Buffy Survey Pt. 2

[Samuel Reyes]

Title speaks for itself.

This one is just for BTVS though. Pick the one episode of each character you like the best (if you don't like the character just leave it blank).

Buffy: Prophecy Girl, Surprise, Becoming, Anne, Helpless, The Freshman, The Prom, The Body, The Gift, Chosen

Willow: I Robot You Jane, Doppelgangland, Choices, New Moon Rising, Tabula Rasa, The Darth Rosenberg Trilogy (Villains/Two to Go/Grave; counts as one option), Same Time Same Place, The Killer in Me

Xander: Teacher's Pet, The Pack, Inca Mummy Girl, Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, The Zeppo, The Replacement

Cordelia: Out of Mind Out of Sight, Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Homecoming, The Wish

Giles: The Dark Age, Passion, Band Candy, Helpless, A New Man

Angel: Angel, Surprise, Innocence, Passion, Becoming, Amends

Oz: Phases, Beauty and the Beasts, Wild at Heart, New Moon Rising

Spike: Lovers' Walk, Fool for Love, Crush, Intervention, Beneath You, Sleeper, Lies My Parents Told Me

Anya: Where the Wild Things Are, Triangle, Hell's Bells, Entropy, Selfless

Faith: Faith, Hope and Trick, Bad Girls, Consequences, Enemies, This Year's Girl, Who Are You?

Tara: Hush, New Moon Rising, Family, Tough Love, Tabula Rasa

Dawn: Real Me, Blood Ties, All the Way, Him, Potential
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Rank the Season Openers Best to Worst: Welcome to the Hellmouth, When She Was Bad, Anne, The Freshman, Buffy vs. Dracula, Bargaining, Lessons

Rank the Season Closers Best to Worst: Prophecy Girl, Becoming, Graduation Day, Restless, The Gift, Grave, Chosen): The Gift, Becoming, Graduation Day, Chosen, Grave, Prophecy Girl, Restless

Hottest Moment (love scene, character interaction, or otherwise):

Biggest WTF Moment:

Single Moment That Defines What the Show BTVS is All About:

 

[Samuel Reyes]

For me:

Buffy: The Gift
Willow: Doppelgangland
Xander: The Zeppo
Cordelia: Homecoming
Giles: Helpless
Angel: Amends
Oz: Phases
Spike: Fool for Love
Anya: Selfless
Faith: Bad Girls
Tara: Family
Dawn: Potential
Season Openers B to W: Bargaining, The Freshman, Anne, When She Was Bad, Welcome to the Hellmouth, Buffy vs. Dracula, Lessons
Season Closers B to W: The Gift, Becoming, Graduation Day, Grave, Chosen, Prophecy Girl, Restless
Hottest Moment: Buffy/Faith heat up the dance floor in "Bad Girls"
Biggest WTF Moment: Tara dies!
Single Moment That Defines What the Show is All About: Every girl gets "Chosen"

 

[Fuffy Baith]

Oh this is a good one. Ok so out of the choices given.

Buffy: Helpless - Buffy doesn't need her powers to be a hero.

Willow: Doppelgangland - Just great character development for Willow

Xander: The Zeppo - Same with Xander

Cordelia: Homecoming - Almost went with The Wish for that opening scene but Cordy gets killed of half way through. I do like her talk with Buffy in the cabin of Homecoming about how she loves Xander.

Giles: Band Candy - I just love Ripper

Angel: Amends - Some of those are Angelus, as Angel he's got some weak episodes. But I do like the end scene with him and Buffy on the hill.

Oz: Beauty and the Beasts - Best part of this episode is the Oz story line. I really love it!

Spike: Fool for Love - For comedy it'd be Lover's Walk, for emotion it'd be Intervention, so I went with this. lol.

Anya: Where the Wild Things Are, Triangle, Hell's Bells, Entropy, Selfless

Faith: Bad Girls - The best of Fuffy! Close tie with This Years Girl though.

