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So many wonderful moments....
Briefly - the sudden chorus line of vampires at the start of "Once More with feeling" - She does very well with fiends from hell, but lately we can tell - showing that it is going to be stylistically a musical, not just an episode of Buffy with singing.
And for funniest moment - so many to choose from. Generally it's my main man Giles, but my quick pick is "Graduation Day", when the delirious Angel gets increasingly affectionate with Willow until it becomes clear a) that he thinks she's Buffy and b) that he's going to try to snog her. As she exits, she exchanges a brief line with Oz, who is coming to relieve her:
Willow: He's getting worse. He thought I was Buffy.
Oz: You too?
It's just the delivery. Unbelievable.
And speaking of Giles - his comic moments are beautiufl (ASH has incredible timing), his musical interludes fantastic ("now I remember why I had such a crush on him at high school"), but the bits where he takes things not just seriously in "ancient duty blah blah I'm so stuffy give me a scone" style, but *really* seriously are wonderful - the speech at the end of series 5 when you realise that he is going to kill a man in cold blood, or his fantastic snap at Travers in Helpless, "You're waging a war, she's fighting it,". Rock the party.
And, I know I've mentioned this on the "Season Finale" thread, but what I always liked was the amity, particularly in the High School seasons - you had a core cast of four people who genuinely liked each other, and wanted things to go well for each other, with superb support from Cordelia, Oz and Faith, among others. Buffy was full of moments of acceptance, where the expanding core restated its desire to accept and support each other. Like Spike - before they started mangling his character in Series 6, there is a lovely moment, again in The Gift, where Giles and Spike, who have always cordially disliked each other, bond briefly over a mutual understanding - they both know Henry V, and that's a moment when Spike finally seems to have been accepted into the group.
Basically, Buffy at its best was very funny, very clever, but also very human, and it's that combination that is going to be so hard to recapture. |
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