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I’d like to thank everyone at Long and Short Reviews for hosting me today in celebration of my latest release Twice Bitten. So today I thought I’d do a Top 5 list of my all time favorite episodes of one of the best vampire shows ever, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
5.) Band Candy (Season 3, Episode 6)
In this episode, candy being sold by the high school band was laced with a drug that turned all the adults in town into teenagers emotionally and mentally speaking. It was so much fun to watch the role reversal of the teens taking on the parental role and vice versa. It gives the Scooby gang the opportunity to realize that the adults in their lives weren’t always responsible grown-ups, but hormonal, out of control teens just like them. Plus, bad boy Giles was a hoot and it was hilarious when Buffy came across Giles and her mom making out on the hood of a car. It was such a fun episode
4.) Hush (Season 4, episode 10)
This episode was awesome and creepy. I mean crazy, smiling, demons in three piece suits who have the ability to steal the voices of an entire town to prevent people from screaming, and then harvesting organs. I remember being absolutely riveted to every moment. in fact, I was doing that horror movie watch from between your fingers thing. Also, it forced the characters to find different ways of expressing themselves which allowed them to open up in ways that they might not have been able to do verbally.
3.) The Body (Season 5, Episode 16)
This episode is just so heartbreaking and captivating. The Body is the episode where Buffy’s mother dies from a ruptured aneurysm following the removal of a cancerous brain tumor. Seeing Buffy when she finds her mother broke my heart. The slayer is absolutely devastated and at a total loss for what to do. Here is a girl who faces monsters and vampires every day. The fate of the world rests on her shoulders, but the one monster she can’t challenge and defeat is human illness and the frailty of the human body. Watching her turn to her friends to help her grieve and basically just to function gets to me every time. But the person who absolutely devastates me is Anya. A demon turned mortal who doesn’t understand mortality. This quote absolutely guts me every time. “But I don’t understand! I don’t understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she’s, there’s just a body, and I don’t understand why she just can’t get back in it and not be dead anymore! It’s stupid! It’s mortal and stupid! And, and Xander’s crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well Joyce will never have any more fruit punch, ever, and she’ll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why.” Excuse me while I go find a tissue.
2.) Becoming Parts 1 & 2 (Season 2, Episodes 21 & 22)
Another heartbreaker, especially for me, because I was totally team Angel. These episodes are epic. You get Angel’s back story and learn how he became a tortured self-loathing vampire. All the while evil Angel is on a rampage killing Kendra, another slayer, torturing Giles, and just being generally evil. But imagine how terrible it must be to have the man that you love become evil incarnate and put you in the position where you have no choice but to kill him in order to save the world(again). To make matters worse, just before she kills him he becomes her boyfriend again, the good Angel. I mean the writers of this show put the characters and the fans through the wringer. It was amazing and awful and infuriating all at once, but I never missed an episode. Plus this is where we get to see Willow start dabbling with witchcraft and casting her first successful spell. I really like witch Willow and I loved her and Tara and their powers together. As the episode ends, of course they play a Sarah McLachlan song. If you weren’t already emotion-snacking at this point, that song was bound to push you over the edge. I really enjoy Sarah’s music, but wow is her stuff angsty and depressing. Just thinking about it makes me want some ice cream.
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The musical episode. No top five about Buffy is complete without this episode. I LOVE THIS EPISODE. Now perhaps it’s because I love musical theater and this hits all the right notes, pun intended, for me. I don’t know, but it’s always a go to episode for me. I love the fact that Joss Whedon made the fact that everyone was singing and dancing in Sunnydale make perfect sense. I also love the he uses the songs as a medium for the characters to express emotions that they were hiding from themselves and from others. This episode is fun, emotional, and I sing along every time.
So Buffy fans, what’s your favorite episode?
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About the Author:
Rayna Vause is a lifetime learner who wants to live on a Disney cruise ship travelling the world and thinks purple should be considered a natural hair color. She’s fascinated by the magic and mystery in the world; things like psychics, demons, cats (especially cats!) and true love. A proud geek, she injects some of her science and tech-obsessed soul into every story she writes. When not writing she’s pursuing another degree, running a conference, working through her massive TBR pile, losing herself in a video game, and plotting her next novel.
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