Tara: Tabula Rasa - Recently watched this ep, and I really enjoy her standing up to Willow.

Dawn: Potential - No real good answer but this one I guess.
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Rank the Season Openers Best to Worst: Anne, Welcome to the Hellmouth, Lessons, When She Was Bad, Buffy vs Dracula, Bargaining, The Freshman
This pretty tough, I'm not a huge fan of Bargaining, the part 2 brings it down for me, The Freshman is bad. This is based on what episode I would watch first.

Rank the Season Closers Best to Worst: Prophecy Girl, Becoming, Graduation Day, Restless, The Gift, Grave, Chosen): The Gift, Becoming, Graduation Day, Chosen, Grave, Prophecy Girl, Restless
Graduation Day, Chosen, Prophecy Girl Becoming, Restless, The Gift and Grave. This one is super tough, cause all of them are good enders.
Hottest Moment (love scene, character interaction, or otherwise):
Hmm, that's tough. I mean shirtless Spike is always hot, but I'll go with Faith, Buffy and Angel in Enemies. You can just feel like sexual tension in the room.
Biggest WTF Moment:
The ending of Chosen.
Single Moment That Defines What the Show BTVS is All About: A single moment is tough. I'd say either Buffy killing Angel. Or actually maybe her speech to Xander in Selfless about killing Anya.

 

[Fuffy]

Buffy: Chosen.

Willow: I Robot You Jane.

Xander: The Zeppo.

Cordelia: Homecoming.

Giles: Band Candy.

Angel: Passion.

Oz: Phases.

Spike: Fool for Love.

Anya: Hell's Bells.

Faith: Faith, Hope and Trick.

Tara: Family.

Dawn: Real Me.
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Rank the Season Openers Best to Worst: Welcome to the Hellmouth, Buffy vs. Dracula, Bargaining, When She Was Bad, Anne, The Freshman, Lessons (this was hard to do 😛)

Rank the Season Closers Best to Worst: Chosen, Grave, Becoming, Graduation Day, Prophecy Girl, Restless, The Gift.

Hottest Moment (love scene, character interaction, or otherwise):
shirtless Spike, so called Fuffy 'subtext', Bangel scene in GD.
Biggest WTF Moment:
Buffy has a sister now ???
Single Moment That Defines What the Show BTVS is All About:
When they are standing outside the bus in the end of 'Chosen'.

@Samuel Reyes , now do one for Angel 🙂

 

[Mr Trick]

Buffy: The Gift

Willow: Dopplegangland (this is better than Dark Willow because AH is given more free reign to inject herself onto the character(s), and its just an all round better episode)

Xander: The Zepo

Cordelia: The Wish (good point FB but it is still this one for me, BBB is also a good Cordy episode)

Giles: Band Candy (The Dark Age is my sleeper Giles episode)

Angel: Passion

Oz: Phases

Spike: Fool For Love

Anya: Where the Wild Things Are

Faith: This Year's Girl

Tara: Tabula Rasa (whats the episode where she stands up for Willow against Anya? That deserves a mention too)

Dawn: Potential (like Real Me too)

Rank the season openers Best to Worst: When She Was Bad, Anne, Welcome to the Hellmouth, Lessons, Buffy VS. Dracula, The Freshman, Bargaining

Rank the season closers Best to Worst: Restless, Becoming, Graduation Day, The Gift, Prophecy Girl, Grave, Chosen

Hottest Moment: For romance, Tara and Willow "Under your Spell" for something with a bit more sex appeal something involving Faith and Buffy, so will go for that dance scene!

Biggest WTF Moment: Angel turning evil, it just transformed the direction of that series and was such a great twist, runner up would be Faith and Buffy switching bodies

Single Moment That Defines What the BTVS is all about: What defines it the most for me is how it keeps subverting itself, and experimenting narrative wise, but hard to thing of a single moment to define it, so will go with Buffy killing Angel because of how symbolic it is, runner up Buffy sacrificing herself.

