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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[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I've realized that a lot of it has to do with how well you liked Faith as a character. If you were ambivalent or merely just liked her...much the same way I like Dru or Darla or Cordy...than S3 most likely isn't going to be a favorite.

It also has a lot to do, more so actually, with the themes and the structure...if you like the high school stuff and the whole graduating from it bit, than sure, if you don't...not so much. So for some, myself included, it has a lot to do with whether YA stories appeal specifically high school ones. I know a lot of people who wouldn't touch the series or take it seriously until it left the high school environment and others who felt the high school environment was too unrealistic and "Hollywood" - they couldn't get past the fact that everyone in the cast looked like they were in their 20s and 30s but Gellar and well Dusku who was a year younger at 17.