Favorite Season of Buffy?

[shadowkat]

[Figure this should be safe and won't get any pedantic arguments/fights. But you never know with the Buffy fandom. At any rate, mind my blood-pressure in responses, I have a sinus head-ache from hell and a hellish work week with crazy bureaucrats and pedants. This is a mild distraction.]

[ETA: Almost wish I asked where you are in the viewing of series. Are you brand new to the series, watched it live in the 1990s-2003 (and since seen it 20 times or more, okay that may be an exaggeration...then again maybe not), or only watched the first three seasons all the way through and haven't seen most of the later seasons yet...although not really sure it matters one way or the other..]

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Comments

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I don't think there are any s3 episodes I overtly dislike.

I feel like season 3 is the most consistent season they ever did quite honestly. With other Buffy seasons there are usually at least 2 or 3 of what I would consider really poor episodes that I would happily lose, whereas it's only Beauty And The Beast that I really dislike from season 3. Well and I'm not a fan of The Zeppo either but that's just my own lack of interest in Xander as a character, I can appreciate that it's still a well-done episode. But there's no Bear Bad, Goodbye Iwoa, Where The Wild Things Are, Shadow, Gone, Older And Far Away etc to sit through that year. Seasons 3 and 5 hit the most consistent standard for me

I always find season 2 a bit of a mess in the first half with many of the stand-alones (Some Assembly Required, Reptile Boy, Inca Mummy Girl, Bad Eggs) actually being worse than season 1 which had at least had a sense of fun and trying things out for the first year of a new show. Whereas some of those season 2 episodes were just plain bad. I feel like you could get an amzing season of season 2 if it was cut down to something like 15 episodes because when it was good it was REALLY good, but taken as a whole there's no way it could ever be the best season for me when there's so much horrdenous pacing to work through. Even the second half of the season suffers from that with Go Fish popping up right before the finale.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

The favorite and least favorite episode meme that I did in another, earlier post is actually a good way of figuring out which seasons are your favorite.
I had a lot of episodes in S3 that I can't rewatch without cringing. (This may be that I watched the series one too many times...I don't know. I'm not sure
the writers intended for me to see some of these episodes as many times as I did....I mean, after about the twentitieth time, you start to see the cracks...)