[spoiler]I stopped watching after that in the initial run, actually. Fred was my favorite character. I started with the episode that she came on, and only saw the earlier episodes in reruns.
I don’t know if I actually finished out the show, or just read about it.[/spoiler]
Well, it does but it isn’t as strong or noticeable as season 4’s, which becomes one story that continues episode to episode.
Season 5 is my favorite year, but it’s pretty much tied with 4. I think S5 works better after seeing it in entirety.
Definitely. The last seven episodes or so are absolutely wrenching. And in retrospect, even “The Girl In Question” was placed perfectly. We wanted more depth and plot development, but in “reality” life would have gone on even among all the chaos.
Hey, The Girl In Question is one of my favorite episodes of Angel or Buffy. And it is in season 5(one of the last episodes).
I agree, but if you cast your memory back, the fanbase was enraged by that episode.
[spoiler]I think the enraging was more that we never saw Buffy and that the idea that she had moved on with a demon douchebag like The Immortal (also unseen) were the sore spots.
Although wasn’t this also the episode that made Angel and Spike’s “love that dare not speak it’s name” canon?[/spoiler]
Nope. That was “Power Play” - the next episode.
season 8 spoiler:
Apparently, even Joss thought better of that later, retconning it away in the comics. I doubt he planned that all along. Would’ve been some clue in the episode itself, I think.
I’m finally eligible for the thread, having just finished the series.
Seventeen freaking pages? I guess I gotta plow through it…
p.s.:
Anchovies, anchovies, you’re so delicious
I love you more than all the other fishes
Dawn gets pizza sauce on Buffy’s clothes.
“Meh. She’ll think it’s blood.”
Which unfortunately didn’t fool Anya…
Is that the same shirt?
I’m not digging out my DVDs to be absolutely certain, but considering the level of continuity in the series and that they’re only seven episodes apart, and Jane Espenson was a writer for both, I’ve always assumed they were.
Buffy truly (not just an excuse to get you to keep watching) is one of the shows that gets better with time. I just finished watching it recently, and I had about the same reaction as you did that far in. I thought it was silly and over the top, but decent. Then I got to season 3 and it became possibly my favorite show ever (possibly more than BSG, that’s a long shot though). They cut back on the silly, one episode villains that haunted the early show and make a more focused storyline (not that season 2 isn’t great, Spike is amazing and there are good moments). Season 3 is arguably the shows best, season 4 is kinda lame but isn’t near as bad as season 1, season 5 is my personal favorite, 6 is great, and 7 is great. I actually prefer it over Firefly now. Oh, and once you get to season 4 try to watch Buffy and Angel (the show) side by side, I’m watch Angel now and I think it would have been better if I saw them together.
I don’t think this counts as a zombie - it’s barely dead, and Buffy fought the barely-dead all the time.
The Mayor is still the best Big Bad the show ever had.
Olives, did you finish the show? Remind me, it’s been awhile.
Had to pick a thread to post this in, a cool new photo of Warren, Jonathan, and Tucker’s brother: