30 days of Buffy, Day #21

[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 #21: Best Willow-centric episode
"New Moon Rising", easily. It depicts a difficult situation where nobody has done anything wrong, and everyone is sympathetic. It left me feeling that Willow had absolutely made the right choice, despite the fact that it went against my shipping interests. And, as someone online once pointed out, it's about the only time that Willow doesn't try to fix things with magic when faced with a dilemma like this.

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I had forgotten about her using magic in S3, although I remember Xander using magic in BBB in S2. which reminds me that the way things went re: Dark Willow seem foreshadowed and inevitable from the beginning (once you've seen the whole series) but really weren't; Joss had been undecided if he wanted Xander or Willow to "turn gay", and Xander could have easily have been the one to turn "dark" - I'd say he has a much darker (and sometimes nastier) streak to his personality than Willow; but he's also far less repressed about it than she is.

Of course I haven't rewatched any of S3 since the first watch, except for Dirty Girls, bits of Graduation Day, Earshot and The Wish. (Which I absolutely adore.)