 

[VisionBoy]

Buffy: Prophecy Girl

Willow: Doppelgangland

Xander: Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered

Cordelia: Out of Mind Out of Sight

Giles: Passion

Angel: Becoming

Oz: Wild at Heart

Spike: Fool for Love

Anya: Selfless

Faith: Who Are You?

Tara: Tabula Rasa

Dawn: Potential
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Rank the Season Openers Best to Worst:
Bargaining,
Welcome to the Hellmouth,
The Freshman,
Anne,
Lessons
When She Was Bad,
Buffy vs. Dracula.

Rank the Season Closers Best to Worst:
Graduation Day,
The Gift,
Becoming,
Prophecy Girl,
Chosen,
Grave,
Restless.

Hottest Moment (love scene, character interaction, or otherwise): Spike and Dru generally.

Biggest WTF Moment: Xander's eye gouging.

Single Moment That Defines What the Show BTVS is All About: Sunnydale High VS. Big Ass Snake (Graduation Day part 2)

 

[Blaze]

Buffy: (funny enough, she's the only character that I had a really hard time coming up with one specific episode): Prophecy Girl

Willow: New Moon Rising

Xander: The Zeppo

Cordelia: The Wish

Giles: Helpless

Angel: Passion

Oz: Wild at Heart

Spike: Bargaining

Anya: Entropy

Faith: Bad Girls

Tara: Hush, Family, Entropy (okay, and Tara too, I couldn't pick between these three)

Dawn: The Body
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Rank the Season Openers Best to Worst:
Welcome to the Hellmouth
Anne
Lessons
Bargaining
When She was Bad
The Freshman
B vs D

Rank the Season Closers Best to Worst: (really hard because they are all excellent)
Restless
The Gift
Prophecy Girl,
Chosen,
Grave,
Graduation Day,
Becoming

Hottest Moment (love scene, character interaction, or otherwise): Umm the orgy in Touched, Bad Girls and Fuffy

Biggest WTF Moment: What are you doing in my room little sister that I never had until now. MOM!

Single Moment That Defines What the Show BTVS is All About: The voice over in the ending of the Gift.

 

[sosa lola]

Buffy: Helpless - it was interesting seeing Buffy without superpowers, makes you appreciate the normal characters more

Willow: The Darth Rosenberg Trilogy (Villains/Two to Go/Grave; counts as one option) - I learned more about Willow's insecurities from these three episodes

Xander: The Replacement - This episode just shows you all sides of Xander's character and his struggles, I loved that both Xanders are the real Xander

Cordelia: Homecoming - such a fun episode

Giles: Passion - poor, poor Giles, of all the characters, he was the one hurt by Angelus the most

Angel: Amends - I feel like the other episodes are all about soulless Angel 😀

Oz: Phases - that moment wen Willow discovers that Oz is a werewolf, you gotta feel for Oz in that moment

Spike: Fool for Love - This episode is the soul to Spike's character

Anya: Selfless - other than the fact that this is the best S7 episode, it was also the strongest Anya episode

Faith: Who Are You? - Faith is such a messed up character, this episode shows that so clearly

Tara: Tabula Rasa - while I really hate this episode, I do love how Tara starts to stand up to Willow

Dawn: Potential - it was heartwarming to have another character understand where Xander is coming from, and Dawn shows so much courage and strength here
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Rank the Season Openers Best to Worst:

1. When She Was Bad - I love how the shows addresses how traumatized Buffy is by the events of Prophecy Girl. Other shows would have probably had her start with a fresh outlook and had her still be likable, but BtVS didn't take the easy way out here.

2. Lessons - I will always enjoy the Buffy/Xander/Dawn family unit and have written a few fanfics about it.

3. Bargaining - I really wish we had more episodes of the gang without Buffy. They're doing a good job here, though still heartbroken without Buffy

4. The Freshman - I enjoyed Sunday, and of course Xander coming to the rescue in the end

5- Welcome to the Hellmouth - they all look so young here! They're adorable! Plus, JESSE!!

6. Anne - The gang dealing without Buffy - just normal high schoolers trying to pick up the pieces after Buffy left, Joyce blaming Giles for what happened to Buffy, Giles trying to find her, and then you have Buffy depressed and trying to get by.

7. Buffy vs Dracula - I was so disappointed with Dracula in this episode, though I adore him in S8

Rank the Season Closers Best to Worst:

1. Restless - getting inside our main characters' heads and looking at their fears, insecurities and disappointments. I LOVE this episode.

2. Becoming -extremely exciting and full of twists and shocking moments.

3. Prophecy Girl - this is where the show gets real and everybody plays a role in this episode: Buffy kills the Master, Xander brings Buffy back to life, Angel faces his fears and goes into the Master's layer, Giles attempts to risk his life for Buffy, Jenny learns about the Slayer, Willow gives Buffy the courage to face the Master and Cordelia is kickass with her car.

4. Grave - Xander saves the day! Buffy and Dawn make a new start, Spike gets a soul, Giles kicks ass, Anya takes care of Giles, and XANDER SAVES THEM ALL!!!!

5. The Gift - like Prophecy Girl, every character gets to shine: Buffy sacrifices her life for Dawn, Xander hits Glory with a wrecking ball, Willow saves Tara, Giles kills Ben, Spike makes a promise to Buffy, Anya gives Buffy the idea to use Olaf's weapon to beat Glory and Tara leads them to Glory.

6. Graduation Day - the whole school helps Buffy defeat the Mayor! Willow loses her virginity, Xander is Key Guy, Wesley joins them, Cordelia defeats a vampire effortlessly, Giles blows up the school, such a kickass episode.

7. Chosen - it's the season final, so I'd automatically hate it. S7 just went downhill after Him, it was a big mess. It was crowded with characters, the scythe and Guardian were inserted in the end without lead up, Empty Places turned every character that was not Buffy and Spike into assholes: it was touch on Chosen to fix all that damage. The end result we got a very rushed final, Uber Vamps were defeated easily when it took Buffy two episodes to kill one, some characters were neglected like Xander, Giles and Dawn without a standout moment, some moments felt forced due to previous events like the Core Four moment, Angel took screen time from characters who deserved it like Xander, Giles and Dawn, death of major characters like Anya and Spike wasn't acknowledged properly. Bottom line, I hate it.

Hottest Moment (love scene, character interaction, or otherwise):

Xander/Faith sex in The Zeppo.

Biggest WTF Moment:

Dawn introduction!

Single Moment That Defines What the Show BTVS is All About:

Buffy, Xander, Willow and Giles combining their strengths to defeat Adam.

 

[GwenRaiden]

Buffy: The Freshman

Willow: Doppelgangland

Xander: The Zeppo

Cordelia: Homecoming

Giles: Band Candy

Angel: Amends

Oz: Wild at Heart

Spike: Fool for Love

Anya: Entropy

Faith: Who Are You?

Tara: Family

Dawn: Him
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Rank the Season Openers Best to Worst:
The Freshman
Bargaining
Anne
Lessons
When She Was Bad
Welcome to the Hellmouth
Buffy vs. Dracula

Rank the Season Closers Best to Worst:
Restless
The Gift
Graduation
Grave
Becoming
Prophecy Girl
Chosen

Hottest Moment (love scene, character interaction, or otherwise):
Faith's dialogue with Spike at the Bronze in 'Who Are You?', but only because it came from Buffy's mouth.

Biggest WTF Moment:
The end of The Gift.

Single Moment That Defines What the Show BTVS is All About:
Spike showing up with a shotgun to kill Buffy in 'Fool for Love', but instead comforts her as she is upset over her mother's news.