#35

No it’s not.

Dawn, too many deaths, downer ending…

#36

It was great, wasn’t it? Is it on Netflix or anything? Would like to rewatch a few classic episodes.

#37

Don’t mind Dawn in seasons 5 and 7, and that season finale is amazing. If it had been the last episode of the series it would have fit perfectly (though Chosen is decent). Plus Glory is a great villain.

#38

The first 4 episodes of S5 are bloody awful.

  1. Dracula. Fucking Dracula.
  2. Wah wah wah Dawn wah wah wah
  3. Xander is split in two
  4. Riley’s super-soldier drug issues

It gets better after that and the ending was really, really good. Possibly the best season finale.

#39

Fair point, though I don’t mind Buffy vs Dracula.

‘Like any of that’s enough to fight the dark Master…bater’

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#40

Really lovely article by yer man Giles here:

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#41

“We couldn’t show the green blood shooting from the severed neck of a beheaded praying mantis demon.”

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#42

Giles got the story to earshot wrong

#43

Yeah, Jonathan wasn’t going to kill anyone but himself.

#44

Had a friend who was obsessed with it, I was fairly “it’s s’alright” then really started to enjoy it and ended up loving it by the final season (probably as a good a finale as any really)

Favourite Season: 3 or 7, 7 is probably the one I rewatch the most, Spike and Buffy :heart_eyes:
Favourite Character: Willow
Favourite Episode:Storyteller or Hush
Favourite Villain:Adam or Glory

#45

Uhhhh yeah you could/should

#46

No disrespect but you have rubbish taste

#47

It’s a world big enough for all opinions.

I’m delighted that you enjoy it.

#48

He’s kidding himself if he thinks Merlin is iconic.

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#49

The ending of S5 is nowhere near as good as the ending of S3 or the fucking 6-episode stonker that makes up S7, FFS. I’d say it’s probably not even as good a finalé as S2, although that one is also a bit too weepy mopey.

#50

Horses for courses, but S5 has it all. In the lead up, you’ve got Buffy going catatonic; then a road trip where she’s fighting on top of a motorhome.

In the final episode, there’s the planning (Anya pointing out the hammer and the orb) to the sense of doom (“We few, we happy few… we band of buggered!”), Willow rescuing Tara, Spike failing, Buffy bot tricks, Xander with a wrecking ball, Buffy pounding Glory, Giles finishing things off, Buffy pushing Toad-face off the tower and then making that jump. Followed by the scenes of them all reacting. Then “She saved the world. A lot.”

S7 was let down by the deeply shit Willow Ex Machina.

S3 was big fun but stupid because the evil demon’s plan to take over the world could be stopped by explosions. So his plan for world domination was faultless as long as he didn’t come across any armies.

#51

tbf in one of the earlier seasons one the episode antagonist was stopped by a bazooka.

#52

Fair point!

#53

Fuck Sopranos and The Wire. Buffy is the best TV programme ever.

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#54

Best character in anything