When I was home for Thansgiving, there was this article on the front page of the "living" section about a small college in Lincoln, Weslyan, that offers a class about Buffy the Vampire Slayer where they get to watch episodes, then discuss them. Hello, how cool is that? I was so jealous! They aptly named the article Buffy 101 too. :-D The article said the most popular episodes for discussion were The Body, Once More With Feeling, the one where Buffy has that strange dream and meets the first slayer, and damn, I can't remember the last one. I wish I had kept that article. I think it was Passion.

So then at dinnertime I'm telling my family how cool that show is and my brother (who's the only other one who's watched it) says that season 3 is his favorite and he stopped watching after season 6 and was surprised when I told him that Anya was killed in the last season and The Body was well done, but (obviously) depressing. We both agreed that the Mayor was the best villian! Then we start discussing Buffy being killed in the last episode of season 5 to save her sister from Glory who's after the key...and my mom's like, "What? She died? And came back?" So I have to explain to her that since Buffy didn't die a natural death, then she could rise from the dead with the help of magic. Heh, my mom looked rather baffled by that!

But yeah, I'm totally jealous! I would have loved to take a Buffy class! It probably would have been filled up within the first few hours.

Okay, who can help me out? Which is the episode of BtVS when Buffy's mom finds out her daughter is the Slayer? I'm 99.9% sure it's from season 2, but which episode is it? I'm too lazy too read ALL the recaps over at TWoP. Thanks!

That Chinese ice skater, Zhang, who had a nasty fell on her knee is my hero! I give her a lot of credit for continuing on with the routine because, man, that had to hurt like a bitch! They should be proud of their silver medal, though if it weren't for that dang fall, I'm sure they would have won the gold and the Russian streak would have ended! (Of course it would have ended in Salt Lake if it wasn't for that dang French judge!)

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Stay tuned for tomorrow when I'll post my ten most cherished fashion items. (I'm not the only one who inspires their sis!)

It took me seven months to get through what most people got through in seven years: watching all 144 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I began in mid-December and just finished up the series about a week ago. (Thank you, Netflix, I couldn’t have done it without you!) I absolutely adored the show. I do wish I had watched it when it was airing, but thank goodness for DVDs and Netflix, right? So here is my little tribute to the little show that put the WB on the map.

Ranking the Seasons:

Season 2
Season 3

To me these two seasons were the ones when Buffy was at the top of its game. Second and third seasons just simply rocked. Our favorite trio still acts like, a well, trio, Angel, Oz, and Cordelia are still with us, Spike hasn’t gotten all lovesick on us, and librarian!Giles! I did like the show better when they were in high school, although I know they can’t stay there forever! Most of my favorite episodes come from these two seasons, especially the second one. I loved Evil!Angel and his snarky comments and the Mayor from S3 was hilariously awesome. These are the two seasons that made me fall in love with the show.

Season 5

This is definitely the most emotional season of the series and I did find a few episodes difficult to watch (like The Body). This season is full of angst and death, and then there’s more angst and more death. But I loved the premise with Dawn being a key sent to Buffy in the form of a sister. I love it! It’s so wacky! At the end of the first episode where we learn Buffy has a sister, I was trying to rack my brain, figuring out when the hell all this came in. Did I miss an episode? Was Dawn her stepsister? Was it just some sister we had never heard of, living with their dad? I was so baffled! And I liked Glory: she freaked me out and made me laugh at the same time. She was like hilarious and creepy at the same time.

Season 4

There were some great episodes in this one (and also, IMO, the worst of the entire series: Bad Beer), but the overall season felt like a buffer season: between Spike being evil and Spike becoming part of the Scooby gang. It’s like they came up with the idea of the Initiative because they wanted Spike to have a bigger role, so then they came up with the chip in the head idea so he couldn’t hurt anyone (the exception being demons) and therefore hang out with the gang without being a danger. To me this season was all about, how can we make Spike a bigger part of the show?


Season 7
I know S7 gets a lot of flak and even though it’s not as good as the previous ones I’ve mentioned (although I could probably tie it with S4), I did enjoy the final season. I loved that they brought back the high school, though why the hell would you build the school in the same spot over the Hellmouth? Well, I guess they wouldn’t have a show if they didn’t do that! I liked the storyline of the Future Slayers and the First was creepy and I totally hated Caleb. I liked the very last episode, Chosen, but I really thought they should have made it a two hour event. It seemed like a lot of things had to be squeezed in and rushed.

