BEST EPISODE OF ALL TIME?
POSTED BY: hellsangel
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:53
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Originally posted by Malicious:
I thought OMWF was great from the 1st note and also own the cd! I guess as I have aged (40&1/2) my tastes have broadend and relaxed. I used to be into ONLY heavy metal, all else sucked, IMO. Thank goodness I have grown or I would have missed out on sooo much music.
so you think I'll have a chance later on? I'm 28 now. I was never really fixed on any kind of music though but generally I like rockier things more than pop but I love some Irish folk and I love some synthy-pop and I love some metal and some hip-hop and romantic songs too and I really thought I was openminded.
after being so disappointed with OMWF I went out and got Anthony Heads "Music For Elevators" which I love to pieces. and James Marsters "Ghost of the Robot" CD too which I find mostly interesting. they seem to have fun playing but it's not like they are technically any good at it. or at least it seems like that to me. it's cute in a way though. the songs are nice but the CD is crappily produced. I think they might be a lot of fun live though. just won't ever come to my area of the woods. I live in germany.
and sorry for ranting on this, I just can't seem to stop thinking about why everyone but me likes this. or why I don't like it or whatever. I tend to overanalyse things sometimes.
Idefix
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Don't get me started, I was a psyche major!!
I used to work at a record store and HAD to listen to other people's musical tastes and grew to like quite a bit of what I was hearing. Lynda would put on Kate Bush or the Waterboys, or Tom would play the Beastie Boys, all of whom I had never heard of, and while I was doing inventory or was otherwise occupied, I would find myself humming and singing to familiar tunes and would then realize "Hey! THIS is not Metallica!! Why am I humming and singing to it?" That's how I first discovered Chris Isaak and a band called the Subdudes (LOVE them, have all of their cds). I guess what I am saying is you should try just putting on the music and go clean the house or something. Don't just sit there concentrating on it and listening to it deeply, judging it. Let it sneak up on you. You'd be surprised.
I think I will go out and buy Giles elevator music now, thanks to you!
Mal-licious
Angel to Lorne during the ballet episode River appeared in in season 3:
"...and STOP calling me pastries!"
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Mutt,
I don't really care for "The Body," but it was an excellent tribute to Joyce. I am glad she had attention, even if she had to die to get it.
Mal-licious
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My favorite storyline is the Angelus one from season 2, so the best episodes imo are Innocence/Surprise, Passion and Becoming I/II (in reverse order - Becoming is best, then Passion and finally Innocence/Surprise). They are so tight and poignant. The whole scene in Passion, from Giles ascending with the rose and champagne to the outside shot of Buffy and Willow learning what happened is so much more passionate than anything you're used to seeing on television. And the way Buffy is just destroyed utterly (or not quite) in Becoming is just awesome. Yet these also have some of the most funny scenes - like the Spike/Joyce dialog in the living room. "Have we met?" "Uh, you hit me over the head with an axe once... uhm 'Get the hell away from my daughter!'" "Oh". Priceless.
Season three is imo very close to season two in brilliance, but I can't pick out favorite episodes the same way - I just love the Mayor, and Faith is great. "Doppelgangland" is possibly the best single episode of season three - so many funny story lines in this one.
Better than any single episode in season three, though, are the experimental episodes, Hush and Once More, With Feeling. They really work so well - they some at exactly the right place in the character development. But many other episodes stand in line for recognition: What's my line, Lie to me, Angel, Prophecy Girl, Earshot, any of the Faith/Mayor eps, Graduation and Pangs to name a few.
Favorite episode:
1. Becoming
2. Passion
3. Innocense/Surprise
4. Hush
5. Once More, With Feeling
6. Doppelgangland
Favorite season:
1. Season 2
2. Season 3
3. Season 1
4. Season 4
5. Season 6
6. Season 7
7. Season 5
(2 and 3 are quite close, then there's a step down to 1, 4 and 6 which are around the same level, and a further step below those are 5 and 7)
Favorite villain:
1. Angelus/Spike
2. The Mayor
3. The Master
4. The Trio
5. Professor Walsh/Adam
6. Gloria
7. Willow
8. The First
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why Our Mrs.Reynolds of course we all remeber those great lines tha book said , if you have sexuual relations with her you will go to the very special hell the one reseverd for child molesters and peorple that talk during the theater ,the very special hell,plus I'm softy for romance.
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oh sorry I thought you ment firefly
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Ever since I first saw it, I've always maintained that The Wish is the best episode ever. It's odd, given that it was so early and there where some absolutely great episodes after it but it's kinda cemented in my head as not only the best ever made but the best episode possible.
I can honestly say that, if The Wish had been the last Buffy ep ever, I would have been more than happy (for starters, doublemeat palace would have never happened). Admitedly I'd probably have wanted them to stick a couple more seasons in before The Wish but it should have ended there.
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I have no faith but it's all that I want
to be loved and believe
in my soul.
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what season is Once more with Feeling in?
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MAL: This is my scrap of nowhere. You go on and find your own.
SAFFRON: You can't just leave me here, on this
lifeless piece of crap moon...
MAL: Sure I can.
SAFFRON: I'll die.
MAL: Well, as a courtesy, you might start
getting busy on that, cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
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1. The Body
2. Restless
3. Normal Again
4. Hush
5. Who are you? or Storyteller or Once More with Feeling
however, I should say, I don't like to rate the episodes, because I honestly think that all the episodes in season 4, 5, and 6 are unparalleled masterpieces, unlike anything else seen on american tv, and I honestly think "they're all THE BEST episode in their own unique way", in a way that does not at all overlap with any of the other episodes (that's what's great about Buffy, and Firefly too, every episode is so unique, and does what it does better than anything else).
That said, I do think The Body and Restless (but only those two) stand pretty clearly above the rest as joss's two attempts to go for 'pure art' and nothing less.
(note: if I made this list to include shows beyond buffy, the only thing I would change is to consider "Objects in Space" for #5)
I'm very glad that someone mentioned Beer Bad. For some reason a lot of people didn't get it, but it's by far one of their most intelligently constructed episodes, and also one of their best performed, in terms of the comedy and editing ...it covers so much ground, from really digging into the primal Id themes that are so important for that season, to satirizing aspects of academia, especially this ironic behaviour where 'smart' people obsessively have an urge to make themselves stupid (ok, it's a lot more complicated than that, but I can't sum it up in a sentance). And it did it in the most ridiculously hilarious way possible, making it one of the most 'in your face' funny episodes, and yet that hilarity seemed to be the only way its points could properly be expressed ...and it still built an intelligently constructed 'thesis' (just as many of the episodes in that season were structured like essays, to suit the university subject matter). Also, the directing in that ep. is some of their best (I'm pretty sure David Solomon, who did "Out of Gas", directed that episode). eg. there's actually a shot in the Parker/Willow scene that visually comminicates the "sharing of perspectives" and encountering new ideas, which was very much what the season was about. you just don't see that sort of thing outside of joss tv, and that was one of the most brilliant examples of buffy's 'art'.
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