The toughest call: best SINGLE Buffy episode in human history....
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, May 20, 2006 00:08
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I may just be riding the recent high, but for my money (so far) it's gotta be Fool For Love. What a frickin' great 45 minutes!!!
Remind me, y'all, is there any better?
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Not so tough a call for me - The Body without a doubt. Not just the best of Buffy, but some of the best television in history.
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"Fool for Love" is definitely kick-ass (but you haven't seen the whole story 'til you watch its twin episode in Angel Season Two). As for all time great, of those you've seen I think "Hush" and "Restless" are both contenders. But for the series as a whole, for me it comes down to "The Body" vs. "Once More With Feeling." The first one offers complete emotional honesty in a way rarely seen on TV, while the second takes what is usually a terrible idea and then turns it into brilliance.
What Whedon tried to do on all three of his shows was show the world what TV can be like, that it doesn't have to remain stale, that it can be cinematic and deep and so many other things it rarely is. The four episodes I singled out I feel are those in which he achieves this objective to its fullest, doing something no one else would (or no one else would do right) and showing us how great it could be.
Still, "Fool for Love," awesome. I loves me my vampire flashbacks--always shows how the characters have grown (or not).
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I have to go with Passion. Angelus is just so evil in the episode and i always like the voice over.
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Hush was brilliant, as was Passion.
I've yet to see The Body, so maybe I'll just 'hush' until then and just read the opinions of others.
And I'm not forgetting The Zeppo, it's just that that was mostly a yuckfest, and not on the emotional level of others mentioned so far.
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Once more with feeling.
I really love all the epps so far mentioned. And Fool for Love would have to be one of my favs....so I dont think you are 2 far off the mark.
But hands down...you cant beat that musical.
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Once More With Feeling, hands down. As mentioned before all otheres were top knotch, but the musical rocks, And I'm not one for musicals
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And once more, with feeling, the greatest episode of Buffy is...
"Some Assembly Required."
No, wait, it's "Once More With Feeling." 
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*One* single episode? Can't be done. Too many categories.
So I'm gonna do what everyone has already done and pick several.
Once More, With Feeling." 'Cause anything that can get my fiance to *sing* with me rocks (getting me to sing is easy, hell, I sing to cornflake commercials). It was done spectacularly, the story, the songs, the effect and the absolute FUN that flowed off the screen from the actors/directors/writers/camera people/everyone involved was hypnotic. I loved it.
The Body:
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It was such a beautiful way to say goodbye. And the whole "not painting the object, but painting the space *around* the object" theme that ran through the episode was brilliant. Too easy to show bits of Joyce, a lot more effective to show the spaces and rifts she'd left behind. And Emma Caulfield, breaking down? Makes me *cry*. Not a lot of things make me cry.
(The Gift gets a mention for also making me cry, but not so much).
Prophecy Girl: This gets overlooked a lot for the later episodes, but... remember when Buffy as a show was this good? "Giles, I'm sixteen, I don't wanna die." Breaks my heart, everytime. "Think up something cool, tell him I said it". She rocked.
So, there you go, my absolute favourites and that's not even including my character favourites or my season favourites.
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Not a tough call.
"Hush"
Very closely followed by
"Once more with Feeling"
"The Gift"
I don't remember the names of all the eps. It's easier with Firefly. Which was Fool for Love?
Then of course there's any ep with Faith.
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