Season 1

The reason I have the first reason ranked so low is that it really didn’t seem to have an ongoing plot (well, except for the Master). All the episodes seemed to have the same formula: something evil comes to town, someone (Giles, Xander, Cordelia, or Willow) gets in trouble and Buffy has to rescue them. Rinse and repeat. I really didn’t get hooked on the series with this season. Like I said, it wasn’t until the next season where I was fully addicted.

Season 6

Okay, S6. Oh, boy. Well, first of all let me say I now understand why it is sometimes called Season Sex or Season Sux. Here are a few reasons why I hate S6: Spuffy, (I’ll get more into that later), hardly no Giles (I remember he was only in about three episodes at the beginning, then at the very end he came back, but his presence was definitely lacking), I really didn’t care about the Xanya ‘ship, the Evil!Willow and her magicrack was a little too much for me. And while the Nerd Trio were funny, I never really understood why Jonathan and Andrew turned evil. Okay, they were never really evil and probably didn’t know what they were getting themselves into it, but I really thought at least Jonathan would have better sense than that. Oh, and I absolutely HATE that scene from Gone where Buffy turns invisible and has sex with Spike when Xander is in the room. Eww, Buffy. Don’t be so clueless, Xander. I really hated Buffy in this season. Yeah, yeah, I know she just got back from heaven and blah, blah, blah, but she really annoyed me in this season! Just everything about this season makes me shudder. Truly the worst of the whole series. At least they redeemed themselves with the next season a bit.

Ranking the villains from each season:

The Mayor, S3 - The Mayor was hilarious! Best villian ever! I can see why they brought him back in S7 for that one episode where he comes back as the First.

Spike, Drusilla, and Angelus, S2 - I loved the relationship between these three, especially how Spike hated Angelus and Angelus calling Spike “roller boy” and of course weird-ass Drusilla.

Glory, S5 - I know a lot of people don’t like Glory, but like I said before, I thought she was hilarious with her narcissism and all her little minions calling her “Your Glorification” and “Almighty Glory” or whatever it was they called her. The fact that she could trade bodies with that med student creeped me out a little, especially when he didn’t tell them. Um, whose side are you on anyway, Ben?

Warren, Jonathan, and Andrew, S6 - First of all, I guess you could argue who was the real villain of S6: The Nerd Trio or Evil!Willow? Well, I’m counting it as the NT becase E!W was in only three episodes. Even though I do hate S6, I have to admit that the trio were hilarious. I remember they’re discussing villains in ficition work and Voldemort’s name comes up. Hee! But I never thought Jonathan and Andrew were really evil, Warren was really the only bad guy of the trio.

The Master, S1 - Don’t really remember too much about him, but I do remember him making me laugh a few times, so I’ll give him credit here. Plus he was a you know, a vampire, Buffy’s specialty.

Tie between Adam and Caleb, S4 and S7 - Adam bored me to death! He was so dull! Whenever he talked, I was like *yawn*, blah, blah, blah. Caleb, on the other hand, I absolutely despised his misogynist, bang-wearing, southern-drawling ass! Urgh! Hate! [o/t]The other day at work, there was a customer who could have been Caleb’s twin brother, he had the same bangs and same annoying Southern drawl. Omg. It creeped me out![/o/t]

My Ten Favorite Episodes (in chronological order):

1. Halloween, S2 - This is the eppy where the Trio becomes what their Halloween costumes are which they bought from Ethan Rayne’s shop. Willow becomes a ghost, Xander becomes a soldier, and Buffy turns into an 18th century girl and is helpless when they’re attacked by Spike. A very clever episode, I thought!

2. What’s My Line (Parts 1 and 2), S2 - Ah, the episode where Spike sends four assassins to finish off Buffy. The Order of Taraka reminded me of the Deadly Viper Squad, how could you not love it? The one I remember the most is the guy who disguised himself as a salesman and could turn into a million little worms. Eww. We meet Kendra, the girl who became the new slayer when Buffy was “dead” for about a minute in the last episode of the first season.

3. Passion, S2 - The very first episode of Buffy that made me cry. Jenny Calendar finds a spell for getting back Angel’s soul, all she has to do is decipher it into English on her computer disc and she’s ready to roll. Only problem is Angel finds out about this and ends up snapping her neck. A very dark episode, but wonderfully done. I felt so bad for Giles! I liked him and Jenny together.

