"Buffy-vivor": Pick the ultimate Buffy episode! (Come vote in the finals!)

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I guess I have to go with Chosen.

 

[Silver Moon]

I'm casting my vote for Lies My Parents Told Me. I really enjoyed the altercation between Spike and Principle Wood but what really made the episode was the cooperation of Giles towards Wood's plan to kill Spike.




BTW, the above list is missing the episode "Dirty Girls" - April 15, 2003. Not the best episode but it did introduce Caleb.

 

[Cannibal_Kender]

Chosen

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Conversations With Dead People. A really alternately creepy and insightful episode, that seemed to set up a truly epic final season of Buffy.

Unfortunately, the rest of the season was largely (and disappointingly) confined to Buffy losing, making a comeback, and giving big speeches to the Potentials, all in the course of either the same episode or a two-episode arc.

 

[Evilhalfling]

Selfless - cheesey monster, but good story.
did anyone else miss that Halfrack (as mortal) was in Fool for Love?
they mentioned it on the commentary but I was clueless until then.

CWDP, Storyteller, and Him, perhaps Same Time, Same Place all are in the running. but Chosen? sigh. I was disappointed, but then other than the above episodes much of this season is hard to watch. I can't believe that the writters mentioned how boring buffy's motivational speeches were, and then went right back to doing more of them. And the Andrew in Storyteller is so gay, it has always been hinted at, he practically comes out in this episode. And more power to him. Then his final apperance in Angel completely reverses this trend WTF? but I guess that is an angel problem not buffy.

and the Shiney Sycthe thing? mucho cheese. Sigh.
I are we doing angel next or a mixed season run off?
EDIT :I vote for the latter, Listing a Favorite and Runner Up episodes.

 

[Brakkart]

I'll cast my vote for Conversations With Dead People, which was genuinely creepy (and Buffy getting a psyche exam was funny. Plus I LOVE the song Blue by Angie Hart that accompanied the episode, really captivating piece of music.

 

[Mad Hatter]

I liked season 7. It isn't my favorite, but to me, it was still a solid season. I don't think Jonathan's death was senseless at all. It brought key players together and his character was finished anyways; he should have died by Willow's hand. Anywho, my vote goes to End of Days. Buffy finally stopped being Depressed Girl, got some sort of closure with Spike, regained her sense of direction, resolved some things with Angel, and had her great epiphany about the First. It was the equivalent of some of the themes in Graduation Day for me.

 

[Richards]

I'm going with "Selfless," although I also really liked "Beneath You" if only for that final scene of Spike hanging on the cross, skin starting to burn.

Johnathan

 

[Ssyleia]

I vote for "Beneath You" - the episode generated a lot of tension and excitement even though the "conclusion" in later episodes did not live up to it.

Of course, "Chosen" and "Storyteller" come close and CWDP is another highlight

 

[Blue Prussian]

I'll go with Storyteller. I don't really understand all the Season 7 hate. The only thing I hated about it was knowing it was the last season of a great show. Given all the sad and depressing plotlines leftover from Season 6 that they had to wrap up, I 'm not sure how they could have done things differently...