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

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

The latter seasons really aren't that bad. I personally think S2 and Firefly and god, don't get me started on Dollhouse, are far worse in some respects. But it may all be relative? Or mileage varies?

I mean it depends on what you consider really torturous or what triggers you? I stopped watching Breaking Bad after the first season, because it was too violent and I could not stand the characters. Yet, Game of Thrones which admittedly has a lot more violence, didn't bug me. True Blood's violence - which is really gory, I shrug off. But I can't watch Bones - it's too gross.
And I hated the X-Files - too much torture, violence and gore.

At any rate, mileage varies on this. If you haven't already, you might want to look at all the other comments. Also, if you can find them my essays - I'm an insane Spike fan. He was my favorite character of the cast. My least favorites of the people who were in the actual credits or front montage - are Angel and Cordelia. I was also not that much of a Faith fan, but you already know that.;-)

[flameraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's definitely a 'your mileage may vary' situation, and that's fine. I think what I enjoy least is emotional trauma of characters or writing in plot devices that are only there to make the characters miserable. You have to have some of that, but at a certain point it becomes too much and it seems more like the writer is actively trying to prevent the characters from ever being able to recover. That's the vibe I get from the later seasons.

I have read the other comments, and like I said, it's not like I won't ever watch the later seasons-- I may get to it eventually. I'm just not really all that enthusiastic about them.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

YMMV or your mileage may vary is always the case with tv shows, along with the brilliant axiom - you are not watching the same tv show your friends are watching if it appears to be the same.

It's why people's opinions are all over the place.

I don't know why you'd want to watch something you don't like. Seems a waste a time to me...I mean quite a few people on my flist tried to get me to love Breaking Bad, and I just finally decided, eh, not for me.
Great show - just not my cup of tea. Plus too many tv shows too little time.

You might like The Wire better, if you haven't seen it already. It's violent...and yeah, grim, but not quite in the same...soap operaish way.