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Because Flyboy demanded it, Your Favourite 'Buffy/Angel' episodes and why?

  
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
11:53 / 09.06.04
He did so!

I'll be back later with some of my choices, but I thought I'd start you off.
 
 
Bear
13:19 / 09.06.04
Someone posted on one of the other threads that there wasn't enough fighting in both shows, which I totally agree with. I think the fights in Buffy/Angel have on the whole been awful apart from -

Five by Five - Angel v Faith (Angel Season 1)
Fool for Love - Spike v Slayer (Buffy Season 5)
Fear, Itself - Buffy v Fear Demon (Buffy Season 4)

There must be more from Angel...

Relating to favourite episodes (kinda) Angel or Buffy overall?
 
 
Nobody's girl
13:35 / 09.06.04
Season 1-
Didn't really have any that stand out for me.

Season 2-

Ted Evil stepfather- classic.

Season 3-

Band Candy Giles and Joyce get it ON!

Gingerbread Little demon children get Joyce to form "MOO" Mothers Opposing the Occult. Hehe.

The Zeppo Xander kicks ass and loses his virginity with Faith.

Doppelgangland Evil Willow is fantastically titilating. Yum!

The Prom Awwwww, it's all so sweet when they give Buffy the "Class Protector" umbrella.

Graduation Day 1 and 2, obviously.

Season three was my favourite if only for the Mayor.

Season 4-

Wild at Heart Willow and Oz were such a sexy couple, this is the one where Oz meets the werewolf chick.

Hush Wanking gesticulations and creepy floating men.

Superstar Jonathan 007.

New Moon Rising Oz returns and finds Willow has a girlfirend. Sniff.

Restless was weird and wonderful.

Season 5-

The Body Was excellent. Anya's speech had me crying. I loved the surreal quality of everything, it reminded me of the time my Stepfather died.
There's a Buffy Music video (like Anime Music video) of The Body set to "Western Eyes" by Portishead, it's strangely really good.

The Gift Was where Buffy should have died. It would've been a good ending.

Season 6-

Once More With Feeling I was sceptical, but it was a great episode.

Doublemeat Palace Buffy works at a fast food shop, we all rejoice.

Villians Tara gets shot!

Two to Go Willow goes bugfuck, wheeeeee!

Season 7-

Was shit. SMG's thinly disguised speeches about how she carried the rest of the cast pissed me off. Buffy should've died in Season 5 and stayed that way as she contributed nothing to the later seasons.

There were a few saving episodes-

Converstaions with Dead People Was ace, very sinister.

Storyteller Andrew is finally given some depth.


I was hoping that the last episode would make it all seem worth slogging through the last two seasons, perhaps they'd pull out all the stops and it'd be like Season 3 again... vain hope eh?
 
 
_Boboss
14:01 / 09.06.04
penultimate episode of buffy season 4


unless you can think of any other episode where someone's hand morphs into a gatling gun
 
 
gridley
14:35 / 09.06.04
Restless, aka the Dream episode.

This episode just blew me away. It was scary. It was hilarious. It was surreal. And it was chocked full of more character development than you can expect from a whole season of any other show.

Every time I watch it, I'm amazed how they packed so much into a single episode.

And if I may quote my favorite line (it's Buffy performing in a bizarre version of "Death of a Salesman" in Willow's dream):

"But what else could I expect from a bunch of low-rent, no-account hoodlums like you? Hoodlums, yes, I mean you and your friends, your whole sex, throw 'em in the sea for all I care, throw 'em in and wait for the bubbles, men with your groping and spitting all groin no brain three billion of you passing around the same worn-out urge. Men! With your ... sales!"
 
 
■
16:35 / 09.06.04
Still can't beat the full cut of Once More WIth Feeling.
There are lots more. I can't remember the episode, but one of the best quotes is this:
Giles:"Xander, don't taunt the fear demon."
Xander:"Why, is it dangerous?"
Giles:"No, it's tacky."
 
 
Mourne Kransky
16:54 / 09.06.04
Hush, with the scary scary Gentlemen and their straitjacketed menservants. Comparatively late but that sucked me in to the whole thing. Still gives me nightmares.

Secondly, polar opposite in a way but still playing with the sound: Once More With Feeling because of its audacity in playing with the form and because, against all reason, it worked. And because Hanabius sings me the songs, word perfect, when we're pissed.

Thirdly, next but one sequentially, Smashed, because Buffy finally rogers lovely Spike. I had a hard on for days.

Have to confess, I've seen none of season 7 but the dvd's on its way from Amazon.
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
17:02 / 09.06.04
Ooh, man. Toughie.

I'll just start with a whole heaping helping of Angel Season 5.

