I think it's a mixture of interesting, suitably flawed characters, the dialogue which is non-standard without it sounding like old people trying to write slang (by inventing it's own slang and modifying the sound of Valley Girl, but it worked) and the mixture of the fantastical with the very real, for instance, Buffy taking mock SATs while on ( Read more... )

Actually quite a difficult question to answer, because I tend to generally agree with most of the top x episodes of Buffy that I've seen. I might move a few episodes up a few places or down a few places, but overall agreement is there ( Read more... )

I'm not sure whether they mean in the pantomime sense, or in the 'when this character, who happens to be a villain, turns up, then there is fun ( Read more... )

Which I thought said most touching moment on Tuesday, but I was wildly sleep-deprived by that point ( Read more... )

I love that they have Scooby moments ( Read more... )

I don't use the full thing, but my response to whether I'm helping someone does tend to be "I'm hindering" care of Willow in School Hard.

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I'm going to go with Lurconis from Band Candy although every time they aimed for reptilian CGI they failed. I have no idea what the problem was (CGI still not being quite up to doing that, not enough budget for better CGI) but it was always the snakey/reptilian demons where it happened.

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I am aware that I fail 'shipping forever, because I don't have a good answer for this. I am entirely on the Willow/Spike train however, which is odd because Spike/Dru is my Buffy OTP and I <3 both Willow/Oz and Willow/Tara.

(And no, Giles and Ethan don't count because they're non-canonical in the same way Xavier and Magneto are. Barely.)

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The Zeppo ( Read more... )

Is it just me or are the Willow-centric episodes less centred on her than say the Xander-centred episodes are on him ( Read more... )