Season 2 would be my favourite season and very much like JFGAhBro on breakdown. S1 was never going to be the best overall season; it was produced as high impact, yet low quality viewing throughout and consequently brought this season well below the standards set shortly afterwards. The characters were tactless, dim-witted and fairly under-developed"¦ a.k.a teenagers of course and yet the pop culture aspect and unique cult and post-era meddling Joss began to improvise on still yielded enough commercial territory to bring in the masses (all ages) and the illustrious recognition thereafter. More than anything though, it set the rugged path lying ahead and to what was to become the best collection of seasons on the planetâ„¢, so well no complaints here. 🙄
S3 on the other hand was just mediocre for me, it had it's distinct tone and time frame, but ultimately what I thought was just a frustrating season; a fairly pedantic crop of episodes that never really set the scene and what subsequently proved to become my first major disliking towards the show. Faith, I simply can't stand Eliza's character, she's just so passé towards the character development I thought Joss had been cleverly implementing over the past season (like some shoddy copy-cat character from the mid 80's, pro-teen, female decadence movement and "it's cool to be tough, didn't you know that?" era) and no I'm not talking about the arrogance, self-creed, spice-girl, power trip thing"¦ or anything like that for the matter, she had good qualities, her independence, the way she was self-assuring and confident"¦ it's just the fact that in my opinion she was just a dense, lack-lustre angle at trying to broaden the shows horizons and irrefutably what really was just an attempt at trying to give the show an edge"¦ which you know I actually thought was already there in the first place. (Let the reels of arguments consume the thread!) I question Joss for it all the time, but understandably a show as good and as well orchestrated as this needs to take chances on the characters it combines and has to set a short hand for not just the community of fans, but everyone viewing. I don't for one-second question that notion, so moving swiftly on"¦
S4, well trying hard not to relegate, I thought this was still the worst season but on the contrary still very much "run of the mil" so to speak. Quality episodes came few and far between due to a poorly scripted story arc and the inevitable question, what the f**k was Adam about... the big, dumb freak, A: et all? The Initiative like everyone above stated was mocked and laughed at and the on-going plot made the lack of unique episodes fairly evident. But again, "Buffy!" I scamper to decline before off-shoting onto S2"¦ S4 was still Buffy S4 and yeah ok, it was bad"¦ but then so who's perfect? You"¦ ok, stop it! 😉
S2 finally... well it hit the spot and hard; intense, surreal comic-book wit and versatility, unprecedented methods to the hourly slot and really just exceptional on all accounts to what it was trying to prove after any established s1 critique still squandering in the backdrop. For me, it's hard for anything to surpass those expectations and given how young the show was at the time, I give anyone the reprimand to argue that I'm wrong. Ok, actually don't bother"¦ too much to muse over.
