Faith are a wonderful mirror of Buffy and Giles.) Meanwhile the Bangel angst eats up too much frickin' time.

[itsnotmymind.livejournal.com]

I agree.

[lokifan]

Personally S7 is my least favouriter (the villains, the plotholes, too many Potentials) but I LOVE S3, most especially because of Faith. I don't think her character is inconsistent - and yeah, her role shifts, but she's doing a corruption arc so I don't think that's a problem. Unless I'm missing what you mean...?

[itsnotmymind.livejournal.com]

I don't know exactly what red_satin_doll meant, but for me, I feel like the series suffered from Faith not being a full-time character. Often things seemed to jump around, like I was never entirely clear why she and Buffy went from their estrangement in "Revelations" to being close again in "Bad Girls". Faith's decision to join the mayor also seemed a bit random to me, although this could be me. I like Faith quite a bit, though, and she's definitely one of the best things about the season.