Hole In The World/Shell(s?)
Amy Acker reveals her powers as the most three dimensional actress in the Buffiverse. Best death scene in Whedon history. Also, Spike & Angel on a private jet make me laugh.

Time Bomb
It's that issue of Fantastic Four with the time on every page but on television. Also, we get some classic Illyria bits.

Not Fade Away
"I am feeling grief for him. I don't seem to be able to control it. I wish to do more violence."

Nuff fucking said. Can you tell I love Illyria the mostest?

Buffy:

Season 1
Which ever one ends on Angel with cross burned into his chest. Best Buffy shot ever! R0XX0R!!

Season 2
Becoming Part 2
The mall reveal is why we all must convince Matthew to watch Season 2.

I also get goosebumps in the penultimate episode, when Whistler drops, "You will," just as the cops come into frame. Gah! So good! That whole slow-mo sequence...whoo!

Season 3

Season premiere. Otis from Kicking & Screaming as the Devil. Best drama shot of Buffy (the one that was ever in the opening credits). That Ghandi line. Great stuff.

The prom episode was also a personal favorite. The umbrella is just so heartwarming and joy.

Season 4

I, Roommate. So bestest.

I'm obviously poorly remembering episode names, but the episode where all the Scoobies have been rent personally asunder and it's revealed that Willow is gay, you hear Giles upstairs mutter, "Bloody hell," in pretty much the funniest way ever.

Season 5

The Body, naturally. But also The Gift. Tears.

The whole last cycle of episodes, when Willow saves Tara and they're all on the run. Juicy good stuff.

Season 6

Once More With Feeling Just Is So Good. They got the mustard out, bro. They got the mustard out.

I also like the bits towards the front of the season where Buffy is sharing with Spike, particularly behind the Magic Box when she reveals that she was in Heaven. Yikes. And it all dovetails so beautifully into OMWF when Spike stops her from commiting suicide. "So one of us is living." Pretty the entire Buffy/Vampire dynamic of the entire series is summed up in that one line.

Season 7
I loved the Cassandra episode.

I loved Conversations With Dead People.

I too loved Storyteller.

I also liked the PermaSlayer conceit in the finale. Well played.

Angel, I'm currently in the midst of the Box Sets. Nothing particularly struck me in the fourth season (or, really, the first). But I'm holding out hope for 2 and 3.

Wait!

Angel:

Season 1

The episode where Angel becomes human. That was a good friggin' episode.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
17:08 / 09.06.04
I share the exact same Buffy taste as Nobody's Girl but I love the hyena episode from season 1, they eat the Principal, that is good.
 
 
PatrickMM
03:46 / 11.06.04
Buffy:

Season 2

Innocence - This is when the show went from something I liked, to just a pressing desire to see the next episode. This took everything up to another level.

Passion - The death of Jenny was brutal, the roses and opera music, Angel watching Buffy and Willow crying.

Becoming II - Spike and Joyce, Buffy killing Angel, Willow doing the spell, Xander not telling Buffy about the spell, Jenny torturing Giles, all spectacular stuff.

Season 3

Amends - A really underrated episode. The snow at the end might be a bit cheesy, but in context, it just works. Plus, the great Barry White Willow seduction scene.

Season 4

Wild at Heart/New Moon Rising - Both of these are just brutal episodes, full of really awkward and heartbreaking moments. Seth Green gets better material in these two episodes than in all the episodes he'd done before. Plus, the candle blowing out at the end of NMR, it's so much more romantic than the copious Buffy/Riley sex of the same era

Restless - Forget Buffy, other than the last episode of Twin Peaks, this is the best episode of any series on television ever. As a season finale, it completely confounded my expectations, but from that first zoom into Willow, then the writing on Tara's back scene, just complete love.

Season 5

Spike's love for Buffy was the highlight of this season for me, especially the Buffybot, the first "I'm coming" dream, as well as all of Fool for Love.

The Body - The most realistic portrayal of grief I've ever seen. It captured not only the sadness, but also the awkwardness of dealing with people who've just lost someone. The Anya speech is her best moment.

Season Six
OMWF - Tara and Giles singing together, heartbreakingly beautiful. The thing that really struck about the episode was not only the amazing songs, but the way it felt like all of season six was constructed just to make the episode, it was so integrated into the plot of the season, just great.

I loved a lot of moments in this season. The first Buffy/Spike sex scene, which was completely unexpected, and was amazingly erotic. Buffy's confession to Tara that she'd been having sex with Spike. Tara's death. Willow ripping the skin off Warren. Giles' entrance at the end.

Season Seven

Selfless - The 800 flashback, the musical flashback, just a great episode, about one of the show's best, and most underused characters.

There's a lot more, but these were the absolute highlights for me.
 
  
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