Thirty Days of TV: Day Twenty
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Graduation Day II: after they fought and put each other in comas, and some Slayer dream sharing, Buffy wakes up, marches straight to Faith's bed, kisses the still comatose Faith on the forehead and then announces her strategy to defeat the season's big bad. Why is this my favourite kiss? Because it expresses Buffy's hopelessly muddled feelings about Faith better than any words possibly could. Not to mention it bookends the part of the third season where the girls had been open enemies which started when Faith was tricked into revealing her intentions and fled the scene after, you guessed it, kissing Buffy on the forehead. Buffy kissing Faith after having done her best to kill her (and vice versa) also is never spelled out to mean one thing or the other, it's left to the audience's interpretation, and I've seen people call it anything from giving absolution to a Judas kiss to a plea for forgiveness to a simple acknowledgment of their shared Slayerness. It could be all of this, or just one, an that's why I love it so much.
(Incidentally, this is also the first time in the show we see Faith without any make-up, and you suddenly realise that ELiza Duskhku is in fact younger than the actors who played the Scoobies; Faith in her normal get up never looks it, but in this state she does.)
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Graduation Day II: after they fought and put each other in comas, and some Slayer dream sharing, Buffy wakes up, marches straight to Faith's bed, kisses the still comatose Faith on the forehead and then announces her strategy to defeat the season's big bad. Why is this my favourite kiss? Because it expresses Buffy's hopelessly muddled feelings about Faith better than any words possibly could. Not to mention it bookends the part of the third season where the girls had been open enemies which started when Faith was tricked into revealing her intentions and fled the scene after, you guessed it, kissing Buffy on the forehead. Buffy kissing Faith after having done her best to kill her (and vice versa) also is never spelled out to mean one thing or the other, it's left to the audience's interpretation, and I've seen people call it anything from giving absolution to a Judas kiss to a plea for forgiveness to a simple acknowledgment of their shared Slayerness. It could be all of this, or just one, an that's why I love it so much.
(Incidentally, this is also the first time in the show we see Faith without any make-up, and you suddenly realise that ELiza Duskhku is in fact younger than the actors who played the Scoobies; Faith in her normal get up never looks it, but in this state she does.)
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/873583.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.