4. Becoming, (Parts 1 and 2), S2 - Buffy and Willow find the computer disc that contains the key to restoring Angel’s soul and Willow who is been dabbing in a little bit of magic is going to try it. Drusilla murders Kendra! Buffy’s mom finds out her daughter is the vampire slayer! Drusilla turns into Jenny and mindfucks Giles! Willow gives Angel back his soul! But it’s too late! Buffy kills Angel! Oh, and I have to say that the first part contains the best scene ever in BTVS: Buffy running slow motion around a corner towards the library in her vinyl blue coat. They even had that in the credits, but took it out either during fifth or sixth season. Boo! (o/t - I even have a coat kinda like that, except it’s not vinyl, but it’s nearly the same color. I shall call it my “Buffy running in slow motion” coat from now on!)

5. The Prom, S3 - Okay, I admit the only thing I remember, besides the demon dogs, is Buffy and Angel dancing to The Sunday’s cover of Wild Horses at the prom. I absolutely love that song and I love Buffy/Angel.

6. Graduation Day (Parts 1 and 2), S3 - This is probably my favorite season finale of BTVS. (It’s closely tied with Becoming and The Gift. At graduation day (hey it’s the class of ‘99! I was the class of ‘99! Yay!) the Mayor gives the commencement speech and turns into a giant snake. Luckily Buffy has tipped all the students off so they come all compared. One of my favorite fights from the series.

7. Hush, S4 - The entire town of Sunnydale goes silent when some of the creepiest demons I have ever seen on the show called The Gentlemen appear and seize everyone's voices. A human scream is the only thing that can kill them before they cut out
the hearts of seven people. Buffy and the Scoobs must come up with a plan to get rid of them without being able to speak. One of the most creative episodes. Ironically this was nominated for an Emmy for best writing. Who knew a show where there’s hardly any dialouge would get nominated for a best writing Emmy?

8. Who Are You?, S4 - A Freaky Friday episode where Buffy turns into Faith and Faith turns into Buffy.

9. Superstar, S4 - In this AU episode, Jonathan is a rich and famous star who Buffy calls on for help. I love this episode! It’s hilarious!

10. The Gift, S5 - This one is a real tearjerker. Buffy saves her sister from the evil clutches of Glory and sacrifices herself to save the world, hence her gift is death. Awww.

My favorite and least favorite episode from each season:

Season 1
Favorite - The Witch
Least favorite - Teacher’s Pet

Season 2
Favorite - Becoming
Least Favorite - Go Fish

Season 3
Favorite - Graduation Day
Least Favorite - Helpless

Season 4
Favorite - Hush
Least Favorite - Bad Beer

Season 5
Favorite - The Gift
Least Favorite - Into the Woods

Season 6
Favorite - Tabula Rasa
Least Favorite - Hell’s Bells

Season 7
Favorite - Chosen
Least Favorite - Him

Unpopular Buffy Opinions:

- I hate Spuffy. Now, I don’t hate this ‘ship as much as I hate, say Harry/Hermione which I absolutely despise. But I am a Bangel shipper through and through. (If you think about it, that’s about the same equivalent of H/Hr, but Buffy was meant to be with Angel! She was meant to damnit! Hermione isn’t meant to be with Harry, she’s meant to be with Ron, damnit! (Acutally, the Spuffy relationship would be the equivalent of Harry/Draco, *snicker*). Their relationship in S6 just felt icky to me and the idea of Spike falling in love with a Slayer and getting a soul for her? Please. And the idea of Spike making a Buffybot for his uh, pleasure is just the sickest thing ever. Although the Buffybot did make me laugh with her naiveté.

- I like Faith and Cordelia. I don’t know the consensus about these two, but it seems most people don’t like them since Buffy doesn’t like them, but I enjoyed their characters. I liked Faith’s total opposite of Buffy and how she called Buffy “B” and her “Five by five” and “I got mad skills!” lines. I loved Cordy’s snobbiness and missed her when Anya took her place on the show.

- I don’t like Anya. She annoyed me. A lot. To me, she is the Luna Lovegood of BTVS. I like Luna because we’re only given small doses of her (well, at least in the sixth book). Maybe I would have liked Anya better if they hadn’t made EC a regular cast member. But her sex jokes and her ditziness got really old after awhile. And I know this is mean, but if anyone from the credits had to be killed off in the very last episode, I’m glad it was her. I didn’t want her to go in such a brutal way though!

