Rank the seasons in order of quality
POSTED BY: RaulBloodWorth
UPDATED: Sunday, June 24, 2007 00:49
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Originally posted by Redlava:
1. Autumn (football, comfortable temps., and Thanksgiving)
2. Spring (Winter is over, and the smell of fresh cut grass)
3. Summer (chicks in barely there cloths need I say more?)
4. Winter (I hate snow, and I hate Christmas, so there you go.)
I concurr!!
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Season Three - Very High on quality. Buffy really found it's feet. With all the characters at their best. Great individual episodes and wonderful story arc. Powerful and challenging at times. Often chilling. Excellent. The mayor is pure genuis.
Season Four - Upon repeated viewing this is maybe the funniest of all the seasons. The crossover with Angel working to both shows advantage. Clearly written with love and all the cast and crew are now experts at this stuff.
Season Two - Wonderfully twisted and dark this season. The killing of a Slayer, The Introduction of Spike and Drusilla. The turning of Angel and Buffy at her most vulnerable and the death of Mrs Calendar!
Season One - Just great fun and Entertaining. Slightly riduclous but in a good way. Willow probably at her cutest.
Season Seven - A good conclusion to the show overall, but brought down by several inconsistencies in the mythology.
Hits are - The revenge seeking pricipal, viscious and brutal Caleb and the re-emergence of Faith.
Lows are: Willows 'all mighty' Magic, The Slayerettes, lack of commitment to Spikes 'Soul' and a strange Axe thingy?
Season Five - Strange direction for this show with too many conflicting issues: Glory/Ben cancelling out Joyce's illness. Dawns revelation coming too late to care. Too many designer haircuts distract from the narratives. Characters becoming distinctily unlikable (Willow). However Buffy's death is profound and definative. Touching at times.
Season Six - Not sure what is going on here. Buffy is a different person. Spike/Buffy relationship is wrong and ultimately damages the show. The angry sex issue is feeble and too adolescent. Willow is intensely unlikable and basically a different character entirely. The geeks are fun but drawn out and cracks show early on. One great episode though!
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Som, I agree with all but this:
Quote:Yeah, a recently DEAD person who clawed her way out of a grave, like vamps do.
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Season Six - Not sure what is going on here. Buffy is a different person.
Quote:Buffy did it to try to feel SOMETHING, she had 'being dead' issues...
Spike/Buffy relationship is wrong and ultimately damages the show. The angry sex issue is feeble and too adolescent.
Quote:Addictions will do that to a person, and she was having problems w/Tara, which magnified everything.
Willow is intensely unlikable and basically a different character entirely.
Quote:But the Warren killing Tara thing got it VERY serious again.
The geeks are fun but drawn out and cracks show early on.
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One great episode though!
Let me rest in peace! Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Som, I agree with all but this:
* Somnambulist rolls up sleeves ready for a fisticuff :P*
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Yeah, a recently DEAD person who clawed her way out of a grave, like vamps do.
Hey but she's Buff! Buffy of Buffdom and all round Buffness. She's beyond all that! She aint gonna let a little itch like death get in her way! Is she... er bollocks she is.... :(
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Buffy did it to try to feel SOMETHING, she had 'being dead' issues...
Now on this one I'm going to go all out and hang the writers. I just think they missed the mark. The angry sex thing is just purile. Sorry....
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Addictions will do that to a person, and she was having problems w/Tara, which magnified everything.
Uh uh. She's a wuss. We all go through it. You just have to deal. Not take out the world. It was such a leap from the writers I couldn't go with it. Ok so she had a rough break, but I mean destroy the world over it!!! C'mon.... Nossir not having that one. Even Dawn didn't whinge as much when her mom died, and that is saying summit :P
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But the Warren killing Tara thing got it VERY serious again.
In there lies the inherent flaw to it all. After all their inventiveness and ingenuity, scheming and chicanery all they needed to do was fire a gun! What! Kinda pees all over the Buffy myth don't it? I couldn't believe they went for that.
*Dusts off hands*
Ok so I may seem overly harsh in parts but season six, I watched once - and I really wanna try and watch it again, but it's just so desperately awkward I just find myself unable to re-watch it.
