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Here is a Poll about the Buffyverse
I've just made it. I'm feeling daring...and I'm fed up of the best-fav-thingy Polls!
Come on, gimme it good!
A. First BTVS
1) Your least favourite season? Why?
2) Your least favourite episode? Why?
3) Your least favourite finale? Why?
4) Your least favourite beginning? Why?
5) Your least favourite moment? Why?
6) Your least favourite main character? Why?
7) Your least favourite minor character? Why?
8) Your least favourite BB? Why?
9)Your least favourite Villain (aka little bad)? Why?
10) Your least favourite monster of the week? Why?
11) Your least favourite pairing (one that actually occured on screen)? Why?
12) Your least favourite 'ship (one that didn't occur but some fans would believe in it)? Why?
13) Your least favourite arc? Why?
14) Your least favourite death? Why?
B. Now Ats
1) Your least favourite season? Why?
2) Your least favourite episode? Why?
3) Your least favourite finale? Why?
4) Your least favourite beginning? Why?
5) Your least favourite moment? Why?
6) Your least favourite main character? Why?
7) Your least favourite minor character? Why?
8) Your least favourite BB? Why?
9)Your least favourite Villain (aka little bad)? Why?
10) Your least favourite monster of the week? Why?
11) Your least favourite pairing (one that actually occured on screen)? Why?
12) Your least favourite 'ship (one that didn't occur but some fans would believe in it)? Why?
13) Your least favourite arc? Why?
14) Your least favourite death? Why?
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1) Your least favourite season? Why?
Hmm. Either Season One or Season Seven. The former because the characters weren't fully established, the writing wasn't as good as it was later, the acting wasn't as strong. Season Seven because the characters had veered away from what was established, the writing wasn't as good as it had been, and the acting was looking pretty tired from a lot of them. Basically, neither season was at full speed.
2) Your least favourite episode? Why?
Heh. Probably not the best answer to give on YOUR LJ, but probably "Smashed". I really didn't like The Saga of Spuffy that took over the last season and a half.
3) Your least favourite finale? Why?
Probably "Prophecy Girl", although all the season finales have been pretty strong.
4) Your least favourite beginning? Why?
"Lessons", I think... It has one or two good moments, such as the FE at the end, but otherwise it's a pretty by-the-books episode.
5) Your least favourite moment? Why?
The "Magic used to be a metaphor for drugs, but hey, guess what? It isn't any more!" crap in early S7. Yes, a lot of fans didn't like the heavy-handed drug metaphor, but the writers should have at least had the balls to follow through on their story and have Willow quit magic altogether in S7.
6) Your least favourite main character? Why?
Either S6-7 Spike or S6-7 Dawn. Spike because of the aforementioned Spuffy stuff, and Dawn because the writers simply didn't know what to do with her once Glory was out of the picture.
7) Your least favourite minor character? Why?
Jonathan. Not through any particular hatred of the character, I simply don't understand why he's popular with viewers...
8) Your least favourite BB? Why?
Adam. He was a good idea, as the whole of S4 was about isolation vs. cohesiveness. Adam was assembled whilst the Scoobs crumbled. So thematically he worked, but there was no emotional resonance as there was with other BBs.
9)Your least favourite Villain (aka little bad)? Why?
The Trio. They only became vaguely interesting in "Dead Things". The rest of the time they were just annoying. And rarely funny.
10) Your least favourite monster of the week? Why?
The Penis-headed Old Woman. *shudder* Which writer was on crack that week?! :-)
11) Your least favourite pairing (one that actually occured on screen)? Why?
Spuffy. Just didn't like it at all.
12) Your least favourite 'ship (one that didn't occur but some fans would believe in it)? Why?
I never got the Buffy/Giles shippers. He was practically her Dad, for crying out loud! Ew.
13) Your least favourite arc? Why?
Mid Season 7. Simply because nothing happened; what little relevant action that did occur was contradicted or ignored later in the season.
14) Your least favourite death? Why?
I don't think I really have one. Can I pick least favourite fake death as Giles getting the axe swung at him by the Bringer? Pointless.
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1) Your least favourite season? Why?
This is a tough one. Probably Season Five.
2) Your least favourite episode? Why?
"The Cautionary Tale Of Numero Cinco." I think I've only been able to tolerate watching it twice. Blah.
