Buffy

[frelling_tralk]

The 19 greatest episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," in honor of the show's 19th birthday

I think I would have added Innocence, Doopelgangland, Who Are You, and Restless to my list, although I wouldn't know which episodes to take off for them! (I guess maybe Band Candy, Life Serial, and Seeing Red?) I've noticed that Innocence seems to often get left off lists like these in favour of Passion, but personally I find Innocence to be the much stronger episode overall, even though the chase sequence from Passion might be more memorable

And season 4 should really have more than two episodes on there IMO, the central arc might not have been the strongest, but there were still quite a few classic one-off episodes that year

Comments

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Fair enough! I'm with you in not being a huge fan of Band Candy actually. I mean it was decent enough as Buffy episodes go, I did enjoy the characterisations of Giles and Synder, but I've never been that convinced by the adults all without fail turning into irresponsible idiots, it felt like a really clunky message on what all teenagers are supposedly like. I definitely wouldn't include it among my favourite of the Buffy comedy episodes anyway. Living Conditions, Pangs, and A New Man were all much funnier IMO

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely put A New Man over Band Candy. Thing about BC is there's not a whole lot of funny stuff I remember. Mostly I'm just once-again annoyed at Joyce for being overbearing and refusing to accept her role in Buffy leaving. And making her pay for the Jeep damage. All while pretending to be about responsibility.

Yeah, I have issues with Band Candy!