It feels like "Never say Never again" from the Bond franchise.. It's Bond... sorta...but really NOT bond y'know...?
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Quote:It was harsh and unexpected and sort of realistic, that's why I found it so disturbing.
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
In there lies the inherent flaw to it all. After all their inventiveness and ingenuity, scheming and chicanery all they needed to do was fire a gun! What!
Quote:That's how I feel about season five! Yet I know I'll get it soon when I'm done with season (series
Ok so I may seem overly harsh in parts but season six, I watched once - and I really wanna try and watch it again, but it's just so desperately awkward I just find myself unable to re-watch it.
) four.Not a Glory fan Chrisisall
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Ok so I may seem overly harsh in parts but season six, I watched once - and I really wanna try and watch it again, but it's just so desperately awkward I just find myself unable to re-watch it.
My sentiments exactly. I haven't watched one episode from that season since the first time I watched it. I'll get around to it eventually, but it is kind of hard to do.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:That's how I feel about season five! Yet I know I'll get it soon when I'm done with season (series) four.
Season five??? For shame chrisisall. May you be chained in a smelly dungeon and tortured by Drusilla (wait, that might not be a punishment for some people...
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Chrisisall Wrote:
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That's how I feel about season five! Yet I know I'll get it soon when I'm done with season (series) four.
See it's funny, because I think season five works. Even given the rather irritating 'god' Glory/Ben and the minions (totally agree btw) and for some the less than watchable Dawn (who I thought was good, but understand the negativity she got) for the very direction it was heading to - that being
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Buffy's death[/spolier] which I thought was profoundly done.
I'd even go as far as to suggest that Buffy as a complete TV show would have had greater gravitas had it concluded with season five instead of seven. (Even though I do kind of like seven too.)
Six just sits in there struggling to explain all this stuff and ultmately for me it fails to deliver. It does do well with Once More with Feeling which is classic Buffy and more inline with where the show had it's strenghts, but the attempt or contrivances to fracture characters relationships and personalities with it's prolonged angst and darkness just sorta left me...
Hey y'know it could just be me. I think I always loved and followed Buffy for the basic fact that it would entertain me, right from the Pilot.... I think maybe with season six I wasn't that entertained.
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Originally posted by deepgirl187:Quote:
My sentiments exactly. I haven't watched one episode from that season since the first time I watched it. I'll get around to it eventually, but it is kind of hard to do.
Yeah strange that. I think for me it goes back to what I was saying with Chris. That being that ultmately it isn't that entertaining. All of the characters are too disjointed from the characters we'd followed before and so it is very hard to gel with the show when you're struggling to like 'any' of the characters. If one or two were 'changing' then fine but there is a distinct feeling that they're all in a new phase....
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Quote:The History of Chrisisall's Buffy obsession, part 1:
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
If one or two were 'changing' then fine but there is a distinct feeling that they're all in a new phase....
I came here in 2005 just having watched Firefly, all eager to talk about it and such, and peeps here said "You HAVE to see Buffy, Joss' only complete masterpiece!"
So I ho-hummed my way to Walmart and picked up season 1 on sale for $12, and surprise! I DID like it!!!
Then I got 2...but the tone had changed...it was a lot more brutal, especially when Ms. Calender exited.
So I got 3, and again the tone changed (and the picture got a lot more colourful
)- it was more fun! Cool!Then I got 4, and it was good, yet I missed the Library and (gasp) Cordy. Plus no Angel angst to speak of.
So I then got 5, and again, the tone shifted...sad, sad, and then SAD!!!!
I then sold all my DVD's but 3, determined to forget the bad/sad times.
Then a few months and a lot of Buffy withdrawal later, I got the Chosen Collection, and went from 1 to 7 in three months.
6 was disturbing, but not as much as 5 for me, and 7 was pure gold.
And that my story- I'm sticking to it.
Love/hate Chrisisall
Edit: I forgot my whole point! The show and even characters were never totally the same from season to season, so that's why 6 didn't seem as radical a change to me as it obviously did to others.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
From best to worst:
Season
3
2
4
7
6
5
1
Today, anyway Chrisisall
1,2,3,7,6,5,4
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