Buffy The Vampire Slayer

I agree with you EMP, that last season was insane and that was a real status quo change.

Looking at season 3 again, Cordy was smoking hot... And Xander really gained weight over the seasons lol

I agree Kipe...an actor with more charisma would have worked (Blair Underwood? Mekhi Phifer maybe?). The idea that he was the only (so far) child of a slayer should have given him a very unique perspective. I just felt like it was kinda squandered alil.

I think Faith is probably the best Buffy villain because she was loathsome, likable, and a real threat all at the same time. I felt very conflicted whenever they beat the crap out of each other. She's also relatively unpredictable, which is why she makes a great villain. I also give a special nod to Drusilla, but I don't think she was effectively used until Angel.

I think Buffy was probably my favorite character on the series, and I didn't need most of the scoobies. Xander? Whatever. Willow? Stop making statements sound like questions. Anya? Well, I love Anya.

I <3 Anya. The episode where Buffy's mother is found dead (whited out for the benefit of Six DON'T YOU DARE HIGHLIGHT IT YOU SCALLYWAG), really showed us what it meant for her as a character who was readjusting to life as a human, how difficult and weird such a huge issue can be for someone to process for the first time when it happens to someone you know and care about.

Xander I liked, but I loved Willow. Willow and Tara were my second favourite couple in the entire series (Got to love the Spike and Dru/Sid and Nancy riff).

I question anyone's humanity who doesn't love Willow. Just sayin.

I think Faith is probably the best Buffy villain because she was loathsome, likable, and a real threat all at the same time. I felt very conflicted whenever they beat the crap out of each other. She's also relatively unpredictable, which is why she makes a great villain.

I do agree with all of this, though.

Faith, Cordeilia, Anya, Oz, Tara, and Lila are my all-time favourites throughout both series.

Mousy characters don't really resonate with me. Sure, she's sweet and loyal but I thought her ability to hack systems was sort of a cliche plot point and I don't think they realistically approached some of the issues a character like Willow would go through. She was almost too likeable. I thought Dark Willow was a joke but I didn't like the show after it left the WB.

So just had this conversation with a colleague...We talk about big bads alot but who are some of your favorite one-off demons, vamps, etc.?

I brought up Mr. Trick but he was kinda sorta tangentially connected to the big bad. I also loved the demon dudes in the suits, I forgot their names...they remind me of the Silence.

Ha ha ha! Sunday was awesome! I liked the Gorch brothers, the Gentlemen, and of course, Sweet the singing demon.

Sweet was brilliant. Sunday was fun, the Gentlemen, I liked The First when they first appeared in Season 3, the mad english watcher woman with the glove thing... Oh, and the Judge, if only because he got blown up by a bazooka...

I love when the Judge was blown up. "What's that do?" and then BOOM! blown up.

Everyone loves the Gentlemen.

I always liked that super creepy boogey man from the hospital in Season 2 I think. Only kids and sick people could see him.

I've noticed with all the talk of Big Bads there's been little to no mention of Adam. I actually really liked season 4 and Adam. He's like a frankentsien style melding of science and demon magic that was unseen on the show.  I know alot of people hated the Initiative but I loved it. For three seasons I kept saying, how could the government not know anything about demons?




Edited by Gibbering Fool - 11-Apr-2012 at 12:47pm

I loved Angelus in Season 4. Especially his interactions with Faith, Conner (Illyana ripoff) and Gunn. Drusilla was always amusing, but I think my favorite villians would have to be Lilah and Darla. Julie Benz has come a long way since Jawbreaker... And Wesley was a good unintentional villain during Season 3 of Buffy. Did anyone else notice that he grew a pair after he started banging Lilah and got his throat cut? And Illyria made quite the impression on me.

I think that was mentioned in Season 7, BC, when Buffy finally took Dawn vampire hunting. It was the opening sequence of the first episode.


Dawn: "But, he's new. He doesn't know his strength. He-he might not know those fancy martial art skills they inevitably seem to pick up."