#btvs ranking

[anonymousieee]

for any buffy fans, is this valid?? i only just started s6 lol

[tuiyla]

Ranking Buffy season (so far):

Season 6

Season 5

Season 3

Season 2

Season 4

Season 1

[buffysummers]

Ranking Buffy Summers' hair evolution (as voted by my followers) 2/11

[clarkgriffon]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 7x01 | “Lessons” 

[camellcat]

thinking about making a pack au where they actually stick closer to hyenas than whatever the fuck they did in that episode

bc uh he-LLO? hyenas are like... one of the BIG popular matriarchal animals and we just acted like xander was all scary now? pshh. I mean he was hyenas are scary but buffy is absolutely highest rank top dog here no wayyy he'd be all scary to her since they're already y'know a "pack" of sorts. like I'm pretty sure he'd still defer to her. plus willow! her making friends with buffy first and just generally being a girl he'd rank below her as well (though I do wonder where his stance with giles would be)

and I get that xander already sorta had a new clan with the other possessed kids but even then why was HE at the top of that hierarchy?? in fact it was so barely structured at all I'm only assuming xander was a high rank bc he's just one of our mains. and the shot of them all walking ofc where he was front and center I can read basic filmmaking choices lol

but also hyenas have FRIENDS! they have cliques and groups within their own clan. isn't that so cool? why did they just disregard xander's friendship with the scoobies? I think the fact xander had friends and quite loyal ones is like important? I mean okay I suppose it's all he's in this clan now he's cut ties with the scoobies, but to me at least I think that's kinda boring haha. though actually even if xander had the support of the scoobies, with how that clan were already a group before xander and not with xander at all, he'd actually probably be like real goddamn low anyways instead of more equal like it was shown

look I really have no idea about any of this I've just been looking up hyena facts for the past hour bc I thought it was neat. I simply think they should've done more with this instead of oo look xander's all feral and evil when they literally chose hyena to be their animal. like ooookay then whateverrrr lame

[firelxdykatara]

Rank the buffy seasons :D?

Oooh, absolutely!

This is my personal ranking, in terms of my enjoyment of each season which is in part driven by what I think of the writing/character work/et al, but it's not necessarily the definitive word on which seasons are The Best or whatever. Also, with the exception of the Dead Last ranking for a bunch of reasons, I did enjoy every season so this is 'most favorite to least favorite but still very high up in my esteem'.

Season 2

Season 6

Season 3

Season 5

Season 1

Season 7

Season 4

Season 2 and Season 6 are really tied for first in my head but I think 2 edges out just slightly ahead because it lays the foundations for basically the rest of the series and especially for so much of what I love about the series as a whole and Buffy in particular. Season 1 is only so low because the others hit me harder emotionally, and while I do love season 7 and don't agree with a lot of the way the broader fandom rags on it, it has 'Empty Places' and unlike the season 3 episode 'Dead Man's Party' which I have similar issues with, Empty Places doesn't occur early enough in the season for the remaining episodes to make up for it.

However, season 4 I dislike overall, despite enjoying quite a few of the episodes individually. It is the season that I think has the weakest overall writing in terms of characters as well as plot--the Initiative was an interesting idea but poorly thought out in execution, and the Big Bad was its weakest point narratively, as hilarious as I find Adam sticking three and a half inch floppies in his chest to download knowledge and skills. I read a post somewhere about how the season would have come together more coherently if Riley had been 'Adam' instead of it just being Walsh's weird cobbled-together project, and I'd have to agree, even apart from my dislike for Riley as a character (and that does feed into a lot of my antipathy towards season 4).

That said, even season 4 holds a special soft spot in my heart because there are a lot of episodes that I love individually and also it's the start of Spike's evil domesticated cat arc so I can't hate it too much. I do think that some of it, too, is the transition from BtVS being a high school show to being a college show and Buffy's own transition into young adulthood perhaps hitting closer to home than I'd care to admit, which I think is part of why I take the failed execution and now badly it did not stick the landing so personally. I wanted it to be good, and it wasn't, and now I sit with all these feelings that have nowhere to really go because there's so much that s4 could've done and been and wasn't. Idk, maybe I'll be able to articulate it better on rewatch.

[god-tier-bastard]

i love my profile's personal search bar that shows all my favorite tags. i love when i get into something new and it overtakes the old most popular tag i use. my doctor who tag is hanging on by a thread rn bc my d20 tag is so heavily used. i don't want d20 to win bc im always loyal to doctor who but its so fun to watch.

[alfapratt]

favourite buffyverse female characters from last to first

#10 ● Harmony Kendall

#9 ● Dawn Summers

#8 ● Willow Rosenberg

#7 ● Winifred "Fred" Burkle

#6 ● Joyce Summers

#5 ● Tara Maclay

#4 ● Drusilla

#3 ● Anya Jenkins

#2 ● Buffy Summers

#1 ● Faith Lehane

[takaraphoenix]

Teen Wolf?

