I hated Deep Space Nine with a passion.

Gloomcookie just made me cry.

Bashir-as-Bond was glorious.

"Kiss the girl, get the key. They didn't teach me that in the Obsidian Order."

Another unpopular opinion: LOVED Voyager.

Today, my favorite Buffy seasons are, in order of preference:

3
2
6
4
5
1
7

Two and Three swap with each other on occasion, as do Four and Five, with six mixing it up with them, every once in a while, usually because four has cut ahead of it. Sometimes, my Becoming love is so strong, I give season 2 top billing, just because of that (with a side of S/I, and IOHEfY). I don't care what Joss thinks about Surprise/Innocence (which I do love), or what the critics say about The Body, and Hush, or my own, extreme delight in OMWF, Becoming is the two finest hours of television anyone will ever make.

Episodes that still light my fire (in no particular order, after Becoming):

Becoming (I don't split the hours)
Surprise/Innocence
Restless
Primeval
Passion
Hush
Checkpoint
Welcome to the Hellmouth/The Harvest
NKaBotFD
The Pack
Angel
Prophecy Girl
When She Was Bad
School Hard
Halloween
Lie to Me
The Dark Age
I Only Have Eyes for You
Phases
BBaB
All of Season 3, save Anne, which is also good
All of Season 4, save The Freshman and Living Conditions, which are good
Buffy vs. Dracula

You know what, I can't even do this. My top ten episodes would contain 50 titles. My top 100 would contain the whole gross. I just love the wonderful show with the silly name. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. I'm looking at the episode list, season by season at Buffyguide.com and, as you can probably tell from my list which wouldn't have ended, except that I stopped composing it, and I kept thinking, "Yep, gotta include that. Oh, and that. Oh and that one had the funny with the..." yeah.

A:ts hit me somewhere else--deeper, and darker. My love for it is different. But if I had to choose only one TV series to watch in my life, before the Powers that Be folded time, my last words before the clocks turned back would be, "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer."

But if I had to choose only one TV series to watch in my life, before the Powers that Be folded time, my last words before the clocks turned back would be, "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer."

Amen.

Episodes that still light my fire

Yep. Note the earlyness of most of that list, key for me too.

my last words before the clocks turned back would be, "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.

Ditto. I'd like to have this board to talk about it, and watch-n-post, etc. The Bronze added so much to my already extreme enjoyment of the show.

Yep. Note the earlyness of most of that list, key for me too.

See, my list wouldn't have tapered until we got to season 7. And even then, I haven't rewatched that in total, so I don't know how I'd feel now. Fandom had such an effect on my opinions, and feelings about the show--arcs, episodes, seasons. And when I say fandom, I mean the good (here, and the old Bronze), the bad (fandom craziness), and the ugly ('it was just attempted sex'), that I don't know if I would have appreciated half of what I love, or have been bothered by half of what made me pull my hair out, if I'd watched this, without the internets.

Cindy made me tear up.

We should arrange Buffy watch-and-posts. Many many of us have the DVDs, I'm sure.

We should arrange Buffy watch-and-posts. Many many of us have the DVDs, I'm sure.

I was thinking of suggesting (but then I started moving and got distracted) watching the episodes in order again together (maybe one per week) and talking about them. I didn't join until Season 5, so I missed 4 seasons of Buffista-talk.

But a watch-n-post of select episodes would be fun, too.

Except as Cindy sorta pointed out: pretty much every episode would have somebody rooting for it. The whole thing would be more fun.