- I like Dawn. I’ve seen a lot of Dawn hate, but I liked her. I thought the relationship between her and Buffy was really sweet. And I actually felt worse for her when she found out Joyce had died. That scene where Buffy is telling her the news was the only scene I bawled my eyes out during that eppy. And she was just a key! She’s not even Joyce’s real daughter! I have to admit I cracked up in that eppy where she screams “GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!” at everyone.

- I like Riley. Okay, he was Captain America and could be dull sometimes. (He’s from Iowa, what do you expect?) But I really did like the relationship between him and Buffy, yes me, being a Bangel shipper. But if it couldn’t work out with Angel, I’d be happy with uh, Ruffy? Biley? Riley should hook up with Sydney Bristow! LOL

-I didn’t like Once More, With Feeling. Or rather, I just didn’t think it was the Best! Buffy! Episode! Ever! like everyone else seems to think. I liked the song they sang at the end and the people dancing around claiming that “they got the mustard out of my shirt” did make me giggle. But some of the songs went on way too long and the dancing went on even longer. I was a little bored. I was grateful that they don’t do all their episodes in musical form!

My three favorite ‘ships:

1. Willow and Oz - To me they were the cutest couple on the show. I loved their awkward conversations before they started dating. They were just so adorable together, awwww.

2. Buffy and Angel - Their song is Wild Horses, y’all. I love that song! I love Bangel! Bangel 4-eva!

3. Willow and Tara - Okay, yes, I already mentioned Willow with Oz, but I really did love her relationship with Tara too. There was this soft sweetness to it, it wasn’t all about Hot!Lesbian!Kissing! I truly believed Willow fell in love with the person Tara and not just because she was a girl and Willow had somehow magically turned into a
lesbian one night.

My 3 least favorite ‘ships:

1. Buffy and Spike - Love both characters, just not together.

2. Willow and Kennedy - Maybe I’m just bitter that Willow didn’t get back with Oz after Tara died. Or maybe I was annoyed that the producers only wanted Willow to date women. Like I said before, I always thought she fell in love with the person, and not the gender.

3. Xander and Cordelia - Now I love both these characters, but I never found this relationship believable at all. I could have believed it if they kept it hidden and were having a secret affair, but I really can’t see rich and snobby Cordelia falling for blue-collar Xander. At least his relationship with Anya was a little more realistic, although I don’t know how he could stand her annoyingness! No wonder he left her at the altar!

And that’s my series review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Whew, that was a lot of typing!

During my break today, I sat with Verenice and we were looking at the latest US Weekly. Again, we were making fun of the celebrites. It was so funny because we had the magazine open to a page of Paris Hilton and her finance, and Mandy comes over and points to him, and asks who he is. We reply, "Paris." She says, "No, who's he?" Again, we reply, "Paris!" She gets really exasperated. "No, I know that's Paris! Who's that!" And we're like "PARIS!" Finally, we explain to her that he has the same name and she just rolls her eyes, lmao. Verenice and I love the "Stars! They're just like us!" segment. (Because they buy dog food! And like pastries!) We were making fun of them saying, "Oh yes, they're just like us! I have my own personal trainer and my own chauffer who drives me to Starbucks and I have a winter, summer, fall, and spring home!" LOL. Just like us, MY ASS! And apparently Vernice can't stand Katie Holmes, either. This guy sitting near us was like, "She's the hottest girl in the world!" Uh, whatever. Vernice kept saying how she can't act, and always looks and sounds the same and how she always plays Joey Potter in anything, and the guy is like, "So?" Even though she irritates me, I declared she would be a fool to marry creepy Tom Cruise! Hehe, Vernice and I would be full of snark if we ever watched Dawson's Creek.

Then later, Mandy and I had a discussion about race. She asked me if I usually said "blacks" or "African-Americans." (She was telling me about these people who had left a cake, and they were black and that's what cuased this conversation). I told her it usually depends on who I'm around, since it's PC to say "African-American." But I pointed out not all African-Americans are black. There are plenty of white people who live/ are from Africa. So what do you call a white person who's from Africa and moved to America, like in the case of Charlize Theron? Isn't she an African-American in every sense of the word? This is so fucking complicated! Then Mandy was telling me how she had to fill out a form because she's applying for some classes at UNO and she never knows what to mark on the race box because she's half caucasian and half Japanese-American. I always thought you could mark more than one, but she said that you can only mark one! I find that so weird especially in this day and age. Well, lucky for me I'm 100% caucasian, I don't have to worry about that!