Thanks for playing!

favorite character: STILES STILES IS THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD

least favorite character: Kate. But special shout-out to Theo

brOTP: Allison and Lydia

OTP: Sterek. Sterek all the way there is no question this show is the Sterek Show. Shout-out to side-pairings I love: Scott/Allison, Boyd/Erica, Jackson/Lydia, Malia/Kira

OT3: Mh. Sterek and Steter in a "Stiles has two hands (and is Hale-catnip)" way? Which is. Very hard to come by in a non-incestuous way (no judgment. It's just. Not for me). I just generally don't multiship a lot in this fandom, it is very uniquely one where I care more about various platonic relationships than over romantic shipping

NOTP: Scott/Stiles. Theo/Stiles

favorite storyline: oh the Nogitsune all the fucking way. s3B is the most brilliant storyline it's just devastating that it was preceded by s3A

least favorite storyline: lol s6B what the fuck was that even man I hate it so much. Shout-out to s5 for being the second worse and for s4 and s3A for sucking equally though. Only half this show is watchable and that makes me miserable because I still love it

what I wish had happened but didn’t: tHE HALE PACK SHOULD HAVE LIVED. It literally would not have fucking hurt anything at all if Derek and his pack just got to STAY AROUND. Boyd and Erica living. Jackson not leaving. Derek keeping his Alpha spark. Cora not fucking off again. I just want my Hale Pack, man

what happened that I wish hadn’t: feels like I could just rephrase what I just said to put it here too. Additionally, honestly, s6B. Like, s6A fully ended on a photo-finish moment? And then they tagged another half season of ABSOLUTE bullshit on that was aggravating and exhausting. s6A was honestly... not that bad, I mean, it was better than s5 (which is just such a low bar lol like it was very hard to get worse and inexplicably they managed to do it by making s6B), they could have ended on an okay note

Fandom Ask Game!

[oncemorewithqueering]

buffy season rankings:

tw: one (1) mention of assault, nothing graphic

also spoilers!

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this is my opinion and therefore counts for nothing. you can have a dfferent opinion to me and that is totally cool

from last to first:

Season 6: honestly i feel like i need to say very little. the assualt, tara, all of it. good idea in practice but didn't feel like a buffy season to me. also barely any giles and too much warren.

Season 5: i personally don't like glory, i think she's annoying. but i do love dawn and all the drama.

Season 1: this is here purely because it was finding its feet. i love this little baby season so much.

Season 7: i think season 7 was an amazing comeback and i think it is genuinely really funny. minus points for kicking buffy OUT OF HER OWN HOME

Season 4: riley finn ruins this whole season for me. so does adam and the initiative, and its hard to see all the amazing episodes tbh.

Season 2: i cannot describe my pure love for this season. angelus, dru, spike, so many banging episodes and so many classic buffy moments. kendra's 'only shirt'. love it.

Season 3: the mayor. faith. dopplegangland. band candy. mr trick. silly goofy stuff balanced with a great plot. it is the almighty.

jesus i need to go to sleep bye x

[femslashspuffy]

These are the only three 9.7's on imdb I mean seriously what a list

[tuiyla]

Current ranking of Buffyverse faves:

Faith

Willow

Cordelia

Anya

Buffy

Tara

Spike

Dawn

Angel

Fred

[buffysummers]

Ranking Buffy Summers' hair evolution (as voted by my followers) 1/11

[genericaces]

if u did a tier maker of buffyverse ships i would enjoy it 🙏

This is tricky because ships are one of those things that people can get really passionate about, and I don't want to upset anyone. I try to steer clear of any drama when I can, but I also want to feel free to express my opinions, you know? Because god knows I have them.

I guess I'll say before I wade into any discourse that, disclaimer: my enjoyment of a ship doesn't mean I condone what goes on in it, and I can separate fiction from reality. I try not to moralize when it comes to fictional ships and approach them both objectively in terms of quality and also subjectively to my personal tastes. But I also believe that, at the end of the day, it's just fandom and people should do whatever floats their boat.

