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Most heartbreaking scenes
The ones that make me cry, every time.
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Anya's “I don't understand how this all happens” speech in The Body (5.16). |
Buffy's death in The Gift (5.22), from her dive off the tower to Spike sobbing at the end. | Oz and Willow break up in Wild at Heart (4.6). | Buffy's “I can't breathe” speech to Willow after Angel breaks up with her in The Prom (4.20). | Buffy's “I'm only 16 — I don't want to die” speech in Prophecy Girl (1.12). |
Other tear-jerkers:
- Angel being mean to Buffy after their night together in Innocence (2.14).
- Buffy's very, very bad day in Becoming, Part 2 (2.22).
- Buffy begging Tara not to forgive her at the end of Dead Things (6.13).
- Spike telling Buffy about his soul at the end of Beneath You (7.2).
- Spike and Anya's deaths in Chosen (7.22).
- Any time Willow cries (seasons 1–7).
Sexiest scenes
The winner and still the champion: Buffy and Spike bring down the house in Smashed (6.9).
More hot stuff:
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Buffy and Faith's sexy dance in Bad Girls (3.14). Slashiest couple ever. |
Buffy and Angel get all hot and bothered via a shared dream in Amends (3.10). | Spike pushes Buffy's buttons in the kitchen in Gone (6.11). | Faith, in Buffy's body, tells Spike she could “ride you at a gallop until your legs buckled and your eyes rolled up” in Who Are You (4.16). | Faith and Spike reminisce about that time in Dirty Girls (7.18). |
Number of episodes in which Buffy and Spike have sex:
5. If you include the BuffyBot: 6.
Number of episodes in which Buffy and Spike kiss: 7. If you include dream
sequences: 8.
Number in which they do both: 1. If you include the BuffyBot: 2. If you
include dream sequences: 3.
Great scenes in mediocre episodes
Proving that every episode of Buffy contains something worth watching.
The
doomed Mr. Gregory recognizes how smart Buffy is in Teacher's Pet
(1.4).
Willow's Eskimo outfit in Inca Mummy Girl (2.4). Both adorable and funny, it also says a lot about where Willow is at this point in her life. And, it introduces Oz.
Giles sings “Behind Blue Eyes” at coffee shop as the Scoobies look on in amazement in Where the Wild Things Are (4.18). Possibly Giles' sexiest moment ever.
Buffy utters the best post-coital line ever in Wrecked (6.10): “When did the building fall down?”
Buffy's dumbfounded reaction to seeing Riley again in As You Were (6.15) is hilarious. “My hat has a cow.”
Xander's “you're not special — you're extraordinary” speech to Dawn in Potential (7.12) almost makes up for the rest of the episode.
Biggest surprises
Includes nothing from seasons 1 and 2, because I didn't start watching until those were in reruns, so I basically knew from the start that Angel would go evil after sex, Jenny Calendar would die, and there would be a second slayer — all things I'm sure would have been huge shocks the first time around.
The
entire graduating class takes on the Mayor in Graduation Day, Part
2 (3.22).
Buffy wins the Class Protector award at The Prom (3.20).
Faiths kills the Deputy Mayor in Bad Girls (3.14).
Riley is a commando, Professor Walsh is a commander, and Spike has a chip. All in The Initiative (4.7).
Spike's
sex dream about Buffy in Out of My Mind (5.4).
Buffy's death in The Gift. (5.22)
Spike feeding again at the end of Conversations with Dead People (7.7).
Unanswered questions
Issues that have never been resolved to my satisfaction.
Why
did Xander and Anya break up? That never really made sense to me. Couldn't
be because they couldn't write a happy couple in an interesting way, could
it? Nah.
Why the repeated and, ultimately never-to-be-explained, references to Buffy's death activating a new slayer? If that's true, why didn't her death in The Gift activate one? Why did these references especially show up in episodes written by Joss? Did he just like that idea so much, he couldn't get rid of it?
What does Dawn's being the Key do to her? Does she have any special powers?
In season 5, Doc said he knew Spike from somewhere (but with brown hair). What the heck was that all about?
How would Buffy react to Angel giving back his humanity (in early Season 4, but on Angel), if she were to find out?
Why didn't Xander or Willow ever talk about Jesse (their alleged best friend) again after he died?
Why didn't Xander fess up when people started self-combusting in Once More with Feeling, and how did he come to terms with causing those deaths?
What was Maggie Walsh's actual plan for Adam and Riley before Adam killed her?
Ultimately, why was the First so interested in slayers and the slayer line?
Favourite Villain
The Mayor — Season 3.