Sunday, February 06, 2011

buffy the vampire slayer

Seasons ranked: 5 >> 3 > 2 >>> 6 > 4 >> 7 >> 1

Characters ranked:

Anya >>>>>>>> Spike >>>>>>> Buffy >>> Giles >>>>>>> Jonathan >> Andrew >> Xander >>> Drusilla > Cordelia > Willow >> Oz > Angel >>>>> Dawn >> Tara >>>> Jenny Calendar >> Wesley >>>>>> Robin Wood >>> Faith >> Riley >>>> Darla >> Kendra >>>>> any fucking “slayerette”

Big bads, ranked:

Mayor Richard Wilkins III >>> Glory >>> Caleb >> The Trio > Angel/Spike/Drusilla >>>>>> The First >> Adam > The Master >>> Dark Willow

The 20 best episodes:

1. s05e16 the body
2. s02e03 school hard
3. s03e22 graduation day (part 2)
4. s07e07 conversations with dead people
5. s04e22 restless
6. s06e19 seeing red
7. s04e17 superstar
8. s03e06 band candy
9. s02e17 passion
10. s03e08 lovers walk
11. s06e08 tabula rasa
12. s07e16 storyteller
13. s03e18 earshot
14. s05e18 intervention
15. s06e05 life serial
16. s04e09 something blue
17. s04e10 hush
18. s03e17 enemies
19. s03e09 the wish
20. s03e20 the prom

Other favorites, honorable mentions (vaguely in order of preference):

s05e22 the gift
s07e18 dirty girls
s06e18 entropy
s02e11 ted
s03e19 choices
s02e06 halloween
s01e10 nightmares
s04e02 living conditions
s03e16 dopplegangland
s07e09 never leave me
s05e07 fool for love
s04e12 a new man
s02e14 innocence
s05e11 triangle
s02e16 bewitched, bothered and bewildered

The 10 worst episodes:

1. s05e01 buffy vs. dracula
2. s01e12 prophecy girl
3. s07e22 chosen
4. s02e19 I only have eyes for you
4. s07e17 lies my parents told me
6. s06e14 older and far away
7. s04e14 goodbye iowa
8. s04e18 where the wild things are
9. s07e19 empty places
10. s06e21 two to go

Creepiest “small” bad:

s07e03 same time, same place

Best endings:

1. s04e04 fear, itself
2. s03e18 earshot
3. s06e19 seeing red
4. s05e22 the gift
5. s06e20 villains