Escapism- Top Five Buffy Episodes of All Time
or What i Watched While Sewing Velcro Onto the Sofa
(This WILL be my last Buffy Posting)
In no order:
1. The Wish (S3E19)
Cordelia: ``I wish Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale.'' Has two of my favourite characters. Cordi and introduces Anya(nka). Creates a harrowing alternative universe where friends turn foes. Willow and Xander are evil vamps. Buffy arrives from Cleveland, dark and jaded and sporting a super sexy lip scar. Angel is a whimpering loser. In the words of the series' creator: "Very bleak, very fun. It went to a dark place.'' To be seen with 'Dopplegangland'
2. 'Once More With Feeling' (S6E09)
Tongue-and-cheek and moving at the same time, 'Once More With Feeling' is on the one hand one big in-joke, assuming that you have following the Scooby Gang over six years, and know them inside out. Their foibles, idiosyncrasies and history. If so, by the time you see it you can feel their pain and hurt as things come to a head and it all goes tits up. Some bits are laugh-out funny, but the sentiment is bitter-sweet. 'Where Do We Go From Here?' Where indeed.
3. Selfless (S7E05)
A love letter to Anya. This minor character, grows over the series. Her evolution from former vengeance demon with no tact ("You speak your mind, and are annoying"), to one of the show's most layered characters, is well, sublime. Here she we flits between hilarious flashbacks to Anya as a milk-churning, bunny-keeping 10th-century wench called Aud in Norway to her present-day slaughter of frat boys. And her show down with Buffy: ``Are there any of your friends you haven't tried to kill''
4. "The Puppet Show'' (S1E09)
Pure Nostalgia. Our heroes were young. so young. Willow SO dorky. Xander. FIT! Cordelia priceless. singing `Whitney Houston's ``The Greatest Love of All.'' FUN FUN FUN. 
5. The Yoko Factor (S4E20)
A little gem. Spike has a wicked good time in planting the seed of doubt in the minds of Willow, Xander and Buffy and gets them to fall out with each other. Dropping a hint here. an innuendo there. All the fears. insecurities, recriminations that had been bottled in. come bursting out. Giles, feeling like a has-been watcher, gets very drunk.
6 comments:
Oh, this is a tricky post: mine favourites are quite different. The one at the climax of S2, where Buffy has to kill Angel in order to close the votrex to Hell and save the world. I wept when I first saw it.
And the one where everyone loses their voices. Very scary - and yet the mime where Giles presents his theory is funny (and contains, among other priceless moments, the moment where everyone thinks Buffy is suggesting that they masturbate for victory). Oh, and unlike every other Buffy fan I had a soft spot for Riley - and the scene at the end where they can finally talk again but are totally unable to do so is wonderful (I also loved the episode where he and Buffy suck all the energy out of the world through their, ahem, passion, but that's another episode...).
Oh, oh, and the season 5 finale where Giles himself dispatches the evil God Glory's lovely alter ego, the Doc: one of the relatively rare occasions where Giles' absolutely steely inner core is revealed, along with his love of Buffy.
interesting ....
hush is a classic. and really should be among the top episodes de rigueur. soft spot for riley. i think i might prefer parker to him! the best thing riley did was to be caught by buffy getting ``sucked off'' by a vamp/tramp. i really was not a fan either of the buffy/angel so while i love the zest, esuberance of the scoobies in early buffy the whole angel love thing kind of escaped me. when it comes to buffy's men, spike rules head and shoulders above all others. do you not think? those chiselled cheeks. that body..........
see you're partial to giles. as am i. his evolving relationship with buffy is one of the highlights of the show.
Actually, Buffy had several hot squeezes: Parker was certainly one, as was Billy Fordham (the lovely Jason Behr, who went on to alien fame in Roswell); then there was Eric Balfour who played geeky Jesse in the first couple of episodes before becoming a vampire (and going on to star in very rude movie Lie With Me); the lovely, lovely Scott Hope (played by the gloriously-named Fab Filippo, who had an occasional role in the US version of Queer As Folk), oh, and Buffy's first normal squeeze, the "normal" Owen. Lovely...
Better stop now. Am revealing full extent of Buffy Geekiness. Must resist...
you CANNOT call jesse a hookup!!
assuming you're talking about jesse, episode1, season1, xander's friend who gets turned by darla into a vamp in two bites of a fang.
your geekiness won't leave this blog. i promise
That's the Jesse. He's an honorary hook-up: after all, it was very clear he wanted her... I'm 'shamed to admit I thought he was very, very sexy. But you might have seen my post about "sexy-geeky"?
dear god. totally get the sexy-geeky and in fact i spontaneously took myself back to that distant 2006 post to throw into the ring my very own candidate for sexiest geek...BUT duc...Jesse????
from top 5 sublime buffy moments...to jesse........i have no words.
did i mention i was always quite partial to oz. he looks like a midget on camera (which has been known to make tiny tom cruise appear of a normal height). oz must be a real-life hobbit in err. real life..i digress...
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