Cranky Buffyverse Villian Poll

[shadowkat]

In a crappy mood. The weather mocks me with its beauty. So a poll about villianous acts in the Buffyverse. The worst ones. The best villians. The lamest villians. And villianous or indefensible acts by favorite characters or what we think are indefensible acts, everyone's mileage varies on this, I'm certain. Actually the biggest flamewars online have been over the indefensible acts of popular characters and whether they are redeemed. I'm curious to see where the vast majority of the Buffy lj fandom that happens to read or occassionally read my journal falls on this point. Course the fear of doing polls is no one will respond, memes are easier in that regard. The other problem with polls is you can't edit after posting and there are just so many ticky boxes. So if not on the list, provide a comment. But remember to
be respectful of other's views, particular those that make you scratch your head and go, huh?

[Poll #1488559]

Comments

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I drank too much wine tonight at the restaurant but I took your poll nonetheless.

My favourite villain was Thre Mayor so I chose him but Caleb might have been the best in terms of female empowerment. He was the ultimate villain and made a lot of sense for the last season.

Giles drugging Buffy was really painful to watch.

As for the most satisfying redemptive arc it's Spike's of course. I do think that his not giving up Dawn was a key moment (pun intended)in his redemption journey.

And I'm not convinced by Willow's.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Agreed, I was never convinced by Willow's redemptive arc either, Anya's worked better - which is odd, because we saw less of her.

Willow's reminded me a great deal of Angel's - in which the character's excused her actions because she was "under the influence" and it wasn't really her. And I don't think that was the case - the writers in a way played with that pov in Killer in Me and Sleeper - as well as Him, demonstrating that it is not that simple.

Also, I think part of the reason we got the comic books - Willow gets a lot of focus in them - is Whedon may have felt unsatisfied with her arc.

Thanks for responding. I'm finding how people responded to be rather interesting.