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[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 #11: Least favourite romance
Buffy and Angel. For so many reasons.

1. The lack of chemistry. I hear they have chemistry, but I've never seen it for myself.
2. The stalking. Which of course makes me a hypocrite, since I love Buffy/Spike, but shush.
3. Buffy's age. I don't really have a problem with twisted relationships, but I prefer them to be between equals. Not a very experienced man and a teenage girl.
4. The over-the-top one true love romance. That even as late as Selfless Buffy is claiming that she loved him more than anyone else (I mean, come on, if nothing else, she loves Dawn more).

On the bright side, I, like everyone else, did love the Angelus arc (but Buffy's kiss right before she killed has got to be one of the grossest kisses I've ever seen in a TV show or movie, and then it was put in the credits!), and I actually warmed up to the pairing a bit after they broke up. I like their scene in The Yoko Factor, and their scene in Forever, and I have no problem with the kiss in Chosen. I have a soft spot for stories about exes who still love each other.

Comments

[mcjulie.livejournal.com]

I guess you guys are like the opposite of the fans who were, like, BANGEL FOREVER and hated Spuffy sooooooo much.

The only points where I didn't like Buffy and Angel are a few places in Season 2 and 3 where they're trying to emphasize how cozy they are together -- in both cases, it's a setup to separating them. So I think in a way I'm supposed to see them being all cozy and think, "that can't be right" if only on a subliminal level.

The only Buffy romance -- show and character -- I didn't much like was Riley, but that's because I thought it was boring. Sure, boring was kinda the point. But I still thought it was boring.

[itsnotmymind.livejournal.com]

Buffy/Riley is not my favorite, but I thought it was OK. I actually find Riley's storyline to be interesting, so that helps.