I recently finished the fifth season of Buffy. Next two seasons...Buffy goes to the dark side...UPN!(LOL, that joke never gets old!) I'm going to be curious how she comes back from the dead..... I think it would be fucking hilarious if SMG just played the Buffybot for the rest of the series and the real Buffy just remained dead, but somehow I doubt that. This damn season made me cry so many times and I had only cried ONCE so far during the entire series when Miss Calendar died, but I cried so much during the fifth season. Let's see, I cried when Joyce died, when Buffy told her sister (that was the saddest part of that episode), when her friends were crying over Buffy's mom, when Tara got brainsucked and Willow was like, "I'm so sorry,", when Dawn finds out she's a key, (LOL, okay, that just sounded funny when I said that), when Buffy dies. I didn't cry when Riley left. Huh. Well, anyway it was just a big old cryfest. Oh yeah, I also cried when Buffy and Dawn cried together after they lost their mother. That plot about bringing Joyce back the dead was just creepy. I wonder what they would have found....:::shudder::: Reminds me of Pet Semetary. Eww, creepy!

I'm now watching the first season of America's Next Top Model. Sis, I love Elyse! She rox! She is so beautiful! I can't believe that stupid bitch Robin made her read that passage from the bible saying she was a fool for not believing in God. OMG, I would've had slapped her in the head so hard with it! I CANNOT stand Robin! I hate it when people try to shove their religon down other people's throats. I laughed so hard when she made the other girls say a prayer and Ebony looks in the camera and rolls her eyes. BWAHHH!!!!!!!! It made me laugh so much, I fell off my couch! Anyway, back to hating Robin: I hate her stupid accent and isn't she a little too fucking old to be a model? 27 is when you're supposed to be retiring the modeling world, sweetie. The only people who can still be modeling beyond those years are those who already have an established modeling career and can go on to do commerical things, like Tyra Banks. Tyra looks so different in this season without the red weave! At first I was like, "Wait a minute, where the hell is Tyra? Oh..." I know that Adrianne wins. She seems like a cook chick. She's sometimes hard to understand because she mumbles so much. She actually kinds sounds like Mary Louise Parker, except that MLP doesn't mumble. I hope I get my next two discs soon! Netflix has been kinda slow lately. Grr!

During my days off last week, I decided to watch Kill Bill. I had gotten the DVDs with my birthday money and hadn't watched them yet (my own copies - I had already seen them before), so I watched Volume 1 on Tuesday and Volume 2 on Wednesday. I absoluetly adore them! I think they are fucking brilliant! I can't believe people whine about the second part because it's not as violent or doesn't have as much action as the first. I actually love the seonnd part, if not more than the first part. I love it when she's buried underground, I love the whole Pei Mei sequence, the Elle Driver showdown, the killing of Bill, and the awesome credits. You know, I've always wondered if she knew her daugther alive if she still would have killed Vernita. I don't think she would have... and really, after she killed O-Ren Ishii and her minions, then the hard part was over! LOL. I just love, love, love Kill Bill. It is just the ultimate revenge movie. I also love the sequence in which its told and the old school credits at the beginning. It's just such a cool movie...

I'm doing the really long process or merging my old UJ entries into my LJ....one entry at a time. I have to backdate each one and change the month, date, and year for each one. I'm also getting the time to match cuz I'm so anal. But I'm not changing anything that was bold or italized in my UJ, because that was just too much work. HOWEVER, I am fixing the links and photos. But once this is all done, my LJ will go all the way back to '02! So far I've gone back to 10/03.

Heh. Spike likes Passions. "Turn on the telly! Passions is on! I can't miss it! Timmy fell down the well!" I was so that show's bitch in late '01. I bet Charity (Chasity?) is still evil. Wait...was she evil? Some blonde chick was evil...no wait, she had an evil twin. Yeah, that's it. There was a good Charity and then there was evil Charity and she would pretend to be good Charity around her boyfriend....oh shit, I don't remember. That show was so stupid. I do, however, remember when the old witch lady danced to She Bangs! at a party and at the same party Whitney got drunk and danced to What's Love Got To Do With It?. God, why do I remember this shit?