So with all that being said, here's my (highly personal!) rankings of the ships in Buffyverse:

C Tier:

ATS 1x09 - This is the ship with the bomb that Doyle sacrifices himself to disarm. Now it's a good episode, but this is really the only wide shot we get of the boat. I literally forgot that the climax takes place on the water. The interior is fun with lots of stairs and various apparatuses for fight scenes, but it could just as easily have been a basement or abandoned factory. Honestly, I wasn't too impressed by the ship factor. Rating: 4/10

B Tier:

BTVS 2x13 - You might be thinking, "You're ranking a BACKGROUND ship higher than an actual location?" but hear me out: because the ship is in the background, I actually remembered that this scene had a ship. There's a great fight scene in front of it where Buffy uses the chain along the docks to choke out a bad guy, and then she gets thrown into the water. The ship hangs out in the background the whole time and brings together the whole nautical-themed fight. Rating: Angel diving into the water/10

A Tier:

BTVS 3x15 - Now we're cooking with gas. We get a FULL shot of the whole ship on the dock. The establishing shots linger on the boat more because Buffy and Faith have a confrontation here. Not only do they have a conversation with someone visibly ON a boat, Faith starts out on the upper deck of the boat then swings herself OFF the ramp to argue with Buffy on the docks. Bonuses for a visually dynamic conversation and the boat representing Faith's plans to fuck off, interrupted by HER choice to get off and get in Buffy's face about it instead. Rating: Saving the girl that's supposed to be your enemy/10

S Tier:

ATS 3x22 - I know, we're getting into controversial territory here. But look how beautiful this ship is. Is it a boat? A schooner? A yacht? I don't know, but I DO care. Extra points for it being a plot-necessary boat, of course, since they had to get Angel out into the middle of the sea somehow. What's great about this ship is that it's really condensed all the ship elements into a smaller vessel, so you're aware throughout the tense emotional scenes that you're actually ON a boat in the middle of the sea. It really emphasizes Angel and Connor's isolation at this point in the finale, both physically and emotionally. And, I mean, look at this: we actually have a shot that has most of a boat AND most of a person in it. AND it's the climax of a season finale? THIS is the ultimate Buffyverse ship. Final rating: The misunderstanding-to-patricide pipeline/10

[fallingtowers]

the way buffy the vampire slayer uses guns is really interesting. it's very consistent, and might be divided into three different "tiers" depending on the wielder's role in the story, each of which signifies certain traits:

unnamed background characters, usually police officers, who carry guns as a matter of course. in and of itself i don't think this means much -- it's not much deeper than "cops have guns in the show because cops have guns in real life" -- but because of the way btvs depicts the police, we might call this part and parcel of a symbolic set which marks a character as a "civilian," unaware of the supernatural world and not equipped to deal with it. guns can't kill vampires, so the gun here ironically becomes a symbol of powerlessness.

antagonists. here, the gun signifies callousness, cynicism, and a disregard for life. we see this for example in cain ("phases"), the german commandos ("homecoming"), and patrice ("what's my line"). an interesting case is coach marin ("go fish"), who as far as i can remember never fires his gun but who possesses the traits associated with this tier regardless. note also that characters in this tier are almost universally driven by a desire for money, so that the gun here is also associated with selfishness and greed.

(mostly) major, (mostly) sympathetic characters. here, the gun signifies desperation and psychological anguish on the part of the wielder. the wielder is cracking under some great pressure, and the gun symbolizes a desperate and misguided attempt to reassert control. the standout example here is riley, who does this twice -- once in "goodbye, iowa" and again in "the yoko factor" -- but we might also mention james in "i only have eyes for you" and spike in "fool for love." note also that warren falls into this category, rather than tier 2 (hence why i specified "mostly sympathetic") -- his shooting buffy is a crime of passion, not a dispassionate, cynical act, and crucially he only resorts to using the gun after buffy has bested him at every turn for almost a full season: a last-ditch attempt to regain control. the gun again comes to symbolize helplessness, but here has an added layer in that its use will actively make one's situation worse. james and warren both pulled the trigger, and see where that got them. riley and spike didn't, so they were spared by the narrative.

again and again, we see the show go out of its way to avoid its characters using guns except in these very specific cases. buffy's projectile weapon of choice is a crossbow; the initiative rank-and-file almost exclusively use taser guns. even faith, after her heel turn, doesn't use guns, because her motives don't align with those of tier 2; instead, she uses a bow.

as an aside, it would be inaccurate to say that buffy never uses a gun -- in "i only have eyes for you," when james possesses her, she confronts angel at gunpoint. similarly, willow gets her hands on a gun in "the killer in me." these two cases share an interesting similarity -- in both examples, the character is being compelled to act uncharacteristically by forces outside her control, thus reinforcing the gun as a symbol of powerlessness.

(it's also worth noting that there's a pattern where the gun is associated with specifically gendered violence. the characters in tier 3 are almost universally male, and they almost universally shoot or threaten to shoot women. buffy and willow break the mold, but both of their cases are echoes of earlier events where a man shot a woman. something something phallic imagery.)

this all speaks to a very measured and clear-sighted moral stance. in the world of btvs, guns are bad. at best, if you use one, you are a clueless idiot way out of your depth; at worst, you're going to die badly. or, in buffy's own words (from "flooded"):