Best Season Ever

[shipperx]

[Poll #914215]

Comments

[owenthurman.livejournal.com]

Um, Buffy S2 and S5? What about S3 and S6? You know, the good seasons?

I picked VM S1 because I'm not voting for third-best Buffy seasons.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's how you look at them. Season 3 had really strong stand-alone episodes but I don't think it was the strongest story arc. While there are several episodes I think rank as BtVS's best episodes in those seasons, I don't think that the arc was particularly tight in Seasons 3 and 6, IMO. The season as a whole isn't as strong as the sum of its parts. Whereas the seasonal arc in 2 and 5 redeems some of the admittedly weak episodes in the seasons.

[darynthe.livejournal.com]

Eh why not season 6 of Buffy? That one is definitely the best. But since it is not competing I have to totally go for the Xfiles season 3 Yay!(but some of the ones you mention there are from season 2? not sure anymore)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I think Season 6 is marred because, though it has an excellent first act, the plot begins to become repetitious and meander starting with the middle, and the Flower Epiphany at the end with the Crayon speech didn't seem like a strong conclusion to the arc.

And, I tend to agree with many that the lack of Season 7 following up on the aftermath of Season 6 weakens the impact of six as it seems in many ways to exist in a bubble with Buffy and the Scoobs in Season 7 thinking "that wasn't really us."

So, despite an incredibly good set-up and some great episodes, as a rising action - climax thing, I think Season 6 suffers especially badly in Act II and didn't produce a climax strong enough to really top it off.

Basically... I loathe the Flower Epiphany.

[darynthe.livejournal.com]

Oh I see your point now. I realize now I have totally deleted that last episode from my mind because it was so terrible that I had to supress it. I think more than an arch it was character and archetype exploration and I take it as such, as probably the best written season of TV. But of course that is something that is very disputed, it had alwyas been the most loved and the most hated season of Buffster. I do like a lot s7 if looked through the archetype and hero journey POV. But indeed, that Xfiles of S3, still is something undisputable excellent and orginalbe and lovable.