Also what about Lullaby and Sleep Tight? Agreed that with Ats is hard to choose a favorite season because with every season the good is very good but the bad is also often pretty bad. Still, if I had to choose I'm afraid I'd go with season 3 because I'm a sucker for Wesley and all the Connor-induced drama but, yes, the treatment of Cordelia was abysmal (in season 4 too) and I never bought the Cordy/Angel romance either... /it seems like most of the hate for season 4 is because of Cordelia's character being lost that year, but I'd argue that already started happening in season 3/ - Oh, absolutely. /Technically season 4 was not Cordelia any more, so there's actually more of a justification for the writing of her that year, in comparison to the saintly blonde that Double Or Nothing introduced to us./ - LOL, agreed but seeing Cordelia and Connor together was just the icing on the cake, bleah... /but I'm wondering now if it was more about fast-tracking Cordelia character arc to becoming a higher being, and thus wrapping up her journey?/ - Oh, yes, the problem with Ats is definitely that, to follow grandiose plot arcs, character personalities sometimes end up getting warped in absurd ways. /I remember at the end of season 4 that Joss said something to that effect of having nowhere else to take Cordelia's character at that point/ - Actually, I think Cordelia's arc was pretty much done by the end of season 1. Season 2 was all a repetition of the same arc and the season 3 one was pretty abysmal, so... And I see that the pool crowned season 5 as the best season, which I find a bit weird? (Except for the fact that season 5 has Illyria, of course, that's awesome.) Season 5 seems to be the favorite season of those who are mainly BtVS fans because it is the less tied to long plot arcs and mostly composed of one-shots episodes. Also Spike. But how can you not be fascinated by the terrific complex plot of season 3/4? (With the Cordelia exception, of course.)
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Agreed that with Ats is hard to choose a favorite season because with every season the good is very good but the bad is also often pretty bad. Still, if I had to choose I'm afraid I'd go with season 3 because I'm a sucker for Wesley and all the Connor-induced drama but, yes, the treatment of Cordelia was abysmal (in season 4 too) and I never bought the Cordy/Angel romance either...
/it seems like most of the hate for season 4 is because of Cordelia's character being lost that year, but I'd argue that already started happening in season 3/ - Oh, absolutely.
/Technically season 4 was not Cordelia any more, so there's actually more of a justification for the writing of her that year, in comparison to the saintly blonde that Double Or Nothing introduced to us./ - LOL, agreed but seeing Cordelia and Connor together was just the icing on the cake, bleah...
/but I'm wondering now if it was more about fast-tracking Cordelia character arc to becoming a higher being, and thus wrapping up her journey?/ - Oh, yes, the problem with Ats is definitely that, to follow grandiose plot arcs, character personalities sometimes end up getting warped in absurd ways.
/I remember at the end of season 4 that Joss said something to that effect of having nowhere else to take Cordelia's character at that point/ - Actually, I think Cordelia's arc was pretty much done by the end of season 1. Season 2 was all a repetition of the same arc and the season 3 one was pretty abysmal, so...
And I see that the pool crowned season 5 as the best season, which I find a bit weird? (Except for the fact that season 5 has Illyria, of course, that's awesome.)
Season 5 seems to be the favorite season of those who are mainly BtVS fans because it is the less tied to long plot arcs and mostly composed of one-shots episodes. Also Spike.
But how can you not be fascinated by the terrific complex plot of season 3/4? (With the Cordelia exception, of course.)