3) Your least favourite finale? Why?
Probably "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb". Although I love the ending.
4) Your least favourite beginning? Why?
"Conviction", maybe? Not sure.
5) Your least favourite moment? Why?
Finding out that the "splitting tree Shanshu prophecy" thing in "Destiny" was all crap made up by Sirk. For a while I thought they were going to justify Spike's presence on the show with something slightly profound. Then we just found out Lindsey wanted revenge. *rolls eyes*
6) Your least favourite main character? Why?
Sorry, gotta say it again... Spike! I preferred the team as it was in S3 and S4, and I think too much emphasis was put on Spike.
7) Your least favourite minor character? Why?
I can't even remember his name... he was one of the temporary heads of W&H. Not Linwood, not Holland... one of the other ones!
8) Your least favourite BB? Why?
The Circle of the Black Thorn. More should have been done to establish them throughout the final season, instead of just in the final two episodes.
9)Your least favourite Villain (aka little bad)? Why?
Lindsey in S5. In the first two seasons he was a good villain, but he didn't have that same edge in S5.
10) Your least favourite monster of the week? Why?
The Cyborg Ninjas. Completely unexplained... *sigh*
11) Your least favourite pairing (one that actually occured on screen)? Why?
Hmm. Cordy/Groo, maybe?
12) Your least favourite 'ship (one that didn't occur but some fans would believe in it)? Why?
Connor/Anyone Else. I actually like the character of Connor, but he got a little whiny in relationships. :-)
13) Your least favourite arc? Why?
Probably the Pylea arc. I like Angel dark and urban. It's kinda annoying that the only reason they did Pylea was because Julie Benz was unavailable and the team were doing a lot of dark stuff on Buffy (end of S5) and wanted a light-hearted break from it all. Bah.
14) Your least favourite death? Why?
Hmm... there aren't a lot that I dislike on AtS. Maybe Gavin's death in "Habeas Corpses"? Would have been nice to find out more about him.
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A. First BTVS
1) Your least favourite season? Four... but it does have some of the truly great episodes, so although it's least favourite, I'm only saying that because of the lameness of Adam - the naffest BB ever, and for a truly weak episode: Beer Bad - I was embarrassed to watch SMG in this and to me I think she was embarrassed doing it.
2) Your least favourite episode? Beer Bad for the appalling concept.
3) Your least favourite finale? Chosen... I don't know any true fan who came away satisfied with the way S7 ended.
4) Your least favourite beginning? S7 Lessons. The whole scaring of Dawn and her new school pals was too contrived. Spike's presence in the basement of the school, convenient. And it really set the scene for a pessimistic season ahead.
5) Your least favourite moment? Buffy throwing money at Spike and telling him he was beneath her. I felt that she was so shallow and had no compassion and treated Spike as a 'things'... which would have been OK if she behaved consistently like a Council brainwashed tool, but those actions conflicted with her apparent ability to fall for another vampire, Angel...
6) Your least favourite main character? I don't think I ever had a least favourite in the ensemble cast until Willow suddenly became gay and fell for Tara, and then Willow fell into my bad book... nothing to do with sexual orientation, it was more to do with the way it was so abruptly thrust upon us. I think it devalused the Willow/Oz relationship, and I'd seen that as a very powerful and beautiful thing.
7) Your least favourite minor character? Amy... I think because the actress did such a good job of making her a rat. She's tie very closely with Rack... again all credit to the great acting.
8) Your least favourite BB? Adam was the most disappointing because the whole Initiative thing had such potential until... he was revealed and he just looked so silly that I believe his role devalued what Maggie Walsh and the Initiative had built through suspense so that they became a farce.
9)Your least favourite Villain (aka little bad)? Veruca the female werewolf for seducing Oz...
10) Your least favourite monster of the week? The little fear demon in Fear, Itself... what a let down.
11) Your least favourite pairing (one that actually occured on screen)? Willow and Tara, because I liked Willow & Oz so much and I just hated the way Willow became lesbian overnight... Tara was a great character, I have to say, but if she was going to pair with another female, Anya would have been more believable for me.
12) Your least favourite 'ship (one that didn't occur but some fans would believe in it)? Spander seems to have become something of a fanfic obsession. There's no way I'd see that one happening in canon. Similarly, Spawn, Spiles, Spillow or any that didn't fit canon.
