January 26
2016
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Seasons ranked.
One of the fandom's more non-contentious topics.
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Season 1
Season 4
Season 7
Season 2
Season 3
Season 6
Season 5
NFA110 | January 26, 07:01 CET
3, 2, 5, 6, 7, 4, 1
KissingToast | January 26, 07:36 CET
I'd also like to out myself as the seemingly only human being on the planet who actually enjoys Beer Bad.
D-e-f- | January 26, 08:15 CET
Season 6
Season 2
Season 7
Season 3
Season 5
Season 4
Season 1
@D-e-f- The problem with Season 4 is very simple: Adam was a terrible big bad. If they had stayed with the Scoobies vs Initiative storyline, it would be one of the best seasons. The Frankenstein story is overdone. Adam was boring and had absolutely no shading as a character because he barely was one.
Ricardo L. | January 26, 08:32 CET
I suppose this was by design to make him a blank canvas with only the word 'Monster' on it. But it would have been a very interesting drop in, if sometime during Season 5, 6 or 7 we had suddenly and unexpectedly learned something about him. It would not have had to be that big. Was he a monster before he became a monster? A Good Man? A Volunteer or a Draftee? It really could have reframed him as a character, and therefore much of the ending arc of Season 4.
RobynH | January 26, 08:50 CET
Stoney | January 26, 08:52 CET
TwelveDozen | January 26, 09:23 CET
ManEnoughToAdmitIt | January 26, 10:07 CET
Leaf | January 26, 11:07 CET
No...there is another. (Me, that is.)
As for best seasons--whichever one you like best is the best...for you. This is not something we can be right or wrong about nor is it something you can have a meaningful argument about. If you enjoyed S7, then S7 told a story you needed/wanted to hear. Me banging on at length about why it didn't work for me doesn't change that fact one iota.
We can have useful and meaningful discussions about what episodes are about, how they work, what the writers were trying to say, how the actors played their parts etc. etc. etc. But I just am so fed up with the Internet's endless game of clickbait "10-best" lists. They're just not interesting propositions for discussion; they're just occasions to make people feel bad about having divergent opinions and tastes--something we actually ought to celebrate. Wouldn't it be a dreary world if we all like the same things in the same ways?
Yoink | January 26, 11:29 CET
I can't rate the seasons because I love them all but if pushed, I'd pick Season 6 as my favorite and everything else comes in 2nd place equally.
bloodyrockerswitch | January 26, 11:31 CET
And the divide between 4-5 is closer than some might believe.
Least favorite to most favorite:
1
3
7
6
2
4
5
[ edited by Numfar PTB on 2016-01-26 20:36 ]
Numfar PTB | January 26, 11:34 CET
Even back in the day, there was a very visible disconnect between those that the original High School metaphor appealed to and the dirtier, more adult-world grounded later show.
azzers | January 26, 11:58 CET
Squishy | January 26, 12:52 CET
Hmm that's totally untrue, Joss was completely in charge of season 4 (one of my favorites btw). He only stepped down as showrunner for season 6 because of Firefly. And I believe he was more involved in season 7, sharing the showrunner duties with Marti Noxon.
Nico-Angel | January 26, 13:12 CET
My personal favourite is probably season 7, as I thought it was especially exciting and foreboding, bringing everything and everyone together and working cleverly towards an awesome climax to end the series. But to me, it only works so well because it ties up & closes off everything that came before worked so well.
But I don't really want to rank the seasons. All seasons have their strengths and their great moods and things which worked so well. I find few flaws in the entire series.
S4 - used to be a slightly lesser fave when I first watched it as I didn't like Riley then & Maggie Walsh annoyed me. But there´s so much great stuff happening in-between with all of the Scoobies. On re-watching, Riley grew on me too. I agree that they could have done more with Adam and in general, he's the weakest Big Bad, although I do think there are scenes where he shines (the creepy thing with the kid in the woods).
S6 - overall IMO an extremely strong season with many of the best bits. There's however exactly two Buffy episodes I mostly dislike, which are both in this season: Hells Bells & Normal Again, which makes for a downer close to the end, but those are followed up by greatness again.
Valentijn | January 26, 13:16 CET
StarScribe | January 26, 14:00 CET
RobynH | January 26, 14:53 CET
But every episode has something to like--at least one scene or moment or line of dialogue.
batmarlowe | January 26, 22:02 CET
jclemens | January 26, 23:59 CET
allthingsaverage | January 27, 20:56 CET
Best to worst:
1. Season 6
2. Season 5
3. Season 2
4. Season 4
5. Season 7
6. Season 3
7. Season 1
eyeboogers | January 28, 02:46 CET
It also doesn't help that addiction storylines are among one of the most overused and cliched storylines that a show can do. However it's not as if Buffy hadn't handled it's fair share of overused storylines before.
TangoDH | January 28, 12:55 CET
My seasons from the ones I re-watched most to the ones I re-watched least:
6
5
4
2
7
3
1
But like many have said, they are all great.
Xane | January 28, 21:42 CET
eyeboogers | January 29, 13:37 CET