The Mayor is number one for me in the Buffyverse.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
DavidS - Jan 01, 2012 7:21:00 am PST #8054 of 10459
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
amyth - Jan 01, 2012 7:24:28 am PST #8055 of 10459
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
I'm enjoying The Mayor right now. I'm up to Bad Girls in my rewatch. I love S3 so much. So many great episodes left.
Kate P. - Jan 01, 2012 7:24:36 am PST #8056 of 10459
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
"I just wanna be a giant snake."
§ ita § - Jan 01, 2012 7:29:21 am PST #8057 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Mayor isn't my favourite Buffy Big Bad, but he is one of my favourite Big Bads ever. I'm not entirely sure why those two lists don't have to line up. I prefer S2 Spike as an antagonist, because of his relationship with Angel and growing relationship with Buffy, as well as the ever-present Dru delight.
But I think the Mayor stands out among antagonists as a whole. He's complicated, layered, and unremittingly concerned with evil. But that doesn't mean he can't be nice. And I don't see that much on other shows. So Spike does more Buffy-specific things for me, but the Mayor breaks a bigger mould, and I give him major points for that.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 01, 2012 7:33:18 am PST #8058 of 10459
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Just that scene in GD part 2 when his hate and grief over Faith at the hospital... and earlier when he's telling himself that "she's gonna be all right."
Also when Giles stabs him with the foil: "Ok, WHOA!!"
I just love his complex chatacterization, his twisted dysfunctional father love for Faith, his mercilessness and goofiness. And Harry Groener is amazing.
Steph L. - Jan 01, 2012 8:46:04 am PST #8059 of 10459
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I just love his complex chatacterization, his twisted dysfunctional father love for Faith, his mercilessness and goofiness.
This. All of this. I think the first time I watched S3, it was on bootleg tapes from someone on the internet, so I was watching as fast as possible because I just wanted to see it all. And I think the first time through I missed a lot of the Mayor's menace -- certainly his obvious moments stood out ("That's quite a spunky girl you've raised there...I'm going to EAT her."), but there's a lot of subtle menace going on even when he's not being actively menacing.
And his relationship with Faith is so awesome.
Polter-Cow - Jan 01, 2012 9:01:32 am PST #8060 of 10459
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Mayor is definitely my favorite, which is why season three is my favorite. Also because it's more solid overall, on an episode-by-episode basis, than season two.
Polter-Cow - Jan 03, 2012 11:35:51 am PST #8061 of 10459
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Mark's "School Hard" review. Oh, he is so unprepared.
Bizarrely, no mention of Drusilla at all, and his warning against "crazy" is about Spike.
Reason to read the comments, though: someone described Drusilla as evil Luna Lovegood. PERFECT.
Atropa - Jan 03, 2012 11:38:12 am PST #8062 of 10459
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
someone described Drusilla as evil Luna Lovegood. PERFECT.
Oh my. That is perfect.
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 12:19:16 pm PST #8063 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, having just read that, I'm not sure I could take this level of enthusiasm and ass capping on a regular basis. Power to him for falling under the spell, though.
There's yet much realer for shit to get.