13) Your least favourite arc? The Masters plot... not really a proper arc IMO... Master Vampires will always be plotting to destroy and take over, it's their raison d'etre. Boring.
14) Your least favourite death? SPIKE! I deny it happened anyway - I want proof, the dust! Tara...
Haven't done AtS because although I own DVD's of the five series I've only watched some of S1 and all of S5 - sorry.
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1) Your least favourite season? Why?
-S7. I just found the whole First Evil thing tiring and in a way the show seemed to have lost its spark. And then there were the SITs who annoyed me and Buffy giving all those empowering speeches and eh. I would have appreciated more Scooby stuff.
2) Your least favourite episode? Why?
-I don't think I have one that I really hate, actually. I do remember that Ted and Bad Eggs kinda bored me.
3) Your least favourite finale? Why?
-Probably S6, because of Buffy's cheesey I want to show you the world thing. S4 comes close though, minus Restless, which I love.
4) Your least favourite beginning? Why?
-S2, because Buffy is such a bitch when she comes back.
5) Your least favourite moment? Why?
-Plenty.
6) Your least favourite main character? Why?
-Xander or Buffy, because both grated on my nerves for a good long while.
7) Your least favourite minor character? Why?
-Riley. Or does he count as major? Not in my book, at least!
8) Your least favourite BB? Why?
-The Master. Compared to Glory and others, he was lame.
9)Your least favourite Villain (aka little bad)? Why?
-My memory isn't serving me well here!
10) Your least favourite monster of the week? Why?
-Willow's computer demon thingy, or Ted or those fish-turned humans on the swim team.
11) Your least favourite pairing (one that actually occured on screen)? Why?
-Buffy/Riley, because both of them bored me.
12) Your least favourite 'ship (one that didn't occur but some fans would believe in it)? Why?
-B/X, I honestly never thought it would happen and when I first came onto the boards, the idea that people believed in it made me lol. It was ridiculous and I never saw it any other way.
13) Your least favourite arc? Why?
-Adam and the initiative wasn't that good but it was an interesting idea and that season had a lot of good episodes. So I'd have to say S7.
14) Your least favourite death? Why?
-Anya. It was just so sudden and there just wasn't any closure. Spike had his glory and got resurrected afterwards and we saw how much Tara's death changed, not to mention Joyce's and Jenny's was this whole dramatic thing... but Anya's just seemed so pointless. Like they wanted to kill someone else off too and she was expendable.
I haven't seen all AtS seasons yet so I can't do that one!
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1) Your least favourite season? Why?
season 6 : I didn't like the way they wrote the characters. I didn't bought Willow's 'addiction' to magic since it seems to me that her issues were with control, I didn't really understand where Xander wedding issues came from, and I feel like they never gave Buffy and Spike a chance, and thus stayed in a black-and-white world, instead of exploring shades of grey.
2) Your least favourite episode? Why?
"As you were" : it seemed like a cheap way to break Buffy and Spike off. Riley's story about Spike being the Doctor doesn't hold, everyone knows that Spike isn't an international arm dealer, besides, he would have kept them cold. And Riley marrying someone less than a year after meeting her is hard to believe as well.
3) Your least favourite finale? Why?
Grave. Partly because I really dislike the second half of season 6, and partly because some things didn't make sense. Wilow supposedly getting her magic from a 'tainted' place, while Giles' borrowed one came from the 'pure'place (we had never heard anything about that before), Giles letting himself being drained on purpose, well everything seems wrong to me.
4) Your least favourite beginning? Why?
Dracula : I think that playing with such a myth, especially considering that Dracula doesn't really obey to the same rules than the vampires in the Whedon'verse, was a mistake. It could have been okay if we had gotten an answer during season 5 to the questions about the Slayer that the episode arose, but since we had to wait until season 7 for that...
5) Your least favourite moment? Why?
Tara going back to Willow in seing Red. I simply didn't understand why she did it. I mean, Willow had pretty much mind-raped her, twice, and knowing how she felt about Glory doing almost the same thing, and Tara just went back to her and they had sex. Without really adressing their issues.
6) Your least favourite main character? Why?
Anya, until season 6, and Giles in seasons 6 and 7.
