Let's talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer

@cabbageconkers - you're up.

Combined with Angel (which is so linked that they're basically one giant show together), it's probably the best viewing experience a person could ever have.

-Favorite & least favorite characters
Favs: Buffy, Doyle, Faith, Spike, Angel, Cordy. I could seriously not pick just one, any of these characters could be my favorite.

Least favs: Willow. Her centric episodes were often among the worst of the series and I find Hannigan to be frequently annoying. Particularly in later seasons.
Gunn, often displayed disloyalty towards everyone. He ditched his original group to hang around with Angel and on several occasions betrayed him, or threatened to.

-Favorite episode, or even top 5 or 10 episodes & least favorite episode
Fav: The Zeppo is probably my favorite Buffy episode. Favorite Angel episodes are the first 9, Smile Time, You're Welcome, A Hole In The World and Not fade away.
Least Favs: The Dark Willow ones.

-Best & worst favorite season in your opinion
Fav:3 (Buffy) 1/5(Angel)
Least fav: 6 (Buffy)

That is to say that there's nothing I really dislike about the show. Even the weaker episodes are better than most other TV. And the weaker characters all have their worth. I could talk about Buffy and Angel all day.

Dunno to be honest.

Cordelia.

End of discussion.

Favorite characters:

Spike and Faith are my two favorite characters. Faith is what I envisioned The Slayer to be. She was confident, strong, badass, and motivated. I think that was kind of the point though, where we were supposed to question if Buffy was really capable of being the chosen one character. I think that's why we see much "better" fits along the way in Faith/Kendra/Kennedy and that's why we got the Sineya episode where we see the first Slayer. Faith to me was the best of the best though and I guess that's the difference between the best player on the team and the best player to lead the team. Also, it helped that Faith was equal parts hero and villain. It added a dimension to her character that Buffy just wasn't ever going to get.

Spike is Spike. There kind of isn't anything left to be said about him. I think when you have a character that can be both your biggest hero and your biggest villain that you don't have to defend him as the best character on the show. His journey is long and his character development is phenomenal. He gets his moment. But tortured, funny, charismatic, vulnerable, there just isn't an emotion that Spike doesn't tap into at some point of the series.

Honorable mentions would be Anya, Caleb, and Glory. Angel, Cordelia and Fred if we're talking the whole Universe.

Least favorite characters:

Willow. I hate Willow. She's obnoxious and the type of person I'd have to stand up and walk away from if I met her in real life. She constantly cries and puts the gang in some of the toughest situations imaginable. I think they got really carried away with her too. I know people who love her point to season 6 as this breakthrough time for the character but I largely think it ruined her, for if no other reason than what we had to deal with after that was over. I mean to each their own but I think she's one of the worst TV characters of all time on what is easily one of the greatest shows of all time imo. That's not to say she doesn't have good episodes though. I absolutely love, love, Doppelgangland and that's her best episode ever imo. Grave and New Moon Rising are also great Willow performances. So it's not all heat from me, but I just can't stand her.

Beyond Willow, I pretty much loath the Trio. I just never liked this idea of the 3 stooges who stumbled into this world and really had an impact on it. I know I was supposed to hate Warren, but he gets crazy X-pac heat from me. At least Whedon was smart enough to channel that hatred but still, those 3 were dogsh*t. I kind of liked Jonathan but he's guilty by association, unfortunately.

Favorite Episodes:

The Gift
Fool for Love
Doppelgangland
The Wish
Once More with Feeling
Graduation Day 1/2
Hush
Restless
This Year's Girl/Who Are You
Halloween
Chosen
The Body
Conversations with Dead People
Bad Girls
Bad Candy
School Hard

Seasons Ranked:

3
5
2
4
7
6
1

I guess? There isn't a season I don't like. Season 1 is a little bit of a struggle to get through but it gets absolutely amazing after that. Buffy is easily one of my favorite shows of all time. And I'm not generalizing that at all. It's Buffy, SOA, and Battlestar Galactica as the finalists for my "if you could only watch one show ever again" list.

I liked the movie more than the show

I never watched it, but that's not to say I wouldn't enjoy it if I did watch it.

I do watch The Vampire Diaries and The Originals every Thursday, and I do like those vampire shows. So I have a feeling I would dig Buffy. I liked the movie, but then I was a Luke Perry fan so I watched it mainly for that.

Stayed away from this show for years because I always thought it was a "girls show", me and my girlfriend each pick shows to watch, I picked Lost, which she watched all of, so she picked Buffy and I gave it a chance and it ended up being one of my favourite shows of all time, just everything about it, the comedy, the violence, the drama, the romance, the characters, definitely something for everyone.

It's funny, for every season, I had a character I couldn't ing stand, I kept asking my girlfriend when they would die lol.

Season 1: Willow (Just didn't like Alyson Hannigan in general, this show definitely turned it around)
Season 2: Drusilla (awful, awful character)
Season 3: Faith (Thought I'd love faith :/ but yeah hated her....up until she showed up in Angel then I wanted her back asap)
Season 4: Riley (Who liked him really?)
Season 5: Glory
Season 6: The Trio (such a joke, which I know they were supposed to be but :/ i just couldnt take them seriously as villains)
Season 7: The potential slayers. ALL OF THEM.

Favourite seasons were definitely 2 and 7. Mainly because of Angelus and The First, again before this show I was never a fan of Nathan Fillion but damn Caleb was a beast, wish he was around for a longer, that eye gouge was brutal.

Favourite characters: Angel, Spike and Anya.

I prefered Buffy/Angel to Buffy/Spike and Anya/Xander ing built me up and kicked the crap out of me WHY WHEDON? WHY COULDN'T THEY BE HAPPY? (don't get me started on Fred/Wesley) and why did Anya get killed off like she was nothing in the finale, that really pissed me off.

Saying all this, We did watch Angel at the same time, so that the crossover episodes would line up, and I've got to say, Angel is one of the most underated shows of all time, I honestly prefer Angel to Buffy, it has everything Buffy has and more, not to mention, Wesley is probably the most well developed character out of both shows. He is easily my favourite character in that universe closely followed by Angel. Angel is a spin off done right, but that's for another thread.

I'm a big Xena fan but I never gave this show a chance. I know the fan bases from both shows overlap tremendously so I'm willing to really give this a try.