Anya wasn't really attracive in her three first season.
As for Giles, he played the role of Buffy surrogate father for the five first season and then reverted to an outsider role. I think we were supposed to believe that Giles was acting as a father letting his daughter go, but no father worth the name would abandon his daughter at a time when she is obviously depressed, especially knowing that she doesn't have any experience of real life. Besides, the way he tried to interfere with her life in season 7 angered me.
7) Your least favourite minor character? Why?
Jonathan. He seems completely useless to me and he never grow up as a character.
8) Your least favourite BB? Why?
The Master. It wasn't really a Big Bad, when you look at the whole. He was just this very old vamp stuck in a cave.
9)Your least favourite Villain (aka little bad)? Why?
The Trio. They were completely useless IMO. I think teh season 6 could have had Willow as a Big Bad and it would have worked way better.
10) Your least favourite monster of the week? Why?
Amy's mother. Maybe it's just me but a mother stealing her daughter's body just to be a cheerleader again seems kind of lame to me. But, well, it was the first season.
11) Your least favourite pairing (one that actually occured on screen)? Why?
Buffy/Riley. They didn't share the same view of the world from the very beginning. Riley was trying to look at the demons from a logical POV while Buffy was more about the mystical.
12) Your least favourite 'ship (one that didn't occur but some fans would believe in it)? Why?
Buffy/Giles. Their relationship is purely a father/daugher or a teacher/student one. Thinking of them in that way makes me shudder.
13) Your least favourite arc? Why?
The First. Nothing useful really happenned before the tenth episode and the rest of the season was rushed. Besides it had a lot of loose ends.
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Tara. She was the last grown up character on Buffy (not counting Giles because he wasn't there half the time) and I felt like they killed her because they needed something to make Willow snap. And that they needed Willow to snap because they didn't know how to end the season.
Wow. Looking back at this, I think I have a lot of issues with season 6.
And since I never watched Ats, I can't answer the second part.
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2) Your least favourite episode? Why? ummm...probably Chosen just 'cause it was the last one
3) Your least favourite finale? Why? Chosen just becuase it was the end
4) Your least favourite beginning? Why? not sure
5) Your least favourite moment? Why? the AR probably but not sure
6) Your least favourite main character? Why? Riley maybe
7) Your least favourite minor character? Why? not sure...possibly Travers. I just hate his attitude...wanna slap him one in Helpless.
8) Your least favourite BB? Why? The FE, just didn't like S7 in general.
9)Your least favourite Villain (aka little bad)? Why? don't know
10) Your least favourite monster of the week? Why? don't know although I wasn't really fond of the Bezoar thing
11) Your least favourite pairing (one that actually occured on screen)? Why? Spuffy but just becuase I'm a big Bangel shipper
12) Your least favourite 'ship (one that didn't occur but some fans would believe in it)? Why? Giles/Ethan *ducks things thrown by Chani* I really don't truly *dislike* persay any ships if that's any consolation
13) Your least favourite arc? Why? ummm...the FE, there were just a lot of better ones.
14) Your least favourite death? Why? Spike, never liked him much anyway
B. Now Ats
1) Your least favourite season? Why? hmm...S3...not that the Connor arc was bad, just not a favorite.
2) Your least favourite episode? Why? NFA! it was the finale and i hate cliffhangers
3) Your least favourite finale? Why? NFA, see above
4) Your least favourite beginning? Why? not sure
5) Your least favourite moment? Why? Connor/Cordy. Just...ewww.
6) Your least favourite main character? Why? Connor, too bratty for too long.
7) Your least favourite minor character? Why? ummm...
8) Your least favourite BB? Why? CotBT, they didn't establish them enough
9)Your least favourite Villain (aka little bad)? Why? Holtz, just didn't care for him
10) Your least favourite monster of the week? Why? probably the ninjas just because they weren't explained at all.
11) Your least favourite pairing (one that actually occured on screen)? Why? Connor/Cordy. Again, eww.
12) Your least favourite 'ship (one that didn't occur but some fans would believe in it)? Why? Spangel...again the Bangel bias
13) Your least favourite arc? Why? the last few eps of S5, they didn't come together well for me.
14) Your least favourite death? Why? Lindsey, I never cared for him anyway. He was a good villain just not a fave char.